On the charter Carl took on Friday, his fish got cleaned for him by one of the deck hands from the boat. We had no reason not to expect our guide wouldn’t do the same for us on this trip. I mean for $350 per person, you would expect it, right? Well, they didn’t and Carl hasn’t really fished in years even though he says he likes to. Back at the campground, he asked at the office and the lady tells him everyone has gone home because the weather was so bad, he’ll have to do it himself and to make sure he removes all fish guts and carcasses from the site. It’s still raining but we take about an hour to get out of our wet clothes and into some dry. Then Carl has a cup of steaming hot coffee and I have one of tea, followed by a bowl of ham and bean soup which tasted pretty good considering it’s almost 5 and we ate breakfast at 7. The chore has been put off long enough and Carl grabs a semi-water resistant jacket and heads for the fish cleaning station. One of the fellows from the canoe part of the operation is just coming across the yard and Carl asked if he could help him. He said he’ll be back in 10 minutes so Carl starts by cutting off the heads and gutting them. He does know how to do that. Then we wait. Sure enough the fellow comes back with a raft and three guys who had been on the river fishing all day. He walks up to the table and Carl tells him what he’s accomplished and comments on how he’s probably made it worse. The guy agrees. Who knew the heads being left on when you’re filleting a fish would make it easier? We do now!! It took a while but the four fish were filleted, washed, patted dry and packaged up in about 45 minutes. They weighed about 18 pounds before and we ended up with about 9 pounds of fillets. That’s somewhere around $39.00 a pound for Salmon. But hey, we had fun and Carl now knows how to fillet a fish….
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