Open Lake Water

Observation: This is a video of people coming across Aleknagik Lake to town. We have never traveled by boat across the lake in January. Usually it is frozen even at the mouth and we are traveling by snow machine over the ice. Never in history have we fished in January for smelt. But the water is open on the lake and we have been catching smelts right by Daniel Chythlook’s house. It is a good thing in some ways. We sent a boxes of smelt to Manokotak because their subsistence area was contaminated by the sinking of the Lonestar barge last summer. They were really glad to receive the smelt. This weather has been really something. Hardly any snow and the mountains are all bare. I saw a caddis fly hatch on January 8th. We are wondering if the bears have been flooded out and will start to roam around. All the dogs have been barking at night. Tina Tinker

LEO Channel: YouTube video by Tina Tinker, Open lake water

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