Boom!  Another awesome event in the books.  We didn't get to fish from yaks today, but about 10% of the field tried for perch, and we had a ball doing Gyotaku, potluck and raffle in the campground pavilion until dusk.

The generosity of the community and the ability of the people to deal with adverse conditions and still be totally conscientious and positive never ceases to amaze me.  Through a robust raffle, we raised $4692 for Shelter Cove Fishing Preservation Inc.!

Angler of the day with a 14.375" striped perch - Rob Bray / Matanaska.  He gets a seat on the Seahawk for tomorrow, plus a guest seat, and he took home an oldgrowth redwood Trophy Trough, a 10" trophy abalone shell and a few other goodies.

2nd place was Brian Takagi / Ooter1.  He gets a seat on the Seahawk for tomorrow too.

A 10" trophy ab shell for Killer Catch went to 7 year old veteran Cove fisherman (!), Zac Kelly, who scored a lingcod while offshore on a tandem with his dad.

Community recognition abs went to Kiet Pham for helping out a capsized brother and to Bradley Potts for helping to free a baby seal that was tangled in netting offshore.

Volunteer appreciation abs went to Scott Harrison and Christine Davies for their veteran Gyotaku experience and assisting so many of the participants in what has become such an awesome part of the event.

Another 10" trophy ab went to Dylan Taube for his generosity in raffles and everything else he touches, and a final 10"er went to Tim Butolph / Snipeworm for his impressive effort during the entire potluck and raffle where he and a few key volunteers made $500 worth of custom stickers - all proceeds above his material costs were donated to the SCFPI.

8 kids printed Gyotaku shirts and showed them off at the raffle/potluck, and every kid got a brand new fishing pole as a prize.

Adam Koons and his crew brought in a whole cooked pig!  The potluck was outstanding, per NCKA tradition.

I'm so honored to be in a position to facilitate this event and to work with such a wonderful group of people. 

I'm toast, and it feels great.  Much Love from the Cove.    

GS is a magical event. It takes a person with a lot of heart and spirit to put something like this together. Much love Eric. You da man. Keep it going!! Love these events that bring us all together. Congratulations!

Great bunch of people! Adverse conditions made it quite an adventure. Didn't bring the kayaks this year but came over to help with the Gyotaku and had a great time. Love the looks on the peoples faces when they pulled their paper or shirts off the fish! "Wow, that turned out neat!". Great to see old friends and make some new ones. Here's a link to My photos from Saturday. https://www.facebook.com/scott.harrison.39/media_set?set=a.10219242580601494&type=3

Can’t fish so off to Black Sands Beach

My GS (lucky) 13 recap:

Busted battery terminal
Busted alternator
Cracked windshield (Won’s)
Our camp canopies destroyed by Hurricane Shelter
Rebuilding camp during heavy rain and wind gust
Fishing was slow, but picked up later on. Took home some fish
Won some raffle prizes
Great food
Great crowd
Great friends

Would I do it all over again? HECK YEAH!!!!! 

Thanks Adam - thanks to everybody!

Brutal, Dan and Herb!  Way to stick it out and have fun despite the storminess.  You guys rock and always have awesome attitudes. 

Today the sun was out almost all day - a few people made it outside to fish, but I think it was very slow.  Big swell, volatile winds...  We'll see what tomorrow brings. 

Quan stuck it out for hours today!  Diehard perch fishing and a beautiful day at the ramp.