FRESH SOCKEYE SALMON “CATCH”, LA CONNER, WA

Saturday, September 4 – The last time we were at TTN LaConner (2005), the Native Americans of the Swinomish Tribe were fishing in the waters right off our shore. One of our favorite memories was being able to buy fresh Salmon from the Indians as they brought in the catch. $5 for a while fish!!

This time they are not fishing here. We went to the little town of LaConner to find out where we could buy fresh Salmon off the boat. At the docks we met a man who told us he did not know about buying fish off the boat, but if we went “over there to Lone Tree Point” Jason would take care of us.



Lone Tree Point was a packing company. As we walked up Randy and Joel talked with us. They said they were just bringing in fresh Sockeye and Jason would take care of us when he could. They were very busy. Randy said they have not had this large a Salmon run since 1913!! They said there were almost too many – it was difficult to find storage space for so many fish!!

Randy.

At last we talked with Jason and decided to buy two whole Sockeye rather than the fillets. I thought Ken would enjoy the experience of filleting them himself!! HA HA

This is Joel giving Ken his “Catch”! Two five-pound Sockeye at $3/pound = $30!!! They did remove the heads and guts for us.

When we returned to the campground we went to the fish cleaning station and Ken filleted our fish! It was a little more difficult than we imagined – the Salmon were so large!!

We had Sockeye fillet for dinner on Sunday evening. UUUMMMMM!!! It was wonderful!!