The Regs for Moose Hunting in 9E

By Link

Unit 9E

You have to be 16 and have a tag to shoot a moose on your own. You can also shoot a moose if you are under age if you’re listed on your parent’s tag.

In hunting unit 9E we have from Port Moller to South Naknek all along the peninsula to hunt moose. We can go to a different place to hunt but we will need a different hunting tag. In my area we can shoot one bull but it must have a spike fork, or have 50-inch wide antlers, or have three or more brow tines.

           

According to Meghan Riley, a Fish and Game worker in King Salmon, in December there was 197 moose between Black Lake and Meshik: 56 bulls and 141 cows and calves.  That is good news for hunters. Fish and Game hopes to count at least 40 bulls for every 100 cows in 9E. For the 2010 survey year they counted 60 bulls for every 100 cows.

I hear that Black Lake and Meshik are the best places to go hunting for moose. There are some big bulls in Black Lake. I would like to go to Black Lake so I can shoot a moose.

Alaska Peninsula Moose

If you are ever over by Black Lake or Meshik, make sure you have a moose tag. If you get one, bring it in to town and we will barbecue it for you. We make the best barbecue moose in all the villages!         

              
For more information about hunting regulations go to http://hunt.alaska.gov

Sites to see in Chignik Bay

 By Alex Stepanoff


The trails in the Berry Flats were made so you don’t have to walk through the brush and be in danger of bears. The Berry Flats contain blueberries, cranberries, and blackberries. Not many people go berry picking as much as they used to because they come late, after summer is over with.  Kids with four wheelers and dirt bikes go riding on the trails and have fun. But it’s not only people that go through the Berry Flats. It is also a comfortable place for bears to stay.




The Lake, which is across the road from the Berry Flats, is a great spot for fishing, BBQ-ing, relaxing and swimming. It is a good somewhere-to-go or something-to- do on a nice and beautiful day. You can have fun with friends and family. You can build a bonfire and roast marshmallows.







Indian Creek is a wonderful creek to catch pink salmon in. They run up it in multitudes. We try not to catch the females so they can breed. Upstream a little ways is the reservoir that we get are supply of water from for the town.









Hole-in-the-Wall pretty much explains itself. A chunk of the mountain fell and now it is a short cliff face with a hole in the middle that leads to the other side. There has been tons of salt-water erosion to the walls, now smoothed down to a rounded point.

The First Day of Fishing By Roy Shangin

Grandpa Andy's boat the Sharon Dawn

            The first day of the 2011 Fishing Season was crazy because no one was ready and I wasn’t here at the Bay. We had a seven to eight hour boat ride from Perryville to Chignik. The time was three in the morning when I got to the Bay. After getting our net and block on board, my Grandpa Andy set off to start the opener at the sandbar for the first haul of the season.

            What I can remember of that morning is boats. Some were by us and some were at the upper bar. All the captains, skiffmen, and deckhands were waiting for the flair to go in the air. As soon as the flair was in the air, the boats and skiffs were all you could hear, with black in the air. The sound was loud and the jumpers were flying in and out of the water.

going really slow, boat full of reds!

In not even an hour we closed the net and began pulling it up on deck. I could see the fish swimming around, going crazy with their fins out of the water. I thought it was a small bag of fish until the fins from the fish came out of the water. The bag of fish was too big to bring on board so the deckhands and captain had to use a big net called a brailer (a special tote to bring big bags of fish on board). After the first haul of fish we put in my Grandpa Andy’s fishing boat, the fish-hole was half full.

Sunset leaving Perryville

I guess everyone had a very good day of fishing as well. By the end of the day I felt like my body was going to crash…and that was only the first day of the 2011 season.

Emergency Opener

By Caylen Kalmakoff

Fish and Game had to open the Chignik Bay salmon fishery early due to too many fish passing through the weir. Usually, fishing doesn’t start until the middle of June to early July but this year it started on June 3. No fisherman was expecting this to happen. I mean no one. The Fish and Game count limit is supposed to be forty thousand but there were too many fish going up the river. 20,000-30,000 salmon and more passed through the weir in a single day.

Cape Caution Tender

            This year there were over 50 boats fishing in the Chignik Bay fishery. The first week or two of fishing was so good that every boat was loaded full; some even had a big bag alongside. The kind of salmon caught here is red, “humpy”, king, dog and silver salmon. The others are good, but red salmon are the fish we want.

Fishing Net

            When Fish and Game announced that there would be an emergency opener, people started to scrabble all around. There were planes coming in full of passengers. After everything was said and done it meant money in their pockets. And it meant a lot more work, because the more fish they caught, the more work there was. The price for the fish this year was $1.20/lbs.  This fishing season was the best out of the past years so far.