Floating the Kenai

Me in the pink cap, and Janelle in the dark waders fishing the very high Kenai River

We were able to borrow Aaron Swanson's drift boat and took Aaron and Janelle and Avery out to float the Upper Kenai River.  It was a beautiful day to float...love the sunshine!

The river is incredibly high this year.  We had record amounts of snowfall, and a very late spring which means that the snowpack in the mountains melted later than normal so at the end of July the Kenai river is pretty darn high.

That can make it harder to fish b/c there's so much more water for the fish to be in and the Kenai is a glacially fed river so it's full of silt so you can't actually see the fish you are targeting.  It is a very pretty river though.

Anyway...we didn't catch a lot of fish, but we did catch some.  It was mostly just nice to get out on the river on a sunny day.  We missed a couple of bears by just a few minutes...the people floating behind us saw them.

It was also nice company having Aaron and Janelle and their baby with us.  I was however, glad to leave my kids with a sitter.  :)