A cabin in Soldotna My mother’s been a keen fisherwoman her entire life. Growing up in Horeshoe Bend, Idaho, as the only girl among nine siblings, fishing was an activity that she and her brothers enjoyed their Dad, a tall strapping outdoorsman, who hunted and fished for the family meals. When my family moved to Alaska decades ago, she immersed herself in salmon fishing and ultimately purchased a riverfront acre in the Funny River area outside of Soldotna, one of the best salmon fishing areas in the world. This is where our family (my brother Phil, his wife, Ok-Kyung, son Alexander, daughter Sophia, my mother, Violette, Terry and myself) converged during the sockeye run in mid-July this year. We were lucky to have several days at the peak of the run. Sockeyes at the very end
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