Dipnetting is for resident Alaskans only, and they're allowed to keep 20 fish plus 10 per additional family member. The nets can be a maximum of five feet across. The specifics are here.
The variety of nets and people were really interesting. There were round ones, square ones, oval ones and rectangular ones - the nets of course. There was a festive, family atmosphere, with ATVs, coolers, tents, trucks and cars scattered just above the high tide line. Folks would wade out with their nets about five feet from the next person and be chatting away until a salmon trying to reach the spawning grounds at Tustumena Lake decided to run the gauntlet. Then the lucky netter would lunge back up the bank and haul the fish clear of the water as fast as he or she could move in their waders, thump the fish on its head, clean it, and plop it into a cooler of ice.
A note: Waders do make your butt look bigger.
Dipnetting on at the mouth of the Kasilof River on an incoming tide.
High summer fun, that's glacier fed water folks are wading in.
A good look at the action.
Another 'red' hits the cooler.
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