The "Duckling House" which is a smaller version of the "Duck House" is a tremendous success! The reason, I have not been blogging as of late is that I have been awful busy chasing Silver Salmon up and down the Anchor River. When you are up at 0400 and fish until 0800, then process fish until 1300 the day is gone. Have been finding some great fishing, multiple fish each time that I go out. It has been some great fishing with some big fish showing up. All of this is well and good, however, the run has not even started yet so I am anxious to see it when the run develops, I can see some ten to twenty fish days in the near future.
Since you last saw the "Duckling House", I have converted it to gas and it has helped tremendously, I can now have a full stream of smoke in less than five minutes. Been producing some great product and now have the recipe for the brine and timing down to a science. Today, to further reduce cost, a bag of alder chips run at $3.29 per bag. Just so happens, we have several acres of alders on the property, a little peeling and running them through the chop saw, I can now produce little alder logs to stoke the fire, they last longer and are free! The "Little Clan" do not have to worry about their alder forest, it is protected and no harvesting allowed in that area. Don't know what I will do with all this smoked salmon, currently we have about forty pounds completed, to bad there is no one down here to enjoy it with us. By the way, how is the Silver Salmon fishing in Muddy Creek in downtown LA?