You think they got some short fish here? Well, that's no good. I argue they're not. I mean, I've had them for two days. I checked every one of them. I'll tell you how I got Okay. with this little thing. Sure. Yeah. [Music] So his mark is right at 28. Having a hard time getting there, man. Uh, is there anything wrong with what I'm doing here? Uh, you know, I I do the same thing. my thumb like I mean that's it's now it's not touching. I can get my finger in here. Yeah. I don't know. I mean Yeah. Those are I mean you can look at them. They're they're small fish. You caught these three days ago. You said? Yeah. question. You know what I expect? No, I don't I mean Yeah, those are those are short. I mean, I'm That's not That's not really even close. And that's exactly how you ought to be measuring them. So, it's you don't I'm doing this, but But you don't get to do that. I usually just swap it and you know if it's even questionable, anything like that, I always, you know, well, let's take a look at your board. Fish down. I can show you what I'm doing. Uh, we can we can lower one down in a bucket. Is there a bucket around somewhere? You can lower one of these down to me. Okay, I'll follow you. Can I get a pick which one? There was one or two in there. Okay, go. What are you doing? I didn't want to surprise you. That's right. Come on. Come on. He said, "What the heck are you doing here?" at least for trust. I mean, that gives me a pretty accurate deal when that's what you're using as the coho cleaners. No, no. This is just to Okay. So, I'm not handling the thing, bringing it up here and won't release it, you know. So, right here mark I bump his nose right there and that's the mark. It looks like a 28 in mark to me. But if you hit that I mean I just can't believe that they shrunk up that much in the flood. That's blow my mind. Um you know if they're in rigger rig. Yeah. There's there's some measuring error I think that gets introduced because the if you don't put the fish back in in the position it should be in and I I'm not interested in splitting hairs here. And none of those unfortunately are even it's not splitting hairs. I mean they're several of them are more than an inch short. So um and they they look small and I know the fish are small. Well, some of these cookie cutter are little ones and then they'll have big tail and it's like I don't even I just it's not worth Okay. Any fish left on board at all? Okay. Are you slushing in here or in the Okay. All right. Just ice down here. Mind if I take a look? So you ice some of them in here, huh? I when I filled the coats up. Well, this time I iced the first day and then the rest of the rest. Okay. Fish tomorrow. Okay. Well, nothing's going to keep you from fishing tomorrow. At least not with me. So, well, uh, You left your drain. Okay. And this empty. Yeah. Yeah. Go ahead. broken three other boats today. That's I mean that's the the nose isn't touching. So well I mean sometimes close his mouth there's the nose. Uhhuh. I mean I'm holding him there and that is I mean Yeah. Okay. It's an 8 in short as my reading though. You know, this thing you're doing here, this is this is one of the longer fish, too. Um, that one's closer than any of the others. So, um, I'll give you that. But, uh, but it's it's it doesn't make it. I mean, it just doesn't. It did when it came aboard. That's what I mean. I know what you're saying. It's like I'm going to have to take every fish out and put them in the TRCO and do this again if I'm going to have them in slush cuz I mean this push was over. I'm not going to question it when it's that short. I'm slushing it. You know what I mean? I'm not trying to get in trouble. It's just Yeah, this guy's doing his job. You're doing your job. Unfortunately, I'm Yeah, it's a rough position to be in. Um, I haven't seen a big I mean, I'm not a scientist, but I haven't seen a big shrinkage issue with king salmon. I've I've been killing king salmon since it was that high. And, uh, in especially in the past 15 years since I've been here, uh, I've taken I've taken note, you know, I don't I don't use slush myself when I'm doing it, but but I've I've kept some king salmon around and measured them. I you'd be hardressed to tell the difference even on a big fish um in length. I mean so I mean I'm not saying it it couldn't be a thing. Okay. Well, but uh I mean I I don't do this. I usually just there and Right. And if you did that, you'd know that was too small, right? Well, like I said, then and and you're using the nose, not the not the open jaw like that. Right. Try to get as close as I can. Yep. When they're when they're flopping around. Yeah. One of the things with these coho cleaners, if you're using those initially, when you lay them in there like that, that just gives me a nice That that pinches the tail. Just so you know. I mean, I'm sure you do know that, but yeah. Okay. Um, are you heading back to your flip? Uh, guess I'm going to have to now. We got to do paperwork, don't we? Uh, I mean, yeah, you don't have to, but uh, are you planning to head back out or? Yeah, I was going to right from here, fuel docked or what? No, I'm going to go up to the store and then I'm going to head out first thing in the morning early, but I mean, we can do this tonight. Yeah. Well, it's Yeah, I'm just trying not to jam them up and also not jam you up. So, if I can meet you at your next stop, I'll do that. Yeah. Uh, yeah, you can. Um, you want to give me a number? Well, how about if you give me your ID and then I'll meet you at where you heading next. Uh, you know where you saw me next? That's where I'm going to tell you on that piece of dock there. Yeah, I'll meet you. Okay, that'll work. There you go, sir. All right. We'll make sure that uh when we're done tonight that you have your ID back. Okay. All right. I got to go here and do the paperwork. I'll get it back to you since I mentioned it, but I always do just in case. Yeah. Yeah. All right. I'll follow you. How many did you end up with today? For or for 3 days ago? Oh, today I think I had Okay, it's not bad. 33 would have been 38. Some nice ones in there. Yeah, very, you know, you get into a Mhm. bait ball with decent fish and then you scratch a bunch of little ones. It's just So, you having to kick a lot of them. It's all over the place. What's that? You having to kick a lot of them loose? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, today especially I probably kicked a dozen or more. It's Yeah, that time of year. I just saw you. Okay. Yeah, it's okay. I'm not breaking my friendly greeting card. Yeah, it's okay. Yeah, it's okay. There you go. So, I just need a couple of We can do it inside if you'd rather. So your neighbors aren't watching. It doesn't matter to me. It's me again. Uh your phone number. Go ahead. We check in 309 here. Come in here. Play with these neighbor dogs. I don't really want them. Oh, yeah. All right. Not not how I want to see you. I'd rather see you just like the last time. Say hi. I know, man. Well, you're doing your job. That's just I I wish I could agree with you that I'm being sticky or something, but it's really it's those fish are short, so you need to do something different. Um, I don't know what that answer is for you, but uh it might be it might be adding adding some length to your mark just to make sure that you're not having problems, but you ended up with five king salmon. They were 33 lb. So, you can do the math there. Those are those are small fish. No, I had 33 king salmon. Oh, you had five those five king salmon were 33 lb. Oh, oh, oh. Oh, oh, oh, you're talking about those. I mean, so fair enough, Tim. That's just I'm not I'm not going to beat you up about it. You know the deal. I know the deal. That's not a good start to the year. No. Um, so you need to show up in court on the 20th of this month. This is not a call-in at 2 at 2:30. The court is not doing the call-in thing unless you set it up yourself ahead of time. Okay. Um, where is the dates on here? This is right here. Okay. Uh if you need to change something, you can talk to the court and submit a piece of paper and I wouldn't oppose that to allow you to be there. Okay. Whatever you need to do and negligently. Yep. Negligently. Hold the paper. take and those five king salmon are down there in the as is being seized. So, all right. Okay, man. All right. Well, be safe and good fishing to you.