Qaataaq - flash frozen

From the net of Tommy Nukapigak, Kuukpik River (Coleville), Nuiqsut.

Tommy catches Qaataq in the Kuukpik River

Tommy Nukapigaq found me today during the period of noon twilight and took me down to the river where he had set a net under the ice. He pulled out 97 Qaaqtaq, or Arctic Cisco. It has been a good season for Qaaqtaq, but a bad one for Aanaakliq, or whitefish, a very popular, fat and tasty Arctic fish Nuiqsut is famous for. The Aanaakliqs are here, but they are mysteriously blemished, perhaps with a fungus, from what I am told, and people are reluctant to catch and eat them. As for the Qaaqtaq harvest, Tommy is very pleased. 

Instagram experiment ends – fish gets hooked

I post this from the bridge that crosses the Little Su, about five miles from my house. Behind me is the place I drove Lynx to on Saturday. Tonight, I pedaled my bike down. This ends my Instagram/blog experiment. It was mostly a success and where it failed I believe I now know why and can prevent it from happening in the future. I lose a lot of image quality shooting this way, but it is fun and immediate. I will continue. This gentleman says he lives about 50 feet from the river. The fish got away. I never saw what kind of fish it was.