In those days, 25-foot "Nellie Juan Boats" would often sink after catching too many salmon. Although our boat was not an Alaska limit boat, we were much bigger than the Native Nellie Juan boats. The most we ever caught in one day was 8000 humpies, dogs, and an occasional silver, and we had room for another couple thousand, while half of that would sing the native boats.

There was one port that I've never been able to find–Port San Juan. It was a Phillipino camp for processing fish. Boats like us, the MV "Pat" from San Juan Island, Washington, would unload our fish onto flat-bottomed motorized scows, using one pronged pitchforks called pews. Then these scows would tie up at Port San Juan in the general Chenega Island area.. I have a good top map but not as good as a nautical chart, so could you tell me some way where that Port is?

I haven't e-mailed you for a few years, but I'm now back to watching your fine videos. You once toured up the Columbia River and the Snake River to within 75 miles of where I live, which is farther up one of those those large Idaho rivers. Keep up the good work. I've never seen better landscape photography that yours. Probably a lot of viewers tell you that, but I can give you praise from someone who has really been to a lot of those places.