By Molly Dischner, For the Clarion – June 20, 2015
Editor’s note: This is the first of two parts in reporter Molly Dischner’s journey with a Homer fishing family to Bristol Bay on the eve of sockeye season.
PILE BAY – It’s noon, Iliamna Lake is calm, and half a dozen fishermen are sitting around in the grass outside the bathroom at Pile Bay using free wi-fi.
A soon-to-be setnetter makes a Facebook page for another fisherman. His brother (and this reporter) pitch in with photos and suggestions for friends. The three of us are riding to Naknek with Louie Flora and his daughter Sidney onboard the F/V Eagle Claw.
“Did you know they’re making me a Facebook account?” Louie Flora asked his daughter Sidney, who’s traveling to Bristol Bay with him for her first fishing season.
He doesn’t sound entirely excited about this. Sidney is more enthusiastic.
“Cool,” she said, making sure that devices are charging in all four outlets in the bathroom so that there’s ample entertainment for the next leg of the trip to Bristol Bay.
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