It's light outside 20 hours a day in Kenai, AK in July.  This is good for those of us with the 20 hour work-day.  Commercial fishing periods are generally open for drift-netters on certain days from 7AM until 7PM, which means we'll get up around 3AM to head out to the fishing grounds, and by the time we've delivered the fish and cleaned the boat, it's 10 or 11 o'clock at night.  But by comparison to a lot of other fisheries, drift-netting salmon in Cook Inlet is pretty easy.  It's a very clean fishery, no by-catch, no heavy gear, no complicated hydraulics, almost no electronics, just a slow boat and a short net.  We set and pick, set and pick, dozens of times a day, snaring a few hundred here and a few hundred there, trying to make a day out of it.  It used to be a very lucrative fishery.  In 1991 the cash buyers were paying as much as $3.15/lb. and 10,000 pound days were common.  This summer the price topped out at $1.15 and 10,000 pound days are unheard of.  Don't get me started on the cost of fuel.  Anyway, "for the money" is a bad reason to be in commercial fishing.  So we do some hiking and some clam-digging, play golf and go to baseball games, bar-hopping in Seward and Homer, campfires, horseshoe tournaments, and fresh grilled wild Alaskan salmon every night.  Not a bad way to spend the summer.