Poem: Dipnetting

Dipnetting Season

By Dee Rusin, Kenai

The fish are coming!

The fish are coming!

Grab your nets and poles!

Hurry to the beach

Stretch as far as you can reach

Dip your nets — haul ‘em in

Toss ‘em in a waiting pail

Don’t forget to clip the tail

This scene’s repeated over again

Til the buckets or sleds are full

Grab a line push behind

Everybody pull

In the truck back home once more

Clean and then fillet

Now the fisher people

Turn their thoughts of fishing

Another day

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