Category Archives: frozen Chignik Lake

Sure Looks Like Fun

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Photograph of Native Alutiiq girls colorfully reflected on lake ice as they jig for fish on frozen Chignik Lake, Alaska.
Sure Looks Like Fun
With salmon roe for bait and a small jig on the end of their line, these girls were hoping for some of The Lake’s Dolly Varden Char and Pond Smelt. I’m not sure they caught much, but it sure looks like fun.
Chignik Lake, 1/10/17

Down the Hatch!

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Down the Hatch! Female Common Merganser flipping and turning a Three-spined Stickleback to gulp it down head first. Chignik Lake, March 14, 2017

The Usual Suspects

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The Usual Suspects River Otters on Frozen Chignik Lake. Note the Starry Flounder in the mouth of the otter at the left. The lakes sculpin, stickleback, char, salmon, flounder and an invertebrate – the isopod, Saduria entomon – figure into the diets of Chignik Lake otters. There is a lot of upwelling on the lake – spring water filtered through surrounding hillsides which emerges from the lake bottom. The spring water’s relatively stable temperature makes it relatively warm in winter, thus causing openings in the ice which the otters use to dive for food. February 2, 2017