A week of fishing
August 2, 2008
What started out as horrible weather and even worse fishing got steadily better over the week. The first day we caught almost nothing, but by the end of the week we were flush with over 1000lbs of fish and shrimp. Some of the highlights include Kevin fishing with dollar bills. Nobody thought it'd work, but he caught the first 2 fish on our boat.
On the third day I hauled in a 55" halibut and a decent size silver salmon (my grandfather is holding my salmon). Pulling that bastard fish off the bottom was a chore and when I nearly had him up, he ran on me, pulling line all the way back down to the bottom -- hence my cursing.
We had a great take shrimping the next day bringing up 56lbs of tails. Of course we had to rip the heads off of all of them.
And we spotted a couple whales throughout the week.
All in all, not a bad week. But I am glad to be back to sleeping past 5AM.
On the third day I hauled in a 55" halibut and a decent size silver salmon (my grandfather is holding my salmon). Pulling that bastard fish off the bottom was a chore and when I nearly had him up, he ran on me, pulling line all the way back down to the bottom -- hence my cursing.
We had a great take shrimping the next day bringing up 56lbs of tails. Of course we had to rip the heads off of all of them.
And we spotted a couple whales throughout the week.
All in all, not a bad week. But I am glad to be back to sleeping past 5AM.