Day 41
The guys got up at 5 AM today (I think we opted for EDT again today, to make it a reasonable hour of 9:00 AM) and went fishing just for the halibut. The boat left at 6:00, with 10 plus 2 crew on board (plus Max the Whale watcher dog). We went out about 23 miles via Kachamak Bay into Cook Inlet. It was absolutely awesome (and that is from someone who is not a fisherman); the seas were as calm as calm could be and we all had a wonderful time. From the drop of the first hook, till we all had our limit, seemed to take less that half an hour. Marcel got the first fish, Terry the last. After all was filleted and weighed, Bill did the best with 15.7 lbs, Terry reeled in 15.05 lbs, Marcel 14.2 and Bob got 13.4; but Terry did the most fishing, being the amateur, I reeled in 7 times, two got away and three we decided to go for a bigger fish. On the way out & back we also saw sea lions, otters, one puffin, thousands of seagulls and one humpback whale, but no partridges this time. (picture is compliments of Bill, and will be appended here as soon as I get it)
While this was all happening, the girls were shopping.
We met them at the docks, browsed some more shops and the Salty Dawg Bar, then went for lunch of Halibut fish & chips etc. Rested and read in the afternoon, and of course enjoyed another Happy Hour under sunny sky's.
Learned that the Cassiar hwy in BC is still closed due to the forest fires in BC, and may cause us to change plans on how we get back, this concerns us because it would force us to miss Hyder and Jasper; we also read comments from someone who has travelled on the newly opened hwy from Tok to Chicken, it is rough but passable - looks like we will be getting to Dawson City now.
The guys got up at 5 AM today (I think we opted for EDT again today, to make it a reasonable hour of 9:00 AM) and went fishing just for the halibut. The boat left at 6:00, with 10 plus 2 crew on board (plus Max the Whale watcher dog). We went out about 23 miles via Kachamak Bay into Cook Inlet. It was absolutely awesome (and that is from someone who is not a fisherman); the seas were as calm as calm could be and we all had a wonderful time. From the drop of the first hook, till we all had our limit, seemed to take less that half an hour. Marcel got the first fish, Terry the last. After all was filleted and weighed, Bill did the best with 15.7 lbs, Terry reeled in 15.05 lbs, Marcel 14.2 and Bob got 13.4; but Terry did the most fishing, being the amateur, I reeled in 7 times, two got away and three we decided to go for a bigger fish. On the way out & back we also saw sea lions, otters, one puffin, thousands of seagulls and one humpback whale, but no partridges this time. (picture is compliments of Bill, and will be appended here as soon as I get it)
While this was all happening, the girls were shopping.
We met them at the docks, browsed some more shops and the Salty Dawg Bar, then went for lunch of Halibut fish & chips etc. Rested and read in the afternoon, and of course enjoyed another Happy Hour under sunny sky's.
Learned that the Cassiar hwy in BC is still closed due to the forest fires in BC, and may cause us to change plans on how we get back, this concerns us because it would force us to miss Hyder and Jasper; we also read comments from someone who has travelled on the newly opened hwy from Tok to Chicken, it is rough but passable - looks like we will be getting to Dawson City now.
The look on your face Terry is the look of someone who is now 'hooked' on fishing! Wish we could have been there with you! What fun!
ReplyDeleteHalibut along with pickerel, my favourite fish meal. YUM, YUM
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