Our Captain's name was Arthur, and our First Mate was Kelsey. Arthur is a boat captain in the summer months here, then he guides big game in fall. He told me he spent a month on Kodiak Island bow hunting for deer last year. Sounds like a pretty good life. Kelsey, the First Mate, was in her late 20's and has her own salmon boat where she puts out 4 nets totaling over 1100 feet for catching salmon. She said she caught 3200 lbs of salmon yesterday. She said she went this morning to patch holes in her nets and drove back to Ninilchik to work on our boat. When fishing season is over, she teaches 1st grade in Anchorage.
We traveled about a hour to our first stop where the 8 people on our boat were instructed on how to catch a halibut. We must have not paid to much attention or else the fish weren't hungry, as I was the only one with a fish in the boat after our first set. We, then, traveled 20 minutes or so to another spot and tried again but the fish were not cooperating. We were told to reel in and we moved again....BINGO.... we had found fish!!! Within the first 5-10 minutes we had 4 fish on at once. We stayed here for the rest of our time as we had only about a hour of fishing left. We ended up with all 8 people getting there 2 fish limit, Most of us caught several more but returned them trying to get a bigger fish, which weren't cooperating.
After showering, I fried some fillets, potato wedges, and hush puppies for the four of us. The catch of the day was some mighty tasty eating.
Oh, want to add that we saw a cow moose and one calf moose today at the end of the campground we are staying at in Ninilchik. When the cow moose saw us, it wasn't long and they were both headed to the woods.
Ent. 194.67 Cab/80.00 Csh/
Written by Bob
Oh, a good day indeed! Stellar, I'd say!
ReplyDeleteBob, you did an excellent job on the blog.
ReplyDeleteWow, I am green with envy!!
I see you did not get Janet a licence cause you were afraid of getting out fished ... don't blame ya ... ha ha.
My mouth was watering looking at those photos of the fish fry!!
Way to go guys ... take care ... TnT