Alarm went off at 4:30a.m., got up made coffee and then lunches. Looking forward to a good day. We had to be at the boat at 6:30am. I didn’t eat breakfast, Dave had a fried egg sandwich. I wasn’t sure how I would do on the boat so it was better not to have anything in my stomach.
There were 17 of us, but only 16 fished. The only other lady that came either watched her husband or played games on her ipad. There were 3 guys working the boat, the Captain 23, 1st deck hand 14, (owner of the companies, son) and the newest kid who was 17. We went out almost 2 hours before they stopped and we starting fishing. You know more dropped your line to the bottom, about 250 feet deep, and you had caught something. 1st thing I caught was a cod, which a lot of the others did too. The captain kept those to use as bait. Drop the line again, bam, halibut but small so I said to throw it back. Then 3 of us got our lines tangled, the 14 year old couldn’t get them untangled the captain finally came over and cut the lines.
Dave and I had our limit by 12:30, boat really started rocking and getting really cold. We went and sat inside with 2 other people in there and sat and watched the others catch and throw back halibuts. This older guy and the gal kept bitching that they wanted to leave, too bad suck it up. I just kept my eyes on the horizon because like I said we were sitting in really large swells. Dave is asking me if I wanted my lunch and I said no, wasn’t hungry. We headed back at 2pm and we were rocking and rolling. That older guy goes running to the ships sink and loses it. I couldn’t look or I might have lost it too.
We stopped at Seldovia, which is across the Bay from us. The only way there is either by boat or plane. Matt and Connie went there the other day and paid $64.00 and had to stay there all day. We stopped for 1 1/2 hours, so the guys could clean or halibuts and that was long enough for us. While we were waiting for the boat to leave another much smaller boat came in a docked right next to us. There were 2 guys in it and we looked inside their boat and they had caught a shark. They had to cut it in half to even get it in their boat. This thing weighted over 500lbs, will post pictures of it. The guys said it took 1 1/2 hours to reel it in but 2 hours to get it into the boat.
We got back a little after 6pm and were exhausted. When we got back to the RV the three other RV’s that we have run into before came running out and wanted to know how it went. We ended up with almost 18lbs of halibut, not enough to ship home, but we did have it packaged and frozen for us, will pick it up tomorrow. The biggest one that was caught was 28lbs, no 100lbs on this trip. It was fun catching the fish and not having to handle the bait or fish. Just wish it wasn’t so rocky.
The guys from the other RV’s helped Dave chop up the rest of the pallets and we had a monster fire. I fixed chili dogs for Dave and I and by 10pm just couldn’t move anymore, plus it was really cold so we all headed in for the night.
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