July 24th, The good, The bad and The ugly.

The good: I did it again, actually I did it more than just once today, I landed more fish and another big one. The day started off with me pulling in the first few fish that were large enough to be kept. Then last spot we fished today was one of the best for me as I landed another big Halibut. This one was not as large as the monster one the other day but it was nothing to laugh at. Today’s fish was 48 inches long, weighed 57 pounds and was pulled into the boat in just under 10 minutes. Chris also caught a Halibut to round out our day’s total at 3 fish worth keeping. Another positive point about today’s fishing is that I caught a new species that I’ve not had before. The picture on the blog today is of me catching a Black Rock Fish, and I’ve posted the picture of it so you can see what it looks like.

The bad: This really is not that bad but due to our late arrival in the harbor last night and the large amount of fish to be cleaned we didn’t get asleep until well after 1:00am. Normally we’re all up by about 7:00 am, but not today as we didn’t get up and going until well after 8:30. Our goal is to get out of the harbor as early as possible and now that we had repairs to make it didn’t help that those didn’t get started until well after 9:00.

The Ugly: Unfortunately there was some minor engine repairs that were essential to the boat running properly that kept us from fishing for most of the day today. There are two diesel engines that power the propellers for the boat and one developed a leaking water hose. The leak caused large amounts of water to be sprayed onto a fuse box like part, for that specific motor. The result was Chris had to spend a couple of hours repairing the hose, drying out the electrical box and checking all the wire connections. The repairs were severe enough that they prevented us from leaving the harbor until all the work was done. There was a saving grace to the length of time the repair work took and that was it allowed a run to the grocery store for food.
Another god item for today was a local friend of Doug’s invited us to their house for dinner. Ian (from Island Seafood) invited us to his home for dinner with he, his wife and daughter. It was great to have a chance to eat more Salmon and Ian didn’t let us down on that point. There were three kinds of Salmon prepared and all of them were fantastic.

I need to explain a little background information to help make sense of the people we had dinner with tonight. Every year the trip happens Doug makes more and more friends in town. At the end of each day we filet the catch of fish and then take it around the harbor to a seafood processor named Island Seafood Co. Island Seafood then takes the fish, cleans up anything we missed, cuts them into manageable sizes, vacuum packs them and freezes them for shipping to where ever we tell them. We do the initial filet part as the cost is per pound and it saves us some money to do it ourselves. Ian is the manger of the company and lives in town with his wife and daughter.

I also have put up the bear picture from the first day that I was here. The bear was about 15 yards away from us at one point in time.

That is all for today

Right on.

J

Doug’s plugs: wwwcameralandny.com