rder. She wanted Biscuit's and Gravy. After breakfast we went back to the hotel to wait for the van's to drive us to the harbor. We were also waiting to see if we had another person with us today, since they fish 4 people to a boat there was a high chance we would have a stranger with us. Which is just fine usually because you don't stay strangers for long being together for 10 hours at a time. They did have a single person and today was his first day to fish. His name was Jarod and we met him on our drive to the harbor.When we booked our trip 2 years ago we scheduled our whole trip to be with Tim (captain). Octobre called us back in January and asked us if we would fish one day with Roman (captain) because she had a party of 6 that wanted to do a crab and shrimp day. Tim's boat is the only boat they have that can accommodate that many people at the same time. So we told her we would switch for a day.
So we were with Captain Roman and his deckhand's name is Dan. On our way out of the harbor and while we were headed to where we were going to fish for the day, Roman told us stories and was quite the little tour guide. Everything we passed he would tell us about. It was great. He also told us how he proposed to his wife, which was an awesome story. They were married in December last year. He took her scuba diving and had a giant sign that he had sunk and a plastic ring in a little treasure chest.
Ali wanted me to ask Roman about her giant muffin....so I did. He said, I don't do muffins, I said ok that is fine, Ali just wanted me to ask you. I think that made him feel a little bad cause he pulled out his pound cake that his wife Rachel made and sent with him for the day. He let her eat most of it. The muffins must be a treat that Tim does for those who fish with him. Anyway, Ali had me ask Rachel for the recipe, she loved it so much.
He decided to switch
from salmon fishing to rock fish. Ali caught a rock fish, they usually aren't very hard to reel in. Well Ali was having a hard time with that thing. I thought, wow what did she catch. Dan helped her by holding her pole and she reeled. When we finally saw the fish it had what they call a chaser on it. While she was reeling up the rock fish a Ling
Cod latched onto the the Rock Fish and was trying to eat it. It was a nice size Ling Cod. It was so cool. She was amazed to see that. They actually had to nudge the Ling Cod off the Rock fish cause he wouldn't let go. If the Ling Cod would have been in season we could have kept it too but you can't keep those right now. We caught our limits of rock fish fairly quick. Afterwards we tried to fish for Yellow Eye. We had these giant grubs with a piece of meat on them and Roman would keep going over the cliffs under the water beneath us. The rocks were so jagged that you had to be careful as you drifted that your grub didn't get stuck in the rocks. We drifted really fast because of the wind. Yellow Eye dwell within and around cliffy rocks like that and you had to keep your bait bouncing on the bottom. Well mine got stuck in the rocks so there was a scramble to get it free before the line broke and they lost their gear. Jarod caught one Yellow Eye, but nobody else did.
Roman called one of the other captains that works for Tim to see where he was at and how they were doing. They happened to be out in the unprotected area fishing. They were catching salmon here and there and the seas were 8 foot swells. Roman asked me if Dave and I were alright going out there, especially since we had Ali. I said yes (we would just watch her good).
It was a bit of a rough ride out there, not terrible but the water was rough. Roman sai
d he only wanted 2 people out on the deck at a time because it was rough weather. Ali and I stayed inside the cabin and Dave and Jerod went out first. After Dave caught one I went out and Dave came in etc. When it was Ali's turn I stood behind her and held onto her life jacket. We did
catch some salmon and then it just died. No fish, we had a hard finding them again. While we were waiting and waiting we saw a Hump Back Whale again. Dave went into the cabin to check on Ali and she was feeling sick. Dave and I think it was because it was hot in there and of course the up and down motion of the boat and rocking back and forth. She needed some air so Dave pulled the drink cooler over in front of the door and held her on his lap. It was raining (it really never stopped raining the whole trip). Well she crashed. It was really cute, dad just sat there and held her until she decided to wake up.
When we returned to our hotel room I called my mom's cell phone to talk with Zach. My mom handed the phone right to Zach. He said, mom, "I am in San Diego" he can't say Diego it sounds more like "e
ago". I said you are in San Diego! He said yeah, I am walking on the beach and I see some seals. WOW! I was so happy he was able to do something fun and go on a little trip. My sister Hilerie works for Jet Blue and she took her kids, my mom and Zach to San Diego for the day. My mom told me that when they landed in San Diego they went to get a rental car. When they drove away, Zach said, "Hilerie, Why are you stealing this car?" They all laughed. Hilerie said, I am not stealing it Zach I am just borrowing it. About 5 minutes later he asked her again..."Hilerie, why are you stealing this car?" I think he asked her about 4 or 5 times, and she tried to explain that she paid the man money to use it and they are going to return it. I still don't think he understood. He thought they were highjacking a car to go to the beach. LOL!!! that made me laugh! What a great sister and mom I have, make sure my little guy is having some fun too since he was missing out. Man we sure all missed him REALLY BAD!! For dinner we went to Roma's. It is a little Italian joint run by Chinese people right across the street from the hotel. The last time we were in Sitka I had vegetarian lasagna and it was the best lasagna that I had ever had. I was looking forward to that again. Well they didn't have that on the menu anymore. Ali had a kid's pasta dish that I think you could have fed the entire Foothills Primary with. It was huge. I ordered a pasta with artichoke hearts and asparagus. Dave had a seafood pasta. It was a really nice dinner. I felt sad to leave all that food sitting there to be thrown away. There was no way for us to take left overs, no fridge or microwave and we certainly couldn't take it home. LOL! I am silly.
We went straight back to our hotel room, watched a few minutes of TV and we all passed out. I am sure we were in bed by 6:30 or 7:00 again.
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Very cool Ling Cod chaser picture. We caught some of those when we went deep sea fishing in Oregon. Our captain called them the "mother-in-law" fish. Apparently his mother-in-law is not very cute.
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