Today was an early day. Up at 4:30 at Echo bay so we could back track and pull our shrimp pots we dropped overnight.
It seems that we were a bit tired from the long day before and forgot to reload the traps with fresh bait. Thus we only got on lucky jumbo prawn which we pitched back. Spent some time getting all the traps up into the dingy and putting the line away before we would run back to Malcome island to salmon fish.
After arriving at the salmon area we got our lines in the water and started the troll. It turned out to be a long day only picking up 1 12-14 lb silver and a springer that almost didn't make the cut. We let 10 or 12 more silvers go due to their small sizes and ended up with just 2 fish. All in all it was a great day after the 12 pounder hit the deck I brought up my gear in time to have a pod of Orcas swim right by us. I was able to get my SLR out in time to catch some great pics of the little tike and the rest of its family. Click on the link to see some of the whales: http://picasaweb.google.com/snowandriver/July14th?authkey=Gv1sRgCPLa7ODb8auwXw#
After the salmon fishing got a little long in the tooth we put the hammer down and ran cross sound to meet up with Brian for some flat fish fun. We finished out the day with 2 chickens on jigs and had a great time while doing it. Another early am for us to put the hurt on some salmon and try to weed through for a large halibut.
to be continued.....
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