Alaska 2012

I spent my entire day fishing. The fishing trip began at 6am and was supposed to go until 6pm. However, the water was really rough and we were not catching much fish (plus a few people on the boat with me were starting to get sick) so we decided to end the fishing trip a little early. We got back to the boat launch at 3pm. That means we were out to sea for 9 hours. I loved it! I was not one of the ones who felt sea sick, in fact I loved the bumpy ride. The boat launch was really neat because instead of driving a truck down into the water and releasing the boat into the water, it was a tractor that pulled the boat down to the water edge and then we were released. We were not having very much luck while we were fishing for King Salmon so we decided to go further out and try to catch Halibut. As we were fishing for Halibut we caught our first fish of the day. However, it was not the fish we were intending to catch. It was a Pacific Grey Cod. We kept it anyways since it was at least a fish. A few hours later as we went back and tried to catch Salmon, we caught another fish and again it was the wrong type. This time it was a Halibut! It was just a small one though about 15 pounds. At the very end of our fishing trip we ended up catching a King Salmon. It was about 30 pounds. There were six of us total out on the fishing trip today and three fish was all we were able to catch in 9 hours. I was disappointed that I was not able to catch a fish personally but I still enjoyed the experience of fishing on the Ocean very much! I want to do it again sometime. After we got off the boat, we went to a fish processing place where they cut up the fish that we caught. We ended up eating the Halibut and Cod fish for dinner and the King Salmon got boxed up and shipped home to New York.