Yesterday we were Halibut fishing with Gary and Peggy Patterson from church. We chartered the boat Restless and were driven 1 1/2 hours (32 miles out in the ocean) for the roughest boat ride we've been on since we've been here.
Doug made it about 3/4 of the way out before he had his head in a basket puking. This is were he spent the remainder of the trip. The swells were so big you would lose track of a boat 100 yards away. It would completely disappear. By the time we arrived at our fishing spot. The entire boat of six people except Gary and Linda were over the side of the boat heaving. But we were on the fish and that was exciting because they were biting one right after another.
A call came in on the radio from the other boat which was 100 yards and they, too, were over the side of the boat puking. Besides that they were excited because they too were on the fish.
Gary caught the biggest catch, 95 lb halibut. They shot it with a 410 shot gun to get it on the boat.
We now know what our clothes feel like in the drying being tossed all over.
It was a fun day!
PS Notice that Doug is not in the picture. He hadn't revived yet. I caught his limit in fish.
Reeling up these fish was like being on a blacket toss while reeling up what felt like a 48 quart cooler from 200 feet. Linda's arms are shot.
Halibut Score: Doug 1 Linda 6
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