Wednesday, July 18, 2012

July 17th, 2012: An Easy Day in Homer


July 17th, 2012: An Easy Day in Homer

After freezing the halibut, not all as we grilled some for dinner, we planned an easy day in Homer. Renita had a hair appointment, I needed to work on some cupboard damage, and of course we just had to go fishing at the end of the spit.

Of the three things fishing on the spit was by far the most fun, at least for me anyway, so I am going to concentrate on that. We got up and left the fifth wheel at eight am. Low tide was forecast a little later and we wanted to get there and fish when we could easily cast to the standing piers.

There was only one other fisherman, when we arrived and so we hurried down to our spot. It was a good thing we did as soon a large family showed up in two vehicles and crowded around us. Today we had bought herring instead of squid for bait, in hopes of catching a starry flounder and Renita quickly had a fish on!

It was a rock sole, or at least that’s what we think it was, and we were trying for flounder so she released it back into the water. We both had bites as fast as we cast in and ended up landing a dozen plus of the sole, but no flounders.

Renita pointed out a strange looking jelly fish and I caught two star fish. All of this took place in about two hours and we soon ran out of bait. We didn’t keep any of the sole but it was fun to watch Renita catch fish, she’s really good don’t you know!

Fish and one of the nicest days in Alaska so far, what else could anyone ask for? Clear skies

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