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Off to Whale Pass AK for some fishin with my son!

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RickB

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We are pretty much packed up.
I got everything in there and then just took the long hard & cold look at it and pulled some stuff out ruthlessly.
I've got the "overpacking" gene I guess, so I have to do it this way.

We will try to get a few hours sleep and then go to the airport at O-Dark-30 in the morning to catch a flight to Ketchikan.
Then we walk about a block over to Tarquin Air, get on a float plane and hop up to Whale Pass.

We should be fishing by early afternoon. Limit out by supper time ideally!

My son is 11 years old, and he just wants to catch some fish. So far his experiences have been the kind where someone else hands him a pole with a fish already on. Not what he considers catching a fish.

Hopefully this trip will fulfill his wish!

In about a week we will be back, hopefully we will fill the freezer with Salmon and Halibut. I am sure we will fill our memories with great times! Oh - and I'll take pics and put them up on Picasa!

I likely wont have any access out there, the reports are that even the electricity has been spotty this past week.
However - check out the Halibut they caught a few days ago - 185 LBS!!

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Have a great trip!
 
You DAWG!!
 
Back from the trip - freezer full of Halibut & Coho.
Really tired to the bone, but what a GREAT trip!!
Pics later!

:wink:
 
I can send you the address to which you should mail some halibut packed in dry ice....just to help you with the freezer overload.....hehehe
 
Here's a shot of my son and I with the 82 pound Halibut I pulled up from the bottom.
This one didn't like the idea, fought it pretty hard in fact.
A bit like pulling up an angry engine block from 200 feet below the surface!

I caught about 250 pounds of Halibut that day, the boat total was 420Lbs for 7 guys. It's always like that for me with Halibut, but the others don't seem to mind if I just keep pulling them in... :wink:

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You DAWG!!! How much of the 250 lbs did you take home?
 
tony barnhill said:
You DAWG!!! How much of the 250 lbs did you take home?
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Here's the Picasa album:

https://picasaweb.google.com/rbastedo/153FishCamp2009#

The float plane was a gas - I got to sit up front with the pilot. Reminded me a lot of my Sprite! It was a 1961 De Havilland and it had sliding plexi-glass windows and lots of toggle switches on the dash... I felt right at home.

With all the restrictions on baggage these days I wanted to only check 200 pounds so I took 100 pounds Halibut fillets and 100 pounds Coho Salmon fillets.
This was good for the other campers (some of which were family) as I caught more than that so was able to share with them and leave some at camp for the people running the place.

I'm going to prepare two fillets of Coho out on the grill tonight. I like to slice lemon and put it on the top, so I'm going out to fire up the little red Sprite and run off to the store for supplies!

I have some 1x6 inch cedar planks, going to cook it on those.

(yummmmmy....) :wink:
 
Ah, the Inside Passage...I've made that trip via the Alaska Marine Highway...where'd ya'll fly from? Hyder or Ketchikan? Been to both - love both!

That's not the old Alaska Queen steam powered paddle boat is it? If so, we've taken her out of Ketchikan!

Bet your son had a blast! & good, quality dad-son time also.

Love the photos of the eagle & whale...you must have some fast shutter!
 
Heh - Digital SLR in manual mode. All I really need is auto focus, I learned how to use a camera a very long time ago... but my ability to focus has changed in recent years! :wink:

Yes, I've seen the cruise ships making their way through that area.
I'm down there on a little Bayliner watching whales and catching Halibut and I can't help but think there's a lot of guys up on the deck of the cruise ship who wish they were down where I am, doing what I'm doing.
That's sort of satisfying in an evil way. :devilgrin:

We flew into Ketchikan on Alaska Airlines, then off to the north end of Prince of Wales Island via Taquin Air. The Alaska Queen Paddle Wheeler was right there at the same dock so I shot a couple pictures.

Next time we may fly to Wrangell and then take a jet boat to POW Island. Mix it up a bit.

We did have a great time, even the tougher times were good - like when he woke up at about 1 AM the last morning convinced he had gone blind!! Since there are no outside lights, and no city glare and it was cloudy that night it was just as dark with your eyes open as with them shut and he was convinced he had gone blind. I'm not going to let him live that one down for a very long time...
<span style="font-weight: bold"><Me></span>(in a very worried voice) DAD!!! I'M BLIND...."
<span style="font-weight: bold"><Him></span> (rolling eyes and smiling) "Oh come on, drop it already..."
Heh Heh Heh... :devilgrin:
 
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