Summer Catch Up Post

[2knots]

Alan, sounds like you have a really fun schedule all planned out, hope they all work out with good weather, fish and animals all showing for you and your clients... That Alaska trip next summer sounds really fun... I'd like to do something like that sometime.. Be even more fun to have your boat up there, but the fuel price would be painful..  Did you ever take your boat up north when your lived in Cali?  Guess it's just too many miles to go from Washington up to lower Alaska?  Would be fun to have your own boat so you could go catch some big halibut and rockfish and ocean salmon... I'd like to do that sometime when I wasn't pushed for time..  I'd have a lot of learning to do though, the ocean is a different animal and I'm just unfamiliar with it completely... From tides to storms to where to find fish and how to avoid Sea lions,  sharks and Orca's. Even navigation beyond line of site... Whole new world for sure for a plow boy... Seems like it would be fun to try though... Later J

One of my friends wanted to take boats up and do the inland passage, we didn’t have the capacity in the tanks to do it and carrying extra fuel wasn’t a realistic option with everything else we needed to stay on the boat for the trip with the size of our boats. So that idea was scrapped rather quickly lol. Washington to Ketchikan would have been the biggest challenge with the exposure to to open ocean and weather caused seas. Loading the boat and tow vehicle on the ferry and going up would probably be the best option but that isnt cheap and then you need lodging. The advantage of a non commercial/private boat is that the size and fishing restrictions aren’t as bad, there are lodges up there where you use the lodges boat and go out and fish (after a safety and area orientation) without a guide. Yes understanding the big pond swell and seas (wind wave) would be critical along with navigation and use of radar, tides play a major role in fishing locations especially when drifting for species like halibut and rock fish where you want a slower moving tide.