Brian has been salmon fishing for silvers since he's been back in Alaska and came home with 4 silvers - and this weekend we went halibut fishing on a charter that I had bought a groupon for last year and we never got to use - they had agreed to hold it over to this year, and we went out on the last weekend for the season. It was a beautiful day, though, and we couldn't have asked for anything nicer. All 6 of us out on the charter fished our limit - we could only take 1 over 29 " and one under for a total of 2 fish each. We came home with 4 total, 27 pounds of filets, nicely stacked in the freezer now - that is a LOT of halibut, which is my very favorite thing to eat! Ninilchik is about 3 1/2 hours away and just about to Homer.
Don't know if you can see from the picture, but they launch off the beach by having a big tractor push the boat off a trailer. It's an easy day on a charter in most ways, because they have so much of the work done for you -- we were out for 5 hours in the sun and on the water, though, and just reeling in and jigging the line is work enough for me! What a gorgeous view though, and fun to come back with so much.
Today, the last day of Labor Day weekend, we restained our deck, took a long bike ride on the Coastal Trail and came back to a halibut dinner - Lance came over and had dinner with us, our former landlord - and our first fire in the fireplace!
Tomorrow it's back to work!
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