Sunday morning we got up early and headed to Ninilchik around 40 miles south of here for our halibut cruise. We got to the charter office and waited until they arrived. They loaded our "stuff" up and off we went to the ocean! It was drizzling and continued for the rest of the day but not really heavy. We rode in a fairly large boat with 2 other girls joining the 4 of us. A funny thing they had the same last name as we did! Their parents live in Soldotna for about 2 months on the Kenai River and then spend the rest of the year in Lake Havusu, Az. Small world>>>> we think maybe they are related way down the line.....
Anyway.... we rode about 5 miles out or so but we could still see the Cook Inlet and the mountains all day. It became just cloudy at times but still very cool. We all wore our heavier coats....darn...I brought my earmuffs just for the cruise on Saturday and Sunday and then forgot to bring them! Bill still teases me about that! CRS!!!! :)
So the guide baited the hooks and 3# lead weight for us as we were fishing for halibut at the bottom of the ocean. One of the gals got a fish first. Then Jeff...he was sooo excited! I don't think he realized how much strength a 25# fish feels like!
Bill was next catching his fish and kept it although it was smaller. When I caught mine I was trying to take a picture of Bill's and the guide got mine and said I had a big fish on!!!! OH MY GOSH!!! I got a 55# halibut!Megan's fish were about in the 25# range and she wasn't sure she was going to get any! Finally they started to bite and we all got our limit of 2 each. What a lot of meat we got!
The rest of the fish were pretty good size...around the 20# range but my second fish was about a 45# halibut! Our freezer is now full of halibut from the 4 of us! Towards the end of the fishing the drizzle got heavier and heavier. We didn't care..we were so excited at having caught the halibut and being able to take some home. It was alot of fun and we all really enjoyed it!
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