I did not do so well as a halibut fisherman. I caught the smallest fish of the day on our boat – and only one, at that! I plan to redeem myself by catching some big walleyes this summer! 🙂 We still ended up with a good 45 pounds of fillets, so that’ll be tasty!
Work here in Homer went well. I got to work with the Project GRAD coaches – 7 of them. They’re a very nice bunch of folks. Since it was a training day for them, it was more relaxed – which basically means we got to go out for an hour long lunch. 😉 It’s nice to get to visit with these people about things other than just their schools. You end up spending so much time with the same people, but you could very easily never really get to know them.
Anyway… after work, I went and picked Bill up from the hotel, and we headed to the Bear Creek Winery. It’s a fun little place here in town that does wine tasting. We tasted their whole list (because the gal pouring said it wasn’t’ that extensive!). I think it was just to loosen us up to buy a couple of bottles of over-priced wine. 😉 It absolutely worked. I’ll chalk that one up to the experience of it all – plus, I got to see how they make the wine. Pretty neat.
We got to the charter company by 7:00 yesterday morning, and we didn’t roll back into the docks until about 5:00. At that point our guide, Joe, cleaned all the fish caught (we each came back with our limit – 2), and then we headed up to the place that flash freezes and packs them. Pretty nifty. As much as I enjoyed being out in the fresh air, I’ve decided I’ll put my money into just purchasing the halibut next time. It’s HARD WORK to real those things in, and you have to stand around holding a big heavy fishing pole while you wait for them to bite. So, I think I’ll stick to Lake Vermilion fish and salmon from now on.
Finally, I’ll have to end this entry by wishing my mom a very happy Mother’s Day!