holy cow.... where to start:
-out bymyself in pedder bay, round dec 23rd fishing some winters...... forgot to tighten the distributer while tuning it up a week before... died killed the batteries trying to figure out where it was supposed to be... nobody out... it was blowing easterly so it pushed my up on the dnd property...... lmao right after 9/11 they werent impressed.
-wake at 2 am to loran alarms going off the moring of the salmon opening. was achored on the big bank fire up the motor closer to swiftsure....stayed in the wheelhouse all they way to Ucee.
- b-lining to ucee during sockeye season when it picked up pretty good and really fast.... popped a staby out then dipped the pole on the other side....interesting couple of seconds.
- barkley sound dragging shrimp in about a 25kn southwesterly...not to bad.... with the net hanging at the side it instantly switch to about 35-40kns coming right out of the canal and a instant 6-7 foot chop..... blew us over the net, hung up on the zincs.....got wet that day, side shots till we ripped the net off, bout a 4 ft hole in 'er
- Commercail jigging lings on the outside of the big bank in the fog..... run up check the radar (for only one rotation...mistake) a couple mins later hear a rumble....then see a gaint Hyundai though the fog....that was close a freighter at a 100 ft is large
- wake sometime during the night to the motor running....fell back asleep....wasnt too unusuall. wake up in the am, the captain heard a boat through the hull an got up. we had a guy anchor a little too close for being a bout 15 miles out (tide swing and 500ft of anchor line out) so this 80 ft hake dragger grazes our bow( we were ready) and right into the side of this troller anchored beside us, took off the pole an most of the bow works... he limped back to vic, season done..... lucky guy, the dragger watch guy was sleeping.
- alomost got hit by a polish processing vessle called the casiopia (lol remember it well) 2 twice out on the troller, then out in the fog coho fishin off sooke on the bellbouy
LOl there were many more, but also all the more good experiances, never change them for anything in the world