Venice still at it

[capt hoop]

Had a call to do a little job with the Glacier Bay. I told the wife seeing I had the boat in the water in Venice I may as well go fishing after the job is done. She said she expected me to do that. In the water at 9:00. Job done and back at the dock at 10:15.

Ran down the river and found it a little bit of trouble anchoring in the wind being I was alone on the catameran. Pulling the anchor I had to put the motors in gear and run forward to pull the anchor and back to put it in neutral once it broke loose. The wind was blowing and all the offshore boats were fishing for trout in the various cuts. I had to move around to find the trout but after a little bit I found them.



These were all 13-20 inch fish. I had a problem loosing some getting them over the high gunnels so I broke out a net I had aboard. Big mistake. Trying to net them alone and the difference of the gunnel height was not working. When I went down to net one I also dropped the rod enough to have the hook fall out of the fishes mouth. They were not biting aggressivly which did not help either. I just gave up on the net and let the trout fly. I had them bouncing off the motors and back into the water and some would even land in the boat.



Of the ones that made it to the boat only 50 percent actualy came on board. I did not care I was having a blast. Most of the fish I catch I give away after I fillet them anyway. My wife does not eat fish so I don't get a chance to have a lot of fish. I was slowly putting some fish in the box anyway.



Iced them well overnight and cleaned them this morning.




Have a trip with our UPS guy Wednesday. Kind of like "What can you do for brown?" Let's see if the trout are still cooperative. A lot of people throwing shrimp, dead and live, to them but I am only useing plastics.

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