I know I haven't been posting as fequently as before...tired after work and my laundry blah blah.
But today is a post day. Getting tired up here...meaning the long hours are wearing me out, every day seems a little more difficult than before.
So I was really looking forward to having a beer tuesday night, but the bar was closed due to our bartender being ill. She has a kidney infection or something. So I was disappointed to say the least, drank coffee and watched tv in the evening after sleeping most of the afternoon after my shift.
Around 9:30 word is my chef will be the bartender for a few hours that night, yay, so come 10ish I am able to have a pint of okanagan springs pale ale by the camp fire. Rain started to kick in so I went inside, watched the gong show of people making asses of themselves and finished the night off with a second pint. I enjoy having beers with the boat mechanic and staff cook...they like to vent and I like to listen...I can relate. Both older than me by alot but good times nonetheless.
There was a rumour ablaze that there was going to be a staff fishing charter today at 10am. Last time I listened to a rumour I went to the dock only to be turned around.
Fortunately the rumour was true and 12 of us were on out on the Q, our transport boat. We fished from 11am and back at the lodge just after 5pm. IT was lots of fun, they had beers and smoked salmon for us, no beer for me as a moving boat makes me feel ill. We were all fishng with small spin cast rods for coho, jigging buzz bombs (a type of lure), catching these fish on these small rods were alot of fun, such a fight and lots of action. Took some video of a dock hand who hooked into a big fish...i stopped it once we realized the fish had taken his line into a kelp bed and snagged him up.
MY first fish of the day was a halibut and they tried to gaff it (stick with a sharp hook) and pull in the fish...but somehow stabbed its head and knocked it off into the water. Boo...so not only did we lose the halibut, but its probably dead at the bottom of the ocean with a hole in its head.
Rest of the day was coho after coho and one pink salmon. It was a slaughter fest.
Apparently the chinook salmon fishing dies down soon...boo was hoping to catch a Tyee up here (salmon over 30 pounds).
Definitely missing home right now...seems most people are. Everyone is talking about what they're going to do when they get home. Strangely enough going for sushi is on alot of peoples to do list lol.
well time to have some food and head to bed...must sleep
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