Alaska

I am a little behind on the bogging and i'm already up to two big halibut. I went out two weeks ago early one morning. It was so early that Jill, my co-worker "Go by yourself, I aint getting up that early" It did not take long for me to hook into about a 50lb halibut. I danced around with joy as i boated back to the lodge to fillet up my prize. She yielded 26lbs of meat. Today we left at 8am since slack tide was at 10am. I like to leave the cabin two hours early because depending on the wind and the size of the waves it takes us about 30-40 minutes to get to 'Halibut Hole' Todays Halibut weighed in at just under 55lbs. Jill also got one that was 18lbs, We would have let it go, but it had swallowed the hook and there was no getting it out. I also caught a smaller one, but it was able to cough up the hook, so we let it go, It was probably under 15lbs.
Last year i bought a camcorder and underwater case off of ebay. I have rigged it up with a lead fishing weight, submersible LED flashlight, halibut leader and bait. The first cast of the day was the camera set up sent down attached to a pole i have with 150lb test line, Then Jill had her pole that was connected to the leader, hook and bait. We were tethered together by a small amount of 3lb test line. This way when a big ole Halibut took the bait, jill could pull hard and snap the tether, reel in the fish and i could reel up the camera, instead of having a big tangled mess, or losing the whole set up. It was a good idea, and we may try it again but all we saw on film was blackness, a small stream of LED light and small ocean muck floating by. We only kept it down 10 minutes. I need to do something to make the light wider and be able to see the bait???
Sockeye Salmon have been coming into the lake in good numbers, just these last few days they have slowed down, but only because it has not rained in so long and the water level in the river is way way down. As soon as it rains, the weather report says Thursday, i am sure big numbers will start coming in.
Last night we ate off the land, we had Sockeye from the lake, Rice from wherever the rice came from. The rice was topped with Sea Lettuce, an edible type of seaweed, that Jill harvested backed and crumbled on top. Our steamed greens consisted of what was in the garden Jill brought out and mixed with a few stinging neddle leaves, they sting until you 'Tame' the needles which you can do by sauteing them or steaming them. And for desert, Blueberry stuffed Salmon Berries.