Hoonah to K-Town
This is just one day! Look at the blog for the entire story and more pics.
The 22nd of July will be one of the best days EVER!! I beat Kay fishing!! We left Taku to Portage Harbor. Looking at time, it was clear we needed to start heading south for some maintenance on ASD’s heater system. Along the way we stopped at 5 finger Islands for halibut. I quickly landed a 35lb halibut. Finally. Then a smaller Butt was on the deck floor. The day was warm and seas were glass. Humpback whales were everywhere. Then as I was lowering my bait to the bottom, BOOM! The pole bent right over. Holy Cow, I have a big fish. As I was fighting, the pole was shaking hard. Then the tip of the pole went straight down, Hard! Crap. A whale surfaced right behind the boat!! Kay and I starred at each other. Holy crap that is a BIG fish!! It started to take line; I couldn’t stop it. The whale swam on and the line was still stripping but in a different direction! Maybe I still have the fish, the halibut. I tighten down the drag. No good still stripping line. The pow! The line broke. Then a sea lion surfaced behind the boat with my halibut, smashing it on the water to split it up! It was a big fish, but now the Sea Lion has it! Hope you bite the hook you thief from the depths I shouted!
After fishing for a while longer we gave up as the dang sea lion kept hanging around the boat, so we went to Portage Bay. On our way we got a radio message from another boat. They asked us to take our trained sea lion back as it had taken their halibut!! I chuckled.
f that. 
