Day 5
Woke up early, 5:15 departure to hit the fishing tide. Fishing was great. Actually it was nothing short of incredible. I actually weight my fish. I have gone fishing with many of people especially guides, and caught many of 25-30lb kings. I weight my fish. I find it incredible to have people guess their weight. Most people guess 5-8lbs over what it actually is. Using a digital scale we caught our limits of Kong’s. 8@ 20lb -25lb spring chinook. Oldest son owns the two biggest! Lots of Great morning. Foggy and 3 ft swell but 10-15lb fish. Probably caught (released most) 25-30 kings on 5-6 hours fishing. Hard to beat that at this time of year, with that big of fish.
Food:Had some great ham, bacon, eggs, cheese, English muffins for breakfast. Made some a salmon Belly, jalapeño, cucumber, red pepper, cream cheese sushi roll, and prepped a ceviche, for snacks.
Cooked up some garlic chicken pasta for the main meal at lunch while my son steamed us to Codeville lagoon. Fist time here. It sure is a beautiful anchorage. Only 3 boats. Got there at 6pm, dropped the dingy and dropped 3 shrimp pots (filled with special Puget sound bait cocktail I make and a little salmon) near the entrance and 4 crab traps (filled with lots of salmon) near the bay where the trail is.
The boys played on the Kayaks and paddle boards for a bit and we had some smoked chicken and salad for dinner.
Lots of eagles and a fawn/deer making noise in the dense Forrest. Seen 4-5 hump back whales already, a few otters as well. Sure love the call of the eagles.
Weather has been pretty incredible as well. Sunny, mid 60s to 70s, mostly sunny, with some fog. No rain. Yet.....
Day like this are what drive me. Long day, but hope my sons remember it for ever.
