This
last weekend saw us once again in Homer – this time for a Halibut Fishing
Charter!
We
drove down Thursday after noon, checking in to our AirB&B around 10:00 that
night. That gave us just enough time to quickly put our food in the fridge and
crash into bed.
Bright
and early Friday morning, we picked up his cousin Chris, Chris’s wife Terri, and
his best friend Mike from the campground just around the corner from us – and headed
on down to the small boat harbor to hook up with his father at the charter.
Our
charter was with Wild Coast Alaska owned and operated by Karl Thomas. His son
Cody was deck hand, and did a very good job at it even thought his was only his
third time working the boat with his father.
The
boat, called the Fiskr Valhalla, was a custom-built Sea Raider 2896 with
a fully enclosed and heated bulkhead. It even had a private, stand-up head – albeit
a very tiny one. Captain Karl clearly takes very good care of his equipment:
that boat was so shiny and clean I bet you could have eaten off the deck (well,
at first you could).
Since
we had chartered the boat specifically for us (we were the only passengers on
board) we got to spend a good 8 hours fishing for Halibut & Salmon. We had
clear blue skies and a very calm sea for the most part – which, if you know Homer at all, you know
that’s fairly unusual. However, it did get all foggy and overcast for a while, then cleared up again. Not bad fishing weather, all in all.
We
all caught fish, but they were considerably smaller than we used to catch, back
in the day. Still, we all went home with at least 30 pounds of fish, and that’s
not so bad.
Halibut are good eating!
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like so much fun! Sometime when I have a little more money and can get my friends organized for a Saturday or Sunday, I'd love to occasionally charter a boat for a fishing day. -Sarah
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