We got an earlier than planned start on Friday! The crew arrived early and we loaded the boat, made shrimp bait and hit the road in record time. Hit the launch around 10:30. Final shits were dropped and lunch was made and consumed. Our crew for the weekend, was Luckee Mikee (Chicken Arms), His son T-Bone, Cornfed and Tower Todd. This is a great crew and so much funny shit happened....it was a great time.
The tide was cooking in Deception Pass, so we went to the first little island and started fishing.
We island hopped and fished our way to Jones Island. We pulled into Jones Island, which was our Bloodydecks pre-arranged meeting spot. It was plugged with sail boats and no avilable space. We soon met our first fellow BDer, Quixotic.
We decided to drop the shrimp pots and fish through the slack tide. We caught plenty of nice Spot Shrimp, some Coonstripe Shrimp and a few odd items that we didn't reconize.
We headed into Deer Harbor since Jones Island was plugged, then we called the other fellas to join us. We hooked to a mooring bouy and everyone rafted together. Tonight's crew was Iso Kala, Quixotic, Tin Lizzie, and Dragonballs.
On Saturday, everyone split up in search of fish. The weather was perfect once again!
Then Reel Nauti arrived to join the party.
We also caught more shrimp.
On our last pot pull, we caught some live bait size sculpins, that Tommy rigged up. We dropped them down and soon after, caught the largest Ling of the trip. It was getting late, so we headed for Deer Harbor, to meet up with the BD gang. There was a two section dock moored to a bouy. We all tied up to the dock and had our own dock party and potluck. Some made shrimp, some steak, some halibut and salmon, cookies, veggies, chocolate. It was an awesome feast. Again flat water. The next morning, Dragonballs overslept and was snoring, so Tommy paid him a visit:
Then Vance diapered up. (See Quixotic's pictures)
We all departed and fished our way back to port. Along the way, we came across a bleak reminder that DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES:
And our youngest mate, T-Bone, caught his first Ling: (Chickenarms was a proud papa)
THANKS FELLAS for a awesome trip. My Crew was excellent. The BDer's we met are all first class and every single one of them, I'd invite on my boat anytime. Hope to see all of you through out the summer and at next years San Juan Islands Trip.
TT
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The Tuna at Westport amd bottom fish at Neah Bay better watch out!
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