Alaska Soon, i was moving there to weld on the pipeline in 93 but i let my x change my mind. TMI !!!! Never been and can't wait to go
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I catch a lot of fish. LOL.
Yes very simple. No thinking. Just too hard. LOL.
DON'T hire the only flounder charter on Amelia. I'll give all the details at a later date. For now, let's just say this guy doesn't understand the difference between taking someone gigging with you and getting paid over $100 an hour to guide someone.
Dammit man. I feel bad making the comment now if you got burned. It's something I've wanted to do for a long time and thought it would be fun.
What happened to my idea? Zebco, sinker weight, hook, Shrimp....Cast...catch......rinse and repeat...
I think it would be a blast if the guide wasn't an asshole. He didn't have an asshole attitude, but was an asshole because of how he handled the trip. The very first thing he did was stress how hard they can be to spot, then he ran the boat at the equivalent of a pretty fast run. That means the person most likely to spot them is the guy at the front of the boat with 14 years experience. In other words, him. Then, if the fish had any size, he gigged it. Including a huge 28 inch fish. I know fishing guides will often fish at the same time their client does and I have no problem with that. But this was not fishing, this was hunting and what he was doing was the equivalent of the guide shooting the game before the client even had an opportunity at it. .
The whole boat was set up to put him in the perfect position. While he was at the right front in a well cushioned pedestal seat, I was behind him on the right of the boat standing on an 18 inch wide platform with no place to even lean for 6 hours. Often times he had the side of the boat right up against thick grass, which means I could barely see the water, much less the bottom. Meanwhile, he could see the bottom in front of the boat just fine.
I don't know what was wrong with him. As the night went on, he ran the boat faster and faster. For the last three hours of the trip we didn't see a single flounder. They were probably there, but we were moving so fast that even he couldn't spot them. The one fish I gigged that he had missed seeing got ripped off the gig before I could get him in the boat because there was so much water drag on him.
It was a very frustrating and uncomfortable night.
Doing that, too. Haven't gotten into a lot of fish yet, but a couple of big rays and about a four foot shark were fun. Caught a pretty nice Whiting and a couple of Blues and had one about 24 inches cut through a 20lb fluorocarbon leader about 15 feet from shore.
I can recommend Alaska for halibut...
