Super fun early morning fishing out at James Point. After trolling the shoreline for a couple hours and getting nothing but the occasional rockfish, we went deeper and farther away from shore and started picking up the bite! Ended up with 1 nice silver salmon for our freezer so that was a score! Soon we were off to Claydon Bay for a couple days, just a short hour run around the corner to the inside. Once settled we headed to Drury Inlet to try for some halibut and ling cod, and boy did we hit the ling cod! We found a sweet spot right at slack tide, put the gear down and gently drifted past a rock face, and bam bam bam, we were getting fish right and left, not all keepers of course as some were just the basic small rockfish. We hooked up a few big ones that got away, but the final count for keepers was one very large ling cod, a smaller one, and a medium one that I decided to let go, not sure if our freezer could accommodate more fish! Very fun fishing! Around 6PM that night, we were prepping dinner, and just chilling out on the boat when a working skiff was headed our way. As it motored towards us I wasn’t sure what was up, was it fish & game or First Nations officials? Turned out it was a group of loggers coming around to warn us that there will be a dynamite blast on shore in our bay just as soon as they can notify all the boaters in the bay. Sure enough about 20 minutes later a sonic boom shook our windows! Apparently they are blasting rock to build a logging road. I felt sorry for all of the woodland animals who probably still have PTSD. It’s a shame for us boaters that they are going to log inside Claydon Bay as it will make it unattractive to visit.
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| We found this tree growth very odd, almost like a seedling attached itself to the top of another tree. It was just a thick mound of pine sitting up high. Curious to know why |
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