# 48810: Subject: Pacific,

Submitted by Capt.Smitty of the RIPTIDE (ip 63.202.173.3)

• Fished on 5/14/2003

• Report received: 5/16/03

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Fishing_for: salmon
Boat: Riptide
captain: Capt. Smitty

Report:
Ahoy there one and all! Well, I am late in sending out my Wednesday fishing report. We had 18 limits of salmon and the biggest was 22lbs. We were fishing 12 miles a little west by southwest from the harbor. When I stopped in the morning i did not see much krill but there were three Humpback Whales feeding. So i figured they were better judges of the bait situation than i was and decided to join them. We were getting the gear in the water and i was helping the people on the bow get there lines in when there was this really bad smell!!! Everyone looked at each other and said "hay it's not me". When i looked directly up wind and saw all three of the whales blowing and realized it was the whales bad breath ( they don't brush or floss between there baleen plates and it is one of the worst smells)!! Everyone on the boat was holding there nose and laughing at the whales bad breath when the rods started to light up! First one then three more! We were hooking a lot of fish loosing some and releasing some shakers as well. Zack & Jeff ( my two deck hands) as well as myself were very busy making bait, netting fish, pinning them and trying to get the gear back in the water. then the fur bags showed up! God how I hate them! We lost another dozen or so fish to the sea lions before they decided to go and bother someone else! Thank GOD!! When i looked up there were the other boats around us and they too were doing very well! When we did our final fish count and started to head back to the dock it was 10:30 and the ocean was still nice and calm!

When the deck hands came up to talk for a minuets before getting started on cleaning the fish they were both covered in fish scales and slime. But, there was no hiding the ear splitting grins on there faces (as well as everyone else on board)! Just a perfect day in PARADISE! Till next time!

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