No pictures this time for what turned out to be what felt like a very short day trip.
When you're used to staying out at least 1 night and many times more than 1 night, just going out for the day seems like a short trip.
In any case, the weather was nice, which is rare for February, so I decided to spend the day on the water.
I pulled out in the dark at about 6:45 AM, but it got light soon after.
We are gaining about 5 minutes or so of daylight each day now, which is great.
I ran right over into Clover Pass and prepped and then dropped my 3 shrimp pots.
I usually drop them at one specific waypoint that I have marked near Salmon Falls Resort, but this time I decided to move them a little North of there, nearer to Grant Island.
After dropping the pots I just poked around in the area and tried some bottom fishing.
I only had 2 bottom fishing rigs on board and managed to lose one of them within the first 10 minutes. Must have been some sharp rocks down there because I didn't even reef on the rod that much when it separated.
I took a slow run down into Long Arm, which is near the entry to the Naha.
It's an area that I have not been into for many years and I wanted to see what was down there.
Up at the head of the arm there was a real nice cabin/home, with 3 or 4 people moving around the area. They had 2 skiffs anchored out front, and a real nice outhouse up on the hill behind the cabin.
Looked like the man of the house was cutting up fire wood on the beach near the cabin.
Pulled the pots about 2 PM, getting only a couple dozen shrimp.
This time of year there are a lot of "eggers," large females laden with eggs.
Some people eat the eggs, but I do not.
Pot puller is not working well - I had to pull the last 75' or so by hand.
Will have to look into that.
Back in the stall about 4:30 PM, right before dark.
Logged about 45 nm on this trip.
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