But in the interest of full disclosure of all my trips I'll make the post.
I left Bar Harbor about 9 AM in gray skies, gloomy weather, with occasional rain.
This was the last weekend of the annual King Salmon Derby so there were a lot of boats out there trolling.
As an aside, the winner of the derby this year was a 14 year old boy who caught a King about 40 lbs. That's the smallest fish to win the derby for decades. I think he won about $10,000 in cash and assorted other prizes donated by community vendors.
On the way out I passed the cruise ship Disney Wonder on its way into port.
I went a little out of my way to take a shot of a large yacht anchored in front of Pennock Island.
This is the "Ice Bear." Here's a blurb from Google:
One super yacht being readied to go is the 172-foot "Ice Bear," owned by billionaire business leader and noted philanthropist Walter Scott Jr., who sits on the board of Berkshire Hathaway. Scott is a childhood friend of Warren Buffett and is chairman emeritus of Peter Kiewit Sons’ Inc.
I headed west and then north into Clover Pass.
Dropped my shrimp pots in my standard spot in front of Salmon Falls Resort.
I spent the rest of the afternoon drifting around trying to catch a bottom fish, to no avail.
I hadn't been to the Naha since January so I decided to poke my nose in there and see if there was room at the dock.
Fortunately for me there was room. There was only 1 boat there, a sailboat around 36' or so, named the Cookie Cutter. I went on board and visited with the owners for a little over an hour. They were from Canada, near Victoria, but they had spent 10 years sailing the South Pacific, so they were very experienced sailors.
Above is the Cookie Cutter at the Naha dock.
On Sunday morning it was rainy and blowy but I started to make my way up into Clover Pass to pull my shrimp pots anyway. On the way there I listened to the marine weather - the report was not good.
So I turned around and went back into the Naha area and played "Hide from the wind" for the rest of the day while trying to find a place where I could bottom fish. The weather forecast had said the winds would be diminishing later in the day so basically I was just killing time.
Late afternoon I once again headed for Clover Pass and my shrimp pots. Pulling the pots is a challenge to accomplish by myself even in calm conditions, but today conditions were far from calm. It took me a long time to hook the line and then my pot puller proved its wimpiness as I had to add considerable elbow grease to get the pots in, all the while getting blown across the bay.
In any case, I made it home safely about 5:30 PM in fairly calm conditions in Bar Harbor.
Should have stayed home this weekend.
The best part of the trip was visiting with those folks on the Cookie Cutter.
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