The sun made almost a full days appearance (we still had a couple of quick showers)! In the morning Kirk, Des, and I went out on Des' boat to try our luck at mackerel and pollack fishing. The seas turned out to be rougher than we had hoped, but we decided to give it a go somewhat closer to the bay. My line dropped down first and nothing happened. But almost the instant that Kirk's dropped below the water he was pulling back. His first try and he caught two pollack at once. These rigs, if you haven't used them before, have three to five fly hooks on the end, along with a huge weight. You simply drop them down, jig it a bit, and then bang! From there, our luck kind of went downhill. I caught a decent sized pollack, followed by one from Kirk, and then I finished off with a mackerel. That only made three more fish over the next 1- 1 1/2 hours, but overall not a bad day.
I cleaned the fish straight away and got ready to cook them up for the crew. Unfortunately, I was the only one who was game. Four went in the freezer, while I took one of the pollock and baked it in foil with onion, garlic, herbs, butter, and lemon. Simple, but awesome. That now makes two seafood meals that I've had in the last couple of days in which we caught the food ourselves.
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