As a young man I was full of fantasies, the kind that dashed across the dreams of many a boy in the 1960’s; cruising the great long passages across endless seas, tropical islands with white sand, diving in warm shark filled waters, the love of beau…
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#2013-29 Cape Edgecomb Fishing and Chamber Music Concert
June 21, 2013Friday morning we gave Sitka local fishing one more try. We fished just inside Cape Edgecomb under the ever-present Mount Edgecomb, an extinct volcano. The fish were there but not in the numbers to which we’ve become accustomed…
#2013-28 King City Revisited
There was no question where to fish today. King City is it. We fished until noon and departed for Sitka to get our fish to the processor before the end of business.This week we’ve consumed some kind of fish every day. Here’s a short list of…
#2013-27 King City: The Grapes of Wrath…..NOT!
Out of The Small Arm early, we decided to set crab traps in a place that looked to be favorable in Port Banks. There’s a fresh water outflow from a river on the east shoreline. After the traps were soaking, we began trolling again along the…
#2013-26 Back to Whale Bay
Yesterday, the crew took the day off from fishing, to the relief of many salmon, and toured Sitka. By day’s end the boys had located the local Elks Club Lodge and payed a visit with the Exalted Ruler. Roger, Dave and Sid are all “Elkies” a…
#2013-25 Give Us This Day, Our Daily…….Limit!
It’s Sunday and we should be in church. Just can’t make it today, so we’ll worship on the water in our beautiful and natural surroundings. The choir is ready for our favorite hymn. All together now….FISH ON!Alaska Department of Fish and G…
#2013-24 Whale Bay’s Small Arm is a new favorite anchorage.
Coast Pilot states “The depths are too great to afford anchorage.” The Douglass guide states “Small Arm may offer reasonable anchorage…”. Sounds discouraging, however in our opinion, Small Arm is one of the finer anchorages in SE Alaska, …
#2013-23 Man Overboard! The Tale of Leaping Larsen
We’re up early and out of Stillwater Harbor by 8am on the way across Whale Bay and up its Small Arm to drop the prawn traps. We drop’em and continue up to the end of Small Arm to scope out tonight’s anchorage. It looks pretty good with a majestic…
#2013-22 Fed up with Local Sitka Fishing
June 12, 2013On Wednesday we continued our fishing in the waters local to Sitka. At 5am we take a 2-hour ride to the promise land, Biorka Island. It was pretty good last year so we dragged bait for 4 hours with just a small black cod to sho…
Sugar Reef Bequia
It is a small world! A senior woman I know from Wall Street spends some of the year in Bequia, so we planned our arrival so we could see her. She unfortunatly was with elderly parents stateside, but her wonderful husband Emmett gave us the royal isla…
