Not Skylar’s Day

Monday August 14^th – Today we are making our way further south leaving Thetis Island for an anchorage at Russell Island.  Russell is one of our favorites.  The whole island is a Provincial park and the small white shell beaches are beautiful.

After a long slow cruise, we arrived to a moderately full anchorage.  Our first anchorage selection resulted in the anchor just skipping across rocks so we moved to a different location that after a few skips seemed to hold good.  Skylar started fishing right away and brought up a few small flounders.  Then he got a big one on!  This thing was ripping line and had the pole bent way over.  After a couple minutes of fighting Skylar got a little too aggressive with it and the line broke.  He was ticked!  We will never know what it was but it will always be a monster in his mind.

We all hiked the island then came back for dinner on the boat.  We know of a little hot spot for Lingcod so we all took off in the dinghy after dinner to try and catch some fish.  30 minutes pass without even a bite.  Then all of the sudden Skylar and I get one on at the same time!  We both land our fish at the surface while Julie gets the net out.  Both were Lingcod but Skylar’s was really big.  Julie got mine in the net and on the boat.  Just as she went to get Skylar’s the fish went berserk, got off the line and swam back to the depths.  The 2^nd big fish today Skylar lost, he was not happy.