Casting for Salmon
28 July 2013 | Red Bluff Bay
John/Sunny!!!
Today is kind of a blur. We had another picture perfect day in Red Bluff Bay. No sense in shrimping since there do not appear to be any here. We kayaked a bit, dinghied around the bay and then we started to fish for pinks (humpies), silvers and dolly vardens in the little cove where Happy Dance and Ruby Slippers were stern tied. Sue and Marty had good success off the bow of their boat just casting with their spinning rods - Sue even caught 2 pinks while casting from her kayak. How she brought the fish into the kayak and held it between her knees is a story in itself! Bill had good success as usual - he is a magician with fishing. Deb and John did not have much success so we not too subtly invited ourselves for dinner on Happy Dance since they had silvers to cook. They included Mike and Ann from Jay Hawk also and the six of us had a blast. We had dessert to offer since John had picked about 6 cups of blueberries while others were fishing - Deb made a blueberry cobbler. She was challenged by a very persnickity oven and some misdirected help in Sue's galley and the dessert ended up taking much longer to cook than she had expected - thus it took on the infamous name "the 3 hour blueberry cobbler". In addition to the great company and excellent the food, we had the show of our lives when Mr. Grizzly decided to make a showing right off our stern as the 6 of us stared in astonishment. He was so close and we watched as he lumbered along the shore crashing amongst the bushes in search of berries and other vegetation. Fortunately we had our camera with us and we took multiple pics and videos as he put on a feral show for us. It lasted some 30 minutes before he wandered off - needless to say the event delayed dinner as Mr Bear took center stage. It was certainly the numero uno bear sighting to date - he completely filled the camera lens on booth the stills and the video!