Enjoying the trip aboard Sea Drifter

 

June 13th, and the big challenge! We were going to go around Cape Caution. 

For those not in the know, Cape Caution is on the mainland just off the tip of Vancouver Island. When you're going around the corner into safe waters, to the west is Japan! The seas here can be very rough with swells enough to turn any sailor green. I've never been seasick, so hopefully this won't be any different!

As it happened, we got around without a hitch. The seas were 20' on 20 second swells. We anchored in another of Doug and Jan's "favorite" anchorages in Smith Inlet.

The fishing was pretty much a wash . We put out 2 crab pots and 10 prawn traps. We'll collect those tomorrow

June 14th, and although the crab pots produced only females and small males, the prawn traps came through for us! 

Jan is an expert at pulling line on the prawn pull. She taught us how to pull with the right and throw with the left to make perfect circles. Well .... HER circles were perfect! 

The spot  prawns that we got were massive. Although Doug tells us that they can get much bigger. We managed to collect 88 large and extra large and 70 small ones. 

Prawn Pad Thai and Prawn Pizza are on the menu in the next couple of days!

After pulling the traps and de-heading all those beauties, we headed out to fish. 

Doug knows all the good spots, and this was the place for Ling Cod. Down went the jigs and up went our hopes.

Pete caught a beauty! This guy was 19.5 lbs and will definitely be our supper tonight! 

We all caught a few scrap rock cod that got to live another day.

Jan caught a beautiful, very large Yellow Eye Rock Cod. He had to go back as they are a protected species. He was gorgeous ... a bright orange colour.

We spent another night in Smith Inlet and netted 96 more prawns and a 14-lb Ling Cod.

The wind picked up and we headed back to Sea Drifter with 2 Kelp Greenling for supper.

Clam chowder for lunch was a treat! Doug and Jan had dug them prior to us joining the boat and kept them in the live well. It was delicious!

June 16th we pulled anchor and headed up to Rivers Inlet after a very poor prawn pull. Mostly side-stripe shrimp on the medium to small side. They'll be delicious anyway!