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…
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#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…
#2013-21 New Crew Arrives Sitka
On Monday the sun came out in Sitka and so did a new Wild Blue crew. For 10 days or so we will cruise with some SLO (San Luis Obispo) Townies. After dinner out, we get up early Tuesday and headed to St Larzaria Island and Vitskari Rocks, ak…
#2013-20 Soft Batteries and Fishing Sitka in Rough Weather
Wednesday June 5: Battery Reconditioning DayThe main battery bank has not been performing to par lately. It takes a full charge but delivers just 200 amps of the full 1600 amps available before it needs a recharge. We never consume more than 800 …
#2013-19 Pretty Sitka
We’re up early and out of Appleton Cove by 6:30 as we need to be at Sergis Narrows for 9 am slack current on our way to the old Russian capitol, Sitka. Of course so does every other boat transiting Peril Strait. As we approach the Narrows, which is a m…
#2013-18 Into Peril Strait
This morning our prawn traps did not yield any catch records. In fact we returned those few that made the ride to the surface. By 10 we were on our way north in Chatham Strait. We decided to take a peek in Warm Springs Bay and noticed the dock wa…
#2013-17 Solitary Red Bluff Bay
For the first time we wake up the glorious sunshine in Hamilton Cove which brightly reflects off the tan sandy beach. Five knots of soft breeze from the southwest greets us as round the top of Kuiu Island into south Chatham Strait. Ripp…
