Thanksgiving Weekend Blues

[cdj356]

Kirt, would you like to kill ducks.
call me C.D.J.

[KeyWest]

Yea, what a deal. I have 4 days off, no fish to kill. I will probably go into work just to avoid the "honey do" list.

[Streetwalker]

4 days in a row to work on the new (to me) boat!!

[skein]

I'm gonna install cabinets in my wife's kitchen. They've been in boxes in the shop since July 1st, but I got this new boat, ya see, and I had to get it rigged and, well....

Truth is, I just walked in from the shop where I was wondering how I could get the boat back out before that gas got stale. Crabs? Herring? Weddings? (Oops, that's another thread)

Skein

[Tuna Tom]

I coach, so on Thanksgiving we are only going to have one practice in the early AM.

The good news is Saturday is my birthday. Rather than tackle the "honey do" list my wife is letting me go walk the river bank from dark morning to dark night. I've litterally tied up 40 drift rigs and two dozen new jigs. I don't care if I sacrifice them all to the river bottom gods...Tree on!!...or is Hook up? I'm just going fishing in overdrive for the WHOLE day. With a 16 month old son, that doesn't happen very much at all.

Who knows? I might even catch a Steelhead. I've always thought fishing beats reading about fishing... so hear goes.

Tuna Tom

[ 11-24-2003, 10:38 PM: Message edited by: Tuna Tom ]

[Threemuch]

So for once, I am not going anywhere for thanksgiving. Looks like the tides are good for some night clamming, but it is likely that we will have 30+kt winds for the remainder of the week. Slim chance for getting out on big blue for some bottom fishing.

What are your plans? Friday night convoy for razors? C&R Sturgies?

[fish assassin]

So next summer I have 12 weeks off from my regular job. My wife wanted to take the
boat and make a trip up to Sitka, but I'm having a hard time trying to come up with
enough bucks to go that far ... specially considering that I'd have to give up most
of the fishing season here in Oregon to do it.

So my sweety and I compromised. My little bro' and I are going to take the boat
up to Neah Bay where my wife is going to meet us. The bro' will take the car and go
home and the wife will get on the boat. We'll spend a couple of weeks dinking around
the San Juans and maybe go up by Victoria, B.C.

So we are in the planning stages of our route. I've never made a "yacheting" trip like
this before. I just fish!! So anyway, the wife and I have
decided to spend 5 days over the holiday celebrating our 31st anniversay (which
is today!) traveling up the coast of Washington in
the car and looking at all the different ports between the mouth of the CR and Neah Bay.

I'm liking this! Not only do the "little woman" ( :grin: ) and I get to spend some quality
time together without kids or grandkids (and the cleanup the Turkey Day feast always
creates), but we get to spend two nights in a cabin right next to the bay at Westport,
WA and two nights in a lodge up by Forks ... AND check out all the cool ports/boats/other
fun stuff.

*Almost* as much fun as going fishing! :shocked: :shocked:

Happy Anniversary Sweetie!! [img]graemlins/hearton.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/hearton.gif[/img]

-assAssin- (Note to self, get card/flowers/candy!)

[Mr. Fisherman]

Hey Kurt, Get in the boat son!
I'm thinking crabbing on Friday if the tides and weather are at all favorable.
Drop a dime an give me a call brotha....

Need to put more time on this fresh motor

How many pots ye got?

[skein]

Happy Anniversary, FA! Sounds like a fun, relaxing weekend, looking back on your years together and looking ahead to next summer's adventure. Doesn't get any better than that!



Skein

[kamloops]

Hammond C.R. :smile:

We'll be out there Friday on a friends 20' Northriver sled. We monitor chnl. 11.
Than Sat. and Sunday it's helping the Wifes friend move in.

[Popeye]

FA....HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!!!
I've made the trip, so if'n ya need any input give me a call....Work 541-917-3626 x26

[CATCH AND EAT]

Boy this is a pathetic post. What a bunch of skirt wear'n pooddle walkers. Gonna hang cabinets, got honey-doooo's, no fish to be caught. :tongue: Then again, I'm taking the family over to the cabin on Friday for the weekend. :blush: I feel your pain. :grin: Nah, time with the family is always cherrished and we always have a great time. Looking forward to it.

Happy Thanksgiving!

[Miss B Haven]

FA- If you get that far- check out Cresent lake on the road just before you get up to um.... uh oh...whats the town that the Ferry leaves WA from and goes straight across to Victoria?
Anywho- Cresent lake is beautiful, cabins there too. Not Seaport but ya can't have everything.

You could trailer that 30 foot beast of yours up I-5 to Anachortes (SP?) and save enough in Fuel to probably make Sitka! Well.. maybe not Sitka, but definately the Sunshine coast/Desolation sound Princess Falls etc. Might save a couple weeks of waiting for the weather window to, hard to say. You got a fast boat so you can hop pretty quick. It's only what- 150 miles from the CR to the corner. Always seems like it should be farther like the Oregon coast.
I've been in the San Juans and to the Islands up at the North end of Vancouver Island (Port McNeil area). If you want Wilderness you need to go farther North. If you want docks and towns and lots of Company (like hard to find a spot to Anchor or dock - but real easy to find food and fuel) stick to the San Juans/Gulf Islands. The fishing is much better up North as well (at least on the inside).
Barkley Sound is supposed to be REAL cool too. Just around the outside from Victoria (I haven't been there). Talk to Rich (Ninja) about Barkely, he's spent a LOT of time up there and has all the charts and info.
I've got some charts/chart books/Guide books for San Juans, Gulf Island and the Desolation Sound area up to Queen Charlotte Straight.
You're welcome to borrow them for the trip and/or now to start planning. Just gimmee a shout.

Oh- Congrates on the big miletone. I'm looking at 25 next year. I better start an autodeposit savings acct for this one.

Oops...back to this thread... Looks like a dry land (wet land actually) Thanksgiving weekend for me. Got a renter moving out (a day there) a Dad in poor shape (another day), Thanksgiving Dinner day, a day for a broken buried frost free faucet in the barn (I just love digging in the wet mud this time of year [img]graemlins/berry.gif[/img] ) Guess the 100 days of other honey do's will have to wait.
You guys leave some Crab and Clams for seed now! :grin:

[8knots]

FA, sounds like a fun trip. I took my boat outside two summers ago, but went straight through. Gray's Harbor and La Push are not the easiest bars in the world and if the weather window is right, I just keep going. Roughly 18 miles across from Neah Bay is Barkely Sound. It is regarded as some of the best cruising grounds by many books such as Waggoners Cruising Guide. Many islands and never too crowded. Also, a heck of a lot cheaper than the San Juans. Uclulet and Bamfiled are your small towns for provisions. I spent almost three weeks in there and never got bored. My wife and mother drove up to spend over a week and had a blast. Whales, Ling Cod, Bears, the bus to Tofino. This is a good fallback place if you run short of time for any reason.

[kamloops]

I have a complete duplicate chart set for Barkley Sound, Tofino, Ucluelet and Bamfield, spelling?

Take your crab and shrimp pots, Steamer Clam rakes, bottom fish gear. But, watch for red tide warnings before you attempt to eat the Oysters.

If I can remember, I'll let you know where we always threw out the anchor.

There are supplies and Fuel in Ucluelet, thats where the Charter and Commercial trollers used to moor.

[ 11-25-2003, 02:47 PM: Message edited by: kamloops ]

[fish assassin]

Wowzers!! I'm gonna have to keep track of *this* thread! Lots of good info here
that will probably make our trip a lot more fun! Barkley sound, you say? Now *that*
sounds more like our speed! I have a little problem with crowds and for some reason
my boat is awfully attracted to them there plastic rigs! Want to know what happens when
my beer can bumps into one of 'em?? I sure don't! :grin: :grin: :grin:

Thanks again for all the offers of help and good advice ... Please, feel free to keep
'em coming!!! [img]graemlins/applause.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/applause.gif[/img]

-assAssin-

[8knots]

If you really want the definitive word on Barkley Sound look up the retired Coastie in Newport who owns the old Grand Banks " Poke A Long " on the first dock across the Rogue Brewery. He goes straight through from Newport every summer. When I met him a few years ago he had just returned. He had one complete freezer full of shrimp he caught up there. This guy is really interesting and he had pictures in his boat of him in Look or Life magazine from an old article about the Coasties in the PNW.

The other great guide for every anchorage is a book you can get online or at West Marine by the Douglases. It is for the whole west coast of Vancouver Island, but the stuff on Barkley is very helpful. You need a good guide like this because there are lots of rocks and fog and hundreds of islands to make navigating a little confusing at first.

When you get ready to go let me know and I will give you the location of a great little ledge in a tight channel that produces easy salmon.

[Mr. Fisherman]

Well, I looked at the forecast and cancelled my plans for crabbing on Friday....

COASTAL WATERS FROM CAPE SHOALWATER WASHINGTON TO FLORENCE OREGON
AND WESTWARD 60 NM
830 PM PST THU NOV 27 2003

...STORM WARNING FOR LATER TONIGHT AND FRI MORNING...
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY FOR LATE TONIGHT AND FRI MORNING...

.TONIGHT...SE WIND 30 KT...BECOMING S 50 KT AFTER MIDNIGHT.
COMBINED SEAS 10 FT WITH DOMINANT PERIOD OF 12 SECONDS. AFTER
MIDNIGHT...COMBINED SEAS BUILDING TO 23 FT WITH DOMINANT PERIOD
OF 9 SECONDS. RAIN.
.FRI...S WIND 50 KT...BECOMING W 25 KT BY AFTERNOON. COMBINED
SEAS 24 FT DOMINANT PERIOD 9 SECONDS...SUBSIDING TO 20 FT IN THE
AFTERNOON. RAIN...TURNING TO SHOWERS LATE.
.FRI NIGHT...W WIND 20 KT...BECOMING NW 15 KT. WIND WAVES 4 FT. W
SWELL 17 FT AT 11 SECONDS. SHOWERS DECREASING.
.SAT...N WIND 15 KT. WIND WAVES 4 FT. W SWELL 14 FT.
.SAT NIGHT...NE WIND 10 KT. WIND WAVES 4 FT. NW SWELL 10 FT.
.SUN...N WIND 10 KT. WIND WAVES 3 FT. W SWELL 11 FT.
.MON...SE WIND 20 KT. WIND WAVES 4 FT. NW SWELL 9 FT.
.TUE...W WIND 20 KT. WIND WAVES 4 FT. W SWELL 8 FT.
$$

50 Knot South winds :shocked:

I think I'll just sleep in

[Reel Creel]

Tuna Tom,
did you go steelhead fish, and did you have any luck?

[Tuna Tom]

Reel Creel,

Tomorrow is my birthday. I'll be driving tonight, taking a nap and then start walking in dark and early. I'm still tying a few more new design jigs. I'm not sure I'll find the right water to fish them. Still, I'll have all day to run around and drown hooks. I'll update you and thanks for asking.

Tuna Tom

[skein]

Well, I did it. The cabinets are in. No fishing, no hunting, but I sure gathered up a lot of Atta Boy's. I figger I'm nothing short of a hero (at least in my own mind).





Yeah, I know, it's not exactly what you expect to find on a Salty thread, but man, this really takes a lot of pressure off me. :grin:

Skein

[Mark Mc]

Skein, it is very much related to Salty Dogs stuff. #1, I would say, conservitavely, that big "honey do" you just done should be worth at least 10 days of 'no questions asked Skein's going fishing' summertime days, and #2 with those glass cabinets it will be much easier to keep stock of the tequila / red wine / scotch inventory.

Nice work!

[Tuna Tom]

OK Reel Creel,

I drove, drove, drove...walked in...blown out. I didn't have a computer with me to check on the rivers so I made a call. Back into the car and drove, drove, drove again. Blown out...again. Hey, he was catching there on Friday. River came up over night. For my "one day" off I fished for less than 2 hours. I drove alot more than that...alot more. So I was skunked...no fish..nada. Managed it all by myself. I made the choices, planned the trip. Hey, It was soooo unspecial. My fault. Did I mention I didn't catch anything?

Oh well. Next steelhead dies. I'll probably munch on it in the car on the drive home. It won't even make it to the grill.

Tuna Tom

[Reel Creel]

Tuna Tom,
Too bad, one of my other buddies had the same luck on the clackamas just with a lot less driving. I got that stuff in the mail and will look at it tonight, thanks. The wife is going to turn 40 in april and she wants to go down to mexico for it. lucky me becaus ill make it a great trip with sex and drinking then fishing and more sex and drinking then back to fishing. When its time to come home ill leave her down ther and bring back a 18 and a 22 year old. [img]graemlins/idea.gif[/img]

[Tuna Tom]

Reel Creel,

I was wondering who you were going to have all this sex with...does your wife read this?

My wife turns forty in a couple of years. Do I have to wait till then to have sex?

Tuna Tom

[Reel Creel]

Tuna Tom
no not very often, good thing for me..hua and i hope your getting to use your scratchier at home when there is a itch that needs to be scratched.