Slaying the Seward Silvers

Bryant caught the first fish out of Seward last weekend.

. . . at least we wish we were. So far we've managed to get three. Two that were nice fish and I earned the bragging rights to catching the BIGGEST one.

The biggest silver ever caught aboard the SOL SEARCHING.

Even Wyatt thought it was a nice fish although he wasn't impressed until he noticed that others at the fish cleaning station had much smaller silvers to fillet. This is our first season ever fishing for silvers out of Seward and that is only one reason for our limited success. Other reasons include:

1)We don't like to burn a lot of gas chasing fish, so we've limited our range of where we will fish.

2)We don't like to get up early to fish or for any other reason on the weekends.

3)We don't have long attention spans when fishing isn't very good.

4)We get distracted into sailing when the wind picks up and the sun is shining.

Not as big as yesterday's fish, but I sure wasn't going to complain.

Bryant brought the boat down to Seward the last weekend of July while I was in Michigan. Since then, we've made our way down there for three different weekends. Two years ago, we bought this boat from a guy who kept it in Seward and this is my first time back. Seward is a town of about 3,000 year-round residents. Other than a state prison, most of its economy is summer tourism. There are quite a few fish charter operations, tour boats into Kenai Fjords National park, and the big cruise ships also use Seward as a drop off and pick up point for passengers heading to Vancover Britsh Columbia.

Seward Boat Harbor

Next weekend, we need to make a decision about whether or not we should leave the boat in Seward through the month of September. It sounds like the weather may be a limiting factor as precipitation increases.
A charter deckhand filleting or butchering a Salmon shark.

We witnessed someone's 308 lb. halibut.