Gone Fishin!

We took a fun trip this weekend to Seward, Alaska. It is about a 2 hour drive southeast of Anchorage. It is a pretty small town, only took us 10 minutes to walk from our hotel to the boat harbor. We drove through the town in probably 5 minutes:) It rained the whole way down and all that evening, but it was still beautiful. I ordered reindeer sausage at the restaurant cause I hadn't had it before, it was good and pretty much tastes like sausage. Travis got a tasty salmon sandwich:)

Here is the boat harbor in Seward

Not quite a moose or bear, but we saw some cute bunnies walking around the town

We woke up very early Friday morning and headed to the dock for some halibut fishin! It was very foggy on the boat ride out, but the rest of the day turned out just beautiful! It was perfect for a day for fishing. We traveled about 3 hours out in the water before anchoring the boat and getting out the fishing poles.

Our first catch ended up being a lingcod! Which ended up being a bonus cause usually on halibut charters you catch your 2 halibut per person and are done. I hooked it. Here I am holding the pole for a while. I am struggling to reel it in, haha, it was heavy.

So I had Travis take over and reel the fish in the rest of the way

  It was a 39 inch lingcod. Yay! You can keep one lingcod per person per day. Cod most often is used to make fish and chips, but they say that lingcod is a lot nicer.

Travis with his halibut

 We are lookin good!

 The boats haul for the day:) This included cod, a few rockfish, silver salmon, and halibut, two of which were over 100 lbs.

We ended up taking home 23 pounds of filleted cod and halibut. Yum!

 On our drive home Saturday morning we stopped to take a few pictures. It was a really beautiful day. Sunshine and a nice cool breeze:)

Check out the baby bump, great for baby but not for fishing, haha. Almost 30 weeks along now, pretty crazy.

We now have a freezer full of fish, enough to last us for a while. Sooo...everyone should come visit us and have some fish:)