Happy Valentine’s Day, Babe!
You know it’s True Love when I give up a perfectly good day of sleeping in and instead I get up at 6am to drive 3-1/2 hours to the Columbia River near Bonneville to go sit in a boat for hours in 40 degree weather punctuated by rain.
We got a little wet on the ride up river. This wasn’t rain; it was the huge waves coming over the bow as we smashed our way through the chop. I was laughing pretty hard at this point; if I’m geared up for a day of “suffering” and physically prepared, I tend to enjoy it rather thoroughly.
Brock really likes fishing. We used sand shrimp and smelt. The shrimp were definitely the winners.
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Too small to keep, this sturgeon only measured 34″. The legal range is 38″-54″. Back into the water he went.
This guy was a solid 40″. We didn’t have the whacking stick with us, so Brock just put him in the bottom of the boat for the ride home. I guess we know why this species is still around after 200 million years ~ these suckers are bulletproof. He was still alive 7 hours later and looked at me quite reproachfully as we took him out of the boat. I started to feel a bit guilty and briefly considered releasing him into Lake Union (well, I didn’t think it SERIOUSLY). I begged Brock to please put him out of my misery and he was quickly dispatched after multiple hard blows. Oog ~ these are the moments I consider being a vegetarian. Until I remember how much I like fish.
It was great having Brock’s little boat out again. He’s had it since he was 16 and just loves it. Good times!
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