Well, it’s midway through week two, and for the first time in 9 days, the boats weren’t full of rainwater. But that’s not all… upon waking up this morning, every resident of 153 Fish Camp beheld a strange, somewhat terrifying sight in the sky. “It’s like…like the sky is… on fire!” remarked one camper, his face white from either sheer horror or simply the absurd lack of vitamin D. Reports of fainting have surfaced, however these are assumed to be onset from sleeping (or, lack of such) in cabins with practiced snorers, not from this strange phenomenon.

Yes. The sun came out.

It’s finally warm again! Maybe we’re just a little spoiled with our water tank overflowing all day long, but we all are sure are enjoying the sunshine. Well, as much of it as we can see anyway, when we aren’t sticking our heads into the freezers, plying for more storage space. That’s right… our freezers are nearly full, which means the fish are in hot and heavy! The tides this week are all negative, meaning that the water level drops quite considerably, transforming a section of the bay out front into little more than a small canal. The salmon shoot up and down this channel in huge schools, and some of these guys have been limiting out in record time with snagging hooks. What’s better, is that nearly all of these fish are bright silver, fresh from the ocean, and biting like crazy! Just tonight, some of our guys went out with spinners and had 2 triples and 2 doubles all in just a couple hours. It is amazing fishing, thank the Lord.

Believe it or not, I’ve been so busy this week that I’ve forgotten to take pictures! I’ll get some on here in the next post.

Two halibut trips have been out so far this week. The first one boated 3 halibut, and the second caught shark, cod, and rockfish. The boat has been working great! However, we are having problems with the lower unit of the 200 hp outboard on the back grinding while trying to shift into gear. To remedy this problem, we just start the boat in forward gear, and never take it out. This actually works quite well… in the rare occasion where we need to use reverse we can drop down the kicker and get around nicely. All in all, though, the boat has been great so far, and, Lord willing, will continue to serve our campers for years to come.

Thanks for reading. Pictures will be up soon!

Finally! It’s raining! For the first time since we’ve arrived here, it’s raining. Yes, I know I sound crazy right now, but we’re definitely thanking God for the rain, because it means we’re actually gaining on our water tank!

The first camp is going pretty well so far. Fishing has been slow… the salmon out front are not biting very easily. However, the fishermen who have turned to snagging have done pretty well, and I have a feeling the rest will follow soon. This morning was the best day of the week so far – the low tide made it easy to get the fish from shore as they were running up and down the channel out in the saltwater. Some of the staff even got in on the action as well!

Dave Rogers started snagging from the get go, and has hauled in some nice silvers this week:

The guys have taken the halibut boat out every day this week. The group on Monday caught a couple nice halibut (77 lbs and 43 lbs), as well as several nice pacific cod. On Tuesday they went out to try for kings, but because of the windy weather, they weren’t able to fish them properly and ended up catching a couple halibut (20 – 40 lbs) and another pacific cod. Another group went out today in search of some more halibut.

The halibut boat has been running great so far. It still doesn’t want to go into reverse all of the time, but all in all the boat is fantastic!

We had a fantastic message from Pastor Dave Caudle from Calvary Chapel Palouse, WA last night. The local church came out to visit and we had a great discussion over Proverbs 2.

Thanks for your prayers! I’ll keep you all updated as the week goes on.

Oh, another thing! When the fish do bite, they’re hitting chartreuse or pink Mepps Flying C’s, and Blue Fox Vibrax lures.

Stay tuned.