The general plan for this trip was to leave Friday morning, the 4th of July, and stay out at least one night, and possibly two nights. They were scheduled to leave on Sunday afternoon.
The weather was not so nice when we pulled out on Friday morning.
Here is a map snippet of Bar Harbor to Naha Bay so you can see the general area where we were for most of the time.
We started out trying to fish at Vallenor Rocks, which is usually better fishing this time of year. But sometimes you have to fish where you can, not where you want to, due to the weather. It would have been impossible for this crew to fish there, so we moved into Clover Pass where the water was calmer.
We trolled for a few hours and ended up with 2 Silvers and 1 Pink in there. And of course we lost a few that we never saw, and got some under sized Kings which had to be released (not in the Terminal Harvest area).
In early afternoon we prepped and then dropped the shrimp pots in the Clover Pass area, near Salmon Falls. I have done well there in the past.
Then we moved over to the Grant Island area. I was surprised at how calm and beautiful it was there. But we got no fish there that we could keep.
From there we moved on out to Indian Point, which does not quite show on the map snippet. I miscalculated here, thinking it would be calm, but it wasn't. We trolled there anyway, but slowly made our way towards the Loring/Naha area.
We dropped our crab pots in front of Loring, and then went in to the dock at the Naha, where I have stayed many times.
I was concerned, as I always am, about getting a spot at the dock, since it is first come first served. But we were lucky and were able to get up to the dock. We tied up about 5:45 PM.
We took our obligatory walk around the loop and then started on dinner.
Jennifer saw this little guy along the trail.
Jennifer & Memo prepared a wonderful dinner of quesadillas.
After dinner I cleaned the fish, and Jennifer and Memo took a ride in the raft.
Memo shows off his catch of the day.
Memo and Jennifer along the Naha trail "Loop."
I apologize for the cloud of noxious fumes billowing out the back of the kicker on the raft. Lisa is after me to replace that 1988 motor with an electric kicker. Silent, no gas fumes, lighter, etc.
Jennifer got some good sunset pics from the raft.
We had a quiet night on board.
On Saturday we were up fairly early and had a good breakfast. It was overcast with light rain.
We pulled out abut 8:10 AM and immediately went for the crab pots. Too bad so sad only big starfish in them this time.
After that we went for the shrimp pots - taking a mediocre load.
We ran back up into Clover Pass and started trolling again.
After losing a real nice Silver right at the boat we finally hit a good fish.
It ran hard and I coached Memo on when to reel and when to wait.
We finally boated a 30" King.
It fought a lot bigger than it looks in this picture - it was a real nice King.
And I was so glad that Memo was able to get it in.
After that we just pulled the gear and headed in.
It's good to end on a good note.
Back in the stall about 4 PM.
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