Monday, June 20

This morning we said our goodbyes to Glen and Tobey and wished them a safe and speedy trip back to St. George.  It was fun sharing our Alaska adventure with them and will be seeing them soon.

Steve and I picked up our rental car and headed back to Seward for 1-1/2 days of deep sea fishing.  I am joining Steve for an evening 1/2 day of fishing.  This should be interesting, I have never been deep sea fishing before and am excited and apprehensive about it.  I still have my sea sick patches from our cruise, so I have one on, plus my sea bands, and am ready to go.

It took us abut 2-1/2 hours to drive from Anchorage to Seward.  We arrived in plenty of time to  have lunch at the Seward Brewery, find our hotel and leave off our luggage and we were told to visit the Fish House for rain gear.  It looked like we might get some rain that evening, but the next day looked like it was going to be clear.  I picked up a nice light weight rain jacket/wind breaker in Anchorage and Steve found a very nice rain jacket/wind breaker at the Fish House in Seward.  We sprayed our jeans and shoes with water repellent and headed to Miller's Landing for our Charter.  We found that we were the only 2 booked for the evening fishing.  Also, found out that the Salmon was not running yet, but we would have rock fish for catching.

Off we went.  The guide was very patient with me since I was a newby.  Steve caught the first fish, but threw it back.  I caught the next fish and we both limited out on Black Rockfish (bass type fish). I caught the biggest!!  So excited.  We got back to the dock about 10 p.m. and headed back to our hotel.

Launching the Boat

The big one in the Middle is Mine

Steve and I limited out on Black Rock fish