Maurice and Elizabeth graded this trip as great as any they've had . And Maurice has been coming for , well , let's say, lots of decades . We did it all the comfy way , starting each of the two days at 8 am after breakfast at the hotel . We came in for lunch at a floating restaurant , and then a short afternoon fish nearby . The weather was calm, and it got hot by mid-day.
We're taking tissue samples for DNA , and keeping those on a blotter paper card . But Maurice remembers even better , he keeps track , and counts the one we lost the sample for . All the salmon were released , and one lingcod went home for meals . Catch and release is the order of the day , The count for the two days was 18 salmon sampled , just two of which were undersize ( less than 24 1/2 inches ) , one wild coho , and the lingcod. None of the fish were weighed, but the largest was 37 1/2 inches ( 95 cm ) in length .
On day two , after lunch, we motored several minutes extra to go out to where we could see boats watching some Orcas . We are required to keep a distance . These are the mammal eating kind , not the fish eaters. We went out to them , but later they came to us , right where we had been fishing , so we fished along, and then away , riding the tide toward the dock , to end a fine trip.
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