Fresh Halibut is good stuff, nice catch !

Interested to see how the process goes!

Love that aquarium, wish I sat closer to it last time. By now the only thing you haven't bought from there is the sign out front, right?

That does sound a bit like a sweet bacon, sounds great.

Went to Jared's pond hoping to find some big bed fish to poke. Unfortunately we saw zero bed fish. I did see a decent carp as I was scanning the shore.

I was swimming a new-to-me Big Hammer Ringer Worm at a moderate pace and got a skunk buster. First LMB of the year for me.



The boys had mixed results themselves, a couple caught, a couple skunks. Just nice to see how Tom lives, getting slime on his hands.

Got pushed out of the house for a couple hours, successfully bargained for a good tide this time. Hit the harbor for spotties since it went relatively well last week. Wind was up all day but not too bad once I arrived. However the current was ripping pretty good.

Took about 20 minutes but after switching from a roboworm to a fluke, I got my first bite in front of my feet, as I saw the sand flare up and I felt a little knock. Just a pancake, but missed it and woke me up. Just a few casts later a little spotty lit me up.



Shortly after, I got picked up and this one had some weight. Took a little run despite drag being locked down. Felt different, and my suspicions were quickly verified. Thankfully I had a nice shallow bank to slide this 23" flatty up onto.



Some lady was filming me so I walked up and gave her a little info and better look, then some kids wanted to check it out. I realized that it was hooked in the gills, which made the decision to keep it an easy one. I popped its gills and ran it back to the car to put in a kill bag then got back to fishing.

Very next cast when I got back, got a little better spotty.



Got one more bite for the next hour. Nice little flurry, and I think after a 24 hour flash freeze, the flatty will be good for some dinner. Tbh, this might be the only fish I've kept for dinner from the sand ever...besides a pile of shovelnose about 13 years ago now, but that's another story.

Nice way to spend a few hours.

Now you're getting it!

 Today all 3 kids were working so why not have lunch and walk the Happy Place We always get there at 11am when they open the Restaurant, no crowd !




We got a table next to one of the Aquariums, cool to see the fish up close





Time to walk the store and pick up a few things....She went straight to the Pontoons again !



Saw these two doing a "LITTLE" shopping as well      ( I will burn for that one )



500 Bucks was donated to the Joint but it was a fun getaway, Janie's receipt almost made the register run out of ink !


I'll stop by again on my way back from Bishop next month to stretch and have another Look-See