West Coast Twenty Thirteen

[Daceminnow]

Just back from a couple weeks out to the West Coast. Visited some family and good friends in our travels. The weather was terrific, lots of sun and good times. We did a lot of relaxing, a little bit of fishing and ate like kings and queens. The ocean was very good to us as it always is each time we visit her. Fresh salmon, cod, crab, prawns, clams, and oysters were on the menu most days. Treasures from the sea that came to us by reward of our own labor. The bounty just seems to taste that much better when no guides are involved and you catch, trap, and collect for yourself rather than buying off the wharf. Enjoy some pictures from our time away including JR's first salmon as well as a couple of the biggest chinook of the trip caught. Been too many years since we've visited the cabin, must return back again very soon.

Dace

[Deep]

Great pix Dace...thx for posting.

[Daceminnow]

[grizz325]

Looks like a great trip makes me miss the West coast even worse now lives lol

[Sundancefisher]

Did you dig your own clams? Do you know the secret for getting the sand outf the clams?

I am looking forward to eating a pile of oysters

[the local angler]

looks like an awsome trip and might i say those are the biggest jumbo crabs i have ever seen. drooling

[BGSH]

Beautiful out there, looks like a great trip

[Kokanee9]

Looks like a great vacation!

[kruger249]

Awesome pics tha.nks for sharing

[FisherGrrrl]

Wow that trip looks incredible. Id like to find that river one day Is this on the Island? Beautiful scenery too. Its trips like these that have you smiling for months after and then itching to do it again. Very nice

[waterninja]

beautifull pics. looks like a great vacation.

curious if you knew what that buoy meant.

[Daceminnow]

Originally Posted by Sundancefisher

Did you dig your own clams? Do you know the secret for getting the sand outf the clams?
I am looking forward to eating a pile of oysters

Yes we dug the clams. Learned a little about them too from a local gal. Not a native species like the Butter clam. Invasive from Asia introduced in the 90's. I believe they are Varnish clams. We let them soak for a couple hours to spit out, but they still had some grit when we ate them. Not sure if you can ever get around that? Some say black pepper or cornmeal helps in the water, never bother with it though.

The first picture on the second post is the oyster bed in the bay we stayed in. Go down at low tide and pick exactly what you want. Little guys for slurping up raw and the little bigger ones for the grill. All shells back to the bed once done and repeat. Good stuff.

Originally Posted by FisherGrrrl

Wow that trip looks incredible. Id like to find that river one day Is this on the Island? Beautiful scenery too.

You're teasing right Grrrl. You've fished that river and at a lot better time to do so I might add. Maybe this fall I'll return.

Originally Posted by waterninja

beautifull pics. looks like a great vacation.

curious if you knew what that buoy meant.

That's a marker buoy marking the tip of a reef. To my knowledge the letters don't mean anything other than to identify the buoy. Lots of birds and fish around the reef that morning. Was awesome.



Thanks for the comments all.


Dace

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