June 15, 2017

Still raining. Sometimes pouring, sometimes less hard, but always raining.

One of the other reasons we came to Baker Inlet was because a gentleman at Shearwater raved about how much he loved it. In a previous year, he apparently spent a week in here just crabbing and prawning and enjoying the scenery. And we certainly wanted to re-try our fishing since we've had a spectacular fail so far. Yesterday, it was nasty so no go. But this morning the wind was still down and so Greg go everything together and went out and set the crab pots near the boat. He then scouted some locations for the prawn traps in the main inlet and then came back and got them, and then back out to put them in. Bella and I took care of the boat and made sure it didn't go anywhere.

Fortunately, there was no wind at all today. Rather weird since today was supposed to be *the* storm day, and yesterday just the prelude. Go figure. But it was nice having no wind, and it certainly made fishing that much nicer. Greg still had to done his boot shoes, his rain pants, and his heavy rain jacket just to go outside, but at least it wasn't windy too.



Coffee, Lunch, some work on the computer took up the day. Around 5:00 he went out to check the prawn traps, and glory be! He returned with 90 prawns! The jinx is now over Then he went out to check the crab pots, but they had just a couple little ones in them. So he re-positioned the big crab pot a little deeper and came back in.

We froze half the prawns, and ate the other half for dinner. Greg was back out around 7:00 to check the crab pot again and got an "almost" legal sized one. In retrospect, we probably should have put the traps more in the middle / deep part of our lagoon. Oh well. It takes some time to put all the fishing gear and dingy away, so we made sure we ran the generator and had lots of water for his shower.