Martha Loves Sitka: Our first long line fishing

So with our SHARC cards in hand we decided to try our hands at long line fishing. With this card we can put down 2 lines with 20 hooks on each. We can each catch 20 halibut a day with our cards as it is considered substance fishing. I like it! The idea is, our rope is leaded so it sinks with a weight attached at one end. We put an 8 pound anchor on ours. We trolled our line out until we had all our hooks out, then a second weight goes down attached to another rope. Throw a buoy on the end of that one and when all your rope is out, throw out your buoy. Wala, long line fishing. We baited ours with herring and left it for about 4 hours. We went and found a nice cove to spend the afternoon and had lunch. We decided it would be a good idea to test us getting our Zodiak from the top of the boat to the water, then back. Actually wasn't as hard as I thought it might be, but then again, I was not on the heavy side. lol Honey you did a great job! It was a beautiful day! Our long line caught a Rock fish which are pretty prehistoric looking. I don't care to eat them but Michael was a trooper and cleaned it up from which he got 2 small pieces of fish to eat. I did take one bite after he cooked it and have to say it was not horrible. Fresh is definitely better. So we put the line out again and left it over night. Michael took a friend with him to retrieve our line today and since I have not heard from him I'm guessing it did not go well. haha Try try again!