Ken's boat - called "Neverland"
Below - a Tufted Puffin. They are quite the unique bird, and usually difficult to get close to - but this one came up to the boat and seemed convinced that we were going to feed him. Maria and I saw some nesting pairs on Gull Island, which is a bird refuge across the bay from Homer - too far to photograph, but it was fun to watch them through binoculars.
A pair of good eating sized halibut - called "chickens" up here. They are 10-20 pounders.
Ken on the right, and Tommy on the left, with a limit of halibut - the most sought after game fish around here (less seasonal than the salmon).
Ken with a big ling cod that he caught.
Me with my big halibut - brown side up. The life history of the halibut is that they start out male (I think) and have an eye on each side of their body. Later, they change to female, and one of the eyes rotates to the brown side - so both eyes are on the top. They are predatory fish, and swim with the white side down and brown side up. At times, they rest on the bottom - and are very well camouflaged. They are a migratory fish that comes up from southern areas of the Pacific - and become more numerous up here as the summer progresses.
Flip-side of my big halibut. No eyes on the white side...
Our overall catch of halibut and rockfish. Turned out to be upwards of 100 pounds of fillets...
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