Halibut Fishing

Me, Lori and Seth

 While in Anchorage we stayed with our lovely friends, the LeMasters, or as JJ calls them the littlemasters. We enjoyed talking into the early hours of the morning and catching up with one another. The kiddos are all about the same ages and play really well together.

The LeMaster were super wonderful and blessed us with an adventure in Homer, HALIBUT fishing. I have lived in Alaska my whole life and have never be halibut fishing.

 So, for my birthday we went Halibut fishing!!! It was wonderful and yes, we took our 3 kids and the LeMaster's 3 kids on the boat. They did fine, my boys all got sick and ended up falling asleep for most of the time.

 It was a lot of work to reel in these things. More than I thought it would be at least. 20 pound Halibut+a 2 pound weight and reeling it in from 120+ feet deep. . . it can be a workout!

 But a reward in the end!

 My boys throwing up over the side of the boat. Or as the old timers call it "Chumming the water"

 Dave was a trooper. He was reeling in halibut AND chumming the water! Good work babe!

This Eagle was super close waiting for scraps

After fishing and then cleaning all of them we were all pretty hungry and hit up a cute little restaurant on the Homer spit for some good ol fish and chips!!
It was one of the best birthdays ever!!!