Flying Fish!
Out for the late Fall/December salmon and crab season rip and got very lucky. We dropped the crab pots and went out trolling. No bites but my 'chum' said he had a vivid dream that we were going to pull a big one in that day.
He was right!
As we were approaching the marina, we noticed a trawler off-loading to a research vessel. We were still empty handed so we asked them if they were selling any salmon. No they said, as a research vessel they were not licensed for that, but they would give us one of their Chum Salmon.
We pulled up close enough and over it came, flying 15 feet into the cockpit. It was filleted on the dock 15 minutes later and on the grills as soon as we were home. Amazing... and did I mention we also caught a 7in Dungeness.
