I beat my dad in fishing!

IToday dad and I woke up at seven again. Instead of going crabbing we went fishing. We went with twelve other people on a party boat. At first I caught two fish and my dad caught one. Then I caught five more and my dad didn't catch a single one!  Then I caught four more and dad caught six more. At the end we both had our limits (7 fish each), and a ling cod. The other fish we caught were sea trout and LOTS of black rock fish. I had so much fun! The only bad part of today was that two boys (Kaiden and Kristian) that were my friends left this morning. They helped me crab yesterday.

PS. By the way, while I was crabbing yesterday I got up to within two feet to a sea lion. He stayed around us for several hours because we were feeding it the bait that we were putting in our crab traps.

Kylie - October 11

We went crabbing in Charleston again!

We are now in Charleston, Oregon.  The RV park that we are at is right on the coast.  The best part of this Charleston is that it is all about crabbing!  In this Charleston there are Dungeness crab instead of Blue crab.  The Dungeness is the type mainly served at Joe's Crab Shack.  They taste better than Blue crab and have much more meat.  Dad and I got up at 6:45 am. and left to go crabbing at 7:00 am.  After nine straight hours of crabbing we left with five HUGE keepers (all males).  I had so much fun, even more fun than Charleston, South Carolina!

Kylie October 9

The Salmon Hatchery

Today we were going to the Bonneville Lock and Dam, but because of the government shutdown it is closed. Instead we went next door to the fish hatchery. Because it is the time of year for the salmon to return to their hatching grounds, we got to see the fish sorter at work. Right before they let the young fish (babies) go into the wild they would put a metal wire in their snouts and cut off their back fin. This helped the fisheries sort them from the wild ones. The machine sorted the wild fish from the ones that were let go. All the fish went through a metal detector to see if it was wild or tame. If the metal detector didn't go off they checked if the back fin was cut off. If it did not pass both of the tests it was let go. The hatchery fish were sold to keep the operation going. The fish left over were donated to a food bank. We also got to see huge sturgeon in a pond. One was 70 years old, ten feet long, and 450 pounds. It was the biggest fresh water fish I have seen in person!

Kylie October 8

Kylie October 7