Great fishing trip

I'm exhausted, if my sentence parsing seems off, its because I'm running on very little sleep.

The wife and I went on a charter fishing boat today with another couple. Living in Chicago, I don't think of being able to fish for salmon localy. However, as I write this, there are 13.5 lbs of King salmon and brown trout in the freezer. The waves were a little rough, but we decided to tough it out and go anyway, I'm so glad we did. We caught a total of 12 fish (9 King salmon, 1 Coho salmon, and 2 brown trout). The largest 2 were each in the 10 lb range, the smallest were about 8 (undressed). These things FIGHT! my forearms are still sore from cranking in these things. The couple we went with do this every year (with Captain Dave) and they said that normaly this time of year, they catch their limit. IF that had happened today that would have meant 20 fish (5 per person, per day)

I used to fish all the time as a kid in Nebraska, I have lots of fond memories of catching lunker bass, catfish (caught a 29 lb flathead once) and carp but I hadn't really been out in 10 years. Today was one of the most fun fishing trips of my life.

If you want to go, and are near Kenosha, WI. check out Captain Daves website www.resolutecharters.com

He did EVERYTHING, he set and maintained lines, checking all the time with other captains about where the fish were biting and at what lure and depth. This guy was great, I can't say enough great things about him. He really WORKED to make sure we caught as many fish as we could. He seemed honest and genuine, and he cleaned all the fish for free.

Then we had a shore lunch at a local restaraunt, blackened king salmon, our catch.

I wanna go again tomorrow...