An Evening of Exploring

May 29 (Friday)

At around 14:00 the wind seemed to be dying down and we decided to head out and try our luck salmon fishing again.  When we got out to the mouth of Cousins Inlet we started trolling our way along the rock cliffs of Barba Point.  We trolled along for a while, but caught nothing.  The water had been quite calm when we first got out there, but the breeze started to pick up a bit and with the flooding current and the rebound off of the rock cliffs it got a bit choppy.  We decided to cut across Dean Channel to the area of Rattenbury Point.  Although we had been past this area in our sailboat last year, we had never been over in Kiki, and we wanted to check it out.  
We cut across the channel and started trolling our way along, one advantage of trolling is that you get a lot of time to view a new area and look for wildlife.  There was one point that was very weathered looking, the rocky shore was smooth, the trees were stunted, and all of the growth on the trees and bushes was pointing away from shore.  It looked as though someone had brushed all of the branches backwards; it clearly got hit by a lot of winter weather.  
When we got to a fair-sized bay area with several small islands we reeled up our lines and went in to check it out.  
It was a beautiful spot, the main shoreline of King island was part rock and part driftwood-filled beaches, and a couple of the little islands had small, sand-and-shell beaches.  

We went ashore hoping to find a patch of sea asparagus, but instead we were greeted by the lovely strong smell of wild roses.  It was a lovely spot.  



 
As we stood on the outer side of one of the little islands we watched two common loons fishing out from shore.  As we turned to make our way back to Kiki we heard a whale blow and we looked to see a humpback whale surface a few times and then dive just out from shore.  

Jason rowed us through the islands, and then we started the engine to begin trolling once again, carrying on along the shore.  As we rounded the last point of King Island before heading down towards Fisher Channel the current became very strong, and although we were traveling through the water at around 1.8 knots we appeared to be standing still relative to land.  We accelerated a bit and carried on.  
When we decided to turn around we made the mistake of not reeling in our lines.  Usually we can make a wide turn with our lines out trolling and have no problems, but we had failed to take into account the current, and as we turned side-to our lines got pushed together and into a tangled mess.  By the time we had sorted out the tangle, we had drifted quite far back up along the shore.  We then decided to cut back across to the other side, as the wind had gotten stronger. 
We trolled for a little longer back around Barba Point, but still caught nothing.  It was a nice evening of exploring, but unfortunately no fish.  

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