Howard the Merganser
June 16th (Tuesday) Today we had the day off; it was our one day off in the middle of our shift and we were happy to get to sleep in until 07:00. After a relaxing morning teatime we headed out fishing. We were eager to try out our newly tied hoochie hook setups, and it was a beautiful day. We gave ourselves a few hours and said that if we still hadn’t caught anything by 12:00 then we would head home. I ended up catching a very bizarre combo of two animals at the same time. As we were trolling I caught a small Quillback Rockfish and a Sea Cucumber at the same time. The double catch on the hoochie hook setup. The only way that we can imagine it could have happened is that the Quillback bit the hook and then took it down to the bottom where it brushed by a Sea Cucumber and up they both came. It was definitely a very unexpected catch. About five minutes before we were going to head home, J...