A Wide Variety of Fish
April 11th (Saturday) Today turned into a lovely day of relaxing and exploring. We headed out in Kiki in the morning even though it was a little breezy. We had decided that if it was too windy to fish we would enjoy one of the beaches out near Wallace Bay, and we were prepared with a picnic lunch. It was around low-tide slack when we got out there and after checking out the shoreline on the west side of the inlet we tried a bit of fishing. It was too windy out in the middle of the channel, but we tucked ourselves behind one of the points and tried drifting around there. Although we were not too far away from shore it was still quite deep, around 100 feet, so we thought it was worth a try. We caught a small and very pretty Greenstriped Rockfish, a small Pacific Sanddab, which is a Left-eye Flounder, unlike a Halibut, which is a right eye. This means that both of its eyes have shifted to be on the left side ...