Yesterday we went out to Humboldt Bay and tried our luck on fishing. Chris was in town so we thought it would be alot of fun to take the kayaks out. Chris was in the single one and Scott and I were in the double. The land above is Arcata and we are in the channel getting ready to fish. 
All three of us in the water
This is the first bat ray that I caught. Chris caught two of those but only landed one. The other one got caught in the anchor rope. Scott didn't fish because its harder to fish for bigger fish in the kayak, well at least in the back of the kayak. So he baited us up and released the fish.
Here is the third fish that I caught. A little bigger I guess. The biggest fish got away. My second fish I caught was huge. I knew I had a bite and started to reel up and thought I lost it but then it took off. Scott decided to release us from the anchor and the ray took us on a ride. I thought it was the same size as the previous one but Scott knew it was big. He was like, honey you have a big fish. We didn't know what kind of fish it was until it jumped out of the water. It was a huge bat ray. The wing span was huge, almost as big as our arms out-stretched. Scott thought it weighted about 50-60 pounds. My arms hurt like crazy afterwards. I really wanted to get a picture but Scott thought it was too big for the kayak. After about 20 minutes of reeling and taking a ride, I wasn't paying attention and my line got caught on the tip and by the time Scott saw it the fish had broke off. It was the catch of my life. It was great. Wish we could have gotten a picture but at least Scott and Chris got to see it. I got another bite and it was different than the rays, as soon as it bite it took the line so I set the hook but the lines broke. Scott was sure it was a shark but we will never know. All in all it was a great fishing experience especially in the kayak. Afterwards we took the girls to the zoo.
Izze in the tunnel at the zoo
The girls in the petting zoo, first time since we had multiple people there
Izze had some much fun petting the goats, she was laughing the whole time
They really like the sheep
Chris and Izze reading a book togetherChris trying to land his catch
3 comments:
Looks like fun! Wish you could have gotten a pic of that huge ray!
fishing looks like fun! Wish we could have seen the big one that got away! Oh and I wanna take the girls to the zoo when we come up!!
Which one is Chris and which one is Scott? Izze still has that monkey on her back!!!
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