Summer 2013 Recreational Food Fishery: (21 Photos)

21.   The Summer Recreational Food Fishery ran from July 20th to August 11th, which encompassed four weekends in total.

20.   I was late getting back from my Alberta Vacation, and Mark French was on call for the first weekend of the fishery, so our first sojourn on Conception Bay occurred in the early morning hours on Monday.

19.  Justin, Mark and I left the dock at 5am aboard Cloud9 and headed out on the bay to the fishing grounds in Portugal Cove.

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16.  We managed to get our quota and were back to the wharf with some nice sized fish at 8:30am, not a bad start to our summer fishery!

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12.  Mark and I managed to sneak in a few trips on the bay throughout the summer fishery, finding a few fish here and there while battling work commitments and poor weather conditions.

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7.   Our favorite trip o 2013 occurred on one of the last days of the summer fishery. Today Sooley, French and I headed all the way out the bay to Cape St. Francis in search of monster cape fish.

6.   With Mark at the helm, we were not disappointed as he guided the boat right on top of some very nice fish!

5.   Some wouldn't even fit in the oversize cooler we always carry in the boat!

4.  At the end of the evening we had a five gallon bucket of fillet from our 15 fish.

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1.   Overall the summer fishery was a great success. We got out for a few early morning trips, had a couple great evening runs where one time we were even rammed by that pirate Paul French of Portugal Cove!

During our adventures on the water we came across a few characters such as those Tucker's from Portugal Cove and Bassan's from Torbay. One evening on the way back from Cape St. Francis we helped a stranded boater who's outboard motor broke down just off Bauline, safely hauling him to the wharf in the tiny fishing village. All in all a great summer on the water.