Summer 2016 Recreational Food Fishery: (13Photos)

13.   The new federal Liberal federal government made some significant changes to the recreational food fishery here in NL. Similar to previous years the summer fishery will open for three weeks from July 16th to August 7th, but adds all weekends in July/August beginning with and including the Canada Day and Labor day holiday weekends. The fishery will then close reopening the fall from September 24th to October 2nd.

Mark had his boat on the water early this year but soon found out that his Trusty 10 year old Garmin GPS finally kicked the bucket. His fish finder/depth sounder also died a few years ago. After a bunch of research he finally settled on a Lowrance Elite-7ti fish finder/chart plotter. We completed the installation over a couple nights in his garage. We had to remove the old transducer and epoxy the new one in place, then fish the new cables back through the boat. It was a time consuming but nice tidy job when completed and the new unit performs flawlessly.

12.   The weather this year was decent, but one Sunday in particular about halfway though the fishery worked out beautifully. With almost zero wind and clear sunny skies, Matthew French, Mark and I jumped aboard Cloud9 and headed out on Conception Bay.

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9.   We headed to the ledge off the back of Bell island and caught our quote of nice fish pretty quick.

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6.   With our catch safely in the cooler we took our time going back to the wharf,  took a little run on the bay and thoroughly enjoyed the morning.

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4.   With the fish caught the real work begins as the three of us set to filleting and skinning our catch back at the wharf.

3.   Another evening provided a nice window of opportunity with no wind so Mark, his brother Justin and I headed out to catch our quota.

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1.   Back to the wharf and tied up for the next run! All in all a great summer fishery that put some well earned and much appreciated fillets in the freezer.