September 19 through 20, 2009

Saturday 19~~~~ We drove to Comox today stopping at a country fair on the way. They had a bunch of vendors in tents selling the usual beaded jewelry, paintings and crafts. We were hoping to find some garden produce and some of the good Mennonite homemade bread. There was no baked products or produce so we looked the booths all over and went on our way. Sunday 20~~~~We learned by putting our boat in at Campbell River's boat ramp and going upriver to Brown Bay which is 20 minutes away. Its a lot faster and we don't have to drive that 5 miles down that miserable rough road to the boat ramp. The trip from Campbell River to Brown Bay has some tricky water. The tide water goes through Seymour Narrows which is a narrow passage that the water runs about 5 knots. With the speed of the water running through the narrow passage it has a number of large whirlpools in which you have to navigate. The weather was chilly out on the water, so I dressed for the cold. I wore my thermal long johns and top, blue jeans, a shirt, vest, rain pants and jacket, stocking hat, scarf and Kent's rain jacket. What a sight I was, but I didn't freeze fishing today (picture) The fishing isn't very good, we sure have spent a lot of hours on the water fishing and most of the people who are out here aren't catching anything either. I think we must be crazy to work so hard at it, they call it sport fishing?????? LOL Kent caught a Ling cod today and I think that was about it.