Washington

Rick, a biologist who is now retired from teaching at Pacifica College in Oregon, took Zeus, and me out of Astoria Oregon to fish for White Sturgeon in the Columbia River. It was rather scary motoring through the shipping channel in a dense fog not knowing if an ocean vessel was coming at us, but we made it.

We anchored in brackish water, baited our hooks and sat back for a while chatting and watching the fog lift, giving us a view of both Washington and Oregon. It was a long time without action, so we checked our hooks. The bait was gone. After baiting the hooks again and again and again and tossing the lines back out again and again and again, Zeus noticed his line felt a little on the heavy side. He reeled in to find a Dungeness Crab hanging on the hook. He gave the pole a jerk and the crab came flying into the boat. This one was under the size limit, but the action continued.

We did not catch any sturgeon, but we didn’t care. We caught our limit of Crabs.