TROLLING FROM A SEA PLANE?

September 15, 2008

We left early in the morning on our last part of the journey to Charleston Mariana, southwest of Coos Bay.

Now here is a good one I bet hardly anyone ever sees. While coming into the city limits along the bay I noticed a small sea plan on the Bay. It got my attention since the plane was slowly moving. I figure it was getting ready to take off since the bay was so clam with no wind and was pretty smooth. Looking at the plane a little closer and pointing it out to Helen we noticed there were fishing poles sticking out of the windows. Yes, I said fishing poles, and no I was not drinking anything! There was a boat just the South of the seaplane that was trolling, and since they have been reporting the salmon fishing was hot in that area and that is what the sea plane was doing, trolling.

I have seen much in my life, but heck why not people fishing from a sea plane.

Like I have mentioned in many of my early Blogs last year, there’s so many neat things to see out there if you just want to look.

Used out computer GPS to find an RV repair site to have them look at our backup monitor since it went out and was still under warrantee. GPS worked great this time, however the traffic was not bad. Arrived at Charleston around 2:30.

Glad we had our reservation in advance the Marina RV Park was full.

Met one of our new neighbors next door that is probably in his late forties. He helped us unhook our motor home and get my boat ready for fishing

I guess he is a professional diver that works on the boats while they’re in the water. One of the better dives he does is in the winter months when the commercial crabbers are working the sea. Eventually they get a lot of rope from crab traps wrapped up on the screw (that’s layman talk for propeller shaft). He has to dive and free the tangled rope from the prop. I guess he doesn’t make much money doing this about $40 to $60 dollars a shot. However, when you have lots of commercial crabbers working it does not take long to get several clients. In 99 % of the cases the commercial crabbing boats are able to limp it back to the bay to work on it. Interesting enough, he was telling me he used to work for this outfit that dove for clams and shipped them to the various aquariums in Oregon. They used the clams for feeding the Sea Otters.