On the water saturday at 2:30 for the first trip in my new boat. At about 5:00 in the evening we noticed a seal that kept following us around, and sometime around 6:00 we had the first fish on. Fishbelly 2 was in the boat with me, he grabbed the rod and started fighting the fish. I killed the motor and went back to net the fish and this thing was running all over the top off the water, jumping, and the next thing you know this seal pops out of the water with the fish in its mouth. Fishbelly 2 kept the line tight and we could see the seal had the fishes head in its mouth so we started yelling and hollaring trying to scare the thing away, hoping that it would drop the fish. I grabbed a couple of 1 oz weights that were kicking around the boat and started hucking them at the seal but that thing would not drop the fish. So fishbelly 2 tells me to back up the boat. We were 10 feet away from the seal before it dropped the fish and took off. We netted it real quick and one side of the fishes haed was gone along with the lower jaw, and it just happened to be hooked in the only piece of mouth that it had left.

So we start trolling again after a bunch of high fives, and an hour later the other pole goes off. Fishbelly 2 grabs the rod and hands it off to me since it was a right hand reel. The pole was doubled over and right after a took it this thing started to run to Everett! I've never been spooled like that before, there was no stopping it. After about 150 yards it stopped and I was able to start working it in. Twenty minutes later Fishbelly 2 netted what turned out to be a nice 27.5 pound king. The biggest fish that i've ever caught 37 in length by 24 in girth.

Not bad for the first trip in a new boat, now if I can only get the fishfinder to start working for this next weekend.

I'll talk fishbelly 2 into posting the pics as soon as they are developed!