Oregon double-header Part 2

After the football game, it was time to stop messing around and have some serious fun. So Steve and I left the Grits with grandpa and gramma and drove down to Bandon for some fishin'. The weather was fantastic, the best I've ever had in many week/weekend trips to Bandon.

We got right to it, leaving the marina in the early dawn light and arriving at the Halibut Hole (more like a mesa) to wonderfully calm water.

While Jason worked on a sheet of plywood stuck to the bottom of the sea.....

...Steve handles his flattie with aplomb. what does aplomb mean?

After a brutal fight involving one bid dude and a harpoon by Kreg, Jason hoists a beauty. That's a big halibut anywhere you fish, and really big for the Oregon coast.

I apparently had sideburns back in September. And a pretty ling cod too.

So a rockin' offshore day ends at the filet table, yielding piles of fishy blockage - hopefully enough to last through the winter!

The remainder of the week was spent extracting salmon from the Coquille at a fairly slow, yet consistent pace.

With a short venture outside to fill the entire fishhold (ok just the floor) with black rockfish in a matter of minutes on a great surface bite. Pictured is Steve, trying not to throw up.

Steve with a fatter Silver than ever before, including Alaska! Too bad he had to let her swim away free. It appeared to pain him physically.

Finally, on the last day, Spam himself nails a keeper King. It was a wonderful trip, helped in large by Jason and Kreg's hospitality and Jason's continual preparation for bigfish success.

Oregon double-header Part1

Steve and I recently took a week off to attend to very important business on the Oregon coast.

First came the U of O vs BSU football game, which ended up being one of the biggest wins in school history! Unfortunately, Shanna was on business in Phoenix, so Steve volunteered to utilize her ticket.

Steve and I drove over with Amber and the kids on Friday night to meet Karl and Lori and my kids, which had driven over the day before in the hohohome. We camped in the Masonic Lodge field across from the stadium that night with a bunch of other motorhomes and an amazing number of Bronco fans.

On Saturday we walked around Autzen, checked out the Duck Shop and talked to various relatives adorned in green and yellow. Overall, the Duck fans were friendly and excited to be playing the legendary Broncos (thinking of course, that they were gonna whup on the WAC). They probably wouldn't have been so friendly if they knew we were gonna totally embarrass a respectable PAC-10 team that always plays tough at home.

This is a picture from my cell phone just after the game ended. You can see the Bronco faithful hanging in till the end, while most of the O fans had wandering dejectly out of the stadium sometime in the 4th.