Heather in BC… & Beyond! 'Living the Baby Boomer Life in BC… and Beyond!

Pop and I went ling cod fishing last week, and took along a couple of friends. Len caught a big cod but the old reel he was using was a knuckle-buster and he didn’t have the drag set correctly, so it spun out of control, creating a huge bird’s nest in the line.
Result: [...]

Three years ago, a huge storm ripped through Egmont, downing 100’s of trees and cutting electricity for 10 days. If you recall, the same storm decimated Stanley Park.
Pop lost all the food in his fridges and two freezers and it was a huge clean-up job of course. Luckily we are able to dispose [...]

Last Saturday, Kent, Pop and I went to the Egmont Heritage Center Museum for a ‘Fishing Stories’ discussion panel. Pop was asked to be one of the members and he gladly agreed!
The night before we found his old fish logs from the 40’s which showed the daily catch, numbers and pounds of each species [...]

On Monday, Kent and I drove to Egmont to bring Pop, his motorhome, and his tin boat on trailer, home with us. Kent and Pop (yes, my 95 year old ‘Pop’) are going moose hunting!

We arrived at Egmont a little after 6 pm, unpacked a few things from the truck, loaded up Pop and [...]

Watch as this little ‘devilfish’ makes his way safely back to the ocean after we released him from our prawn trap. I hope he considers himself lucky to live another day to eat more of our prawns!

We quite often catch small fish and octopus in our prawn traps as well as galatheid crabs – [...]