This is the boat that we took to catch some salmon:
Here's the timeline of events that occured from the day before the fishing trip until the day after:
Friday:
8pm: Got home from work
9pm: Met with Ming and Cindy in Santana Row for drinks to celebrate their engagement. Had two redbull and vodkas.
Saturday:
12am: Got home from Santana Row
12:30am: Went to bed
3:15am: Woke up and got ready to go catch some fish!
3:45am: Started driving over to Sunnyvale to pick up Christophe
4:15am: Arrived Sunnyvale, picked up Christophe
4:45am: Stopped by work to load up on some water and snacks
5:30am: Arrived at Berkeley marina
6:30am: Departed from marina to the deep ocean
7:30am: midway through our destination, pretty happy so far as you can see from the picture:
7:45am: Arrived destination. The professional fisherman dude put on the bait for me and got the fishing rod all set up for me.
7:50am: It got extremely cold, so I decided to go back inside the boat and put on an extra shirt underneath my sweater
7:51am: While I was still inside changing, people outside started screaming... "Hey! this one got a bite! this one got a bite!" It turned out it was my bait that the salmon was eating. So the professional fisherman dude ran up to my fishing rod and started pulling it up. He was really good! so I kinda just stayed and watched the action from the inside and rooted for him quietly.
7:53am: I finally finished changing. I walked up to the professional fisherman, who was still fighting back and forth with the fish, that this rod belonged to me. So he handed me the rod and told me to finish the final part of the process, which was to keep turning the reel to pull up the fish. Somehow I managed to screw up and he grabbed back the rod right away and was able to catch the fish for me in the end.
7:54am: The salmon that I caught turned out to be pretty big (about 15 lbs). Everyone cheered as it was the second salmon that was caught during the day.
7:55am: I started feeling very dizzy, so I went back inside to lay down and rest, feeling my mission had been accomplished.
9am: Woke up, wondering when we would go home, then went back to sleep.
10am: Woke up, wondering why I didn't just stay home, then went back to sleep.
11am: Woke up, wondering why I paid $100 for this fishing trip, then went back to sleep.
12pm: Woke up, wondering why I didn't just goto costco to buy some fresh salmon instead, then went back to sleep
1pm: Christophe came up to me and asked if I was cold. I said yes, and he kindly offered me his jacket. I thanked him, put on his jacket and then went back to sleep.
2pm: Woke up, wondering why I'm such a weaksauce for getting sea sick the entire day! Slapped myself a few times, and then completely passed out.
3pm: Got back to the berkeley marina. Claimed back my fish, took some pictures pretending to be hella good at fishing, and showed it off to the people who were walking around the area.
6pm: Got home. Told my parents my heroic stories on how hard I worked to catch the fish
6:30pm: Dinner time! Salmon sashimi for dinner! lots of it!
9pm: Passed out, still feeling sea sick.
Sunday:
10am: Woke up, feeling sea sick.
11:30am: Opened the fridge looking for some more sashimi, and realized that they're all really fishy now!!!! *sigh*
Overall, it was still a lot of fun, given I don't get that many opportunities going out to the deep ocean to hunt for some fish. The valuable lesson that I learned from this though, is that I'm not really the type of person who would enjoys doing anything that requires sitting around for a long period of time doing nothing. In addition, I do not enjoy touching anything slimey. I thought it was quite gross having to touch the anchoive (the bait) and poking the hook through its eyes, and then not having any clean water to wash my hands with!
A few other things worth noting:
- I wasn't the only person who was sea sick on the boat. There were a little boy and a little girl who were also sea sick as well.
- No, I did not throw up, but the little boy and little girl did!
- It's probably a good idea to wear a jacket when you go deep sea fishing.
- It's probably a genius idea to get plenty of sleep the night before you go deep sea fishing.
For more pics of the fishing trip, click here.
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