Well the sky and temps were fantastic, the water was ROUGH. When we left out of Des Moines it was choppy, by mid way to Pt Beals, it was 1ft rollers, when we got there it was into 2 ft waves. We got in 55 shrimp before high tailing it into the cove at Maury Island for shelter and repairs to the pot puller (Bulldog failed). We were in 3 ft seas and many boats were headed in by 10am.

We took another stab at it off of the S side of Robinson, about 200' ft from the surface the puller suffered catastrophic failure and the pot went down in 500' of water as we were drifting in the hard seas during the pull. When the pot went I got a dislocated right shoulder, just dang lucky I didn't go with the pot!

So in all 55 Shrimp. 1 failed puller. and a bum shoulder. Disappointed, but we'll try again.

Tomorrow I'll make the longer trip up to Alki to have a dock to pull the boat out at. Not trying it at Redondo with no dock and a bad shoulder.

Apparently we weren't the only injured party, multiple boats took injuries in the high seas today, broken ribs, fingers, nose and split lip I heard about at the dock. Nurse friend at the hospital said they saw quite few shrimping injuries throughout the afternoon due to the rough seas.

BentRod

5/5/2013 8:26:00 AM

Wow! Doesn't sound like a day for the feint of heart. Sorry about the problems. Hope the next trip makes up for it.

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