June 15th fathers day

Were in Petersburg today. Becky and Mike arrived on Saturday after one false start on Friday. They got as far as their driveway at 0400 to head for the airport and checked their tickets only to discover the flight left on Saturday not Friday. It was a trial run. So they made it on time Saturday and after a quick tour of Wrangell just so they could say they had seen it we shoved off. Glen and Liz were going to hang around another day to wait for Nichole and we would meet them in Petersburg. We decided to stay at Roosevelt Bay about half way between Wrangell and the south end of Wrangell Narrows. Glen had checked it out earlier and thought it would be a good anchorage. we stopped half way there to do some fishing and Mikey caught two rockfish. They were easier to catch than they were to clean.
Roosevelt Bay is a perfect anchorage, well sheltered, with a good holding bottom.
We dropped the crab bot and shrimp pots and then tried bottom fishing from the boat. I managed to hook onto something really big cause it bent the pole, and snapped the line all in about 10 seconds. Just long enough for Mikey to see I had something on and then it was gone. Mikey and I continued to fish for another couple of hours despite the swarms of no see ums hoping for a second shot at whatever took my lure.
No luck but the next morning i gave it another shot and had another big one on the line in a matter of minutes. This time I got him to the surface and everyone saw the sizable halibut before he decided he was done playing me and he took the second lure off the end of the line and was gone.
Ok, we need bigger stronger line.

The run up the narrows to Petersburg was uneventful except for the large number of other boats going every direction and all the small boats fishing the narrows.
Were back with Glen and Liz and have met up with another friend from the skipatrol, John Reid.

Will head further north tomorrow and try for more halibut now that Mikey and I have bought heavier line and more lures to feed the halibut with.