6/17/13 Added fuel today in Craig to make sure we have enough to get back to Petersburg. 150 gallons should do it. We visited Klawock just a few miles north of Craig and took a tour through the totem pole park and the pole carving shed. It was very interesting and met some truly nice native americans who generously shared their history and heritage with us. We then pulled anchor after dumping garbage and another round of shopping for a spot closer to the reported fishing grounds on the outside of Noyes Island in Roller Bay. Found a spot in Paloma Passage which is between Lulu Island and Pigeon Island. Very pretty spot. Tomorrow we head for the fishing grounds. 6/18/13 John, Steve and I headed 10 miles out in No Debt to the west side of Noyes Island in the Gulf of Alaska. Getting there was a bit dicey with large waves but once there the wind abated and the waves died down and we fished for 4 hours catching 12 Coho salmon and 2 halibut. It was a great day. Nat and Linda followed us out in Flec but they had no luck and came back empty handed. Bad news, my lucky shrimp pot is gone, put it down in a 300 foot hole last evening and went out to find it tonight and it is gone. Bummer. Salmon dinner tonight for everyone. The day started cold and cloudy but ended with blue sky and warm sun. The girls went out sea otter hunting and whale watching and got up close and personal to both. Whale within 20 feet of the dink and more sea otters than you care the count. The cleaning and cutting of all the fish left dead fish heads and bodies on the bottom and the water is so clear you could see them 20 feet down so we named the anchorage Carcass Cove. We had a regular processing line set up for preparing all the fish. John, Dean and I cleaning, the girls cutting, bagging and sealing into meal sized bags. 6/19/13 We went out first thing this morning back to Roller Bay outside of Noyes Island, this time the waves were minimal ant the trip out was much more comfortable. John has decided that the reason we take so long getting ready to fish and get underway is that we are boaters who are trying to fish vs fishermen who are on boats. He is ready to go first thing in the morning, the rest of us get up, fix coffee, fiddle around getting the gensets going and by the time were ready its 8 am and the morning bite is over. But that's ok, were still catching fish. We caught 4 more Coho and I caught a 21 lb. King, a very nice fish and the biggest thing I have ever caught. I was actually going to the bottom to try to catch a halibut because we had been drawing a blank on salmon. I was coming back up at about 90 feet when I caught the big one and I was sure it was a halibut but John watched the line and the way the fish was fighting and he knew it was a big King. Between the three of us we caught another 4 halibut for our possession limit of 2 each and I am done King salmon fishing because non-residents are limited to 1 annually. The possession limit for Coho is 12, 6 per day, so were almost there as well. But there is no annual limit so once we eat some we can keep fishing. I am holding out for a larger halibut however. We left Carcass Cove about 3 after another round of fish processing, we have it down to a science now. We have lots of fish in the freezers now. We had a slab of my King salmon tonight for the six of us, John and Elise, Steve and Michelle and Chris and I. just amazing dinner with a berry pie that Chris made for dessert 6/20/13 Moved up to the other end of the Gulf of Esquibel to Kaguk Cove last night. The Magic Shrimp Pot is back. Michelle spotted it with the naked eye over 2 miles from where I dropped it. No one else could see it till they were right on top of it to recover it. Amazing that she saw it as it was well to the left of their course. Never would have thought it could go that far. I think a whale snagged it on its tail and drug it up there, certainly not enough current to drag it that far. That's my story and I’m sticking to it. No crab and did not put down the shrimp pot. Dave managed to drive over his crab pot chopping the line and tangling the rope around his prop. We looked with my camera and it is not around his shaft so he is going to run with it like that. 6/21/13 Stayed in Cyprus Cove on Orr Island last night. Weather is warmer with fog this morning but no wind. John, Steve and Dean took No Debt out fishing again and came back with a several Black Bass and two Ling Cod. No Salmon. They went several miles out to Whale Head and were fishing in the fog and beneath some big vertical cliffs. Nat and Linda went out and Linda caught a 25 lb. King beating my catch by a few pounds. Two really nice King’s in two days, not bad for Boaters who are trying to fish. The rest of us took a dinghy ride around Marble Island and stopped to explore the abandoned Marble Quarry. It is just an amazing place where large Marble blocks were cut and stacked and left when the quarry shut down sometime around 1930. The trees and moss have grown up around them and the quarry pits are full of water. Very interesting place and quite amazing to think of how much work went into getting these things cut and stacked in those days and the number of blocks that are just sitting waiting to be shipped. Apparently some of this marble went to building the state capitol in Juneau. Would be nice to find out a bit more about the history of the place. I suspect very few boaters stop to explore but it’s worth doing. The trip back down the narrow and very shallow channel between Marble and Orr Islands was a bit exciting as I tried to navigate using my 2 inch by 3 inch hand held Garmin GPS. The map is quite detailed but when you zoom in to see the detail there is no way to see what comes in the next 50 feet so you have to zoom back out to see what comes next and then there is no detail. We lost Glen who was leading in one narrow channel, narrow being twice the width of my dinghy, and got stopped by a sand berm with Glen on the other side in a channel I had driven by because I never saw it. All in all it was another fun adventure. We left Cyprus Cove and headed for Hole in the Wall, which is about a 40 mile run today back thru El Capitan Passage. Gotta get back to Petersburg by Saturday the 23rd to pick up Jason and get Chris off on the 24th. Trying to figure out if we want to send home some frozen fish with her to free up freezer space. Hole in the wall is a very narrow entrance, about 40 feet maximum with an 8-foot depth at the lowest tide. Pretty inside with a large grassy flats at the head of the bay. Arrived with the rain. 6/22/13 Left at 1000 for Petersburg, long run today. Still foggy and wet with a light drizzle but the heavy rain was last night. Water is flat calm outside. The exit was non eventful, had to wait an hour to put a bit more water in the exit channel since 6 feet is just a bit tight with Pete drawing 5.5 feet. Minimum depth was 12 feet for me. No crab and no shrimp. Made it to Petersburg by 5 this afternoon. Were in town doing laundry after refueling and putting on water. We were completely out of water this morning. Pete and Linda and Steve and Michelle are with us in town while the others stopeed for the evening in Dodge Cove.