Shelter Cove - 6/1/22

Got out with Chris on Wednesday, June 1st.  He's local and had some flexibility for our date, so we'd switched from Tuesday which looked extra rough.  The salmon weren't biting for us, so we settled for a selection of quality rockfish and a couple of lingcod.  Chris did great with gear that was new to him in less than optimum conditions.  It was totally fishable but sloppy, and that's a hard part of the guiding gig - I want everyone to be able to fish on a flat day.

A very cool part of our trip was that we opted to carpool - one of the first times since Covid showed up in early 2020.  Going from the lower Eel Valley to Shelter Cove together in my truck allowed for time to get to know each other a bit, and it was nice to feel free to execute that plan after such a long ordeal of isolation and distance.  Luckily for both us, we share some viewpoints on current events and have compatible interests as well as similar hopes for the future.  I don't know that I'd have described or even thought of a client interaction in those terms prior to a few years ago, and I think that's an important thing to consider, moving forward.

Thank you, Chris, for engaging my service.  I hope that we can share time on the water again.