Langara Bound

[Ham]

At long last, the day has arrived. I’m waiting at the Little Rock airport waiting to fly over to Dallas and then on to Vancouver. Fairly late arrival in Vancouver and a resulting Short night.

we will be up and at em pretty early tomorrow with a plane ride from Vancouver to Graham Island (Masset). From there, a short helicopter ride to the house boat at Langara Island. After Lunch and our briefing, I’ll be heading out solo into the North Pacific. I will of course be trying to do too much, too many ways. Job One is to not die. I’m hoping for at least 3 Lifers, 5 Flyfers, and a minimum of 10 species caught. I’m hoping to bring home Silver Salmon, King Salmon, Lingcod, and Pacific Halibut. I have several days to fish and some information from local experts is available. As far as I know right now, I’ll be fishing solo the entire trip which is suboptimal, but it is what it is. 
I believe that I have WiFi there and that I will be able post daily updates with pics for Pete. 
Follow along for the massive Highs and Lows of me trying to catch everything that swims in the North Pacific.

 

[FishnDave]

Best of luck! 👍🍀

 

[snagged in outlet 3]

Wow!!!   Good luck!   I can’t wait to see this.  

[Quillback]

Very nice!  If you're lucky there will be a "heat wave" meaning the temps might get up into the 70's.  

[Ham]

1 hour ago, Quillback said:

Very nice!  If you're lucky there will be a "heat wave" meaning the temps might get up into the 70's.  

It usually isn’t cooler than 55 nor warmer than 65. Rains every day. You might see the sun for a little bit sometime during the trip. As long as the wind doesn’t blow 20 plus, I’m good with whatever. 

[Devan S.]

Nice!

[curtisce]

Have a great trip,but come back!

[netboy]

Have fun and be careful.

[Ham]

I got to LR in plenty of time got thru TSA ok. I actually had a slender person sitting next to me on the Flight to Dallas. In The air less than an hourthe flat hellish landscape that is Dallas.

I had this huge layover. Like 5 hours. I had checked and I was departing gate D4. 
i stopped at an Information kiosk and checked dining options. I roamed for a bit, and decided to go Smashburger. Yummy. 
I roamed C terminal, B terminal, and D terminal. Wanted to get my steps in. Later I grabbed a chocolate shake. 
I kept an eye on time and headed to D4 a couple hours early. Read up on potential outlier fish. Studied possible fly techniques. Did a little Duolingo. It starts to get closer to time and more folks roll in. Normal.

I get an alert on my phone. “Your flight is boarding”. I heard nothing behind me and no one moved. I thought they system jumped the gun. I gave it a couple on minutes. And checked the outgoing info at Gate 4. It had changed from Vancouver to Denver. What the ????

i opened my Apple wallet and checked my boarding pass. It said Gate D 31. 👀 I was a long way from Gate 31. I took off in a run/walk when crowded/ run. Plane was supposed to depart 6:46, but they shut the door X number of minutes before that. I’m freaking out. I got within sight of Gate 31 as she’s calling Final Boarding for AA Flight 1149 to Vancouver. I flashed Passport and they took a hasty pic. I ran down the jetway to the plane. An older stewardess at the door assured me there was no need to run. 
I made my way to my seat with a high heart rate and mildly disoriented. There has an empty seat next to me and a slender occupant of the the other seat.

another stewardess came along slamming the overheads. “We were told they we aren’t waiting for them”. I think a connection was late and they were not going to make the flight. Sucks for them because no other flights were headed to Vancouver out of Dallas.

vancouver was a zoo. Customs crayola and a bunch of labor strikes meant almost no hotel shuttle and a lengthy line for taxis. 

oh well. It’s all good right. I’ve made it to the room and I’m gonna get 4-5 hours of sleep before heading back to the airport for the flight to Graham Island.

Hopefully, fish pics and fish stories tomorrow. A Flyfer for sure and I hope maybe a Lifer too. 

 

[Terrierman]

Best of luck and stay safe.