Picking up our 1000 lb mooring anchor and fishing with new friends
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I’m so impressed with your boat and the equipment you have added to it. That hauler looks like it will save your backs! Given the state of supply shortages, I think you are lucky to have gotten your boat when you did - we are still waiting. You are so fortunate to have the kind of ocean that is at your doorstep, enjoy!
We are definitely loving the boat. I agree, lots of parts are on back order right now.
A bad day fishing is still better than most days anywhere else. Going crabbing looks amazing.
That’s the truth
Love the rawness you bring everytime. So genuine. How fun for the bros to be able to join you and how kind of you to take them out on the water.
Thanns🤙 I had a good time with the brothers.
Omg how gorgeous was day and the water when you were bringing in the pots. Now that's what I call paradise and living the dream ❤
Brian and Dianna you could be on "Deadliest Catch" with those skills! 😉I thought the anchor would be bigger 🤣 No crab, no halibut but what a beautiful day on the water!
😂 I should start a show called the deadliest almost catch 🤣 It was a beautiful day on the water and getting the gear wet for the first time is never a bad thing, even if you come up empty handed.
Every time I see them fishing poles bend that much I’m just waiting for it to break…😂 it’s amazing how strong they really are. Sorry you didn’t catch anything after all that bait. Hopefully next time. What a beautiful day it was though….
You guys have a wonderful week..!!
Yeah it’s pretty amazing how much flex they have. We will get some, have to try out some different areas.
Loving that new rig! Glad ya got to spend sometime on the water with new friends. Stay safe over there!
Thank you CB
You need to get that boat broke in with some fish scales...lol glad you got to meet some new fan/friends. Your scenery is absolutely beautiful, so lucky!
We definitely do. 😂 Those boys were so polite. They did a good job raising them.
I love fishing and it’s ok every once in a while to not haul in the goods but you are outside enjoying nature. That’s fun
That’s true. It’s just nice to be out on the water.
Hi Brian and Diana. So pleased to see you both looking great and Brian you’re on the mend. Praise the Lord 🙏
You’re a good man Brian - Sharing your beautiful vessel with the 2 “yahoos” 😂. I love the boat. Slowly you’ll get all fitted out to suit your needs.
No crabs. No halibut. Oh well good trial run to check out that hauler.
Excellent video. Take care. Have a great week.
Trial run, I like that. Getting the gear wet for the first time this year is alway fun.
You guys are so lucky to be on the water and have your home on the island. great video
We love living here. Seeing whales and orcas from the front yard never gets old.
Your boat is so impressive! Dang, the fish and crab were not letting you catch them! That anchor seems huge. I hope your arm is feeling better, have a great safe week!
We will get them eventually. The arm is doing much better. Hope you have have a great week to Sue.
Great vid Brian and Diana. Awesome boat. Look forward to see yall catch some crab and halibut. Plus plant this year's garden too. Look forward to many more vids. Hoooaaahhhh AATW
Thanks David. We are too. All The Way!
Thanks Guys 👍👍
Thank you
Good to see you guys out there enjoying the water. We really enjoyed the video. Take care you two.
Thanks the Jay.
The new Boat has
been such a great
blessing for you'll.
Looks like you'll
come and go as you
please. Hope you can get the new
anchor dropped
soon. Better luck
nexted time on the
crab an halibut.
It really has been. Thanks Kerry.
great update thanks for sharing and i hope you have a wonderful week ahead see you guys on the next video
Thanks, you do the same.
Hi Brian and Diana. What beautiful weather you are having. Love the new boat. Won’t be long now and halibut will be running. Good luck. Have a great week. Take care. God bless✌️🇺🇸❤️
Hi Charlene, hope you have a great week too
So great to see both of you back and active on the island👍🏻
Your new boat also looks fantastic and very practical for your needs?
Enjoy your approaching summer, we are entering our winter here in the southern tip of Africa.
Kind regards and look after yourselves Brian and Dianna🤝👌🏻
Thank you Paul. Hope you have a great week.
Looks like crab were nailing that herring 😊
Stealing it
Good day on the boat!! Maybe next time--- good to see you--
Hopefully 🤞
Beautiful day to be out on the water getting to know and use your boat. Thanks for sharing. D
Definitely enjoying putting the new boat through the paces.
Sure looks nice out there. Stay safe.
Oh my, that anchor is large!! Looks like a fishing tender's anchor.
You both forgot to spit into the water before pulling your pots and line! My Dad always said since we were tiny, we had to spit in the water before we made a cast to start fishing. Now my boys and nieces are following the ritual. It works for us and the kids! 😊❤😊 Still looking for the back scratcher to have it's own gunnel holder! 😅
Ha I’ll have to spit in the water next time. I got the back scratcher tucked behind the throttles. I’ll try to remember to take a shot of it. 😂
@@AnAlaskaHomestead ❤
Nice Job guys…LOVE the new boat!!
Thank you
Thanks. ✌🏻👊🏼
Thank you 😊
I love the video! Crossing my fingers for halibut and crabs next time! Good luck!
Thanks Marilyn 👍 Have a great week.
I have the perfect idea how to get that in the water just put it in a flat bottom or a dingy. Attach some good size buoys to one side of the dinghy and then pull the plug so when it starts to sync, one side will be held up and the other side will sink so the load will be just dumped out then you could pull the boat to shore and bail out the water. Lol
If you caught something everytime... they'd call it "Catching"
That’s the truth😂
Cant wait to see what adventures your up to in the new boat which is fantastic by the way. Garden next yeah hoping it goes better this year. You go Diana with the boat watch out Brian you may have a new Captain 😃. Blessings to you and the family. 😊🇺🇲
Ha she does a great job, for sure. Have a great week Patrica.
Thanks so much for the video today . Man you guys have some nice weather there rain / snow 40 still up here. Trees just now budding a little . Still thinking about coming down your way one day . Can't find any land here that's affordable and tax free . Still looking in your area. Much love be safe and have a good week .
You ain’t lying. We’ve been rain free for a few days now and no snow. Love it. Keep looking, they are out there.
Planted potatoes and corn yesterday and got hammered with rain last night. I was hoping to get more in the ground today, but that ain't going to happen. Looked like a beautiful day on the water pulling those pots. Have a great week guys!
I hear you. We have a sunshine in the forecast so we are trying to make the most of it.
That was one heckova anchor...lol 0 for 3 on a sexy boat, with an awesome Captain and First Mate? I'd take that over a day at Disney World anyday...😂😅Love ya'll ❤️
Definitely not a bad day to be out on the water. Truth is we haven’t had a bad day on the water yet with the new boat.
Your new boat is awesome! Thanks for the videos.
Thank you
Awesome video brother stay strong and God bless ❤
Thanks Robin
Diana you are still young, despite what Brian says. ❤
She definitely is.
Like you’re new boat and enjoy your channel
Thank you
Thankyou
Good morning Robert.
Early in the season is always tough. Weather's getting nice, but not many fish and crabs in the area to cooperate. This time of the year, just getting out is often enough
That’s the truth.
NICE video!
Thank you
Loves you new videos every Sunday
Thank you
No more pulling crab pots by hand !! To bad you don’t have something that resets the lines when you’re bringing them up. I’m still trying to figure out how all those crabs disappered last year, where they went and how they knew they did ? Have a great week and Thanks for sharing. I forgot to add the way you say cod so disappointed. I love cod and would be saying that i would be eating good tonight.
No more pulling pots by hand is a great feeling. I know Alaskans are very fish snobby people. 😂 Cod is really good.
I have to get one of those fishing poles!
Hey Brian been out fishing the last couple weekends. Caught a few crabs and a whole pile of double uglies.
I pulled my boat out today to go clean it up and passed your truck with the anchor in the back. That thing looks like it should do the job.
Hope to catch up with you one of these weekends to go fish.
The only time I heard the term “double uglies” it was closing time at the club and some Marines were escorting them home, can we assume you meant something else?
Them halibut will come up into a shallower water any day now. Can’t wait to get that big thing out of the back of my pickup. 😂
😂 now that’s funny. Double ugly=Irish lord
tell ya what brian old buddy ya got a hell of a first mate there better pay her well cant afford to have her jump ship on ya!! cant believe how calm the water is like the lakes here sometimes good luck gardening
She definitely is. Crazy, you could water ski that day.
Great vidoes
Thank you.
live free hug .
Live free buddy
@@AnAlaskaHomestead :)
Gorgeous views. Sorry no crab or halibut.
Next time.
Hope you get lots of crabs.
Next time.
You guys are living the dream !! There's no way in my wildest dreams much is I love Alaska bemdoing what your doing your video was so good I watched it twice. We want to go to swing from the mast don't have one handy except a rope swing haha. Keylime DP from Cloverdale
Thank you for the kind words.
How much chain are you putting on that anchor? Curious to see your mooring buoy arrangement too!
Ha that’s been the big back and forth question. We decided to go with zero chain. 140’ of 1 1/2” rope dropped at 70’. One hard bouy attached 30’ from the bottom to keep the rope from wrapping around the anchor.
I’ve talked to a lot off people out here, sure hope we are making the right decision.
wow that's the real for me I quit salmon fishing because I got a chronic tendency in both arms and can't relin that deep anymore so I can stop salmon fishing years ago I can go for something like that on a rod Don't have to reel it in maybe I should start looking about going back into salmon fishing again WOW I just stuck with jigging cod
It is really nice, especially after the surgery.
@@AnAlaskaHomestead I bet it makes it nicer good very good video see you next Sunday😁😁😁
Brian, would you consider a video to teach how to make and set a halibut skate?
I could definitely show more detail on what I’m doing but this is my first year doing it myself.
Those Hondas are sure purring like pumas.
Beautiful weather and calm seas, Nice!
How is your cell phone service there on your island?
Can you call for help if you need it, or is it VHF radio?
This things run really good.
Top gasqeun 😊
I'm flying up next month to look at a house on the Kenai and I'll have like a five hour layover in Juneau on the way. What should I go see with my five hours? I've never been to Juneau before.
If you’ve never seen a glacier before take a taxi to Mendenhall glacier. It’s about a 15 min drive.
Have you ever tried trolling with an umberlla rig? Is that method used in your area. Going slow, the umbrella rig has rubber tubes to entice fish to bite. It worked well in Montauk, Atlantic ocean, for blues, sea trout and strippers. Please comment about this. Also do lobsters show up in your waters? I see there are king crabs, just wondering.
I e never tried that before. No lobster in our area. Maybe in the gulf?
@@AnAlaskaHomestead If you have fish that will chase bait, like a small tuna we have here it's called Bonita, or sea trout, blues or stripers, they are easily caught on a umbrella rig. Check the locals see if they do that kind of fishing. I'm pretty sure the outfitting is pretty reasonably priced. Using rubber tubes as bait, makes it least cost as well, reusable.
If I were out in Montauk, I could probably get you a set up, but I left when Greg died, so I don't anyone anymore to ask. But I do remember it worked well, tonage as we called it, could be sent out to market and the fish were in good shape (not dragged or torn apart), so we got a good price. I was thinking if you trolled, you'd get enough fish for a few meals, perhaps for the winter by filleting and freezing.
I wish I could do that.
Not a bad way to live.
@AnAlaskaHomestead I'm sure it isn't. Thx for being so kind. I was a tomboy growing up in Kentucky but now as a 59 yr old adult, my health is not good. I was in the service, loved to travel, volunteered alot & enjoyed anything outdoors. About 12yrs ago, my thyroid quit working & its been downhill ever since, partly my fault. I appreciate your videos because watchin the two of ya reminds me there are still nice people out there and allows me to experience things through y'all. Prayers for you both. ✌️🙏🇺🇲
@@ositagordita8550 sorry to hear about your health issue. That was part of the reason I retired early. Enjoy life while you’re still healthy. Take care.
Brian you daughter is young and pretty sir ❤
Ha that’s my wife back in the day.
Very cool you got the skate line in...100%
Cheers
Redwood
We will keep throwing them out until we find some good spots. I thought that place might have something. It was a shelf in between two holes. 🤙
@@redwood9741 let’s hope so 👍
I saw them
Who?
@@AnAlaskaHomestead Sea Otters??? whatever- You weren't sure if we could see them at the end of the video...I saw 2
@@conniewright8080 oh those were orcas.
when I stayed in Elk Bay in the winter I did a lot of crabbing We problems with the commercial fishermen would compose your crab traps up cut your line avon was shooting at one guy and he pulls up in front of the beach and says Oh is that your crab trap Yeah buddy He's got my name and phone number on it lost four crab traps that year
We lost 4 pots a couple years ago. Oddly enough it was when the commercial season was closing and they were picking up their pots.
@@AnAlaskaHomestead yeah And then they wonder why people don't like commercial fishermen i've never seen anything like it before bad enough they come in and make waves and wash your boat up on shoulders running running gilnetters in a small and they steal your drops or cut your lines
lets look again hug ty :)
Thank you Roger🤗
@@AnAlaskaHomestead :)
I forgot to say that snow bunny picture is up on a Glacier is that right
Yes she used to be a glacier guide for Tempsco
As usual, a great video. Don't you and the missus try to lift that anchor by yourselves, hear ????
Not a chance. At least not without hydraulics😂
Is that a Discovery Bay line puller?
Man you are good 👍
Soft version of Deadliest Catch?
😂pretty much
cool :)
Hi Roger 👍
@@AnAlaskaHomestead Hi My Friend Hug And Her Too :)
@@tWoforgamenot1 🤗
@@AnAlaskaHomestead :) hug
@@AnAlaskaHomestead :)
Im wondering why not pour cement into that shape , or put cement in a barrel with stainless eye loops ? I don't even want to know how much that anchor was , ok how much was it ? lol
😂 I didn’t want to know the price of that anchor either.
We though long and hard about using a cement pyramid but it looses a lot of its weight because of buoyancy. To match this 1000 lb anchor I’d need 1900 lbs of cement.
your in alaska , you go fishing with a couple of guys and catch one little fish? then you go crabing and get nothing . then you do some halibut fishing . So whats for dinner? I lived in alaska for 5 years ,and never came home empty handed
You’re so lucky
How is your arm doing?
Doing better.
👍😎🇨🇦
👌🏻👍🏻❤🙏🏻 🇿🇦
Thanks Sara 😂
🙏🏻❤
A non productive Halibut skate! I am sorry!
It’s ok we will get some sooner or later.
Dale has been out a few times and basically gotten only double uglies.
😂well I’ll take cod over double uglies.
@@AnAlaskaHomestead
I would take cod also.
EVERY ONE KNOWS WHEN YOUR A FISHERMAN . YOU LIE AND LIE HOW BIG IT WAS AND HOW MANY YOU CAUGHT .
if it was 14 inches that means it was really 6 inches long and you caught a Dozen ,you really only caught None . L O L .
😂😂😂