On Tuesday, June 21st, the summer solstice, a "first" happened in my boat. Eric Taylor and Holly Mower were fishing with me and during our backtroll near Eagle Rock Eric proposed to Holly. Eric, on one knee, gave Holly a ring and she said "Yes!" Here they are pictured above soon after the proposal.
We were basking in the glow of what just happened and continued our troll down to Eagle Rock. I spied these two seagulls sitting on the rock watching our boat. I thought why not take a picture of these lovebirds to commemorate what just happened. Very nice symbolism of the finest kind.
Just after we pass Eagle Rock who do you think gets a bite? Holly of course. This bruiser weighed in at 45lbs and took about 20 minutes to land.
Could it get any better than this? Well, on the very next troll guess who else catches a king? Eric does. Being a gentleman, Eric doesn't want to upstage the bride to be so he catches one a little smaller. Pretty interesting that we were fishing for about 8 hours without a bite and just after the proposal was made and accepted we catch two kings.
Holy moly, what great luck. So, does anybody else want to increase their chances of catching a Kenai king? I'm just sayin'.........
2 comments:
Well, some people have it made. Find a wife like yours..........I guess you can't get any luckier than that! The fish are just a bonus.
Awesome story. Making memories on the Kenai one a time.
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