We went deep sea fishing during our Canada trip.
Apparently on such trips, if someone happens to catch a tuna, the boat turns around and heads back to shore immediately. Everyone’s money is refunded and they rush to mail the tuna to Japan where it fetches high prices and is prized as sushi for Japanese businessmen.
About 20 minutes away from the coast of Prince Edward Island, our boat stopped so we could start fishing. We were taught to drop our weighted fishing rods over the side and let the weight drop for 5 seconds before locking it in place. Soon after we were prepped, a school of mackerel arrived on the scene.
For the next fifteen minutes, everyone on the boat would catch two fish almost as soon as their fishing rods hit water. We didn’t even need to use bait. It was quite a heady experience; everyone must’ve caught at least ten mackerel each. This were a lot of fun, though the fish itself wasn’t worth much.
Our next stop was in pursuit of cod, which is supposed to be more valuable. While we traveled, flocks of around twenty seagulls would follow the boat, gliding just a few feet from us, waiting for scraps of fish to be thrown to them. Cod was harder to catch: not everyone snagged one (e.g. me), and after a while we were getting no bites at all. We moved to three other locations with little luck. Somewhat anticlimactically, the most exciting part of the trip was the first school of mackerel.
The deep sea fishing took us the early part of an afternoon. Afterward, we drove along the coast to East Point, which is a great peninsular vantage point on a corner of Prince Edward Island. The photos are here:
Gallery East Point
