More picture of the bubble feeding humpbacks. It was an amazing experience to be so close to this incredible symphony of movement. The whales circle around a bait ball of herring and release bubbles that rise in a cylinder to confine the fish in a cage of bubbles. Then other whales rise up through the center of the column with mouths agape to scoop up as many fish as possible. All the whales surface at the same time, and if you look closely, you can make out the inner baleen of their mouths. SO cool.
The other pics are of me making bait out of cut salmon (pretty slimy/gooey on a hot sunny day) and posing next to a nice pot of 23 keeper dungees. Our record pot for the season is 29.
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