Hai! Those halibut are really something --- stories abound of guys
under-estimating their strength, hauling them into a small rowboat only to
have them smash the hull by slamming around and then they swim away, leaving
the fisherman in the water amidst the wreckage of what used to be a rowboat.
Yeah, they're solid muscle --- if I get one (big if) it'll a little guy.

Salmon gear is more complicated than simple bottom-fish jigging gear, so I
think if I catch anything, it will be snapper, rock cod, maybe halibut, or
bivalves because I won't have room for fancy gear.

I was just reading the Health Canada website and they have a blanket
recommendation to freeze everything. I obviously won't be able to do that.
OK, I will try to minimize my exposure to parasites by avoiding salmon, and
only using healthy-looking snapper/rock cod/geoduck-foot as sashimi, the
rest I will either bake wrapped in kelp, buried in sand under a fire on the
beach, or cooked the First nations way on spreader-sticks over a fire.

Last trip I ate a bunch of mussels, here's a pic:

http://picasaweb.google.com/tomfromv...62149196161634