Mud report. Went out looking for the anchors on today’s low tide. The wind was blowing hard, off shore, so that walking back in was even harder than walking out, which was plenty hard enough. My boots and rain gear are shown in a photo that I posted. That is what they look like after just walking about a mile through the mud. It’s not too bad this year – it closes over the top of my boots – probably up to my ankles. But it’s been worse in the past. The thing that makes this mud difficult is that it goes all the way out – and probably will until a good onshore blow cleans up the outside sites, anyway. And the way it grabs. You really have to pull to get loose, and it very much wants to stay with you. I walked out to the sites, looking for anchors. We left them all in and even left the cables attached to them because they were buried too deeply to get them free. So we tied lines to them and hoped for the best. We can’t leave buoys on them because the ice bergs will carry them away in the winter, so it’s a delicate balance – we want to leave enough to help us find them next year, but not so much that it’ll give the ice something to attach to and take with it. I found five out of eight.
Here is an illustration of the sites. We have three outside sites (marked with “us” and with their names #1, #3, #4 – Yvonne’s site used to be in our family too, but my brother sold it to Yvonne, who is a lovely neighbor). We fish the inside site (“inside”) out as far as we can with the 300’ regulation since that’s usually where the most fish are. I put little yellow circles on the anchors that I found. It was a lot of pacing and counting to find the spots where they should be. I think the others are probably still out there as well, but with the wind we’ve been having, the mud is still too thick and they’re buried. If we get a good onshore blow before it’s time to put out the buoys, we might find a few more. Otherwise, we’ll need to sink some anchors. It’s possible to do it alone, but it ain’t easy.
Liz
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