lorneparker1
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Super Jealous!
Lets see the pics!!
Lorne
Lets see the pics!!
Lorne
2012 TUNA trips
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Birdsnest
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Hard work but i had a pretty consistent flow of Adrenalin. Now I know why the commies use a tuna puller. That will probably be the one and only time I will get my limit of 20. I had to stop fishing. I landed my first fish on a rod and real and decided that was not going to work out for a number of reasons. Ran 6 handlines for the rest of the day. Didn't slow the boat down once nor did I use the gaff. I was playing mini-commie ha ha. My hands are going to tell me all about it in the morning.
lorneparker1
Banned
Hard work but i had a pretty consistent flow of Adrenalin. Now I know why the commies use a tuna puller. That will probably be the one and only time I will get my limit of 20. I had to stop fishing. I landed my first fish on a rod and real and decided that was not going to work out for a number of reasons. Ran 6 handlines for the rest of the day. Didn't slow the boat down once nor did I use the gaff. I was playing mini-commie ha ha. My hands are going to tell me all about it in the morning.
Man there is no need to do that yourself! Any time you need a deck hand all you have to do is say the word!!
Aces
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Hard work but i had a pretty consistent flow of Adrenalin. Now I know why the commies use a tuna puller. That will probably be the one and only time I will get my limit of 20. I had to stop fishing. I landed my first fish on a rod and real and decided that was not going to work out for a number of reasons. Ran 6 handlines for the rest of the day. Didn't slow the boat down once nor did I use the gaff. I was playing mini-commie ha ha. My hands are going to tell me all about it in the morning.
Dude, you blew me away. Nice work!
Birdsnest
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A little typing with morning coffee: my fishing trip started the night before calling all around to find some deckhands...no go. I had though that on day I would do a solo trip because it is often so difficult to find someone to go on these trips. Being summer and all in tofino every one is busy especially all the real fishy people. My usual fishing palls all have family's with children and a WIFE so it being a long weekend does not make it any easier. SO I went alone. lucky for me we were a fleet today which is the best way to get'em!
Left the dock at 530 ran for an hour and a half at 28kn which is fantastic. Started fishing. No bites all the while I am wondering were every body is and messing with my radios because I pretty sure I am having a radio problem but my back up hand held is not working either. Turns out that both of my radios are not receiving but sending so any one on vhf 19, 68, 78 and whatever other channel i tried can hear everything. Finally my buddy drives past me because he knew where I would be and tells me that they are hammering the tuna 7 miles from where I am. I quickly bring up my 6 lines and follow him.
I did not even get all my lines out and I had a fish on and I left it to finish getting my lines out but it got off. that was the only one that got away for me. Shortly after that I had a triple header that seamed to last an hour. I would not bring in fish unless I had my line from the last fish out because I had to. If I had 2 or 3 lines in at once I would surely loose them to a massive birds nest which I had a few of anyways. the result of this method is having fish on constantly. I managed to keep turning back to the school and so kept hooking up. After chatting briefly with skulpin I thought that I better count my fish. I had 20! I didn't realize. That was the only time I slowed the boat down in the 4 hours of fishing at that spot. There was lots off space between all the boats to which was good because we are all doing 6 or 7 knots. I seemed to be getting them going faster today but I was doing it to have better control of the boat.
The highlights of this trip for me were getting my limit and being with all those 6 or 7 boats having a absolute blast! The down part: no radio. It was a bit weird for me because I am so used to some radio chatter and I was in silence all day even though I could just imagine the excitement on the vhf. So I don't really know if guys were getting triple or double headers or what they were doing. I do know they were getting them. Thanks so much to they guys who confirmed a back up plan for me if I was having a problem. They also were the boys who found the fish, thanks for that too. I do not wear a life jacket much but for this trip I did and I wore my PLB around my neck. It was actually pretty choppy out and around 10 or 11 a west swell came up. It was not easy conditions at all. You would never realize it was like that if you were on the beach. When I hit 15 miles off on the way in it was smooth as a baby's bum!
My back up radio is a hand held but I have a complete VHF at home with antenna ready to go. I think I will put a cigarette lighter plug on it and stow it for situations like that. If I need it I would just black tape the antenna to my other antenna.
Not great photos but just an example of some messiness. There were way messier moments.
Left the dock at 530 ran for an hour and a half at 28kn which is fantastic. Started fishing. No bites all the while I am wondering were every body is and messing with my radios because I pretty sure I am having a radio problem but my back up hand held is not working either. Turns out that both of my radios are not receiving but sending so any one on vhf 19, 68, 78 and whatever other channel i tried can hear everything. Finally my buddy drives past me because he knew where I would be and tells me that they are hammering the tuna 7 miles from where I am. I quickly bring up my 6 lines and follow him.
I did not even get all my lines out and I had a fish on and I left it to finish getting my lines out but it got off. that was the only one that got away for me. Shortly after that I had a triple header that seamed to last an hour. I would not bring in fish unless I had my line from the last fish out because I had to. If I had 2 or 3 lines in at once I would surely loose them to a massive birds nest which I had a few of anyways. the result of this method is having fish on constantly. I managed to keep turning back to the school and so kept hooking up. After chatting briefly with skulpin I thought that I better count my fish. I had 20! I didn't realize. That was the only time I slowed the boat down in the 4 hours of fishing at that spot. There was lots off space between all the boats to which was good because we are all doing 6 or 7 knots. I seemed to be getting them going faster today but I was doing it to have better control of the boat.
The highlights of this trip for me were getting my limit and being with all those 6 or 7 boats having a absolute blast! The down part: no radio. It was a bit weird for me because I am so used to some radio chatter and I was in silence all day even though I could just imagine the excitement on the vhf. So I don't really know if guys were getting triple or double headers or what they were doing. I do know they were getting them. Thanks so much to they guys who confirmed a back up plan for me if I was having a problem. They also were the boys who found the fish, thanks for that too. I do not wear a life jacket much but for this trip I did and I wore my PLB around my neck. It was actually pretty choppy out and around 10 or 11 a west swell came up. It was not easy conditions at all. You would never realize it was like that if you were on the beach. When I hit 15 miles off on the way in it was smooth as a baby's bum!
My back up radio is a hand held but I have a complete VHF at home with antenna ready to go. I think I will put a cigarette lighter plug on it and stow it for situations like that. If I need it I would just black tape the antenna to my other antenna.
Not great photos but just an example of some messiness. There were way messier moments.
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Finished Business
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Queue:
Queen - "We are the Champions"
PM sent Bird
Queen - "We are the Champions"
PM sent Bird
firelight
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well done gents, looks like it went well.
Birdsnest
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Note: Radio problem- pin on antenna jack not soldered!! Stupid error. That radio worked for 5 years without the pin soldered. It has to, has to, HAS TO BE SOLDERED IN!!!!!
Another thing about my strangely silent trip. NO screaming reals. Quite different. The handlines only go down and tight. There is nothing else to indicate you have a fish on.
Another thing about my strangely silent trip. NO screaming reals. Quite different. The handlines only go down and tight. There is nothing else to indicate you have a fish on.
Aces
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I figure around 140 tunas for 6 boats...........great teamwork amongst the boats
Aces
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Glad you figured out your radio. We were all a little concerned with you going solo and having no radio
Pippen
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Among the so many cool things about this fishery the teamwork was awesome and great to see. "there's lots of fish out here for everyone" was heard many a time with a lot of "yeeeehaw!!! Double header!!!!!!" coming across the radio.
Still smiling today.
lorneparker1
Banned
Slivo
Active Member
OMG!!!!!!! Best trip we ever had on a fishing boat. Left cape beale at 4am with 300 pounds of white gold, 16 rods and reels and 2meat lines and one slitly hungover captin. Ha ha. 2.5 hour ride out to just above nitnat canyon and started fishing 42 miles out. Nothing. picked up after an hour and headed out to about 55 mile. Water wasb blue blue blue. Dropped gear, bang bang bang got 2 lost 1 then got 2 lost 1 again. Then popped a bottle of bubbley. Put all the gear out again then boom 6 hooked up, then a major gong show happened, but all 6 ended up in the ride now that was awesome. All of that was recorded to. We were alone for a few hours, then 3 friend boats came by and started hammering them. Left at about 5:30 with 33 in the boat, no more white gold left,sore as hell and hurting. More to come later pics and videos
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