Yeah the more of those little tuna birds the better....the ones that look like little bats. The boys down in washington have great water we just need little bit of that blown our way. Hey birdsnest where were you out last time, some lat and longs would be great. Acually anybody who heads out should post their poistion where they get into the fish, it would be really helpful to get a good picture of where it is all happening.
2012 TUNA trips
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Sat we fished salmon out of Neah Bay and limited on 6 nice size hatchery coho. Yesterday I ran out for tuna. We went out to the 4000' line straight down the center of the Juan de Fuca Canyon. Highest water temp we found was around 63F. Didn't find clear blue water but the water clarity was pretty good (sky was overcast so it's hard to tell if the water was "blue"). A SSE wind picked up making conditions pretty nasty as the wind waves were mostly perpendicular to the westerly swells. The net effect was I could only easily troll pointy somewhat N. Wound up trolling from about 9:30 to 2PM and made it as far north as the notch between Nitnat Canyon and Juan de Fuca Canyon. Got one hit which we caught - a nice fattie around 18lbs. That was it. The trip back was 3 hours of unpleasantness with the occasional water over the bow. Ran through around 80 gals of fuel at $4.40/gal so that one fish cost about $19.55/lb (or about $40/lb dressed). The loin we had for dinner tasted VERY good - it should for $40/lb of meat! 
Should have fished tuna on Sat and salmon on Sunday.
Should have fished tuna on Sat and salmon on Sunday.
Aces
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I just tlked to a commie friend and he says the chloro is stinky until about 100 miles out. I'm not going that far, will wait until conditions improve. He got 13,000 lbs in 8 days of fishing with 145 his best day
yeah 100 miles is a bit of a haul, we could proably do 65 or so but what is the point. We are going to be in the 33' persuit ( "bad habit") that is down at the gov dock right now. Sean I think we fished offshore with you and another boat 2 years ago, did pretty good that day. I am bringing a coupe 40# boxes of frozen anchovies over this year to see if we can get a bait stop going on out there. Just waiting ont the water now.....
Aces
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Yes, i saw that boat at 4th st..... nice looking rig. I'm gonna have the iron ready to go instead of bait. Let's hope that chloro smartens up soon
Aces
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That's 60 miles out
harper44
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Just realized I have units set at Nautical Miles on plotter. It's about 55 miles I guess.
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Aces
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If that's the case i'll be going this weekend............Pippen??
harper44
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Where are y'all running from? We are towing to ukee on friday and heading out at first light saturday morning.
(weather pending of course)
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Pippen
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I will drop you a line this morning.
Sunday is the better one for me as there are plans to take a couple rookies out for salmon/Hali with Jeff. In saying that, whatever you guys think is best.
Sculpin
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Here is a good free temp and chloro chart for those that don't want to spend money on a subscription to terrafin or what not.
http://www.tempbreak.com/index.php?&cwregion=wa
I like checking this one out daily as well.
Cheers,
John
http://www.tempbreak.com/index.php?&cwregion=wa
I like checking this one out daily as well.
Cheers,
John
Pippen
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