Currently headed back in to Garibaldi on my friend's boat. Plugged with tuna. Full report later
Also..
Also..
This was not the target species
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Book your trips now, folks!
Damn - tropical fishing in OR!
Very cool. You look quite happy and satisfied, great shot.
Dolphin fish mon!
Very cool.
Very cool.
On the fly?
Not common by any means, but a few Dorado are caught off the southern Wa/Oregon coast just about every year. Really not a sign of anything, IMO, other than Evan really scored.
So rad man. I'd be so stoked.
One of my absolute favorite species. So cool to see them being caught close to home.
Seems there might be a few more than usual this year. Just got 2nd hand word another boat out of Garibaldi had a marlin crash their troll spread and saw a Dorado jump.
Seems there might be a few more than usual this year. Just got 2nd hand word another boat out of Garibaldi had a marlin crash their troll spread and saw a Dorado jump.
In all the afternoon chaos of an ocean boiling with feeding tuna, I saw something MUCH larger come out of the water out of my peripheral vision, and made a splash that shot about 6' up in the air. All I could think was a billfish of some kind. It was much, much larger than a tuna, and no signs of dolphins/whales or anything in the mix. Wish I got a more straight on look at the fish, but that splash was something else.
Just got to work so need to get some productivity done here, but I'll post some more stuff later on the day. I also took some videos of the boiling ocean that I want to try and put up at some point.
After the talk of how you sometimes struggle to find the right times that motivate you to deploy the ol' fly pole on the tuna grounds, I hope "an ocean boiling with feeding tuna" was an opportunity that you jumped on.
I'm eagerly awaiting this report!
Just be (in Elmer Fudd voice) vewy vewy carefool whut you say when yoo see sumthing big ouwt there. ..
... and who you say it around. Trust me, no need to go into further details.
Wasn't on my boat yesterday, it was my friend's. So the fly rod didn't go. I didn't take any of my own rods, actually (was told not to).
That said, all the fish we cast to, we had to cast REALLY far because they sounded when we got within about 200' of them. My friend and I casting coltsniper jigs were slaying em, the other guy with a swimbait with a crappy mono line on it who could only cast about 100' couldn't get bit because he wasn't getting close enough. We couldn't get any bait stops going, and our bait we threw out got ignored all day. Every jig fish we caught was way, way out there. Didn't see a single fish swim near the boat despite all the action out there.
I think fly rods would have maybe caught some, but you'd have to be making some lucky hero casts.
Still, jigs are my favorite way to catch them, so I wasn't regretting anything.
I will admit gunning jigs to jumper patches is hella fun.
