Recent content by Nick Clayton

Today was a group of cattle ranchers from Iowa. Nobody had any clue that it wasn't an albacore, including my deckhand lol. I walked around the side of the boat and saw this cute little bluefin lying on the deck and was like "Oh....sweet!'

Was just being a wise ass, it ate a cedar plug :)

Found one with stubby fins today. Ate a black and purple tube pattern that was tied out of cedar

That was a fun day! Lou covered the report quite well. Ocean was about as flat as it gets, and the fish cooperated nicely. But for one or two exceptions, we had a pile of fish under the boat each time we were stopped, but as I've talked about here before, I believe it to be an attitude...

Its very likely your captain was Colby. He ran that boat most the precious couple of seasons.

Ya personally I have zero issue running in the dark. This boat has a night vision camera system that I'm super stoked to mess with. Owner tells me it's fantastic, but I haven't used one yet.

Time of departure has been a bone of contention with me for many years lol. If it were up to me, Id leave super early. Unfortunately for the last many years I have been outvoted by the owners and rest of the crew. This year all such decisions will be mine to make and I'm stoked. The single...

Sorry, yeah six pack is just kind of a slang term referring to a charter boat licensed to take a maximum of 6 paying passengers. As opposed to the larger, slower boats that take up to 20 people or more, which requires different licensing for the captain and the boat

This boat will make an easy cruise of 30 kts on a flat ocean :). Of course the days where any ocean boat can make that kind of speed up here are few and far between. What's far more valuable is a boat that can make a relatively comfortable 20-24 knots on the much more average 4-6' swell with...

Hey, can you think of ANY more experienced captain when it comes to backing down on fly hooked fur seals? ;)

It really is a fantastic boat. It will be a big upgrade in many areas. I've always been a glass guy when it comes to the ocean, and overall I still stand by that, but I've also always said that as far as aluminum goes Coldwater is as good as it gets. I've fished off a few of them now and...

It's truly better than any professional therapy I've ever received. Absolutely nothing can make me feel better about myself and my life than a 3 am stroll through Aberdeen Walmart.

Fun discussion. My number one focus when dealing with saltwater coho is to land them as quickly as I possibly can. Even if everything is done perfectly, a coho is very likely to manage to spit the hook if given enough time to do so. So the biggest thing, for me, is just absolutely putting...

Hey all, It's been an interesting handful of months for me, with a bunch of personal and family stuff to deal with, but also some pretty major changes in my fishing/working life. As most likely already know, I am no longer working for ARSC. Unfortunately that came to an end near the end of...

I'm alive!! Hey all, I'm alive and well. I do very much appreciate you all thinking of me! It's been, well, it's just been an interesting period in my life and I've just been laying low and focused on some other things outside of fishing. I see I have a bunch of PMs to catch up on as...