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That's Adamcu if I recall his gear correctly. He must have latched into a big one if he was worried about it pulling him in and him needing some extra flotation.

I use a short piece of thick 40 lb mono to connect to my fly line too for the same reason, I had the main line loop cut by the mono tippet when a running tuna threw a loop over my reel and caused a full strength line break. I do use loop to loop connections for that connection, and UV knot sense...

I have pollution problems with fluorocarbon lines, so I have always used about 5-6' of 25 lb maxima clear mono. Seems like I am the one of the only ones running mono, fish don't seem to be much biased against it.

Just depends on if you have a birds eye, or fish eye, view of life. When fishing, I struggle to not think like a fish!

Nick needs to paint some of those on the gunnels of his boat, to keep it a tad more clear to me where 12 and 6 really are.

I tend to leave my phone away, and try and live in the moment more, so I don't much have photos of anything.. sorry. The definite orca sighting was within 200 yards of the boat, and it had the backwards curve of a female orca. Good sized I would put the dorsal fin at around a meter in...

And to round out the traditionally included elements of a tuna trip report: 1) lots of birds were seen. Might be the most birds I have seen on a tuna trip, we were fishing with birds working the water pretty much all day. Mostly I have no idea of their names, other than some terns for sure...

Burning an expensive articulated shank on a rotator? Crazy! Why not just wrap the hook? (FYI, I run a similar look for the pink buzz bombs my son, and sometimes I "to show him how to fish it" toss for pinks.)

Agree.. not on the fly, but my son and I were into double digits on pinks on Sat morning, on a boat, no downriggers needed. I was mostly jigging for kings down deeper and ran a smaller jig shallow for my son, who was hooking up quite often as the schools came through on the fish finder. He is a...

Looks like the truth is finally coming out. It's a little known in fact that the second daily tidal cycle is a total scam cooked up by scientists to double their research funding.. don't be gullible and fall for their faked tidal data.

I also caught a MA 11 pink this morning, on gear. Was heading back to the boat ramp late morning, stopped to fling a pink buzz bomb at a jumper. No love on that one, but another one jumped about 5 minutes later, and I had it hooked up less than 15 seconds later. Hooked and handed off to my...

Phone was buried, so I have no photos, but I caught 2 on gear today in 11. One solid sized one hit a 4 oz salmon jig 5' off the bottom in 150' of water, a most surprising pink, the other (small) instinctually crushed a small pink buzz bomb up on top that we had set up on a spinning rod to cast...

You obviously were fishing the wrong water. Go out further, find the blue water.

Not only could those 1800s dudes work your ass into the ground before breakfast, laughing at whatever you though was "hard", they could obviously spell and speak your ass into the ground too, when they weren't busy fishing the local purling streams.

Would be surprised.... Like most charter captains, Nick does most of his tuna fishing with pieces of yarn he stole from his wife and left over octopus hooks he found abandoned on the dock during salmon season..

Surprisingly, across MA4-13, the most pinks checked yesterday came from... MA11! At least from the public ramp, 9 pinks against 15 kings and 8 coho.

I fished kings on gear in 11 with my son on the afternoon slack today. No salmon caught, saw no nets fly where we were fishing at all. We did see multiple pinks jump near us though, looking like they were nisqually bound, and we regretted not having a spinning rod sitting there with a pink jig...

I recently heard them referred to as "summer steelhead", which is both cute and sad.

Interestingly, today in MA 11, I saw a medium sized salmon jump 2 times in a very very pink salmon type location. If it would have been Aug 14, I would have said pink no doubt. On July 14, I don't know what to believe or think.

Brian, can you let us know exactly what "sub legal" Chinook are, in regards to the form? I think for the Sound, sublegal Chinook are sort of jack sized, for a management bin? Or does that include 4" shakers too? I suspect they mostly want to get an estimate of coho to Chinook encounter...