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In OR, I like Nehalem Bay SP for camping. Great beach for the pups. Good food in Manzanita.

Pretty slow weekend overall. 0-2 Friday from the beach, 1-1 from the boat yesterday and 2-3 this morning from the beach. Friday was interesting. Was able to get out and fish the best part of the tide and there were jumpers around but they fish just weren’t very aggressive. Fish were caught...

Long tenured, lots of PTO to use and I work for a company with Flex Time! Also helps I live close to some solid salmon beaches. I normally start at 6-6:30 (a lot of my colleagues are east coast) but bump it back to 8-8:30 a couple days a week during salmon season if I don’t have meetings...

Tied last night. Fished it this morning during a short session. Success!

Did a super short session before work today. 1.5 hours. Sporadic fish being caught and the water shit the bed around low slack so decided to just go to work. 1-1 overall. Average rezzie sized fish.

I think we need to collectively buy one and force any new person coming out on PNWFF driven trips, to catch their first albacore on it. Then pass it on to the next newbie. Way funnier and less chance for vomit than eating the raw heart of their first tuna.

No, don’t think so. Lou might recall differently. It just took forever having to switch from reeling to palming. She was legitimately asking for someone to take over for a period but stuck it out. She also had Nick bellowing in her ear , “there’s no hand-offs on tuna!” or something along those...

Another thing I’ll say is seeing someone try to land their first ever Albacore using a click and paw reel was about as good a laugh as I have ever had on a tuna boat. She was a trooper though and got it done. Pretty damn funny though.

It was a really fun day. We all lost a bunch of fish too. Trolling, slide and cast and stripped flies were all effective. Another great thing about Nick’s new boat besides casting space is the ability to easily fight fish along the whole length of the boat. It gives folks more room to spread out...

2-3 this morning. One good fish and one rezzie sized fish. Time for a little salmon break until next weekend. Tuna time… The smaller fish had a little perch (?) of some kind in its stomach.

That seal definitely has an affinity for @SteelHeadDave. I may have jinxed him by telling him he was brave hanging that coho off his belt yesterday :). 0-0 yesterday and 1-2 before work for me today. One right before daybreak and another hookup 10 minutes before I had to leave.

Tuna fly. 8/16 if the weather cooperates!

Shirking one’s responsibilities in life to go fishing all day in beautiful weather 4 days in a row is not for the faint of heart. I brave incredibly relaxing days on the water so you don’t have to. I many ways, I should be hailed as a hero. I expect a beer on you if we ever meet in person for my...

Another long day out there. 3-5 over multiple beaches. At least I got two fish for the freezer today…

Another day grinding it out. Took three beaches and nearly another full day to get a single keeper. Potentially could have been quicker if I could keep a fish pinned. Still only 4 hooked adult fish, with three again coming in the last hour or so I was fishing.

Had to put in a lot of hours to bring home a single fish today. 3-6 overall, but 3 of those hookups were in the last 1.5 hours of a 8 hour day and two of the landed fish were wild. Almost (not quite), felt like work… Crazy sunrise this morning…

I gave a seal a back flipper piercing on that beach Wednesday. Maybe he’s out for blood from any fly fisherman he comes across now. Be safe out there :)!

Put in a short session before work and went 2-6. It was slow super early, then a bunch of wild fish came through driving a lot of action for 20-30 minutes with nearly everything caught, including one from me, going back in the water. Then it went dead again and about 10 minutes before I needed...

More “natural” color combos for coho that of course will not fish nearly as well as pink or chartreuse over white…or each other.

I normally don’t pay full price for high end rods. I wait for them to go on sale when an update occurs to purchase. I’ve bought two full price Scott Centrics though and IMO, they are worth the money. I also like my Boston Whaler Montauk quite a bit even though I know there were cheaper options...