Tuna 2024

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PhilR said:
Outstanding! I would love to have my own boat for days like that.
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You need to get on that! I'll help you break it in (or just break it)
 
giddyup!
 
Buzzy said:
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Took my new to me 12 weight to the park to lawn cast it yesterday strung up with a Cortland Billfish 50 Plus fly line. This is only the second time I've had this outfit out. I was BS'ing with a neighbor who lives across the street from the park while casting and felt something while stripping the line back in. Huh! I have a new line coming my way. Cortland was superb to work with as was the fly shop where I bought the line.
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Not sure what I’m looking at but it looks like a branch?
 
Bagman said:
Not sure what I’m looking at but it looks like a branch?
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It's a defect in the running line. According to Cortland, it looks like the line got caught in one of the processing sheaves (shives?).
 
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@clarkman might be learning a hard lesson about saying he doesn't wanna go lingcod fishing when the forecast took a turn the other day and I was changing plans... Because forecast turned back after I filled his seat.

Still gonna call an audible and have backup plans, but I might have more bloody pictures tomorrow.
 
Duuuude....you gotta rub it in, don't you? I'd better not see a bloody tuna boat deck. 😆

Go get em!
 
Evan B said:
I am being somewhat serious here. I know we all have our own way we like things, but 2min on high heat for a 1" piece of albacore sounds excessive.
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I’m a propane torch guy take a chop stick up the middle of the piece of albacore keep the torch moving tell it done on the outside the way you like it, then chill which makes it easer to cut.
 
clarkman said:
Duuuude....you gotta rub it in, don't you? I'd better not see a bloody tuna boat deck. 😆

Go get em!
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Well you didn't miss a whole lot. It was a red hot day, just not where I ended up. They were absolutely hosing em to the north and south of where I was at. We ended up with 6 fish, all came in back to back stops before it died again. There were a few other boats in my general area that all seemed to be having the same results. I made a calculus based on reports I got directly from a few reliable sources + satellite shots + wind forecast, and landed in like a 20mi stretch that seemed to have significantly less activity than all the others.

Womp womp
 
Thanks for the report - we've had similar experiences on numerous occasions...you just never know. We are heading out to the 125.10 line off Charleston/Coos Bay tomorrow am if the southerlies don't muck things up.
 
RRSmith said:
Thanks for the report - we've had similar experiences on numerous occasions...you just never know. We are heading out to the 125.10 line off Charleston/Coos Bay tomorrow am if the southerlies don't muck things up.
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Yeah I went way out to the 125.20 out of the Columbia. Started at the 125.10, but the few fish we found were at the 125.20. Long run for 6 fish. Typically out of the CR, I run SW to the corners as that area consistently seems to fish well for whatever reason. It's been not super hot there so far this year, and wasn't great Saturday, so I was following the trend of fish moving north which they had been. But those fish moved a bit further north than where I shot, and new fish showed up to the south (corners) area.

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RRSmith said:
That's a long boat ride @Evan B! Do you have autopilot?
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Sure don't! Maybe some day. Still, considering I vary my speed so much when hitting the varying sets of waves I'm going in to, running at a steady speed just seems risky for a small boat like mine. Would be doing a lot of launching off big waves I'd usually slow down for.
 
Evan B said:
Sure don't! Maybe some day. Still, considering I vary my speed so much when hitting the varying sets of waves I'm going in to, running at a steady speed just seems risky for a small boat like mine. Would be doing a lot of launching off big waves I'd usually slow down for.
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Auto pilot doesn't mean you just set it and forget it with your speed. It just steers the boat. You work the throttles as needed. I run on auto every day, but my right wrist gers a serious workout on the throttles!

The biggest advantage of auto IMO, beyond saving fuel, is that with an auto working well you can trim the boat out exactly how you want it based on conditions, which results in a much better ride and typically less throttle work. Since the boat is tracking a nice straight line you can really dial in your trim.
 
Tuna fishing is off to an incredible start out here! Nothing but great fishing for all of our boats every trip thus far, but today things got absolutely stupid. Started off way inside of the area we have been fishing, and picked up just a few random fish. Then an hour or so lull as we worked a bit out. Things started ramping up, and we were at 26 fish when what seemed like every albacore in the ocean just attacked us. We very quickly put 25 more fish on the boat and I only ended it because we had more than enough. We hung around a bit and basically hand fed the fish for a bit before heading home. Those fish were absolutely fired up.

Wish I had the bug rod but I hopped over and ran the big boat today so all my fly gear was back at the dock on my boat.

Just an incredible start to our season. Sure hoping this keeps up.
 
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