No Tuna for me!

ANDYCOHO · 08-05-2002, 06:04 PM

We pulled out of Garabaldi at 7:30 and headed to in the direction of Tuna Town. We started fishing at 20 miles in 62 degree water, still trolling due west. We trolled and trolled and did not see any Tuna, or any big temp. breaks.

We heard a charter out at 47 miles getting into some early this morning but it sounded like the show was over early.

We turned around at 30 miles and headed for the beach and maybe some Chinook.

Well we could not find any Chinook either, but it was a great day on a flat ocean.

We did manage to hook to birds trolling for Tuna? Anybody else ever have this problem and how do you keep the birds away from your jigs? The flocks would not leave us alone even after pulling up and running to get away from them.

Next trip is going to have to be out of Depoe unless I hear some great results out of Garabaldi?!

Andy

Salmonator · 08-05-2002, 06:30 PM

From all I've heard, if you're into the birds that far out the you should have tuna nearby. Maybe you're gear was too shallow since the birds could easily get to it and maybe the tuna were slightly deeper?

Hookset · 08-05-2002, 06:54 PM

What I was told on a tuna trip last month was, keep the jigs in the water, don't let them break surface. What I've also learned is, if you don't see any surface action, you need to get some gear down, 10 to 20 feet. There were two hand lines with diving teasers, they could dive from 10 to 20 feet, over half of the tuna came off these two lines. Over the entire day, not once did we ever see a tuna up on top.

That's another good reason to have hand lines. The shear force using teasers work best off hand lines when rigged in-line. Of course, I'm speaking from limited experience hear concerning tuna, I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong. :tongue:

What I really need is to have someone invite me along to prove this theory out.

Gregg

corrirod · 08-05-2002, 08:04 PM

Andy, don't feel bad I had the same luck and I used a diving teaser. You can see my post on the "Salty Dog Challenge winner is.." thread. I went out 35 miles one day and 48 the next. Trolled both days, saw nothing, felt nothing.

ANDYCOHO · 08-05-2002, 08:41 PM

All right guys that is some good info, I will definintely give that a try next time, and Corrirod thanks for not making me feel so bad coming home with coolers of ice and nothing else .

Hookset · 08-05-2002, 10:45 PM

Guess that's a mighty big ocean.......sometimes like finding a needle in a hay stack. What I remember from last month....even though we were into 60 degree water at apx. 18 miles out, we proceeded to motor out to 50 miles before even attempting to fish. Wonder how the commercial boats find tuna, find 60 degree water and keep heading west until they find tuna or until they run out of fuel?

This is why it pays to have current accurate reports.

Gregg

corrirod · 08-06-2002, 06:35 AM

Hookset,

The commercial guy I talked to puts his lines in as soon as he gets into the ocean and heads southwest. His boat only goes about 6 knots/hr anyway so he has no reason to keep the gear in the boat. The 55 mile trip he made took him over 24 hours to complete and he only came back with 20 fish. Not a very good trip for him either.

seasquid · 08-06-2002, 07:53 AM

Has anybody heard how Marty did Monday?

It appears to me, unless you have a boat with major range like Popeye, until the N-NW wind quits screaming us smaller sport boats are going to find it pretty difficult to find large numbers of tuna in our future. The good news is, there is plenty of time for things to warm up -- time to be patient.

ss

fish assassin · 08-06-2002, 09:42 AM

I talked to Marty at the dock on Monday evening and
the told me he was going out on Tuesday. From the
way he was talking he didn't go on Monday! My son
and I fished out of Dopey Bay Monday ... went out
about 42 miles where we found a nice temp break that
went from 56 degrees to 60.4 degrees in about two
miles. We broke out the gear, tossed it in and
started catching right away with a triple (all on
hand lines). We actually started fishing at 8:am
and stopped fishing at 2

m. We caught 58 fish in
six hours!!

I saw the Wakem 'n Stakem (is that spelling correct?
It doesn't look right ...) pulling into port as I was
cleaning the boat, but never got a chance to talk to
him to see how they did or what they were fishing for.
Man, that guy can pull into port, get loaded on the
trailer and be OUTA there in NO time!!!

Like I said, we found fish at 42 miles out at the
125.03/54.56 line. Fish were a mixed grade so we got
about a 15lb. average. Our two biggest fish were
34 and 35 lbs. On Saturday we fished 44 miles off
Newport and had 41 fish at almost a 16 lb. average.

The fishing poles (we fish them really LONG) wern't
catching squat on Monday, and the medium handlines
seemed to be doing the best with the long handlines
coming in a close second. The short hand lines caught
a few fish, be the fish were not sticking on those
very well. (Long hand line = 100', mediums = 60' and
80', the short hand lines = 40')

-assAssin-

seasquid · 08-06-2002, 10:06 AM

Nice job Assassin -- looked like the ocean was good for you. It figures that the wind is going to howl this weekend -- dang it!

42 miles -- very intriguing for me -- that's about as far as I can go as far as fuel consumption...

thanks for the update -- now I've got tuna fever again -- no thanks to you!

ss

Deepslayer · 08-06-2002, 12:02 PM

RJ from what I have seen the smell will wear off before tuna season next year!!! :grin: If you leave your boat out in the winter rains all year!

Two weeks later and Sturgn's boat smells just like it did when we first caught the tuna!

,Ed

wak'm&stak'm · 08-06-2002, 08:07 PM

Damn Assassin.....sorry i missed you. I just went out for a couple of hours of salmon toll'n.

We caught 5 silvers and lost a shark.....

I was late for dinner, when hunger calls I get to racing.

Good job on the tuners......I will see you there one of these days.

RJ · 08-06-2002, 11:31 PM

ditto that assassin, wow that was definately a find'm & grind'm, wak and I are reeling with envy,look in the future for the wak'm & stak'm to be flying tuner flags off her antenna mast's , man we got bit bad :grin: question?.....how long for the smell to wear off?the neighbors cats keep looking at me :shocked: mahahahaha. RJ

fish assassin · 08-07-2002, 05:29 AM

Hope to see you soon at Depoe Bay!! I'm going there
today to pull the boat out of the water and take
it up to Hebo for a minor (?) repair. Seems that
when I was running out on Saturday I came off a swell
that had no back and when a smacked down on the other
side I found the one bad weld (I hope!) in my boat.
The builder thinks he can get me back on the water
with a quick fix and then when I pull the boat this
fall we'll do the fix up right ... ya know, with all
the proper grinding, water extraction and painting
that needs to be done ...

Sea ya,
assAssin

Marty · 08-07-2002, 08:50 PM

Assassin

I already posted my report elsewhere, but we never made it to your numbers. Ran into a great temp break and turned the hounds loose and could barely put three rods out before the tuna shuffle started. I saw the Irish at about 36 miles as I chugged past him and he was fishing some water that I metered at 58 and no real breaks. They must of seen some foamers. I heard Ken later in the morning and it sounded like he needed some more fish to make his day. Another small boat joined us in our area just as we were starting to head in. All in all a great day........Man the water was nice. You were right about the shark situation and us hanging our fish off the side to bleed. We would stop to fight a tuna and the sharks would go after the ones bleeding on the side, but we could easily beat them off with the long gaff, only to find that was there plan as they hammered the ones on the other side of the boat that were unprotected. I think maybe the garbage can trick will be our next purchase. Talk to you soon and I hope you get your baby back in here nest soon.

Marty