Salmon & Tuna, slow from Garibaldi Sat

[Skipper]

We launched the boat at 5:30 with Smily, and FM-2 along as crew. We had 4 traps, Salmon gear, and Tuna Gear onboard. Loaded down for a triple-header.

Flat bar - nice. Ocean was flat as a lake with zero fog. Dropped the traps to the north side.

Ran out to 180' deep and began trolling herring at 8, 20 and 40 pulls. Took longer than expected to get the first fish - Nate, Nate, clipped, too small, too small, Nate, crackered, Nate, Double, Nate, crackered, Chinook, Nate, Nate, ...

The chinook came on a down rigger at 80'. Most fish were around the 220'.

At noon we had the general consensus to run for Tuna. So we ran West 12 miles and put in the gear, and trolled at 7 mph West. Had one strike at 16 miles and went out to 20 miles with no tuna in the boat. Headed back in at full throtle, 41 mph. :shocked: The ocean was so smooth! We were stopped by State Troopers at 5 miles out for a fish check.

We trolled again for Salmon from 240' to 150' with a few more nates, drive-bys, and one chinook.

Ended the day with 1 coho, 2 chinook, and 8 crab.

Beautiful day on the water, with a couple of great guys, and good food. Smily does fried chicken right.

Back at port we notice a commercial boat selling tuna for $.90 /lb, and we each buy one.

Cheerio'
Skipper

[ 07-20-2003, 02:05 PM: Message edited by: Skipper ]

[Smily]

It was a beautiful day with no wind or swells.

You missed one hatchery Coho on with your

Nate, Nate, clipped, too small, too small, Nate, crackered, Nate, Double, Nate, crackered, Chinook, Nate, Nate, ...

<font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helv">Seems like fish were getting caught with a ratio of 10-1 in the nates advantage.

The Tuna we bought is outstanding since we were not able to get our own, Maybe next time.

Thanks again skipper for a great time out there on the big pond. We're still looking for the big Blue as we didn't get out far enough yesterday to find it.

[Skipper]

Smily,

You missed one hatchery Coho

<font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helv">You must have missed reading the "Clipped" one in my first post.

Hope you can figure out how to fillet the tuna.

Today there is a 10 mph wind blowing in Netarts. Not like yesterday at all. We really got a treat out there.

Cheerio'
Skipper

[dewfish]

I was chatting with smiley in the morning with nothing to show for our efforts. Went back to all the hits ive marked on my gps and was done fishing by 10:30 / 3 hatchery no natives no chinooke. It was nice chatting with smiley out on the water.

[Smily]

Hi Skipper,
My Bad, It's there. How did I over look my only fish.

Filleting Tuna was a breeze. We had some broiled and did some the sushi way too. It's best prepared Sashimi style.

I can't believe how smooth it was out there. I just wished we could have found the big Blue out there with the tuna running. I know we were pretty close but not close enough.

Dewfish,
Nice to chat with you too out there. Glad to see you got your fish too. We only fished till what was it 5:00 pm. We worked hard for ours But I think it was worth it.

:smile: Smily :smile: