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08-10-2003, 09:27 PM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Aloha, OR
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What a weekend!!!! Thanks Mel!
What a great weekend. The wife and I started it off with ifishstock. Nice to see so many people. Headed out early from the party and hooked up with Mel (Miss B Haven) at about 7:30pm. We spent the night on his boat. Fishbait showed up about 5 this morning and off we went. Crossed the bar about 6:30 or so and headed almost due west. At about 28 miles we dropped the gear. We were never able to get all the gear out at once. Ended up with 30 tuna by 11:30 this morning. Had to stop because we were out of cooler space and ice. The wife and I broke our tuna cherries today. What a thrill. On the way back in, we dropped the salmon gear. We limited on 8 coho in less than 45 minutes. The other two boats with us had the same luck.
The ocean and weather were great. The company was even better. Thanks again Mel. It was a trip that the wife and I will never forget.
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08-10-2003, 10:18 PM
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Re: What a weekend!!!! Thanks Mel!
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08-11-2003, 12:13 AM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Hillsboro, OR, USA
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Re: What a weekend!!!! Thanks Mel!
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08-11-2003, 12:53 AM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Portland, Oregon
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Re: What a weekend!!!! Thanks Mel!
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08-11-2003, 06:03 AM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Beaverton, OR, USA
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Re: What a weekend!!!! Thanks Mel!
WOW!!! :shocked: What a fantastic day! That's alot of carckin'! :grin:
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08-11-2003, 06:23 AM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Polk County, Orygun
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Re: What a weekend!!!! Thanks Mel!
Awesome day!!!!!! Kinda like killin' an elk...the work begins when the killin' ends 
Great job!!
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08-11-2003, 06:28 AM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Garibaldi, OR
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Re: What a weekend!!!! Thanks Mel!
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08-11-2003, 07:01 AM
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: Alvadore, Or
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Re: What a weekend!!!! Thanks Mel!
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08-11-2003, 07:07 AM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Mar 2001
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Re: What a weekend!!!! Thanks Mel!
Good job folks! That Mel smells like a tuna these days. did ya get him to cark with ya or did he just kick back with a beer and enjoy the show? :grin:
Mel, the tuna god of the columbia. 
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08-11-2003, 12:03 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Hillsboro, OR
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Re: What a weekend!!!! Thanks Mel!
I second the GREAT trip report. Weather, seas, boat, skipper, company and fish all made for a wonderful day on the ocean. And I am no longer a tuna virgin! thanks to Mel and the tub of vac packed smelt I delevered to him this spring.
Couple of things:
Tuna does taste good when properly cared for and cooked right.
Anybody that says that a 20 lb tuna will outfight a 40 lb chinook never caught a bright 40 lb chinook.
Mel is a great skipper.
Brsgooter is a great guy, good fisherman and has a nice wife.
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08-11-2003, 12:24 PM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Lafayette, OR USA
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Re: What a weekend!!!! Thanks Mel!
Wow, what a trip!!
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08-11-2003, 12:34 PM
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Chromer
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Oregon rivers and Big Blue
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Re: What a weekend!!!! Thanks Mel!
What a great trip. It sounds like you had a Great time.
The Rogue, You have mail ,Tom
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08-11-2003, 01:12 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Portland, OR
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Re: What a weekend!!!! Thanks Mel!
Quote:
Originally posted by fishbait:
Mel is a great skipper.
Brsgooter is a great guy, good fisherman and has a nice wife.
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<font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helv">I completely agree, Mel is a great skipper. BRShooter is one of the best people I know! And Gini is, too! All around, I'm very sorry I couldn't have crewed yesterday.
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08-11-2003, 11:04 PM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Mountaindale- between the Girl Scout Camp and the Nudist Camp :)
Posts: 5,633
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Re: What a weekend!!!! Thanks Mel!
The pleasure was all mine, except for all those fish you left behind!
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08-12-2003, 06:46 AM
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Join Date: May 2000
Location: Beaverton, OR, USA
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Re: What a weekend!!!! Thanks Mel!
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Anybody that says that a 20 lb tuna will outfight a 40 lb chinook never caught a bright 40 lb chinook.
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<font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helv"> 
I've done both and I've never had a bright 40 lb. nook take 200 yds. of line in the first 20 seconds or rip a pole holder completely out of the boat(with pole still attached)!
We actually had a 30lb'er this weekend that took forever to get in. Everytime we'd get ready to net it......zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz......away he'd go!
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