I know its early but have you looked at Terrafin lately?
The tuna high way is wide open from southern Cal up to Oregon, you can view this for free just go to Terrafin enter the home page click the tab for free images, Terrafin shows water off northern Cal at 57-58. Oregon around 56.
We were out by the thumb area Saturday and the water temperature was 58.3 at 8 am and the water was very blue. They will show up around the 20th because I will be out of town.
I have been looking hard at Terrafin and trying not to get too excited, but I see a highway of 58 degree water.
A buddy is headed out next week, so hopefully I will get some information.
I have proven many times that it is a lot easier to catch the last tuna than the fist one, so I am going to let someone else try and catch the first one this year.
It is weeks not months to the first tuna and I can't wait.
I've been watching and waiting. And twitching a little bit when I start to think about it.
I see the highway shaping up, now I'm watching the north wind. If we get a hard blow for a few weeks on the south coast the tuna will be off Newport-little Italy. If the central coast blows up with the wind they will be down south.
At this point, they'll be where the chlorophyll bloom isn't.
I think they are accessible from Charleston now. I'd bet you lunch money that if you headed to the 125*20 43*20, you could catch them today. It looks great out there. Water is blue and 59 degrees.
I wish I could go prove it but I have a family vacation starting Friday. Just no time to do it
Good luck boys! I'll be back on the 1st of July and ready to get them!
You may be right Chass, but I know of a Boat that went out further than that Fri & not a sign of Tuna, Tuna water moves in fast this time of the year tho, so maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe next week, soon, very soon.
I said the 19th back in March and I’m sticking with it! Tuna Time back in her slip and Seelicious ready to roll on the 18th...let’s go burn some boat bucks!
I saw 59.3 water about 2 miles off Harris Beach in Brookings today. `That's way warmer than normal for this area. It is much colder out about 10 miles. Tuna water in close?
First Ilwaco Tuna...2011... remember SeaYa... 36 ft yellowfin Triple 300 zukes... my good friend Wayne owned it and we decided July 3 2011 we were going to get the first Ilwaco Tuna with crew of 4-5... fishing day cane everyone bailed except Wayne and me... bar was restricted to 36 feet so Uscg talked to us since we were like 36.6 and let us go. We headed south and started trilling we finally got a double and got 1 peanut in and said it’s fine to go. GPS said it was 101 miles to the tip
Of the south jetty so away we went in a hurry.... had about a 900 Fuel bill to split 2 ways for 1 fish on the 4 th of July.... man that fish tasted good... honest true story ... would not change a thing if I could do it again... it’s all about the adventure
LOL... Just messing with you guys. I'm at work as well. alm: I have about 6 reels left to finish servicing and them I'm in the hunt. Next week might be my first tuna run...
Indeed, things are shaping up for some good early Tuna Catching pretty darn fast.
Kinda Early... I'm about two weeks out at least before I can get-a-wayalm:
Something wrong with your S Mark? It does look like code! it appears your computer or the website is doing something with your S's that is messing up your posts. Do your posts look normal to you?
To support what upland hunter posted, I just read a reliable report on Albacore Addicts (FB Group) that Mark from All Rivers + Saltwater Charters caught Albacore yesterday 60+ miles offshore. Commercial right?
While that may be a long ways, that distance could change overnight.
You've ruined all production until a salt fix complete with tail slaps has rendered this insane addiction cured...if only for a few minutes!
Little Italy is a buzz with talk of tuna...the big boys were already planning on leaving early next week to look for them in the 130's.
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