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pretty happy with our day. Two rookies 6 lines, 25 fish and even got a 5 way hook up and landed 3 of the 5. Took us a bit to find our system but once we started boat flipping we never lost another fish. Lost 4 to hectic gaff attempts. I can’t wait to dial the boat in with a. Full crew. Gonna be an awesome season. This is one for the story book for us. We felt accomplished.

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pretty happy with our day. Two rookies 6 lines, 25 fish and even got a 5 way hook up and landed 3 of the 5. Took us a bit to find our system but once we started boat flipping we never lost another fish. Lost 4 to hectic gaff attempts. I can’t wait to dial the boat in with a. Full crew. Gonna be an awesome season. This is one for the story book for us. We felt accomplished.

need a nonrookie crew person? im your man.
skulls1305@hotmail.com

 

I’m not new to the fishery. Got that dialed, just the first time dialing in the boat and getting our system down with two people. If I have room I’ll hit
You up for sure.

 

I actually do understand the difference between decimal and degrees and minutes. But I'm from Kansas so I'll claim that as my excuse for confusion!

Always appreciate the great discussions and helpful nature of most posters.

 

Always Lat/Long guys. For our waters your North number will always be over your West number.

 

Fished Fri, Sat, Sunday from the 44.20N up to 44.40N and as close as the 124.50W to as far as the 125.15W. We killed 80+ and 1 BFT. Fridays fishing was scratchy at best with a better afternoon bite, lots of singles. Saturdays bite was much better, bite was pretty much all day. Sunday was a scratchy morning bite and better afternoon bite. Warm water was moving fast throughout the day. We’d see 60° water at the 124.50 in the morning and up to 66° by the afternoon. Few fish on jigs but mostly all on the troll. Pink/white clones on the rods and plain cedar plugs on the handlines. Cedar plugs on the handlines were very productive. What a great grade of fish this season!

 

Fished Fri, Sat, Sunday from the 20N up to 40N and as close as the 124.50W to as far as the 125.15W. We killed 80+ and 1 BFT. Fridays fishing was scratchy at best with a better afternoon bite, lots of singles. Saturdays bite was much better, bite was pretty much all day. Sunday was a scratchy morning bite and better afternoon bite. Warm water was moving fast throughout the day. We’d see 60° water at the 124.50 in the morning and up to 66° by the afternoon. Few fish on jigs but mostly all on the troll. Pink/white clones on the rods and plain cedar plugs on the handlines. Cedar plugs on the handlines were very productive. What a great grade of fish this season!


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Great job Brennan and great report!

 

Will the tsunami have any effect on fishing? I don't think it should, but?

 

Yes, I absolutely expect it to. Whenever there is an earthquake offshore, the bite slows down. Especially for halibut.

 

Serious Xm shot from today. Straight out from Nestucca looks interesting. On average actual is a degree or two cooler than their shot so with a grain of salt.

 

If you have no recent clean sattelite shots you can always look at a trend. Sometimes breaks or eddies will form and just stay in one spot. You can do this on Terrafin by playing the loop of all the recent shots. On the SST they have the annoying habit of changing the temperature scale which changes what the colors mean.

Looking at the south end. Chl shots are crap since 7/29. There is a persistent spot at and below the 317 (Hydrate ridge). If you play the loop you can see it over a couple of weeks. This is both warm and clear. The edge is not well defined and we need another Chl shot. Looks like you could go west past W124 50 anywhere from N44 40 down to N44 20. There is a color change from blue to really blue at W125 10.

I think we will focus on N44 30 and go west there. Hoping for some reports this week.

There is another spot that forms west of Heceta bank that is there this year but further west than I am used to seeing it. W125 10 and west lately. That one is down at N44 20 and south. Thats a 60 NM run.

 

Monday might be shaping up to be a good day

 

Ran toward 40/125 and arrived with cold water

Radio was on fire up at 50/50 area, so we aborted and turned back to this area.

Arrived and got rewarded with a double!

Bite was steady and seemed to get a bit better as the day went on.

We fished out to 50/125.05 and left with 16 fish.

Lots of success all way up to the Corners.

 

Talked to a couple of boats in Depoe that ran 40-45 mi due west to the same general area as @Simon Peter mentioned and they ended in the range of 30-40 tuna. They hit 63°+ water, which is better than what the last SatFish shot showed.

 

I don’t think I’m going to renew my satfish if it keeps being the way it is…. Hard to get good shots and when we do get them they are wrong. From what I saw on the water compared to sat shots last weekend they are making good money for a totally inaccurate model.

 

Thanks John, Jeff 44 37.00 124 58.00
Confuse the new guys.
Yes free is good, Mark gave us a lot of free advice, NANOOS, Temp Break, NVS Tuna Fishers, Newport Ocean Water Temp today for a few more.

 

Started around 50/50. Picked up a couple fish, but slow. Trolled up to the 52 N line and caught a few more, then turned west along the 52 N line and picked up fish at 52/58 & 52/00 - 52/02. Best bite (a quad and a couple doubles was around 52/01). Overall scratchy fishing. Ended up with 15 good sized Tuna for the day. Others around us did better…

when we were picking up singles, others nearby were getting triples. Ralph finally identified the source of our problem… Once rectified, we started getting some doubles & triples…. Had my ‘Lucky Fishing Shirt‘ on inside out in the morning 🤣😂. Side effect of lack of sleep and fishing too many consecutive days.

 

We dropped in at the 44.52x124.52 when we saw whales spouting and big bait lines 200 to 300’ down, w some tuna looking marks scattered in. Lines in the water around 8 am and hooked up a quad of bruisers within 10 minutes. Only managed to land one ne due to a comedy of errors. Steady action till about 10:30 trolling back and forth over the school, then went dead. We still saw the fish go on my electronics so we stuck it out vs chasing radio fish. Bite came back on at 1 and by 2:00 it was WFO with Triple’s every time we crossed over the pod. Blue tuna scampi and pink swim baits trolled at 5.5 to 6 mph were the ticket. Very nice grade of fish and my infloor boxes were stuffed with 20 when we called it. We lost 10 or 12 more to pulled hooks. Biggest weighed 25# on my scales.

 

Found some fish at 00/48 at the edge of the clear blue water. Mostly doubles. We only wanted 5 each (total of 10) so we went home early. Our spread was tight to the boat, 40 to 50' back. Xraps and green clones did well.

Since there were only two of us, and most hookups were doubles, we didn't have much of a chance to throw iron. Good grade of fish. Tons of huge sunfish on the way in. Lots of whales everywhere. Ocean was like a lake on the way in...23 knots in a dory is light speed!

 

Did well at the Pig today along with many others, beautiful ocean like Tinman said. All on the troll, tried jig stop a couple a few times but no love.

 

Pig? As in by 317 spot?

 

Pig = N44 53 / W124 47
The 317 is Hydrate Ridge, due west of NP 55 miles.

 

Silverfish report: 3 peeps on board. Two salty dogs and I'm getting there.
We started a little south of the pig, close to 50/50 I think, and got 6 or 8 in the box in an hour or two. It slowed and we then headed west, got into fish again ~ 50/00, and worked that area to close out at ~20. slowed but never went to zero until 2 PM or so.
Most things worked when we were above the hungry fishies - Mex flag clones (green/yellow/red), some on daisy chains, were good and a purple Rapala did well. We didn't try a lot of stuff. singles, Some doubles, couple triples.
Great grade of fish.
Ocean got nicer over the day. Lumpy on the way out. Very warm but never very blue/clear.

Cheers all.

 

We trolled past each other over the pig. Counted 30 boats at one point during a lull. Archer bar short and the way back cedar plug were hot in the morning. Trolled swimbaits late morning and after a mid day dry spell were consistent. Everything on the troll. Seemed like they would come up into the troll spread for doubles and occasionally triples and back down. No takers on jigs or casting swimbaits. No jumpers and very few birds around. Lots of whales and big porpioses/dolphins? Ended the day with 21. Think we lost another five. Amazing ocean!

 

Stopped at 11:30am with 16 pigs at the Pig (53/47) for 2 POB. Awesome grade of fish and I was carking solo, so that was all I wanted to deal with for the day. I took my neighbor out for his first tuna trip after living here for 40 years and he had a blast. Water temp increased throughout the morning, was ~62° when we left.

 

50/50 puts you right on the front hoof of the pig:

 

Nautical Chart Viewer: Yaquina Head to Columbia River;Netarts Bay

Bottom of the chart the 317 stands out. Past Nelson Island and south of the PIG. Sounds like the PIG is hot for tuna. Laid up with a bad wheel. Just amazed how backed up our medical system is getting. Friday the MRI then 5 days to meet with Doctor then maybe surgery. I look at that beautiful ocean and the tuna, to much for this guy.

 

I've been in Newport for a few days. Still here now. I heard that a few folks from South Beach were going for tuna today. The southerly is really howling now. It will be an arse kicking ride from up north, unless you have a battle ship.

 

I do Mark and I’m not there

 

Nautical Chart Viewer: Yaquina Head to Columbia River;Netarts Bay

Bottom of the chart the 317 stands out. Past Nelson Island and south of the PIG. Sounds like the PIG is hot for tuna. Laid up with a bad wheel. Just amazed how backed up our medical system is getting. Friday the MRI then 5 days to meet with Doctor then maybe surgery. I look at that beautiful ocean and the tuna, to much for this guy.

I’ll text you tomorrow. Maybe a fresh albacore loin will slake your pain for now? 😉

Yesterday (Tuesday) was no joke offshore compared to near shore.
I may have missed something some where, but sure didnt see the results we got out there near the 125 line from any forcast I seen. When we got back to the pig it was a peacefull feeling from the previous couple 3 hours to get back to there from the west.

The only bumped up forecast that I saw was for cape Falcon to Foulweather on the NOAA Marine forecast. It had gusting to 15-20 on there for the afternoon as of 3 o’clock Tuesday morning. Very sneaky.

 

I’ll text you tomorrow. Maybe a fresh albacore loin will slake your pain for now? 😉


The only bumped up forecast that I saw was for cape Falcon to Foulweather on the NOAA Marine forecast. It had gusting to 15-20 on there for the afternoon as of 3 o’clock Tuesday morning. Very sneaky.

A good reminder that a forcast is only that. I would say it was fairly early am when it came in. And I sure hadn't noticed the big change. We discussed weather all the time and how it could always come early or later on a low preasure front when it is moving in our direction. Looks like we seen it come early this time!

Also a great reminder going out in a small boat versus enough boat and how things can change on a dime.

 

Good point, Randy. I often get surprised when I'm out trolling downhill for a while and then take a new heading into the wind and find chop has built a couple feet. My starting point is often a position that will put me running down hill on the way home like many others.

 

This is really what kind of happened to alot of us out along the 125 line. We were trolling north twords and past the corners when it was changing. When we decided fishing was better where we started next to the pig we started heading east and south and within 30 minutes found our selves crawling to make headway at or below troll speed. Safe, but not fun

 

I miss a lot of fishing because of caution, because if any part of a forecast is bad, I stay home. If the tuna aren't within 40 miles of shore, I stay home. I don't want to be a news report, of that little boat that did a stupid thing. And I don't feel a bit bad about my choices.