Albacore 2020?

[NRC]

@SilverFly is going to have a hard time sleeping over the next two months or so. Albacore (and bluefin) dreams my friend...
Steve

A month from yesterday and my pals and I will be on the Clayton tuna express (covid willing). Only way to distract myself in the meantime is to fish!

 

[Nick Clayton]

We had a pretty good day catching rockfish and salmon, but boy was it difficult fishing inshore knowing one of our boats was out in the blue water searching for Charlie!

 

[veilside180sx]

We had a pretty good day catching rockfish and salmon, but boy was it difficult fishing inshore knowing one of our boats was out in the blue water searching for Charlie!


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...especially when they found him

 

[Nick Clayton]

...especially when they found him

Ya!!! I was already 20 miles to the south of Westport when I got the report....my throttle hand kept twitching, wanting to punch it west

 

[SilverFly]

Ya!!! I was already 20 miles to the south of Westport when I got the report....my throttle hand kept twitching, wanting to punch it west

What I'd give to stand back and watch you improvise and re-rig salmon gear for tuna. Looks like you had hoochies on board so that's a reasonable start.

 

[Nick Clayton]

What I'd give to stand back and watch you improvise and re-rig salmon gear for tuna. Looks like you had hoochies on board so that's a reasonable start.

Haha We definitely could have figured something out

 

[SilverFly]

Haha We definitely could have figured something out

I'm sure tuners would've hit the deck. Tuna troll gear is so simple, it probably wouldn't take long to convert to something that worked.

 

[Justin mitchell]

Tuna carcass were in the dumpster at Reedsport Oregon on Sunday ,there out there

 

[Bob Smith]

Albacore have been caught in good numbers running out of Charleston (Coos Bay), Newport and Garibaldi at around 50-60 nm. I'm going to wait for them to get a little closer.

 

[Nick Clayton]

Tomorrow will be my first tuna charter of the year.

 

[SilverFly]

Tomorrow will be my first tuna charter of the year.

Not that you'll need it, but good luck. The tuna highway is not only completed with traffic enroute, it's now a ridge of 60F water that's 10,000 lanes wide.

 

[SilverFly]

FYI, the first PNW bluefin was caught today, with unconfirmed reports of multiple fish. No monster, looks to be at least 20# so not the typical "peanut" from years past. This is almost a full month earlier than last year.

 

[Nick Clayton]

It's a bad day to be an albacore.

 

[Nick Clayton]

 

[bk paige]

So how was the first day Nick, we need details man!