8/3-8/5 tuna reports. Awesome

I have been on the boat a ton and too tired to put up fishing reports, but I am on shore and have run out of excuses not to.

Fishing slowed to good, not great, for two days and then went back to great on 8/3.

I was lucky enough to be on the boat on 8/3 and 8/4 and it was epic.

8/3 started OK and then went WFO to end the day out of ice with 44.

We had a celebrity guest, Josh Phillips, a local fly fishing god who owns Spawn Fly Shop and the fly did not work, but he killed it on iron and bait.

The visitors bureau had a videographer onboard and he shot a ton of video (even underwater) so hopefully a cool video is in the future.

8/4 started dead, dead, dead.

We were all bitching that out hot streak was about to end, how boring fishing is, and why couldn't it be like yesterday.

And then they came up.  Lots of them, jumpers everywhere.

Cpt Craiger trolled cloverleafs and he was calling out some of our strikes before they happened.  

Jig strikes tuned into bait stops and it was on.

Pretty soon we were out of room with 44 and idled in at 7 knots on a nice ocean while eating first class poke.

8/5 was a different day.  The high winds forecasted for the PM were in a hurry and showed up early. 

I don't know how, but Craiger, Darrell, and the crew managed to plug the boat with 39 in some of the lousiest conditions Shake N Bake ever has fished in, running home at 13 knots in a carwash.

2025 is neck and neck in competition with 2008 and 2019 for the best year ever and there are TONS of tuna dying offshore that hopefully are headed our way.

We can't wait.

​Captain Mike