A sport boat caught the first Columbia River tuna today.

The commercial fleet has been hunting hard and have run into some fish deep SW of the river.

Krai (the owner of Columbia River Bait Company AKA the bait dock) has already had a number of successful trips, so there should be plenty of bait this year as the river and the ocean are full of anchovies.

We have been fishing for salmon which has gone from great to kind of slow, starting out hard and fast and slowing up a bit, but still decent.  

It is likely going to be a great salmon season as the fish are a bit bigger than normal and there is unlimited bait in the water.

The reports I am getting make me think that tuna should be here in good numbers in 10-14 days.

Stay tuned for updated reports.

​Mike C

Cpt John, Cpt Nick, me and my buddy Chris headed to Mallorca Spain (along with our wives) to get a tuna fix in the Mediterranean. 

We were not disappointed.

We were fishing out of the Port of Acludia (kind of like a classier, smaller, Cabo) and the boats were a 5 minute walk from our hotel.

Day one we chased BFT, drifting live bait around 200 ft down under a float.

After a couple of hours we got our first takedown which turned into a 20 minute fight and a 100 plus lb BFT.

An hour later, we did it again with and identical fish.

Maybe an hour after that we hooked a giant.

It smoked line off of the 80 wide and took off.  We were in 300 ft of water so it could only go down so far, so it ran, and ran, and ran, and ran.

We had 20 lbs of drag on the fish and it was all we could do to chase it down, averaging 4-6 knots for 3 hours.

4 of us tagged teamed it and slowly began to gain line while the fish dragged us over 10 miles in 3 hours.

After 3 hours it was time to get it in or break it off, so Chris (a giant) was tagged as the guy to put the wood to it and he almost got the leader to the rod tip for the first time when the line parted.

The 175 lb leader broke before we ever saw the fish, the captain, who has landed a 1,000 BFT said the fish was over 500 lbs, but who knows, as we were never able to turn it in 3 hours.

Day two was trolling and we went 3 for 4 on spearfish, a first for all of us.

I cannot say enough good things about Cpt Vince and his guys- they are the best I have ever fished with anywhere at any price, in the world, and dirt cheap at $1,600 a day.

The accommodations are great and the boat was a 5 minute walk from the hotel and there was plenty for our wives to do while we fished.

If you want the trip of a lifetime, reach out to Cpt Vince.

https://fishing-mallorca.net/

We are at it again tomorrow.

Mike C 



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