We were a little worried that water had turned over during the wind event, so we headed around 30 miles NW where it still looked blue.


Cpt Craiger stopped short when he saw some birds and we ended up on a 1.8 mile 1.3 hour bait stop, out of ice and out of room.


What a year.


Mike C

Fishing is insane right now and getting better.

The boys killed it and got 39.

I did a 1.5 day on Legendz and my buddies set a new boat record with 205 tuna and we lost a nice marlin.

WOW.

​Mike C

More amazing fishing.

We plugged the boat and were done early.

Most fish came 19 miles straight out and a buddy caught 2 tuna 14 miles from the bar.

What a year.

​Mike C

Fishing is still amazing.

A crew of 4 managed 40 plus tuna.

What a year.

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Craig, Darrell, and crew killed it today.

A very good grade of tuna.

Fishing is still awesome and only getting better over the next 12 weeks (it is going to be along season) or so.

Wow.

Mike C

Craig and Darell ran back to the honey hole and it was game on.

For maybe the first time ever, 6 troll rods went off at once.

The crazy thing is that the main body of tuna is still 140 miles west and hopefully headed our way.

What an amazing year.

​Mike C

Darrell and Craig got it done.

They had an hour long bait stop and got 21 fish and plugged the boat with 41 a little bit later.

What an amazing year.

​Mike C

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