Good crew, good fishing, lousy ocean.

8/17/2018

We ran back to yesterday's hot spot and it was dead- no birds and no bait balls on the sonar.

We trolled west for around and hour with zero results, until a troll rod went off and then it went WFO.

Every rod was hooked up and we had them going for awhile.

We lost a few and the school went down.

We got them going again and were halfway plugged and figured it was a done deal.

Then it slowed down a bit.

Then it completely died.

We ended up 2/3rds plugged, including 4-5 BIG fish.

We are sitting out the wind until next week.

Captain Mike

2 Comments

uncle Dave

8/18/2018 09:55:53 pm

It looks like pretty light winds are in the forecast for
Sunday 8/19 per
https://www.windfinder.com/weatherforecast/astoria_canyon_buoy
this site. Do you have a different forecast?

michael colbach

8/18/2018 10:22:18 pm

Uncle Dave,

6 feet at 6 seconds and 20 knots of wind is not much fun in a 40,000 lb boat, I hope your boat is a bit bigger.

Check out the real time data on the 89 buoy if you want to know what it is like on the tuna grounds at the 125.30 line.

The ocean is pretty nice at the Canyon buoy, but the next 40 miles have been brutal.

The only fish you will find at the Canyon buoy are mackerel, you have to run another 40 miles if you want to catch tuna.

Captain Mike

Good crew, good fishing, lousy ocean.

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