Just sat on the couch to relax finally. Not a bad day. Not the lights out wide open bites that reports were sending out earlier in the week but still what I would call solid scratch fishing.
Took my boat with my cousin and another good fishing friend on board, and buddy boated with @NorthPlainsDrifter who also had @Tuna Ball on board. Left port just before daylight. We ran out together and stayed in touch all day.
About halfway to our waypoint we ran in to a few acres of frenzied feeding mackerel so we hit the brakes and got our jigs out. Had a fun fifteen minutes or so there and caught a handful of a mix of jack mackerel (the relative of amberjacks and yellowtail) and pacific mackerel.
Started trolling at our waypoint NW of Garibaldi once we got out there and didn't have much to show for it for a bit. Picked up and ran another five miles or so and put em back out. Spotted jumpers and trolled over to slide in and cast jigs. Immediately doubled up and got both to the boat when a comedy of errors sent both on their way with a few scars to show for it.
The school showed itself again and we managed to snipe a few of them.
Finally got one on the troll shortly after that and pulled a few more on jigs. So had five fresh ones in the bleed barrel in pretty short order.
Spent the rest of the day sniping jumbo albacore whenever we'd see jumpers. We could not make the troll bite happen so just made use of our jigging skillz to get the ones who showed themselves. But man, they sure were boat shy. We'd slide in from far away and cast way out and they'd still spook. Thus is the game when you're dealing with the big donkeys.
Ended the day with 14 of them, and all but two were in that 20-30lb class. So really not a bad day even if we couldn't keep them coming over the rail steadily.
Took my boat with my cousin and another good fishing friend on board, and buddy boated with @NorthPlainsDrifter who also had @Tuna Ball on board. Left port just before daylight. We ran out together and stayed in touch all day.
About halfway to our waypoint we ran in to a few acres of frenzied feeding mackerel so we hit the brakes and got our jigs out. Had a fun fifteen minutes or so there and caught a handful of a mix of jack mackerel (the relative of amberjacks and yellowtail) and pacific mackerel.
Started trolling at our waypoint NW of Garibaldi once we got out there and didn't have much to show for it for a bit. Picked up and ran another five miles or so and put em back out. Spotted jumpers and trolled over to slide in and cast jigs. Immediately doubled up and got both to the boat when a comedy of errors sent both on their way with a few scars to show for it.
The school showed itself again and we managed to snipe a few of them.
Finally got one on the troll shortly after that and pulled a few more on jigs. So had five fresh ones in the bleed barrel in pretty short order.
Spent the rest of the day sniping jumbo albacore whenever we'd see jumpers. We could not make the troll bite happen so just made use of our jigging skillz to get the ones who showed themselves. But man, they sure were boat shy. We'd slide in from far away and cast way out and they'd still spook. Thus is the game when you're dealing with the big donkeys.
Ended the day with 14 of them, and all but two were in that 20-30lb class. So really not a bad day even if we couldn't keep them coming over the rail steadily.
