CR Tuna & Salmon

I fished with Team defiance on Friday  8-24-12 for the OTC . We left from ilwaco and it didn’t take us long to find the fish we caught 68 tuna. most were on live bait but we also caught a few on the troll. The overall fishing was very good but due to a motor issue we were unable to make the weigh in.

On Sunday Dave B and I joined Pat D on the Columbia for some salmon fishing out of Chinook the overall fishing was a bit on the slow side but we kept at it and were able to find a few  nice fish.



  

Westport Tuna 8-11-12

We had a five man crew at Westport this weekend 8-11-12  &  8-12-12

I was joined by  Ed T,  Cory B,  Brian S and Jacob B

Although the bar conditions were excellent and there was only a  small swell The overall weather conditions were poor due to strong winds and 5 feet of chop.

Despite the poor water conditions the tuna fishing was great. we caught 42 tuna on Saturday. We landed  about half of our fish on the troll and the other half on live bait.

The fish seemed very aggressive on both the troll and live bait

I have no doubt that if weather conditions would have been better we would have had some epic bait stops!

On Sunday we  switched gears and went after salmon . The salmon fishing was very poor on Sunday we managed to scrap up a few but overall it was some of the worst salmon fishing I had seen at Westport.There were a few nice kings being caught in 15 to 40 feet of water both north and south along the beach  and a few silvers out in 260+ feet of water but there did not seem to be any huge concentrations of salmon anywhere near Westport.  After starting the morning fishing the beach we searched all over off shore  on Sunday but were not able to find any of the large schools of bait we were looking for.



Sullivan Lake August 3, 2012

I spent the weekend at my family reunion  in Pierz Minnesota, I did manage to get a few hours of fishing in at nearby Sullivan lake.

We caught a mix of northern pike and sunfish. We had our best results on Northerns throwing spinner baits, but we also caught a few on leeches and night crawlers.

The overall weather conditions were good 80’s and sunny with  a few cloud patches. The winds were  calm  most of  the morning with about a 10kt breeze at times.

There was a noticeable amount of dead loss in the lake form the resent heat in the days before but the overall fishing seemed to be pretty good.