Wesport Tuna

We had a five man crew at Westport September 14^th & 15^th.
The overall weather and water conditions were very good flat water and very little wind.
We did have a lightning storm  pass by  us Sunday witch  give us a few moments of concern when our vhf antennas started to crackle and hum, not sure what that meant but I decided  it would be a good idea to turn off all our electronics for a while until the storm passed.
The overall fishing was very good this weekend we caught a total of 104 tuna
On Saturday we caught 47. The fishing started out very good but did not last long, by 11am the bite died.  We picked up a fish or two here and there the rest of the day but could not get anything steady going.
On Sunday the fishing also started out quickly and just when it seemed like they were going to go dead  the bite came back on.  We had good steady action till around 2:30 then the bite dropped off. We ended the day with 57 Albacore
We caught most of our fish  on live bait by hitting bird patches and converting on troll fish. Our best troll action was on x raps. we also caught a few while working irons on our bait stops.



121 Albacore at Westport

We had a five man crew at Westport this weekend

The overall weather and water condition were very good.
On Saturday things started off very slow, no fish for the first two hours but as the day went on things really picked up  
The mid-day bite was very good we were able to land 46 tuna on a combination of troll gear and bait before the bite died again in the evening.

Sunday we had two first time tuna anglers on the boat and they picked the right day to start!

The fishing was smoking hot and stayed that way all day, we hit a bird patch  on the way out and put 35 fish on the boat on our very first stop! We drifting over 2 miles on that stop and spent the rest of the day trying to troll back to our start point. The fishing was so good that we did not make it back to our start point till it was time for us to head in to beat the ebb. We left a wide open bite  at 4pm to end our day with 75 fish in the box
( I will probably be having night mares about that for the rest of my life!)

 The fish were biting both the live bait and the troll very, very well, the troll bite was so good that at one point we hooked  up all five of our troll rods at the same time

Live bait, x raps and cedar plugs were all working very well this weekend.

 

 



 

Wide open Labor day tuna at Westport

We saw a little bit of everything this weekend!
On Saturday the conditions were perfect nice flat water and no wind lots of birds and we were marking bait and fish everywhere but the overall fishing was very slow. The fishing started off good  on both the  troll  and bait  but quickly died. By mid-morning it was dead and stayed slow for us most of the day. we slowly pick up a fish here and there on the troll and a few on bait and finished the day with a very respectable 24 tuna considering how poor the bite was. The water was flat calm and we did not see any jumpers all day

 Sunday  we headed back to the  same area, there were lots of birds and bait and we were marking tuna everywhere but we had a hard time getting  them to hit. The water was flat calm again and we did not see any jumpers all day! The morning  bite was dead, mid-morning  we started picking up a few here and there and around 2 pm they really went on the  bite. They were hitting our troll rods and bait very well for a couple hours before the bite died  around 4pm. We ended the day with 30 tuna

 On Monday we went back to the same  area for the third day, after a nice ride out the wind  picked up quickly and the weather got pretty nasty, But the fishing was awesome!  The bite was wide open most  of the day. The fish were biting very well on both the troll and the live bait. Our best troll results were on x raps, cedar plugs, and swim baits. The birds and sharks were a big problem on the  live bait but we were able to add more weight to our lines to reduce most of our problems.

By mid-day  our bait died and the wind and  waves were making it difficult to troll but the fish did not mind one bit they just kept on biting! It was difficult to see out of the windows  due to the waves but I could see some birds just ahead of us and then I noticed a huge school of tuna! they were so thick and tightly packed that I could see about 100 of them out of the water at one time ( it looked like salmon packed into a hatchery pen) we only had one rod out at this point so we throw out whatever we could as fast as we could and all four rods  hooked up.

We finished the day with an amazing 72 tuna.