Reply With QuoteLove your drive Birds, I hope the gods give you a chance. I find the same, a liability forecast...better safe than sorry though...
It was a no go due to wind and chop. Its a game show trying to get out there when you can. It seems that the Canadian weather forecast will never forecast calm winds right before or when it is happening. They opt to call for 10 to 15 instead. I call it the liability forecast. It leaves one to guess. To many times I have got up on a morning I was considering going but did not because it was forecast to be 10 -15 kn, only to find that is like piss on a plate out there. The days are good and long now so a guy can leave at noon and still get 6 hours easy of tuna fishing. Lots of chances in the forecast this coming week.
Love your drive Birds, I hope the gods give you a chance. I find the same, a liability forecast...better safe than sorry though...
Originally Posted by Sculpin
Apparently FB is not as hardcore as I thought
Dude you made it out!!!!
Hey I started a 2012 tuna trip thread. Post a report there for us. I'm so damn jealous lol. Right on man. Congrats.
Cheers,
John
Originally Posted by Fishtofino
"If you're trying to go for tuna on the cheap you are just asking for trouble. The ocean is a mean bitch that wants to kill you. My 2 cents worth."
HOLY HELL that is an awesome photo.
x2 on jealous. for once, I'm near speechless!
Ok the season is almost over............almost he he.
I have some buddies over on the AAB forum from Cali and Hawaii and they are so stoked that we have been connecting here on WCVI and they are interested in sharing information etc. I told them some guy's have been going out for many years now. One of the guys has been fishing them for like 30 years now and posted up some good links about patterns, eating habit's, etc. (warning major reading). Good stuff for the winter reading and getting ready for next year IMO.
Here they are.
http://cce.lternet.edu/docs/bibliogr...118ccelter.pdf
This is a good one for understanding chloro.
http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/PFRP/rep..._zone_2001.pdf
Feather's are huge for albacore fishing.
http://www.histackleboxshop.com/Tuna...ers-s/2812.htm
Find the blue sharks and you will find the albacore. Interesting stuff for sure.
http://www.pices.int/publications/pr...S_Kiyofuji.pdf
Here is a good one for how game fish see UV colours etc.
http://albacoretuna.org/
More on colour and very interesting stuff.
http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/PFRP/new...an-Mar2004.pdf
Anyways that's lot's to read over the winter. I will post up more as they come in.
Since there is no tuna support group in my immediate area I thought we better keep talking about it on this forum. Hopefully all this talk will get more folks involved with this awesome fishery.
Cheers,
Sculpin
Originally Posted by Fishtofino
"If you're trying to go for tuna on the cheap you are just asking for trouble. The ocean is a mean bitch that wants to kill you. My 2 cents worth."
I am new to the forum but would like to take part in this fishery; spend alot of time in the bamfield area throughout the summer and have been contemplating making the run. It is good to see that people are starting to talk about this fishery and try to get others involved.
I had heard about the tuna slam on the Sept long week end but never found any info regarding how to get involved; we had a crew and boat but couldn't get the info we were looking for to take part; now I know where to look, we will be in foresure next year and we are looking forward to see the upcoming info about this fishery!
Thanks Sculpin for posting the info you have and made it available for those of us that are interested in learning more; keep it coming for the new guys!
Tidal Chaos
Tidal Chaos,
The Tuna Shootout this year was the inaugural year, the first of hopefully many. It was a small group organizing the event and I think they were a little overwhelmed with the response. Hype started 2 seasons ago but weather put a stop to the show. I think next year will be that much better. I hope those involved in organizing get on planning a little sooner and try to make it something we are all talking about. There is definitely room for improvement, but I think that goes with any event like this in its junior years, especially with the challenges involved in Tuna fishing.
A little marketing and organization of this event will go a long, long way.
I agree.
I was talking with a guy that was fishing the Sept long with Tuna Don and he had mentioned the shootout; we talked to some friends of ours that own the lodge next to TD the week before the shootout but they hadn't heard any more from anyone other than that there were boats going; but nothing more and with limited info we pulled the plug. It would be great to discuss this earlier in the year and get a concensus of how many boats would tentitively be interested in networking throughout the summer on who is planning a trip and such to get people together; not only for the fishing but the safety aspect of multiple boats heading out and looking for the fish. There has been alot of people talking about it the last few years and it seems there are alot of people who want to do it; but no one wants to do the run on there own with limited info. When we talk about doing it; we have enough people interested; but they all want to go out with someone that has done it and been there; it is a big ocean and if you don't know where you are going or the right way of doing things; it makes for an expensive and bad trip; to keep people interested I think and get more interested it would be best to network and plan; it would help with the rest of the organizing and maybe get a key group together that has the resources and know how to turn this into a larger event. Just my thought.
I will be staying tuned to see what materializes over the winter on this topic as I am rigged and ready for next season; now I just need to learn what I need to do to be successful and pass on the info to fellow fisher people!
If you haven't done so already, have a read through the "2012 TUNA TRIPS" thread on this forum. That thread deals with most of what you are talking about. I may be a little off base but judging from dock talk I would guess that the magority of private, sportfishing tuna trips originating on the west coast of the island were organized and then reported about on that thread. There's 80 or so pages of great info on the fishery in that thread and enough fishing porn keep people interested. You are right that networking is key and this public forum is the place to network.
Read through that thread and maybe the "Bamfield Tuna Shootout" thread. Great place to get an idea of who, what, when and where.
Cheers,
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