Team Tom
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It’s been a six years since I made the trip from Washington to Ucluelet with my own boat. For over twelve years I moored my boat in Ucluelet for the months of July and August, but with family demands and the lack of favorable fishing buddies my trips ended. Since then I have fished one yearly trip from a coworker’s boat. He owns a cabin in the area. However his style of fishing is getting on the water around 9 am, fishing the same depth at the same bank each day pulling the same color hoochie year after year. He will not deviate from this pattern no matter how slow the fishing may be. Don’t get me wrong, he catches his fair share of fish, but I defiantly take a different approach to fishing.
Now that the kids are older it is time to start my trips back up. This summer, my first trip to Ukee will be after fishing the Washington tuna classic. If any of you guys are willing to make the trip down to Westport Washington in the month of September and October I will make room for you on my boat. Catching a thirty five pound Albacore tuna on live bait is truly mind blowing.
Since my buddy fishes second shift LOL! I never really got the chance to pop by the docks and keep up with the friendships I built over the years and get into the details on what was catching fish. I'm starting to prepare and educate myself for my August trips. I'm assuming the lack of pilchards has driven a change away from larger plugs and spoons offshore? My arsenal is pretty limited based on what was working years ago. I have large assortment of 7” plugs and spoons, anchovy helmets, a number of kettle fish in glow with green spots and army truck. I know this gear was lights out years ago, but will it work today? What basics I’m I missing to be successful for the summer of 2016?
Thanks in advance.
Tom
PS Ive been a looker on this site for many years
Now that the kids are older it is time to start my trips back up. This summer, my first trip to Ukee will be after fishing the Washington tuna classic. If any of you guys are willing to make the trip down to Westport Washington in the month of September and October I will make room for you on my boat. Catching a thirty five pound Albacore tuna on live bait is truly mind blowing.
Since my buddy fishes second shift LOL! I never really got the chance to pop by the docks and keep up with the friendships I built over the years and get into the details on what was catching fish. I'm starting to prepare and educate myself for my August trips. I'm assuming the lack of pilchards has driven a change away from larger plugs and spoons offshore? My arsenal is pretty limited based on what was working years ago. I have large assortment of 7” plugs and spoons, anchovy helmets, a number of kettle fish in glow with green spots and army truck. I know this gear was lights out years ago, but will it work today? What basics I’m I missing to be successful for the summer of 2016?
Thanks in advance.
Tom
PS Ive been a looker on this site for many years
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