My group (of 12, with three boats) will be up again. We come for the fun and the chance to get away from the usual down here. The exchange rate doesn't influence our decision but it makes it nicer when we feel like we can spend more. Should make it for good for those places where we spend! It seems a bit crooked to spend thousands of dollars (CA or US) to travel many hours, to catch our own hatchery fish...but we love it and will keep doing it. BTW, you'll know it's me by the kids on the tubes off the back while we troll....
Probably not. I'd love to get up that way but this year the plan is to move the boat down to Westport on Sept 1. and leave it there for Sept/Oct. (and maybe even Nov). The tuna are in about 20 miles closer down at Westport and it's 3.5 hour trip from home (as opposed to 4.5 hours to Neah Bay). So once we've had our fill of salmon and bottom fish, it makes more sense for me to to target tuna out of Westport. Plus, I haven't done Westport for tuna so that will be a nice change of pace. Maybe I can find time to take the car across to at least participate in the drinking part.Seadna are you coming for tuna shootout this year.
The exchange rate means little, but the ferry rates to the island went crazy so I stopped coming.
At about the same time I started fishing for tuna off the Oregon Coast and did little salmon.
Now that I have a larger Grady coming to me I may explore where to drop in and cross over. The exchange rate will have little to do with my planning.
I don't want to deter anyone from coming but a gallon of gas is costing us $5.72 per gallon right now and it's supposed to go up. Frickin oil companies are so greedy in Canada and the US. My recent trip to LA saw prices vary from 4.29 to 3.65 but not near 5 bucks a gallon.