Birdsnest
Well-Known Member
I've got'em 25 miles off tofino but back in the day, my first few years of tuna fishing, we would run out to 25 miles and start trolling out further. It took a few years but we finally noticed a pattern of not getting fish until around 2 hours of trolling when we were another 12 miles out from the inside tip of the clayoquat canyon. This was also before I used terafin. I have seen jumpers 20 miles off as well which is up around 4- 5 hundred feet of water well up on the shelf.
Nowadays we look at charts and drive to good water, THEN start fishing, and we are having much more success. Catching them is easy if they will bite. Finding them can be the challenge.
The boats out of tofino fished the same 6 or 7 square miles, 32-40 miles off all year except on for my first successful trip I was 50 miles off.
Nowadays we look at charts and drive to good water, THEN start fishing, and we are having much more success. Catching them is easy if they will bite. Finding them can be the challenge.
The boats out of tofino fished the same 6 or 7 square miles, 32-40 miles off all year except on for my first successful trip I was 50 miles off.