Tidal Chaos
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Any one heading out this weekend? We will be in Bamfield at the Beam and will be making the run as long as the weather holds.
I sure hope the North Island folks are getting out there for tuners . Conditions look really good up there right now .
I would include in your seminar a portion about caring for your catch. Looks like those fish never saw much ice due to the blue color they've maintained in the photos. I've done this myself and the result is soft/ mushy loins. Bleeding and cooling is fairly important part of this fishery.
Catch it, bleed it, (head and guts out/off), leave in ice slush for 45 mins, then pack in ice= premium product.
Not trying to be a dick I just think it's important and blue coloured tuna at the dock means they never saw much ice. They are NOT like salmon.
A little tip that the veterans down south give out is to leave them on salt ice (drained of course) for 2 days before loining. You will get a firmer loin before vacuum sealing. We did this last year and I have to agree that it is a better product than doing it the same day or the next day.
Sculpin,
The Hardy Buoys are planning on heading out off of Brooks tomorrow for a few days. Need to get the boat derby ready for our trip south. Rumour has it they are in quite close, 16-20 mile range, jumpers everywhere. Had some locals from Hardy out the last few days, warm water was in close. They did not hook up as much as they would have liked but the water and fish were there.
Will report back in a few days.
We got out to Barclay canyon on friday..passed thru several temp breaks before finding tuna. Got a couple singles about 51 miles out in 59 degree water but no more.. went another 10 and water was 62.5 - 62.8 and much closer to blue..still a bit greeny.We all had multiples several times from 2pm until 430.. green n yellow clones, swimbaits in anchovy color and bunker xraps all caught fish.
final count was 17, 15 and 13 for our three boats...