2018 Tuna Adventures

Great fishing with you guys After Hours! We will stay in touch for next year! One thing to notice, that bigger fish came on the edge of the clean water. We have seen this several other times.
 
After Hours IV said:
Just returned home from a weeks fishing trip for all species! We held our own, and got our Hali’s, lings, Coho, and springs. Not to mention,octopus! Best ever when smoked.

I had been in touch with Jim ( The Bevrle)and we were trying to put a day aside to target Tuna, he said he had two other boats that wanted to join as well, and weather was looking up for Wednesday. I talked to Oli, and he couldn’t swing it that day as he was in the process of winterising the resort. We headed off the dock around noon out to fuel up, and saw a commercial boat offloading tuna, so we pulled in and talked to them. They had blown a head in port engine and had to get back to Victoria. He shared some coordinates with us that he got from a buddy of his, and we were off to fuel. (This is Tuesday) we headed out to top Knot, got our salmon, and a couple Hali’s! 5 pm headed in to fish cliff for the low slack. As we came through the Gap, I heard someone calling for After Hours, I replied, and it was (Hook Up) Bob Talbert! He was anchored up in behind Cain’s. I spun around and pulled up beside him and discussed the next mornings plans.

All boats meeting at 4 am in behind Cain’s. so we did cliff for an hour, with one more Coho in the boat, and headed in to ice up, and top up with petro, and process the days catch.

Alarm goes off 2:45, off Oli’s dock by 3:15 anticipation at its highest levels! We traveled to Cain’s alone at 6.5 Nmiles and arrived at Hook Up’s location behind the Light at 4am sharp. Also arriving was Bevrle, and Green Machine! Oli had talked to one of his commie buddy’s, and gave us coordinates as well, and seemed to be on the same line as the other tuna boat had given me. 148 degrees for 67 miles! We took a terrifin shot, and got under way. We traveled at around 7 knots for the first 2.5 hours till we had adequate light to get up and go, cruised at 20 knots for the next hour, till the 4 foot swell tightened up, and slowed to 16knots to save all our bodies! Finally started to hit the edge by 7:30, and on top of it by 8:15. Bob said he was going to stop there and drop lines, so green machine and The Bevrle stopped as well. The water temp was 61 degrees there, so we decided to go another mile or so till we hit 62! There were 2 commie boats fishing there as well, and we had crossed over some white sides dolphins, and a sunfish, but not many birds showing. Bob came across the radio and asked that whenever we hooked into a tuna, get on the radio and say HOOK UP so we all knew what was going on. Well........ not 5 minutes after those boys stopped we hear Bevrle holler HOOK UP! So we idled down and threw out the gear! We set up as usual, 3 guys on the boat, 4 rods with splashers, two divers, and a straight off the stern with a rapalla! Moments later, Bob is radioing HOOK UP! We were so excited and ready for action........ but nothing! The seas flattened right out, and was like glass! We could see 2 or 3 sharks finning at any one time up to 200 yards away! Green Machine comes on HOOK UP! And we carry on trolling along as Sculpin and Smiley showed us on our first couple adventures, but not a sniff! Then we hear HOOK UP again, and then DOUBLE! We still have a ton of hope as we have been fortunate enough to never skunk yet! 5 hours go by, and all our buddy boats have HOOKED UP more than once, and some doubles and triples! I watched what they were doing as we went by each other, and we were all doing the same speed, and I noticed that no one was splashing! Bob had one splashers our! And the rest were naked, and Rapallas! I asked Jim on The Bevrle after they hit another double, if they were splashing..... notta! Watching the commies... all splashing, and not a fish coming over the boards! Within 2 minutes all our splashers were off, and just running American and Mexican flags on the top! It’s now 1:30, and we only have 2 hours left. 4 minutes later...... WE ARE ON! ........ DOUBLE! Now everyone wakes up! We are seeing bait patches everywhere, and buddy boats are HOOKING UP as well. We land our first two! ( so excited) 5 minutes go by, I turned and went back across that same tack, and WE ARE ON again...DOUBLE....TRIPLE! Gong show to say the least! All landed. Then a single, and went 15 mins with nothing. Bob came on the radio.. HOOK UP, we turned to the same tack, and WE ARE ON!...... DOUBLE.....TRIPLE...... QUAD! Now what??? Three on board! 20 minutes later we had all 4 in the boat! Craziest blood bath I have ever seen! Bevrle comes on saying HOOK UP, we turn and nothing, start racking towards WH with BOB, and he is on the radio.... HOOK UP! Green Machine and The Bevrle made the decision to pack it in and head for land as fuel was getting scetchy! Bob Talbert and I decided to go another half hour before rolling! 5 min later...... we hear HOOK UP! .... Bob is on, then DOUBLE! We go another 5 min... WE ARE ON! ...... DOUBLE....... TRIPLE ! Unreal, we are all fighting fish, and watching the fourth rod! Lol but had to idle down to stop the line peeling.

We gave the 10 min warning, and 5 min later WEWERE ON ! One last single to end the day, 30 lbs! Biggest fish of the day for our boat. All the rest were cookie cutters around 20 lbs.

Up and rolling on flat glassy calm seas, cruised in doing 30 mph, home in 2 hours! Absolutely the best day we have ever experienced tuna fishing, and if we started the day not using splashers, we probably would have been out of ice, and room to put them all.

We ended up with 15 in 2 hours, as I can figure, out 4 boats combined boated 36.

A huge hats off to Bob ( HOOK UP) for heading this trip off, he is a very calm and genuine guy with a ton of knowledge! Don ( GREEN MACHINE) and Jim (THE BEVRLE) you guys were all top notch to travel and fish with. What a team! Thanks for all your help, and intel!

Looking forward to the next 6 weeks..... let’s get a group together out of Tofino or Ukee.

Tight lines!
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This was my first trip that we caught tuna. It was unreal experience that I cant wait to get back to repeat(if possible even). Thanks to Bob, Don and After hours for sharing info and helping out us flatlands to get onto tuna and what to do once they were hooked.
Great write up on trip After hours, was exactly what happened. Next season cant come fast enough. Be safe out there.
Jim (Beverle)
 
After Hours IV said:
Just returned home from a weeks fishing trip for all species! We held our own, and got our Hali’s, lings, Coho, and springs. Not to mention,octopus! Best ever when smoked.

I had been in touch with Jim ( The Bevrle)and we were trying to put a day aside to target Tuna, he said he had two other boats that wanted to join as well, and weather was looking up for Wednesday. I talked to Oli, and he couldn’t swing it that day as he was in the process of winterising the resort. We headed off the dock around noon out to fuel up, and saw a commercial boat offloading tuna, so we pulled in and talked to them. They had blown a head in port engine and had to get back to Victoria. He shared some coordinates with us that he got from a buddy of his, and we were off to fuel. (This is Tuesday) we headed out to top Knot, got our salmon, and a couple Hali’s! 5 pm headed in to fish cliff for the low slack. As we came through the Gap, I heard someone calling for After Hours, I replied, and it was (Hook Up) Bob Talbert! He was anchored up in behind Cain’s. I spun around and pulled up beside him and discussed the next mornings plans.

All boats meeting at 4 am in behind Cain’s. so we did cliff for an hour, with one more Coho in the boat, and headed in to ice up, and top up with petro, and process the days catch.

Alarm goes off 2:45, off Oli’s dock by 3:15 anticipation at its highest levels! We traveled to Cain’s alone at 6.5 Nmiles and arrived at Hook Up’s location behind the Light at 4am sharp. Also arriving was Bevrle, and Green Machine! Oli had talked to one of his commie buddy’s, and gave us coordinates as well, and seemed to be on the same line as the other tuna boat had given me. 148 degrees for 67 miles! We took a terrifin shot, and got under way. We traveled at around 7 knots for the first 2.5 hours till we had adequate light to get up and go, cruised at 20 knots for the next hour, till the 4 foot swell tightened up, and slowed to 16knots to save all our bodies! Finally started to hit the edge by 7:30, and on top of it by 8:15. Bob said he was going to stop there and drop lines, so green machine and The Bevrle stopped as well. The water temp was 61 degrees there, so we decided to go another mile or so till we hit 62! There were 2 commie boats fishing there as well, and we had crossed over some white sides dolphins, and a sunfish, but not many birds showing. Bob came across the radio and asked that whenever we hooked into a tuna, get on the radio and say HOOK UP so we all knew what was going on. Well........ not 5 minutes after those boys stopped we hear Bevrle holler HOOK UP! So we idled down and threw out the gear! We set up as usual, 3 guys on the boat, 4 rods with splashers, two divers, and a straight off the stern with a rapalla! Moments later, Bob is radioing HOOK UP! We were so excited and ready for action........ but nothing! The seas flattened right out, and was like glass! We could see 2 or 3 sharks finning at any one time up to 200 yards away! Green Machine comes on HOOK UP! And we carry on trolling along as Sculpin and Smiley showed us on our first couple adventures, but not a sniff! Then we hear HOOK UP again, and then DOUBLE! We still have a ton of hope as we have been fortunate enough to never skunk yet! 5 hours go by, and all our buddy boats have HOOKED UP more than once, and some doubles and triples! I watched what they were doing as we went by each other, and we were all doing the same speed, and I noticed that no one was splashing! Bob had one splashers our! And the rest were naked, and Rapallas! I asked Jim on The Bevrle after they hit another double, if they were splashing..... notta! Watching the commies... all splashing, and not a fish coming over the boards! Within 2 minutes all our splashers were off, and just running American and Mexican flags on the top! It’s now 1:30, and we only have 2 hours left. 4 minutes later...... WE ARE ON! ........ DOUBLE! Now everyone wakes up! We are seeing bait patches everywhere, and buddy boats are HOOKING UP as well. We land our first two! ( so excited) 5 minutes go by, I turned and went back across that same tack, and WE ARE ON again...DOUBLE....TRIPLE! Gong show to say the least! All landed. Then a single, and went 15 mins with nothing. Bob came on the radio.. HOOK UP, we turned to the same tack, and WE ARE ON!...... DOUBLE.....TRIPLE...... QUAD! Now what??? Three on board! 20 minutes later we had all 4 in the boat! Craziest blood bath I have ever seen! Bevrle comes on saying HOOK UP, we turn and nothing, start racking towards WH with BOB, and he is on the radio.... HOOK UP! Green Machine and The Bevrle made the decision to pack it in and head for land as fuel was getting scetchy! Bob Talbert and I decided to go another half hour before rolling! 5 min later...... we hear HOOK UP! .... Bob is on, then DOUBLE! We go another 5 min... WE ARE ON! ...... DOUBLE....... TRIPLE ! Unreal, we are all fighting fish, and watching the fourth rod! Lol but had to idle down to stop the line peeling.

We gave the 10 min warning, and 5 min later WEWERE ON ! One last single to end the day, 30 lbs! Biggest fish of the day for our boat. All the rest were cookie cutters around 20 lbs.

Up and rolling on flat glassy calm seas, cruised in doing 30 mph, home in 2 hours! Absolutely the best day we have ever experienced tuna fishing, and if we started the day not using splashers, we probably would have been out of ice, and room to put them all.

We ended up with 15 in 2 hours, as I can figure, out 4 boats combined boated 36.

A huge hats off to Bob ( HOOK UP) for heading this trip off, he is a very calm and genuine guy with a ton of knowledge! Don ( GREEN MACHINE) and Jim (THE BEVRLE) you guys were all top notch to travel and fish with. What a team! Thanks for all your help, and intel!

Looking forward to the next 6 weeks..... let’s get a group together out of Tofino or Ukee.

Tight lines!
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Great write up, good to hear you get in to tuna and did not get skunked as first trip of the year.
Hopefully you could repeat it again. Good to see blood on your boat.
 
Bob Talbert said:
We are going out Thursday, I had the boat out already but back in now. They may be close.If anyone wants to take their boat we're leaving Port Alice at 6;30.
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Great to hear Bob, we are making the run back down for a Saturday shot with WhyKnot, looks like water is really close, and weather is holding at this point. Will be in WH Friday eve before dark! The more the merrier!! Let get em gentleman!

Looking forward to your intel from your Thursday adventure Bob. Please report back! Hopefully you can join us Saturday! I will be fishing with Thomas on SMILEY
 
Did a quick trip Weds, out of Quatsino. We spent Tuesday night sleeping on the boat just north of Brooks, to get an early start for Weds a.m. The lines were in the water early 20kms off the end of Brooks, started at 58.5 degrees. Fish on in under two minutes, as the Xrap went off. That one was 29.3lbs after bleeding! My biggest.

We figured we would fill the boat, buuuuuut, by the end of the day, only 2 hits and 2 fish in the box. The maximum temp we couldfind was 59.2 We saw one jumper all day. Fish were feeding on 1.5inch silver bait. Both fish hit the same rapala.

The westerly blew (wasn't supposed to) 20+ so it was a bumpy ride in. HAPPY to connect, but wondering where the fish went.

Thanks for the info Bob T! Hope you got some today, and good luck this weekend guys. Please post your results. Back out next week!
 
crab bait said:
Did a quick trip Weds, out of Quatsino. We spent Tuesday night sleeping on the boat just north of Brooks, to get an early start for Weds a.m. The lines were in the water early 20kms off the end of Brooks, started at 58.5 degrees. Fish on in under two minutes, as the Xrap went off. That one was 29.3lbs after bleeding! My biggest.

We figured we would fill the boat, buuuuuut, by the end of the day, only 2 hits and 2 fish in the box. The maximum temp we couldfind was 59.2 We saw one jumper all day. Fish were feeding on 1.5inch silver bait. Both fish hit the same rapala.

The westerly blew (wasn't supposed to) 20+ so it was a bumpy ride in. HAPPY to connect, but wondering where the fish went.

Thanks for the info Bob T! Hope you got some today, and good luck this weekend guys. Please post your results. Back out next week!
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Thanks for the report Crab Bait! You got one of the big ones on the hard edge! How far out did you end up? Looks like the water is warm out there, but not as hard of an edge now. Might have to go further again. Not getting any good terrifin shots lately. We will try and find the 61+ water on Saturday.

Will report back when back in service.
 
Bob Talbert said:
We just got back, 8 fish for us,9 for the other boat with us, 5 fish at 30-32 lbs. on the scale. 28 miles from Kaines southwest.Not a lot of action but good grade of fish. Back at it Sat.
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Awesome Bob!! Well done. See you Saturday!! Planning 5:30 meeting at Cain’s. and all other boats welcome to join and convoy.
 
crab bait said:
Did a quick trip Weds, out of Quatsino. We spent Tuesday night sleeping on the boat just north of Brooks, to get an early start for Weds a.m. The lines were in the water early 20kms off the end of Brooks, started at 58.5 degrees. Fish on in under two minutes, as the Xrap went off. That one was 29.3lbs after bleeding! My biggest.

We figured we would fill the boat, buuuuuut, by the end of the day, only 2 hits and 2 fish in the box. The maximum temp we couldfind was 59.2 We saw one jumper all day. Fish were feeding on 1.5inch silver bait. Both fish hit the same rapala.

The westerly blew (wasn't supposed to) 20+ so it was a bumpy ride in. HAPPY to connect, but wondering where the fish went.

Thanks for the info Bob T! Hope you got some today, and good luck this weekend guys. Please post your results. Back out next week!
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That's how tuna fishing is! There one day....30 miles away the next
 
BoB ... What time did you leave P.A yesterday .....We will be at your ramp early Saturday morning... sound like a good day fish and the weather all the stars line up.......
Hope the same for Saturday..... my cell is 250 230 4957 I will be at the Dryland today working..
Ray
 
After Hours IV said:
Awesome Bob!! Well done. See you Saturday!! Planning 5:30 meeting at Cain’s. and all other boats welcome to join and convoy.
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Man if I didn't have a knife show this weekend I might have had to fly out and jump on board one of the boats going out. Be safe guys and look forward to the reports.
 
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