Sculpin
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The whole point of our trip was to catch some albacore tuna on live bait. Mission was accomplished big time!!!
Coming into the port, and then realizing the boat wanted to bait up again for the next day was kinda cool to see.
The port has their own bait guy.
He has a Seine boat that he uses to catch the bait, then brings them back and puts them into pens at the dock. The gull's love it as well lol.
He splashes the water with the net at first then raises the net with a center rope. He can then reach them enough to scoop them up.
He then transfers them to the boats 12 scoop tank. A twelve scoop tank is huge. Most sport boats are 1-2 scoop at the most sharing between 4 guys etc. This big tank is over a scoop per person on board. Big advantage if they are in good shape. Near the end of the day for us, it was one in three that were worthy of a swim.
All in all the trip was totally worth it. The start of the trip was rough due to the red eye run, but once we were into blue water we woke up and things only got better from there.
We will never do the red eye run again. It is totally not worth it. We suggest going down the day before and staying in a hotel.
The charter company has deals on with a hotel down there. We stayed last night at the Heidi's Motel for 69 bucks for two double beds. Not bad. It was older but clean and we only needed to rest our heads. It would be so worth booking two nights and going down earlier. My vision was blurry from sleep deprivation in the morning when it got light out. 6 Bud lite tall boys helped a little to straighten that out during the day but it wasn't the same as a good nights sleep lol.
We went up the road to Long Beach and ate dinner at the Lost Roo restaurant. It was really good food and drinks. Highly recommend it.
Thanks again BV. It was a total blast and we now have experienced the live bait Albacore fishery out of Washington thanks to you. I will be doing it again for sure. It woke my eyes up to a lot of possibilities up here as well. I will be trying some different stuff out for sure. It was great getting to know you and awesome meeting your friends. Thank you for all the donation products for the Bamfield Shootout as well. I will be seeing you again on Friday to run you and Ken out to Bamfield. Take care my friend.
Here's to the next adventure.
Cheers,
John
Coming into the port, and then realizing the boat wanted to bait up again for the next day was kinda cool to see.
The port has their own bait guy.
He has a Seine boat that he uses to catch the bait, then brings them back and puts them into pens at the dock. The gull's love it as well lol.
He splashes the water with the net at first then raises the net with a center rope. He can then reach them enough to scoop them up.
He then transfers them to the boats 12 scoop tank. A twelve scoop tank is huge. Most sport boats are 1-2 scoop at the most sharing between 4 guys etc. This big tank is over a scoop per person on board. Big advantage if they are in good shape. Near the end of the day for us, it was one in three that were worthy of a swim.
All in all the trip was totally worth it. The start of the trip was rough due to the red eye run, but once we were into blue water we woke up and things only got better from there.
We will never do the red eye run again. It is totally not worth it. We suggest going down the day before and staying in a hotel.
The charter company has deals on with a hotel down there. We stayed last night at the Heidi's Motel for 69 bucks for two double beds. Not bad. It was older but clean and we only needed to rest our heads. It would be so worth booking two nights and going down earlier. My vision was blurry from sleep deprivation in the morning when it got light out. 6 Bud lite tall boys helped a little to straighten that out during the day but it wasn't the same as a good nights sleep lol.
We went up the road to Long Beach and ate dinner at the Lost Roo restaurant. It was really good food and drinks. Highly recommend it.
Thanks again BV. It was a total blast and we now have experienced the live bait Albacore fishery out of Washington thanks to you. I will be doing it again for sure. It woke my eyes up to a lot of possibilities up here as well. I will be trying some different stuff out for sure. It was great getting to know you and awesome meeting your friends. Thank you for all the donation products for the Bamfield Shootout as well. I will be seeing you again on Friday to run you and Ken out to Bamfield. Take care my friend.
Here's to the next adventure.
Cheers,
John
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Looks like something that needs to be tried by many of us and cost isn't much more than a couple day trip off our coast for many of us with our own boats; and none of the clean-up! LOL
