I dont know if others experience this but I seem to have a lot of smarty pants type people around me. I was supposed to go crabbing with my friend YT (pronounced whitee) on Sunday but I worked a little overtime so I didnt get the boat back in the water. We were going to [...] read more »
While we are planning some great Blackmouth fishing in December. We also are tying to get ready for off season projects to get the boat ready for Halibut in the spring and Tuna in the fall. Three Ladies is a 2530 Parker powered by a 7.4 liter Volvo duo-prop. She is a great offshore boat. [...] read more »
Hoping to go out to Ocean Shores to dig some Razor Clams on Friday. Assuming the weather cooperates. Thinking Ill go around through Shelton to avoid the traffic. Tide is -2 at about 6:30pm so were hoping to get out there around 5ish load up and come home. Ocean shores is open Friday but not [...] read more »
I almost missed it but winter crab opened today. The cool thing about winter crab is the shells are harder and they are packed full of yummy meat. Check out the map pages for where to fish and there is some good info on the wdfw website also. The season will be open 7 days [...] read more »
Readers meet MikeMike meet the readers. OK, now that the introductions are done let me tell you about my buddy mike. Mike came Tuna fishing with me this year. The first time we communicated about that he told me he could bring whatever gear I needed to fill the gaps in what I had. It [...] read more »
Its the end of October and that means some great fall fishing is coming to a close and with it goes the retention of wild kings and the ability to keep two Chinook. The good news is blackmouth season is upon us. My personal favorite Puget Sound fishery is blackmouth, or local kings, so I [...] read more »
Regular readers know this year I have focused on learning the Washington Coast Tuna fishery. I have learned a lot of lessons that I will use in the future but there was one lesson I was able to bring with me from years of winter blackmouth fishing that helped me out there. Often when fishing [...] read more »
I made my third Tuna trip Saturday. The first one we got three, two trolling and one on bait, but everyone was having to scratch for what they got. The second we were skunked and it was like fishing in the dessert. Turns out we missed them by about thirty miles. Between the second and [...] read more »
If your a regular reader you know this year I have been learning to fish Tuna. So I get on line to the great offshore guys on Bloodydecks.com and learn from people that have been doing it for a while. One of the things I learned was that because it has been a fairly small [...] read more »
I was out yesterday and caught a small humpy. The trick with humpies is to bleed them right away and put them on ice. Unfortunately I didnt have any ice so I cycled the water in my cooler a couple times and kept him alive till I could clean him at the dock. I [...] read more »
