Tuna fishing report

[Whitenuckles]

Saturday we headed out of Westport at about 5:00. We took a heading WSW and pretty much stayed on that heading looking for warm water for about 90 miles. The boat ride there was soooo nice! But coming back it got a little chopped up. Over all it was a great day. We got 13 hook ups and landed 10.

[ribka]

NIIIICE. Going out next month. Hope weather and conditions cooperate

[bowhunterforever]

Is that a good day or slow fishing for tuna?

[buckhorn2]

It will get better a little later when they start using live bait. We always take a frozen box of anchovies and toss them out when hooked up it helps keep the fish with the boat.

[carpsniperg2]

looks like some nice fish right there

[Whitenuckles]

Is that a good day or slow fishing for tuna?

Its OK. Anything is better than nothing. On a good day, you cant keep them off your line.

[TONTO]

 Any day TUNA die is a good day but  a great day is only limited by how much ice/fish you can carry
We headed out of Ilwaco saturday was real slow for us, picked up three TUNA on the troll just couldn't get them to come up for live bait and got swarmed by blue shark on every stop. Blues have always been a problem on a bait stop, but I have never seen sharks as bad as they have been this year so far. Oh but even though it was a 3 TUNA day I did manage to salvage some dignity with an OPAH first and probably the last one I ever see but damn them things are tasty.

[1bugman]

that maybe one of the weirdest fish I have ever seen.

[BLKBEARKLR]

I want to fricken mount that thing, it is by far one of the wierdest fish I have seen

[1bugman]

That would be cool!

[TONTO]

I want to fricken mount that thing, it is by far one of the wierdest fish I have seen

 Would love to have a mount some day, I took a few pcs , but in the moment I failed to get any measurments, and all my pics turned out to be of the same side I have this pic, one of it fresh on the deck, but the glare is hiding alot of the color, and a couple dead pics at the cleaning station, would these be enough to go off of for a decent mount?

[BLKBEARKLR]

it would be plenty


Joe

[TeacherMan]

Thats along run! What kind of boat/size

[BLKBEARKLR]

Still amazed with this thing


Opah (also known colloquially as moonfish, sunfish, kingfish, redfin ocean pan, and Jerusalem haddock) are large, colorful, deep-bodied pelagic Lampriform fish comprising the small family Lampridae (also spelled Lamprididae). There are only two living species in a single genus: Lampris (from the Greek lamprid-, "brilliant" or "clear"). One species is found in tropical to temperate waters of most oceans, while the other is limited to a circumglobal distribution in the Southern Ocean, with the 34th parallel as its northern limit. Two additional species, one in the genus Lampris and the other in the monotypic Megalampris, are only known from fossil remains. The extinct family, Turkmenidae, from the Paleogene of Central Asia, is closely related, though much smaller.

Opah are rarely caught by recreational anglers. They are prized trophies for deep-water anglers as their large size and attractive form lend themselves well to taxidermy. Opah are frequently caught as bycatch in many longline tuna fisheries. Opah is becoming increasingly popular in seafood markets. It first became popular as a sushi and sashimi in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The meat is lightly flavored and lends itself well to a variety of preparations, principally saute. Opah flesh has a light pink to orange color, but turns white when cooked. It is popular in Hawaii, especially in restaurants. An average of 35 percent of an opah's weight is consumable, with the remaining 65% being bone and thick skin

[Michelle_Nelson]

   I want to can some of those.

[520backyard]

90 miles is a long ways to get to the blue. We usually wait til about end Aug or the beggining of Sep when the current swings in closer. Hell a while back it was what 12 miles outa La push and the tuna were on the bite.