Salmon... From start to finish

TunaHead

TunaHead

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First Salmon trip out of Northern CA today. (My buddy's boat, not the V). We fought the fur bags... ummm I mean the sealions for much of the day. Anyway, the pictures'll tell the tale.

Small silver salmon that would have been released... well I released what was left of him after the fur bag grabbed him on the way in. "Swim", I said to him, "It's just a flesh wound."
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The one small 27" king salmon I kept for the day.
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Fresh salmon steaks in my secret marinade.
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Grilled FRESH salmon with alder smoke. Absolutely one of the best things around.
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A guys boat is his baby. Not my choice of boats but the 19'er runs well and handles fairly rough condition without problems. NOT a dry ride in chop.
 
Damm, I gotta stop eating oodles of noodles and need to stop over at Tuna's for Dinner more often. ;D
Great Pics. Bro. ;)
Hell, you could have over nighted the fish and we could of had it today before the boys rolled out of town. ;D
Thanks again for the dinner in Lewes Tuna. ;)
 
hey tuna where are the sealion pictures?
we dont get a helluva lot of them on the east coast.

by the way, i dont want to scare you but theres some lunatic holding your fish.
 
CTT,
I am smiling. Although at just that moment I was thinking "Gosh, I wish I hadn't had that second chorizo burrito for breakfast..."

About the lunatic thing... very observant. Most people don't get that until the meet me in person. (It's the drooling I think).

About the fur bags... Truth is that I only dislike the sealions when they steal my salmon. The first picture was the second fish of the day. The first was pretty cool... another silver salmon, maybe 4-5 pounds came to the boat. I released it without lifting it out of the water and it swam away strongly. Seconds later a bull sealion, maybe 400 pounds or so errupted from the water 10-15' away from the boat with the salmon in it's mouth and blood spilling into the water. Bummer for the fish but very cool to see.
 
Seconds later a bull sealion, maybe 400 pounds or so errupted from the water 10-15' away from the boat with the salmon in it's mouth and blood spilling into the water.
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That was MJ man, where's your glasses ::)

Sorry MJ ole buddy!
 
Nice trip Tuna.

Thanks for the dinner in Lewes, even though I could not attend.

Anyway CTT, we don't get sealions, but we do get seals.
I was in De bay last year at one of the flounder spots
and I saw what looked to be a bald guy in a wet suit swimming by.
A harbor seal.
I think he was chasing all the fish away,
cause we didn't catch sh1t.
 
yeah parish we get the harbor seals here too.
they come in for the herring and stay till about april.
but seeing a sealion actually take your fish must be something else.
the seals up here just lay around all day.
 
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