It was my first tuna trip of this year, been fishing for them for many years. This year I've just had a tough time getting decent weather.
We ended up at the 125 01 line (about 42 miles out), we were looking for some kind of break either temp or color, we found a color break and worked it hard using Mexi flags, Zukes, Swim Baits, Butterfly Jigs, cedar plugs and X-raps. Not a lot of surface sea life, porpoise, sharks, moa moa or jumpers. The North wind that's been blowing for the past month has everything all spread out and turned over. Hopefully a new pattern will start to take shape and get things lined up for a great August and September.
the coho were cookie cutter 6-8 pounders, we picked those up from buoy 2 to the CR buoy. The hot set up was using herring on those plastic bait clips (don't know the name of them) flasher and diver, 12 - 18 pulls. I took an orange brad and took the factory hooks off and put on a single siwash and hooked fish on that.