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Above pictures are from Wednesday's trip, a mixed group of 9 brought in 36 fish! Light tackle casting when the boat stopped trolling helped bring in several extra fish, good job to the guys who reeled all those suckers in.

Today's private group of 10 brought in 36 fish and came in 3 hours early! Imagine what 3 more hours of fishing time could have done! Nice to see some ladies on this trip, thanks for coming out!

Today's tuna trip came back with 27. Not too shabby! Headed out again Wednesday and then Friday-Sunday. The next available trip is on the 17th with 6 spots left. The 18th and the 27th have one spot and then we have room for a full boat on the 25th. After that we're booked until September!

 Alrighty folks here's a run down of this week's activities at YBC:

We had one good Salmon day on Monday on the CJ and then the next days were just like old times, a.k.a. slooooow. Some boats went back to our exact spot as Monday and got nothing the next day, so those salmon are being quite elusive. There have been a few caught here and there, but no one is posting big numbers or even nearly an average of one fish per charter customer. We are still keeping our eyes out and hoping there will be another good day that will stick around a little longer!

Bottom fishing was a little slow this week as the water temperature remains a bit cold for them. When the water gets cold the fish metabolism slows down, so they don't want to eat as much and don't go for our jigs as often. Yesterday was a much better day though, the CJ had a few great drifts early in the morning and caught sea bass limits for everyone and a couple ling cod. The SQ caught a good amount of sea bass as well, but only found lings that were too short to retain.

Thursday the CJ went out on a special* 14 hour tuna trip and went a bit past 60 miles looking for the longfins. Capt. Jack came back in with about 2 fish per person from that long day since the fish were so far out. On Saturday he took a private group of 8 out for 12 hours and brought back 3 per person. Those guys said they had a great time and plan to be back next year so we're looking forward to seeing them! The CJ is back on tuna today with a full boat of 10 and planning on going out about 45-50 miles. Looking forward to seeing some albacore on the docks tonight!!

Here's a picture from the men from Saturday's trip having a little fish duel on the dock. Someone apparently puckered up for a tuna but I don't have the photo evidence! Next time…

The Crackerjack went out yesterday looking for Salmon and found them.  We had to travel an hour to get there.  Once we started fishing the fish kept coming at a steady pace.  We were able to keep 8 hatchery fish and had to let 16 natives go.  We also had lots of others on that just decided to spit the hook out.

The fish are getting bigger with the average size being about ten pounds with some much bigger fish having to be released.

Hopefully the water will warm up a bit so we can fish for them closer.