Salmon... From start to finish

[TunaHead]

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."
http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s76/TunaHead101/P1070298.jpg

The one small 27" king salmon I kept for the day.
http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s76/TunaHead101/P1070299.jpg

Fresh salmon steaks in my secret marinade.
http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s76/TunaHead101/P1070314.jpg

Grilled FRESH salmon with alder smoke. Absolutely one of the best things around.
http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s76/TunaHead101/P1070319.jpg

[phester]

looks like nice table fare TH, good job. How do you like your buddies Trophy?

[TunaHead]

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.

[randlemanboater]

Man that looks like some good eats.....my mouth is watering.

Do you ever hook the sea lions? I bet they would put up a good fight.

[msbhammer]

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. ;)

[TunaHead]

Very much my pleasure Hammer.

[charlie_the_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.

[charlie_the_tuna]

if thats you tuna, dont you ever smile ?

[TunaHead]

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.

[Blue_Runner]

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.
That was MJ man, where's your glasses ::)

Sorry MJ ole buddy!

[parishht]

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.

[charlie_the_tuna]

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.

[charlie_the_tuna]

plus we dont get dolphin either.
we see them now and again but thats way out in the blue water.

[Stinky_Hooker]

Very nice Tuna! Good eating there! 8)

If you see us make fun of Bayliners from time to time dont take it personal!! ;)

[TunaHead]

No problem Stinky. It's not my boat ;)