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What To Do With This Collar? – Quick Recipe
What To Do With This Collar? Over the past several seasons, the sport boats have been including the collar of your fish when they clean your catch. Most folks that I know simply discard this delectable part of the fish as they just don’t know what to do with it. The collar contains some of the most delicious, tender portions of meat that you will find on the fish. It definitely isn’t the most pretty or appealing part, but with some quick fixing, it is some of the best. For the full story on where these particular yellowfin came from, check out the full report here. Preparing The Collar For…
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Limit Style Yellowfin Tuna Fishing
Annual Okuma Fall Charter Aboard Tribute Sportfishing With the reports of limit style yellowfin tuna fishing coming in recently, we had our charter timed just right. The annual Okuma Fall Charter aboard Tribute Sportfishing out of Seaforth Landing has been a tradition over the past couple of years. The Plan Everyone had high hopes of limit style yellowfin tuna fishing as we headed down to Seaforth Landing in San Diego. The fish had been reasonably close to home and it had been pretty wide open. The fish we were chasing were not big like the recent bluefin that we have been catching, but more fun sized in the 10-30lb class.…
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Okuma Nomad Xpress Swimbait Travel Rod – First Look
Okuma Nomad Xpress Swimbait Travel Rod I finally had the opportunity to get my hands on one of the new Nomad Xpress Swimbait Travel Rods. These rods are pretty darn cool. They are all 4pc rods that are built like a full 1pc rod and packed into a convenient travel case. Okuma has a wide variety of travel rods in their lineup. SST, Citrix, Voyager, Nomad and Nomad Xpress. These cover everything from long casting surf, big fish boat rods as well as compact, light action trout rods and combos to fly rods. The rod I am looking at today is the Nomad Xpress Swimbait Travel Rod. The Rod As…
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Walleye Jigging on the Columbia River
Fish Camp 2018 This year I had the opportunity to attend Fish Camp up on the Columbia River. Fish Camp is a media event where several media types are invited from around the country. The event takes place at Peach Beach Camp Park in Goldendale Washington along the famed Columbia River. The goal every year is to get up and spend some time with a variety of media folks and talk about and demo new products while fishing for salmon, sturgeon, bass and walleye. And its called Fish Camp for a reason. We do just that, camp. Tent and sleeping bag provided. Over the past several seasons, hover fishing for…
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Steelhead Fishing the PNW
I had a really incredible chance to get up to Washington to fish with Cameron Black of Fishing Addicts Northwest. The weather has been very dry up his way, and the rivers were very low. Cameron called a couple of days before and asked if we’d be opposed to doing a drift trip on the skinny water in his inflatable. He mentioned we’d have to get out and pull the boat over rocks and around trees in a few spots, but the fish were there. I thought it sounded like a pretty incredible opportunity, so we took it. Okuma VP Sam Brenner, and I drove down from Seattle and met…