I'm not sure whether we were the only private/sport boat out 40 miles fishing for tuna on Saturday but the only other boats I saw for miles were commercial tuna boats and a few draggers. We got into bait and tuna at 40 miles. We know much more about the fishery now and will try again in August. I think the bulk of the tuna were more than 50 miles out. The warmest the water got at 40 miles was 62 degrees.

The King fishing was great. We followed up our recent Neah Bay trip with two days of slamming kings off of Westport. We continued the winning streak from NB with the Wolverine spoons knocking em dead. The kings at Westport had huge 12" herring in their stomach and sometimes hanging out of their mouths. No silvers to speak of. I know some of the other posters on this board were there and some PSA members as well. Saturday was heaven out on the ocean but today was foggy and cool and somewhat rough. We heard some more bragging about big fish and it seemed for awhile we couldn't go 15 minutes without hearing about another 40# fish. Some of the 40's at the dock looked suspiciously like 25# fish though. A calibrated scale is nice.

The best part for me was that I was able to take someone out who not only hosted us all at his home in Westport but he got to catch a 33# King on his first ever trip out into the ocean. What a treat.