Team Defiance Fishing Trip 8-21 Ilwaco Wa

. It was a great day on the ocean. Lots of Jumpers and puddlers. It was completely a Live Bait game. Getting the fish to hit the trolled gear was tough. So Bring your live bait game. But with lots of live bait, it is wide open. We fished around 46.09 and 124.45. We never left this area. Good Temp 61.5 and real drastic blue water break in the area. We put 24 Tuna in the box by about 1:30 and then ran in to do some Salmon fishing. Very good size Silvers outside of the Columbia right now. A couple of 15lb fish and lots of 10-12 lb fish. We limited in about 1 1/2 hours and headed for the barn. Great day on the water. The Bar was a little sporty, but as soon as we hit the Astoria canyon, flat water , greasy smooth. It was a truly great day, with fast and furious action. The Pilothouse Boat was great and kept us dry throughout the day. The Columbia Bar was very nasty going out and pretty rough coming in. But the Defiance 250 Ex gobbled up the big seas and got us comfortably to the fishing grounds and back.

Team Defiance Wins Oregon Tuna Classic Ilwaco Event

Congrats to the guys on the Defiance Fishing Team. Here is a copy and past from another site.


Well we prefished for the tournament and invited Dave "Killerbee" along with us. It was great to have him on the boat with us. Great fisherman and a great guy. If you ever need to fill a seat, keep Dave at the top of your list.

Most of the pics and the video are from Friday. We were to busy being serious on Saturday to try and shoot video. But it was fun to try out our new underwater camera. We ran North on Friday and Saturday. On Friday we fished 46.25 x 125.06. Thanks to Salt Patrol for calling us in on a nice bite he had going on Friday. We fished there for a little while, and after we filled our boat and verified where the fish were, we headed in to fish the CR buoy for some Salmon. It was lights out Silvers. We fished for about an hour and caught some really nice silvers and a couple small Kings. But then it was time to Cark Tuna, clean salmon and get ready for the Captains meeting.

We headed out on Saturday Morning to the same spot, and wouldn't you know it, Dirty Green water. We hooked up a couple of fish, but it was really dirty, so we picked up and ran west. Found a really nice Blue- Green Line at about 46.24 and 125.09 and had a couple real nice bait stops. After fishing there for a while, we started trolling again and finished off at 46.22 and 125.15. Another really nice bait stop. Almost all of our fish were from Bait stops. We had one double hook-up and the rest were singles. Just baiting them up, we did throw some Iron as well, and caught a few fish on Iron. One of our Big ones was on Iron. But almost all of our fish we weighed were on live bait. The bait was large and active and worked real well for us. At 1:30 we left a wide open bait stop and headed for home. It was really tough to leave that many fish.

We crossed the line at about 3:40 with 20 minutes to spare.

Just wanted to thank all of the Volunteers that put this great event together. I know how much work these things are. A great group of fisherman. And really a great attitude among all. It was really a great time. I am also posting a video of some of our fishing from the Friday before the event. Hope the numbers are helpful.

Go get em Guys!

Here is the Video Link
Team Defiance Oregon Tuna Classic