Loaded and ready to go!

[Pighunter]

Just for comparison, I have a 228 with a 2001 ox66 225. I fish out of Garibaldi OR and last weekend we ran around 145 miles round trip, I used a gallon and a half of oil. Two weeks I put in 68 gallons of fuel and only used around 3/4 of a gallon. Anyway, I hope this helps and the fishing was good. Brad

Thank you yes it does help.

 

[Sdfish]

You are still dialing her in and will get this oil stuff figured out. Overall, I am sure you got a great sense of the boat! 18 hours on a flat calm day - that's awesome!

 

[Pighunter]

You are still dialing her in and will get this oil stuff figured out. Overall, I am sure you got a great sense of the boat! 18 hours on a flat calm day - that's awesome!

Yeah the boat is awesome. Perfect size for trailing and for fishing. I'm looking into the oil now.

 

[Bloodweiser]

Left house at 3 arrived to a long line at the ramp in Fort Bragg.
@ 2 miles out we hit 60 degree water, 10 miles out we were in 65 degree water, put the lines out out about 8:30. A set of Lee outriggers came with my boat so I set those up we had five lines out all day and never got a bite. Heard a blue fin got caught early then I know one boat got 5 albacore but it was extremely slow all day. Farthest off shore for us was 32 miles and we put a total of 85 miles on the boat trolling. Water temp got as high as 67, 18 hour day ocean laid down like a lake.
I tried to post pictures yesterday but it tells me they are too large.

SIDE NOTE: I traveled 85 miles and used 3.5 gallons of 2 stroke oil! Is that normal?

where you metering any fish? what depths where you at ?

 

[Pighunter]

where you metering any fish? what depths where you at ?

Lots of bait but not much as far as fish I was trolling surface lures

 

[Pighunter]

I don't know what motor you are running but if it is a Yamaha Saltwater series, the 'precision oiler system" adjust the oil to gas ratio based solely on the throttle opening position.
At wide open ratio could be 40:1 but at idle it could be 100:1. Regardless your oil burn seems way too high. In most of these cases, the problem is that the oil pump linkage is not adjusted correctly or the linkage has broken or come loose in which case the spring moves the linkage to the highest oil feed rate. At that oil rate at trolling speeds I would expect smore exhaust smoke than normal. In addition, if that oil rate keeps up, after some time, your plugs may start to foul.
So if you have a Yami SX motor, take a look at the oil pump linkage.
It is also possible but not nearly as common for the oil to leak out. Look in the bottom of the lower cowling for oil and look at the main (on the motor) oil tank for oil on the outside or fittings/hoses.

So the stop was about a half inch from the stop. I only have enough adjustments to bring it to about 1/4" from the stop. I could try and bend the rod to close that 1/4"

 

[Bloodweiser]

Lots of bait but not much as far as fish I was trolling surface lures

What depth do you think you lures were at ?also what was the trolling speed ? Just curious

 

[Pighunter]

What depth do you think you lures were at ?also what was the trolling speed ? Just curious

Lures were on the surface or just under. Water temperature was mostly 64 to 65 but went up to almost 68. I'm going again Monday

 

[Bloodweiser]

Maybe try a little deeper and stagger them if you can at different depths . How deep of water were you trolling in ?

 

[Bloodweiser]

Get a few hoochies if you can if you don’t have already

 

[Pighunter]

Maybe try a little deeper and stagger them if you can at different depths . How deep of water were you trolling in ?

It was very deep 500' plus.
Speed was 7 to 10 mph
I don't know how to get these deep?

 

[Bloodweiser]

Speed sounds good 6to10. Don’t you have downriggers ? Try a deep six.

 

[Pighunter]

Speed sounds good 6to10. Don’t you have downriggers ? Try a deep six.

Yeah I have D/R but I took them off before this trip. Honestly it would be to much, Between 2 outriggers five rods I'm not ready to add D/R in to the mix. I have read a lot and talked to a lot of experienced tuna fishing friends and nobody has suggested fishing anything but the surface?

 

[Bloodweiser]

Yeah I have D/R but I took them off before this trip. Honestly it would be to much, Between 2 outriggers five rods I'm not ready to add D/R in to the mix. I have read a lot and talked to a lot of experienced tuna fishing friends and nobody has suggested fishing anything but the surface?

ok good luck

 

[Pighunter]

ok good luck

Have you used DR for albacore? I'm not opposed to it just still learning

 

[Halfhitch]

I tried downriggers with 12lb balls at tuna speeds and it is not good. I found planers are more workable to get lures down.
http://rockfishhq.com/chesapeake-bay-tackle/deep-diving-planers/

 

[Bloodweiser]

got to get to the fish when they are deep, most lures will only dive to 50'. slow the speed drop down on your planer and try to get to the fish. learning to fish is an eternal thing. experiment . you never know what might just work.

also ..check your seas for monday. ive seen some small craft advisories most of this week

 

[Pighunter]

got to get to the fish when they are deep, most lures will only dive to 50'. slow the speed drop down on your planer and try to get to the fish. learning to fish is an eternal thing. experiment . you never know what might just work.

also ..check your seas for monday. ive seen some small craft advisories most of this week

So far Monday is looking good for weather.

 

[Pighunter]

got to get to the fish when they are deep, most lures will only dive to 50'. slow the speed drop down on your planer and try to get to the fish. learning to fish is an eternal thing. experiment . you never know what might just work.

also ..check your seas for monday. ive seen some small craft advisories most of this week

So I asked about using D/R's on my fishing club here's the first response

Trolling with traditional dr weights at 6-8knts is not practical and puts a tremendous amount of strain on the line.
You would have to use the wing thingy to troll at those speeds using DR’s.
I was always under the assumption the boats wake and bubble trail is what causes the albies to rise thinking your spread is part of a bait feeding event of some sort...

 

[Bloodweiser]

yea, slow down and use a planer