What is it like to fish for albacore?
Judy says: Harvey and I begin our season in the Spring off the Pacific Coast. We head from a hundred or so miles offshore to as far as north of Midway Island … about halfway across the North Pacific. Albacore like water temperatures of in the low ’60s, so we go until we find it. We fish from dawn to dark, so it’s a long day during the middle of summer, about 16 hours. We fit meals in when we can.We stay out until we have a boatload or need food or fuel. The longest we’ve been out is a little over two months. The summer weather is usually pretty nice, although the occasional storm can come up and bounce us around a bit. I keep trying to get impressive pictures of waves coming over the bow, but it never looks as wet and wild as it feels at the time.
