October 12-18, 2012
This 6-day trip had 15 anglers and they caught 225 yellowfin tuna, 99 yellowtail, and 21 dorado. The jackpot winners are:
- Joe Tyler, Long Beach, CA–42# yellowtail (left)
- Steve Schreiner, Vassar, MI–36# yellowtail
- Steve Schreiner, Vassar, MI–32.6# yellowtail
October 6-11, 2012
This 5-day trip had 14 anglers and they caught 45 yellowfin tuna, 173 yellowtail, and 38 dorado. The jackpot winners are:
- Tom Tewkasbury, Lodi, CA–22.6# yellowtail (left)
- Bill Lynch, Camarillo, CA–21.4# yellowtail
- Ernest Ringgold AKA “BMF”, Vista, CA–21.4# yellowtail (right)
Plenty of Warm Water by Bill Roecker
Art Taylor skippered his Searcher on a seven-day trip with 21 fishermen, and docked at Fisherman’s Landing October 6.
“Boy, there’s plenty of warm water,” he remarked. “There’s wahoo on kelps north of Benitos, far north, in 77 degrees. There’s plenty of yellowfin, lots of dorado and excellent fishing. We got to fish on six of our seven days.”
Mike Townes of Lodi won first place for a 45.2-pound yellowfin tuna. He said he bagged it with a sardine on a 2/0 Owner Mutu hook on 25-pound Seaguar Premier fluorocarbon, 30-pound Izorline and 60-pound Line One spectra on an Avet LX reel and a Triton seven-foot rod.
Bill Battocchio of Camarillo won second place for a 28.4-pound yellowfin, and Matt Kirkpatrick of Bakersfield took third place honors with a 27-pound yellowtail.
Kyle Yates of Carlsbad posed with a fish not much seen in these parts for the past ten years or so, a broad-striped skipjack of the species anglers call “purple skipjack,” as distinguished from the more common tropical black skipjack. He said he planned to have it filleted for eating.
September 29-October 6, 2012
This 7-day trip had 21 anglers and they caught 220 yellowfin tuna, 315 yellowtail, 80 dorado, and 1 wahoo. The jackpot winners are:
- Michael Townes, Lodi, CA–46.2# yellowfin (left)
- Bill Battocchio, Camarillo, CA–28# yellowfin (middle)
- Matt Kirkpatrick, Bakersfield, CA–27# yellowtail (right)
September 22-29, 2012
This 7-day trip had 22 anglers and they caught 110 yellowfin tuna, 220 yellowtail, and 132 dorado. The jackpot winners are:
- Jack Simplicio. Hemet, CA–51.6# yellowfin (left)
- Eddie Means, Vista, CA–36.8# yellowfin (middle)
- Phil Gappa, Carlsbad, CA–33.6# yellowtail (right)
September 15-21, 2012
This 6-day trip had 22 anglers and they caught 310 yellowfin tuna, 180 yellowtail, 16 bluefin tuna and 22 dorado. The jackpot winners are:
- Dale Changnon, Healdsburg, CA–46.4# bluefin (left)
- Darrell Chapman, Huntington Beach, CA–44.8# yellowfin (middle)
- Rob Bellrose, Lompoc, CA–35.8# yellowfin (left)
September 10-15, 2012
This 5-day trip had 26 anglers and they caught 241 yellowfin tuna, 180 yekkowtail, 1 bluefin tuna and 90 dorado. The jackpot winners are:
- Robert Chavez, San Diego, CA, CA–52.4# yellowfin
- Tommy Bailey, Santa Rosa, CA–49.2# yellowfin
- Duane Richardson, Las Vegas, NV–46# yellowfin
Half-Century Mark
Aaron Remy tied Searcher up at Fisherman’s Landing September 15 after a five-day trip with 26 anglers aboard. The group had a nice mixed catch of tuna, yellowtail and dorado.
Robert Chavez of San Diego won first place for a 52.4-pound yellowfin. He said it bit his sardine on a 2/0 Mustad hook. He fished with 40-pound Big Game line, a Penn 4/0 reel and a Penn Sabre seven-foot rod.
Tommy Bailey of Santa Rosa won second place for a 49.2-pounder, and Duane Richardson of Las Vegas took third place for a 46-pound yellowfin tuna.