Oct 3 (Oct 1-8) Seeker sponsored 7-day
Good evening,
We got down to where the yellowtail fishing had been excellent only to find that the water had rolled over. There was very little sign of it this morning. We scratched a few one at a time. We sat it out until about lunchtime, hoping it would change it but it never did. So we picked the anchor up and started looking further down the beach. We bumped into an eager school of yellowtail this afternoon and it was full speed any way you wanted them! Good action here for a couple of hours.
Captain Mike and the boys
Yellowtail for Jo!
Oct 2 (Oct 1-8) Seeker sponsored 7-day
Good evening,
With reports of slow fishing from down below, we put the brakes on last night. There was sign of 40-60#yellowfin just 100 miles from home, so we decided to spend the day looking for it. We never saw it however ,we did see very good sign of school-grade yellowfin and good-grade dorado. We got a little action in to break the day up. We didn’t want to tag too much this early in the trip, but it was a fun afternoon.
We’re rolling down the beach to do some yellowtail fishing tomorrow.
Captain Mike and the boys
Sep 30 (Sep 29-Oct 1) Extended 1.5 day
Hello anglers,
We had some action on bluefin tuna last night. There was some good opportunities with flat fall lures and knife lures as well. Hoping for a few more during the day in the same area.
Capt Art and Team Searcher
Frequent customer, Darel, and a nice bluefin tuna
Hello anglers,
We had some great opportunities for quality yellowfin tuna this afternoon on 30-50# fish caught on flyline sardines. Great weather to go along with great fishing.
Captain Art and Team Searcher
Father and son with yellowfin
Tackle Tip Thursday Vol. 198 (Dorado Fishing 101)
Welcome back to another episode of Tackle Tip Thursday!
We love dorado fishing! It’s an exciting target fish and tastes delicious. Experienced long-range angler and Fishermans Landing manager, Carl S., shares terrific tips for choosing your arsenal when the dorado are hitting! By the way, dorado are also known as mahi-mahi and dolphinfish.
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Sep 28 (4 day) Matt Boone Private Charter
Hello anglers,
We started in the yellowfin tuna and dorado area south of San Diego this morning. It didn’t take long to find a kelp paddie that had a nice school of dorado. It was easy to get a bite with a live sardine on 25# line. Now we’re looking for some tuna.
Captain Art and Team Searcher
Father and son, Ted and Kelley, with their dorado
Hello anglers,
We had a few more dorado this afternoon and a chance at some good-size yellowfin tuna. The tuna were 25-40# and we landed them on 25# line and a live sardine.
Capt Art and Team Searcher
Group of happy yellowfin tuna anglers
Sep 27 (Sep 25-29) 4 day Matt Boone Private Charter
Hello anglers:
We’ve had great fishing again this morning with the same conditions, and plenty of yellowtail for everyone. Flyline live sardines were the best method today. Lots of big bonito as well (released). So there was constant action all morning.
We are travelling north now and hoping for some action on yellowfin tuna tomorrow.
Captain Art and Team Searcher
Happy anglers with their yellowtail!
Sep 26 (Sep 25-29) Matt Boone Private Charter
Hello anglers,
We had good action this afternoon for 12-20# yellowtail and lots of 6-12# bonito (released). A flylined live sardine was the biggest success, with some being landed on dropper loop rigs and a few on yo-yo lures as well.
It was worth the long ride to get to somewhere we could stop the boat and fish. We are spending the night and trying again tomorrow. Then we’ll head back north to try for dorado and tuna.
Captain Art and Team Searcher
Chartermaster Matt with a nice yellow!
Sep 24 (Sep 22-25) 3-day Biter’s Charter
Good evening,
We saw very little sign of bluefin last night. We caught one 30# by about 10pm, so we went and looked in a new area and saw very little there as well.
We opted to spend the morning doing some cod drifts for some excellent quality bottom grabbers. This afternoon we slid back offshore and and saw incredible sign of 30-300# fish, but they weren’t biting though they were right where we looked last night. We scratched a few 40-80# bluefin and a few nice yellowfin.
We’re going to try catch a few after sundown before we have to go home.
Captain Mike and the boys
