Searcher Trip Reports
Oct 24 (Oct 22-30) Ultra-limited load
Good morning,
We’ve had our blinders on the past couple days as we’ve been traveling down the beach. We’re about 15 miles from The Ridge now.
We’ve had a couple strikes on wahoo and dorado over the past 20 miles so everyone’s pretty excited. We’ll see what happens when we get there. It’s a little choppy this morning but the sun’s out and it’s warm, so it’s all good.
Captain Mike and the boys
Jerry got a wahoo!
Good evening,
We got down to The Ridge and saw some sign of 15-40# tuna. We really didn’t get a good feel for it though, so we’re hanging out tonight so we can try again tomorrow. We did get a little bit of yellowtail action here.
We’ll see what happens tonight and tomorrow. Still a little breezy
Captain Mike and the boys
Oct 20 (Oct 15-22) Ultra-limited load
Good morning,
We had good bait-making this morning. We are hoping it helps with the fishing today. We also had some fun beach fishing this morning on big calicos and 10-15lb yellowtail. Nothing wide open but we’ve been picking.
Captain Mike and the boys
Good evening,
We got a good hit this afternoon on these yelllowtail. We got a biting school and they were biting–full speed, all we wanted. Very fun and exciting.
We’re headed up trying to catch some yellowfin and dorado for our last day.
Captain Mike and the boys
Oct 19 (Oct 15-22) Ultra-limited load
Good evening,
We spent the last couple days doing a lot of driving. We finally got down to where we wanted to fish and got on some big schools of 15-18lb yellowtail. We saw a lot of them though they didn’t bite all that well.
About noon we started sliding further down the beach and got on some 10-15lb yellowtail that did want to bite. It was very fun fishing and in fact, we’re going to try for some mackerel tonight to try this again tomorrow.
Captain Mike and the boys
Tackle Tip Thursday Vol. 201 (Wahoo Fishing)
Welcome back to Tackle Tip Thursday!
Who’s ready for some ‘hoos? Fisherman’s Landing’s in-house expert, Carl, lays out some basic guidelines for what to expect and how to come out on top when targeting wahoo on long range trips.
Want to fish The Ridge? Check out Searcher’s fall “Ridge Special” trips to give that famous destination a try for yourself!
Thank you to Carl, Fishermans Landing and Fishermans Landing Tackle Shop for all their expertise and assistance to Team Searcher.
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Oct 16 (Oct 15-22) Ultra-limited load
Good morning,
We opted to go out west for bluefin to start our trip. We arrived on scene at about 10pm to a very good sign of 100+lb bluefin all night. They did not cooperate very well. But this morning’s a different story. The schools are responding well to the bait and we’re hooking them on the fly-lined sardine and on 60# line.
We’ve had a couple good opportunities so far today and we’re looking for more.
Captain Mike and the boys
Oct 14 (Oct 8-15) Ultra-limited load
Hello anglers,
We moved northwest overnight in very choppy conditions including a lot of wind. We found a very large kelp finally but it didn’t have very much dorado associated with it. We landed a few dorado and these two lucky anglers got a nice fish off it. Dale caught his wahoo on 40# mono and a colt sniper with a small treble hook. Dennis let his shiny lure sink a little deeper and landed this 50# yellowfin. There were plenty of small tuna that we released.
We are headed home with hopes of better weather north of here.
Captain Art and Team Searcher
Oct 13 (Oct 8-15) Ultra limited load
Hello all,
We had a repeat of yesterday morning with a chance at tuna, yellowtail, dorado, and wahoo. Good action again!
We are headed north later today to try for yellowtail on the coast to finish the trip.
Captain Art and Team Searcher
Rico and his wahoo!
Tackle Tip Thursday Vol. 200 (Gaffing Goals)
Welcome to our 200th volume of Tackle Tip Thursday!
We couldn’t have done it without the support and dedication of you anglers and subscribers. Thank you! This week Captain Art details how to keep the process of gaffing your fish successful, to ensure that you get it on the deck and into your freezer. For safety purposes our crew makes that final step to capture your fish, but there are a few dos and don’ts, so be sure to tune in and get the guidance straight from the captain’s mouth.
Thank you to all the pro staffers, dedicated anglers, tackle shop experts and manufacturers and crew members that have made Tackle Tip Thursday that hit that it is. Here’s to another 200 volumes!
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