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Trip #3 July 9-12 (3 day) Seeker Rods

July 11th, 2020|Categories: Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Good morning anglers,

We stayed in the same zone this morning since we had such good fishing yesterda. We spent a lot of time looking at non-biting bluefin and yellowfin tuna. We did scratch some up, along with some dorado. We will be working up the rest of our afternoon looking for kelps.

Captain Mike and the boys

Bryan with the first dorado of our morning. Check out the nice mask thanks to Seeker Rods  and Sophie!

 

Jul 102020

Trip #3 July 9-12 (3 day) Seeker Rods

July 10th, 2020|Categories: Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Good afternoon anglers,

We’re having a blast this morning out here! We’ve had good mixed fishing on yellowfin, bluefin, dorado, and yellowtail. There’s an incredible amount of fish in this area. We’re pretty busy at the moment, but we’ll check back later with a full report.

Captain Mike and the boys

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Good evening anglers,

We had a great day down here! We looked at lots of bluefin this afternoon that didn’t bite, though we managed to boat a few more. We loaded up on dorado and scratched away on 20-25lb yellowfin. It was non-stop action from sun up to sun down here. And we captured these fish every way imaginable.
Catpain Mike and the boys.

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Ezra with a quality bluefin captured this morning.

Jeff shows off a sample of our yellowfin catch

Jul 92020

Trip #3 July 9-12 (3 day) Seeker Rods

July 9th, 2020|Categories: Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Good Evening anglers,

We departed on our annual July Seeker 3-day trip this morning with a nice load of bait. This afternoon we stumbled upon some large schools of mostly 50-70lb bluefin. They were in the non-biting mode however. We managed a few bites, but only landed one 30# bluefin. We’ll check back in the morning.

Captain Mike and the boys

Kevin and his 30# bluefin

Jul 92020

Tackle Tip Thursday Vol. 107 (Small Changes for Success)

July 9th, 2020|Categories: Captain Mike's Blog, Tackle Tip Thursday|

It’s Tackle Tip Thursday! Today we have Nathan W.. from Penn Fishing. Nathan gives us some great tips for being the “Hot Stick” on the boat. It’s all about stay on top of whats biting.

Huge thank you to Nathan and Penn Fishing for the tackle tip.

Hook 🎣 more Tackle Tips here.

Jul 92020

Trip #3 July 7-9 (1.5 day) Let’s Talk Hook-up

July 9th, 2020|Categories: Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Hello anglers,

We looked at plenty of bluefin tuna schools this afternoon with no success in getting them to bite. At 5 pm we found some more fish and we finally hooked a few. We landed seven and had multiple bites on the kite outfit. Our biggest fish taped out at 193 pounds caught by Russ with a little help from the crew. These are impressive fish to catch, we just wish there were more of them for everyone.

Thanks to Pete Gray from Let’s Talk Hook-Up and Gamakatsu hooks for sponsoring this trip!

Captain Art and Team Searcher

Long-time hockey buddy Doug (right) landed a kite fish. Russ with a JP winner.

Jul 42020

Trip #2 July 2-5 (3 day) July 4th Special!

July 4th, 2020|Categories: Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Good morning anglers,

We had some very good action on the yellowtail again this morning. We have not seen a whole lot of this yellowfin, however. We are almost 150 miles from home so we are working that way, hoping to get another shot at the bluefin this afternoon.

Captain Mike and the boys,

Nanette S. caught this yellowtail on a flylined sardine

Happy 4th of July!

This afternoon we scratched up some more yellowtail. We found some schools of bluefin late, but couldn’t get any to bite. We didn’t get to spend much time in the bluefin zone this afternoon.

Looking forward to getting back out on the next trip.

Captain Mike and the boys

Long-time friends Alec and Davey with a pair of quality kelp yellowtail

Jul 32020

Trip #2 July 2-5 (3 day) July 4th Special!

July 3rd, 2020|Categories: Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Good morning anglers,

We have had some action here on yellowtail and yellowfin tuna this morning.  We started chasing around schools of yellowfin tuna marked by terns and shearwaters. By mid-morning they started to disappear, so we started kelping our way up towards the bluefin grounds.  We have had some steady action here this morning. 

~Captain Mike and the boys

Here is Jack and Captain Armando with a yellowfin tuna he caught on a flylined sardine.

Good evening anglers,

We scratched away at the yellowtail on kelps all day. We were able to stay busy all day working our way up to this bluefin zone. We finally got up here late in the day and got ourselves a couple shots. We managed to land just a few. We are going back down to the yellowfin zone right now to try again in the morning.

Captain Mike and the boys

Captain Ryan and angler Lou with his 30lb class bluefin landed after biting a fly-lined sardine

Jul 22020

Trip #2 July 2-5 (3 day) July 4th Special!

July 2nd, 2020|Categories: Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Good evening anglers,

We departed on our annual 4th of July Special 3-day trip this morning with a nice load of bait. We worked south most of the day. We did not see a whole lot close to home this afternoon, however we did have a few shots at catching a yellowtail on kelps. We will be traveling south all night.

Captain Mike and the boys

Rory and Captain Ryan and the first yellowtail of the trip!

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