Captain’s Blog

Hello all,

We had a seminar this morning covering all the methods possible for the next few days on the Ridge! The great thing about the ridge is the variety. When you cast out you never know what you’re going to catch. We hope to have some action on yellowfin tuna, yellowtail , dorado and wahoo. Everyone is in the process with the crew help getting set up for tomorrow afternoon. Here is Shane setting up some of our loaner gear with new linne for one of our passengers.

Captain Art & Team Searcher

EVENING REPORT

Good evening,

On the slower side for yellowtail fishing today. We had a good shot in the morning but I think we weren’t quite ready. We saw fish later in the afternoon that didn’t cooperate.  Lots of big bass and other miscellaneous throughout the day though.

Captain Mike and the boys

EVENING REPORT

Good morning,

We are kelping our way up to be in position to fish yellowtail tomorrow. We’ve had a couple good kelps this morning for “all-you-want” dorado. No wahoo on any of them yet. We didn’t tag a whole lot of fish today since anglers are saving tags for tomorrow.

Starting to get a little breezy here now hopefully theres a wahoo kelp on the bow.

Captain Mike and the boys

Good evening,

We had a good day down here on The Ridge.  Some wahoo showed up late morning and we were able to scratch away throughout the day. We got a few good opportunities and scored a little better than a couple around. They are very nice fish–30 to 60#.  Very fun fishing and beautiful weather. We’re moving up the coast tonight to try get a kelp tomorrow.

Captain Mike and the boys

Good morning,

We had some action this morning on 12-40lb yellowfin which started right when the sun came up and lasted a few hours.  There was a little bit of shaking going on (to release smaller ones), but it was pretty good fishing  with 1-3 fish at a time.

We picked the anchor up and are trolling around looking for wahoo now.

Captain Mike and the boys

Good evening,

We never got a shot at a wahoo in our tour today, never even saw one. We had no current at all from about 930am -4pm.  We managed to scratch up a few nice grouper throughout the day along with some yellowtail.

We did get another hit on these tuna late in the day though. We had some pretty fun fishing this afternoon!

We’re going to make a move further down The Ridge to see if we can catch some skinnies tomorrow morning.

Captain Mike and the boys

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

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

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