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Sep 192022

Sep 18 (Sep 16-19) Penn Open Charter

September 19th, 2022|Categories: Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Good evening,

We slid down the beach last night and put ourselves in position to catch some yellowfin tuna in the morning.  We had an action-packed stop in the morning on school-sized yellowfin. Very fun fishing.  We scratched a few more throughout the day too. 

We scored some good-grade dorado this afternoon from a couple different kelps.  Nice weather, good fishing.

Captain Mike and the boys

Good afternoon,

We had excellent fishing on 10-18# dorado before lunch today.Very fun fishing and great quality. Everyone got in on the action. 

We’re back on the hunt for some bluefin now. Hoping we can capture a few before we have to wrap the trip up this evening.

Captain Mike and the boys

Sep 152022

Sep 15 (Sep 14-16) Extended 1.5 day trip

September 15th, 2022|Categories: Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Good morning,

We ran out to the west last yesterday to try catch some nighttime bluefin.  We caught a handful of 60-90lbers but the weather was not really workable, so we bailed out and slid to the east. We’re looking for some dorados and we have much better weather here this morning.

Captain Mike and the boys

Sep 132022

Sep 13 (Sep 11-14) 3 day Charter

September 13th, 2022|Categories: Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Hello anglers,

We saw good signs of bluefin tuna during the day yesterday but they weren’t biting. We waited for nighttime and had some opportunities. We landed fish from 50-120 pounds. We plan to relocate to try for dorado as there has been some reports of good fishing.

Capt Art and Team Searcher

One of the nice tuna we picked up yesterday

Hello anglers,

We had some action today with dorado. We stopped on two different areas and found the most successful method was a flylined live sardine on 30 pound line with a #2 J-Hook. We all had some fun.

Capt Art and Team Searcher

Sep 122022

Sep 11 (Sep 11-14) 3 day Charter

September 12th, 2022|Categories: Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Hello anglers,

We are back to fishing after the storm and had great weather travelling to the west by San Clemente Island. We started flat falling at sunset and we had some opportunities on bluefin. Most of the fish are 60 pounds and there was one stand-out at 200 pounds!

Hoping for some action during the day today and then we will flat fall again tonight.

Capt Art and Team Searcher

A fish of a lifetime!

Sep 82022

Tackle Tip Thursday Vol. 196 (Work Smarter with Seeker’s 2×4 Rod)

September 8th, 2022|Categories: Captain Mike's Blog, Tackle Tip Thursday|

Welcome back to Tackle Tip Thursday, anglers! Seeker Rods pro-staffer Sophia Huynh and owner Rick Hult dive into the specifics of the 2×4 rod from the Off Shore Pros Series of rail rods for fishing with heavier line. Let the rail and rod do the work for you, people! Work smarter, not harder.

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Sep 52022

Sep 4 (Sep 5-9) Labor Day Special

September 5th, 2022|Categories: Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Good afternoon,

We made a move last night and got into this local tuna grounds this morning, We didn’t see much until about 11am, but we’ve been drifting ever since.  Very good fly line fishing today on mixed yellowfin bluefin 25-45lbs.  We’re hoping we can stay drifting here. Gotta go!

Captain Mike and the boys

Great catch!

Good evening,

What a day!  We had two stops on this beautiful grade of yellowfin/bluefin mix.  On both stops we had 4-10 fish going and drifted for hours.  Excellent sport fishing. 

Fly lined 30 and 40 lb test was the best way to get a bite.  Some guys were getting bites on the colt snipers and small flat falls as well.  Grease calm weather and biting fish, what more could you ask for?

Captain Mike and the boys

Jesse shows off a beauty

Sep 32022

Sep 3 (Sep 2-5) Labor Day Special

September 3rd, 2022|Categories: Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Good morning,

We drove around most of the night and then around 2:30 a.m., we got on the right fish and they were biting a little. It’s a beautiful grade of bluefin, with yellowfin mixed in. The bluefin are 40-120# and the yellowfin are 30-50#.  We were able to scratch until the sun came up.

We’re going to spend the morning looking for a dorado kelp.

Captain Mike and the boys

WTG, Tommy!

Good evening,

We went kelping this afternoon.  It was wide-open dorado fishing! One-stop shopping on a kelp here mid-day.  We went back to last night’s location and see good sign of yellowfin and bluefin here this afternoon.  We’ve caught a few and we’re gonna see what happens when the sun goes down.

Captain Mike and the boys

Simpson family fishing time!

Sep 12022

Sep 1 (Aug 31-Sep 2) 1.5 day Let’s Talk Hook-up

September 1st, 2022|Categories: Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Good morning,

We had excellent fishing on 25-50# bluefin last night.  We got on scene around 9pm and started seeing incredible sign right away.  We ended up catching what we needed in a couple hours, including a few yellowfin mixed in.  We’re sliding down the beach now looking for something else to catch.  Very fun lure fishing!

Captain Mike and the boys

Father/son catching bluefin together!

Good evening,

We went looking down the beach today.  We saw some sign of 10-30lb yellowfin tuna and we scratched a few up.  It felt like we might have been on to something but never really saw any concentration of them.  We had a few dorado and yellowtail in the mix as well.  Beautiful weather.

Captain Mike and the boys

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