Howdy anglers: What a morning! We have 52 bluefin on deck out of our morning drift, and a few dorado thown in. We still got ’em around and under us with one tuna still on the line. The weather is a bit windy but we don’t care–fish are biting! This is a sample of the average-size bluefin. Happy angler, Tim Kinsella of San Diego with this quality tuna. Capt Aaron
Howdy anglers: Today was a fun-filled day of fishing in good weather. We had limits of yellowtail by mid-morning and that gave us more than half the day to focus on bluefin tuna. Most of the day was slow but the last hour and a half proved itself to be worth the wait. We found a large school of 30-40 pounders and some bit.We’re headed home to turn around to hope to repeat what we did today.Wish us luck. Capt Aaron and Searcher crew
Howdy anglers: We have our yellowtail limits for the day and five bluefin tuna. We’re on the lookout for more tuna now. The weather is calm and the sun is out. Wish us luck. Capt aaron and Searcher crew
Hello anglers: Great fishing today a little further south! We had bluefin tuna from 15 to 60 pounds and some small yellowtail 6 to 10 pounds. Plenty of action and lots of fun for most of the day today. Capt Art and John Waggoner from Kentucky pictured
with a nice bluefin tuna.
The weather is great with very little wind and not much sea condition.
Team Searcher
Hello anglers: Currently we are using 30, 40 and 50 pound test line with the equivalant size floro carbon leader. A 4/0 or 5/0 circle hook with a live sardine is the tackle reccomendation. A small 2-speed reel is essential, that way if you are lucky enough to hook one of the heavier bluefin your chances of landing that fish go up.
Team Searcher
Hello anglers: We have had a great morning with steady action on the same grade bluefin tuna–15-50 pound fish. A fly-line sardine and 30 pound line has been the ticket today.We hope we get some action this afternoon like we had late yesterday. Capt
Louis Zimm (right) landed this 40 pound fish today. Capt Greg Noonan with the assist. 
Hello anglers: We had a great day today with good fishing for bluefin tuna. Everyone had a chance at catching a quality fish. We landed several fish in the 40 pound class and a few fish in the 50 -60 pound range. The conditions were not great with lots of wind and chop but we still managed to make a day of it. We are spending the night and trying again tomorrow.
Team Searcher
Hello Celia, Thanks a ton for this photo. As you can see we made a kid very happy with his
first yellowtail. He was very excited to make his first offshore fishing trip and using the Shimano gear. He used a Talica 10II with 50 lb Power Pro and 25lb Shimano FluroCarbon wind-on leader and Terez Rod. His Name is Alayasah Mayfield and he is 13 years old. He was even coaxed into eating part of the yellowtail heart as a ritual still alive here on the West Coast. We fished a 1.5-day trip down to 75 miles south for 56 yellows, 11 bluefin and 1 dorado. A great group of anglers and the trip was sponsored by Sav-On Tackle. Please thank the crew of the Searcher for such a fine memorable trip.
Patrick Gee, G Outdoors, Inc.
Nathan Padilla from Encinitas is pictured with his 50-pound bluefin landed on 20 pound line–a great fish for that size line.
More later, Team Searcher
There is some space available on two 1.5 day trips on Sunday and Tuesday if you’re interested in trying for a quality bluefin tuna and some yellowtail.
