Captain Mike’s Blog

Hello anglers, Well today wasn’t that productive in the “catching” department. We saw a tremendous sign of albacore with a few scattered yellowfin mixed in, but the majority of the fish didn’t bite. We landed 15 albacore and 5 yellowfin tuna. Most of the other counts were around 50 fish average per boat. Once again the quality is great, with all the albies 30 plus pounds. The yellowfin are over 25 pounds. We are staying the night and fishing here tomorrow. Hoping for better results. We’re encouraged by the sign of fish and the fact they are biting! Capt Art

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Hello anglers, We are extremely fortunate today to catch some fatso albacore. They average 30 pounds with some 40 pounders mixed in. We see good signs of fish and they are biting. We currently have 100 fish onboard and plenty of time left to get some more. There are some yellowfin tuna and bluefin tuna mixed in. The weather is calm and so we plan to stay in the area and try tomorow. Hopefully it isn’t a flash in the pan. More later, Capt Art

Hello anglers, We ended up with 103 albies and 11 yellowfin tuna for our afternoon. It was great fishing! The weather is great too. We are staying another day and looking forward to the oppoetunity to catch this quality albacore again. I pondered travelling tonight ro Cedros Island to fish for yellowtail tomorrow for about 2 or 3 seconds, and then I realized I might have a mutiny on my hands if I left this area! We had our evening meeting to go over today and game plan for tomorrow and we made a toast to our old friend Mark Seals who came on this trip every year and sadly passed away in January. He was here in spirit today and would have enjoyed catching these fish a lot. More tomorrow, Capt Art

We’ll be missing our friend Mark Seals on the next Izorline trip, as he came fishing with them on that trip every year.

We did some rockfish catching on the coast today. Everyone enjoyed the change of pace.

A quick update: We had great fidshing this morning. Everything is the same as yesterday– same conditions, methods, and great fishing for yellowtail! Also we caught two 30# white seabass last night at anchor. More later, Capt Art

Hello anglers, We had another great day at Cedros island–really good fishing in the morning with a lull mid-morning. After lunch we spent some time along the kelp line and had pretty good calico bass fishing. After that we went back to the yellowtail area and caught a few more before leaving. We are headed north tonight and hoping for not too bad a ride. More tomorrow, Capt Art