Captain Mike’s Blog

Hello anglers, Today we had excellent fishing for yellowtail–15 to 30 pounds. Most of the fish were landed using flyline sardines with a few landed on dropper-loops on the bottom, yo-yo jigs and surface iron. Yesterday was a great day fishing tuna and today was great for yellowtail. I can’t remember catching this many yellowtail in one spot at Guadalupe Island. This trip will be hard to beat in the future. Tomorrow we will try the north end for a few hours and then head for home with lots of happy passengers. Looking forward to next trip, Capt Art

Hello anglers, It’s a mid-day report from Guadalupe Island. We caught just a fewyellowfin tuna this morning. We had nine fish this morning and since it was slower, we decided to head up the island to try for yellowtail. Everyone has enough yellowfin tuna onboard from the last few days! Currently we are anchored and we are catchin 15 to 18 pound yellowtail. We have landed about 25 fish so far we plan on staying here for a while catching a few more. The other boats fishing for yellowfin tuna have hadsome good action since about 10 a.m. Right after we left the area the fish started to bite a little better, like they did for us yesterday. More later Capt Art

Hello anglers, Thanks to the tremendous effort by Ken Franke of Sportfishing Association of California we obtained our Guadalupe Island permits and we came to the south end last night. This morning the yellowfin tuna started biting right away and we have landed 60 of the 30 to 60# fish! All the fish have been landed on flyline sardines and 40 pound line. The weather is beautiful, the water is warm and there is a pretty good sign of fish. Oh and did I point out it is only 10 a.m.? A great way to start the day. More later, Capt Art

Hello again from Guadalupe, What a phenomenal day we have had–over 100 yellowfin tuna (30 to 70 pounds) and 20 yellowtail (30 to 40 pounds). It just doesn’t get any better than this, with calm weather, great fishing, good people and quality fish being caught by everyone. It is 3:30 pm and we are still landing a few tuna although it has slowed way down. You still can go back there with a live sardine and get a bite if you work at it. More later, Capt Art p.s. Grandpa Adden is taking a nap…that’s how good the fishing was earlier today!

With the abundance of yellowtail at Isla Cedros, Chef Charles is cooking up some fresh fillets on board. This one has a Sauce Vierge, which is an old French sauce technique. Charles uses capers, tomatoes, wine, and anchovies to infuse the olive oil for the grilled fish. It’s served with saffron rice and fresh veggies.

Hello anglers, We spent our day offshore today and went through an old area where albies were caught a couple of weeks ago to keep it honest. Sometimes the fish go down and never move, and pop back up in the same place. We were hoping for that today. Unfortunately it wasn’t the right day. We worked south and found some yellowfin tuna this afternoon and had some jig strikes. The fish averaged 18 pounds with a few smaller and a few bigger. There were a few bait fish caught and I think we ended up catching 45 fish for our efforts today. Not a bad afternoon. More tomorrow, Capt Art

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Hello anglers, We finished our trip today back in the albacore area. Unfortunately the fish were down and there wasn’t much seen or caught. We did try some kelp paddies and each one had a little sign of bluefin tuna, dorado or yellwtail. We also had a yellowfin tuna jig strike. Anyway there are signs of fish in a lot of places and the water is 70 degrees. I think things look very encouraging for the future, More next trip Capt Art p.s. Here’s the “Kevin and Kevin” show: