Captain Mike’s Blog

1.5-day trip passengers: Please note that arrival times back to the landing are averaging closer to 11 a.m. than 8 a.m. due to the distance and bite time of the albacore. But look at what you have a chance to catch!

Howdy anglers, Today was a refreshing day! To start, we had awesome weather with no more than 10 knots of wind and we got some fish! Both quality and quantity. We started off with some dorado and some yellowtail and then the albies started in. The dorado were up to 15lbs and we got 7 of those golden jumpers. Then we got 22 yellows and those were all nice-grade fish (from 12 to 35 pounders) off of kelps. Then we had some great stops for the longfins, including jigstrikes and bait fish. We even caught a few on the Fish Trap lure and even one on a big “flatfish” — just like the little ones we use for trout. The grade of those fish were 15 to 40lbs and we caught 71 of those. Along those albies, we caught 3 bluefin (30 to 50lbs), and can’t forget the 1 big fat skipjack too! Tip of the day- taking your time and picking a good bait. These fish were not line shy. Guys were getting them on 40lb with no flourocarbon. Capt Kevin and crew

Capt Kevin has about 30 albacore, 20 yellowtail, and 7 dorado aboard so far (29 anglers). He says they have been scratching at the tuna all day and is hoping to find a bigger school to drive over this afternoon. Another boat in the area had a stop for 20 tuna earlier. The weather is great and the forecast says it should stay that way in the near future. The arrival on Thursday will be late morning. Stay tuned!

Hello anglers, Today was a repeat of yesterday with slow fishing in the morning. Unfortunately the weather is up today with 15 to 18 knots and it was choppy. We did see a good school of bluefin tuna that gave us hope for the afternoon but it didn’t want to bite. Other boats in the area also saw some bluefin tuna. After lunch we had a couple of short stops on albacore and around 3 pm we saw a school of bluefin tuna that boiled on our chum. We stopped and caught 6 albacore. It was exciting for a few minutes with fish jumping and boiling on our chum. We were running short on time and we managed to catch a few more albacore before we had to head home. We ended up landing 23 albacore for the day. The encouraging thing is that some of the boats had stops on bluefin tuna after we left. We hope that with the weather forecast getting better our next trip will produce good fishing. There seems to be a better fish bite with good weather and fish biting recently. Capt Kevin will be running the next three trips so look forward to his reports. Capt Art

Anglers: Art reported a few albacore caught early this morning but will call in with the day’s report later. Due to on-line booking and call-in reservations happening simultaneously, the July 17-19 is overbooked by one. There are lots of spots open now on the July 19-21 trip in case anyone would like to switch. Book soon! celia

Hello anglers, Today we started our day with a few albacore at sunrise and then we drove around for most of the day with just an occasional jig strike. After 6 pm we had our best action with a stop at dark for 35 albacore and 20 bluefin tuna up to 50 pounds. The Iwamura family did really well, landing 8 of the 20 bluefin tuna. Gary had 5 of the 8! We ended up landing 71 albacore and 20 bluefin tuna. The weather is great and so we are hopeful for an earlier bite tomorrow. There are still a few openings on our 1.5 day trip leaving the 19th, call Celia and get in on some of this great fishing. You will need a 25 and a 40 pound outfit and some 2/0 to 4/0 j-hooks for live bait fishing. More tomorrow, Capt Art