Captain Mike’s Blog

Hey Anglers, We looked at a lot of really good water today with good temperatures and color. We found lots of bait and a few birds. Unfortunately we didn’t find any fish. The weather is good and we have high hopes for tomorrow. The new tackle box area is working out great with plenty of room for everyone’s boxes. More tomorrow, Capt Art

Thanks to the anglers who brought a friend fishing this trip. They each won a thank-you gift and are now entered into the raffle for a new rod and reel and a free trip in 2009. See our Sonar page for details. Shown here are a Shimano reel bag, Izorline spectra, and a $50 credit for Five-Star Fish Processing.

See the note about Charles under “News.”

Hello anglers! We have been working hard on Searcher (she turned 38 years old this week) for the last month. We have created improved and enlarged areas for tackle box storage and reconfigured our engine hatches. The crew and I have been putting in some long hours over several weeks to get this done as well as complete other maintenance like painting and re-fiberglassing during our annual dry-dock period. It appears like the timing is perfect for this project to wrap up, since the tuna are showing up! Capt Art

Hey anglers, Yesterday we fished San Benito island. We arived there in the afternoon. We had a little action on good size yellowtail in various spots. There was a good sign of fish on all the spots but it didn’t want to bite all that well. Today we fished the coast south of Cedros island and Cedros island itself. We had great fishing on 12-18 pound yellowtail on yo-yo irons and dropper loops. After lunch we moved up to the lee of Cedros and we had a good bite on those big yellows–25-35 pounds–late in the day. What a way to end our fishing season for 2007 with more of those great fish! Headed for the coast tonight to stay out of the weather. Hoping for god travelling home tomorrow, Capt Art

Hey anglers, We had another day at Guadalupe Island fishing for quality size yellowfin tuna. We landed 13 fish and almost everyone has a tuna. We had a few fish on the kite today so that made it exciting. We tried our best to get everyone a tuna and almost succeeded. Joe Preciado had a good day, landing three of those nice tuna. We are headed east tonight and we will be about 50 miles west of the coast looking for kelp paddies and dorado tomorrow morning with the plan of fishing for yellowtail in the afternoon. The weather is good and so we hope to have good conditions for looking in the morning. Capt Art

Hey anglers, Our second day at Guadalupe Island unfortunately wasn’t as productive as we had hoped. We landed 10 yellowfin tuna that were 30- 50 pounds. We saw a lot of fish but couldn’t get them to bite. Ed Cash from Idaho caught a nice tuna on the kite. Taryn Vidovich cauhgt her largest tuna to date. We are staying one more day with hopes of the tuna biting and getting everyone a quality tuna. More tomorrow, Capt Art

Hey anglers, We decided to try something different this trip. We had favorable reports from Guadalupe Island of 40 -50 pound yellowfin tuna biting a little, and unfavorable reports from Alijos Rocks where there was not much sign of tuna or wahoo. We opted for more fishing time and less travel time. We arrived at Guadalupe at 1 pm today and we immediately saw yellowfin tuna boiling on our baits. We landed 10 tuna from 30 -50 pounds and we saw a lot more fish today. Greg and Gordon Cash from Idaho each caught their first tuna today. We hope they bite a little tomorrow. More then. Capt Art