Captain Mike’s Blog

Hey anglers, Today we fished offshore. We looked for yellowtail and dorado on kelp paddies. We saw several paddies but only a few had fish on them. We landed 35 yellowtail and 7 dorado for our efforts today. We also caught a 15-pound bluefin tuna on the troll. We are headed for Cedros Island tonight and will arrive tomorrow morning early. We will have two days to fish there. On the local scene there was some albacore seen and caught around 100 south of San Diego by some of the boats so hopefully that fish stays up and biting for a while. More tomorrow, Capt Art

The last day’s report didn’t come through, but they had 36 albacore, 3 yellowfin tuna, and 2 bluefin. All the Idaho guys got an albacore, which were all in the 30-37# range. The jackpot fish was a 37.2# fish. See the jackpot details at: https://searchersportfishing.com/trip_reports.asp.

Hey anglers, Today we spent the morning travelling in calm seas towards yesterday’s hot albacore zone. The reports were good from the fleet so we hoped to arrive just after lunch. When we got there the reports were poor from the rest of the fleet and unfortunately it didn’t improve after we arrived. There was a sign of albacore and yellowfin tuna in the 25 pound class. We managed to land 7 yellowfin tuna and 2 lonely dorado for our efforts today. The weather is still calm and there is still a sign of fish in the area. The conditions look good so we are going to stay here and hope today was a down day. More tomorrow, Capt Art

Hey anglers, We had a great day of fishing today, with more good fishing this afternoon–good enough so that everyone got enough yellowtail for the trip. So we are travelling north to try for albacore and maybe some bluefin and yellowfin tuna. We will have 1 and a 1/2 days in the tuna zone offshore. It sounds like there are some good spots of fish around but they don’t bite all that well. Hopefully that will change. More tomorrow, Capt Art

Hey anglers, Excellent fishing for yellowtail this morning at Cedros Island. The weather is great and the fish are biting. We are landing fish from 12 to 30 pounds. The best method is a flyline sardine with 25 – 40 pound line. A few fish are being caught on surface iron and yo-yo iron. More later Capt Art

Howdy anglers, Today was a great day for us, we started out in the morning with a gray bite! The weather was in our favor again and the fish were biting for us most of the morning and we had a little action in the afternoon. We are headed in tonight with 59 fish–5 bluefin and 1 yellowfin and the rest were all nice 20 to 37 pound longfins. So the tip today was using a good bait, getting away from the crowd and not casting on the stern. Avoiding all the mess was definitey the ticket to a better chance of landing a fish. Good angling and hope to see ya on the water soon, Capt. Aaron