Captain Mike’s Blog

Hey Anglers, We had a phenomenal day today, with excellent albacore fishing! The fish are 16-25 pounds, with the majority over 20 pounds. Most of the fish were caught on live bait with a few fish on artificial lures. There were plenty of jigstrikes. The black and purple Zuker lure with a amber head was the hot troll feather. Long-time Searcher passenger Hal Guy, from Canoga Park, caught a limit of albies today. Hal had a great day. We are headed for the coast to try for some yellowtail tomorrow for something different. Great fun was had by all today. More tomorrow, Capt Art

Hello Anglers, Today we fished 90 miles south of San Diego. There was some good fishing for several boats in this area today. Unfortunately we had to work for every fish. We ended up with 42 albacore and 1 bluefin tuna. The encouraging thing is the distance between the areas of fish–it’s about twenty miles with signs of albies throughout. The weather is good–less than 15 knots of wind and a 4-6 foot swell. Hopefully we can get the fish located early and stay on them all day. More tomorrow, Capt Art

Check the final trip talley at: https://searchersportfishing.com/trip_reports.asp

Yep–we have eight albacore aboard! We are about 150 miles away from San Diego. One fish was caught on the troll (this one was about 22#) and ther others are bait fish. We’re hoping for more! More later, Capt Art

We finished up our yellowtail fishing at Cedros Island this morning. Everyone has as much yellowtail as they want! We also caught a few nice halibut–Scott Carr, Tony Marasco, and John Stanley were the lucky anglers there. We are heading north to place ourselves in the bluefin tuna and albacore zone. Wish us luck as we try to land the first albacore on our deck for 2007. More later, Capt Art