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Trip Reports

Aug 12 (Aug 11-14) Captain Potatohead Memorial and Fun-raiser

August 13th, 2023|Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Good evening:
Epic day on the water today. It felt like we were at Guadalupe Island picking on 100# fish for most of the the day on the anchor.  We would get waves of 30# and waves of 60# fish, but we kept 3-5 going all day. Most of what we caught were 70-120# fish.
Excellent sign and excellent fishing, all fly-line fishing.  We’re on the hunt for something else to mix it up here.
Captain Miike and the boys
p.s. Check out our YouTube channel for a recent series of videos on bluefin tuna fishing methods and tackle, including fly-line methods

Aug 11 (Aug 11-14) Captain Potatohead Memorial and Fun-raiser

August 12th, 2023|Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Good morning,
 
We had a little shot from 1am to 3am this morning on 100# bluefin tuna.  It took us awhile to find a school, but we did find a few biting schools and got a few opportunities  At about 4am we made a move to look for some smaller daytime biting fish.   
We didn’t find them but we got on a nice school of mixed-grade fish 30-130# mostly 70-100# fish.  We’ve been getting steady action all morning with 3-5 fish going.  Very fun flyline fishing. Best methods are 50# test and  a small hook.
 
Captain Mike and the boys
 
p.s. Check out our YouTube channel for a recent series of videos on bluefin tuna fishing methods and tackle.

Aug 10 (Aug 9-11) FD Rover Charter

August 10th, 2023|Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Good evening,
 
We’re wrapping up our 2-day trip we had excellent fishing on mixed grade bluefin in the 25-100# range.  We got on scene last night around 9pm and scratched away on 50-100# fish.  Then when the sun came up we started hooking them on our day time tackle. 
We managed a few but spent most of the morning trying to locate some more managable fish. We got on a biting school of 25-40# fish in the early afternoon and drifted until it was time to go home. Beautiful weather and good fishing.
 
Captain Mike and the boys
 

Aug 7 (Aug 5-9) 4-day Izorline Open with Norm and Howard

August 8th, 2023|Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Good Afternoon,
Yesterday we did a little island fishing and had a few nice yellows and some action on the calicos.  It was a nice mellow day after a long couple nights.  We opted to slide down the beach to mix it up and we’re scratching a few dorado on kelps now.  The beautiful weather continues.
Captain Mike and the boys

Norm, the Izorline guy!

Aug 7 (Aug 5-9) 4-day Izorline Open with Norm and Howard

August 7th, 2023|Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Good morning,
Pretty awesome 24 hours we’ve had on these bluefin today! It’s been an xcellent sign and response from these 60-120lb fish.  There was  a little bit of daytime action yesterday followed by good biting nighttime fishing.  These 100# fish were biting and we were on them until we had enough.
Anglers caught what they wanted and we bailed around 0230 in the morning. Excellent signal and excellent fishing.  We’re on the hunt for something else today.
Captain Mike and the boys

Congrats to our longtime Searcher angler, Ed W!

Aug 6 (Aug 5-9) 4-day Izorline Open with Norm and Howard, part 2

August 7th, 2023|Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Good evening,
We spent most of the day plunking away on mixed-grade fish that were 30-100#.  It was hard to get a bite at times. We did have one very good opportunity though.
Seeing very good sign and we’re starting to catch them again now with the sun down.
Captain Mike and the boys

Aug 6 (Aug 5-9) 4-day Izorline Open with Norm and Howard

August 6th, 2023|Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Good morning,
We arrived on scene just before midnight and struggled to find anything to stop on for awhile. But in the late hours of the morning, we got our shot.  We had some good opportunites on 100# bluefin from 3 am to 5 am.  When the sun came up we had a quick shot on school-grade fish.
We’re currently in a plunker on mixed-grade (30-100lbs). Calm weather, good fishing.
Captain Mike and the boys

Aug 1 (Jul 28-Aug 5) 8-day Izorline and Turner’s Outdoors Open

August 2nd, 2023|Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Good evening,
We worked up all day and made various grouper drifts throughout the day. We also scratched up some more yellowtail midday. We got up to the “13” this evening and had a little sun downer on the yoyo lures for 10-25lb yellowtail.  Fun day.
We’re going to keep rolling up this evening.
Captain Mike and the boys

Jul 31 (Jul 28-Aug 5) 8-day Izorline and Turner’s Outdoors Open

July 31st, 2023|Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Good morning,
 
We arrived on the “23” at about 6am this morning to an incredible sign of 18-30lb yellowfin tuna.  We got the anchor down and started picking away.  It didn’t take long before it was full speed, and all you want, any way you wanted to catch them!.   We got our fix and were looking for something else to catch now.
 
Captain Mike and the boys
 

Smiling Teresa and her tuna

 
 

Jul 30 (Jul 28-Aug 5) 8-day Izorline and Turner’s Outdoors Open

July 30th, 2023|Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Good afternoon,
We started at San Pablo this morning and saw pretty good sign of 10-15lb yellowtail with a few bigger ones mixed in.  We had a few go-arounds on the lures and the sardines, then took off looking down the beach. We tagged a couple each but didnt want to overdo it. We’re hoping to find some bigger ones further down the beach.
Captain Mike and the boys

Fish Taco Chronicle writer Logan F shows off his yellow and the lure that got him!

Good evening,
We worked down all day and scratched a few more yellowtail here and there along with some nice dorado.  We ended the day on some biting yellowfin tuna in the 15-25lb range. It was very fun fishing. We’re sliding down again and going to be on The Ridge in the morning.
Captain Mike and the boys

Turner’s Outdoorsman Lori S (San Marcos store) and her score

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