Trip Reports

Hello anglers:

Captain Art and Team Searcher

Hello anglers:

The tuna fishing continues to be good and everyone now has plenty. The weather has changed significantly with more wind, so we’ll be watching where we go from here.

We were able to troll around this morning and had some wahoo action. We are hoping to try again after lunch.

Captain Art and Team Searcher

Hello anglers:

Great action on 12-35# tuna this morning. The tuna started to bite before daylight and continued until 10 am. Everyone had a great chance  at landing a yellowfin. Live sardine was the best method.

We trolled for wahoo and found a few in the afternoon. There was some opportunities and half the group landed a wahoo.

Captain Art and Team Searcher

Hello anglers:

We arrived at the 13 fathom spot ths afternoon. We trolled around for an hour with no wahoo strikes, so we dropped the anchor.

We had some action on 12- 40 pound yellowfin tuna. We stayed busy until sunset and everyone had a chance at a tuna.

We are spending the night and trying again tomorrow.

Captain Art and Team Searcher

Hello anglers:

It’s rigging day.

We had a seminar this morning to cover all the methods possible for the next few days on The Ridge. The great thing about The Ridge is the variety. When you cast out, you never know what you’re going to catch. We hope to have some action on yellowfin tuna, yellowtail, dorado and wahoo.

Everyone is in the process, with crew help, of getting set up for tomorrow afternoon.

Captain Art and Team Searcher

Hello all,

We had a seminar this morning covering all the methods possible for the next few days on the Ridge! The great thing about the ridge is the variety. When you cast out you never know what you’re going to catch. We hope to have some action on yellowfin tuna, yellowtail , dorado and wahoo. Everyone is in the process with the crew help getting set up for tomorrow afternoon. Here is Shane setting up some of our loaner gear with new linne for one of our passengers.

Captain Art & Team Searcher

EVENING REPORT

Good evening,

On the slower side for yellowtail fishing today. We had a good shot in the morning but I think we weren’t quite ready. We saw fish later in the afternoon that didn’t cooperate.  Lots of big bass and other miscellaneous throughout the day though.

Captain Mike and the boys

EVENING REPORT

Good morning,

We are kelping our way up to be in position to fish yellowtail tomorrow. We’ve had a couple good kelps this morning for “all-you-want” dorado. No wahoo on any of them yet. We didn’t tag a whole lot of fish today since anglers are saving tags for tomorrow.

Starting to get a little breezy here now hopefully theres a wahoo kelp on the bow.

Captain Mike and the boys

Good evening,

We had a good day down here on The Ridge.  Some wahoo showed up late morning and we were able to scratch away throughout the day. We got a few good opportunities and scored a little better than a couple around. They are very nice fish–30 to 60#.  Very fun fishing and beautiful weather. We’re moving up the coast tonight to try get a kelp tomorrow.

Captain Mike and the boys

Good morning,

We had some action this morning on 12-40lb yellowfin which started right when the sun came up and lasted a few hours.  There was a little bit of shaking going on (to release smaller ones), but it was pretty good fishing  with 1-3 fish at a time.

We picked the anchor up and are trolling around looking for wahoo now.

Captain Mike and the boys

Good evening,

We never got a shot at a wahoo in our tour today, never even saw one. We had no current at all from about 930am -4pm.  We managed to scratch up a few nice grouper throughout the day along with some yellowtail.

We did get another hit on these tuna late in the day though. We had some pretty fun fishing this afternoon!

We’re going to make a move further down The Ridge to see if we can catch some skinnies tomorrow morning.

Captain Mike and the boys