Trip Reports

Good morning,

Full speed and “all you want” action on 10-15# yellowfin this morning.  We stopped on a school while everyone was eating breakfast and it was aquarium-style fishing.  They were biting 100# in the corner.  Anglers tagged whatever they wanted to keep and we moved on.

Working up we ran into a few kelps and got some good action on 10-18# dorado as well.  We tagged what we wanted to keep. Very fun fishing this morning so far and we’ve fished 5 out of 5 days on this trip.

We’re headed west to try catch a few trophies for the last couple days (and nights) to finish the trip off.

Captain Mike and the boys

Good afternoon,

We camped out last night and had a repeat on the yellowtail this morning.  Wide open action 12-#18lb fish.  Excellent yo yo/surface iron fishing, as well as the fly lined baits.  We got our fix on the yellowtail and we’re rolling up to fish tuna and see if we can find a kelp in our travels.

Captain Mike and the boys

Good evening,

We got down to where the yellowtail fishing had been excellent only to find that the water had rolled over.  There was very little sign of it this morning.  We scratched a few one at a time.  We sat it out until about lunchtime, hoping it would change it but it never did. So we picked the anchor up and started looking further down the beach. We bumped into an eager school of yellowtail this afternoon and it was full speed any way you wanted them! Good action here for a couple of hours.

Captain Mike and the boys

Good evening,

With reports of slow fishing from down below, we put the brakes on last night.  There was sign of 40-60#yellowfin just 100 miles from home, so we decided to spend the day looking for it.  We never saw it however ,we did see very good sign of school-grade yellowfin and good-grade dorado.  We got a little action in to break the day up.  We didn’t want to tag too much this early in the trip, but it was a fun afternoon.

We’re rolling down the beach to do some yellowtail fishing tomorrow.

Captain Mike and the boys

Hello anglers,

We started in the yellowfin tuna and dorado area south of San Diego this morning. It didn’t take long to find a kelp paddie that had a nice school of dorado. It was easy to get a bite with a live sardine on 25# line. Now we’re looking for some tuna.

Captain Art and Team Searcher

Hello anglers,

We had a few more dorado this afternoon and a chance at some good-size yellowfin tuna. The tuna were 25-40# and we landed them on 25# line and a live sardine.

Capt Art and Team Searcher

Hello anglers:

We’ve had great fishing again this morning with the same conditions, and plenty of yellowtail for everyone. Flyline live sardines were the best method today.  Lots of big bonito as well (released). So there was constant action all morning.

We are travelling north now and hoping for some action on yellowfin tuna tomorrow.

Captain Art and Team Searcher

Hello anglers,

We had good action this afternoon for 12-20# yellowtail and lots of 6-12# bonito (released). A flylined live sardine was the biggest success, with some being landed on dropper loop rigs and a few on yo-yo lures as well.

It was worth the long ride to get to somewhere we could stop the boat and fish. We are spending the night and trying again tomorrow. Then we’ll head back north to try for dorado and tuna. 

Captain Art and Team Searcher