Trip Reports

Good morning,

We have been scratching on these premium-grade yellowtail all morning today.  All of them have been associated with kelp patties. They are primarily 12-20#–a few smaller and a few bigger, but lots of fun this morning.

Captain Mike and the boys (and Christine)

Good evening,

We had a very fun day of fishing yellowtail and dorado on kelps today.  We had action all day.

Beautiful weather and biting fish–what more could you ask for?

We’re going to slide down the beach and see if we can locate some yellowfin tuna and maybe some more dorado and yellowtail.

Captain Mike and the boys (and Christine)

Good evening,

We departed on our annual 4-day Accurate Fishing sponsored trip this morning and started heading down the beach.  Late in the afternoon today we started seeing large schools of big bluefin though the fish didn’t bite. We had one school that boiled up and we got one short bite. 

We stopped on a few kelps with fish on them that didn’t really bite either but we managed one nice yellowtail and one nice dorado for our afternoon.  We’re going to look around west of here tomorrow for a kelp.

Captain Mike and the boys

Good morning,

We got lucky this morning and scored a nice big kelp with a school of 12-20# yellowtail  that were biting pretty good.  Good action! We’re looking for more this afternoon.

Captain Mike and the boys

EVENING REPORT

Good evening,
It was a tough day for us.  We got into a kelp zone late and there were just scraps left. So we kept rolling down and bumped into another large area of non-biting bluefin which we tried for a little while for one bite.

We did see fish on kelps, but we just couldn’t get any bites. So we’re going to try again tomorrow morning.

Captain Mike the boys

EVENING REPORT

Good morning ,

We traveled yesterday to get to the bluefin grounds in time for a night bite.  We saw very good sign throughout the night of 50-200# fish.  They didn’t bite all that well, but we had a couple opportunities–once right when we got here and one right before the sun came up.

We’re seeing very good sign again with the sun up here this morning but they are not biting yet. Stay tuned!

Captain Mike and the boys

Good evening,

We looked at these same fish all day today.  It was very frustrating at times since there are plenty of fish but it’s hard for us to get a bite, and even harder to land.  We did manage to land a few and they were nice ones.

We still see it here before sunset and we’re going to see what the first few hours of the night bring, then move on.

Captain Mike and the boys

Hello anglers,
After a very slow day and night yesterday we decided to head south for some action with yellowtail on kelp paddies. We found a few kelps that have some nice size yellows on them!

The weather is nice with light winds very little seas and the sun is coming out. More later,

Capt Art and Team Searcher

Good morning,

We marked one of our kelps from yesterday with our satelite buoy and hit it a few times this morning  We loaded up on it and took off around noon. The kelp paddy was flying to the south and we’re a long way from home.

We had wide open fishing on 12-20# yellowtail again.  Very fun morning and the weather is nice as well.

Captain  Mike and the boys

Good morning,

We looked locally at some school-grade bluefin tuna yesterday and had no success. So we decided to slide down the beach last night.

We’ve spent our day kelping this morning and have finally found our first biting kelp.  We’re seeing quite a bit of quality dorado and yellowtail on them.  The first few kelps didn’t bite, but the last one did. The yellowtail are 10-25# and the dorado are 8-14#.

Good action, fun fishing, good weather.

Captain Mike and the boys

Good evening,

We had a big day today.  We found a few more kelps that were biting pretty good. It’s the same grade of fish. Very good action on quality grade of fish.  We were catching them every way you could think of surface iron, yoyo lures, fly lined baits, colt snipers .. all of the above.

We’re going to try again in the morning.

Captain Mike and the boys

Good morning,

We are seeing this yellowfin this morning though they are not biting all that well yet. We have scraped up a few yellowtail and captured a dorado as well this morning however.  Hoping for a shot this afternoon. Tough conditions this morning.

Captain Mike and the boys

Good evening,

Things started to look up around lunchtime. We had a good shot at these 18-25lb yellowfin.  They were boiling all around the boat but it fizzled out after we caught a couple handfuls. We couldn’t get another one to go. 

Then it fell flat  so we started to work out to the west looking for a kelp. Tough conditions this afternoon. The wind has come down a little but its still choppy.

Captain Mike and the boys