Trip Reports

Good evening anglers,

We arrived at Guadalupe Island today about 3pm and started working our way down. After a few different anchor jobs and attempts, we glassed a spot of 75-100lb yellowfin jumping around so we ran back up and put the anchor down. About 5:30 they immediately started boiling around. We never hooked one however a nice spot of 20-30lb yellowtail got on us and we started hooking them right away. We ended up with a nice little sample. so we have a good starting point for tomorrow.

Captain Mike and the boys

Hello anglers,

We focused on yellowtail today with some success. All the fish were in the 30-50 pound class and the majority were caught on a live bait and a dropper loop set up. Set up with 80-100 pound line, a 7/0 J-hook, a 16 ounce sinker and send it to the bottom.

Capt Art and Team Searcher

Hello anglers,

We’re having a different day today with different conditions and it’s more difficult to get a bite. So we have to modify our plan. We see plenty of fish today, but they are not in the biting mode . We have high hopes for this afternoon.

More later.

Capt Art and Team Searcher

Hello all,

We  had some action on 60-70 pound yellowfin tuna this morning with opportunities for everyone. The preferred method was to flyline a sardine with 60 pound test and fluorocarbon to match, along with a small 1/0 circle hook.

The weather is great with partly cloudy skies and light winds. Very pleasant conditions!

Capt Art and Team Searcher

Hello angler,

We arrived this afternoon at the island and saw a sign of fish late in the day. We managed to land a few tuna and yellowtail for a sample of what is to come this week! Nice size yellowtail as seen here with John W and one of the two yellowtail he landed this afternoon.

We have high hopes for tomorrow.

Capt Art and Team Searcher

Good morning anglers,

We got a little reprieve in the weather today so we took the opportunity to go around the back side of the island. We had an opportunity on the 40-50lb yellowtail. They were splashing around the boat and we managed to boat a few. The current backed off but were seeing some sign of these 100lb yellowfin right now. Hoping for a big afternoon.

Captain Mike and the boys

Good morning anglers,

Its a different day here as it always is at this island.  We saw some sign of yellowtail and tuna this morning but not the quantity we saw yesterday.  We started hooking tuna right away, but never hooked a yellowtail this morning. We gave it until lunch time and now we’re going to go look around this afternoon.

Captain Mike and the boys

Good morning anglers,

We decided to start in a more protected area of the island today. We saw fair sign of 40-60lb yellowfin and 15-25lb yellowtail here this morning so we kicked it over.  The wind came up shortly after and we have 25-30knots again right now.  The fish didn’t seem to mind though, so we started picking at the yellowfin and yellowtail.  Then just before lunch time the yellows started hitting!  Every bait in the water for about a hour was bit which attributed to fun fishing!  They’re still biting right now into the afternoon so I gotta go, Anglers!

Captain Mike and the boys