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Trip Reports

Aug 13 (3-day trip) Captain Potatohead Memorial and “Fun”raiser

August 13th, 2021|Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Hello anglers,

We left on a special trip today: Captain Potatohead Memorial, our 10th annual memorial trip in honor of Dickie Uranga. His friends, old and those he never met, set out today for fun, friends, and FISHING!

For the fishing part, we had a nice start to the trip at sunset. We had a great school of bluefin tuna and an opportunity to land a few. They are 25-40 pound fish, caught on 25-30 pound line and flouro with a #2 hook and a live sardine.

And we are happy to be raising money for Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PanCan.org) in Dickie’s name. So many donations for his raffle. We’ll raise thousands of dollars!

Captain Art and Team Searcher

Robert A caught a nice bluefin to get things started! We are so grateful to Robert and Melton Tackle for the abundant raffle prizes!

Aug 12 (Extended 1.5 day trip)

August 12th, 2021|Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Hello anglers,

We started yesterday with a few bluefin tuna. We tried last night for a long time and managed to catch  a few. The majority of the fish we saw didn’t cooperate. This morning we have seen multiple spots of fish and are targeting those. The fish arent in the biting mode so far today, but we are hopeful!



Captain Art and Team Searcher

 Here is Jake with a bluefin tuna he landed on a live sardine and 30 pound line and flouro carbon and a #2 hook.

Aug 10 (4-day trip) sponsored by Izorline, Calstar and Tady

August 10th, 2021|Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Good morning anglers,

We have been picking at the yellowtail this morning. Not red hot action, but we are scratching away. Surface iron yo yo lures and fly lined baits today. Beautiful grade of fish again here.

We would like to thank the sponsors for this trip: Tady Lures, Calstar Rods and Izorline. Giveaways and jackpot prizes add to the fun and excitement!

Captain Mike and the boys

Aug 9 (4-day trip) sponsored by Izorline, Calstar and Tady

August 9th, 2021|Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Good morning anglers,

We made a move last night to break the trip up a little and try for some yellowtail.  They started biting at about 630am this morning and bit until about 11 am.  Beatuful grade here 20-30lbs a few bigger a few smaller.  The heavy yo yo jigs were working the best.  Here’s Izorline prostaffer Howard with a slob he caught on the yoyo.

We would like to thank the sponsors for this trip: Tady Lures, Calstar Rods and Izorline. Giveaways and jackpot prizes add to the fun and excitement!

Captain Mike and the boys

Aug 8 (4-day trip) with Izorline

August 8th, 2021|Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Good morning anglers,

We had some pretty good action from midnight until sun up on the flat falls last night fishing for 25-50lb bluefin and yellowfin mix.  Lots of stopping and going, and lots of bites.

We got on a school just after the sun came up and had a very good opportunities. It’s light line plunker fishing on the same fish. Best set up is 25lb line, though we’ve had lots of losses. We’re working on catching some up this morning

Captain Mike and the boys

Good evening anglers,

We had a long afternoon of  bluefin that wouldn’t bite. But we tied into a spot around 3:30 and have been drifting for 4 hours. There’s been 1-4 fish hooked and so we are plunking away. The grade is about 25-50lbs. Fun evening!

We’re going to break the trip up a bit and try catch some yellowtail tomorrow.

Captain Mike and the boys

Aug 5 (7-day trip) Isla Guadalupe

August 5th, 2021|Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Good evening anglers,

We scratched up a few of these big yellowfin and some nice yellowtail this morning. It was a pretty mellow day with most of the anglers hanging out and enjoying the scenery. Everyone has pretty much all the fish they want. Another great day at the island!

Captain Mike and the boys

Aug 4 (7-day trip) Isla Guadalupe

August 4th, 2021|Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Good morning anglers,

We had a bit of a slow morning. We didn’t get established well, and just picked a few big yellowfin and a few nice big yellowtail.

So we decided to make a move up the island and we ran into a large school of these Guadalup- grade yellowtail and they’re biting right now!  Heavy line on the mackeral seems to work the best right now. Gotta go!

Captain Mike and the boys

Good evening anglers,

We had another epic day!  The afternoon really ramped up after lunch and these Guadalupe-grade yellowtail were biting pretty good.  The yo yo lures,  dropper loops and flylined sardines worked, but the flylined spanish mackerel seemed to be the hot bait again.

Later in the afternoon the tuna started to get on us and we started picking on 50-110lb yellowfin.  Pretty phenomenal day!  We’re going to try make bait again tonight.

Captain Mike and the boys

The process and the result

Aug 3 (7-day trip) Isla Guadalupe

August 3rd, 2021|Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Good morning anglers,

Classic Guadalupe-style fishing today.  We were steadily picking up pace all morning on 70-130lb yellowfin.  We’ve been relatively busy during lunch time as well!.  The sharks have backed off a bit today compared to yesterday.  Flurry-style fishing on 80lb, so we’re capitalizing on our opportunities today to make the best of our inconsistent conditions.  Gotta go!

Captain Mike and the boys

Here's Dale with a 120lber!

Good afternoon anglers:

We had a pretty good shooter here this afternoon. These 70-140+lbers were biting well after lunch. It shut down around 4pm, but for a few hours we had some good action.  The hot bait was the spanish mackeral we made last night on fly lined 80lb. We had a lot fewer casualties today because of that.

We saw some good sign of yellowtail this evening so we're going to give it a shot tonight after making some bait.

Pictured is Wendy T, pro-staffer from Izorline, and Rob with his 145# tuna from today.

Captain Mike and the boys



Aug 2 (7-day trip) Isla Guadalupe

August 2nd, 2021|Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Good morning anglers,

We have been scratching at the 20-35lb yellowtail and the 70-110lb yellowfin this morning. Quite a bit of it is boiling around, but it’s pretty tough to get a bite this morning.  We are, however, seeing plenty of sign.  We tried to catch some yellowtail last night and we caught one noteworthy yellowtail.  

Captain Mike and the Boys

Here’s Mark with a Guadalupe-grade yellowtail, 48lbs!

Good evening anglers,

We had some pretty good action this afternoon on this 70-110lb yellowfin tuna.  We made a short move up the island and found some better biting fish.  We had some good action around lunch time and right after lunch.  It tapered off around 3 p.m., but we were still able to pick.  We’re going to top up our bait supply tonight and try again in the morning.

Captain Mike and the boys

Tammy and her 100+lber!

Aug 1 (7-day trip) Isla Guadalupe

August 2nd, 2021|Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Good evening anglers,

We arrived on scene with our annual Turner’s Outdoorsman and Izorline sponsored 7-day trip and got situated around 4pm.  We see good sign of 25-35lb yellowtail and 80-100lb yellowfin.  There’s a lack of condition (no current) this afternoon where we put the anchor down which made for tough fishing, but we scratched up some quality fish. Anglers fishing the lighter line did not fare well, but the anglers fishing the heavier line landed a few.  The sharks are around and gettting a few but it’s not horrendous. A 60lb outfit seemed to be the key to getting bit and landing one of these beauties.

Captain Mike and the boys

Bob B got a nice one late in the day

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