Good morning anglers,
We picked off a few yellows here in the dark on the dropper loop. We have been scratching ever since. No big hits but we’re accumulating fish as we go. Most of the fish are coming on the yoyo and surface iron. There’s lots of action here with big bass, a couple seabass and a big halibut . Brochure weather down here. We’ll check in later.
Captain Mike and the boys
Bill caught this big halibut at dawn
Good morning anglers,
We’ve had a very good morning here on the Ridge. Great action on the wahoo and mixed grade yellowfin tuna from 10-40lbs. Good action all morning drifting them up. Not many troll fish, mostly caught on the bait and bombs and surface irons. Excellent sign down here in the morning. The signal has kind of diminished this afternoon so we’re taking off and heading for the beach for tomorrow.
Captain Mike and the boys
Jack with a quality yellowfin tuna he caugh on the fly-lined bait
Good evening anglers,
We had a pretty great day here on the ridge. Great action on the wahoo, Good tuna fishing. Some big dorado mixed in. Beautiful weather. Today’s action made the 500 miles of travel to get down here worth it. We’re traveling up this afternoon to be in position to fish yellowtail on the beach tomorrow. Epic wahoo bite this afternoon!
Capt Mike and the boys
John with another nice ‘hoo caught on the bomb in our epic wahoo bite
Good morning anglers,
We’ve been scratching at the wahoo all morning here. Very tough fishing here this morning but were managing to catch a few. They are all nice ones 30-50lbs. Very few troll fish–most of the wahoo have come from wahoo bombs and live bait. We also had a little lunch time action on 12-25lb yellowfin. There is some sign of that here. We’re hoping for an afternoon hit here.
Here is Garrick with a quality one that ate the green bomb.
Good evening anglers
We were able to keep scratching away at the wahoo and sacked up a couple more yellowfin here this afternoon. It’s still tough to get a bite. Long drifts and picking away at them was the method here. There was quite a bit of yacht traffic this afternoon which I think that may have hampered our efforts. We’re going to try again in the morning before we start heading up.
Captain Mike and the boys
Doug, Dave and Todd with a handful of skinnys caught on the drift
Good evening anglers,
We didn’t get a big hit like we were hoping for when we got here this afternoon. However we did get a small sample of wahoo and some yellowfin tuna. We’re hoping for a night bite later. We’ll check in in the morning.
Captain Mike and the boys
Here’s John with a wahoo he trolled up
Good morning anglers,
We’ve been traveling for two days down to The Ridge. Lots of rigging and tackle talks going on yesterday. Looks like were going to be there around noon today. Everyone’s very excited as we are about 20 miles out right now looking for a a kelp. We’ll check back later.
Captain Mike and the boys
Good morning anglers,
We’ve had some pretty epic fishing here today on mixed grade yellowtail, big bass, big dorado, a big halibut and all sorts of other stuff to go along with it. Fly-ined baits, yoyo jigs and surface irons have been the “go to” for the game fish today.
Captain Mike and the boys
Joe (right) and his 25lb dorado caught while fly lining for yellowtail!
Good evening anglers,
We had an interruption in email for a day, but we’ve been busy! It was pretty epic fishing this all day. Good fishing on mixed grade yellowtail in the 10-20lb range. Lots of big bass came on board, and a handful of halibut.
The best way to catch the yellowtail today seemed to be using the lures. The surface iron and the yoyo jigs were the best way to get a bite. Brochure weather again here today and good fishing.
Captain Mike and the boys
Bob and Rich show off a couple of yoyo yellows!
Good evening anglers,
We looked at a lot of unproductive kelps this morning in beautiful 74.5 degree water. We decided to slide into the beach this afternoon to try for some yellowtail. We found some, but they just did not want to bite. We managed a handful of 18-22lb yellowtail and this 40lb sea bass! We will be on the beach again tomorrow looking for yellowtail.
Captain Mike and the boys
Pat caught this 40# sea bass on a dropper loop
Good evening anglers,
We’ve been scratching on these big bluefin all day here most of them are 120-150lbs everyone got one today. Very good sign in this zone today. The 30-50lb bluefin we’ve been seeing did not want to bite until after the sun went down. We had a bit of a ripper on the flat falls this evening during dinner for the guys who wanted to try on the 30-50lbers with some 90lbers mixed in. That’s your hot Tackle Tip from the tuna grounds. It was a great way to end the day here. We’re going to start traveling south tonight and see what the next few days brings.
Captain Mike and the boys
Here’s Bob with a 150lber.
Good afternoon anglers,
We made a pit stop on our way home and scraped up a couple handfuls of yellowtail this morning. We didn’t catch many but they were all big ones (18-25lbs). They all came on the yo-yo lure. We were fishing deeper today so the full size salas 6x and the tady 4/0 were the way to go. Here’s Justin and Dale again with a nice one to finish off the trip with.
Captain Mike and the boys
A beautiful yellowtail to finish off the trip!
Good morning anglers,
We’ve had a great morning here steadily picking on mixed grade yellowtail. They’re all coming on the yoyos and the fly lined sardine. The fish are 10-30lbs, with most of them are in the 15 lb range. A handful are 28-30lbs. Good steady action here. We’ll check back later.
Captain Mike and the boys
p.s. Check out the new Tackle Tip Thursday on yo-yo irons!
Paul and our first fish of the day
Good evening anglers,
Our bite in the morning tapered off just before lunch so we took off in search of more. We were not disappointed. We had a sonar school this afternoon of 12-15lb biting yellowtail. Fly-lined baits and yo yo jigs were the best method again. We’re going to be traveling up the line and fishing the beach somewhere again tomorrow.
Captain Mike and the boys
Chuck’s nice one!
