Good evening anglers,
As the day progressed action slowed down, but we were able to pick away on these big yellowtail right up until dark. The majority of the fish were about 35-40 lbs. Our biggest landed today weighed in just shy of 50lbs.
Here’s Ryan and Bryan S. with the last fish of our trip weighing in at 47.2 lbs. Bryan caught it with a mackerel on the dropper loop, and fishing 100lb.
Captain Mike and the Boys
Good morning anglers,
We have been picking at these big yellows all morning. We have landed a handful in the 45lb range, with most of the fish coming over the rail right about 35lbs. We have had these big yellowfin boiling all around the boat all morning. We’ve only landed a couple though.
Captain Mike and the Boys
Good evening anglers,
We had steady action on these big brute yellowtail this afternoon. We were hooking them on the dropper loop mackerel, fly line mackerel and yoyo jigs. The only way to land them seemed to be if you fished 80 or 100lb. We had heavy casualties due to the sharp rocks on the bottom here. Here’s Alan with a yellowtail he caught on the dropper loop. We’re going to try make some bait again tonight and try fish these big yellows again in the morning.
Captain Mike and the Boys
Hello anglers,
We moved up the island a ways this morning and we found fish. We got on a mix of yellowfin tuna and yellowtail. The yellowfin are 50-60lbs and the yellowtail are 25-40lbs. We see bigger fish around and working on landing some.Here is Bryan and Pax with a 35lb yellowtail and a 50 lb yellowfin.
They’re boiling all around the boat right now hopefully they keep biting. Wish us luck.
~Captain Mike and the Boys
Good evening anglers,
We had a slow day of fishing this afternoon. There is good sign of this mixed grade 30-60lb fish here. It boiled around the boat for hours, but we struggled to get them to bite the hook. Most of the fish we did hook didn’t come up whole, or got away Hopefully we paid our dues here today. Here’s a 50+lb that fell victim to the tax man. We’ll check back in the morning.
Captain Mike and the Boys
Good morning anglers,
We got to the Guadalupe Island this morning at sunrise and started seeing scattered fish right away. It did not take long for us to find a nice school of mixed grade yellowfin tuna 30-60lbs. We have landed a few and lost a few as of now. They are boiling all around the boat. We’re going to hang in tough here and wait for bite time.
Here is Tim and Captain Armando with the first yellowfin tuna to hit the deck today.
~Captain Mike and the Boys
Good Morning anglers,
With the amount of fish we saw yesterday we opted to stay local this morning and take a shot at these Bluefin tuna again. Before the sun came up we had just enough light to see and spotted a mega school of size extra large bluefin. We had a little shot for a few hours this morning. We hooked around 15-20 80-200lb bluefin before 8:30am. Talk about starting your day off right. The school we stopped on was really a sight to see. They blew up all around the boat. Early in the stop we managed to land a couple of the “smaller” models on your tackle tip of the day flat falls. As the stop progressed we started getting bites on the fly-lined sardine. We then proceeded to get spooled and bit off over and over again. We were definitely out matched and under gunned. Time for us to pack in and move on. We are traveling south to our next destination. Beautiful traveling weather were going to be looking all day on our way south today.
Here’s Me (Captain Mike) and Ted with what was a 90lb class bluefin tuna he landed. Well most of it, this one had its tail bitten off by a mako shark.
~Captain Mike and The Boys
Good morning anglers,
We left yesterday on our Accurate sponsored 7 day trip. We opted to fish local today due to weather and the quality of fishing in our backyard at the moment. We found a school of mixed grade yellowfin right at day light and managed to pick a few mixed grade yellowfin. Here’s Bob B with an 18lb yellowfin he caught on a flylined sardine. Were off in the hunt for more right now. We’ll check back later.Captain Captain Mike and the boys
Good evening anglers,
We slid out to the west this afternoon and were greeted by giant schools of bluefin tuna and yellowfin tuna. Just after lunch we stopped on a flat spot about a half mile across of mixed bluefin and yellowfin. These were mixed grade fish. The majority of what we caught were 25-35lb yellowfin and they wanted to bite a little bit. Here is Beth with a 30lb yellowfin tune she caught on 30lb test.
Captain Mike and the boys
Hello anglers,
We had a great day fishing offshore today. We started the day with a school of mixed grade yellowfin tuna and skipjack. We had good action on 10-30 pound tuna and the skipjack were a lot of fun. we released a lot of skipjack and kept a few for poke.
Everyone had their fill of yellowfin and so we decided to head west on a report of bluefin tuna schools. The last part of the day was spent on a big school of 40-55 pound bluefin tuna. They were biting! Capt Mike hooked and handed 10 fish! Not all were landed as usual due to the usual losses that occur with that size fish. We landed 16 of these good size bluefin tuna. Here is a group shot of the lucky anglers who landed at least one.
This was a great ending to a great trip!
Capt Art and Team Searcher
