Trip 25 Sep 13-19 Penn Reels Open Sep 18 Report

Tuesday, September 18, 2017

Hello all,

A travel day today. We had choppy weather above the north end of Cedros island for a few hours last night. Just before daylight the wind and swell subsided and we had a great day on the ocean with light winds and sunny skies. The group broke down their tackle and the crew gave the boat a good scrub! Charley and Dan fed us well with cheeseburgers for lunch and then fresh yellowfin tuna for dinner. Everyone loved the fish with a lime, cilantro butter sauce!!!!

Then the fun began with the final raffle of the trip. Lots of goodies from Steve Carson. A tackle box full of tackle and a Penn rod were the highlights. When we get to the dock we will give away some Penn reels for biggest Yellowtail, wahoo, bottom fish and biggest fish overall. The amount of swag on this trip is great. Thanks to Steve again.

Home tomorrow.

Team Searcher

Hello all,

Windy conditions again today. We stopped just after lunch to try for yellowtail, with the wind the water temperature had dropped significantly so the yellowtail weren’t around. We traveled to the next spot up the coast and there was a sign of good size yellowtail there. We had a few fish on various methods: dropper loop, yo-yo lure, surface lure and a live sardine with a 2 ounce sliding sinker.  Here’s Mike and Randy with a nice size yellowtail. 

Headed home this evening, jackpot report on Tuesday. It’s been another great Penn Trip this year!

Team Searcher

Hello all,

We had some nice fishing for yellowfin tuna this afternoon with several fish in the 30-40 pound class. Live sardine with 30-40 pound line was the primary method. A few dorado mixed in and 5 more wahoo for a great afternoon of fishing. We have great traveling weather as we head north to try the coast for some yellowtail tomorrow for a few hours before heading home. 

This afternoon’s photo is of Dean and Richie from Malibu with their wahoos caught on the troll.

Team Searcher

Hello all,

We have had some action on better size yellowfin tuna up to 40 pounds this morning! We also had a chance to troll around and try for wahoo. We have had a few opportunities and we have also landed a few. Here is John Plowman from Texas with a wahoo landed on the troll with a new prototype Penn International VI series brought by Steve Carson from Penn . There were a few more wahoo landed on that same outfit so it was field tested and it performed very well!

Hoping for some more action this afternoon.

Team Searcher

Hello all,

We had good action on yellowfin tuna this afternoon. Live sardine was the primary method this afternoon with a few fish on surface poppers and heavy lures. Ted Okon from Santa Clarita landed this nice size yellowfin on an artificial lure. Headed further south for tomorrow with hopes of a wahoo!

We’ll keep you posted,

Team Searcher

Hello all,

We have had some action on 12-25 pound yellowfin tuna this morning. We arrived around 10 am and after looking around a bit to see where we needed to be anchored, we started to have action around 10:30. Everyone has had a chance at a tuna so far . There are some skipjack tuna mixed in that we are releasing,  as well as smaller yellowfin tuna. Here is Capt Ryan with his high school teacher Vince Lazo from Danville –  now Ryan is teaching Vince how to catch yellowfin tuna.

More later,

Team Searcher

 

Hello all,

We had a nice day on the ocean today traveling south. After breakfast, we conducted a seminar discussing all the different options we’ll have starting tomorrow. We went over terminal tackle, tactics and, of course: how to minimize tangles!! Then the fun began with everyone (with the help of the crew) rigging outfits to match what we learned in the galley. 

We ended the day with a nice sunset and an awesome dinner prepared by Chefs Charley and Dan! It was roasted pork loin stuffed with asian pears and fennel served with an heirloom tomato and  bacon butter sauce, with white beans and roasted carrots and broccoli on the side. It was delicious. 

We’ll have news from The Ridge tomorrow,

Team Searcher

 

We departed on our annual trip with Steve Carson and the Penn reels University. Steve brings all the latest Penn rods and reels aboard  for our clients to try out! This year he has assembled a rod and reel station on the upper deck and all you have to do is pick an outfit and give it a try and then return it to the station. There are some prototype reels (the International VI Series) that haven’t gone out to the public market yet to try as well. Also with a bunch of give aways to raffle off and prizes to award throughout the course of the trip. 

We are headed south to the Ridge to try for tuna and yellowtail and hopefully a few wahoo. We will arrive on Friday morning.Tomorrow will be a travel day with a seminar after breakfast and then a whole day to rig for the first stop.