Jan 10
2013
Nov 20
2012
November 8-17, 2012
This 9-day trip had 16 anglers and they caught 240 yellowfin tuna, 96 dorado, and wahoo. The jackpot winners are:
- Bill Zemba, Newhall, CA–85.6# yellowfin tuna
- Norm Fujimoto, Fullerton, CA–40# yellowfin tuna
- Bill Zemba, Newhall, CA–35# yellowfin tuna
Nov 3
2012
October 26-November 3, 2012
This 7-day trip had 1 anglers and they caught 140 yellowfin tuna, 109 yellowtail, 71 dorado, and 9 wahoo. The jackpot winners are:
- Dale Changnon, Healdsburg, CA–45# wahoo (left)
- Joe Granacher, British Columbia — 40# wahoo
- Bob Yoshimoto, Thousand Oaks, CA–38.6 # wahoo (right)
Oct 26
2012
October 19-26, 2012
This 7-day trip had 14 anglers and they caught 140 yellowfin tuna, 109 yellowtail, 71 dorado, and 9 wahoo. The jackpot winners are:
- John Nielson, Redlands, CA–41.4# yellowfin (right)
- Dietmar Kruger, Santa Monica, CA–41.2# yellowfin
- John Bunten, Santa Ana, CA–37# yellowfin (left)
Oct 18
2012
October 12-18, 2012
This 6-day trip had 15 anglers and they caught 225 yellowfin tuna, 99 yellowtail, and 21 dorado. The jackpot winners are:
- Joe Tyler, Long Beach, CA–42# yellowtail (left)
- Steve Schreiner, Vassar, MI–36# yellowtail
- Steve Schreiner, Vassar, MI–32.6# yellowtail
Oct 11
2012
October 6-11, 2012
This 5-day trip had 14 anglers and they caught 45 yellowfin tuna, 173 yellowtail, and 38 dorado. The jackpot winners are:
- Tom Tewkasbury, Lodi, CA–22.6# yellowtail (left)
- Bill Lynch, Camarillo, CA–21.4# yellowtail
- Ernest Ringgold AKA “BMF”, Vista, CA–21.4# yellowtail (right)
Oct 6
2012
September 29-October 6, 2012
This 7-day trip had 21 anglers and they caught 220 yellowfin tuna, 315 yellowtail, 80 dorado, and 1 wahoo. The jackpot winners are:
- Michael Townes, Lodi, CA–46.2# yellowfin (left)
- Bill Battocchio, Camarillo, CA–28# yellowfin (middle)
- Matt Kirkpatrick, Bakersfield, CA–27# yellowtail (right)
Oct 6
2012
Plenty of Warm Water by Bill Roecker
Art Taylor skippered his Searcher on a seven-day trip with 21 fishermen, and docked at Fisherman’s Landing October 6.
“Boy, there’s plenty of warm water,” he remarked. “There’s wahoo on kelps north of Benitos, far north, in 77 degrees. There’s plenty of yellowfin, lots of dorado and excellent fishing. We got to fish on six of our seven days.”
Mike Townes of Lodi won first place for a 45.2-pound yellowfin tuna. He said he bagged it with a sardine on a 2/0 Owner Mutu hook on 25-pound Seaguar Premier fluorocarbon, 30-pound Izorline and 60-pound Line One spectra on an Avet LX reel and a Triton seven-foot rod.
Bill Battocchio of Camarillo won second place for a 28.4-pound yellowfin, and Matt Kirkpatrick of Bakersfield took third place honors with a 27-pound yellowtail.
Kyle Yates of Carlsbad posed with a fish not much seen in these parts for the past ten years or so, a broad-striped skipjack of the species anglers call “purple skipjack,” as distinguished from the more common tropical black skipjack. He said he planned to have it filleted for eating.
Sep 29
2012
September 22-29, 2012
This 7-day trip had 22 anglers and they caught 110 yellowfin tuna, 220 yellowtail, and 132 dorado. The jackpot winners are:
- Jack Simplicio. Hemet, CA–51.6# yellowfin (left)
- Eddie Means, Vista, CA–36.8# yellowfin (middle)
- Phil Gappa, Carlsbad, CA–33.6# yellowtail (right)
Sep 21
2012
September 15-21, 2012
This 6-day trip had 22 anglers and they caught 310 yellowfin tuna, 180 yellowtail, 16 bluefin tuna and 22 dorado. The jackpot winners are:
- Dale Changnon, Healdsburg, CA–46.4# bluefin (left)
- Darrell Chapman, Huntington Beach, CA–44.8# yellowfin (middle)
- Rob Bellrose, Lompoc, CA–35.8# yellowfin (left)