This 2.5-day trip had 23 anglers and they caught 181 yellowfin, 13 dorado, and 13 bluefin. Many thanks to Western Outdoor News and Okuma Fishing for their sponsorship! The jackpot winners are:
This 3-day trip had 27 anglers and they caught 161 yellowfin, 28 dorado, and 3 bluefin. The jackpot winners are:
This 1.5-day trip had 30 anglers and they caught 53 bluefin tuna, 47 yellowfin tuna, and two dorado. The jackpot winner is:
This 3-day trip had 27 anglers and they caught 339 bluefin, 138 yellowfin, and 20 dorado. The jackpot winners are:
This 5-day trip had 14 anglers and they caught 191 bluefin, 50 yellowfin, 113 yellowtail, and 4 dorado. The jackpot winners are:
This 5-day trip had 21 anglers and they caught 66 bluefin, 209 yellowfin, 247 yellowtail, and 1 dorado. The jackpot winners are:
Art Taylor brought his Searcher home to Fisherman’s Landing August 21 after a fine five-day trip with 21 anglers.
“We had an excellent day at the South End of Cedros Island,” Art told dock reporter Bill Roecker, “on 15 to 20-pound yellowtail. Most came on bait, but they bit on the yoyo and the surface iron, too. Then we fished offshore for three days and had very good tuna fishing. About 75 percent of them were yellowfin and the rest bluefin. The yellowfin averaged about 18 pounds.
“We got ‘em on sonar marks, meter marks, blind jig strikes and jig strikes when we were heading toward a spotted school. Our best trolling jigs were blue and white Zucker’s with some pink color, and the Braid Speedster. We ended up with near-limits by fishing on a 30-mile spread of tuna. We saw no seiners.”
Harold Guy of Winnnetka won first place for a 22.8-pound yellowfin tuna. He said he got it with a sardine on a 2/0 Owner Flyliner hook tied to 25-pound fluorocarbon, 30-pound Izorline and 60-pound Line One spectra on an Avet JX reel and a seven-foot Sabre rod.
Jeff Nagel of Laguna Niguel won second and third spots for his yellowfin of 22.6 and 22.2 pounds.
This 3-day trip had 28 anglers and they caught 236 bluefin, 54 yellowfin, and 3 albacore. The jackpot winners are:
Uranga Memorial Gets Rare Albacore
The first memorial trip for recently deceased Dick Uranga, who was also known to his many friends as “Captain Potatohead,” was aboard the Searcher, a three-day trip that arrived at Fisherman’s Landing August 16 with 28 passengers. It was skippered by owner-operator Art Taylor.
Three albacore were caught at one stop, noted second skipper Aaron Remy. Two of the fish came on bait and one on a trolled Zucker jig in Mexican Flag pattern. One of the baitfish was handed off to Anthony Yumori of Culver City, by Loren Rowton of Durango, CO. Later Rowton traded a bluefin to Yumori for the longfin. They posed with the albie, a rarity this season, on the dock.
Derek Taguchi of Orange won first place for a 44-pound bluefin tuna. He said he took it with a sardine on a 2/0 Owner Flyliner hook on 30-pound Seaguar fluorocarbon. He fished with 65-pound Power Pro spectra on a Talica 10 reel and a Seeker Hercules 70 M rod.
Bob Bayus of Azusa won second place for a 42.2-pound tuna, and Jim Arens of Bayfield, CO won third place for a 42-pound bluefin tuna.
This 4-day trip had 16 anglers and they caught 240 bluefin, 80 yellowtail, 9 yellowfin, and 2 dorado. The jackpot winners are:
