Howdy anglers: We have a great load of bait and we are headed to Cedros island. The weather is nice and the forecast looks favorable. We should arrive after lunch and we hope to have some fish aboard before dark. Capt Aaron p.s. Happy Birthday to Capt Cole today!
Art Taylor brought his Searcher home from a week-long trip October 9. He docked at Fisherman’s Landing and his 22 happy anglers got off to stow their gear and take care of the plentiful catch: almost ten quality tuna around for the fishermen.
“Just to recap this trip,” skipper Taylor wrote the day before, “we saw some of the best tuna fishing ever at Alijos Rocks in the three days we were there. And I can’t remember having two trips in a row with that degree of success on the size fish we landed. It just can’t get too much better than what we just accomplished.”
Ace Neely of Lancaster had the best, qualified yellowfin, a 97.4-pound tuna that bit on a sardine and a 4/0 Owner gorilla hook on 50-pound Seaguar fluorocarbon leader. He said he used 50-pound Big Game line and 80-pound Power Pro Spectra on a Pro Gear 45 reel and a Calstar 700 H custom rod.
“I was after this one,” said Ace. “My best one before was a 67-pounder. This one fought me for a half-hour, and took me around the boat one and a half times before he came up midship, thanks to some good deckhands.”
Bob Yoshimoto of Tthousand Oaks won second place for a 96-pounder, and Nanette Smith of Huntington Beach got third place for an 87.6-pound Alijos Rocks yellowfin tuna.
Hello anglers, We are travelling today in good weather and arriving tomorrow morning at 7 am. Everyone broke down their tackle today and the crew is giving the old girl a bath before lunch. (the office personnel does NOT like “old girl”) Yesterday we spent the afternoon at Cedros Island with not much success. We only managed to land five yellowtail for our efforts. The conditions were good with warm, clean water. We did have quite a bit of wind, so it limited the area we could work in. I’m sure there are some yellowtail around that island somewhere just not in the zone we checked out. There is a good sign of yellowtail down the coast a little ways from Cedros so the prospects look good for our final two trips of 2010. Just to recap this trip, we saw some of the best tuna fishing ever at Alijos Rocks in the three days we were there. And I can’t remember having two trips in a row with that degree of success on the size fish we landed. It just cant get too much better than what we just accomplished. More from Capt Aaron on next trip, Capt Art
Hello anglers, We have had excellent fishing for tuna today. We already have 34 of the better-size tuna this morning. That gives us 100 of those grade fish total so far for the trip. It doesn’t get much better than that. Fred Baker landed a nice size wahoo on a raider jig without wire this morning. That made his day! More later, Capt Art
Hello anglers, We had a phenomenal day with steady action all day long! We landed 99 yelllowfin tuna and 72 of those are the better size fish, averaging around 60 pounds. We also caught a few dorado and 5 wahoo. Nanette Smith of Huntington Beach landed her first wahoo ever. Not much more to add than–what a day!!!!!! We are headed north to Cedros Island for a try at some yellowtail tomorrow afternoon. More then, Capt Art
Hello anglers, We had a great day here at Alijos Rocks with steady fishing most of the day. This afternoon was better than the morning with the majority of the fish in the 50 to 75 pound class. A few of the 20 pounders were mixed in, as well as a few dorado. We landed three wahoo today. We ended up with 64 yellowfin tuna with 54 of those being the better size fish. We are ecstactic that we had the opportunity to catch this grade of fish all day. We are staying the night and spending our last day here at the Rocks. More then, Capt Art
Hello anglers, Arrived at Alijos Rocks around 9:30 this morning. The weather is great and the water temps are the same as last trip. Boats already here have a few fish aboard and are seeing fish boil around. Our first fish was a wahoo landed by our re-ride passenger Ken Piel from Oregon. He bought a brand new Calstar rod and an Avet reel at Fishermans Tackle Shop upon arrival from his first trip to Alijos last weekend and it paid off! He landed the first fish of the trip and it was a wahoo on straight mono to boot. Pretty lucky for Ken. The tuna fishing is a little on the slow side so far, but we see plenty of fish around the boat. They are not biting right now but I’m sure we will get busy later. More this evening, Capt Art
Hello anglers, We saw a lot of tuna today that wouldn’t bite. We managed to land 18 yellowfin tuna, 2 dorado, and 2 wahoo for our efforts today. Twelve of the tuna were the better grade tuna. We lost about that many which was a little unusual compared to last trip where we had minimal losses. We are staying the night and hope things change around and the tuna bite. The weather is good with light winds and no sea condition. More tomorrow, Capt Art
Congrats to Doug Nance, Steve Heffner, and Jeff Nagel!
