Aug 2-Mid day

Aug 2 2009

Aug 2-Mid day

August 2nd, 2009|Captain Mike's Blog|

Hello anglers, We have had a great morning at Guadalupe Island with steady action on 40 to 70 pound yellowfin tuna. Fly line sardine on 40 pound line, with 40 or 50 pound floourocarbon, has been the key to getting a bite. Everyone but one angler has landed at least one of these beautiful-grade fish and we are working hard to get the last person one of these big tuna! Hopefully the fish will continue to bite a little this afternoon. If so we will have a tremendous day. More later, Capt Art

Aug 2 2009

Aug 2-Day’s end

August 2nd, 2009|Captain Mike's Blog|

Hello anglers, We had a great day today. We landed 61 yellowfin tuna up to 80 pounds with most of the fish in the 50 pound class. We also landed 30 yellowtail in the afternoon. Overall it was an excellent day for our 21 anglers, everyone had a chance at these quality tuna. We elected to stay for a few hours tomorrow instead of heading north. Looking forward to tomorrow, Capt Art

Aug 1 2009

Aug 1

August 1st, 2009|Captain Mike's Blog|

Hey anglers, Today we started our 4-day trip at 160 miles. We had good fishing on bluefin tunam yellowfin tuna, yellowtail and dorado. The bluefin were in the 30 to 40 pound class and the yellowfin were in the 12 to 20 pound class. We saw a lot of fish today and so things look very encouraging for the future. We are headed to Guadalupe Island tonight to try for those quality yellowfin tuna that we saw last trip. We hope to get everyone a chance at those fish. Wish us luck! We will travel back to the north for our last day. More from Guadalupe tomorrow, Capt Art

Jul 31 2009

July 26-31

July 31st, 2009|Trip Reports|

This 5-day trip had 24 anglers and they caught 222 yellowtail and 245 yellowfin tuna. The jackpot winners are:

  • Eric Sallis, Santee, CA — 74# yellowfin tuna (left)
  • John Yam, Long Beach, CA — 70.3# yellowfin tuna (middle)
  • Pat Patino, Orange, CA– 68.6# yellowfin tuna (right)
Jul 31 2009

Jul 31- Photos

July 31st, 2009|Captain Mike's Blog|

We’ve got all trip photos on our Photo Gallery. SmugMug allows you to order prints of any size and shape right on-line, even poster size! Thanks to Steve Lamb for our photos from the field. Check https://searchersportfishing.com/trip_reports.asp for the trip totals–wow!

Jul 31 2009

Searcher Finds ‘Em by the Ton by Bill Roecker

July 31st, 2009|Uncategorized|

Searcher Finds ‘Em By The Ton

Art Taylor had the best trip he’s ever had to Guadalupe Island over the five days leading up to July 31, when he docked at Fisherman’s Landing at the end of his Strictly Fishin’ Charter with 25 anglers. They appeared to have near-limits of yellowfin and yellowtail. Hoisting all the contenders at the scales had Taylor sweating happily.

Eric Sallis of Santee won first place in the boat’s jackpot for a 74-pound tuna. He said he bagged it with a sardine on a 1/0 Flyliner hook on 50-pound Izorline and 680-pound Spectra backing on a Tyrnos 16 reel and a Calstar 700 H rod.

John Yam of Long Beach won second place for a 70.6-pounder, and Pat Patino of Orange won third place for a 68.6-pound Guadalupe Island yellowfin tuna.

Searcher Sportfishing
Captains Art Taylor and Kevin Ward
(619) 226-2403 – Fisherman’s Landing
Jul 30 2009

Jul 30

July 30th, 2009|Captain Mike's Blog|

Hello anglers, Finished up at Guadalupe Island today for a few hours. We picked up 24 nice-size yellowtail and 1-50# yellowfin tuna. What an end to a phenomenal trip! I can’t remember having fishing this good here. I hope this is a sign of things to come. If we were to do half as well on the future trips to Guadalupe, we would be very happy. Looking forward to next trip, Capt Art ETA is 7:30 a.m. on Friday.

Jul 29 2009

Jul 29-Mid-day

July 29th, 2009|Captain Mike's Blog|

Hello anglers, It’s a mid-day report from Guadalupe Island. We caught just a fewyellowfin tuna this morning. We had nine fish this morning and since it was slower, we decided to head up the island to try for yellowtail. Everyone has enough yellowfin tuna onboard from the last few days! Currently we are anchored and we are catchin 15 to 18 pound yellowtail. We have landed about 25 fish so far we plan on staying here for a while catching a few more. The other boats fishing for yellowfin tuna have hadsome good action since about 10 a.m. Right after we left the area the fish started to bite a little better, like they did for us yesterday. More later Capt Art

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