Jun 26 (3-day trip)

Jun 27 2021

Jun 26 (3-day trip)

June 27th, 2021|Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Good afternoon anglers,

We just got out of our morning stop about 1pm.  Pretty fun fishing!  It started on a flat spot of 18-25lbers and turned into 40-70lbers.  We had 3-5 going for about 3 hours. A 40lb fly lined sardine was the go to on this stop.  We had quite a few “tuna firsts” on this stop.

Captain Mike and the boys

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Beckham’s first tuna–nice work!

Good evening anglers,

We had some more action on school grade fish this afternoon.  The 18-25lb fish were biting pretty good! The go-to method was fly lined bait on 25lb test.  We were pretty busy this afternoon so we didnt manage any photos of the afternoon bite.  But here’s Gary of Accurate Fishing and Bob with some from the morning stop.

Captain Mike and the boys

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Gary (left) is off the DL and back in long-range fishing action! Bob is a Searcher regular and had a good catch this morning!

Jun 26 2021

Jun 25 (3-day trip)

June 26th, 2021|Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Good evening anglers,

We left on our annual Accurate Fishing 3-day trip this morning with pro-staffer Gary Gillingham aboard with great giveaways and good fishing time.

We stayed local in the bluefin grounds where we have been fishing all spring.  We saw incredible sign here this afternoon but it sounds like we were late to the party. However, we were able to scratch up some mixed grade bluefin in the 18-90# range.  Most of the fish came on the fly line, though we had a few on the sinker baits.

Captain Mike and the boys

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Dean and his 50# bluefin!

Good evening anglers,

We had some more action on school grade fish this afternoon.  The 18-25lb fish were biting pretty good! The go-to method was fly lined bait on 25lb test.  We were pretty busy this afternoon so we didnt manage any photos of the afternoon bite.  But here’s Gary of Accurate Fishing and Bob with some from the morning stop.

Captain Mike and the boys

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Gary (left) is off the DL and back in long-range fishing action! Bob is a Searcher regular and had a good catch this morning!

Jun 24 2021

Tackle Tip Thursday Vol. 151 (Tony Pena Knot and Knot Pullers)

June 24th, 2021|Tackle Tip Thursday|

Happy Tackle Tip Thursday!

Searcher Captain Sean Allen gives us a great demonstration of the Tony Pena knot and how to use the Knot Puller made by ThirtyFathoms.com. The Tony Pena knot is a great way to splice mono to spectra. And the Knot Puller makes a great knot even better! Thank you to ThirtyFathoms.com for the tool that fits the need–no more cuts to anglers’ hands and a more secure knot–Knot Pullers available at ThirtyFathoms.com

Want another how-to for a knot? Here’s the San Diego Jam as demonstrated by Capt Armando  “San Diego Jam Knot”

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Jun 22 2021

Tackle Talk LIVE at Turners Outdoorsman in Norwalk (and Facebook)

June 22nd, 2021|Captain Mike's Blog|

We will be going LIVE and talking tackle (bluefin tackle, what else?!) on June 29 at 5 p.m. at Turner’s Outdoorsman in Norwalk!
Want to join in person and shop after the talk? Call for an RSVP to the store (562) 929-4056.
If you can’t be at the Norwalk store, tune in to Searcher Sportfishing’s Facebook page. We will be posting the video here the next day.
Jun 20 2021

Jun 20 (2.5 day trip)

June 20th, 2021|Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Good morning anglers,

We had a opportunity on the jumbos again this morning just after the sun came up. We hooked 7 or so of these 170-200lb plus bluefin on the sinker rigs and the lures.

Incredible sign of these big bluefin very tough to land.  We did manage a couple though.

Captain Mike and the boys

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Ezio and Mark with their trophies!

Jun 19 2021

Jun 19 (2.5 day trip)

June 19th, 2021|Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Good morning anglers,

We’re seeing good signs here, but struggling to get bites. We’ve still been scratching on the sinker rigs however.  All the fish we’ve caught today have been on 80lb sinker rigs and 50lb fish and larger.

Captain Mike and the boys

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Father and son make a great team to boat this 123# bluefin!

Good evening anglers,

We’ve been scratching at the 50-125lb bluefin all day. Most of the fish have come on long drifts on the sinker rig on 80lb test. We’ve hooked some on lighter gear but have not landed them.

We got flashed right before dark and started hooking them on the flyline as well. We also had a little opportunity on the flat falls right after dark on some jumbos but failed to land any of them.

Captain Mike and the boys

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One of our fave regulars and a jumbo model

Jun 18 2021

Jun 17 (2.5 day trip)

June 18th, 2021|Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Good morning anglers,

We had a few big fish in the dark last night–100+lbers–but it was not all that red hot.  We were seeing massive spots of this 40-60lb grade bluefin all morning but with very little catching success.  At about 10 am we slid into a large flat spot and then we had them boiling all around the boat and eating 50lb in the corner. It’s a pretty nice change from the non-biting fish we’ve been dealing with for the past couple weeks.  Here is with a sample of what we’ve been catching all day.

Captain Mike and the boys

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Sample of our day’s catch

Good afternoon anglers,

We’ve got on another school here this afternoon and we’re plunking on these 40-60lb bluefin now. It’s a good sign with lots of bites and lots of smiles and high fives from the anglers. Fly lined 50lb with a #2 circle hook and some flurocarbon to match has been the key to success here today.

Captain Mike and the boys

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