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Jul 2 (Jun 30-Jul 3) 4th of July Special

Good morning!

We had some fun fishing last night. We scratched all night long–from sun-up to sundown–on 60-150lb fish.  Short stopping, we never went long without stopping the boat and catching 1-5 at a time. We saw a lot more than we saw last night and yesterday.
The sun’s up now and we see them, though they’re a lot harder to catch.

Captain Mike and the boys

Good afternoon,
We’re tried to go yellowtail fishing this morning and it didn’t work out, so we’re back out doing some bluefin tuna watching now. There’s a lot to look at but they’re a little hungover.  We have managed a few bites but they’re not coming on the boat.
Captain Mike and the boys
July 2nd, 2023|Categories: Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Jul 1 (Jun 30-Jul 3) 4th of July Special

Good morning!

We had a good opportunity right when we arrived on scene last night on 60-150lb bluefin tuna. They were good biting fish, and even though they got the better of us we still managed to score a few.

We saw good sign the rest of the night but couldn’t catch it. Nice weather we’ll see what happens today.

Captain Mike and the boys

Good afternoon!

We’re seeing some good schools of 60-100+lb bluefin. There’s a little bit of opportunity to flyline a  sandine but they’re tough to land on the 50lb. We’re boating a few here. Still calm weather and a bit of biting fish, so we are enjoying the day.

Captain Mike and the boys

July 1st, 2023|Categories: Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Jun 29 (Jun 27-30) 2.5 day Limited load

Good Morning,
We landed on the fish right before dark and there were a lot around!  We had good action last night on medium-large grade fish. We left just after midnight since we got what we wanted as far as bluefin goes. We’re going to try catch something else today.
Captain Mike and the boys
Good evening,
Fun island fishing today with a few shots at some big yellowtail. We saw a fair sign of 25-30# yellowtail, but they were hard to hook and harder to land. Plenty of other miscellaneous to go along with it. Nice weather.
Captain Mike and the boys
June 29th, 2023|Categories: Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Jun 28 (Jun 27-30) 2.5 day Limited load

Good morning,
It took us all night to locate the fish, but when the sun came up there was some very good fishing on 20-50lb fish locally.  Good flyline sardine fishing.
We got our fix on these, and now we’re making a move to try for some bigger ones tonight.
Captain Mike and the boys
Good evening,
WE made a 70-mile move mid-day in hopes of finding bigger fish tonight. We’re hoping it pays off. We have a few on the boat and a few hanging now. These are 60-100# fish.
Captain Mike and the boys
June 28th, 2023|Categories: Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Jun 24 (Jun 23-26) 3 day Limited load

Good morning,
We had good opportunities on bluefin tuna last night with plenty of  stops. Our best stop produced 50-90# fish with some 20-30# fish mixed in. We had good weather after midnight.
This afternoon, we found 20-40# bluefin and some up to 100# fish mixed in.

Captain Jason and Searcher crew

June 24th, 2023|Categories: Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Jun 22 (Jun 20-23) 2.5 day James T, Scott C and friends

Good morning,

We had very good fishing on mixed-grade fish last night. The anglers were really tired from pulling on fish all day, but we rallied in the earlier hours of the morning and caught whatever they wanted to keep.

It’s choppy weather, but still good sign of fish. We’re going to see if we can’t catch something else today.

Captain Mike and the boys
June 22nd, 2023|Categories: Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Jun 21 (Jun 20-23) 2.5 day James T, Scott C and friends

Good evening,
 
Pretty fun fishing today plunking on 30-100lb bluefin. We had a very good sign throughout the day and we’re still seeing it at the moment.
The winds coming up, but it’s still plenty fishable though. A flyline sardine on 50lb seemed to be the go-to outfit.  Any less than that and it was hard to land the bigger fish. We went through a lot on lighter line.
 
Captain Mike and the boys
June 21st, 2023|Categories: Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Jun 21 (Jun 20-23) 2.5 day James T, Scott C and friends

Good morning,
We arrived on scene about 0300 this morning and had a few good shots on 50-100lb bluefin in the dark before sun-up. The sun came up and we got on a school of 20-30lb fish pretty quickly and had a good little shot at them as well.
We’re seeing much better sign this morning than we have the past few days.  We are currently drifting and pulling on some heavier models.
Captain Mike and the boys
June 21st, 2023|Categories: Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|

Jun 17 (Jul 16-19) 3 day

Good afternoon,
We spent yesterday running down the beach chasing the fish we’ve been fishing the last week or so. We finally got on it 25 miles south of where we were the night before.  We spent all night chasing it further further south and when we did catch up with it we did get a few very good opportunities on it. We ended up 65 miles south of where we had been fishing the last week when the sun came up and never saw it again. We’ve been on the hunt ever since.  We’re glad we got the shots we did.  We’re still on the hunt.
Captain Mike and the boys
June 17th, 2023|Categories: Captain Mike's Blog, Trip Reports|
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