Trip 5 – 3-day (July 11-14) Seeker Rods Open
Good afternoon anglers:
We started off our morning fishing for bluefin. We have had a little luck getting them to bite on 40lb fly-lined baits and flat falls.
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Here is Chantel D. with a 75lb. bluefin caught on her spinning rod. Chantel is trying her hand at tuna fishing and came to San Diego long-range from British Columbia, Canada. We are gonna stay here for the day and see what happens. Wish us luck!
Captain Shawn and Team Searcher
Trip 5 – 3-day (July 11-14) Seeker Rods Open
Good Evening anglers:
We finished up on our yellowtail fishing today. We had beautiful weather and biting fish! Here is a picture of Jeff S. with a nice yellowtail.
Tonight we are going to head out and try our hand for some bluefin tuna. Thank you to Sophia H and Seeker Rods for their great sponsorship of this trip. Wish us luck tomorrow!
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Captain Shawn and Team Searcher
Trip 5 – 3-day (July 11-14) Seeker Rods Open
Flylined bait was also working well with 30lb test fluorocarbon and 2/0 hooks.
on our Seeker 3 day trip with some nice yellowtail.
~Captain Shawn and Team Searcher
Trip 5 – 3-day (July 11-14) Seeker Rods Open
Good evening anglers,
We left the dock this morning and started fishing for yellowtail this afternoon. We had very good results with using 30lb test with flourocarbon and a 2/0 hook. We also had good results with yoyo jigs. Here is Lisa F. with one of her nice yellowtails. Lisa is on this trip with her brother and father, a long-time Searcher customer who won his trip in our SONAR promotion. Check it out here: SONAR.
We are going to stay put and try for some more yellowtail tomorrow. Wish us luck!
Capt. Shawn and Team Searcher
Trip 4 – 1.5 day (July 9-11) Let’s Talk Hook-up/Gamakatsu
Good afternoon fellow anglers:
We’re checking in mid-day on our Let’s Talk Hookup seminar trip, also sponsored by Gamakatsu. We have been fishing for yellowtail this morning with some good results.
Here is a group shot of some yellowtail that were landed this morning. We will be heading out to look for tuna this afternoon. Wish us luck!
Captain Shawn and Team Searcher
Trip 3 – 3-day (July 4-7)
July 6
Good Evening Anglers:
We started off are our day looking for kelps, with the first dorado hitting the deck on Searcher in 2019! We then fished bluefin in the afternooon and had some really good oppportunites at catching some quality bluefin tuna. Kenneth L. posed with a beautiful bluefin tuna.
That’s a wrap for our 4th of July trip! Stay tuned for our next trip’s reports.
Captain Shawn and Team Searcher
Trip 3 – 3-day (7/4-7)
Day 2
Good evening anglers:
Today we spent most of our day looking at big schools of breaking bluefin and yellowfin for not many bites. We were able to scratch up a few of each species, and a few yellowtail off kelp patties. They were mostly caught on fly-lined sardines on 30 pound test and 2/0 hooks.
Here is a shot of Tihyam K and Justin with a nice yellowfin tuna.
Capt Shawn and Team Searcher