Trip Reports

Hello anglers,

We had good action on small tuna and dorado this morning when we found a kelp with a nice school of fish on it. It was lots of fun for anyone interested in a little more action on their trip.

Janice Krause from San Clemente got a nice dorado on her Seeker Athena rod and an Accurate Valiant 30 with 25 pound fluorocarbon and a live sardine.

We are headed to Ensenada for check-in tonight and we’ll be back at the dock in San Diego tomorrow.

Team Searcher

Hello all,

Our final day here at the island we had some action midday and late in the day. Plenty of opportunities to pull on 100 pound class yellowfin tuna. Our goal for the trip was to have everyone on board land a quality yellowfin this trip. We came close to that goal on the final day.                   

Here is a photo of EZ and Joe with the last two fish of the day. 

We are headed north to try for a kelp paddie tomorrow and hopefully we can get some action on smaller tuna and dorado.

Team Searcher

Hello all,

Great weather again today! Sunny skies and calm conditions. We landed a few yellowtail this morning, and while we were focused on yellowtail, Seeker Rods rep Fred Brandt hooked a yellowfin tuna. He handed it over to Bryan Short from Vacaville. Bryan fought the fish until he was tired and then Fred took over for a while. Brian tried again and then Capt Art took over and landed the fish. Here are Fred,Bryan and Gary with the 140 pound tuna. It was caught on a Seeker rod and an Accurate reel and 80 pound line.

Not only did Bryan tag a nice yellowfin tuna, he also won an Accurate product reel that Gary Gillingham brought!

More later,

Team Searcher

Oct 25, 2017

Hello all,

Today was different day with not much action. There wasn’t very much tuna seen today. We did land 2 nice fish today. On Gary Gillingham’s birthday he hooked a nice fish and handed it to Eric Streich from Sacramento. Eric handed it off to the crew and they finished the fight. Kenny and R2 tag-teamed and landed this 148 pound tuna with a ATD 12 Accurate reel and a Seeker rod. 

Hoping for a few more tuna tomorrow.

Team Searcher

 

Hello anglers:

One of our long-time customers, Bob Bower, had a great morning. First Bob landed a nice 30 pound yellowtail, and the next fish he caught was 160 pound yellowfin tuna! Capt Art helped Bob around the anchor line several times and then we finally landed his fish of a lifetime.

Here he is with Capt Art and his beautiful tuna!

More later,
Team Searcher

Hello all,

We had some action this afternoon on yellowfin tuna. Plenty of chances for a few hours but we had trouble landing them. We hope that tomorrow is a different day and we land more yellowtail and tuna. Here is Jeff Nagel, the winner of an Accurate reel with pro staffer Gary Gillingham. Jeff landed the first tuna over 100 pounds today so that made him eligible for the 400 series two-speed reel from our great sponsors at Accurate Fishing Products.

Team Searcher

Hello all,

Great tuna fishing this afternoon. Steady action on 75-130 pound yellowfin! Lots of hook-ups and plenty of opportunities for everyone. Flyline sardines with 80 pound line and fluorocarbon to match with a 4/0 Owner super mutu circle hook.

Here is Janice Krause from San Clemente with her first tuna of the trip. 

Hoping to repeat the fishing tomorrow.

Team Searcher

 

Hello all,

We tried for yellowtail this morning and had some chances at quality yellows. Fish were landed on flyline mackerel and 60-80 pound line and dropper loops with 80-100 pound line. There were some personal bests landed this morning! Here’s Dale Davis from Napa with a 40 pound yellowtail caught on a mackerel and a dropper loop set-up.

More later, headed for the tuna zone.

Capt Art & Team Searcher

Hello anglers:

We started our first afternoon at Guadalupe Island today. We had good action on yellowfin tuna in the 80-135 pound range. We had several bites and plenty of opportunities to land them–it was a great start to our trip! The weather is awesome with sunny skies and no wind.

We are fortunate to have Accurate Fishing Products and Seeker Rods as sponsors of this trip. There were plenty of giveaways yesterday while we were traveling!

Gary Gillingham, pro-staffer from Accurate, had goodie bags for everyone. And Fred Brandt from Seeker Rods had hats and shirts for everyone as well. Gary is giving away reels and Fred has rods to give away as well….lucky anglers!

Both Gary and Fred landed fish this afternoon. Here is Gary with a 108-pound tuna landed on 80 pound line and a ATD 12 Accurate reel.

Fred’s fish is 125 pounds.

Looking forward to tomorrow,

Captain Art and Team Searcher