Trip Reports

Howdy anglers,

It’s been a slow morning for us today: there is a sign of fish around,  we just haven’t been the chosen ones just yet.  The weather is tolerable and we’re hoping for some afternoon action.
More later, 
Capt Aaron and the Searcher crew

Congratulations to the winners of the Penn Fishing (6-day)Trip 25 jackpot!

1. Les Moy – 40.2# wahoo
2. Ted Okon – 38 # wahoo
3. Tom Weaver – 34# wahoo

Tuesday, September 18, 2017

Hello all,

A travel day today. We had choppy weather above the north end of Cedros island for a few hours last night. Just before daylight the wind and swell subsided and we had a great day on the ocean with light winds and sunny skies. The group broke down their tackle and the crew gave the boat a good scrub! Charley and Dan fed us well with cheeseburgers for lunch and then fresh yellowfin tuna for dinner. Everyone loved the fish with a lime, cilantro butter sauce!!!!

Then the fun began with the final raffle of the trip. Lots of goodies from Steve Carson. A tackle box full of tackle and a Penn rod were the highlights. When we get to the dock we will give away some Penn reels for biggest Yellowtail, wahoo, bottom fish and biggest fish overall. The amount of swag on this trip is great. Thanks to Steve again.

Home tomorrow.

Team Searcher

Hello all,

Windy conditions again today. We stopped just after lunch to try for yellowtail, with the wind the water temperature had dropped significantly so the yellowtail weren’t around. We traveled to the next spot up the coast and there was a sign of good size yellowtail there. We had a few fish on various methods: dropper loop, yo-yo lure, surface lure and a live sardine with a 2 ounce sliding sinker.  Here’s Mike and Randy with a nice size yellowtail. 

Headed home this evening, jackpot report on Tuesday. It’s been another great Penn Trip this year!

Team Searcher

Hello all,

We had some nice fishing for yellowfin tuna this afternoon with several fish in the 30-40 pound class. Live sardine with 30-40 pound line was the primary method. A few dorado mixed in and 5 more wahoo for a great afternoon of fishing. We have great traveling weather as we head north to try the coast for some yellowtail tomorrow for a few hours before heading home. 

This afternoon’s photo is of Dean and Richie from Malibu with their wahoos caught on the troll.

Team Searcher

Hello all,

We have had some action on better size yellowfin tuna up to 40 pounds this morning! We also had a chance to troll around and try for wahoo. We have had a few opportunities and we have also landed a few. Here is John Plowman from Texas with a wahoo landed on the troll with a new prototype Penn International VI series brought by Steve Carson from Penn . There were a few more wahoo landed on that same outfit so it was field tested and it performed very well!

Hoping for some more action this afternoon.

Team Searcher

Hello all,

We had good action on yellowfin tuna this afternoon. Live sardine was the primary method this afternoon with a few fish on surface poppers and heavy lures. Ted Okon from Santa Clarita landed this nice size yellowfin on an artificial lure. Headed further south for tomorrow with hopes of a wahoo!

We’ll keep you posted,

Team Searcher

Hello all,

We have had some action on 12-25 pound yellowfin tuna this morning. We arrived around 10 am and after looking around a bit to see where we needed to be anchored, we started to have action around 10:30. Everyone has had a chance at a tuna so far . There are some skipjack tuna mixed in that we are releasing,  as well as smaller yellowfin tuna. Here is Capt Ryan with his high school teacher Vince Lazo from Danville –  now Ryan is teaching Vince how to catch yellowfin tuna.

More later,

Team Searcher