Hey anglers, Today we started our day at San Martin Island. We thought the group would like to fish a little rather than drive around in the fog trying to find kelp paddies. We caught some nice lingcod and rockfish. Everyone was at the rail fishing. At noon after the fog lifted we went offshore to look for yellowtail on kelps. We also had hope for some bluefin tuna and albacore. We saw several kelps that didn’t have any fish on them and then the fog came in again and made for a tough afternoon. We basically had given up all hope and right at the end of our day with 45 minutes of daylight left we got a blind jigstrike. It was a school of mixed albacore and bluefin tuna. These fish really wanted to bite! Everyone that had a bait in the water early had a fish on. Needless to say with very little action the past two days and a few beers after lunch there was a tangle or two. It was chaos in the stern for a little while! We managed to land 32 albies and two bluefin tuna. One of the bluefin tuna might weigh 50 pounds and the other one weighs 12 pounds. We had one albie that will weigh 40 pounds and some of the other albies are 12 pounds. We pulled off a miracle in the bottom of the ninth inning with 2 strikes and 2 outs. What an exciting way to end a trip! Hopefully this is a sign of things to come. More from our next trip, Capt Art
