Extended 1.5 day: July 30-Aug 1
Good Evening anglers,
We departed this morning for our extended one and a half day trip. After departing the bait receiver we had a quick run to the local bluefin grounds. Once we arrived on scene we began to see the bird schools and foamers. With only a few hours to fish, we managed to land 20 very nice bluefin tuna. The majority of our bites came on the fly line sardine on a 25 or 30 pound test setup. We have an entire day in this zone tomorrow and are very excited to put some more fish on the deck.
Captain Armando and The Searcher Crew
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Congratulations to Sabrina from Minnesota on her first ocean fishing trip and her very first bluefin!
Tackle Tip Thursday Vol. 110 (In-line sinker rig fishing)
Tackle Tip Thursday is here! Today we have a special guest Billy from Fisherman’s Landing tackle shop talking bluefin fishing. Billy gives us the run down on in-line sinker rig fishing. Things you will need include line, rubber band, and a 6-8oz torpedo sinker. (This is what the tuna are biting right now.)
Thank you so much Billy and Fisherman’s Landing Tackle Shop for the great Tackle Tip!
Trip #10: July 26-30 (4 day)
Hello anglers:
We are in a different area today and there is a tremendous amount of bluefin tuna here. The fish are mostly 30-80 pounds with some 100 pound fish seen. We are catching a few fish in nice weather and having some fun.
Best methods today: flyline sardine and live sardine (nose-hooked) on a sinker rig. Hoping for more this afternoon.
Here is the Jackpot fish so far!
Captain Art and Team Searcher
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Here is the Jackpot fish so far! Caught with 30 pound Izorline, a 2/0 circle hook. and a flyline sardine.
Hello anglers,
Once again we have seen tremendous signs of bluefin tuna. This morning we had decent fishing with plenty of opportunities. The best method was to use 30# line and a live sardine. In the afternoon there were big schools on the surface with not too many bites. We did mange to land two fish in the 130# range.There were other chances using a flying fish on the kite and a couple of 80# fish on flat fall lures.
Captain Art and Team Searcher
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Jeremy landed this beauty on a flat fall lure
Trip #10: July 26-30 (4 day)
Hello anglers:
We saw a tremendous amount of fish today. We had some chances! There was a good sign of fish 70-90 pounds in this area. We will spend the night and try again tomorrow.
Best methods today: 80 pound test flyline sardine and live sardine (nose-hooked) on an 10 ounce sinker.
Captain Art and Team Searcher
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Trip #10: July 26-30 (4 day)
Hello anglers,
It was a very different day today with good sign of fish before daylight and then very little after the sun came up. We saw and caught a few fish after lunch and then we had to wait until 5 pm to finally get a stop. We had a little action right before sunset to save the day.
We are relocating to a little different area for tomorrow further west. Wish us luck!
Captain Art and Team Searcher
Crewmember Bryce and a lucky angler with a nice bluefin
Trip #10: July 26-30 (4 day)
Hello anglers:
We started our trip with Norm F. from Izorline International with everyone receiving free shirts and goodie bags with line, lures, fishing supplies and more. Many thanks to Norm for his fun sponsorship. We got started fishing right away with a stop for some 25-40 pound bluefin tuna. We drifted for three hours and had fish around us the whole time. Hoping for more tomorrow as we are staying in the same zone.
Captain Art and Team Searcher
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Ken shows off a nice bluefin landed with 30 pound Izorline, a 2/0 circle hook. and a flyline sardine.
Trip #6: July 23-26 (3 day)
Good morning anglers,
We have been looking at large schools of bluefin and yellowfin today. They are still in a funky mood and not sure what they want to bite. We have gotten a few bites but have not landed one. We did have some good action on the yellowtail on kelps which was a really fun break from the tuna fishing.
Captain Mike and the boys
Tommy and his first yellowtail ever
Good evening anglers,
We looked at tuna all afternoon and got very few bites. We caught one for our day and it was a big one. These bluefin and yellowfin tuna in this zone are in a non-biting mode at the moment. We’re hoping it will change in the next few days.
Captain Mike and the boys
Robert and his 70# bluefin, caught on a flylined sardine on 60# test.
Trip #6: July 23-26 (3 day)
Good morning anglers,
We woke up to very good sign of 50-80lb bluefin around the boat. We managed to get one on the flat fall at about 5am this morning. Since then we’ve been able to scratch up some more smaller bluefin and yellowfin, as well as yellowtail on kelps. Overall, it’s been very tough to get a bite today. We’ll check back later.
Captain Mike and the boys
Doug and his 70lb bluefin tuna
Good evening anglers,
We had some scratchy fishing this afternoon on kelp patties. And we ran into these big bluefin again this afternoon and had a few opportunities. We hooked a few and only landed two. These fish are very tough to get a bite on. One of them was landed on an old Penn Baja special. Both were caught on the flat falls.
Captain Mike and the boys
This is what a large school of big bluefin looks like under the boat: 40 fathoms of fish. Quite impressive!
And when we’re lucky, we land one of them.
