Trip #2 July 2-5 (3 day) July 4th Special!
Good morning anglers,
We have had some action here on yellowtail and yellowfin tuna this morning. We started chasing around schools of yellowfin tuna marked by terns and shearwaters. By mid-morning they started to disappear, so we started kelping our way up towards the bluefin grounds. We have had some steady action here this morning.
~Captain Mike and the boys
Here is Jack and Captain Armando with a yellowfin tuna he caught on a flylined sardine.
Good evening anglers,
We scratched away at the yellowtail on kelps all day. We were able to stay busy all day working our way up to this bluefin zone. We finally got up here late in the day and got ourselves a couple shots. We managed to land just a few. We are going back down to the yellowfin zone right now to try again in the morning.
Captain Mike and the boys
Captain Ryan and angler Lou with his 30lb class bluefin landed after biting a fly-lined sardine
Trip #2 July 2-5 (3 day) July 4th Special!
Good evening anglers,
We departed on our annual 4th of July Special 3-day trip this morning with a nice load of bait. We worked south most of the day. We did not see a whole lot close to home this afternoon, however we did have a few shots at catching a yellowtail on kelps. We will be traveling south all night.
Captain Mike and the boys
Rory and Captain Ryan and the first yellowtail of the trip!
Tackle Tip Thursday Vol. 106 (Hooks)
Happy Tackle Tip Thursday! Today we have a very special guest and Searcher family member Pete G. from Let’s Talk Hook Up! Pete talks about must-have hooks! The Nautilus Circle Hooks , either a 2/0 or 1/0 or Nautilus HD. Our Let’s Talk Hook-up Trip still has space available. Trip 3 is a 1.5day trip on July 7th- July 9th. Like Pete said there will be tons of fun and giveaways! This is the perfect trip to get offshore to fish from dawn to dark for tuna and yellowtail with popular trip sponsor, Let’s Talk Hook-up Fishing Talk Radio Show! Captain Art will be on Let’s Talk Hook-up on July 5th. Listen Live on the Let’s Talk Hookup App or at 97.3FM The Fan! These are the lines to call during the show, Ask your question on the air! 833-288-0973. Fun and fish talk. Don’t miss it.
Huge thank you to Pete G. from Let’s Talk Hook Up and Gamakatsu for the tackle tips.
Trip #1 Jun 26-29 (3 day) Accurate Fishing Products
Hello anglers,
We had excellent yellowtail fishing today with limits for the group. Using a live bait, a yo-yo lure or a surface iron worked well. All the fish were associated with kelp paddies. We saw some more bluefin tuna that wouldn’t bite, but we did mange to land seven 30-40 pounders out of one stop on a large school that stuck with us for a couple of hours. You needed 25 pound with fluorocarbon and a #2 hook to get a bite.
Brush up on surface iron fishing techniques here: Tackle Tip: Surface Irons
Many thanks to Jack Nilsen and Accurate Fishing Products for their excellent sponsorships of this trip and many others. It’s fun crew to fish with, too!
Captain Art and Team Searcher
Ed H and crewman Justin with a bluefin. Nice shirt, Ed! Team Accurate Fishing Products!
Trip #1 Jun 26-29 (3 day) Accurate Fishing Products
Hello anglers,
We headed south last night to a zone where yellowtail, yellowfin and bluefin tuna were reported. We have had some action on yellowtail associated with kelp paddies. There’s tuna on the kelps too. We have seen plenty of bluefin tuna, but we are having trouble getting them to bite. Maybe this afternoon!
Capt Art and Team Searcher
Ryan B. and a nice yellowtail caught on a live sardine
Hello anglers,
Great action this afternoon! We saw several spots of tuna up on the surface and a kelp paddie with yellowtail. Best tackle tip for today: flyline a live sardine with 25 – 30 pound line and a #2 hook. At the end of the day the tuna decided to bite a little. The school was mixed yellowfin and bluefin tuna and had 20-40 pound fish.
Captain Art and Team Searcher
Greg R with a nice bluefin
Trip #1 Jun 26-29 (3 day) Accurate Fishing
Hello anglers,
We departed on one of our Accurate Fishing Products sponsored trip with Jack Nilsen. We are grateful to Jack and his company for providing us with rods and reels for our clients to use.
We tried the local bluefin tuna zone with not much luck. But by the end of the day, we saw and caught a few yellowfin tuna and a bluefin tuna. The average weight of the fish was 20 pounds. Surface lures and live bait were the best methods to catch these fish.
The weather is great and we have high hopes for tomorrow. We’ll be heading further south.
Captain Art and Team Searcher
Jack Nilsen of Accurate Fishing had some fun getting this yellowfin tuna to bite a live sardine.
Tackle Tip Thursday Vol. 105 (Must-have Set-ups)
It’s Tackle Tip Thursday! Today we have Captain Art giving us a great Tackle Tip. Captain Art gives us the must-have rod and reel combos for 1.5 – 4 day trips. You need at least these combos he gives us in this tackle tip. The three set-ups with 25#, 40#, and 60#. Captain Art suggests lever-drag two speed reels for each set-up. First is the Accurate Valiant 600 narrow with 80# braid with 25#-40# test, it’s with a Seeker 7ft rod (live-bait rod for casting.) Second is an Accurate 600 Boss reel with 80# braid with 40#-60# test, and a heavier 7ft Seeker rod. Third is a Penn Fathom 60 with 130# braid with 80# test and a rail-rod by Seeker. (Heavy outfit) Minimum recommended rod and reel combos for 1.5 – 4 day trips are these three set-ups with 25#, 40#, and 60#!
Thank you Captain Art as well as Accurate and Seeker for the great Tackle Tip and the demo gear of the must-have set-ups. If you want to try any gear before buying it we have all these set-ups on the boat so you can demo them. We also have trips with Accurate and Seeker so you can try al the new gear. We have an Accurate trip going out Tomorrow if you want to try all the new Accurate gear and go fishing. Hook your spot here. Let’s go fishing!
1.5 day Trip (June 23-25)
Good morning anglers,
We got a shot at the size large bluefin this morning. We landed two: a 130# and a 140#. Here’s Cole and Greg with their trophies.
We are seeing lots of fish around right now. We stopped on an enormous school a few minutes ago and they’re jumping around the boat. not getting any bites though. We’re hoping they start to bite this afternoon.
Many thanks to Aftco for the awesome face coverings–perfect for anglers!
~Captain Mike and the boys
Good evening anglers,
We had some action chasing around small boilers of yellowfin tuna this afternoon. We could not get on a school of bluefin until after dark. Then we stopped on a jumbo school of big ones around 930pm. We’re just gettin gout of our stop here at 11:30 p.m. We went 6 for 13. The smallest one was around 70lbs and the biggest one we landed was 130+lbs. Only one fish was under 100 pounds. We hooked some much bigger ones that escaped. We hooked all our fish on the flat falls and sinker-rig mackeral. The ones we landed all came in on either 80lb or 100lb test. Here’s the first 5 trophies that came over the rail.
Click here for some info on “sinker rig” fishing! 
Time for some sleep.
Captain Mike and the boys