Trip Reports

Good morning,

After the poor bluefin fishing we have endured the past few weeks, we decided to run down the beach. We see a little sign of 15-25# yellowfin down here and we’ve scraped up a few.

We’re also seeing good sign of yellowtail on kelps. They are not biting all that well, but we did get a lucky one and had a nice hit earlier. The yellowtail are 5-25#. We also boated our first dorado of the year.

Captain Mike and the boys

Good evening, anglers:

We ended up scratching up a nice day today. We had action all afternoon on these yellowfin. We dont see a whole lot of it, but the schools we stopped on were biting fish.  It’s a very nice change of pace and hopefully a good sign of things to come.

We’re going to camp out tonight and see what tomorrow brings.

Captain Mike and the boys

Hello anglers:

We have seen a ton of fish starting at around 1 am this morning until lunch time. However this was lots of non-biting fish.

We aren’t fishless anymore thanks to Rob and his artificial lure. He landed a 25# bluefin before lunch. We are hoping for some more fish this afternoon. We were seeing consistent spots of fish until a large herd of false killer whales travelled through the area where the fish were. As you might guess, the tuna went down temporarily!

Captain Art and Team Searcher

Good morning,

We got into an area of fish last night around 12:30.  There were some opportunities to catch some 25-50# fish on the lures.  We scratched up a few handfulls until the sun came up. Now that the sun’s up, it is very hard to get a bite. There is still an incredible sign of bluefin around.  Hopefully this afternoon we’ll catch a few more.

Captain Mike and the boys

Good evening,

We have been seeing this fish all day and we have managed to scrape up a decent sample.  The ones we have landed are 25-100#, mostly in the 40-50# range.  Pretty tough fishing still but it seems like it may be on the upswing.

We’re hanging out and hoping for a hit this evening.

Captain Mike and the boys

Good afternoon,

We got on scene to a new zone around 1030 last night and saw some very good sign of 40-100# fish.  We had a few opportunities, not great ones, but better than we’ve had in the past 4 or 5 days.  We lost track of the fish when the sun came up but got back on it around 9am and we’ve gotten a few bites. There’s plenty of fish to look at. We’re hoping for an afternoon shot of catching a few.

Captain Mike and the boys

Good afternoon,

These fish are in a strange mode so we are struggling to get them to act right and get bites here this past few days.  There is no shortage of them.  Very large biomass of these things that we have been looking at.  We have gotten two bites all day and managed to land them both–one on the kite and one on a sinker rig.

Captain Mike and the boys

Good evening,

We managed a few more bites on the sinkers, but only landed one more of these big fish.  We are bailing out of here and going to try a different area for tonight and tomorrow.

Captain Mike and the boys

Good evening,

We got on an area of fish here this afternoon.  It looks different than it has the last couple days. The water is cleaner and there is no bait in it.

The fish we’re seeing are all 80-200# or more.  There is miles and miles of them. They still aren’t biting but we deffinitely feel like were in the right spot for tonight. We got a few kite bites and landed this one..  We’ll see what happens tonight.

Captain Mike and the boys

Good morning,

We did not see much fish at all last night.  When the sun came up. all we saw was big fish (100# and up). There was a lot of them but they were not biting.

We found these 25-50# fish about lunchtime. We see a massive amount of it now but we cant get them to bite. It’s all on their own bait. We have one 50# fish on the boat so far for our day.

Captain Mike and the boys

Good evening,

Good bluefin tuna watching today, not very good fishing however. It’s very tough to get a bite, but plenty of sign around of all grades of fish.  We managed to snag a couple more this afternoon. We still see this incredible sign at the moment some have hopes for tonight.

As we well know, everyday is different and every hour of everyday is different, so opportunity can arise here at any time.

Captain Mike and the boys

Good evening,

Very tough fishing here today. We had a few small opportunities on big fish (80-180#) but we only managed to boat a couple. We decided to make a move this afternoon.  We relocated and have seen some nice schools of 40lb fish late today.  They seem like they’ve gone down at the moment so we’re hoping they pop up here after dark and we get a shot at them.

Captaim Mike and the boys

Hello anglers,

We still see lots of schools of non-biting bluefin out here. We had an opportunity last night and managed to land two fish weighing about 140 pounds. We had a brief window to get these fish to bite, and then we had to call it a trip. There is still a tremendous amount of fish out there, but timing is everything.

Captain Art and Team Searcher

Hello anglers,

We had some opportunity last night for people who stayed up. There were different size fish, depending on the school we encountered. Some spots had fish up to 140 pounds and fish in the 50-pound class. The standard flat fall and knife lure method, and the depth varied all night. We are hoping for some action in the daytime.

Captain  Art and Team Searcher