Trip Reports

Good evening again anglers,

Here’s a good reason not to break down your flat fall rod on the way home.  We left enough time on the way home to stop on fish if we saw it.

We stopped on some scattered fish at about 30 min before we were going to call it a trip, and they charged the boat. It was a good opportunity for those who wanted to catch a big one tonight.  They were 90-120lbs and they were biting!

Captain Mike and the boys

Good morning anglers,

The guys were tired from our day of pulling on fish all day yesterday. so we set up a drift for the night and got up at 4 and started driving around.  We saw very little sign of this bluefin today–we have a handful for our morning here.

We did score some nice yellows on a kelp just before lunch.  The fleet has spread out trying to find this bluefin right now.

Captain Mike and the boys

Good evening anglers,

We had a very very long day of driving around trying to locate this bluefin.  We didn’t see a school until about 5pm but it was a good one.

We unloaded on it and it stuck.  They started slow then they started boiling around and biting.  We have a very nice evening plunker going at the moment on 18-30lb fish.

Captain Mike and the boys

Good morning, anglers:

We’re seeing good sign of school-grade fish here this morning. We caught a couple on the flat falls last night when we got down to the zone.

We had one pretty good opportunity first thing this morning and we managed to catch a couple of handfulls on the flylined sardine. It’s light line, plunker style fishing.

We’re hoping for a afternoon bite too.

Captain Mike and the boys

Good evening anglers,

We scratched throughout the day and had one good opportunity this aftrernoon. We had a 2-hour plunker on the school-grade bluefin. We have beautiful weather here this evening.  Gotta go we’ve got a couple hanging.

Captain Mike and the boys

Hello anglers:

We saw scattered sign of bluefin tuna last night and throughout the morning. We’re starting to see much more volume now at lunchtime.

Opportunities to get a fish to bite are not easy to come by, but Jason managed to get a nice one on the sinker rig.

We’re currently pulling on a heavier model. We’ll check back later.

Captain Mike and the boys

p.s. A recent Tackle Tip Thursday on Sinker Rigs here: Avoid Sinker Rig Tangles

Good evening anglers,

Good bluefin tuna watching with a very good sign of 80-150lb fish throughout the afternoon. They just were not in the biting mode though.  We did manage a few trophies however, and also had some heartbreaks.

Everything we’ve caught today has been on the sinker rig.

Captain Mike and the boys

Good morning anglers,

We got to the rocks around 7:15 this morning and slid right into our first stop.  We’ve had steady action all morning on the wahoo, and  they’re starting to add up!  Hoping this holds up all day here.

Captain Mike and the boys

Good evening anglers,

We had a nice afternoon scratching at the wahoo here.  It did get progressively harder as the day went on to catch them and get bites, but we still managed to catch a few throughout the day. We’re rolling up now with beautiful weather.All in all, a great way to end the trip.

Thanks to everyone who came fishing with us this season, it has been a great year!  See you in the spring.

Captain Mike and the boys

Good morning anglers,

We had a good shot at the yellowtail this morning in the dark, bite time was 4am until sun up on 10-15 lbers.  It was full speed! There were some tuna mixed in as well, ranging 15-30 lbs.  We made a move when the sun came up and got on a nice school of yellowfin, straight 35-45 lb fish, and they were in the corner.  We got our fix, finishing up, lunch, and headed west toward the rocks to hunt for a dorado/wahoo kelp.

Captain Mike and the boys

Good evening anglers,

Pretty epic kelping this afternoon.  Endless 15-25lb dorado and some big wahoo.  The guys got their fix on the dorado then we had a few kelps with some 40-70lb wahoo on them right before the sun went down.  We’re on course for alijos at the moment be there in the morning to finish up what turned out to be a great trip to finish up the season!

Captain Mike and the boys

Good morning anglers,

We had very successful tuna fishing this morning on 20-40lb yellowfin until about 10:30.  For the couple of hours that we had action there were 2-7 going the whole time!  Very minimal skip jack and small tuna involved. We’re hoping for more of the same this afternoon.  More later!

Captain Mike and the boys

Good evening anglers,

It’s slowed down for us this afternoon.  The current went slack, then backwards,  and there were skip jack everywhere.  We were able to scrape up some more tuna,  however, and had one wahoo strike.  We’re camping out for now and hoping for a shooter in the morning!

Captain Mike and the boys

Good morning anglers,

Pretty windy here today. Traveling down 18-22 knots and it’s been slow-going with this uphill current.  We have, however, been getting some noteworthy strikes today on big wahoo traveling down to keep us interested.  We’re about an hour out from the ridge, and will report back later!

Captain Mike and the boys

Good afternoon anglers,

We picked up some more skin on the way down here this afternoon. We got stopped short on a dorado kelp with all the dorado you could ever want, ranging 6-20 lbs! We tagged a few and saved a few more for the galley.  We got to the upper end of the ridge here at around 3pm, looked around a  bit, and saw some fish to put the anchor down. Immediately we started picking up mixed grade 12-35lbs.  Although we got a sample, the skip jack got on us and even when we tried moving we weren’t able to get reestablished.  We’ll see what happens tonight and tomorrow!

Captain Mike and the boys