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Trip #22 (7-day) Sep 23-30, sponsored by Seeker Rods (Day 2)

September 24th, 2018|Trip Reports|

Hello all,

Today was seminar day! (Tackle tips and it was not even Thursday. Lucky anglers!) We went over all the terminal tackle options from A to Z. Then we talked about what to do to avoid tangles. It’s always interesting to discuss connections: braid to fluorocarbon, or braid to mono and then fluorocarbon. It turns out everyone has their favorite method! I like to use a topshot of mono which acts as a shock absorber since it has some stretch to it.

Check out our link on Tackle Suggestions page for more on connections: TACKLE SUGGESTIONS

The rest of the morning has been spent rigging our gear and preparing for fishing by tomorrow. We are enjoying the good weather and traveling. The bait still looks happy and healthy.

~Captain Art and Team Searcher

Trip #21 (2.5 day trip) Sept 20-23, 2018 Private Charter

September 21st, 2018|Trip Reports|

Good afternoon anglers: Today we are paddy hopping with some good success on dorado and yellowfin. We are having a great time with great weather.

Here’s Shawn T. Jr with Kento I. from Hawaii and a nice dorado, thought Kento probably calls it a “Mahi-mahi!”

Captain Shawn and Team Searcher

Good evening anglers:
We had a great day of dorado and yellowfin tuna fishing. Most of are fish were caught on fly-lined baits,poppers, and colt snipers.

We will be moving tonight to better our chances at some tuna fishing. Wish us luck!

Here is a real nice dorado that Robert J. caught.

Captain Shawn and Team Searcher

Trip #20 (1.5 day trip) Sept 18-20, 2018

September 19th, 2018|Trip Reports|

Good afternoon Anglers:
Today, we are fishing the offshore tuna grounds with our Turner’s Outdoorsman  sponsored trip. (Who brought lots of great prizes for our anglers.) We are catching yellowfin tuna. Weather good and we are having a great time. Heres Bob Fletcher and Susie M. with a healthy yellowfin. ~Captain Shawn and Team Searcher
 
Good evening anglers: Today we had good, steady action on school-size yellowfin tuna on the local grounds.We want to give a big thanks to Lori and Sunny from Turners Outdoorsman for all the great giveaways!
Captain Shawn and Team Searcher

Trip #19 Penn University (Sept 11- 18) 7 day, The Ridge

September 17th, 2018|Trip Reports|

Good afternoon anglers:

This morning we had good yellowtail fishing for 18-25lb fish. Our most successful method was using 40-50lb line and a fly-lined bait. In addition, surface irons (7x Salas, Tady 45, both green and white, and blue and white) were useful.

Today’s fishing wraps up our 7 day Penn Fishing University trip. We want to give a big thanks to Steve Carson and Penn Reels for all the great giveaways.

Capt Shawn and Team Searcher

Eddie M and a yellowtail for today

Trip #19 Penn University (Sept 11- 18) 7 day, The Ridge

September 16th, 2018|Trip Reports|

Good afternoon anglers:

Dave B. with a morning YFT

Yellowfin tuna fishing remained steady this morning and we had a lot of action with 15-35 lb fish. This afternoon we will be targeting wahoo. Wish us luck!

Captain Shawn and Team Searcher

Good evening anglers:

Rick V. with an afternoon wahoo

This afternoon we set out to catch some wahoo and we did just that! All the fish were caught on the troll but we had some very happy anglers at the end of the day! We will be heading up tonight to try our hand at yellowtail. Wish us luck!

Captain Shawn and Team Searcher

Trip #19 Penn University (Sept 11- 18) 7 day, The Ridge

September 14th, 2018|Trip Reports|

Afternoon report:

So far today we have had some very good yellowfin tuna fishing with fish averaging15-40 lbs. The best way to get a bite has been on sardines, fly-lined or small jigs. Here’s Kurt P. with a yellowfin.

Captain Shawn and team Searcher

Good evening anglers:

Today ended up being a fantastic day on the water with biting fish and good weather! Yellowfin, dorado, and yellowtail were on the menu. Ourbest action was early in the day and the Flat Falls, Colt Snipers, and 6x juniors were the successful lures, or fly-ined sardines with 40 lb and a 3/0 hook.

We will spend the night here and try are luck tomorrow. Stefan M got this quality yellowfin today!

Captain Shawn and Team Searcher

Trip #19 Penn University (Sept 11- 18) 7 day

September 14th, 2018|Trip Reports|

Good evening anglers:

Today we had some scratch fishing on wahoo, yellowfin, and yellowtail. The most effective methods for wahoo were trolling Marauders. For yellowtail and tuna it was a flyline sardine, with a Salas 6x jr or raider jig. Our weather was a little choppy today with 16-20 knots of breeze. We are gonna stay where we are and give it another try tomorrow,
Wish us luck!

Captain Shawn and Team Searcher

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