Trip Reports

Our group of 18 passengers is now heading offshore in search of tuna and yellowtail, but not before we snapped a few photos of the anxious anglers! Good luck hunting!

From Trip 3 (1.5 day) July 5-7, 2016. Posted by SearcherSportfishing on 7/06/2016 (25 items)

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Hello anglers,

We moved up the coast last night to try another yellowtail spot. We had some action on good-size yellowtail for a few hours, before we had to head home. Even the crew got involved. Chef Dan used one of our Hook and Hand outfits to hook a fish and hand it off to Chef Charley Erichsen. Charley has prepared many yellowtail dishes (including on Searcher, see below), but this was his first time catching one!
The weather is awesome so we are going to have a great ride home. Thanks to Norm Fujimoto and Steve Ichinokuchi from Izorline for all the goodies on this trip. Several people filled their reels with new line. It is always a pleasure to have Norm and his sons (this year JK joined him) on board and we look forward to having him back next year.

Our “Sportsman Award” for the trip goes to Ted Okon from Santa Clarita. Ted is great to fish with and he gets the job done too!
We ended the trip with a phenomenal dinner tonight. Not only do our chefs catch the fish but they know how to cook it as well. The yellowtail was grilled with a lime cilantro butter sauce, served with roasted squash and a red pepper risotto.

“Delicious” says Team Searcher!

Hello anglers, We had an excellent day fishing for yellowtail! Everyone had lots of opportunities to land a quality fish. Throughout the day the best method for getting a bite was using a live sardine with a J hook, and 30-40 pound test line. No flourocarbon leader necessary. There was plenty of fun to go around today, and the weather was awesome with calm seas and warm temperatures.
Capt Aaron fished for a while today and was able to Hook and Hand a fish to Brandt Humphry of Irvine, CA. They are pictured with the Seeker rod and Accurate reel and a gorgeous yellowtail.
Team Searcher

July 2, 2016

Hello anglers, We made the long run to the yellowtail zone last night and it paid off. We’ve had great fishing for good-size yellowtail this morning.The most successful method to get these fish to bite is a live sardine, and 40 pound line with a 3/0 J hook. Pictured is Capt. Art and Jim Pappas. He and his son Nikko came all the way from Largo, Florida to experience our West Coast saltwater fishing. Jim landed this yellowtail on one of our Accurate/Seeker “Hook and Hand” outfits. Capt Art hooked the fish initially, handed the outfit to Jim, and he got to land the fish. Nice job, Jim!
Thanks to Accurate Fishing Products and Seeker Rods for providing these outfits, and to Izorline for the line. It’s nice to have these state-of-the-art outfits for our crew to hook a fish, and then landed by a passenger, especially a first-timer!

We are hoping to stay busy the rest of the day like this! Team Searcher

Hello anglers,
Our first day with Norm Fujimoto and friends from Izorline was a struggle as far as the fishing goes. We spent the day in search of yellowtail and we saw some good signs of fish. We caught a few, and the ones we caught were the 20-pound class. The weather is awesome and we had some laughs–what a great group of anglers! Capt Art and one of our long time customers Howard Folmer is pictured with one of the yellowtail Howard caught today.
But all the contributions from Izorline were terrific and made the day a lot of un. Norm had a raffle with cool prizes. Tady lures set us up with plenty of lures for everyone. Izorline gave out t-shirts and spools of line and flourocarbon. Lots of goodies to start the trip!
Team Searcher

p.s. Read all about getting your gear ready for fishing here! How about a short “warm-up” trip? Check here for a light-load 1.5 day or 2-day trip next week! (And don’t forget the Owner hooks and Izorline!)

Hello anglers: We worked hard today with not much luck. It was the ol’ “should have been here yesterday” scenario with good reports from the day before. Unfortunately the conditions changed and the yellowtail wouldn’t bite. After trying for yellowtail we went offshore and found some groups of common dolphin that had signs of small yellowfin tuna. We caught 4 12-pounders on the troll, but nothing on the bait. The conditions were great with 67.5 degree blue water. We anticipate catching something in the same area in the future.
We end this trip with an “E for effort” with lots of hard work but not much to show for it. One really great thing is the new bait tank worked really well! Lots of room back there and the bait thrived. The hand wells allow for multiple people to access baits at the same time. Lots of positive feedback from the anglers.
Looking forward to the next trip! There is space on the Izorline-sponsored 4-day leaving June 30th.

Team Searcher

Hello anglers: We started in the area where the bluefin tuna has been seen the past few days. Only the fish didn’t show up there today! We headed south looking for kelp paddies and yellowtail. We saw several kelps and a few had fish on them. Most of the yellowtail were on the small side, but keepers, and a few were better grade fish. Capt Ryan is pictured with Ross Langley from Oceanside and his good-size yellowtail.
Hoping for better results tomorrow, Team Searcher

Hello anglers: We arrived at the tuna zone just in time for all the schools to go down. We did see two spots of fish late in the day.–they didn’t want to bite unfortunately. We managed to hook and land an 18-pound yellowfin tuna. So, Robert King from Granada Hills was the lucky angler and he drew first blood to start the 2016 fishing season! Robert won a Shimano flat fall lure for landing the first fish. He and Capt Aaron are pictured in the bow with his fish. Hoping for better luck tomorrow, Team Searcher