Trip Reports

Good morning,

We ran out to the west last yesterday to try catch some nighttime bluefin.  We caught a handful of 60-90lbers but the weather was not really workable, so we bailed out and slid to the east. We’re looking for some dorados and we have much better weather here this morning.

Captain Mike and the boys

Hello anglers,

We saw good signs of bluefin tuna during the day yesterday but they weren’t biting. We waited for nighttime and had some opportunities. We landed fish from 50-120 pounds. We plan to relocate to try for dorado as there has been some reports of good fishing.

Capt Art and Team Searcher

Hello anglers,

We had some action today with dorado. We stopped on two different areas and found the most successful method was a flylined live sardine on 30 pound line with a #2 J-Hook. We all had some fun.

Capt Art and Team Searcher

Hello anglers,

We are back to fishing after the storm and had great weather travelling to the west by San Clemente Island. We started flat falling at sunset and we had some opportunities on bluefin. Most of the fish are 60 pounds and there was one stand-out at 200 pounds!

Hoping for some action during the day today and then we will flat fall again tonight.

Capt Art and Team Searcher

Good afternoon,

We made a move last night and got into this local tuna grounds this morning, We didn’t see much until about 11am, but we’ve been drifting ever since.  Very good fly line fishing today on mixed yellowfin bluefin 25-45lbs.  We’re hoping we can stay drifting here. Gotta go!

Captain Mike and the boys

Good evening,

What a day!  We had two stops on this beautiful grade of yellowfin/bluefin mix.  On both stops we had 4-10 fish going and drifted for hours.  Excellent sport fishing. 

Fly lined 30 and 40 lb test was the best way to get a bite.  Some guys were getting bites on the colt snipers and small flat falls as well.  Grease calm weather and biting fish, what more could you ask for?

Captain Mike and the boys

Good morning,

We drove around most of the night and then around 2:30 a.m., we got on the right fish and they were biting a little. It’s a beautiful grade of bluefin, with yellowfin mixed in. The bluefin are 40-120# and the yellowfin are 30-50#.  We were able to scratch until the sun came up.

We’re going to spend the morning looking for a dorado kelp.

Captain Mike and the boys

Good evening,

We went kelping this afternoon.  It was wide-open dorado fishing! One-stop shopping on a kelp here mid-day.  We went back to last night’s location and see good sign of yellowfin and bluefin here this afternoon.  We’ve caught a few and we’re gonna see what happens when the sun goes down.

Captain Mike and the boys

Good morning,

We had excellent fishing on 25-50# bluefin last night.  We got on scene around 9pm and started seeing incredible sign right away.  We ended up catching what we needed in a couple hours, including a few yellowfin mixed in.  We’re sliding down the beach now looking for something else to catch.  Very fun lure fishing!

Captain Mike and the boys

Good evening,

We went looking down the beach today.  We saw some sign of 10-30lb yellowfin tuna and we scratched a few up.  It felt like we might have been on to something but never really saw any concentration of them.  We had a few dorado and yellowtail in the mix as well.  Beautiful weather.

Captain Mike and the boys

Good Morning,

We had excellent bluefin fishing almost all night.  We lost track of them for a few hours, but picked them back up around 4am. They are mostly 40-90# fish, quite a few 100#, some 180# and some smaller 30# mixed in.  It was very rewarding fishing or those who stayed up all night.

We’re making a move to see if we can find some yellowfin to catch this afternoon.

Captain Mike and the boys

Hello anglers:

We got into the local zone after lunch and we started seeing a sign of smaller bluefin.  We didn’t try them since we didn’t need anymore.  We never saw any real sign of yellowfin this afternoon. We did scratch up a few dorado, before we called it a trip.

Captain Mike and the boys

Good evening,

We got on scene just in time to stop on a school of 30-70# bluefin. There’s lots of fish around at the moment and we’re getting some bites, Hopefully this is a good sign for the night to come.  Got to go!

Captain Mike and the boys