Sep 30 (Sep 29-Oct 1) Extended 1.5 day
Hello anglers,
We had some action on bluefin tuna last night. There was some good opportunities with flat fall lures and knife lures as well. Hoping for a few more during the day in the same area.
Capt Art and Team Searcher
Frequent customer, Darel, and a nice bluefin tuna
Hello anglers,
We had some great opportunities for quality yellowfin tuna this afternoon on 30-50# fish caught on flyline sardines. Great weather to go along with great fishing.
Captain Art and Team Searcher
Father and son with yellowfin
Sep 28 (4 day) Matt Boone Private Charter
Hello anglers,
We started in the yellowfin tuna and dorado area south of San Diego this morning. It didn’t take long to find a kelp paddie that had a nice school of dorado. It was easy to get a bite with a live sardine on 25# line. Now we’re looking for some tuna.
Captain Art and Team Searcher
Father and son, Ted and Kelley, with their dorado
Hello anglers,
We had a few more dorado this afternoon and a chance at some good-size yellowfin tuna. The tuna were 25-40# and we landed them on 25# line and a live sardine.
Capt Art and Team Searcher
Group of happy yellowfin tuna anglers
Sep 27 (Sep 25-29) 4 day Matt Boone Private Charter
Hello anglers:
We’ve had great fishing again this morning with the same conditions, and plenty of yellowtail for everyone. Flyline live sardines were the best method today. Lots of big bonito as well (released). So there was constant action all morning.
We are travelling north now and hoping for some action on yellowfin tuna tomorrow.
Captain Art and Team Searcher
Happy anglers with their yellowtail!
Sep 26 (Sep 25-29) Matt Boone Private Charter
Hello anglers,
We had good action this afternoon for 12-20# yellowtail and lots of 6-12# bonito (released). A flylined live sardine was the biggest success, with some being landed on dropper loop rigs and a few on yo-yo lures as well.
It was worth the long ride to get to somewhere we could stop the boat and fish. We are spending the night and trying again tomorrow. Then we’ll head back north to try for dorado and tuna.
Captain Art and Team Searcher
Chartermaster Matt with a nice yellow!
Sep 24 (Sep 22-25) 3-day Biter’s Charter
Good evening,
We saw very little sign of bluefin last night. We caught one 30# by about 10pm, so we went and looked in a new area and saw very little there as well.
We opted to spend the morning doing some cod drifts for some excellent quality bottom grabbers. This afternoon we slid back offshore and and saw incredible sign of 30-300# fish, but they weren’t biting though they were right where we looked last night. We scratched a few 40-80# bluefin and a few nice yellowfin.
We’re going to try catch a few after sundown before we have to go home.
Captain Mike and the boys
Sep 23 (Sep 22-25) 3-day Biter’s Charter
Good morning,
We got on scene at about 9pm last night and scratched throughout the night. Pretty much had opportunity from sun down to sun up on a mix of 30-40lb bluefin and yellowfin. Fun fishing. The anglers that stayed up all night did well. We are still seeing a little bit this morning with the sun coming up now.
Captain Mike and the boys
The early angler gets the tuna!
Good evening,
Although our sign of bluefin and yellowfin disappeared throughout the day, we were still able to boat a few dorado this afternoon. And just now the fish are starting to pop up. We finally caught our first day time tuna here we’re hoping for some more tonight.
Captain Mike and the boys
Afternoon bluefin score!
Sep 21 (Sep 19-22) Private Charter FD Rover
Good morning,
We saw a good sign of bluefin right after dark, then we lost track of them, and the weather came up. We got a few bites and landed one nice one. We put the anchor down and got some good sleep.
We see the bluefin again this morning though we aren’t catching it. But we found a kelp with some nice dorado, and so we’re pretty happy about that.
Captain Mike and the boys
Sep 20 (Sep 19-22) 3-day Private Charter FD Rover
Good morning,
We got on scene here just before 10pm and had a few opportunities throughout the night on bluefin tuna. It seemed like we were a little late but we still managed to score some nice grade bluefin, 30-120lbs, on lures. We see very good sign this morning and we’re starting to get a few bites during the day now.
Captain Mike and the boys
Good evening,
We have seen good sign of mixed yellowfin and bluefin throughout the day. We had one very good opportunity where these 30-50lb yellowfin were in the corner for awhile. We settled into a nice long drift and started plunking on mixed yellwfin/bluefin, mostly 30-50lbs. Very fun fishing here! We’ll see what happens tonight.
Captain Mike and the boys
Sep 18 (Sep 16-19) Penn Open Charter
Good evening,
We slid down the beach last night and put ourselves in position to catch some yellowfin tuna in the morning. We had an action-packed stop in the morning on school-sized yellowfin. Very fun fishing. We scratched a few more throughout the day too.
We scored some good-grade dorado this afternoon from a couple different kelps. Nice weather, good fishing.
Captain Mike and the boys
Good afternoon,
We had excellent fishing on 10-18# dorado before lunch today.Very fun fishing and great quality. Everyone got in on the action.
We’re back on the hunt for some bluefin now. Hoping we can capture a few before we have to wrap the trip up this evening.
Captain Mike and the boys
