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Trip #5: July 19-22 (3 day) Private Charter

Good evening anglers,

We got a little taste of tuna this afternoon. We joined the fleet where they were biting, and were able to scrape up a couple bluefin and a yellowfin. We saw plenty of fish, including in foamers, breezers, bird schools and large flat spots, but most fish weren’t hungry. The bluefin were caught on the flylined baits and the yellowfin on the sinker rig. We’re going to try a new area tomorrow.

Captain Mike and the boys

Stephen with a beauty of a yellowfin!

July 19th, 2020|Categories: Capt Art's Blog, Trip Reports|

Trip #4 July 16-19 (3 day) Poseidon Fishing Adventures

Good afternoon anglers,

We’ve been busy pulling on these big bluefin this morning, hence the late report. We’ve been in them all day and hooking them on the kite, flat falls and the sinker rigs. The sinker rigs has been the most effective. We currently have another heavy fish hanging. We’ll check back in a bit.

Captain Mike and the boys

Chuck with a 150# caught on a sinker rig on 80 pound test

Good evening anglers,

We were able to stay on these big bluefin all day and pick up a few more late. We had a foamer late in the evening where we hooked 5 or so on the Colt snipers and a couple on the sinker rig. It was an incredible sight to see!

Captain Mike and the boys

The fish that may take first place in  jackpot!

July 18th, 2020|Categories: Capt Art's Blog, Trip Reports|

Trip #4 July 16-19 (3 day) Poseidon Fishing Adventures

Good evening anglers,

No morning report today because we had a very tough morning on bluefin that just wouldn’t bite. We made a 20 mile move and it paid off. We were rewarded with an impressive showing of 150lb bluefin! We got here late and managed to boat a handful of fish.

We were getting bit on the sinker rig, Colt snipers and the frozen flyers on the kite. We will be right here in the morning. Wish us luck!

Captain Mike and the boys

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Carl and his 134lb bluefin caught on the sinker rig

July 18th, 2020|Categories: Capt Art's Blog, Trip Reports|

Trip #4 July 16-19 (3 day) Poseidon Fishing Adventures

Good evening anglers,

We had a great start to our 3-day trip here with Poseidon Fishing Adventures. We got on the fish a bit late but still managed to score some bluefin and yellowfin late today. The yellowfin were 20-45lbs and the bluefin were 25-90lbs, and most of them were 50-70lbs. We suffered quite a few casualties. The go-to seemed to be the lures. Especially something heavy and shiny. Young angler Kessler caught his first bluefin hooked on a 10 oz rock cod lure I dug out of the tackle box this afternoon (see below). There’s a tackle tip!

Captain Mike and the boys

Remember your first bluefin?!

July 16th, 2020|Categories: Capt Art's Blog, Trip Reports|

Trip #3 July 9-12 (3 day) Seeker Rods

Good morning anglers,

We stayed in the same zone this morning since we had such good fishing yesterda. We spent a lot of time looking at non-biting bluefin and yellowfin tuna. We did scratch some up, along with some dorado. We will be working up the rest of our afternoon looking for kelps.

Captain Mike and the boys

Bryan with the first dorado of our morning. Check out the nice mask thanks to Seeker Rods  and Sophie!

 

July 11th, 2020|Categories: Capt Art's Blog, Trip Reports|

Trip #3 July 9-12 (3 day) Seeker Rods

Good afternoon anglers,

We’re having a blast this morning out here! We’ve had good mixed fishing on yellowfin, bluefin, dorado, and yellowtail. There’s an incredible amount of fish in this area. We’re pretty busy at the moment, but we’ll check back later with a full report.

Captain Mike and the boys

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Good evening anglers,

We had a great day down here! We looked at lots of bluefin this afternoon that didn’t bite, though we managed to boat a few more. We loaded up on dorado and scratched away on 20-25lb yellowfin. It was non-stop action from sun up to sun down here. And we captured these fish every way imaginable.
Catpain Mike and the boys.

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Ezra with a quality bluefin captured this morning.

Jeff shows off a sample of our yellowfin catch

July 10th, 2020|Categories: Capt Art's Blog, Trip Reports|

Trip #3 July 9-12 (3 day) Seeker Rods

Good Evening anglers,

We departed on our annual July Seeker 3-day trip this morning with a nice load of bait. This afternoon we stumbled upon some large schools of mostly 50-70lb bluefin. They were in the non-biting mode however. We managed a few bites, but only landed one 30# bluefin. We’ll check back in the morning.

Captain Mike and the boys

Kevin and his 30# bluefin

July 9th, 2020|Categories: Capt Art's Blog, Trip Reports|

Trip #3 July 7-9 (1.5 day) Let’s Talk Hook-up

Hello anglers,

We looked at plenty of bluefin tuna schools this afternoon with no success in getting them to bite. At 5 pm we found some more fish and we finally hooked a few. We landed seven and had multiple bites on the kite outfit. Our biggest fish taped out at 193 pounds caught by Russ with a little help from the crew. These are impressive fish to catch, we just wish there were more of them for everyone.

Thanks to Pete Gray from Let’s Talk Hook-Up and Gamakatsu hooks for sponsoring this trip!

Captain Art and Team Searcher

Long-time hockey buddy Doug (right) landed a kite fish. Russ with a JP winner.

July 9th, 2020|Categories: Capt Art's Blog, Trip Reports|

Trip #2 July 2-5 (3 day) July 4th Special!

Good morning anglers,

We had some very good action on the yellowtail again this morning. We have not seen a whole lot of this yellowfin, however. We are almost 150 miles from home so we are working that way, hoping to get another shot at the bluefin this afternoon.

Captain Mike and the boys,

Nanette S. caught this yellowtail on a flylined sardine

Happy 4th of July!

This afternoon we scratched up some more yellowtail. We found some schools of bluefin late, but couldn’t get any to bite. We didn’t get to spend much time in the bluefin zone this afternoon.

Looking forward to getting back out on the next trip.

Captain Mike and the boys

Long-time friends Alec and Davey with a pair of quality kelp yellowtail

July 4th, 2020|Categories: Capt Art's Blog, Trip Reports|
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