
Hard To Come By
“The last few days we were fishing for tuna and Dorado off shore with just moderate success,” said the news from Independence September 10. “The better grade fish were hard to come by, as only eight made their way on board, 35 to 40-pounders, and the rest were smaller grade. We covered a lot of water, and are going to try somewhere for tomorrow. The weather is really good out here.”
First Day

The next day the report said, “We had an excellent day of offshore tuna fishing today. We ended up with our daily limits of yellowfin tuna, 12 bluefin tuna, and 19 good grade dorado. The yellowfin were 12 to 20 pounds and the bluefin were 20 to 25 pounds. To go with our great day of fishing, we had grease calm weather. Life is good on the Intrepid. We will be targeting yellowtail tomorrow.”
A Real Dandy
“Just a real dandy of a day for us today,” noted the posting from Polaris Supreme on Facebook September 10. “We started it out in the morning with the yellowtail snap and then we followed it up in the afternoon with Monday night footballs. The footballs were all you wanted and we also added a small handful of dorado to our days count. We did all of this in flat calm conditions and the boys are all wore out from the excellent fishing that we had today. Everybody's pumped and I screamed myself hoarse today.
“For tomorrow, we're looking for tuna with a little more size as one of our code boats had a nice afternoon on those premium grade offshore yellowfin tuna so we'll be in the area looking around for a few ourselves. The boys enjoyed a twenty-two year old Cabernet Sauvignon tonight and I think Robin and Wayne might have shed a tear together while talking about it.”
Big Bluefin Nip: “Epic Day”

The afternoon was a surprise with an area of 80 to 100 pound Bluefin. Great visual with big fish boiling as far as you could see. We kept 4 to 7 fish going until dark and ended up with 23 trophy Bluefin. Our bait situation will be ok for another day and we will try this again. It was a really lucky deal and any sign tomorrow would be great. Flat calm weather and what an epic day.”
Toasty

Satiation
“Another fine day of yellowtail angling in flat calm weather,” said the report from Royal Star for September 11, “with all aboard completely satiated by lunch. We spent the afternoon working up for only a few dorado and school tuna, the guys took advantage of the idle time with the cocktails flowing freely. Our plan is to target bigger tuna in the offshore grounds for the remainder of the trip.”
Amazing Morn

A Little Late
“Would be home tomorrow earlier,” noted the Vagabond’s posting on Facebook September 11, “but stopped for a wide open bite on YFT from 30 to 50 pounds! ETA is 7:30 a.m. September 12 with happy large family.”