“The boat returned from a very productive 5 day trip,” noted American Angler’s website June 27, “with plenty of albacore for everyone's barbeque and a beautiful catch of yellowtail.

“If anyone has an albacore recipe they'd be willing to share - email it to the office to be posted. People are always looking for new and delicious ways to prepare this fish other than the old stand by: teriyaki wrapped in bacon (which adorned a few bbques tonight and is a good tradition - but trying something different is fun).

“A huge thanks to webmaster and chartermaster, Barry Gambarana, for hosting and organizing another successful Shaker Tour, to Steve Patterson for wrapping one of his eye-catching rods for the raffle, to Paul Pangburn for bringing a pork shoulder to share and to all the passengers on board for coming fishing on this trip. The topper for this trip was having 4 lovely ladies on board - thank you for bringing a softer side to this past 5 days! Hope to see you all next year. Jackpot winners: Skip Stenbro won first place for a 70-pound bluefin. Jesse Imai won second for a 36.4-pound albacore and Gerald was third for a 36.2-pound albacore.”



In The Zone

“We made it down into the Tuna zone around 1:00 this afternoon,” said the Intrepid report June 27.

“It didn't take to long to find some spots of breaking fish, but they didn't want to bite very well. We slid on several spots and picked up a couple of handfuls of Bluefin and some big Albacore. There just wasn't many fish that wanted to bite, plenty of sign, great conditions, just not biting very well. Late in the evening the Albacore came up and we were able to have a couple of good stops on the longfin. We will be on the sea anchor tonight and will fish this area again tomorrow.”



Supreme’s Tuna Fishing

“Very good albacore fishing today! “ reported Drew Henderson for the Polaris Supreme June 26. “Yup. We even threw in a catch of blue fin too. Weather was not pleasing to wake up to but we worked with it and scratched out a good half day into lunch. The fishing slowed so we made a little move and it was game on the rest of the day. Oh yeah, the weather turned great to go along with it. We're all beat and are going to enjoy baby back rib night brought to you by team galley then hit the rack. We're headed to an Island to try our luck at some yellow tail catching.”



Salty Dawg Eight-Day Returns

CAPTAIN: ANDY CATES     
DATE OF TRIP: THURSDAY, JUNE 17TH – FRIDAY, JUNE 25TH, 2010
LENGTH OF TRIP:    8 DAYS
AREAS FISHED:   ALIJOS ROCKS CEDROS
TRIP/CHARTER MASTERS: SALTY DAWG RODS
FISH COUNT:     115 YELLOWFIN TUNA   235 YELLOWTAIL 8 ALBACORE 1 BLUEFIN
1st PLACE JACKPOT      100.1 LBS YELLOWFIN TUNA CAUGHT BY JEFFERY TEDMORI OF NEWPORT BEACH, CA
2ND PLACE JACKPOT       57.5 LBS YELLOWFIN TUNA CAUGHT BY BILL HAVENS OF SAN DIEGO, CA
3RD PLACE JACKPOT        47.8 LBS YELLOWFIN TUNA CAUGHT BY JOHN BALL OF RENO, NV  
REMARKS:  TROLLING JACKPOT 22.5LBS BLUEFIN TUNA CAUGHT BY JACK GERSTEIN



Bluefin Fishing

“We lucked out this afternoon,” said the report from Royal Star June 25, “and bumped into a nice area of scattered bluefin that broke up the ride home and made for a nice end to the trip. We had a handful of stops on small boilers that were reluctant to bite but we managed to boat eight fish from 30-80lbs. Unfortunately we didn't have more time in this area as I'm sure we could have put together a nice day. We are traveling up tonight and will depart tomorrow on our annual Barking Spiders 8-day which the crew and I always look forward to.

“Today's shot shows Braydon Duby getting a hand from his pops to show off his 50-pound bluefin tuna.”



On Her Way Down

“We departed from Fisherman's Landing at 10:30 hours,” said the report from Royal Polaris June 26, “on our 2010 Family trip. We have a great load of bait, and the crew and passengers are looking forward to a great trip. We have kids ranging from 7 to 18 years old. We are hoping our weather will change for the better, but as of now we have overcast skies, and a slight breeze out of the northwest at 12 knots.”



Shogun Plunks Shortfin

“I would like to report BLUEFIN MAYHEM,” recalled Shogun second skipper Bruce Smith June 27, “but alas it was more like bluefin plunker bite twice during the day. We ended up with over 100 bluefin along with another 42 albacore and some more yellowfin to round out the numbers. The bluefin range in size from 20 to 40 pounds, albacore are a beautiful 25 to 35 pound average and the yellowfin are 15-pounders. Weather has been good with the wind blowing out of the northwest at about 12 knots."