“Today we had very good Yellowtail fishing,” said the report from American Angler May 29, “which gave us about all that we needed and the grade was awesome as shown in the photo of the day featuring Mr. Charlie. The weather has subsided 12 to 14 knots – plenty good enough. We are running out to the Rocks in hopes of catching a few Jackpot fish and then we’ll just take it from there.
 We still have a few days left to make something happen on the Tuna side of things as we head up the line."



Log Jam

“We had very good wahoo fishing today down here in the lower zone,” wrote Excel skipper Justin Fleck May 29. “The sign of fish here is still incredible. After getting our wahoo fix, we turned our attention toward tuna for the afternoon. I can't say that I see giant schools of tuna around but I do see enough sign to hopefully make a nice catch. Unfortunately there are a lot of sharks around and they took more than their fare share from us today. Tomorrow we will concentrate on tuna for most of the day and see if we can't have better luck staying away from the sharks.”



TUNA!

“Not a lot,” noted Royal Star skipper Tim Ekstrom May 29, “and no occasion for colossal celebration, but we are thrilled nevertheless; in light of the conditions and none that we landed yesterday this was a pleasant change. Ten of the hearty, 50 to 80-pound yellowfin were boated and a couple of others that came in at 33 and 45 pounds. Between that, the inevitable ones that got away, and steady yellowtail fishing to fill in the gaps it was another fine day of fishing and catching.

“Needless to say we are settled in for now planning to make one more go of it before beginning the necessary push north to scour the offshore grounds. If the weather cooperates we're feeling optimisitc about our chosen area of searching. If not we'll charge and endure but implement plan B accordingly. Photos today first feature long time Royal Star angler Bob Furman who nailed two of these fine tuna today, one under the kite, and one on the traditional flyline.”



XL Biscuit

Ken Cirks, well-known long ranger and striped bass angler, has been fishing white seabass recently in the local area known by sportboat anglers as “Dolly,” because of the two domes of the nuclear plant.

“Just passing on a photo,” said Ken, “of one of the fish we have been catching off San Onofre. I have more pictures also. I caught the fish on 6/0 Mustad BLN 92677s using live squid we made on the spot, fishing from my 22 bay Ranger.”