“Today we fished offshore,” reported skipper Mike Ramirez for the Excel September 9. “The morning was tough with choppy weather and very little sign of fish. By the afternoon things started to look up, with the weather coming down and the fish starting to cooperate. We found a kelp just before the sun set that had a nice school of dorado on it plus a handful of nicer grade yellowfin tuna. We will be looking at a different body of water tomorrow.”



Intrepid Winners

“We returned this morning (September 9) from our Angler's Choice eight-day trip. We would like to thank Luc for putting together another trip to remember. Jackpot winners are:

1st Place: Luc Ofield with a 73.2 lb. Yellow fin Tuna

2nd Place: Robert McPherson with a 47.0 lb. Dorado

3rd Place: Jeff Albro with a 37.4 lb. Yellowtail

Honorable mention goes to Jim Kastorff with his 59.0 lb. Wahoo.”



Polaris Supreme Mid-Day Facebook Report

“Wow what a morning. Crazy El Nino-Generated Weather. Thunder Storms, Lightning Strikes next to the boat, Rain, Rain, Rain. There I said it El Nino! I don't know what everybody was waiting for. We have been driving around in 72-degree water for a month now, it’s a steady 74 and pushing 80 east of Guadalupe Island. It's September 9th and we are catching yellowfin and bluefin 70 to 160 miles from San Diego with no signs of it slowing. Today, we have caught only rat Yellows so far but have high hopes for this afternoon.”



Charkbait Winners

Skipper Joe Crisci docked Red Rooster III at H&M Landing September 9 after a four-day Charkbait trip that scored on yellowfin tuna and dorado.

1st place jackpot: 35.8-pound yellowfin tuna caught by Paul Legler of San Diego
2nd place: 27-pound yellowtail caught by Tom Mullen of Murrieta
3rd place: 26.4-pound yellowtail caught by Tim Hughes of San Diego
Trolling jackpot: 15.8 yellowfin tuna caught by Ray Alvarez of Temecula



First Day Out

“Today was meant for travel and eating and football and rigging tackle,” reported Royal Polaris September 9. “We were all pleasantly surprised to find Yellowfin tuna and Dorado too! Travel weather went from rainy to overcast and hot with a comfortable sea at our backs. Charter master Bill Nakaki wanted to thank Owner hooks and Fisherman’s Processing for our passenger give aways and raffle prizes.”



La Paz Flats & Skins

“Dorado were our main species again this week,” reported Jonathan Roldan (http://fishreport.jonathanroldan.com) September 9. “Every day a few boats got into them nicely for both our Tailhunter Las Arenas and our Tailhunter La Paz fleets. A few boats would find the right spots and get bent nicely but then other boats would scratch and scratch. The next day, it would be just the opposite. The hot boat or the hot spot would get cold and a different boat; set of anglers; or area would turn out to be the hot area. No real rhyme or reason that even our captains could discern.

“Las Arenas did better than it has been. That was encouraging. Much more dorado with some nice schoolie fish. Las Arenas all year has literally been slower than slow except for roosterfish. But this week we got into some decent dorado, roosterfish plus even a (surprise) wahoo! Pargo were also a good fallback with pargo mulatto (barred pargo) and yellow snapper filling some coolers.

“La Paz was OK. Steady, but as mentioned, hit-or-miss. Dorado ranged from smaller 10 pounders to some 25 pounders. A few larger ones got away. We also had a few sailfish show up in the bites with all fish released.”

Rains Bring Fish, Jungle

“Overall,” reported Rancho Leonero foreman Gary Barnes-Webb September 9 (http://www.rancholeonero.com/fishreport.html) , “another solid fishing week. We have had beautiful rains for the past month resulting in the area resembling
the Amazon! The overcast conditions have cooled an otherwise scorching summer. Very pleasant right now. The water
temperature is still in the high 80's and the air temps pleasant in the low 90's.
 


“It is pretty much all about Dorado at the moment. There have been schooling fish found all over the East Cape.
The rains have also dumped debris in the sea and any floating patch is producing fish. The best areas have been
in the vicinity of the Light house. Bigger fish were found yesterday slightly further south just beyond Los Frailes,
bulls in the 40's.
 


“The Tuna have been really patchy this year. Some days we run into them and by the next day they have moved on.
Yesterday one of the boats found them 40 miles south east and loaded up. Fish were football to about 25 pounds. Most
boats headed that way this morning.

Marlin are around as usual. I think the Blue marlin bite has been a little disappointing this year but I do not 
ever recall such a hot Sailfish bite. We had a triple hookup last week (only landed two, though).

“Stripers are around
but not in the numbers we have when the water temp is a little cooler. We have been getting really good bait (Caballitos and
Barracuda) for the bill fish. All lures are also being hit.
The La Rivera bank has been producing good bottom fishing. Guys like Capt. Santos relishing the Pargo and Dog Tooth
snapper bite. We have had a few Wahoo come in this week also.
The Roosterfish bite picked up this week with excellent fish boated in the bay at La Rivera, 40 pounds-plus.”