Fishing Reports
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Our first Rock Cod trip of the season was a blast with the Santa Paula crew, Doug Buck, Big Ron Penn (our gate keeper), Lori Withee Patella, and a host
of other great passengers. This is one of our favorite trips because my family comes out to share the fun. This year, my daughter Paris joined her mom and her
uncle, and she brought along her own private deckhand/boyfriend, Mike Stevens. The fishing was slow overall but
Sunday we had a nice bite for a few hours on good quality Reds and Lings, making sure everyone brought home some tasty fish. We also had a few Yellowtail in the
morning and finished with a 17-fish flurry in the afternoon. Dave Wilder won the 2nd-Day Jackpot with an almost 19-lb Yellow and Jerry Napolitano won the 1st-Day Jackpot with a
15-lb Ling. 
Well, here it is, the final story of 2007. We enjoyed great passengers, mostly calm weather, and
good action every day on 35- to 110-lb Tuna. We had 4 cows: Davey Tang (200#), Chris Crueger (223#), Rick Hobbs (233#), and
Danny Cash pulled in the big one, a beautiful 257-lber. We also ended up with quite a few fish between 100 and 199 lbs. 
I'd like to thank all of you who made our year so enjoyable for the crew and myself. I'm very proud of my crew, Tim, Dave, David, Ryan, Dan, and Gordon and the excellent job they have done. Thank you guys for the great, smooth season. We are looking forward to next year and another big season. For now, a much needed vacation for me and the crew. 
Good fish'n, Mike and the Vagabond Crew The trip left under poor fishing reports but I always say that just leaves room for improvement. What an improvement! We
had good tuna fishing with smaller fish in the a.m. and jumbos in the p.m. This trip saw our
boat record set with a 327.6 Yellowfin Tuna caught by Tony Saldivar. We had a fun afternoon of Yellowtail on the way home. Great people, great fish, great trip. 
Good fish'n, Mike and the Vagabond Crew We've boated a few trophies up to 270+ lbs yesterday and this morning we had a lot of action on fish up
to 75 lbs. We are now heading for some more trophies. Just got the word from our buddies that they have connected with the Cows and we will be on them tomorrow. Stay tuned for more info. 
Good fish'n, Mike and the Vagabond Crew Capt. Gordon Lackey brought home a group of very happy anglers from a 5-day trip to Guadalupe. The enjoyed
steady fishing for 40- to 80-lb Yellowfin Tuna, with a couple of opportunities at some 100-lbers. They had a steady pick on quality Yellowtail from 25 to 40 lbs.
A stray Dorado enjoy found its way onboard. Good weather thoughout and they were able to top it off with a short stop for good-eating bottomfish. 
We are heading home with an ETA of 8:00 a.m. Monday loaded with great fish, see below.
They are 1/2 way thru this special limited load Rocks/Wahoo 9-day trip and
they are bringing home Yellowfin Tuna up to 180 lbs so far.
They had good Yellowtail fishing on the way down, with some Dorado and Wahoo.
Our SD Anglers LL 10-day is headed home with a morning ETA of 6:30 a.m.
They are bringing home Yellowfin Tuna up to 150 lbs. They had good scratch fishing on Wahoo and good Yellowtail fishing--all with gorgeous weather.
The Anglers are working with 50- to 100-lb outfits.
The SD Anglers' 10-day trip is coming along very nicely. Excellent weather and a good catch of Yellowtail on the way down;
by today, the 4th day, they had good scratch tuna fishing with 40- to 150-lb Tuna, some Dorado, 3 Wahoo, and some catch-and-release Marlin.
The Anglers are working with 50- to 100-lb outfits.
Our 8-day trip was 7 1/2 days of good weather and fun. Assembled a catch of Yellowtail, Dorado, some nice-sized Tuna, a Wahoo, and a 27-lb Halibut.
We enjoyed a great group of passengers and fun was had by all. 
The Annual Fagner/Spider Open was a great success as always! Even with rain the first day we
had a great 2nd day with calm weather and Albies up to 36 lbs. We welcomed some newcomers to the trip this trip and a good time was had by all.
We've had our ups and downs over the last few weeks. The ALBIES are still here and the bite is good.
Most days have been good weather, the last week brought an abnormal amount of wind. Big Yellowtail at the Islands
has been from good to excellent for fish ranging from 25 lbs and big ones over 40 lbs. We've been to the Lupe
once for slow scratch Yellowfin in the 40-60 lb class. For 1 1/4-day we brought 22 whole Tuna aboard. We've been lucky and only had a
few rough weather days. The long season looks good with nice Wahoo reports and quality Tuna!
GUADALUPE PERMITS ARE IN! BOOK NOW! Albies! We enjoy good midday action on this trip and ended up with a nice catch of Albacore and a couple of Bluefin.
The weather was good until midday Tuesday and hoping it improves by Thursday when we hopefully will enjoy some more good fishing. Good weather, great passengers, and pick fishing sums up this week. We scratched some nice
Yellows, a couple of White Sea Bass, and a Halibut. Next trip should be better with reports of Albacore picking up again. Fair kelp fishing for Yellowtail and some Dorado. 50/50 weather. Great group as usual.
What is there to say! Joe's Freight does it again. Excellent kelp fishing and lots and lots of Albies. Timing is everything
and this trip hit it perfect. Great people, crew, weather, and fishing. Great trip!Thank you JOE! Albies to 37 lbs and Yellows at 30 lbs.
Same story with a new area added. Kelps down the line are holding with nice size Yellowtail and Dorados. A few Yellowfin
tuna are around also but all in all fishing is slow except for a good kelp now and again.
Jan Ishii Charter was as always a great time. Excellent people, fair to excellent weather
and finally the fish decided to chew. We had limit fishing for fat Albacore and a few
Bluefin. This trip is what we been waiting for, the fish are still very close and in large
numbers. They are biting well but remember your 20- to 25-lb outfit as they really like that.
ng is tough scratching with moments of hope, all in all were scratching little nice quality Albies and Yellowtail. Okay wea Fishither and still lots to see on the meters! Hope they get with the bite mode soon. This trip was twice as good as the last
so hope this trend continutes. The Rhinehart charter, as always, was full of fun times but, unfortunately, the fish missed the call.
We struggled to catch a few Albies and Yellowtail. The fish are showing signs of perking up but mostly didn't bite.
The fish are showing on the electronics but just won't bite. Working on better fishing this next trip. The Beauchamp charter was great as usual. Good Albie fishing on the first day; slow on the 2nd day;
and we fished the Mexican coast on the third day. A decent pick bit on nice Yellowtail up to 30 lbs.
Also got a BONUS of 18 nice Halibut up to 40 lbs. Limit fishing on the trip we just returned from today! We also caught a few Bluefin Tuna to 57 lbs. The signs are looking
great, fish are being found in lots of places now. We have 25 Albies aboard for this morning on this trip so far! We just returned from trip #13 with great news. The trip started a little slow with
windy offshore weather and few fish. So we went to the lower Islands for some good quality
Yellowtail. Coming back we had excellent weather and finally at 115 miles--Albacore!
Beautiful biting 15- to 25-lb Albies in the last 1 1/2 hours. We got 41 Albies
and a 30-lb Bluefin for our 13 passengers. It looks like they've arrived with good fishing
Saturday at 60 miles also. Fishing at the Alijos was very slow so we headed back up the islands and yesterday we had a nice day of
quality Yellowtail and today we are hoping to finish up our quota. Hot suntanning weather here. Sam Patella
on the American Angler brought in 5 Albies late yesterday afternoon. We are moving up there to get in on the action.
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