CAPTAIN: ANDY CATES ...
DATE OF TRIP: 10/18-11/1/2015
LENGTH OF TRIP: 14 DAYS
AREAS FISHED: CLARION, HURRICANE BANK
TRIP/CHARTER MASTERS: TRIP 23-LOFTUS/MARTIN CHARTER
FISH COUNT:
257 YELLOWFIN TUNA
109 WAHOO 1st PLACE JACKPOT 217.6 LBS YELLOWFIN TUNA CAUGHT BY DAVE MOTTER OF GRANT PASS, OR 2nd PLACE JACKPOT 203.0 LBS YELLOWFIN TUNA CAUGHT BY KEN SODOMA OF CHENEY, WA 3rd PLACE JACKPOT 202.8 LBS YELLOWFIN TUNA CAUGHT BY DAN SUNDERLAND OF SAN MARCOS, CA NOTES: TROLLING JACKPOT 132 LBS YELLOWFIN TUNA CAUGHT BY JOE STICKLES OF ORANGE, CA 
Oct. 31, 2015 with the good weather and the schedule with boats at the landing we will be getting in at 6:00 in the morning, see you then Oct. 30, 2015 choppy weather last night but wind settling down this evening. one more day of travel and passing by Cedros tonight on our last leg Oct. 29, 2015 So far so good on the ride up. we will go by Alijos Rocks early in the morning with what looks to be 10 to 15, knots of wind. So far on schedule for 7:00 on Sunday Oct. 28, 2015 A few fish this morning and still looking around for a few more fish. looks like we will give it until lunch before we get going. weather looks nice up above and very nice here at the Island
Oct. 27, 2015 Not quite like yesterday but we still scratched 33 tuna and a little shot late on fish up to 190 pounds. Good sign just a little touchy with this full moon. One more half a day tomorrow and heading up
Much slower here this morning with 26 tuna and some of that is small fish. We still had sign but it didn't bite. maybe this afternoon Oct. 26, 2015 Great day today with 62 tuna. All nice grade from 70 to 90 pounds with fish mixed in over 100 pounds Dave dragged this 230 through the sharks late. We did have a couple other chances but the sharks made it tough. Classic buffer zone day.
Dress up day for Halloween.
Oct. 25, 2015 We had a nice shot on these 60 to 90 pound fish with a few hundred plus pounders mixed in explosive action with everyone has one on type fishing. Ending the day with 86 tuna.
Pretty tough in the Buffer zone not much to show for the day. We have about 40 tuna with a few decent fish up to 100 pounds but a lot of sharks and small fish Oct. 24, 2015 One nice fish here this morning right at 200 pounds. We picked off a few more tuna last night after dinner but so random it didn't spark much interest. This morning just a few decent fish and some small fish that we released. We are headed in to take a look at the Buffer zone and see what is going on there. We will be there first thing In the morning. 
Oct. 23, 2015 We picked a few more fish, but really disappointed with one at a time throughout the day. long day with 20 tuna and 8 wahoo. Conditions were really good today. Can't blame it on conditions just not much fish around
Really slow with just a couple decent tuna and a few wahoo after the morning bite. We picked 11 fish this morning that were all pretty good grade. Dan Sutherland with a fish just over 200 and several others in the mid to high hundreds. Steve Seigfreid with his personal best , about 160 pounds
Oct. 22, 2015
We continued to hook fish after dark and ended the day with 41, tuna. pretty good day and looking forward to it again tomorrow Bobby with a decent fish on the Accurate. So far I can't say I am all that impressed with this. It definitely has potential just need the conditions to straighten out. We are hoping for a little shot before dark and we have scratched 28 tuna as of now 
Ken with a nice fish about 210 and Allan with one close to two hundred. We have picked 20 tuna by lunch time and really there is no current. Maybe a slight uphill current but not much. Hopefully we get some condition and the fish activate
First fish of the trip for Allan Babashof. Unfortunately that was it for the morning, no current so far . We just got here though 
Oct. 21, 2015 here is the group for 2015 thanks for spending the time with us. We will be at the Bank tomorrow morning . 
Oct. 20, 2015 Fred and Joe put there lines back to straighten them out. Now they need help from Allan. Nice job guys , tangled bad and not even there yet 
Today is the rigging day. We had a tuna seminar this morning and went over a few things. We are starting at the Bank and have another full day of travel 
Oct. 19, 2015 We spent the day getting the boat gear rigged up, we had a spring cleaning and brought the Accurate 80 kite gear out of hibernation. 
Oct. 18, 2015 Good evening folks, we left on our first run to the Hurricane Bank today. Loftus and Martin are sponsoring the trip and so far so good. We have a nice load of bait and headed south 
CAPTAIN: ANDY CATES ...
DATE OF TRIP: 10/9-10/17/2015
LENGTH OF TRIP: 8 DAYS
AREAS FISHED: OFF SHORE, BONITOS, HIPPALITO, CEDROS, SAN MARTIN
TRIP/CHARTER MASTERS: TRIP 22-SEAGUAR/CATCHY TACKLE/HAYABUSA
FISH COUNT:
LIMITS OF DORADO
120 YELLOWTAIL
109 YELLOWFIN TUNA
125 WAHOO
1 WHITE SEA BASS 1st PLACE JACKPOT 59.3LBS WAHOO CAUGHT BY GABRIEL SUAREZ OF RIVERSIDE, CA 2nd PLACE JACKPOT 55.2LBS WHITE SEABASS CAUGHT BY DENNIS BUTH OF ESCONDIDO, CA 3rd PLACE JACKPOT 54.1LBS WAHOO CAUGHT BY SCOTT NAKATA OF GARDEN GROVE, CA NOTES: TROLLING JACKPOT 59.8LBS WAHOO CAUGHT STEVE BELARDES OF RENA, NV 
Oct. 16, 2015 We had 38 yellows by lunch and started working up to the Island to break down the gear. I want to thank Richard Hightower with Seagar and Hyabusa for sponsoring this 8 day trip. Nice job piecing it together guys.
We should be in at 7:00 in the morning
Oct. 15, 2015 working up the line now with great weather . It sure is nice when things work out ! Oct. 14, 2015 We are headed up to fish offshore and look for kelps, we finished with 46 tuna ,25 yellowtail and 10 wahoo, nice weather and the hunt for dorado begins
Judy with a nice wahoo and a couple yellows this morning. Not much else and we don't see the sign of tuna that we caught yesterday. Moving up to Benitos for the rest of the day
Oct. 13, 2015 We ended up with 58 tuna before heading in to the shallow and picking off this nice white seabass
We found an area of porpoise and picked off 35 of these decent tuna. it looks dead now and we are on the move
Good morning folks, we had a change in conditions last night and decided to move up. So far just one wahoo offshore. We have a couple of spots to look and working up toward Cedros Oct. 12, 2015 We lost all the life at about 1:00 and made a tour of the other shallows for nothing. We are going to try it again in the morning and then work up the beach. Ending The day with 31 wahoo and 20 yellowtail.
The weather is still snotty but we are going to pick up the anchor an start trolling around 22 wahoo and a few Yellows for the morning
Oct. 11, 2015 finishing a nice day with 85 wahoo and 18 yellowtail. it looks like a good idea to try it again tomorrow. yellows came off one of the shallows wahoo came offshore on kelps
slowed down to one at a time with 50 wahoo before lunch
Oct. 10, 2015 Not much to speak of with a couple Dorado and some small tuna released this evening. Headed South tonight and be on the beach tomorrow
Pretty pathetic here today with very little yellowtail in the morning and kelps with no fish in the afternoon. I guess it can only get better. We aren't skunked!  Pretty poor this morning, Very little sign of Yellowtail. We bailed out and are headed offshore. Hopefully a line of kelps are on our bow but not much yet. Oct. 9, 2015 We left on another 8 day trip. This time Richard Hightower and Seagar Flourocarbon are out to try there hand at it, Loaded up on nice sardines and headed southLooks like we will start out fishing Yellowtail in the morning 
CAPTAIN: DEREK WALDMAN
DATE OF TRIP: 10/1-10/9/2015 LENGTH OF TRIP: 8 DAYS AREAS FISHED: OFF SHORE, RIDGE ISLAND TRIP/CHARTER MASTERS: TRIP 21-ANGLERS CENTER/PELAGIC GEAR
FISH COUNT:
114 YELLOWTAIL 139 YELLOWFIN TUNA 120 WAHOO 1st PLACE JACKPOT 48.3LBS WAHOO CAUGHT BY SONNY JONES OF SANTA ANA 2nd PLACE JACKPOT 47.5LBS WAHOO CAUGHT BY KEN ROBERTSONS OF VALLEJO, CA 3rd PLACE JACKPOT 44.9LBS WAHOO CAUGHT BY JEFF BRUNER OF WESTMINSTER, CA NOTES: TROLLING JACKPOT 42.7LBS WAHOO CAUGHT BOB MINOUEI OF VACAVILLE, CA  Oct. 8, 2015 Well folks another one in the books with an epic finisher this morning on excellent grade yellows 18-24# with a few better ones mixed in and halibut up to 20#
were headed for home and hoping to be in at 7:00 am tomorrow morning if that changes I'll let you guys know and thanks Sonny for another amazing trip
Oct. 7, 2015 Well all and all we put together a decent day today got to the bank about 6:15 and found a ball of Yellowtail and started hooking fish right away but got over run by these little guys... Sierra mackerel we ended up keeping 30 and tossed about the same back and we got a few Yellows and 2 tuna to go along with them so not to shabby I'd say. well we're working up and plan to look at a few hard bottom areas in the morning and that puts us at an island for the afternoon so I'll check back tomorrow morning Oct. 6, 2015 Slow morning today but we had a little bit of action for everybody one angler especially got to put the new okuma metaloid 5 to the test.. none other the Mr. Sonny Jones himself got his first sailfish with an estimated weight of 140-150# was released after a heavy duty battle on 30# that lasted about 30 minutes I want to personally thank Sonny and Okuma for bringing out a bunch of loaner gear for everyone to try. You guys are awesome and I now I'm gonna try to steal one of those 5s from sonny now thanks guys  Well guys we decided to move up to a new shallow to try we got 20 tuna a handful of Yellowtail and a few more grouper for our efforts but with these conditions changing so rapidly we decided to look elsewhere check back with you all this afternoon
Oct. 5, 2015 Dan with a good 34# fish here at sunset to end the day we had OK fishing scratching this morning we got about 68 tuna for our day a mixed bag of Yellowtail and grouper to go along with it so we will give it another go tomorrow
Good morning gang we got an hour to go before we start today but what nice conditions we have this morning Oct. 4, 2015 plenty of wahoo around the boat just not getting frisky with it this morning we have 28 so far and hoping for a few more Good morning guys We had very slow fishing from 3 o'clock on yesterday and ended up with 42 wahoo and 2 smaller tunas were hoping we get the morning bite goin early today and rack up a few more hash marks on the total count wish us luck Oct. 3, 2015 Bob Cherry was the first to strike this morning were seeing quite a few fish but with this subtle lack of current it's tough to buy a bite 
Good morning guys and girls we got an hour to go here before we get there so we will hopefully have good reports for you soon Oct. 2, 2015 Good afternoon anglers checking in here from the ride down to the Rocks good travel weather down and glad we're not heading up we got about 18 knots of wind pushing us down and 4-6' seas behind us so we did our tackle seminar today and made wire leaders in hopes of possible wahoo tomorrow. I'll keep you all posted Oct. 1, 2015 today guys we left on our annual sonny Jones 8 day sponsored by Angler's center and Pelagic trip also brought to you by...
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Derek Waldman |
