Fishing Reports

Nov. 8, 2016

1st place Jackpot Bob Cherry 61.4 lb wahoo
2nd place Jackpot Skylark Littlefield 55.4 lb wahoo
3rd place Jackpot Tom Gabon 54.8 lb wahoo

Troll jackpot was won by Mark Smith with a 60.7 lb wahoo

Nov. 7, 2016

Our eta for tomorrow is 0645

Nov. 6, 2016

Nov. 5, 2016

Nov.4, 2016

We managed to scratch out a day on this wahoo.
The action was better in the morning but
we definitely hooked our fair share of fish through out the day.

The loses were just very high.

We will give this a try tomorrow and hope for a morning hit before
we look for some tuna.
Tom Ferrari

Nov. 3, 2016

We managed to scratch together a decent day here.
We are going to stay for tomorrow and see if this holds up

Conditions seem like they are trying to improve here. We have a couple of wahoo for the morning. We are going to sit here a while longer and see what happens.

Nov. 2, 2016

It was a long day of looking today. We finally connected with some wahoo just before sunset. We are going to slide further south tonight and hope there's better action tomorrow.

Tom Ferrari

Nov. 1, 2016

What a change a couple of days makes. After a blazing hot couple of weeks fishing out of Puerto Vallarta this local offshore weather feels down right cold! We had a busy turn around yesterday for our annual Charkbait 8 - day trip. We get a nice load of sardines from the bait dock and headed south. We will spend the first day traveling. A fishing seminar will be given mid morning and then the rest of the day will be dedicated to getting rigged up.
Thanks to Charkbait ...for the gift cards, t - shirts, and goodie bags.

Tom Ferrari

Oct. 30, 2016

We have been making good speed on our ride up. The weather has been great, and we all know how enjoyable a calm ride home is.
Our eta to US customs is 0800-0830 so hopefully we can be at the Lee Palm sportfishing dock by 0900-0930. Hopefully.
Tom Ferrari

Oct. 28, 2016

Nice traveling weather so far on our ride up from PV, but we still have a long way to go. Hopefully we can make the Cape at a reasonable time and make our first turn towards home. I will post an eta for San Diego in a day or two.

Tom Ferrari

Oct. 27, 2016

First place
Matt Smith with a 308lbs yellowfin tuna
Caught on a Calstar rod with an Accurate 50 and 130lbs izorline and a Caballito for bait.

2nd place
Jackpot goes to Jeff Rader with a 213lbs yellowfin tuna Caught on a Seeker Rod and a Makaira Okuma 20 with 100 pound test with a Caballito on a 4/0 Trokar hook

3rd place
Jackpot goes to Bob Michener with a 196lbs yellowfin tuna Caught on an Accurate 50 with a Calstar rod ,100 pound Izorline and a Mustad Hook

Oct.26, 2016

A few bites this morning.
Encouraging!

Oct. 25, 2016

Good sign of fish today but not biting.
Conditions were tough with no wind and no current.
Heading in to try for bait and hope they are biting tomorrow

Less sign here so far this morning with no bites on the tuna.
Bill Cambell and Nick with this nice Dorado on another big floating piece of hay.
Hopefully y we start getting a few bites soon

Oct. 24, 2016

Only a handful of bites so far today .
This 75 pounder is the only one we could hang on to as of now.
Good sign of big fish hopefully we can get a few bites before dark.
We found this floating haystack but only had small tuna on it.
They don't bite as well....
We will keep trying

Tough day here with watching fish that don't bite .Matt Smith pulled it off at the end of the day with this 308 pound yellowfin on a Cavallito with the Accurate Calstar combo.
Matt looks to be getting a brand new Accurate thanks to Jack Neilson.
We ate going to fish tonight and see if that's when we can catch a few

Oct. 23, 2016

Trying for bait right now with slow results. The guys all got on safely before sunset and had a nice Beef Wellington dinner.
Now we are just waiting and hoping the bait will bite

Oct. 23, 2016

First place Jack Pot goes to Ron Lara with a 254 pound yellowfin tuna
Caught on an Accurate 50 wide with a Calstar rod while flyline a Caballito

2nd place Jack Pot goes to Randy Paul with a 214 pound yellowfin
caught on an Accurate 80 with a Calstar rod while using Caballito on the Trokar 8/0 hooks

3rd place Jackpot goes to Erik Meek with a 207 pound yellowfin
caught on a Makaira 20 and a Seeker Rod wile flylining a Caballito

Oct. 22, 2016

These little squid are what the fish are on and they are stuffed with them
We will be headed in tonight and leaving for another trip with the Accurate boys again.
The gear is great thanks again and special thanks to Seeker Rods and Okuma reels reels for additional loaner gear

Oct. 21, 2106

We might be on to something now.
Ron Kara with this 254 pound yellowfin on the Calstar and
Accurate 50 wide.

Juan Lara with a 193 on the kite.
Only a couple of bites but found another stop with good scattered fish and waiting for a bite.
We see it around!

Oct. 20, 2016

This water temp sure makes for a hot day on the water.
We have made a few stops on small fish.
Nothing to report at lunch time.
It's starting to look like it is a night fishing thing.
We are going to cover more area this afternoon and see if we can come up with anything worthy

We got everyone on board last night and happy to get started .
We fish for bait and purchased bait from the locals.
It was a very nice experience the Panga fisherman were very polite and conducted business very professionally.
I would recommend getting bait from them to anyone.
We made it up to the offshore grounds and hour before daylight and had a little sign with 4 fish hooked but only one landed....
153 pounder .
We had another that looked good at color at least high hundreds.
Anyway just getting situated here and on the move .
No bites after daylight.
We will post later

Oct. 15, 2016

CAPTAIN: ANDY CATES ...
DATE OF TRIP: 10/7-10/15/2016
LENGTH OF TRIP: 8 DAYS
AREAS FISHED: THE RIDGE
TRIP/CHARTER MASTERS: TRIP 22S16- SEAGUAR/CATCHY TACKLE/HAYABUSA

1st place goes to Sergio Perez with an 80.25LBS Wahoo

2nd place goes to Kip Young with 56.6lbs Wahoo

3rd place goes to Paul Oster with 56.3lbs Wahoo

And trolling jackpot and winner of the coveted Red Rooster III jacket is Brenda Collin with 62.3lbs Wahoo

Oct.14, 2016

Our final stop to break down the gear. Geronimo Island. We will be in early in the morning 6:00 am

Oct. 13, 2016

Picked off 30 of these 22 to 30 pound fish

Oct. 12, 2016

Looking back on these pictures reminds me how fortunate we are to be able to provide these fishing vacations.
The caliber of fishing is like nowhere else.
Thanks again to Seaguar , Hyabusa and Catchy Tackle
and American Spirit fishing rods for the terminal tackle for the trip.

We are headed up and going to try for yellows tomorrow

A couple of nice tuna mixed in up to 45 pounds

Oct. 11, 2016

We are headed south again for tomorrow
and see what we come up with

Oct. 10, 2016

What a great couple of days on the wahoo! We started hammering away on the wahoo at first light and had a really good fishing until we left at lunch time

Oct. 9, 2016

Everyone got in on the action with plenty of chances for the first time wahoo fishers

Oct. 7, 2016

Good morning folks.
We left on another 8 day trip and are headed south.
The bait looks great and Seaguar and Dale Hightower put on a great raffle and give away on the way down.
Plenty of gear and fishing rods from American Spirit were raffled for the trip.
Catchy lures and five star fish processing certificates were in the raffle as well...
Thanks to the Sponsors and good luck anglers

Oct. 7, 2016

Once again a fantastic trip this year with the anglers center 8 day jackpots as follows...
1st place goes to Amaury Guavera with a 57# wahoo
2nd place goes to Sal Tocco with a 51.9# wahoo
3rd place goes to Sonny Jones with a 47.6# wahoo
And trolling jackpot and winner of the coveted Red Rooster III jacket is Brian Hagadon with a 53.75# wahoo...

Thanks again guys for an awesome trip we had a blast can't wait till next year and thanks again to all the Sponsors
Coming out with anglers center was
Colin Beaver
Pelagic and Sonny Jones
Okuma reels
Ballyhood Top Gun Lures
Peter J prints
Catchy Tackle
Kicker Jigs
Cal Sheets
Tiburon
Fish dogs lures
Maguro flying fish
Cousins rods
Calstar and
5 star fish processing
Everything was great thanks again for all your donations and support and raffle prizes
You guys are awesome!
And honorable mention goes to Steve Radin with most tuna release with 18 let loose and winner of a grab bag of goodies from our sponsors. with a total of upwards of 350 total released by the boat .
Derek Waldman

Oct. 5, 2016

Good evening anglers. After our few handfuls of yellowtail this morning it was a lot of looking for minimal return and with the wind kicking up we opted for some light line bass fishing... which wasn't as good as we would of liked but we got a few for sure. With the wind dying down and food weather ahead for tomorrow I think we're going to run up and fish along the beach somewhere before breaking down for the trip wish us luck
Derek Waldman

Still traveling up this afternoon after a brief stop this morning for a few handfuls of yellows it's blowing about 18 knots now and we should be in a nice lee side of an island in a couple of hours... until then it's going to be a little choppy

Yep it's pretty much a goner so going to have to stop having night bites I guess in order to get decent pictures for you guys. None the less we came across a good breezer in the wind here late and it stuck with us for about an hour maybe a little longer but we had wide open fishing from about 6 till after sunset then it tapered off and now we're working up the line to search for yellowtail tomorrow. Wish us luck
Derek Waldman

Oct. 4, 2016

Solid morning with not much current to speak of but we're super thankful that the fish don't seem to care

Oct. 3, 2015

Some good action today with a couple good Dorado and a couple nice stops on this tuna here a lot of time spent looking around today as the weather started to get a little windy throughout the day but we managed to string it together quite well this afternoon were hoping for better current tomorrow morning wish us luck
Derek Waldman

Good afternoon gang still nice weather so far so
we're liking that and the fishing was good this morning
but a little slow before lunch here
so we're hoping it picks up sometime after lunch.
We got great tide and good water
just no fish moving onto the shallows
yet so soon coming we hope
Derek Waldman

Oct. 2, 2016

Our to daily jackpot winners .... today we gave Brian with a Peter J wahoo print and 100$ gift certificate from 5 star fish processing and on the bottom we have Amaury and his awesome folding chair! Way to go guys

Solid morning so far with a few handfuls of fish keeping us busy so we're stoked on that and the wind is starting to pick up a little so probably give this a half a day then slide down somewhere else

Oct. 1, 2016

had quite the amazing day here today with constant action all day long with a little lull from about 1-3 but other then that it was pretty epic, good weather and good company always make for a great day. We had a few stops here late but I really wanted that one more stop so no pictures from the last few but the wahoo really turned on just before dark. As always in wahoo fishing we had are share of heart breaks but with perseverance and determination everyone managed to use quite a few tags today. It's supposed to get a tad bit windy tomorrow so we're go name hang tight on the anchor tonight and try again tomorrow and hope for the same results. Wish us luck
Derek Waldman

30 more miles to go till we get to the grounds this morning so double checking all the gear and good spirits throughout waiting with great anticipation to see what's there ....
Derek Waldman

Sept. 30, 2016

Beautiful day traveling down today no wind and wire leaders being factory machined by all with hopes of wahoo to come so wish us luck
Derek Waldman

Sept. 29, 2016

Thank you Sonny Jones for everything and to all the Sponsors. ...
Angler's Center
Pelagic Gear
Okuma reels
Ballyhood Top Gun Lures...
Cousins rods
Tiburon
Catchy Tackle
Kicker Jigs
Peter J art gallery
5 star fish processing
Fishing with Decker.com
Maguro flying fish
Yozuri
Mutant Swimbaits
Cal Sheets

Sept. 29, 2016

CAPTAIN: ANDY CATES...
DATE OF TRIP: 9/23-9/29/2016
LENGTH OF TRIP: 6 DAYS
AREAS FISHED: THE RIDGE
TRIP/CHARTER MASTERS: TRIP 20S16- Calstar Rods

1ST PLACE JACKPOT: GABRIEL BENAVITES 54.0LBS WAHOO

2ND PLACE JACKPOT: RICHARD BUSTOS 49.1LBS WAHOO

3RD PLACE JACKPOT: TYRON BURTON 45.4LBS WAHOO

TROLLING JACKPOT: STEVE DUNBAR 64.1LBS WAHOO

Sept. 28, 2016

Nice weather all the weather all the home. Poor speed with an eta at 8:00

Sept. 27, 2016

Richard Bustos wins the 700 m Cal star rod blank for his 50 plus pound wahoo.

Also James Grimes with a daily Jack Pot an 85 Cal star rod

Anthony Asaro with a 700 MR Cal star rod

...

Izorline spectra and a Baja Fish Gear 75$ gift certificate were also awarded for daily Jack Pots.

Thanks again to the Sponsors and Gary Taraoka for a great trip

Cal star rods
Izorline
Accurate reels
Salas lures
And Sportsman Seafood

50 wahoo by 9:00 Am and then on our way for home. What Luck!

Sept.26, 2016

	Spotty on the wahoo this morning. We made a few drifts and picked off a dozen . The tuna took the show today with a little better grade than yesterday

Sept. 25, 2016


	It was all dropper loop fishing so bring out your heavy 12 ounce sinkers. The action lasted until 10:00 and then the current died.

	So far so good this morning with about 30 wahoo and a little bit of tuna.

Sept. 24, 2016

R.J with a picture showing off his signature BBQ Rib dinner

Sept. 23, 2016

We left on another 6 day trip with the same plan in mind as the last trip. Hopefully it works out. Gary is passing out the Calstar shirts for the first day raffle.
We are headed south and have a nice load of bait.

Sept. 23, 2016

CAPTAIN: ANDY CATES
DATE OF TRIP: 9/17-9/23/2016...
LENGTH OF TRIP: 6 DAYS
AREAS FISHED: THE RIDGE
TRIP/CHARTER MASTERS: TRIP 19S16- PENNELL/PHENIX RODS

1ST PLACE JACKPOT: WALLY ROSS 58.87LBS WAHOO

2ND PLACE JACKPOT: BRAD APPLEBY 50.4LBS WAHOO

3RD PLACE JACKPOT: "TUTT" TULLOILOMONDO 46.0LBS WAHOO

TROLLING JACKPOT: DENNIS PENNELL 54.9LBS YELLOWFIN TUNA

Sept. 22, 2016

We spent the day traveling up.The weather was OK and we should be in early tomorrow at 5:00. We are going to start checking people in for the Calstar trip at 8:30 so we can leave by 10:00. See you in there early

Sept. 20, 2016

	We picked off a few more wahoo after some tuna action and started heading up. Weather looks good tomorrow and we are going to try the yellowtail thing in the morning. Another great night and day of fishing

Another great night and day of fishing

Picking at the wahoo this morning. Mostly on the drift. Not to many strikes.

We were up until midnight catching yellows. After midnight it slowed down but what a great run that was. Nice fish , the tuna were all that 25 plus pound fish and good grade yellowtail.

Sept. 19, 2016

After we got the anchor down we had great fishing on these school size tuna from 12 to 30 pounds. We caught fish right up until dark. A few nice bull Dorado in the mix as well. We are anchored up and will try for yellows tonight and hope for more wahoo and tuna tomorrow

We are headed south again. Maybe we can scratch at a few tuna down at the next spot.

Sept. 18, 2016

We left yesterday on another 6 day trip.
After a great raffle and giveaway by Phenix rods we started rigging up gear for the ridge.

Some of the prizes included these Phenix rods and Ian did a great job presenting and supporting the product. Answering and explaining questions on the different rods available. Travellers today and fishing tomorrow morning

Sept. 17, 2016

FINAL FISH REPORT 18S16-6 Days
CAPTAIN: ANDY CATES...
DATE OF TRIP: 9/11-9/17/2016
LENGTH OF TRIP: 6 DAYS
AREAS FISHED: CEDROS/ THE RIDGE
TRIP/CHARTER MASTERS: TRIP 18S16- IZORLINE SPONSOR

1ST PLACE JACKPOT: STAN CHIN 45.3LBS WAHOO

2ND PLACE JACKPOT: TONY KOMPIER 42.7LBS WAHOO

3RD PLACE JACKPOT: CHRIS KRAMER 39.3LBS WAHOO

TROLLING JACKPOT: BRUCE BROWN 47.5LBS WAHOO

Sept. 16, 2016

We had a nice ride up and will be at the dock tomorrow at 6:30. We are going to try and depart for the next trip at 10:30 am

We had a scratchy morning with just a few here and there working are way up the beach. We finished strong with a nice hit in the afternoon with these quality yellows from 25 to 32 pound fish. They all hit us at once and came out of nowhere with great surface action until dark. A real nice finisher for the day

Sept. 14, 2016

	We are headed up and will be trying for yellowtail tomorrow. We should be up in the area by late morning.

We managed the Jack Pots for the trip on wahoo. But we are going to weigh them at the dock. We are headed up to the upper end of the ridge and try and get a couple more jig strikes.

Sept. 13, 2016

	Excellent weather here today and hoping for a little wahoo action tomorrow

We had a real nice morning on yellowfin tuna and picked off a couple of wahoo. The tuna action was great and decent fish from 15 to 25 pounds. The sharks have been a real problem there and at lunch time it looked like we had caught what we were going to catch. Still a lot of fish just hard to get through the sharks. We are headed down the ridge for the afternoon

Good morning folks. We made really good time coming down and will be fishing at 7:30. A nice sunrise from the Red Rooster

Sept. 9, 2016

We had a tough morning with sign of yellow that were tough to catch. We made another move up and had a nice shot on 25 to 38 # yellowtail

Sept. 8, 2016

The conditions changes for the worse and made for tough fishing on the beach today. Cold water and sign of fish that were hard to catch. Things looked hopeful before lunch and then fell on it's face the rest of the afternoon. We are headed up and are going to give Cedros a look in the morning

Sept. 7, 2016

Our evening group stop at the Island had a mix of throw back fish and a dozen or so decent yellows in the mix to keep us busy. We are headed south looking for action on yellows and whatever else we may find. Nice weather today and looks great for tomorrow

Our travel down today produced action on a couple kelps for 32 decent size Dorado. We had to throw back quite a bit of small fish in the process but it was nice to pick off a couple kelps.

Sept. 6, 2016

Jackpots for the charkbait 5 - day trip.
Mark Mine with a 92.9 lb Bluefin
Lou Sumarinas with a 91.6 Bluefin
Jason Duggar with a 90.8 Bluefin
Troll jp was won by Phil Bailey 90.5 Bluefin

Sept. 5, 2016

Good fishing here again today. The wind came up at lunch time and we had a hard time hanging on the anchor. That wasted some fishing time. Thankfully we are back at it and are currently fighting three tuna. Hopefully we can land them.

Tom Ferrari

Today was another great day of anchor fishing. We captured 51 of these beautiful size tuna. The hot rig the last couple of days has been the smaller reels, accurate boss 500, okuma makaira 10, a stiffer rod like a calstar 700h or 800h, 30-40 izorline mono and a short leader of matching seaguar florocarbon. The best hook size has been the 1/0 . A smaller hook seems to make a difference. We are staying here for the last day of our trip. Hopefully we can finish up strong. Tom Ferrari

Sept. 4, 2016

	Today was another great day of anchor fishing. We captured 51 of these beautiful size tuna. The hot rig the last couple of days has been the smaller reels, accurate boss 500, okuma makaira 10, a stiffer rod like a calstar 700h or 800h, 30-40 izorline mono and a short leader of matching seaguar florocarbon. The best hook size has been the 1/0 . A smaller hook seems to make a difference. We are staying here for the last day of our trip. Hopefully we can finish up strong. Tom Ferrari

Sept. 3, 2016

Started scratching here late morning. We were steady for a couple of hours but now it's gone cold. Hopefully it will pick back up again soon

Sept. 2, 2016

We had a really enjoyable day fishing for these 60-90 pound Bluefin tuna. For most of the afternoon we has 5-6 fish hooked up. Most of the bites we on the 30-40# line so the fights were long. We managed to tag 45 fish for our efforts. Some of the guys had a hard time getting bit, but that's how this anchor tuna fishing can be. Hopefully today brings more chances for everybody.
Tom Ferrari

Sept. 1, 2016

Jackpot winners for our 3 day trip. 1 St place with an 99.0 lb Bluefin tuna is Mark Wilson (on right). Second place is Nick Hollister (center) with a 89.45 lb Bluefin tuna. 3 rd place is Scott Hennessey with a 88.1 Bluefin.

Aug. 31, 2016

Scratch fishing out here today on this good grade Bluefin. It sure felt like we were catching a lot of fish, at some points of the day we had 5-6 fish going, but our count doesn't reflect that. There was plenty of lost fish, as you would expect with light tackle tuna fishing. The group really fished hard and put in plenty of rail time. It's always fustrating when the hard work doesn't pay off like you think it should. The fish we did catch were all nice grade with a couple of jackpots in the mix.

Tom Ferrari

Aug. 30, 2016


	We are just getting started on our 3 - day open water trip. Hopefully we can stay busy on this Bluefin. The conditions are very nice. Light wind and a trickle of North west current.

Aug. 29, 2016

Oldenkamp 3 day jackpots as follows:
From left to right 4th place with the coveted Red Rooster III jacket is Chad Scheenstra with a 64.5# Bluefin tuna
3rd place goes to JT Reitsma with a 70.4# Bluefin tuna
2nd place goes to Omar Ortiz with a 71.1# Bluefin tuna
And 1st place goes to Craig Struikmans with a 79.6 Bluefin tuna
Thanks again guys for a great trip had a hell of a good time can't wait to do it again next year. Have a safe drive home
Derek Waldman

Aug. 28. 2016

That's it gang for the annual Oldenkamp charter. What a great trip we've had with a lot of fun with friends and family not to mention a little bit of excellent fishing in between the laughs and good times that were had by all. Sorry to have to say it but we're heading home and we will be in tomorrow morning at 7 : 00 am . This afternoon the fishing slowed down a bit due to this 20 knots of breez we had out here but that didn't stop some of these fish to bite and there was action for those willing to brave the wind and light line. See you all in the morning.
Derek Waldman

	Staying busy all afternoon again today a little more wind then yesterday but fishing is still good and it's still this awesome 40# grade with a few bigger models mixed in

Aug. 27, 2016

	Father and son team Johnny and Jake Vermar bending here late

Slow goin this afternoon but still getting a bite every 15-20 minutes and with a lot of it around were hanging tight picking one off here and there on light line and the kite so hoping they wake up here soon

	Well miss Texas strikes again this time with one of these 80# class Bluefin on 30# test nice job JT hard work pays off. Nate here with the assist
	Curtis with a nice one on his 20# set up
	Preston with more quality yellowfin here. There biting a little bit with a lot around the boat this mid morning so we will take the pick bite over no bite any day. But for the amount around you'd think they'd be a little more eager maybe when the current picks up it might get better. Derek Waldman
	Curtis with a token yellowtail here
	Tom and Nick with a couple more
Chad and JT aka miss Texas with a couple
Johnny and Craig
	Jake and Omar with a pair of 25# yellowfin
	Evan with a bft
	Bloody but yummy he says
	Well folks young John Oldenkamp got a mini cow here... Tough morning with few bites on these baby giants but everyone is having a good time with them so we're saving the bigger ones for later Derek Waldman

Good morning folks today is way different then a few days ago out here we've got 4 for the morning so far all 12-15# ers so hopefully the big ones come through soon
Derek Waldman

Aug. 26, 2016

Good afternoon anglers. We left today on our annual Oldenkamp 3 day with a good load of bait and good weather we're hoping to get into something before sunset here. Wish us luck
Derek Waldman