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Summer 2017
 
Sept. 9, 2017

We started the morning with a nice little pick on yellows. The fishing only lasted until 10:00 and we spent the rest of the day for just a few small tuna. We are headed in and should be in around 8:00 in the morning

Sept. 8, 2017
 

The fishing died at about 2:00 both days. Heading up the beach now to try for yellows and then clearance. More photos of the quality tuna at Guadalupe Is.
 

 

 

Sept. 7, 2017
 

Tough fishing today.

Sharks really had there way with us.

Lots of hook ups just tough
to get through the Whites

Sept. 6, 2017
 

Pretty good sign of tuna here this evening.
Took a thrashing from the Sharks, ate everything we hooked .
We got in here late so hopefully tomorrow		 Couple of decent yellows ,maybe tonight we can pick off a few

Good morning. We are on our way out to the Island with Big Ed from Baja Fish Gear and the group. Windy and choppy all the way out and looks like we will arrive after lunch.
Fishing will start this afternoon and we will post as we go. Here we go on our first Guadalupe run.
Wish us luck!

Sept. 4, 2017

We finished up this Charkbait 5-day trip trying for yellowtail. The action was slow for most of the day but we did get one nice burst of biting yellowtail. It was a great way to wrap up this very enjoyable fishing trip. Thanks to Mark Smith from Charkbait for the giveaways and t-shirts.
Here is Fred with his first ever yellowtail.

Tom Ferrari

Sept. 3, 2017

We had a great evening bite today. After spending a morning searching for yellowtail we made a 20 mile move, getting into the area at 3 o'clock. Once the fish got on us it was a very exciting couple of hours. We finished the evening with 23 bluefin over 100 pounds. Great biting fish and awesome size.

Tom Ferrari
 

Sept. 2, 2017

We were fortunate this morning to find a school first thing. These bluefin were biting very good. Any good swimming bait off the stern was a hook up. Fun morning on quality fish. Sandra gets some help from Fernando holding up this fish.

Sept. 1, 2017
 

It was very foggy this morning which made looking around difficult. Once the fog lifted we got on a nice school of tuna and started picking off these dandy fish. Martin is back aboard this trip and as usual he is catching fish.


 

Aug. 31, 2017

We had a really nice stop here just before dark. The group easily caught their daily limit of bluefin. They kept biting into the dark on the glow jigs. One angler had 5 bites in a row on his glow and chrome jig. What a great start, and it's only the first evening. Hopefully we can get on them in the morning.

Tom Ferrari.


We are getting this Charkbait 5-day trip started early with some local Bluefin action. Mark has the honors of first catch

 

Aug. 30, 2017

These bigger yellowfin are a nice surprise. Sean was on this one for quite a while.


 

Aug. 29, 2017

We have had a good couple of days of fishing. We spent the first day fishing the Baja coast for yellowtail and school size tuna. The second day was spent in pursuit of better grade bluefin and yellowfin tuna.

Aug. 27, 2017
 

Eta: 6 to 6:30 am. Monday
 
This isn't the best magazine quality snapshot but it's a fun shot of John with his big tuna. We are wrapping up this 3-day charter and heading for San Diego. We saw a lot of fish today, making stops all day. We hooked a good amount of bluefin but the vast majority got away. This group of guys really had a great attitude all day and tried to make the most of their opportunities. It's too bad our hook to land ratio was so lopsided.

 

Tom Ferrari
 

 

Aug. 26, 2017

We had a very productive day of yellowtail fishing today. Good grade and good action. We are going to slide north and try for bluefin in the morning.

Tom Ferrari

We left yesterday on a 5 day trip put together by Larry Brown. We wanted to thanks the sponsors after a generous raffle that we had to start the trip, We are offshore trying to locate the school size tuna with not much luck yet
 

 

Aug. 24, 2017
 

Eta between 6:30 &7:00am Friday
 
I had a hard time getting reports out but the fishing down the beach for yellowtail was great. We had two days of great fishing in nice weather.

We finished off today with a kelp that gave us action on small tuna. A nice finisher with good weather

 

First place Jack Pot goes to
Roger Borge with a
43.5 pound yellowtail
 2nd place goes to
James Lassak with a
39.0 pound yellowtail
And Roger Borge placed third
with a 38.5 pound yellowtail.		    

Aug. 20, 2017
 

1st place Jack Pot goes to
Dave Allen with a 41.5 pound yellowtail
2nd place Jack Pot goes to
Gary Gillette with a 40 pound Yellowtail
3rd place Jack Pot goes to
Dan Alcaraz with a 39.5 pound Yellowtail
Wayne West gets the trolling Jack Pot with a 22 pound Yellowfin

Aug. 19, 2017
 

Tough fishing offshore today. We managed a few stops throughout the day and called it a trip, keeping another 25 tuna. We will be in at 7:00 tomorrow morning
 

Aug. 18, 2017
 

Nice lighting on this one

Conditions changed for the worse on the beach spots and made the fishing spotty today, We still managed some nice grade yellows
 

Aug. 17, 2017

Picked off another kelp for some dorado action and continued to work up the line.



We will be trying for yellowtail in the morning

Aug. 16, 2017

 We trolled around for a while and had no strikes only a little bit of small tuna in the morning. We started running back up and spent some time catching dorado off a kelp. This is one of the better size fish.


 

We anchored up for the night and picks at these nice yellows until daylight
 

Aug. 15, 2017
 

We had a nice day on these school grade tuna with action from after breakfast to sundown. A nice day of drift fishing.
 

Aug. 14, 2017

Good afternoon. Spent the day travelling down the coast in nice weather. Got a nice load of bait for our seven day trip.

We made a stop on the beach for dinner and picked up a few yellows. Will be fishing in the morning.
 

Aug. 13, 2017

We had a nice action packed last day of our Bob Michener 3-day. The tuna were very cooperative give mg us plenty of chances to stop the boat. Our best stop was for 70 tuna, that was busy.
Here is Bob himself with his "toy" Accurate Valiant reel.

Aug. 11, 2017

We had a nice day fishing for these school size tuna. We started off good with a couple of productive drifts. Then we went cold for most of the day before connecting with another biting school just before dark. We are going to give it another try tomorrow.

Aug. 9, 2017
 

The last couple of days of this 5 day trip have been very tough. The weather and sea conditions have made working hard and it scattered the fish. The whole fleet was in search mode today without much results. It was a disappointing day. We will be home tomorrow @ 07:00

Aug. 8, 2017
 

Yesterday we had a nice morning catching quality yellowtail. Unfortunately the fishing died around lunchtime. We looked around at another couple of nearby spots for nothing before we turned and headed back north. The weather has been choppy all night and morning but it's starting to flatten out. We should be in the tuna grounds this afternoon.

Aug. 6, 2017
 

Finished up our first day of fishing here on the tuna grounds. We had a nice morning but the action shut down midday. We are headed south looking to connect with some yellowtail for tomorrow. I will try to remember to take pictures.

Tom Ferrari
 

Aug. 4, 2017

We finished the morning with a kelp that offered up a few dorado and we released some yellowtail and tuna. With the great weather and fortunate run we had, it was time to go home.

Aug. 3, 2017
 

We had great action most of the day and took off after lunch to head up the line.

And wonderful weather

Aug. 2, 2017

We found a nice keep and picked of a dozen nice dorado and 38 nice yellows
 


A nice surprise this morning with Bluefin and yellowtail.
 

Aug. 1, 2017

We started off early on the school size tuna and didn't let up until late afternoon

July 30, 2017

Not much on yellows this morning. Only a few and a couple Bluefin. We finished up offshore with good action on the schooly yellowfin and headed up after lunch.. Nice way to finish. We will be in tomorrow by 7:00...
See you then

July 29, 2017

Yellowfin, Bluefin and Dorado
will enjoy a ride back to San Diego.

 

July 28, 2017

Not much to report today. We tagged 20 school size tuna and released a bunch of small fish. We are heading up on a report of school tuna moving up the coast.

Photos of July 27th fish.

July 28, 2017

Good morning folks We had a nice day yesterday with some nice grade yellows mixed in. I will post pictures of some of the guys as we go!

 

July 26, 2017

CAPTAIN: ANDY CATES
DATE OF TRIP: 7/21--7/26/2017

LENGTH OF TRIP: 5 DAYS

AREAS FISHED: OFFSHORE

CHARTER MASTERS: BLUEFIN JIM

ANGLERS: 25


FISH COUNT: 202 YELLOWTAIL, 341 YELLOWFIN TUNA, 18 BLUEFIN TUNA, 98 DORADO
                                     

1st PLACE JACKPOT         30.4LBS YELLOWTAIL CAUGHT BY MARK CICCARELLO                                                                           

2nd PLACE JACKPOT       26.0LBS YELLOWTAIL CAUGHT BY DONALD WARD

3rd PLACE JACKPOT        27.0LBS YELLOWTAIL CAUGHT BY ROB CATELLI 

July 24, 2017

fishing the Baja Coast today having some Bluefin tuna and yellowtail action!

July 23, 2017

Good action on the tuna out here! Now we will aim for Dorado! Fish are 15-28lbs.

July 22, 2017

Very nice fishing on yellowfin tuna 15-25 Lbs also a mix in of Dorado. Yesterday, nice kelp patties of good size yellowtail 15-28 Lbs. Beautiful weather!

July 20, 2017

ETA for tomorrow is 0630.

 

Tails and Bluefin today

July 19, 2017

Wow that's two trips in a row we have found big sundowner kelps.
This one was for 69 jumbo yellowtail and 1 Dorado.
We have to be careful we are going to use up all our luck.

Tom Ferrari

Here is the Nicolas family from Colorado with a sample of what they caught.

 

We are back at it this morning.
 

July 18, 2017

The Good kelp fishing continues. We are stopping on a lot of kelps and it seems Iike everyone is holding fish. The grade varies from release size to jackpot fish.

We followed our line of kelp into the east. We kept seeing paddies but the fish weren't on them anymore. We hit 3 dry kelps then turned back out west on a different line. Hopefully this is the first of more fish this evening.
 

July 17, 2017

We are headed out on our last 4 day trip of the year. This is a Charkbait sponsored outing so much everybody received goodie bags and t-shirts. Thank you Charkbait! We are headed south hoping to repeat some of our success from last trip. Good bait as usual from the SD bait barge.

 

July 16, 2017

Our ETA tomorrow is 0700
 

Paddy hopping fish.

July 15, 2017

We had a nice day of inshore fishing. We sat on the anchor and picked at yellowtail and bass. The yellowtail were mixed grade, ranging from throw back to jackpot size. We are going to spend our last day offshore fishing kelps. There is good sign of quality fish on these paddies. Hopefully we can string together a day.

In the middle of these yellowtail Caran catches a bluefin tuna. That guy is good!
 
       

July 14, 2017

This is the 20th year that Glenn's alignment has been hosting this trip. That's the longest standing trip on the Red Rooster III schedule. Glenn probably has the coolest t-shirts as well. We are going to head south in search of better fishing. Hopefully we can connect.
 

 

July 12, 2017

Not much to report today. We made a short stop at Jeronimo Island to break up the ride home. We caught and released some small yellowtail , bonito and bass. Headed up just before lunch and should be in at 7:00 tomorrow morning

 

First place jackpot goes to Bruce Hilleman with a 37.5 yellowtail caught right before dark on a kelp paddy
2nd place goes to Bobby Park with a 28.0 pound yellowtail
3rd place Jack Pot goes to Everett Wood with a 25.0 pound yellowtail
Trolling Jack Pot goes to Peter Chistlib
With an eighteen pound yellowfin tuna

 

July 11, 2017

Nice warm weather with calm seas

 

July 10, 2017

Working around on kelp paddies for a few here and a few there. A few school tuna off some porpoise.
 

July 9, 2017

We just left on a four day trip sponsored by Phenix rods, We are headed south and will be looking where we had a few yellows on kelps yesterday on the way home from the last trip. Great giveaway from Phenix. A nice yellowtail rod and shirts ,hats and visors.
 

CAPTAIN:  ANDY CATES
DATE OF TRIP: 6701/17-07/09/2017

LENGTH OF TRIP:             8 DAYS

AREAS FISHED:  ALIJOS ROCK/RIDGE

TRIP/CHARTER MASTERS: JORGE NICIFORE MEMORIAL "BEEFER XVII"


FISH COUNT:    LIMITS OF YELLOWTAIL
                                      135 YELLOWFIN TUNA
                                        11 DORADO
                                        18 WAHOO
                                          1 WHITE SEABASS 

 


July 8, 2017
1st place Leroy Janvlewicz with a 45.0 pound white seaboard

 
2nd place  Frank Calas with a 37.5 pound wahoo
3rd place Juan Lara with a 37 pound yellowtail
 
Bob Hohman wins the trolling jack pot with a 36.5 pound wahoo

 

We picked up a few yellows and this one being 33 pounds. Nice kelp paddy fish. Headed home now and looks like we will be docking just before 7:00  I will post jack pots for the Jorge Nicifore's memorial this afternoon

July 7, 2017

We spent the day working up the beach. We caught a few more tuna and yellowtail on the way up and anchored for lunch and picked up a halibut  Traveling g up now and we will be prospecting off shore looking closer to home

July 6, 2017
 

Another nice morning on these quality yellows
 

July 5, 2017
 

Leroy got lucky and picked off this White Sea bass last night.
 
And then the yellowtail bite was on
Great fishing on this quality yellow all morning

Even a nice dorado in the mix

July 4, 2017

 
We ran into some school tuna on the way in and had pretty good action for a couple hours. Now headed in to the shallow to try for yellowtail

July 3, 2017

We spent the day with a few chances at wahoo.
The yellowtail fishing never developed out here but we picked off 18 wahoo for our efforts

July 2, 2017
 

In Memory of Jorge!
We will be arriving at Alijos at 10:00 tomorrow morning
The weather has been perfect so far and Mike has had some great meals
Just like the first day of the last trip
A lovely dinner to start off the trip.
Beef Wellington and asparagus over a Rosemary demiglace

July 1, 2017

Just left on our last of three 8 day trips. Jorge Nicifore's memorial trip. Got a nice load of bait and headed south.

July 1, 2017

CAPTAIN: Thomas Ferrari
DATE OF TRIP: 6/26/17-7/1/17...
LENGTH OF TRIP: 8 DAYS
AREAS FISHED: RIDGE/OFFSHORE
TRIP/CHARTER MASTERS: Mahoney & McVey "TUNA & TAILS"
FISH COUNT: LIMITS OF YELLOWTAIL
57 Groupers
9 Dorado
1 Yellowfin Tuna


1st PLACE JACKPOT 46.5LBS GROUPER CAUGHT BY TED SCOTT

2nd PLACE JACKPOT 42LBS GROUPER CAUGHT BY STEVE COOK

3rd PLACE JACKPOT 41LBS GROUPER CAUGHT BY GREG FULTON

4th PLACE JACKPOT 32.5LBS GROUPER CAUGHT BY PATRICK FULLER

June 30, 2017

Mahoney/McVey Charter will be docking tomorrow morning at 6:30 AM

June 28, 2017
 

We are almost at the end of our Mahoney & McVey 8 day trip. We started the trip with great yellowtail action. Everybody limited out on excellent quality fish. We have spent the last two days fishing grouper and looking offshore for kelp patty fish and loose schools. The water is nice and warm and the patties are numerous but most of the fish have been release size. We have kept a sample of better sized dorado and tuna. We are going to finish up our day down in this 8-day zone and start traveling up tomorrow. There should be a couple of hours to fish someplace on the way home but where depends on our timing.
The pictures I've been taking haven't wanted to upload through the satellite wifi. I will post pictures when we return to San Diego on Saturday.

Tom Ferrari

June 23, 2017

Headed out on our Mcvey /Mahoney 8 day trip. We are missing some key players this year but there are still plenty of familiar faces. Headed south with a nice load of bait.

June 23, 2017

1st place  Phil Lisi with a 58# grouper
2nd place  Sal Tocca with a 41 # grouper
3rd place...Caleb Peterson With a 40 pound grouper
4th place  Ken Perry with and 33.5 pound grouper

June 22, 2017
 

Travelled up yesterday and now trying to catch a couple of small yellowfin. We will be in at 6:30 tomorrow morning

June 21, 2017
 
We made some deep water drifts
and had decent action on these grouper

 

 

June 20, 2017
 

Nice pick on these quality yellows this morning. Long rod surface Iron was the name of the game!

June 19, 2017
 

Tough day offshore with no sign of tuna. We covered a lot of area and and good water, just a little bit cool yet. hopefully things warm up a little in the weeks ahead. Finished the day back up on the shallow where we had dinner

June 18, 2017
 

We had a nice pick on these decent yellows. Not much in the morning but lunch time got a little more steady. Nothing like yesterday but a nice pace
 

June 17, 2017
 

It didn't take long to get busy on these nice yellows. By 9:00 we were steady , keeping 6 to 8 going all the time. The action lasted about three hours and then tapered off to just a pick. At about 2:00 it looks to be all done. Drifting along a trying for a few more.

June 16, 2017


Good morning folks
We left yesterday on the first of three 8 day trips. Starting the series with a Seeker rods sponsored trip down to the ridge
A decent load of bait and good weather should put us on the grounds tomorrow morning

 
Bob Peterson poses with a table full of raffle items for this mornings seminar