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June 2005

June 2, 2005

We arrived at the fishing grounds yesterday morning. It looks like we will be in good shape. We were a bit worried at first as we had heard that the last boat down here had some shark problems. We were thankful to see they had left by the time we got here with any luck they'll stay away.

 
We caught a few fish yesterday and today we are off to a good start it's about 1pm and we have about 20 tuna so far for the day. Two of the fish taped out over 200lbs. The first one taping out at 206.lb and the second at 226.lb
 
Both fish were caught by Dennis Rogers of NEWPORT BEACH. He is right now the leading contender for the daily jackpot. The Winner of today's jackpot will take home a brand new Accurate reel, Provided by Jack Nilsen of ACCURATE FISHING PRODUCTS. The day isn't over yet though so anyone could win it. Accurate will be giving away different prizes every day.
 
The boat is running very well and the weather is looking good and the trip is off to a good start. Hope you are all well, captain Andy Cates & Crew
 

June 3rd 12:15pm

 

Well, after fishing the rest of the day yesterday and even fishing into the night, Dennis Rogers walked off with the Daily Jack Pot prize of a new Accurate reel.

 

We finally ended up with a nice catch of 31 tuna total for yesterday, 18 of those were actually caught at night from 9pm-3am. An interesting thing to note is that the big tuna we are catching at night are all being caught on Tady’s glow in the dark Jigs. They seem to be working out well for us. The average tuna caught seems to be between about 120-190lbs with a few over 200lbs mixed in.

 

Today we have 16 more tuna and even a few wahoo and it’s only noon. We seem to be getting a nice catch later in the evenings so we will have to wait till tomorrow to announce the Jackpot winner. However we have two more anglers with fish over 200lbs today so far.

 

Leo Reihsen of CLIO, CA who is Accurate’s on board representative has a tuna today that taped out at 206.

 

Ken Buzzell of SAN PEDRO., CA is today’s leading JP contender with his tuna taping out at 225lbs.

 

Everything else on the boat is going well, the weather is still really nice and we should have a nice enjoyable weekend. We will try and get a report in over the weekend if possible but if you don’t see one we will catch you up on our progress come  Monday when someone is back in the office. Talk to you soon.

 

Captain Andy Cates

June 4th
 

Well today 21 tuna were landed with the following big ones by:   Al Jackson 218,  Dave Reyes 236,  Leo - 218    The average fish landed were 160 - 190 lbs. There is a light breeze making conditions perfect for the angler.

June 5th

Just a quick update. Andy called in over the weekend to say that they are still plugging away at those 200lbs tuna. By Sunday afternoon they had added 26 more tuna to their catch and 4 of those were over 200lbs. We were trying to wait to hear from them today so that we could add the names of those who caught cows over the weekend. Unfortunately we were not able to get a clear enough signal to be able to get a report for today. Hopefully tomorrow we will have a more complete one. I do know that he said one was around 215, 218 and the largest taped in at 242 lbs landed by Bob Michner. Everything else was fine including the weather.

June 6th

Fishing is still good and the weather is just amazing.  The winds are very light 5-8 knot.  Just enough breeze to make it comfortable fishing. We picked away again today, with 25 tuna up to 221 lbs.  Looks like we have 3 taped out over 200 lbs.

June 9th
The Red Rooster III is on its way back to San Diego full of Yellowfin Tuna.  The vessel will arrive @ 9 AM on Sunday.

 

CAPTAIN:                   ANDY CATES

DATE OF TRIP:                SATURDAY, MAY 28 TO SUNDAY, JUNE 12, 2005

LENGTH OF TRIP:    15 DAYS

PASSENGERS:           21

AREA FISHED:         HURRICANE BANK

 

FISH COUNT:            145 YELLOWFIN TUNA (20 TUNA OVER 200 LBS,)

                                      38 WAHOO

                                     

1ST PLACE                  245.9 LBS YELLOWFIN TUNA caught by,

                                      BOB MITCHNER OF OXNARD, CA

 

2ND PLACE                235.5 LB YELLOWFIN TUNA caught by;

                                      CHRIS KUMAI OF BERKELEY,CA        

                                      

3RD PLACE               233.6 LB YELLOWFIN TUNA caught by;

                                    KEN BUZZELL OF SAN PEDRO,CA

229.8 LBS           DENNIS ROGERS

225. LBS             AL JACKSON

223.11 LBS          AL JACKSON

221.7 LBS             RICH ROSE

222 LBS               BILLY LANE

218.3 LBS            ROGER NICHOLES

218.2 LBS            RICH ROSE

218 LBS               LYNN FREED

215.3 LBS            CHRIS KUMAI

209.7 LBS             BOB TAYLOR

209.6 LBS            LEO REIHSEN

208.5 LBS             GERHARD IHDE

207.3 LBS            BILLY LANE

203.8 LBS             BOB CHERRY

201.2 LBS            BOB CHERRY

200.8 LBS            JESSE BAKER

200.2 LBS            DENNIS ROGERS

 

REMARKS: THIS BRINGS THE RED ROOSTER III GRAND TOTAL FOR THE SEASON TO 138 200LB YELLOWFIN TUNA. THIS HAS BEEN A TRULY REMARKABLE YEAR..

Photos from June Heat 2005 trip

June 17, 2005

So far the weather has been really good to us. We started the trip out by stopping at Benitos, catching  80-85 yellowtail and 2 bluefin, the we moved down to Thesis bank for another great stop on a couple hundred yellowtail 15-40lbs. So we now we have all the yellowtail we need. On the way back we plan to stop for Albacore and Bluefin. We will be docking in San Diego on Tuesday morning @ 9am.
 
Captain John Grabowski

June 20, 2005

ETA is 8:30 AM June 21st

June 25, 2005

The boat had two really HOT days of Yellow tail fishing with at least 250 yellows. They have a handful of yellowfin, a couple of halibut and two nice size white sea bass around 50lbs. Right now they are heading up the beach to see what they can find as far as Albacore or Bluefin over the weekend. The weather has settled down quite nicely so we should have a nice ride back. We will see you at the docks on Sunday around 8.30am

June 27, 2005

Juilo Ochoa is at the helm on this trip and his first day produced 180 albacore, and  he will be fishing albacore today and later on to Guadalupe. Weather was excellent yesterday. We have a little bit of a breeze today.

 

CAPTAIN:                   JULIO OCHOA

DATE OF TRIP:          SUNDAY, JUNE 26 TO JULY 1, 2005

LENGTH OF TRIP:    5 DAYS

PASSENGERS:            29

AREA FISHED:         OFF SHORE AND GUADALUPE ISLAND

 

FISH COUNT:            425 ALBACORE  

                                       58 YELLOWTAIL

                                         7 YELLOWFIN TUNA     

                                         1 BLUEFIN                                      

 

                                    

1ST PLACE                  36.8 LB YELLOWTAIL caught by,

                                     MATT PUSHCKOR, ANAHEIM, CA

 

2ND PLACE                 33.9 LB YELLOWTAIL caught by;

                                    RYAN GATEWOOD, TACOMA, WA.                                  

                                      

3RD PLACE                 33.8 LB YELLOWTAIL caught by;

                                    ROLLO RAMPINO, TRUCKEE, CA

 

 

REMARKS: PLENTY OF ALBACORE OFFSHORE.  GUADALUPE ISLAND FOR QUALITY YELLOWTAIL