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November 2002

Nov 1 2002
Good morning folks. Good weather coming up the line so far. It sounds like it its going to continue. We are doing some maintenance on the way home trying to stay busy. Afternoon movies and novels have been very popular as well as a lot of relaxing. The food has been great the entire trip and very enjoyable on the way home. Jorge and Jose are the highlight on these travel days. We are still scheduled to be in at 800 in the morning Sunday. We will see you then, Andy Cates

Nov 3 2002

OCTOBER 20 TO NOVEMBER 3, 2002 -  14 days - 22 Anglers - Fished - HURRICANE BANK

145 YELLOWFIN TUNA and 135 WAHOO                                             

1ST PLACE JACKPOT: 229.8 lb YELLOWFIN TUNA JOE STICKLES, TUSTIN, CA.

2ND PLACE JACKPOT: 209.9 lb YELLOWFIN TUNA BILL SCHNEIDER, POWAY, CA.

3RD PLACE JACKPOT: 208.5 lb YELLOWFIN TUNA CARL DiUBALDO, NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA.

REMARKS:   THE FIRST LONG TRIP OF THE SEASON PRODUCED EXCELLENT FISHING ON THE LARGER YELLOWFIN TUNA AT HURRICANE BANK.  THE CATCH PRODUCED AN EXCEPTIONAL GRADE OF TUNA;  80% BETWEEN 100 LBS TO 200 LBS. AND 7 OVER 200 LBS.  THE CONDITIONS SHOW A PROMISING SEASON TO COME.

November 7 to November 17th - 10 Day trip - Morgan Bank, Alijos Rocks and The Ridge

Passengers - 27

Nov 9 2002
Good afternoon everyone, we departed San Diego yesterday on the annual Newell/All-star 10 day extravaganza. After stopping to fill the boat with an excellent load of sardines, we cleared the point around 1430. The weather was good and is still pretty good , so I think we will escape the rain. We started today with a thorough tackle seminar, going over all the various techniques we use on a 10 day trip. Before I forget, I would like to mention that Richard Hightower had one of the best tackle raffles/ giveaways that I have ever seen. Everyone on board received many items, from rods and reels to tackle boxes to trolling jigs and everything you could imagine. We don't have a destination in mind yet to begin the trip, but by the end of the day we should have it narrowed down. We will report again tomorrow afternoon. Until then keep a tight line. Jeff DeBuys and crew

Nov 10 2002
Hello everyone, we did finally pick a destination to begin the trip, and we opted to try our luck at alijos rocks. The reports from the ridge were very poor, and we spent the day trying for tuna along with 2 other boats at the rocks. We saw some decent sign of yellowfin tuna, but they were reluctant to bite. The overall grade is good, 50 to 75 lbs.. We ended up with 26 fish for our efforts. The weather is showing signs of really being a factor on this trip, as we have a huge ground swell, as well as some wind. We departed the rocks after dark and are going to run inside to look for some kelps in hopes of some wahoo and dorado action. We will report again later. jeff and crew

Nov 11 2002
Good morning everyone, we have a report for yesterday, as well as this morning, Monday. We fished offshore yesterday for dorado and wahoo that have been on the kelps down here. The weather was horrible
and it was tough driving around, let alone looking for anything floating. We did manage to get 60 beautiful dorado, 18 to 25 lbs.. Today we are fishing down at one of the lower banks in hopes of scratching some quality yellowfin tuna. So far for our efforts we have 17 tuna which are 60 to 110 lbs. they really are a beautiful grade of fish. We see a good amount of fish around here so we hope they want to bite. We will update this report later today. sea ya, jeff and crew

Nov 11 2002
Good evening folks, here is the latest fishing report for the 11th. We ended up scratching today on that better grade tuna. The bulk of the fish is 70 to 85 lbs, with a few bigger and a few smaller. We did have 3 or 4 over 100 lbs, pictured here is Scott  Nakata with a nice fish. Also Charlie McGhee landed a fish close to the same size pictured here. Things look good here for us right now, with good conditions being very important. We ended up with 40 tuna for the day, as well as a hand full of dorado. The weather is improving, and hopefully we can scratch again tomorrow. Until then take care. jeff and crew.

 

Nov 12 2002
Hello everyone, the report for today is as follows. The weather was really windy this morning, and conditions were tough for everyone fishing. We saw the same good sign that we saw yesterday, but they didn't bite as good. We ended up with 28 yellowfin tuna.  Still that beautiful grade, 60 to 115 lbs. pictured here is Si Halliburton with the biggest fish of the day, a 115lber.  Also pictured are Scott Hatcher, and Bob
Keith, both of Chicago with their late afternoon catch. Things look good, and we are going to stay at this bank for another day in hopes of a big hit on this good grade fish. wish us luck!. We will talk to you all
tomorrow. sea ya jeff debuys
 


Nov 13 2002
Good evening folks, the report for today is as follows. We spent the majority of today at the same place we have been fishing for the last few days. today was a little slow on the tuna, although we did catch a
nice tuna that might weigh 150 lbs. pictured here is Carl Shielzeth and Andy with the prized catch. We had to put the backup rig on because he got spooled. We did end up with 15 of those good grade tuna, and we left the bank at 1 p.m. and ran up to another bank to try for the late afternoon. We did not see much in the way of fish late in the day. The weather is good and we are glad about that.  I don't have a destination in mind for tomorrow, but we will start working back to San Diego. We still have 2 more days to fish on this trip. We will report again tomorrow. sea ya then. jeff and crew

Nov 15 2002
Hi everyone, not much to report today. It was our last day fishing, and we fished for yellowtail without much success. We fished countless areas, and spots. The conditions were good as well. We will be back in San Diego Sunday around 0730. We had a good trip as far as I am concerned, with some good quality tuna fishing. We will see you all back in San Diego. jeff and crew

Nov 17 2002

Fish Count  201 Yellowfin Tuna, 11 Wahoo, 65 Dorado and 11 Yellowtail

1st Place - 164 lb. Yellowfin Tuna - Carl Schielzeph Westminister, Ca.

2nd Place - 143.7 lb. Yellowfin Tuna - Si Halburton  Loveland, Co.

3rd Place - 130 lb. Yellowfin Tuna - Robert Keith Glen Ellyn, Il.

This is what is expected on a 10 day trip.  Quality fishing!! Quality Sponsor!! Rich Hightower, Rep. for Newell Reels and All-Star Rods made sure every fisherman received some goodies.  Raffles, t-shirts, jigs, hats, Hayabusa hooks along with rods and reels to use made this trip one of the more popular trips.  Fishing was excellent on the larger tuna.  Just an outstanding trip all the way around.

Nov 30 2002
Good morning folks. Today is our first day of travel on a 16 day trip scheduled for the Hurricane Bank. So far so good, with a nice load of sardines and very nice weather on our first morning out. We did leave some room for alternate bait and in this case we are going to try and fill the spot with some mackerel from Cedros Island. We will be at Cedros late morning and spend a couple of hours trying for the bigger bait.

We have high hopes for this trip especially after the last trip in October that produced 7 tuna over 200 pounds and many others over the 100 pound range. This trip went out pretty light and the passengers that committed to the trip are now all excited about fishing the Red Rooster III with only eleven passengers.
Hopefully the weather and fish cooperate so we can put together another nice trip at the Bank. We will report again tomorrow, Andy Cates
 

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