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October 2004

Oct. 1st
Good evening folks. We scratched at the wahoo today and had a couple decent stops in the afternoon. We sat on the anchor for most of the day and picked at 60 to 100 pound tuna. Biggest fish 1bout 115 pounds. The tuna died in the afternoon and we spent the rest of the evening trolling and getting short stops. Last night offered a bite on yellowtail most fish ranging fro 20 to 35 pounds. it lasted from 9:30 to after midnight. 30  yellows were caught throughout the night. 35 wahoo and 25 tuna for the day. we really need a big day . hopefully the tuna bite better tomorrow. Andy Cates

Oct. 2nd
Good evening folks. Another day of wahoo and tuna. Slower on the tuna but better on the wahoo. The afternoon was dead until right before dark when we had a little action on tuna. Not much sign of tuna here today but the evening gave us hopes for tomorrow. Finishing the day with 48 wahoo and a dozen decent size tuna from 50 to 90 pounds. We will report again tomorrow. Andy Cates

Oct. 3rd
Good evening folks. We had a nice day today with steady action throughout the day on good grade tuna and wahoo. Good fish caught on the kite up to 100 pounds . Most fish 50 to 75 pounds. 44 tuna that grade and another 30 tuna smaller grade, 18 to 30 pounds. The wahoo were all nice fish and we ended the day with 38. Unfortunately we have to leave and start working up, but we are hoping to finish off with some yellowtail action and maybe a few more wahoo. We will report again tomorrow. Andy Cates

Oct. 4th
Good evening folks. We spent the day overwhelmed by smaller grade yellowtail. A lot of different spots holding the same size fish with only a slight amount of keepers throughout the day. A lot of releasing today to go with action. We will report again tomorrow. Andy Cates

Oct. 5th
Good evening folks. We finished off this morning with a little yellowtail action and then broke down are gear. We started home at 830 in the morning and hoping to get in on time. Right now we are making awful speed and look to be late. Hopefully that changes and we can make up some time. The first  10 day trip showed hope for the fall trips to come. With over 150 wahoo for the trip and quality tuna up to 100 plus pounds to be had the challenge is definitely there. Hopefully the ridge and lower deep water banks start to show sign of fish soon. I am sure everyone is waiting for the first reports of big tuna from the lower areas. With the couple of days we spent on the inside it just seemed like it was still a little early. With the exception of trophy size dorado and scattered wahoo the tuna sign didn't seem to be there . But that was only one boat looking at a lot of area. We get more boats out looking and hopefully soon we will be reporting about the big tuna like last year. Hopefully it is right around the corner. We will be leaving on another 10 day trip tomorrow We will report again later. Andy Cates

Oct. 7th
Good morning folks, we departed October 6th at 1400 hrs on our annual ten day Newell trip with twenty-six passengers.  We put aboard three hundred and ninety scoops of excellent sardines and cleared Point Loma
at 1530 hrs heading for points south.  After leaving the harbor we gathered together in the galley for the safety talk and a little bit about the fishing that we could possibly have in the near feature.  Our first day at sea was spent in the morning giving our tackle seminar consisting of all the fishing techniques for Yellowtail, Wahoo, Dorado and of course Tuna. After lunch we stopped along the Baja coast for a very nice afternoon of Yellowtail fishing on eighteen to twenty-five pound fish.  At dark we pulled up our lines, had dinner and headed to the bait grounds to replenish our supply.  We experienced as good a bait fishing as you could ever want to see, unfortunately we had very little room to put these Mackerel because it is so early in our trip but we took what we could.  Needless to say that we are pleased with how the trip started and we look forward to more of the same success for the next week.  We will report back in the days  to come with what we encounter in our travels.

John and RR III crew

Oct. 9th
Good morning, over the past days we continued our journey down the Baja coast with good success.  Friday was another day of quality Yellowtail as we worked our way toads the offshore areas.  Yesterday we fished offshore with a great day Wahoo fishing and lots of school size Tuna too.  We plan on spending one more day trying for more of the same before we turn our attention towards the larger Tuna.  We have had great
weather the entire trip and so far the fishing has kept us quite busy, we look forward to what the next week has to offer.  We will report back in the next few days with what we are hoping will be more good reports.
We are sending some pictures of the last few days catch. John and RR III crew

Oct. 12th
Good morning folks, well the past few days have been classic fall fishing with a variety of species and epic quality.  Sunday we had a few Grouper and some real heart breakers on a few big Groupers just at daylight.  We had Wahoo action all morning and a great afternoon of nice size Dorado, classic fall fishing.  Yesterday was an absolute fantastic day of Yellowfin Tuna fishing on forty to ninety pound fish.  They enjoyed biting the fly line sardines as well as the kite baits, we had excellent action all day long.  Our weather at one point turned bad and we had an extremely bumpy ride for a twelve hour period, but things have calmed down nicely and we are now enjoying light winds and favorable sea conditions.  The big Tuna are what most people want to try and out battle on a long range trip, so most likely the remainder of our trip will be spent targeting these tough fighting adversaries.  We already are blessed with a very nice catch aboard and with three days of fishing left we are looking forward to completing our catch with this beautiful grade Tuna.  We will report back tomorrow with more results and a few pictures of our lucky anglers.
John and RR III crew

Oct. 13th
Good morning folks, very nice fishing today for Wahoo and Tuna.  The weather if you can believe is too good, we had no wind and where unable to fly our kites for most of the day.  Typically we need ten to twelve knots of wind to keep the baits out on the kite and until  5:00 pm. we could not get a bait out, it hurt our overall production today unquestionably.  We are sending along some pictures of a variety of species we have caught today to give you a look at the nice quality we have been enjoying.  At this point in our trip we have two day of fishing remaining, we will report back once we finish fishing and have our bow pointed homeward bound.    John and RR III crew
 

Oct. 14th
Good morning folks, this trip finished absolutely perfect with another good day of Tuna, Wahoo and Dorado fishing on Wednesday.  We spent yesterday back up the Baja coast for what turned out to be as good of
Yellowtail fishing on eighteen to twenty-five pound fish as you will ever see, what a fantastic finish.  This trip is a perfect example of what a ten day trip is designed to be, quality fishing on a variety species.  We were very fortunate to have had great fishing on all of the targeted species and we fell very fortunate with our good timing and remarkable results.  We are currently traveling up the coast in perfect weather and plan on arriving back in San Diego on Saturday morning at 0800 hrs.  The crew of the Red Rooster III would like to thank Richard Hightower and Newell manufacturing for putting together this trip and all of the great passengers on board.  It was our pleasure to have had everyone with us for this wonderful Baja experience.

John and RR III crew

Oct. 18th
Good evening folks. We left yesterday on our first long trip. 14 day ride back. Out of the rain and into a flat calm sea and sunshine. We made one stop for mackerel and we are on our way. We will be at the fishing grounds in 2 days . Cruising down in hopes of big fish and wahoo ahead. tomorrow we will start our seminars and rigging for fishing the bank. We will report again tomorrow. Andy Cates

Oct. 19th
Good evening folks. Another day of travel. Spending some time in the morning going over tuna fishing and then a relaxing afternoon getting rigged up. A couple of movies and now ready for the Baseball game. The weather is nice . Very little wind and no sea. We will report again tomorrow. Andy Cates

Oct. 20th
Good evening folks. Not much to report today. Still traveling down and hoping that tomorrow we find something good to work with. We will be at the Bank at 700 in the morning. See you tomorrow with we hope is a good report. Andy Cates

Oct. 23rd
Good morning folks. Sorry about the lack of reports. We have been very busy the first couple of days. This has been some of the best fishing I have seen down here. The grade is excellent 125 to 225 pounds average fish 150 to 190 . The first day was for 55 tuna and 18 wahoo and yesterday we had 70 tuna and a few wahoo. All very nice fish. A handful of fish over 200 pounds each day and another caught this morning. a lot of fish close to 200 pounds. We did not get a chance to estimate fish by measurement so we will see at the dock. I will send pictures later. Andy Cates

Oct. 23rd
Good evening folks. Another nice day. The weather is nice and the fishing has been great. Today we released fish under 180 pounds and we are still filling up fast. a better showing on the bigger fish today and had several from 220 to 250 pounds. Tomorrow we will be releasing fish and keeping the Jack Pot contenders. I am going to star sending some pictures of various people and their trophy fish.
 

Oct. 24th
Good evening folks. We left at 3:00 in the afternoon after finishing off with 50 wahoo. We ended with a couple more big tuna in the morning. A 230 and another close to 200. Too close to cut off. Settled our trolling jack pot with a 200 pounder caught on a Marauder. We are on our way up to try and fit in a few more wahoo and do grouper and bass fishing. The weather is nice and we are hoping it continues. I will send more pictures of some of the big fish tomorrow morning. Andy Cates

Oct. 25th
Good morning folks. Here are more pictures of some big fish caught on the trip. We were to busy to get pictures of all of them . This will give you an idea of what it was all about. We are on our way up the line the weather is nice and all is well.

Oct. 27th
Good afternoon folks. We spent the day scratching at decent size wahoo. We didn't have much room but then again fishing was slow. We did end up with all we could hold but it was definitely a scratch. The weather is nice and we are heading up to fish bass and yellows. Tomorrow we are going to run skiff trips for bass and hook and release yellows from the big boat . Hopefully the weather stays nice and we can stay busy. We will report again tomorrow. Andy Cates
 

Oct. 30th
Good morning folks. The last 2 days we spent fishing from the skiffs. The first day it was windy and rainy so we fished up the Lee of the island. The weather was better but the fishing was slow. We finally got into
some good action in the afternoon.

Yesterday was good mostly all day with great action on nice size Calicos and a couple of White Sea bass and yellows in the skiff to go with. The big boat saw better action on yellows and the afternoon brought good conditions and 35 pound yellowtail that were released into the evening. All the bass were released during all the skiff trips. The weather is nice after a bumpy night. We will report again tomorrow. Andy Cates

Oct. 31st.
Good afternoon folks. After a battle all morning getting the fish out. The scales showed that 26 tuna tipped in over 200 pounds and a number of fish close. 195 to 199. Jackpot fish 261 pounds caught by Larry Martin. Troll fish was 200.3 caught by  Chuck Forrester Also Known as Montana. Next trip leaves Nov 4 . An 8 day. Andy Cates     

CAPTAIN:                   ANDY CATES

DATE OF TRIP:   SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17 TO SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2004

LENGTH OF TRIP:    14 DAYS

PASSENGERS:           23

AREA FISHED:         SOUTH WEST OF CABO

FISH COUNT:            135 YELLOWFIN TUNA (27 OVER 200 LBS) 103 WAHOO

NOTES: Andy “This has been some of the best fishing I have seen down here. The grade was excellent 125 to 260 pounds average fish 150 to 190 . The weather couldn’t have been better, with flat seas and blue skies it made the trip that much more enjoyable.”