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October 2005

Oct. 1st, 2005

Good morning folks. The phone has been down so reports have been scarce. A recap of the first couple days is in order. After we left the rocks we looked offshore in hopes of glory on wahoo and dorado. We did find the kelps and in 76.5 degree water just no fish. we were a bit startled after that but pressed on.
The next move was to the Potato Bank in hopes of decent size tuna. That was shattered with good water but no sign of fish. We worked up all day getting scattered strikes on good size dorado and only one wahoo. Worked our way up to Mag Bay were we had good bait fishing.
Yesterday we fished the ridge and had great fishing on tuna and yellowtail. Night fishing for both species and then real good in the morning.  8 wahoo to throw in there as well.
We are running up today watching the progress on Hurricane Otis. The upper end of the ridge is our focus for wahoo and yellows and hopefully a few Grouper.
We will report again tomorrow.

Oct. 3rd, 2005

Good afternoon folks. Yesterday we had a great day of quality size yellowtail. Fish from 15 to 30 pounds and biting as good as they do. After lunch we made a couple of drifts and then headed offshore in hopes of a kelp with dorado.
We were cut short with that plan by the weather. Very choppy and unworkable. On that note we headed back in to Cedros and spent the day looking for Grouper. We have seen a lot of the Island today and good sign of yellowtail just no Grouper. We did mange a White sea bass in the morning and one grouper but mostly bass and yellows.
The weather was nice all day so that worked out well. We are going to head up tonight and pound our way home. We have been holding it off as long as possible. We will report again tomorrow.
Andy Cates

Dear Red Rooster Fans & Anglers,

 

We just want you to know that the boat is doing fine, in fact she’s doing better then fine, she’s doing great! We apologize for the lack of reports, were not sure exactly what the problem is but they just haven’t been able to send any reports, there is some problem with the email system, every time they try to send an email the connection disconnects. We are working on getting it back up and running.

 

We know you all anxiously await the reports and I’m sure many of you are curious how your loved ones are doing. So, we talked to the boat and got sort of an update on their progress. Captain John G. will provide a more thorough report when he gets back.

 

1st day was just travel and rigging (as most of you know)

2nd day 250 yellows (Cedros area)

3rd day went to the 23rd fathom spot and up the ridge took in 8 Wahoo and 250 tuna

4-6 day spent at Alijos rocks with so far about 30 (or so) Wahoo, 55-60 Tuna

 

They haven’t really gotten into any of the bigger tuna yet but are hoping to. The Tuna were ranging from 35-60 lbs but yesterday they saw signs of some bigger ones, so cross your fingers for them.

 

Over all the weather has been pleasant and beautiful and everyone seems to really be enjoying themselves from what I hear. Like I said, I believe John will write up a more detailed report later. Hope this helps for now.

 

Red Rooster Office

Oct. 13, 2005

For the last three days we have been fishing at Alijos Rocks.  We have been out here fishing for wahoo and trophy tuna.  We have 110 'hoos here, a few trophy tuna,  largest about 112 lbs.  The Rooster will be in Saturday morning @ 8:30 AM.  Drop by and check out our catch. We have limits of tuna and @ 130 'hoos.

CAPTAIN:                   JOHN GRABOWSKI

DATE OF TRIP:           WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5 TO SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2005

LENGTH OF TRIP:     10 DAYS

PASSENGERS:            25

AREA FISHED:         ALIJOS ROCKS, THE RIDGE AND SAN PABLO

 

1st PLACE JACKPOT            106 LB YELLOWFIN TUNA CAUGHT BY

                                                CRAIG WALKER OF ORANGE,CA

 

2ND PLACE JACKPOT       96.2 LB YELLOWFIN TUNA CAUGHT BY

                                                 TIM FERRO OF RIVERSIDE,CA

 

3RD PLACE JACKPOT       95.9 LB WAHOO CAUGHT BY

                                                 MIKE MERCADO OF FALLBROOK,CA

                                               

FISH COUNT:              LIMITS OF YELLOWFIN TUNA

                                        227 YELLOWTAIL         

                                        140 WAHOO

                                        1 BIG EYE

                                        1 DORODO

 

Newell 10 Trip Oct. 5- Oct. 15 2005

 
       Most trips do not work out as well in all aspects as this 10 Day Newell Charter did the past 10 days. We left the dock in the wake of hurricane Ottis and starring down the eye of another tropical depression in the making to the south. Northwest winds had been blowing violently the past couple days prior to our departure trying to clear the remnants of Ottis out of this upper zone, to say we had our concerns when we where leaving the dock would be an understatement.
       The Northwest winds subsided the day of our departure and the forming depression to the south fell apart and we enjoyed a very nice ride south our first days at sea, as a matter of fact we enjoyed a nearly flat calm weather trip the entire 10 days we where at sea and that includes our 40 hour transit home from the World Famous Alijos Rocks. Nothing adds to the enjoyment of a Long Range Adventure as much as good weather the entire trip, we where truly fortunate to enjoy this phenomenon from start to finish.
        The fishing this trip was very good for the three species we targeted, yellowtail, yellowfin tuna and wahoo. We spent our first day fishing for yellowtail around the San Pablo area on the coast of Baja and enjoyed good action on 15 to 25 pound yellowtail in a variety of locations, it was a nice way to start the trip and get the first day's anxiety out of our system. We fished green back mackerel that evening along a beautiful stretch of deserted white sand beach that produced fantastic bait fishing and enabled us to restock our entire bait supply, a VERY important factor in producing a successful Long Range Adventure.
       The next day of fishing we spent our day down on "The Ridge" and it proved to be the day we showed our group of passengers truly Wide Open fishing for Yellowfin Tuna, these tuna where 20 to 35 pounds and biting as good as you could ever imagine for as long as you wanted to fish for them which in this case was about 3 hours. After that we trolled the ridge for part of the afternoon and started our search for the coveted WAHOO. With plenty of fish in the holds and lots of good fishing action behind us we opted to head for Alijos Rocks and try to put together a good catch of quality tuna and wahoo the remainder of the trip. Alijos was very good to us for the next four and a half days producing many quality Yellowfin Tuna up to 106 pounds and excellent wahoo fishing. The last one and a half days we concentrated exclusively on the wahoo, our holds at this point had full Mexican Limits of Yellowfin Tuna.
       The last day and a half was as fun of fishing on Big Wahoo (35 to 70 pounds) as you will see on one of these 10 Day Adventures, the wahoo put on an air show that made your heart pound and took your breath away it was so exciting. We managed to put 110 of these speedsters aboard those last few days to give us the grand total of 139 for the trip which is a very good number for a fall trip this season. Our passengers and crew where very pleased and content when it all came to an end Thursday afternoon at 1:00 PM, it was time to break down our gear batten down the hatches and head for home after another very successful Long Range Adventure to the unparalleled Baja Peninsula.  The crew of the Red Rooster III would like to thank Richard Hightower of Newell Fishing Reels for all the great giveaways and for all the rods and reels he brought along for ALL the passengers that wanted to use the Newell gear, we would like to say thanks to everyone on board for making this such a pleasurable and successful Long Range Voyage.
                        John Grabowski and the crew of the Red Rooster III  

 

Oct 17th, 2005
Good morning folks. We left on our first extended day trip in route for the Hurricane Bank. If the weather is in our favor we will head straight down only after a stop for mackerel and a couple of stops for squid.

There is a tropical depression below that will be a storm as predicted but still far from our destination. we will keep a close eye on things and adjust our plans if necessary. Tonight our first stop will be Cedros in hopes of some Mackerel and then keep heading down. Right now it is raining but we have calm seas.
We will report again tomorrow.
Andy Cates

Oct. 18th, 2005
Good morning folks. The bait fishing went good last night. More than enough mackerel and out of there by 800 in the evening. The weather forecast looks good . No hurricanes at this time to worry about. Right now we are still headed for the outside with are ears open on the progress on the deep water banks inside.

Today we are going to focus on rigging for tuna. after a seminar this morning we will spend the rest of the day rigging. The weather is nice and looks to continue for a few days.
We will report again tomorrow .
Andy Cates

Oct. 19th, 2005
The window in weather is making it possible to head down to the bank  It has been a slow travel with the uphill current and we will not be there until tomorrow at lunch time. We did catch 30 squid last night in a short time to top off our supply. The weather is nice with a little sunshine and not much rain.

We will report again tomorrow.
Andy Cates

Oct. 21st, 2005

Good evening folks.
Good news from the Bank. Similar fishing to what we had last season . Many chances on big fish up to 250 pounds so far . The fish are very tough and there has been a lot of losses , but then again there are a lot of chances. The guys are now using no less than 130 pound test on all applications. The best results are coming from the kite and balloons only because of the heavier gear. Still bites on the Chunk ,sardine and mackerel..
Hopefully this holds up for a while and we have something to work on this winter. So far it looks good. We will report again tomorrow.
Andy Cates

Oct. 23rd, 2005

Good morning folks. Another fantastic day down here again. The fish were much more aggressive yesterday with great visual on big fish swimming around the boat. With the action so heavy it was hard to keep on top of the kites. The people were able to get bite on the heaviest line they had with sardine, dead flyer, chunk, or mackerel. Lots of chances on Cow tuna and more landed on the heavier gear. The fish seem so tough, any line less than 130 lb. seems like a lost cause.
We have just enough room left to fish today and then head in and look for wahoo.  Trolling around yesterday produced 25 wahoo , and not very good size ones either. We will report again tomorrow.
Andy Cates

Oct. 25th, 2005

Good morning folks. Yesterday was a nice day of travel after 4 days of hardcore tuna fishing. Well deserved rest after the work these guys put into it. We finished off with more big fish until we had only room for 22 wahoo that we picked until dark.
We decided to head in and look offshore for kelps in hopes of wahoo. A stop for mackerel is in need for tonight and then continue on our way up. The weather flattened out nicely for the ride in and hopefully it sustains.
We will report again tomorrow
Andy Cates

Oct. 28th, 2005

Good morning folks. We finished up at alijos and had fun with the wahoo and released some tuna. After 2 days of that we had all we could hold and started up the line.
The weather has been poor so we tucked in at Benitos for an afternoon to get things cleaned up.  We will be at the dock on Sunday at 900 in the morning to begin unloading the big fish. It will be interesting to see what we end up with. We will report then Andy Cates

CAPTAIN:                   ANDY CATES

DATE OF TRIP:                SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16 TO SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2005

LENGTH OF TRIP:     14 DAYS

PASSENGERS:            24

AREA FISHED:         HURRICANE BANK & ALIJOS ROCKS

 

1st PLACE JACKPOT       265.5 LB YELLOWFIN TUNA CAUGHT BY

                                                AL MCFALL OF JAMUL,CA

 

2ND PLACE JACKPOT       261.9 LB YELLOWFIN TUNA

                                                FRED WAKFIELD OF SANTA ANA,CA

 

3RD PLACE JACKPOT         258.7 LB YELLOWFIN CAUGHT BY

                                                 ROB TAPERT OF STUDIO CITY,CA

          

4. 252.3 -BOB TYLER

13. 232 -BOB TYLER

22. 220.3 –JOHN L

31. 213.9 -LARRY M

5. 245.2 –ART C

14. 231.3 –ART C

23. 219.6 -BOB T

32. 212.1 –DENNIS B

6.242.6 –RON HIRAO

15. 231 -BOB M

24. 218-BOB PETERS

33. 210.6 –WAYNE H

7. 237.1 –BILL S

16. 226.2 –AL B

25. 217 -BOB TYLER

34. 209.6 -LARRY M

8. 235.7 -BOB M

17. 225 –MIKE M

26. 216 –ART C

35. 209 -RALPH COX

9. 235.5 –DENNIS B

18. 225 -BOB M

27. 215.6 -AL MC F

36. 208.6-LARRY M

10. 234.9 –BILL S

19 224.6 -TOM R

28. 215.5 –FRED W

37.. 204.7 –JOE T

11. 233 –JOHN L

20. 224.4 –JOE T

29. 215.5 -BOB M

38. 205.6 –FRED W

12. 232.4 –BILL S

21. 222 –WAYNE H

30. 214 –BILL S

39. 205.6 -BOB T

 

 

 

40. 209 –JOE S

Comments:  Excellent trip, good way to start out the season with it showing good signs of quality tuna, 40 yellowfin tuna over 200lbs a new boat record!