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CAPTAIN: ANDY CATES
DATE OF TRIP:
05/27/2017-06/11/2017
LENGTH OF TRIP: 15
DAYS-23 ANGLERS
AREAS FISHED:
HURRICANE BANK/CLARION
TRIP/CHARTER MASTERS:
LEO REIHSEN-JUNE HEAT-ACCURATE REELS
FISH COUNT: 99 YELLOWFIN TUNA
60 WAHOO
1st PLACE
JACKPOT 230LBS YELLOWFIN TUNA CAUGHT BY BOB MICHENER
2nd PLACE JACKPOT
226LBS YELLOWFIN TUNA CAUGHT BY VICTOR ALFANO
3rd PLACE JACKPOT
225LBS YELLOWFIN TUNA CAUGHT BY DAVID ROUSE
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TROLLING JACKPOT 47LBS WAHOO CAUGHT BY VICTOR ALFANO
8 COWS OVER 200LBS
June 8, 2017
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1st place Jack Pot Bob Michener with a 230
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2nd place Jack Pot Victor Alfano with a 226
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3rd place Jack Pot Soda Pop with a 225
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Victor again with the trolling Jack Pot 47# Wahoo
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June 6, 2017
Joe Davidson picked off this 213 on the fly line sardine and won the Accurate jack pot for the day. An Accurate Boss 600. Way to go Joe. Bob Michener with his 230 on the Kite. Good job Bobby! Sharks backed off today and we had better success. 24 tuna and a few wahoo. We are all finished here and heading up after dinner. We will report on weather and post Jack Pots tomorrow
June 5, 2017
June 4, 2017
Better today with 20 tuna and a few wahoo. A few bigger fish mixed in with Bobby and his 210 and Soda Pop with his 225. Soda Pop wins the Accurate daily jackpot. A nice Accurate Boss 600 reel. High hopes for tomorrow ,hoping that things are on the upswing
June 3, 2017Not much yesterday with the tuna. Nothing bigger than 90 pounds and just a little here and a little there. Wahoo definitely helped with scattered strikes. A couple here that are contenders for the troll J.P.
June 1, 2017
Tough day today with just a couple tuna and a few wahoo Joe Davidson picked off this 218 but nothing else to go with it. We are making al little move and hoping for a little more to work with tomorrow.
May 31, 2017
There were only 7 tuna caught today and after 2:30 in the afternoon the sign of fish vanished .Needless to say a long afternoon. Good weather and high hopes for tomorrow
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Bob picked off his personal best 163 pounder
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Joe Armitsu picked off this nice 186 pounder |
May 30, 2017
We are arriving at the Bank tomorrow morning and share our success as the day goes on
May 28. 2017
First day of travel getting a few kinks out. Nice weather going south and the bait we picked up looks great
May 27, 2017
Just about ready to shove off on the Accurate June Heat trip
CAPTAIN: TOM FERRARI ...
DATE OF TRIP: 03/7/2017-03/22/2017
LENGTH OF TRIP: 15 DAYS
TOTAL ANGLERS: 19
AREAS FISHED: HURRICAME BANK
TRIP/CHARTER MASTERS: TRIP 4w17- LOFTUS&MARTIN
1st PLACE JACKPOT-245LBS YELLOWFIN TUNA CAUGHT BY
JIM BALLARD
2nd PLACE JACKPOT-220LBS YELLOWFIN TUNA CAUGHT BY
RON HIRO
3rd PLACE JACKPOT-215LBS YELLOWFIN TUNA CAUGHT BY
RAY BORDERS
NOTES: TROLLING JACKPOT-55LBS WAHOO CAUGHT BY
WAYNE HONDA
COWS CAUGHT BY:
210-JOHN AVILES
207-DAN POPE JR
201-BILL BROWN
Mar. 18, 2017
We are headed north to San Diego. We wrapped up a great fishing trip yesterday, now it time to do a little work. The guys are breaking down their fishing gear and getting everything stowed. So far its great weather. Chef Mike made a batch of his breakfast fried ride with eggs on top. Another Red Rooster favorite.
Mar. 17, 2017
Today turned out to be our best day of fishing
this trip. We caught 29 tuna, most of that over 100 pounds, with 2
over the 200 pound mark. The bite didn't materialize until the early
afternoon but when the fish rolled through they sure were in a
biting mood. The kites and balloons were getting bit as fast as we
could put them out. Flylining the sardines generated bites but the
fish seemed to really want the big baits.
The preferred bait was the live flying fish the the
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scooped the night before. The flying fish on the kites always seem
to generate the most intense crashes. The tunas chase the bait,
jumping out of the water after the panicked flying fish often
missing and coming back for multiple tries. This has everybody
yelling and shouting and really gets people excited.
It was a great day to end the trip on.
Tom Ferrari
Jim Ballard edged Ron out of the JP today with a 245 pound tuna.
Wes started us off today with a 191.5 fish on the kite. Accurate ATD80 and the Phenix prototype.
Mar. 16, 2017
Chef Mike made one of my favorites tonight.... flank steak with chimichurri sauce and some asparagus.
Mar. 15, 2017
It's been the typical slow morning here but things are starting to pick up. We just had a flury for 5 fish. Here is a couple of pictures of Ralph Hughes bending at the rail and a victory shot with a great fish.
Mar. 14, 2017
We had a nice day of fishing today. There was a lot of sign; jumping fish and bird life. We caught 22 tuna most of which were over 100 pound mark with 3 fish over 200 pounds. It turned out to be fun day. We will be here again tomorrow, hopefully the fish want to cooperate.
Tom Ferrari
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Wayne Carlson's fish weighed 160. Also on the ATD 80 and Phenix Axis 7'6 prototype.
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We had a couple of bites on the kite this morning. Dan Pope Jr got the big one of the morning, so far. 207#
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Mar. 13, 2017
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Slow morning today. John Aviles managed to catch a nice tuna.
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Jim Mitchell got the last fish of the evening this one sure was scrappy
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Mar. 12, 2017
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Al Babashoff has the big fish of the day so far. It weighted 165 pounds on the RRIII certified scale.
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We had a little kite flury. Dan Pope Jr with one of the three tuna we caught
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Mar. 11, 2017
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Big Ray getting it done with his Twin spin Accurate reel. He says it's fun...I'm still undecided.
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Mar. 9, 2017
Bill Moore won the Seeker 6463 rod with the proceeds of the raffle going a marine corps charity Bill Brown won a nice Okuma rail rod.
Still traveling with this great weather. We had our big tuna seminar today along with the L&M raffle. Ralph Hughes won the SKB tackle box and Woody Woodruff walked away with the Okuma rod and reel combo.
Mar. 8, 2017
We departed San Diego yesterday on our annual Loftus & Martin 15 day trip. The bait was nice and our traveling weather is beautiful. The next couple of days we will have daily seminars and generous raffles.
Mar. 6, 2017
It was nice seeing all of our regular passengers and meeting new friends at the annual Fred Hall show. Big thanks to long time RRIII passengers Ralph Cox and Sonny Jones for helping to man the booth. Great job guys.
CAPTAIN: ANDY CATES
DATE OF TRIP:
02/10/2017-02/26/2017
LENGTH OF TRIP:
16/13 DAYS
TRIP/CHARTER MASTERS:
TRIP 3w17- LARRY BROWN/ IZORLINE
1st PLACE JACKPOT 238LBS
YELLOWFIN TUNA CAUGHT BY CALVIN BENTON
2nd PLACE JACKPOT
217LBS YELLOWFIN TUNA CAUGHT BY HOWARD FOLMER
3rd PLACE JACKPOT
215LBS YELLOWFIN TUNA CAUGHT BY CHARLES ROBINSON
TROLLING JACKPOT
42.0LBS WAHOO CAUGHT BY NORM FUJIMOTO
Feb. 25, 2017
The weather hasn't been great coming up from Cabo. We should be to the customs dock around 0900-0930 tomorrow morning. Hopefully we can take care of our business quickly and be at H&M by 10:00.
Feb. 21, 2017
Calvin Benton with a 238 and Howard Folmer with a 217
Feb. 20, 2017
We picked until dark and took off toward the Island.
Choppy weather made for a couple of heart felt losses on the bow but we did have some chances.
We will see what kind of time we have for tomorrow when we get there
Charles Robinson picked off this nice 215 to
complete a nice day.
A few this afternoon would go a long way
We had a little shot in the morning .Still no current and hoping for another shot this afternoon
Feb. 19, 2017
We managed a taste of this decent grade fish. Conditions died at 3:00 and we had no current. Only a couple fish at dark
Feb. 17, 2017
Still waiting for some change here. We will keep working at it until things straighten out here. The weather is great and we have plenty of time for things to get better. Larry and John with a couple of fish in the morning.
Feb. 15, 2017
Hard to get anything started with just a little bit of fish here and there. Certainly potential though. We are going to give it another half day and if no change head outside and try and pick there.
Feb. 14, 2017
Tough afternoon with a little shot in the evening that was stopped cold by the sharks. We will give it tomorrow and see how it goes
A little starter this morning with a dozen of these 70 to 100 pound fish. Nothing bigger yet but we are just getting started. Nice conditions here and good sign so hopefully we can scrape a day together
Feb. 11, 2017
We left on our annual Larry Brown 16 day fly home trip. We picked up a nice load of bait and then Larry went into his signature raffle. No expense was spared on the big raffle items. Thanks to the Sponsors listed below for your contributions. Between the happy faces on the winners and the charitable donations it was a complete success.
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Aaahhh , breakfast Turkey benedict |
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Feb. 4, 2017
We have had a nice ride home. Last night was choppy but we are going up the beach now with good weather. Looks like 6:30 at the dock
Feb. 2, 2017
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1st place goes to Gary Keller with a 234 # yellowfin tuna
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2nd place goes to Sonny Jones with a 205 # yellowfin tuna
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3rd place Jack Pot goes to Rico Rampino with a 203# yellowfin tuna
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The trolling jackpot also goes to Sonny Jones with an 85# yellowfin tuna
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Jan. 31, 2017
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Less action today on the tuna but filled in the day with a little wahoo fishing .
It was a nice change of pace and broke up the day.
One more morning and hopefully we can end with a bang
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Jan. 30, 2017
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We had a great day today.
Nice fishing on the 70 to 90 pound fish and we had a couple
of standouts in the hundred plus pound class in the mix.
Incredible weather and conditions with no sharks!
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Jan. 29, 2017
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Thomas Ferrari with an 84.5 pound wahoo.One cast one fish.
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Hard earned fish today. The sharks ate us up starting first thing in the morning and continued to dark.
Sonny Jones dragged a 205 through the sharks and Rocco dragged a 203 through them.
The bread and butter grade was around but no current all day made it hard to fish.
Hopefully we have current tomorrow
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Jan. 28, 2017
We had a nice day of action on this "bread
and butter " grade fish today. Definitely the action we were hoping
for. Maybe tomorrow we will see some bigger fish mixed in. The guys
had a great time today with this fish
Jan. 27, 2017
Jan. 26, 2017
Nice fish just tough to fish with the poor conditions. Rocco with a nice fish on the kite
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Tough conditions today with a lot of wind and very little current.
Gary Keller got a lucky break with this 234 on the kite and brother Jim with a nice 194.
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We are going to give it the morning and if things don't look good make a move inside
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Jan. 25, 2017
We will see how it goes tomorrow. Forecast calls for more wind!
We picked this afternoon and got the feel for things .Oh my is it windy.
We were lucky to get the anchor to hold and picked 120 to 150 pounders until dark, a little start anyway
Jan. 22, 2017
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Bill Walsh , June Heat veteran made us up these nice rod holders
for the upper deck rails.
They clamp on the rail and can hold six big outfits each.
When I get the reels on I will show more.
Thanks Wild Bill!
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We made it out yesterday morning with just a bit of the storm on our tail. Bluefin Jim and Sonny Jones are out with some great giveaways including Pelagic Gear. So far headed south after a great load of bait and the weather is better and better.
Jan. 18, 2017
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Earl Sandefur takes first place with a 202 # yellowfin on another Makaira 50 with 130 # izorline and a big mustad hook for baiting a skip jack
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2nd place
Brian Lubec use with a 172# yellowfin tuna
Caught on another demo reel from Okuma , a Makaira 16 with Seagar florocarbon and a 4/0 Trokar hook
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Paul Huddleston...
With a 164.2 pound yellowfin
Caught on one of our demo Makaira s with 100 pound Seagar
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Trolling honors went to Jonathon Jeffers with a 45.0 pound wahoo
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A nice ride home today with great weather. We will be home at 6:30 tomorrow morning
Jan. 15, 2017
On our way home now.
With just a couple of fish last night
and Rod with the last fish of the trip.
The ride last night was choppy and a little uncomfortable.
Things do look to improve with the weather as we continue up
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Jan. 14, 2016
We had a nice little shot this morning to get things going.
It was good while it lasted but slowed to not much now.
Maybe this afternoon we can get a few more bites before heading home
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Jan. 13, 2016
Picked most of the day and a little
shot in the evening finished the day nicely. Hoping for
another day like today for our last day tomorrow.
Larry and Nick pose with a nice fish.
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Tough to get a bite but picked off some decent fish with a show in the evening just not a lot of bites.
Jan. 12, 2016
Jan. 11, 2017
Jan. 8, 2016
We had a tough first day that included battling sharks throughout. We scraped up 8.70 to 85 pound tuna on various spots. The conditions were good so hopefully tomorrow.
We are going to try for bait tonight and give it a go tomorrow
Jan. 6, 2016
The weather has been great so far on our way south. Cold but now starting to warm up. One more day of travel and then we can get this show started.
Jan. 4, 2016
Good afternoon folks. We are headed south on a 15 day Loftus and Martin sponsored trip. The bait situation is the best we have had with great hook baits and some smaller bait mixed in for chum. Lovely weather today for our departure.
Happy New Year to all !
Dec. 30, 2016
Dec. 29, 2016
With our heads held high we finish another tough day. Will be traveling all night and will be hard at it first thing in the morning.
Tough conditions and not much sign here today.
Working our way up the Island hoping for something to work with.
Here's Zack with a quality Cedros yellow.
Dec. 28, 2016
All in all a tough day. Started fishing late afternoon and don't have much to report. Will be making a short move tonight hoping for greener pastures in the morning.
Here's Brenda with a sample of what we're looking for.
Dec. 26, 2016
Good evening everyone and happy holidays. We've departed on our annual new years special five day. Picked up a beautiful load of bait and are headed south in search of fish. Will start fishing tomorrow afternoon , hopefully will have pics to follow.Nick Maurer.
Dec. 21, 2016
Our eta for tomorrow is 0600-0630.
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1st place Jackpot goes to Norm
Fujimoto with a 233.5 pound yellowfin. |
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2nd place Jackpot goes to Dave
Merrick with a 219 pound yellowfin. |
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3rd place jackpot goes to Martin
Gomez with a 202 pound yellowfin. |
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The troll jackpot was won by Rick
Beck with a 35 pound wahoo. |
We have been traveling up from the lower banks for the last couple of days. The weather has been phenomenal. We have made stops along the way, trying different spots with mixed results. One high spot delivered some smaller grade yellowtail and a couple others had biting bass. It was nice to break up the traveling with some fishing. We are going to be on the same program for today, our last day of this trip.
Tom Ferrari
Dec. 18, 2016
Today was definitely a different fishing day
than yesterday. We didn't get the good south current we needed until
late. The school grade fish were boiling next to the boat all day
and were a source of instant action to anybody who dropped down in
line test and fished a sardine. We are going to have to leave here
and start traveling north tonight. Hopefully we can find some fish
up along the coast on the way home.
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Robbie managed to sneak in a better grade fish at dark.
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Here's Roy with a
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Dec. 17, 2016
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Roy picked up his first ever cow in the grey on the Pl 68 glow jig.
Congratulations. 220.3 lb
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Martin Gomez with his 202 # fish
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Jan Dennison caught herself a 183
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RJ grilled up some surf and turf tonight.
Lobster tail, flank steak with chimichurri sauce and sides. Good stuff.
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Dec. 16, 2016
It took us most of the day today to get to the bank. We saw some interesting sign on the way down; birds, dolphins, flotsam, just no fish. There was decent fish on the bank itself. We hooked a couple of fish and managed to land one cow and one school grade tuna. We are going to try for bait tonight and give it another go tomorrowTom Ferrari
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Izorline rep Roy captured a rare
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Norm gets us started on the big fish with a 233
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Mike with the first fish of the afternoon
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Dec. 15, 2016
After a slow day yesterday we finally got our trip started. There were some wahoo left over in this cooling water and the tuna fishing was very good. This school size fish is very eager to bite and most of the people have close to what they want. We are going to try another drift or two before we head further south.Tom Ferrari
Dec. 13, 2016
We are headed south on our 10 - day Izorline trip. We spend our travel day getting rigged up and prepping the boat for our days of fishing to come. Thank you to Izorline for all the great raffle prizes. Thanks also to Calstar rods and Accurate reels for providing loaner gear for the angles to use.
Tom Ferrari
Dec. 10, 2016
It's been a bumpy ride today which has slowed our progress home. Our eta as of now is 0900 at the customs dock.
Dec. 8, 2016
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The last stop of the Moffat charter
Dropping the guys off to fly home
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Dec. 7, 2016
12 fish over the 200 mark today. What an
incredible couple of days, Things really changed for us. Good bait
fishing led to good cow fishing ....
Splendid
We have a handful of nice fish this morning. Bait making went very good last night and we were able to top off on perfect size mackeral.
Dec. 6, 2016
11 fish over 200 and
1 fish over 300 for the afternoon!
Pretty incredible.
We are headed for bait and have another day tomorrow to
fish.
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Dec. 4, 2016
Another day with poor conditions and windy.
Less sign today and very tough to fish . We are making a move inside
to finish up the trip we have two days left and hoping for the best.
Travel day tomorrow
Dec. 3, 2016
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Ben Kita poses with a 208 pound yellowfin caught on the Kite this evening.
Good job Ben
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We will keep at it and feel good about this prospect so hopefully we can get on the fish earlier tomorrow
Dec. 2, 2016
Just a few bites this morning after a long night of bait fishing.
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Frank
Sr. Picked off this nice 252
with the bait we caught.
Good job Frank |
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Dec. 1, 2016
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LA James with a nice
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We desperately need to get some baits for the kite .The little sardines were frustrating to use . Hopefully we can get some bigger bait tonight
We had better action today with a few nice fish mixed in. The prospect looked good and hopefully things are on the upswing.
Nov. 30, 2016
With the good conditions we still struggled to get something going and picked off another half a dozen fish over a long period of time then took off for the inside. We will arrive after daylight and get started.
We had the conditions we were hoping for and picked off a handful of decent fish up to 170 pounds this morning. Conditions remain great just no fish around right now. The sharks were bad all morning until the fish briefly moved in and then backed off for a little bit.
Nov. 29, 2016
Conditions were poor all afternoon here today. We had some current for about an hour this morning and then current for half an hour this evening. Picked off a dozen decent fish in the short time we had conditions. We are going to try it again tomorrow and see if there is current.
Nov. 28, 2016
Good morning folks. We have had windy conditions most of the way down. We are starting out at the Bank as the weather looks good after tomorrow.
Hopefully we find good sign of fish and will be arriving first thing tomorrow morning
Nov. 20, 2016
Jack Pots for the Accurate 15 day
fly back trip
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1st place
Gary Tareoka with a 213 pound yellowfin
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2nd Place
Allan Babashof with a 208 pound yellowfin tuna
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3rd place
Kenny Phillips with a 193 pound yellowfin
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Phil Lisi
With the trolling Jack Pot
155 pound yellowfin tuna
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Nov.18, 2016
We had a nice morning with action on stock grade fish and a couple hundred plus pounders in the mix
Nov. 17, 2016
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Francois pulled this nice 183
pounder in to win the Accurate Reel 600 Boss series.
Pretty tough day today.
Moving around a lot getting in a couple here and a couple
there.
With just a couple of chances at better size fish.
We are gong to get after it again tomorrow and then start
our way to the Cape.
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Nov. 16, 2016
Nov. 14, 2016
More bait fish in the afternoon
We are going to give it another day and see how it goes.
If it looks the same by lunch we may head inside. Reports sound good in there.
Nov. 13, 2016
We finished off with our last few fish in the dark with a better action overall than yesterday. The wind should be down a notch tomorrow and make it nice out .
Nov. 12, 2016
Nov. 10, 2016
The upper deck crew is missing you Leo!
Nov. 9, 2016
Good morning folks. We left yesterday on our
annual Accurate 15 day fly back from Cabo trip We have a nice load
of bait sardine mixed with Caballito leftover from Puerto Vallarta
Decent size sardine that should be fine for the trip. Jack
shown here going over the daily jackpots and the huge supply of
loaner Accurate gear....Today
we are getting things rigged up and on course for the Hurricane
Bank.
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