Our 10 day
charter was one of the strangest trips I've been on. Usually we can
count on plenty of tuna, but this year there was no red meat to show.
Instead we caught carp! Yep, the marlin were so thick you couldn't
help but get bit. Fact is, one angler caught and released 19 of 'em in
only two days. The boat brought over 212 marlin to the rail in two
days! It was incredible, but not what we were targeting at all. The
marlin were mixed in the waters where we caught wahoo and dorado, they
were an unintended by-catch. If someone wanted to pull on billfish
they could. If you wanted to avoid 'em you'd fish iron for wahoo, as I
did, but even then I caught several marlin using wahoo iron like Sea
strike 33's. It was downright strange. There were some big tuna off
the Mag Bay area, but they weren't biting at all. Probably some of
these fish were in the 150-200# class, but the water wasn't making 'em
active for us. Like I said, it was a strange trip this year, that's
fishing. You never know what it's going to be like until you're at the
rail fishing. 10 day trips offer the widest variety of fishing, and
this one was no exception. We caught everything from ling cod,
rockfish, wahoo, dorado, peanut size yellowfin, tree-fish, and mucho
marlin. We fished a lot of 30, 40-50# gear this trip instead of the
heavy 60-100#. This year it was an uncrowded rail, with only 19
anglers fishing 105 feet of boat! With the fish counts low, financial
markets pessimistic, there was plenty of room on the rail. Don't count
on that happening again.
We would like to thank our sponsors for this year's RRIII LR trip.
Strike Pro donated some great tuna poppers, Frenzy donated flying fish
and their dandy pliers, QuickRig donated a hook pack of some neat
double rigs which will be great for tuna and wahoo fishing, Sato
donated a rigging kit, Smitty a very nice rod belt, Blackwater
provided fluorocarbon leader material to all the guys, Seaguar donated
fluorocarbon leader, Catchy Tackle had some iron for everyone, Jerry
Brown had an $250 incentive for the largest tuna (but that didn't
happen...), Back Bone provided rod clamps, we supplied some additional
tackle and tee shirts.
11/16/07 - Well, as luck would have it the big fish did go on a
chew the week after we returned from our trip. We'd metered 'em, but
they were not rising from the depths (most thinking they were stuffed
with squid which was plentiful down off Mag Bay). Now we've had fish
to 300 pounds taken and the boats are filling back up. Each trip is
different, each memorable in it's own way. I'm sure the marlin bite of
'07 will be long remembered as something unique and exciting is it's
own way.
Here are our jackpot
winners from our recent 10 day Red Rooster III charter, Oct.
31-November 10. From left to right: Mike Mattusch from New York
with a 45.3# yellowtail, Todd Wickstrom of Idaho with a 44.3#'r
and his dad John from Clairmont CA with a 36.2. This
year's 10 day charter reflected the poor yellowfin bite, we
didn't get any! But, we made up for it with some very nice
dorado I've seen come over the rail - many 30-35#'s. Nice fish!
Wahoo fishing was good, too. I even earned my RRIII troll jacket
by catching the largest one. The strangest thing we experienced
was the marlin bite. In the same waters where we caught most of
our wahoo the carp were thick.
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I think that about covers it.
Our 10 day
charter was one of the strangest trips I've been on. Usually we can
count on plenty of tuna, but this year there was no red meat to show.
Instead we caught carp! Yep, the marlin were so thick you couldn't
help but get bit. Fact is, one angler caught and released 19 of 'em in
only two days. The boat brought over 212 marlin to the rail in two
days! It was incredible, but not what we were targeting at all. The
marlin were mixed in the waters where we caught wahoo and dorado, they
were an unintended by-catch. If someone wanted to pull on billfish
they could. If you wanted to avoid 'em you'd fish iron for wahoo, as I
did, but even then I caught several marlin using wahoo iron like Sea
strike 33's. It was downright strange. There were some big tuna off
the Mag Bay area, but they weren't biting at all. Probably some of
these fish were in the 150-200# class, but the water wasn't making 'em
active for us. Like I said, it was a strange trip this year, that's
fishing. You never know what it's going to be like until you're at the
rail fishing. 10 day trips offer the widest variety of fishing, and
this one was no exception. We caught everything from ling cod,
rockfish, wahoo, dorado, peanut size yellowfin, tree-fish, and mucho
marlin. We fished a lot of 30, 40-50# gear this trip instead of the
heavy 60-100#. This year it was an uncrowded rail, with only 19
anglers fishing 105 feet of boat! With the fish counts low, financial
markets pessimistic, there was plenty of room on the rail. Don't count
on that happening again. 
