CHARKBAIT!/Royal Polaris 6 Day 2011
One Dorado...Two Dorado and more...
Limit Style Fishing
Just returned Friday 30th AM from our 6 Day Charter on the Royal
Polaris.
Loaded up with 35 passengers and stuffed with sardines skipper Roy
Rose made a left turn out of Point Loma San Diego into Mexican
waters and headed south to the Ridge.
DAY ONE arriving at the ridge we setup on the anchored and it was
game on all the 12lb to 25lb yellowtail you wanted. Yo Yo iron
anything was the preferred snack for these brutes, It was a great
way to start off the trip. Fishing 40lb and 50lb line was the
ticket. After a couple few dozen of those we started hooking YFT
(yellowfin tuna) on fly line sardine. If you wanted a yellowtail
drop down a heavy jig or dropper loop with sardine if you wanted a
tuna flyline a bait it was that good. Some of the folks decided to
use a dropper loop 80lb rig on the bottom with a big mackerel or a
slab of mack and catch a big grouper and we landed one over 70lbs
awesome.
Before we all new it it was dinner time and we spent the night on
the ridge.
DAY TWO we looked around for some variety to catch and we found it
under bird schools.
If your from Texas or Florida you would say Dolphin, Hawaii its Mahi
Mahi, but we were in Mexican waters and these were Dorado. The best
wide open bite on some nice size fish I would call it 12lb to 30lb
flat heads I have ever seen. It was pandemonium. Pin on a bait, cast
it out, hook a dorado, call for a gaff. Fast and furious line
screaming jumping funi it was a blast. After few hours of that we
headed for more tuna and yellowtail on the ridge
rounding out a excellent day of fishing.
DAY THREE we stared back up toward home to fish Cedros Island for
halibut and calico bass.
We set-up on the lee side of Cedros Island and started a drift for
the flatties we ended up with 4 very respectable halibut a couple of
fish were in the 20lbs and a bonus 38lb barn door some sand bass and
calico bass and we were done. We were still a long way from home so
we started back for San Diego. The skipper Roy had a call from
another boat offshore catching bluefin tuna and yellowfin tuna right
were we were headed. A few hours later we were stopping on kelp
paddy hooking bluefin and yellowfin tuna well needless to say it was
the icing on the cake. All in all we limited on Yellowtail and
dorado boated a few grouper a few bluefin tuna, 30+ YFT, halibut,
bass and a big pargo.
Thanks to all for joining CHARKBAIT on this 6 day trip on the Royal
Polaris. We had the best of folks from all over Arizona, Texas,
Cleveland Ohio, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Saint Paul Minneapolis, San
Jose, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Orange etc.
Thank You
Roy Rose and crew of the Royal Polaris for the great service and
excellent food your the best of the best.
Thanks Mark for sending me.
Congratulations to our Jack Pot Winners
1st place Mike Lynch of Lakeside for a dorado of 27.6 pounds
2nd place Matt Giacalone with a 25-pound yellowfin tuna
3rd place Erik Martinson of Orange with a 23-pound dorado. The
biggest fish of the trip was a halibut caught at Cedros by and Frank
Piranio of San Diego for a very nice 38lb halibut.
Biggest fish of the trip was a 72lb grouper.
photos and vids posted soon
John Hazlett Out...
See you next year
Video from the trip:
IPOD
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the guys on the boat, if you'd like a higher resolution copy emailed
please send me back an email.
