We got off to a early start on the Accurate 5-day trip with Ray Lopez at the helm. We took a little bit of a boat ride to fish yellowtail first. Then it was even further to fish the yellowfin. We knew we were in the right spot since there were at least 6 large seiners in the area and one of them was trying to wrap our yellowfin along with the American Angler. The last 2 days was...
The 2019 5-day Calstar sponsored trip targeted bluefin and yellowtail. Captain Ray Lopez put us on a lot of huge schools of BFT but most of the time they did not want to bite but boy did they fill up the sonar screen.  We saw lots of breezers and bird schools but the BFT would scatter when we tried to sneak up on them. (The BFT were acting like "street racers" when the "cops" showed up). We took a...
We had another great time on the Accurate sponsored 14-day trip on the American Angler skippered by Ray Lopez. Â We landed several good size tunas but really did well on the wahoo. Â Most of the wahoo were in the 40# range. Â There was a lot of action with the Albacore style run and gun wahoo fishing. Â I would like to tank the following manufactures for supporting this trip. Â Accurate Fishing Products (demo ATD and Boss reels), Calstar (demo rail...
Andy Cates took the Calstar sponsored 6-day trip to "the Ridge" area for 2-days of yellowfin tuna fishing. On the way back, we stopped at San Pablo for yellowtail fishing. The last day was spent kelp paddy hopping for Dorado and some filler yellowfin tuna. Calstar provided over 20 of their latest model graphiter loaner rods for the passengers to try out. Accurate also provided a few reels to allow for a couple of complete demonstrator outfits with 30# and...
We had a very successful Accurate sponsored 5-day trip on the American Angler. This turned out to be a tuna, shark and whale watch trip (no extra charge for the whale watch). We caught lots of yellowfin tuna, some great whites caught some of our yellowfin tunas and on the way home we were on a whale watching trip. Check out some of the photos. Captain Ray Lopez took us to Guadalupe Island for some very nice grade yellowfin...
We returned from the 2018 Accurate 14-day trip on the American Angler with 141 yellowfin tuna, 11 over 200# and 8 wahoo. We had fantastic sardine hook baits and great weather traveling down and during the 6 days of fishing. Traveling home was a different story. 2 1/2 days of "E-ticket" ride. Brian and AA crew did a fantastic job putting us in the right position to hook and land fish.  A special thanks to Action and Jordan for...
All the anxious anglers arrived early, loaded their gear on the Red Rooster 3 and took off an hour early. We loaded up on a fantastic load of 6 inch sardines. Andy Cates decided to take us to The Ridge so we had a travel day. That gave us time to prepare for the yellowtail and yellow fin tuna fishing. Calstar provided some of the latest model rods for the passengers to use and Accurate reels provided a couple...
Lori learning knot tying from John Colins. Lori demonstrating what she learned. Nice sweatshirt. The gang reminiscing in the galley. John Colins talking jigs with Matt Salas. What ya got Tom? John Colins was always hooked up. Dan watching Chris from the bait tank. Chris on a tuna. Nick being distracted by Chris's tuna, while trying to get bit himself (bluefin envy). Lori's cousin Chris with the bluefin tuna we were all watching him land. After Dan saw how to do it from Chris, he hooked one...
We left the dock early on the annual Accurate sponsored 5-day trip, prepared to fish Guadalupe Island.  A fantastic load of huge hook bait sardines were already loaded on the boat. As we approached Ensenada to check in, we received information from the Royal Star that Guadalupe was not happening so we changed course and headed towards Geronemo Island/Sacramento Reef area. Everyone was able to land several 20# class yellowtail. When not hooking yellowtail we hooked and released so...
We returned from the annual Accurate sponsored 14-day American Angler trip with plenty of smiles and we can't wait to do it again next year. The weather for the 4 travel days down to Clarion was very smooth. The weather for the 6 days of fishing was big swells and 20 knot winds. Even when it rained, most passengers were at the rail putting in their time. We started at Clarion, but skipper Kiyohara figured out that our best...
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