Our 1.5 Day Charter aboard The Voyager, was awesome! 13 FIB’ers were on this one. We caught limits of Yellowtail, one Dorado, and two Bluefin Tuna. The catching was wide open at times, and the 10-12 pound yellowtail were chewing just about anything that hit the water. Captain Todd Meyer is a class act, and he makes fishing more fun with his humor, and unique way of keeping everyone in the game with his constant tips and reminders. Fishing on this boat is a lot of fun. Here is what Walt Galen had to say about the trip. It was a dream trip. If there is such a thing for 10lb Yellowtails. Very surprising how hard those smaller Yellow Tails can fight. The weather was perfect almost glassy seas and almost no wind. A bit slow to start the day but by lunch time it was “WIDE OPEN”. Like Eddie stated the fish just stuck with the boat. No matter how far we would drift from the original kelp patty. The YT’s just followed us. We were getting bit on every cast with the live bait. I dumped my 20 # rig and went to the heavy duty set up….. #25lb and they still chomped whatever was thrown into the water. Finally I pulled out my ultra heavy duty 30 lb rig with a 1oz wt. trying to get below the rat pack to the zone where some trophys might live. Tried to get my sardine below the pack but it was impossible. Would drop down right beside the boat in free spool and every time it was “Fresh One” about 20 ft. down. Trying to get down to about 60 ft. was impossible. Later on in the afternoon we come upon a smaller kelp patty and the Captain announces that there are a few fish around it. He would never get within casting range of the kelp – always positioning us about 100 yds from it. My 25lb live bait rig can cast a sardine extremely well so we loaded up and sent one strong volunteer to its final destiny in the direction of the kelp. About 10 seconds after it hits the water a large boil erupts in the close vicinity. Guys on the boat are yelling that the fish boiled on my bait. Sure enough my spool goes into hyper spin. Give a solid 5 count and reel down to a very solid pick up. Could tell immediately that this was a very large powerful fish. I sure could not stop saying…. “This is a BIG Fish” must have repeated that 10 times…..This Blue Fin was very strong with excellent endurance. Made no less than 5 very hard 40 yd runs. I could not budge this fish, thought it would never come to the surface. But then again with 25 # fluoro. One must be patient. About 15 min into the fight it finally started to give way to fatigue and could slowly be pumped to the surface. Had to hit the oxygen after that battle. It weighed out at 29 lbs thought it was at least a 40 pounder during the fight. Am thinking “Jack Pot” but the Sally, who got bit about 30 seconds after I did, landed one that eclipsed mine by 1 pound. There went that day dream $$$$. However she did a great job and deserved her just reward. Overall, it was a fantastic day and a half’er. It does not get any better then what we experienced.

What a great start

Walt’s BFT

Sally’s 30# Jackpot winning Bluefin Tuna

Lot’s of fun moments like this one:

Only Dodo of the trip went to Damon Cassel:

Father and son fun: Jayson & Jerry Quimby

LIMITS!!!

Merilee with a “Fresh One!”

They ate the surface island just fine!