Fishing report from 1.5 day charter on the Voyager:by Andrew Gomez

With such an amazing season leading up to this trip expectations were high, almost as high at the fish counts that keep seeming to grow each week. The local bite was on fire and due to that, our Capt made the call to fish in between Catalina and San Clemente, instead of making the charge to Mexican waters. This resulted in a little bit later of a start for us. We didn’t end up leaving the landing till about 10:30pm. There was also a long line for bait, and we almost got stuck with only large Mackerel to use for bait, but Capt Todd worked his magic and scored us some beautiful sardines to keep our spirits up. We started plunking for Tuna about 6:30 – 7am. Todd would run up and down the ridges of a trench searching for Tuna schools and once we found one we would start to steadily pull in fish. The first spot we hit in the morning started off biting really well. Not a lot of topwater action, but if you let your bait run for a few minuets you were sure to get bit. Average grade of fish was 17-20lb range. After that spot we decided to head closer to the island to see if we could get into a Yellowtail bite, but sadly it never panned out. We trolled up and down the island, stopping a few times to fish schools under the boat, but nothing bit like the morning. After that we headed back out to the ridge to find more schools of Yellowfin, and we landed a few more throughout the day and even had some really big Hammerhead Sharks swim around the boat looking for an easy meal. Rich got the big fish of the trip with a 31.2 lb Yellowfin and Julie got a solid 14.6 lb Dorado. All and all it was a fun trip, morning started off great, but the action tapered off as the day went on, and once the wind started to come up around 4-5pm it really shut down the bite. Huge thanks to Capt Todd and his crew for always making the club feel welcome on the boat, and they always do their best to keep us on fish.