12-30-2006 - Good evening, I just got off the phone with jeff and here's the update for the last few days of fishing. The 1st day was spent on the upper end of the ridge in very windy rough weather and they managed to catch about 35 yellowtail before taken off for the big fish zone. The first day in the zone would prove to be fruitless with nothing hooked for the entire day. The weather was still up so I am sure that had a lot to do with the fish being down. Today was another story as the weather came down and the ocean turned flat. In the afternoon the guys got on a spot of fish and they bit to the tune of 17 fish on deck when all was said and done. Six of those were over 200 pounds with a 260 pound fish being the biggest landed, the rest of the fish were in the 150 to 195 pound range. Needless to say they are going to give it one more day in that area before fishing there way north on Monday. Thanks for tuning in, The indy staff.
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12-28-2006 - Hello everyone, We are back out on our end of the year 9 day trip. After taking on a great load of bait we pointed the boat south toward the big fish grounds and will be there on friday. The weather is currently very windy and rough but the forecast is calling for improvement over the next few days which will be key in finding the fish. We are still having some problems with the e-mail system so we will report when we can. Thanks for tuning in, The Indy boys.
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12-20-2006 - Hello again, We have just returned from our Huntington beach fisherman's hardware 10 day trip.
The fish we weighed in were huge with the top three fish coming in over the 300 pound mark. We had a total of 15 fish over 200 pounds, the top fish were as follows: 1st place fish was taken by Daniel Taketa and weighed in at 356.2 pounds and this is the biggest yellowfin to date on the Independence. 2nd place fish went to Curtis Kamada at 350.8 pounds and 3rd biggest fish was caught by Joe Armstead and tipped the scales at 302.8 pounds.
Others to catch yellowfin over 200 pounds were Curtis Kamada with another tuna at 220.3, Daniel Taketa also with a 210.8, Dale Hustrulid with a 228.6, Jim Kirkemo with a 268.2, Sean Freeman 240.2, Modesto Alcala 210.2, Ronnie Lancaster 248.2, Craig Ronholm 295.6, Chris Landcaster 209.6, Andy Baldwin 258.0, Jim Ruch 206.8, and Phillip Howard with a 209.8 to round out the cows taken. Just about everyone on board the trip had a new personnal best yellowfin and everyone onboard caught a fish over 100 pounds. Hot stick for the trip was Bill Lescher with 6 fish over 100 pounds. This trip last year had great fishing as well so if you would like to join us next year please call after the 1st of year to book a spot. We would like to thank everyone on the trip as well as fisherman's Hardware for all the great giveaways. We want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and say thanks for another great season. We are in for christmas and will depart the day after for a 9 day trip. Check back then for more reports.
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12-19-2006 - Good day to all, We are on our final leg of the trip, 200 miles from San Diego and our ETA should be about 6:00 am tomorrow the 20th. The weather as far as the ocean goes is very nice with less than 10 knots of wind and a mild sea condition, the air temps on the other hand are just plain cold especially after spending the last week in 80 degree Southern Baja. We spent yesterday fishing The coast for 40 yellowtail on various spots, we also released about twice that many smaller yellows and lots of Bonita. Thanks for checking in, Mark, Paul, Kyle, Ron, Frank, Nick, Rolf and Javier.
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12-17-2006 - Hello everyone, We spent our last day in the big fish zone for slower type fishing or should I say slower type catching. The sign of fish around is still very good; they (the tuna) just gave us the fin most of the day. We did however land 4 nice 150 to 180 pound fish at dark so it was not a total loss. We then traveled up the line at dark and made two tanks of mackerel in about 45 minutes. In the morning our day would start with wide open dorado in the 15 to 40 pound class that filled our limits out for the trip, in the afternoon we caught some school size tuna to round out the day. It's now Monday and we are headed up the coast in search of yellowtail. We'll report later on how it goes. Mark, Paul and the guys.
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12-16-2006 - Hello Everyone, Hopefully this report goes through, as we have had no service since we have left. We have spent the last 3 days fishing for big yellowfin and have not been disappointed. Our total for the time here is 47 big fish of which we have 2 over 300 pounds and about 10 or 12 others over 200 pounds, the rest are in the 125 to 199 pound range. The weather is perfect just a little on the warm side. The water temps are still about 77 degrees so as it cools these fish may decide to bite better as the amount of fish is just the same as last year if not better. We'll spend another day here before starting to work north. Have a great day, Mark, Paul and the guys.
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12-15-2006 - Good evening everyone. We had a great day of fishing today. The weather is still excellent with calm seas. The day started out slow but by day’s end and late bite everyone on board was having a great time. We took in 17 Tuna from 120 –190 lbs., 2 for the most part were right at 200, landed 5 over 20, and once again the magic number – 1 over 300 lbs. We’re going to do this again tomorrow, then start making our way back home. Mark, Paul and the Indy Crew.
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12-14-2006 - Well just another day in paradise, weather is good and so are the seas. Saw lots of tuna, just couldn’t get the fish to bite. We did however manage to pull in 4 nice tuna ranging from 130# to 160#. Dorado was also on the menu. Everyone onboard is having a good time, so until tomorrow, check back and take care. Mark, Paul and the Indy Crew.
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12-13-2006 - Hello everyone, Mark called in with updates. They just finished their first day of fishing. Today’s weather was an important factor, warm and mild seas. They had 19 big fish with 5 over 200 and 1 taped in over 300. Jim Kirkemo wanted to let his friends and families know he caught his personal best. Check in for more updates tomorrow night. Mark, Paul and the Indy Crew.
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12-11-2006 - Just in from the Independence. Our email program is down, Mark's voice is very choppy, unable to copy. I managed to hear that they picked up a good load of bait yesterday, they just finished siminar this morning on what to expect in the days ahead. this trip is sponsored by Fisherman's Hardware Huntington Beach. Our Chartermaster is Modesto (Mo) Alacala. Please stay tuned and I will try to pick up information from sat phone the best I can and give you updates. Judy
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12-09-2006 - Good day everyone, We returned today from our sav-on tackle 15 day trip and big fish were as follows: 1st place went to Roger Eckhardt with a 295 pound yellowfin, this was the fish that taped out at 314, so we missed that magic mark again by a few pounds. 2nd plce went to Gary Ondrisko and came in at 276.2 and 3rd place fish for Craig English weighed in at 259.2 pounds. In total we had 11 fish over 200 pounds and most of the larger models came from the baja coast. Others with fish over 200 pounds were: Robert woods 214, Bob Kelly 226.6, Roy Nishino 227.8, Jim Audette 236.4, Don Farrell 223.6, Bill Campbell 205, John Jeffreys 228.6, and John Franke 207.6. We would like to thank everyone onboard the trip for there perserverance and good will under tough conditions and circumstance's. We will be sending everyone a letter asap in regards to this trip and trips in the future. Have a great weekend, Mark and the guys.
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12-08-2006 - The Indy will arrive at Point Loma Sportfishing at 5:45am - 6am on Saturday Dec 09. Have a great day.
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12-07-2006 - Good morning, This is a notice to all Independence passengers on the next 4 trips. We plan to depart as soon as we can from the landing so please be to our office by 8 am on trips #34 and #35 to sign in with Judy. On trips #36 and #37 please be to the office at 6 AM as the departure for those trips with be 8 AM. If you have any Questions feel free to call Judy in the office (7am-9pm daily) for trip info. Thanks much, The Indy staff.
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12-06-2006 - Hello again, I just talked to the boat tonight and this is the scoop for the last couple of days. They fished 2 full days in the PV area for some decent tuna in the 90 to 190 lb. range and then started up the coast at dark. Today was spent offshore for 13 fish. The big fish taped out at 314 lbs. and was caught by none other than Rodger Eckhardt from Sav-on tackle. Other cows taped in at 260, 240, 225, and 222, also another 5 fish taped in between 150 and 185. The weather today was choppy which made things a little tough as far as looking around and locating the fish. Roy Nishino would like his son Randy to know that he landed a 222 lb. yellowfin tuna today. Overall things looked very promising in this area for the future, please make sure to have your gear ready if your on any of the long range boats in the upcoming weeks. We will have time to put line on and rig gear on the way to the grounds, make sure all your rods and reels are in tip top shape. Good night, Mark and the rest of the Independence staff.
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12-03-2006 - Good day to all, The e-mail has been down aboard the boat so I (Mark) will give you a run down for the last few days. After getting to the bank 2 passengers were injured while fishing so Captain Jeff Dubuys made the call to run in to cabo and get the guys off the boat to recivie medical treatment for there wounds. Myself and Paul flew down to meet the vessel and assist with getting both gentlemen back to the U.S for treatment which we did with very little trouble other than lots of paperwork. Both men are back home and doing fine. Please remember to bring a passport on board or at least a birth certificate just in case of a medical emergencey, I would recommend it on any trip longer than 8 days in length, this would be a very good item to have just in case. Next year it will be mandatory to do so on the longer type trips. On shorter trips of say 6 days or less we can ususlly get to area to air lift or get back to San Diego in a timly fashion. As far as the boat, they are back fishing along the coast and have had 2 days of decent fishing on yellowfin up to about 190 lbs. most fish have been in the 80 to 125 lb. range. They will be working back up the coast and fish there way closer to home. The weather has been good the last few dats after a choppy and windy start to the trip. I will update in the next couple of days as I get reports via Sat. phone. Thanks for tuning in, Mark and the Staff
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11-28-2006 - Well here we are our fist day of fishing on our 15-day trip. I must say it was quite decent. We ended the day with a good grade of tuna most were 180 –185 lbs. In addition we landed 3 tuna over 200, 2 of which were over 250 lbs. Our weather hasn’t been cooperating with us its rather windy and choppy. When we're sitting' the anchor its not bad. If we keep up this pace of fishing we should end up with a great trip. Check back for further updates on tomorrows fishing. Jeff, Kyle and Indy Crew
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11-27-2006 - Good evening everyone. Just a quick note, The boat is having a few problems with the sat phone in relaying email messages for the fish reports. It was indicated that they are still traveling and should be at their destination by 2am Tuesday morning. Everyone is fully rigged and the anglers are anxiously waiting for daylight so they can begin fishing. Hopefully they would be able to transmit a fish report Tuesday night. Keep in touch. Indy Crew
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11-25-2006 - Hello and happy thanksgiving to everyone from us here on the independence. We departed early yesterday morning on a 15-day Sav-on tackle big fish extravaganza. We were pleasantly surprised with our bait supply at the receivers, and loaded the boat to the hilt with choice fin bait. After we cleared the point, we proceeded with the great giveaways, rods, reels, jigs, etc...... We are headed to the bank and will be preparing everyone for the trip for the next few days. We have fair sea conditions at this time. That is it for now, Jeff and the Indy crew, Kyle, John, Sean, Mike, Frank, and Ed & Walt
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11-23-2006 - We would like to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. The Independence will be in for the holiday so the whole crew can spend the day with their families. We will depart tomorrow for our first long trip of the year with the gang from Sav-on tackle in Santa Fe Springs. This will be for 15 days and has been sold-out for months and should be a good one to be on. Save some room for the pie, The Indy Guys.
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11-22-2006 - Hello everyone,
Today we returned from our 10 day open trip after a beautiful ride up the line, back to San Diego. The jackpot fish for the trip went to the following anglers, Barry Hall and Mark Backes,who landed two nice 95.4 pound yellowfin tuna for a 1st and 2nd place tie. Third place went to Randy Podolsky with a 92.4 pound Yellowfin tuna. Randy also had a yellowfin that taped out at 140 pounds that had a couple of bites out of it from a shark that did not count in the jackpot standings. We would like to thank the entire group who made the trip a pleasure to work. All and all it was another sucessful fall 10 day taking into consideration the conditions and prospects we were dealt with.
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11-20-2006 - Greetings from the high seas. Today we finished off our trip with some good action on tuna 60 to 90 lb. and some more of these fat wahoo. We have been blessed with some good angling and some even better weather this past few days. Everyone on board has had a really great time this trip. We are currently on course for San Diego, and should arrive wed around 0600. Thanks for tuning in. Jeff, Paul, and the Indy crew
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11-19-2006 - Hello again. We had another great day on tuna to 145 lbs., and wahoo, and some good grade yellowtail. Today was just an all around good day. The weather is just as good as well. We did have some problems with sharks, as they know how to play the game .we are going to give this a few hours in the morning and then hit the road for San Diego. We will report again tomorrow. Good night from the Indy gang.
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11-18-2006 - Good evening everyone, here is the latest from the independence. We fished the rocks today, and had a good day all around. Good action on tuna to 100 lbs., and good action on wahoo, and some big yellowtail last night that were biting good. The weather was outstanding as well. We are going to give this a try for tomorrow in hopes of more of the same. Good night, Jeff, Paul and the Indy crew
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11-17-2006 - Hello today we had some action on wahoo, dorado, and some wide-open bites on marlin that we released. The weather is still very good for us out here. We are going to look at another area tomorrow, the Indy boys
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11-16-2006 - Good evening to all. Today things were a bit more to our likening. We had a good day on big dorado, and school size tuna for most of the day. The weather is absolutely perfect. We will report again tomorrow, thanks for checking in on Jeff the Indy crew and us
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11-15-2006 - hello, today was again slow for us .we are going to try again tomorrow. we have good weather . the indy crew
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11-14-2006 - Today we fished offshore and had only partial success on wahoo and dorado. The weather was good, but there were lots of empty kelps. We plan on trying somewhere different tomorrow. Please wish us luck, Jeff, Paul and the Indy crew
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11-13-2006 - Hello and good afternoon to all. We departed San Diego yesterday for another 10-day extravaganza. We put a rather exceptional haul of sardines aboard and were out of the harbor by 1330. Today we had the usual tackle seminar and got together with everyone on our game plan for the trip. The weather is very good right now, and we hope it does not change. We are headed for point’s south at this point, and will report tomorrow again. See you then, Jeff, Paul, & the Indy crew Tommy, Mike Ron, Buzz, Ed and Rolf
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11-12-2006 - Good day everyone, We returned today from our young's tackle 10 day trip. Our last two days of the trip we could not get our e-mails to send. We spent the final days working at yellowtail fishing and also did some bottom fishing the last day. Overall a little slow but we did manage some nice fish nonetheless for our efforts. The big fish for the trip when to Mike Nagao with a very nice 116 pound yellowfin tuna caught on 40 lb. test, 2nd place fish was caught by Larry Amboy and was another yellowfin that came in at 88.4 pounds, 3rd place fish was also a yellowfin caught by Phil Meckley and tipped the scales at 82.8 pounds. Young's also gave away a rod for 4th biggest fish and Larry Amboy won the Rod with a 73.0 lb. yellowfin. We would like thank everyone on board this years trip as well as Charter master Mac McLeod for making this another fun outing. We have departed on another 10 day trip today and we will send reports back as best we can with our current E-mail system which we hope to upgrade this winter with a second unit that will allow us to send pic's as well. Thanks for checking on us and we update asap, The Indy crew.
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11-11-2006 - The Independence will arrive on Sunday at approximately 5:45am.
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11-09-2006 - Hello to all, We have had a little problem sending e-mails the last few days so I hope everyone is getting our reports. Today we had great fishing on big wahoo and dorado in good weather. The wahoo were up to 60 lbs. and the dorado up to 30 lbs.. The hot ticket was to sink some type of jig down deep and turn the handle fast for the wahoo; the flats on the other hand bit anything with a hook. Today Lee Robertshaw would like his wife Kathy to know he caught his first wahoo and she can pick any spot in the world for their next vacation. We plan to fish for yellowtail on the coast tomorrow. Have a great day, The Indy boys.
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11-08-2006 - Good day, Today we spent fishing the rocks again and had a good day on tuna and wahoo. The wahoo were up to about 50 lbs. and the raider jigs seemed to be the hot ticket again, We also caught some larger grade tuna with the big going about 115 lbs. The weather continues to be very good just a little on the warm side. Tomorrow we are going to look offshore and see if we can connect with some wahoo and big dorado. Wish us luck, The Indy boys of fall.
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11-07-2006 - Good evening, Today we fished Alijos rocks and caught 18 good grade wahoo up to 50 lbs. as well as a fair amount of yellowfin tuna and yellowtail in the 12 to 30 lb. range and some more in the 30 to 50 lb. range. The weather is perfect again with flat seas and warm air temps. We are going to try this again tomorrow and see if we can landed some of the 60 to 100 + pound fish we saw and hooked and lost today. Have a great day, The Indy Boys.
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11-06-2006 - Hello again, Todays report will be short and sweet, a very slow day on the offshore grounds looking for kelps. We did catch 6 wahoo and a few handfuls of doardo but it was not the fishing we were looking forward to. On the bright side the weather is postcard perfect, Tomorrows another day so wish us lots of luck. The Indy boys.
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11-05-2006 - Good day everyone, Today we started the day on the ridge and had a good night and morning bite on the dorado which we released most of since we are early in the trip and are hoping for larger fish offshore on kelps. We also had a mix of yellowtail, wahoo and a few school yellowfin tuna, but it was not exactly what we were looking for, so we spent the afternoon offshore and caught nothing for our efforts. Tomorrow we will try something different to change our luck. Mark and the guys.
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11-04-2006 - Hello again, today was first day fishing. We started out looking offshore for kelp that had wahoo and dorado. Well we never found a kelp the entire day so we ended up on the ridge late in the day. We had a yellowtail bite for the last 2 hours of the day. The fish were mostly 14 to 20 lbs. with a handful in the range of 20 to 30lbs.. The good news is the weather is near perfect with very little wind and sea, Air temps. In the 80's and water in the high 70's. Tomorrow we'll start on the ridge and work south and see what we can come up with. Wish us luck, Mark and the guys
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11-03-2006 - Good evening, today consisted of a detailed tackle seminar covering all aspects of 10 day fall fishing. The weather today was not very good with 15 to 18 knots of wind and a fair amount of swell rolling down the coast, it was our good fortune to be going down the coast with the seas. We'll start the trip fishing above the ridge in the morning looking for kelp with wahoo and dorado weather permitting, so until the next report have a good night and thanks for checking in, the Indy guys.
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11-02-2006 - Good day everyone, We returned today from our Purfeild's Tackle 10 day trip with a good mix of the usual fall species of wahoo, yellowtail, dorado, yellowfin tuna and a few bottom grabbers. The Big fish on the trip were the following: 1st place Robert Pohl 91.6 YFT, 2nd place Billy Hopkins 83.4 Wahoo, 3rd place Mordy Kay 77.8 YFT We would like to thank all on board this year's 9th annual Purfields fall 10 day as well as Dick Shaffer owner of the shop for all the work he does putting this and other trips together throughout the year. We are back on the road again for our Young’s tackle 10 day with a great load of sardines and are now headed south in choppy weather. We will check back during the trip to update everyone on our progress. Have a great day. Mark, Paul, Kyle, Sean, Frank, Billy, Walt and Rolf.
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11-01-2006 - Hello, we are on our way back to San Diego, and will arrive around 0700 tomorrow. We have had a really great trip this time, good weather, great fishing and a great bunch of fisherman who made the trip with us. See you all later, Jeff and crew
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10-31-2006 - Good afternoon everyone, here is what happened this morning. We had a good sample of better grade tuna 70 to 85 lbs. and some more of these big fat wahoo we have been catching this trip. This was the perfect way to end a great trip. We are now under way back to port, and will be back sometime the morning of the 2nd. We will report back tomorrow afternoon when we have a better idea of our arrival time. See you all then, Jeff, Kyle, Sean, Ron, mike, john, Walt and Ed
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10-30-2006 - Hello again to all those checking in on us poor guys out here fishing on the independence. We had another great day for fishing and weather. We had good sign of wahoo and some better grade tuna, 85 to 120 lbs. we did have a problem with the sharks, as he mutilated 3 or 4 big ones. We are at the end of our trip as we have only tomorrow morning for a couple of hours to fish, and then head back to San Diego. Wish us luck, Jeff and the Indy crew
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10-29-2006 - Good evening to all. We had a fair day today on wahoo and some dorado. The weather is still good, but we did have some breeze in the afternoon. We are headed to Alijos rocks for a check on things out there. We hope that there is some change out there. See ya later, Jeff and crew
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10-28-2006 - Today we had another good day fishing. We caught wahoo, tuna dorado, yellowtail, and some pargo made their way on board as well as a few grouper. Great fall action and even better weather makes for an awesome day on the high seas. We plan on sticking around for tomorrow in hopes of more long-range action. Thanks for checking in, Jeff and the Indy crew
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10-27-2006 - Greetings. Today we had great fishing for wahoo, and dorado along with some yellowtail and tuna. The action at times was hectic on the wahoo, as the tried to free themselves, and succeeded half the time. Good grade fish, 40 to 70 lbs. The weather is absolutely gorgeous fall weather, hot and sunny. We are off to another destination in search of more fish. Check in tomorrow for more info, Jeff and the Indy crew
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10-26-2006 - Hello again. Here is our day. We had an action packed day on multiple species, tuna, yellowtail, wahoo, and Dorado. Everyone had a great time under flat calm seas, hot sunny skies pulling and yanking all day. We plan on more of this tomorrow. Ron has a message for Claudia; he has caught his personal best wahoo today. So, all things are well out here. Thanks for looking in on us, Jeff and the Indy crew
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10-25-2006 - Good evening everyone. We stopped the boat late yesterday and had some action on good grade yellowtail before we ran out of daylight. We then ran all night and fished along the beach and had very good action on yellowtail this morning. After getting our fill we ran offshore and had some luck on dorado and one wahoo. Not bad for our first day. The weather is good as well. See you all later, Jeff and the Indy crew
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10-24-2006 - Hello again. We arrived back into San Diego yesterday after another successful 10-day outing.Jackpot for today is as follows: 1st place Conway Woo 120.2 YF, 2nd place Mario Bustamante 119.0 YF, 3rd place Lyle McDonald 106 YF. 2 Honorable Mentions Mark Oliver 126.6 YF and Brad Grist 104.6 YF both on the Kite. We had 6 total over 100#. We would like to thank everyone onboard for this years Kimura tackle 10 day and a special thanks to Gary kimura for all the work he puts in to make this trip possilbe. We then departed on another 10-day extravaganza, this one sponsored by Purfields Tackle. We have a good load of sardines on board, and great weather. Today we traveled. Everyone has rigged up for the trip, and had some great tackle giveaways for everyone onboard. That pretties much sums up things right now. Kelly would like to say hello to Doreen. We will post another report tomorrow, thanks for tuning in, the crew of the Indy, Jeff, Kyle, Sean, Ron mike, john, and Walt & Ed
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10-22-2006 - The Independence will arrive at approximately 6am on Monday, 10/23/06
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10-21-2006 -
Hello everyone, here is the latest. We fished for yellowtail today while travelling up the coast. Everyone was in a rather relaxed mode for most of the day, while breaking down gear in the hot sun, flat calm weather. We did manage to catch some fish also. Until tomorrow, take it easy, Jeff and the Indy crew
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10-20-2006 - Good evening to all. Here is a quick rundown for today. We covered quite a bit of water today, and had some good success some places, and not so good others. We caught tuna, yellowtail, dorado, and 7 wahoo for our efforts. The weather is spectacular in that it is absolutely perfect. As I am writing this the sun had dipped down, and a huge green flash, followed by the guys down on deck yelling, I guess they are still getting an occasional bite on the wahoo. We have 1 more day to fish, and we will report at the end of it. See you then, Jeff and the Indy crew.
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10-19-2006 - Today we fished the inside and very good action on tuna, yellowtail, dorado, and pargo. I would call it a perfect day, sunny, hot and all the yanking & cranking one could want. We are going to try this again tomorrow, only in a different location. Again, the weather is picture perfect, classic fall days. We will report again. Thanks for tuning in, the Indy crew, Jeff, Tommy, Ronny, Mike, Frank, John, and Ed & Rolf
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10-18-2006 - Good evening everyone, today’s report is pretty much the same as yesterdays, except we caught a couple dozen big dorado along with some tuna and yellowtail. Things were pretty slow again. We are headed into the inside to try fishing in there for a couple of days. The weather is still good. We will report again tomorrow. See you all then, Jeff and the Indy crew
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10-17-2006 - Good evening to all. Today was pretty slow for us, although we did catch some fish. It was not a total loss, 6 tuna and 16 good grade yellowtail. We are going to see if by chance things improve tomorrow. The weather is as good as it gets, flat calm. Thanks for checking in on us. Good night, Jeff and the Indy crew
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10-16-2006 - Hello again everyone, we fished the rocks today and had a good day as far as quality, and the chances we had on the bigger tuna. When all was said and done, we tagged 28 tuna, with 5 that were around 100 to 115 lbs. and the rest 70 to 90 lbs. we had quite a few fish liberate themselves throughout the day. The weather is turning around for us as well. We are going to try this again tomorrow in hopes of some more of these beauties hitting the deck. See ya later, Jeff and crew
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10-15-2006 - Hello everyone, Today was spent offshore in the form of kelp hunting, and we found some kelp that had no fish, or just a little bit on each. The weather is still windy and choppy for us out here as well. We did tally up 55 dorado and 3 wahoo for our efforts. We are headed to Alijos rocks for tomorrow’s activities, and hope to put together a few good days out there. good night, Jeff and the Indy crew
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10-14-2006 - Good afternoon everyone, We departed on a Kimura tackle 10 day yesterday. After putting a huge quantity of cured sardines aboard, we cleared the point and set a southerly course. After some hearty giveaways we settled in for a great prime rib dinner and the long ride down. Today was spent rigging every one for the trip, and going over the game plan for us. The weather is on the windy side, but we hope things calm down in the next few days. Thanks for checking in on us, and please wish us luck, Jeff and the Indy crew
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10-13-2006 - Good morning, today we returned from our first 10 day trip of the season. The ride home from the lower reaches of baja yesterday and last night was one of the best in years. It felt like we were tied to the dock in San Diego Bay. The big fish for the trip was caught by renowned Kona Captain Gene Vanderhoek and the yellowfin weighed in at 119.4 pounds and was caught on 40 lb. test in choppy weather to boot, the fish also contained an archival tag and was turned into the Inter tropical tuna commission, we should get the info. back in about a month and will post a report on the findings when we receive them. Second place went to "Big Wave" Dave Mcallister and weighed in at 115.1 pounds. Third place was caught by Bill "the Doc" Dunn and weighed in at 113.4 pounds. All in all the trip was a success with the usual fall ten day variety. We would like to thank everyone with us this year and hope your schedule allows you to make next year's trip.
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10-12-2006 - Good day, Today we spent our last day fishing offshore in hopes of wahoo and big flats (Dorado). The morning started out slow but the afternoon would prove to be good as we got into an area that had lots of big kelps with fish on them. The Dorado were nice size fish in the 15 to 30 lb. ranges and the wahoo were 40 to 70 lbs. We finished off our limits of Dorado and managed to land 5 wahoo and lost twice that much. Robert Leroy landed the biggest wahoo on a gold raider jig that will go about 70 lbs. The weather is still nice with 10 knots of breeze and no swell to speak of. We should arrive at Point Loma Sportfishing at about 07:00 am. Have a great day, The Indy Crew.
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10-10-2006 - Hello everyone, We have spent the last 2 days on the ridge for a mix of yellowtail - Mike Randel was on fire with the big yellows, Doug Green and Gene Van Der Hoek fished yellows on the bottom last night and put several nice fish on the deck, also in the mix were dorado, school size yellowfin and a few pargo and two very nice grouper caught by Gary Bush and Bill Dunn. The weather has come down and is beautiful with very little wind and a calm sea state. We have not found any wahoo which is unusual as the conditions are good with water as hot as 84 degrees and clean water on the lower ridge. I feel that the fishing will pick soon for the wahoo because the table is set for them. We have a great group of guys and everyone seems to be catching fish.
Guest fish report by Gary Bush (food is excellent) - Thanks Walter and Rollo!
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10-08-2006 - Good evening, Here's the recap from our last two days at the stones, the tuna that we hooked were tough to land due to the size of the fish and the 40 lb. test that most guys had to go to get a bite. The yellowfin were in the 60 to 110 lb. range for the most part and we did tag 50 or 60 tuna that were 12 to 30 lbs. as well. In between catching tuna we landed a variety of Dorado, yellowtail and wahoo. The weather has been windy and choppy for the entire time we fished the rocks but it seems to be getting better all the time. We are now off to the inside to see if we can put some more variety on the boat so wish us luck, the Indy guys.
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10-06-2006 - Hello from the Indy, Here's the recap for the past two days, we looked offshore on our way to the rocks and found lots of kelps but they had very little fish on them, we ended up catching 1 nice 55 pound wahoo and about 10 dorado. We arrived at the rocks after lunch and the fishing was on the slow side our tally was 7 wahoo, 22 yellowtail, 6 dorado and 1 80 pound tuna, we also caught and tagged some school size yellowfin tuna as well. it's late here on our second day of fishing and fishing today was much better as we had 47 yellowfin tuna in the 50 to 100 pound range along with some dorado, wahoo and yellowtail, we also tagged some of the school size fish for a few of the guys. Weather is windy at about 20 knots and the seas are choppy which made for tough angleing for the most part. Thanks for checking us out, Mark, Paul, Kyle, Frank, Nick, Walt and Rolf.
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10-04-2006 - Good evening, Today was a travel day in which we rigging tackle and had our fishing seminar as well as watched the baseball playoffs. We are going to start the trip at Alijos rocks even with reports from the area on the slow side. Fishing there has been up and down as of late so hopefully we'll be there on an up day. Thanks for checking in, The indy boys.
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10-03-2006 - Hello everyone, Today we returned from our 8-day Fish' N Fools Tackle. We would like to thank everyone on the trip this year as well as Stu and Dennis from the shop for the work they put in getting the tackle together for the giveaways. Jackpot is as follows: 1st place Bob O'neil 121.4 Yellowfin, tie for 2nd place Steve Zielinski and Norman chibana each with 113.6 Yellowfin. We have turned right around and are back out on the Art's tackle 10-day trip. After loading a good bunch of sardines we are headed south with high hopes for a good trip. We'll report on the trip as we start to fish so check back later and see how it's going. Mark, Paul and the guys.
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10-02-2006 - The Independence will dock at Point Loma Sportfishing at 6am.
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10-01-2006 - Hello again everyone, here is a brief account for today. We fished for a couple hours today and kept some more yellowtail and pargo, while 5 wahoo made their way aboard, a few escaping as well. We are headed back to San Diego under windy choppy sea conditions. Most everyone is relaxing etc.... we will post one more time before Tuesday's arrival. See you all then. Jeff and crew
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09-30-2006 - Good evening everyone, here is the latest from the bridge of the sportfishing vessel independence. We fished inside on the ridge today, and had another great day fishing. We had great action on yellowtail and pargo for most of the day until late when things died on us. We also had some more Dorado to fill things out. Everyone had a great time today fishing for the bottom grabbers. We did see some good sign of 15 to 18 lb. tuna, but we released most of them. We are going to fish for a couple of hours tomorrow and then call it a trip. Good night, and wish us luck tomorrow. Jeff and the Indy crew, Tommy, Sean, Ronny, Billy, and Mike
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09-29-2006 - Greetings to all from the independence. . Today started out very wet and windy. Things soon changed for the better. The wind died and the skies were sunny. We had one epic day today, as we were steady all day long on quality tuna, most fish were 65 to 85lbs, and 5 were 100 to 120 lbs. when the dust all settled, we tagged 85 tuna, and 30 dorado for our day. We couldn't be more pleased with the way things are going for us. Everyone is sore right now, including Caleb’s father Bob; we are headed inside right now to take a look at things on the ridge. Wish us luck please, Jeff and the Indy crew
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09-28-2006 - This is the latest fishing report from the sport fishing vessel independence. Today we sat for the entire day and managed to keep at least 1 or 2 fish hooked for the most part. We had some good action on the kite, as well as sardines. We did sample 4 nice wahoo also. I would say the tuna ran 60 to 80 lbs. with 1 fish around the century mark. The final tally was 48 tuna, 4 wahoo, and a released marlin. The weather was wet for most of the afternoon, steady rain. We are going to give this another go for tomorrow, as we are enjoying some good quality tuna fishing. Please wish us luck, the Indy crew
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09-27-2006 - Hello, and good evening from the independence. Here is what we have been up to since departing San Diego. We traveled all day yesterday and arrived at the rocks around noon. We got to work and put together a decent afternoon, as in some tuna action on the kite, and sardines. The final tally for today was 34 tuna, 75 to 95 lbs., and 1 wahoo, 1 shortbill spearfish for our efforts. The weather is very good for fishing or just about anything else out here. We are going to try this again tomorrow. Thanks for checking in on us, Jeff and the Indy boys
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09-25-2006 - Hello everyone, We'll give you an update on what's been happening the last few days as the e-mail link on the boat is giving us a few problems. The last day of our 5 day trip was on the slow side but we did manage some dorado off of kelps for the final day of fishing. The big fish for the trip went to Steve Sowa with a 71.2 lb. yellowfin tuna, the 2nd place yellowfin was landed by Rob Seale and came in at 67.0 lbs. and 3rd place went to Scott Mohr with a 60.8 lb. yellowfin tuna. We would like to thank everyone onboard the trip and hope to see you on next years trip. We then departed on our first longer trip of the year which is an 8 day, after taking on a good load of sardines we plan to start at alijos rocks and see if the recent trend of better fishing holds up when we get there. Thanks for checking us out, The Indy guys.
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09-23-2006 - Good evening to all. Here is the report for today. We tried for yellowtail today, and were greeted with some of the best fishing we have seen in a while on yellas. It was full speed on bait or jigs, which ever you wanted to fish. Everyone had a complete blast yanking and cranking on fish. The weather today was great as well. This was just what we needed for our group. We are going to try our hand at the offshore thing tomorrow. Good night, and thanks for checking in. Jeff and the Indy crew
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09-22-2006 - Hello again everyone, Things started off pretty good today, 3 wahoo, 12 tuna, and 6 big yellowtail, all by 1100. Then things completely died on us. We have opted to run inside to fish for yellowtail tomorrow, in hopes of getting some action for everyone on board. The weather is still very good for us. Things out at lupe were a bit disappointing, but we did get some quality fish while we were there. We will check in again tomorrow. Thanks for checking in, Jeff and the Indy crew
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09-21-2006 - Here is what we know at this time from the sportfishing vessel independence. We started our trip at the Lupe, and I can't say that I saw anything very impressive today. We didn’t put together a very good day. We caught hand full of big yellowtail, and the sharks ate the only tuna we hooked. We are going to try this again tomorrow in hopes that things pull a 180 and get going again. We have great weather. Please wish us luck, Jeff and the Indy crew
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09-20-2006 - Hello everyone, we Just returned from a 5-day trip this morning,we would like to thank the great group of guys who made the trip. Jackpot for this trip is as follows: 1st place was Enrique Ciensuegos with a 80.2 lbs. Yellowtail, 2nd place was Geoff Dsena with a 75 lb. YF, Bruce Stewart took 3rd place with a 70.4 Yellowfin. We are headed out on another 5-day extravaganza. We have a good load of bait, and are hoping our timing is good. We have a charter group is from Globe Motorsports, and they are eager to try their hand at the Guadelupe island fishery. We have a little bit of wind, but over all the weather is good. Please wish us luck, Jeff and the Indy crew
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09-19-2006 - The Independence will dock at Point Loma Sportfishing at 5:45am.
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09-18-2006 - Good evening, Today we sat most of the day trying for yellowfin tuna and had our best day of the trip on beautiful grade tuna; still the fish are very picky when it comes to biting the hooks. The show of fish around the boat was just plain incredible with fish blowing out all day long in every direction. Later in the day we did fish for yellowtail and had some 20 to 30 lb. yellows to end our day. The weather is near perfect with a Very light breeze and no sea state. Tomorrow we will try the offshore scene and see what we can come up with. Until then take care, The Indy boys.
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09-17-2006 - Good evening, Today was better in terms of catching fish but still not red hot by any means. We have caught about 50 mixed yellowfin and yellowtail along with one wahoo that was about 65 lbs. Most of the fish again were 30 to 80 lbs. Highlight of the day was a yellowtail that may go 80 lbs. at least that is what it weighed on a hand scale. The weather is epic, hot and sunny and no wind or seas. We plan to fish bait again tonight and hope the fish bite better tomorrow. Thanks for checking in, Mark and the gang.
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09-16-2006 - Hello everyone, Today we started the trip at the big island and put in close to a full day for not a whole lot, we ended the day with 23 mixed tuna and yellowtail for the day. The fish are 25 to 70 lbs. so most are nice ones. We are currently fishing for squid to use tomorrow and hope that sparks the bite. There is still a very good amount of fish around so we are hoping for a big day. The weather is very good and it looks to be better next week from the forecast. Thanks for checking in, the guys on the Indy.
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09-15-2006 - Hello again, We returned this morning from our young's tackle 5-day trip and the jackpot fish are as follows: Jonny Allos 1st place 86 LB YF, Ziad Kizy 2nd place 70.4 LB YF, Al Brandenburg 66.2 YF. Also a couple of Honorable mentions: Wendy Pierson 92.4 YF, Don Wallace 125 LB YF. . We would like to thank everyone on board this year, as it was pleasure fishing with you. We are now on our way on an open 5-day trip and cleared the point at noon with a nice load of sardines and are headed south in good weather. Check back tomorrow and see how it's going. Mark and the guys.
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09-14-2006 - Good afternoon everybody, we fished for a couple of hours this morning, and had some action on tuna and a few yellowtail. At present we are headed back to San Diego and will arrive at 0600 tomorrow. We have good travelling weather. Thanks for checking in, Jeff and crew
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09-13-2006 - Greetings again from the sportfishing vessel Independence. Here is a brief account for today's activities. We arrived at the outer island around 0800 and saw some decent signal of tuna. We started off getting most of what we hooked on board. Then after lunch we got taxed heavily by the sharks. Even after moving the boat, things didn’t get much better. We still had a good day by most standards. We did get 2 fish that were 100 to 115 lbs. that didn't get eaten by whitie. The weather is still really good. We are going to spend the morning here and then depart for home. See you all then, Jeff and crew
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09-12-2006 - Hello from the Independence. We covered quite a bit of water today in search of yellowtail. Some places we didn’t see anything of interest, other places we saw yellows,but there was sooo much bonito that it was impossible to fish. We did manage to get some fish in the afternoon to save the day. We are headed back out to lupe to try for more tuna fish tomorrow. Please wish us luck, Jeff and the Indy crew
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09-11-2006 - Good evening everyone, here is a quick account for today. We arrived at the island around 0900 and found a spot to anchor. It was a little slow, as we only caught 12 tuna and 1 yellowtail for our efforts.. We are going to try for some yellowtail tomorrow, in hopes of getting some action for everyone. The weather is still good. Wish us luck, Jeff and crew
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09-10-2006 - Hello again from the Independence. We returned today from a very productive 4-day outing.We would like to thank everyone onboard for this years trip as well as Dick Shaffer from Purfield's Pro Tackle for your sponsorship and working with us in setting the trip up, next year will be a 5 day trip. Jackpot for today were as follows: Mark Lazano 1st place with an 81 pound yellowfin tuna, 2nd and 3rd place was a tie with Kent W Evans and Bob Beeman each with a 69 pound yellowfin tuna. We are now on our way out for 5 days with young's tackle as the sponser. We have an eager group ready to battle with what ever gets in our way. Good bait, good weather, and hopefully good timing. Thanks for checking on us, and please wish us luck, Jeff and the Indy crew
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09-09-2006 - Hello everyone, not too much to report for today. We caught some of that good grade yellowtail this morning and some big calico we tossed back, and then we had to depart for home. I think the trip was a huge success in that most everyone caught their personal best on tuna or yellowtail. We will be back to port at 0715 tomorrow, and then departing soon after loading everyone for the next tour. Talk to you later, Jeff and crew
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09-08-2006 - Greetings from the vessel independence. Here is a rundown for today’s activities. We had an absolutely fabulous day on yellowfin tuna. We kept busy for most of the day, although we went dry a couple of times, and ended up with 65 of these beauties, 55 to 85 lbs. fish. Everyone had a great time pulling and yanking in the hot sunshine. We did get taxed by the sharks, I think we would have had an even better score, but that’s the way it goes. We are going to try for some yellowtail in the morning before we have to throw in the towel. Good night, Jeff and the Indy boys
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09-07-2006 - Good evening to all. We arrived at the island around 1145 and started our day right away. We had some good fishing for the 1/2 day we spent here. We ended up with 31 JUMBO yellowtail, and 25 tuna 55 to 75 lbs., not too bad. The weather is really good as well. We are going to try this again tomorrow in hopes of more of the same. Thanks for checking in, and wish us luck, Jeff and the Indy crew
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09-06-2006 - Good afternoon to everyone once again. The boat returned this morning from another great 5-day outing. The jack pot winners were as follows, 1st place yellowfin tuna was 85.8 lbs. caught by Sharif Mohamed, 2nd was 82.0 Mark Sakamoto, and 3rd place was 75.6 caught by Allen Skiff. Honorable mention was a kite fish 122.8lbs yellowfin caught by Tom Powell.We would like to thank the whole group for making this another fun trip to be part of, and we can't wait for next years trip. We are currently out on a 4-day trip sponsored by Purfields Pro Tackle. We got a good load of bait, and good weather so things look favorable at present time. We will check back tomorrow when we have more to report. Please wish us luck, Jeff and the Indy crew
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09-05-2006 - Good morning everyone, We have fished for yellowfin and yellowtail the last 24 hours and had good fishing on 40 to 100+ pound tuna and 20 to 35 pound yellowtail. We are now homeward bound and should be in between 8 and 8:30 AM. Everyone had a great time and the group is planning on doing this trip again for the fourteenth year in a row with us going back to 1993 on the Islander. There may be a spot or two on next year’s trip so check with Donny or Norris in a week if you want to fish with some really good rod and reelers. Thanks for checking in, Mark and Paul and the guys.
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09-04-2006 - Hello everyone, This is the recap for the past 2 days as the e-mail would not respond the last 2 nights, we are sending this in the AM on the 4th. The yellowtail fishing was good for us with fish mostly in the 15 to 25 lb. class with 10 % smaller and 10 % bigger than that. The hurricane that went over the cape never came our direction and is now in the Sea of Cortez as a Tropical Depression and is no longer a factor for the fleet here on the pacific side. Today we are at Guadalupe Island and are hooking tuna early in the AM and plan to do this for the rest of the day. Thanks for tuning in and we will report later on today’s outcome, Mark and Paul and the gang.
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09-01-2006 - Good afternoon, We returned today from our Sav-On tackle 4-day trip, which fished both San Benitos Island and Guadalupe Island. The jackpot for the trip went to the following anglers: 1st place Doug Fraser 78.6 YFT, 2nd place Roy Michael 72.8 YFT, 3rd place Pete Preest 68.0 YFT. We would like to thank all the folks who made the trip this year with us and our long time friends Roger Eckhardt and Bob Solamon from Sav-on tackle in Santa Fe Springs who always put together a great group of guys for these trips. We are now under way on the Norris Tapp / Don Brockmen 5-day adventure and are currently headed south with a nice load of Dine's in very good weather. We plan to start the trip in search of yellowtail and keep a close eye on hurricane John that is presently just south of Cabo and headed up the coast. We here in the San Diego Long range fleet have the latest in weather tacking software and will watch this system very closely as it develops so please do not worry as we will fish prudent to the conditions. Thanks for checking in, Mark, Paul, Kyle Sean, Ron, Frank, Walt and Rolf.
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08-31-2006 - Hello, from the sportfishing vessel Independence. Here is a quick report for today. We opted to fish a couple of hours in the morning and then ride home. We had a fairly good morning in terms of some quality yellowtail, 30 to 50 lbs. and tuna 50 to 70 lbs. when all was said we had 25 mixed fish. A great way to end the trip. We will be back to San Diego tomorrow at 0715, and be departing again. Thanks for checking in on us, Jeff and the Indy crew
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08-30-2006 - Hello and good evening everyone, Today was a true test of ones patients while standing at the rail. We didn’t have the best conditions, which made it difficult for most to conduct business while trying for the tuna. We did manage to capture 23 of these beauties 50 to 75 lbs. and a hand full of big yellowtail. The weather remains very appealing to us out here as well lets hope for the best tomorrow. See ya then, Jeff and the Indy boys.
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08-29-2006 - Good evening from the Indy crew. Today we did some travelling to a remote destination in search of yellowtail. When we arrived we were greeted with some of the best fishing I have seen in a while on yellowtail. It was fast and furious for hours. Bait or jigs you name it, they inhaled it. The weather was as good as it gets, so all & all we had an excellent day. We are going to try for some tuna tomorrow, in hopes of settling our jackpot. We will report again when the day is at an end tomorrow. See ya then, Jeff and crew
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08-28-2006 - Good afternoon from the sportfishing vessel Independence. We have just returned from another exciting 5-day trip, the lucky anglers were 1st place Barry Andersen 98.2 Yellowfin, 2nd place Evan Levy 88.6 yellowfin, and 3rd place Andy Hanley 73.0 Yellowfin. We would like to thank the entire gang from K.H.Y.C as we had a really great time with everyone, and caught some good quality fish. We are currently out on another extravaganza; this one is a 4-day Sav-On Tackle sponsored. We left San Diego with a nice haul of sardines and are rolling on down and hope to piece together a decent trip for everyone on here. Thanks again for tuning in, and please wish us luck, Jeff and the Indy crew
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08-27-2006 - The Independence will dock at Point Loma Sportfishing at 8am Monday 8/28/06. Jeff, Kyle and Indy Boys.
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08-26-2006 - Hello and good evening to all. We had some good yellowtail fishing on big fish, as well as a decent shot at the quality tuna today. I will say the tuna got the best of us, in the sense that they managed to escape half of the time we were connected to them. All-N-All we had a great time as usual. The weather is awesome, and we hope to keep it that way. We will report again tomorrow, see you all then, the Indy boys
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08-25-2006 - Well, hello again from the vessel independence. Our report for today is almost the same as yesterday except for the wind took the day off, and it was really hot all day long. We did have 3 or 4 stand out fish in the 90 to 100 lb. classes to go along with the standard beauties we are catching. We also had some signal on beefy yellowtail as well. We are going to see if we can repeat this again tomorrow. Thanks for tuning in. Jeff and the Indy crew
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08-24-2006 - Good evening to all. We fished the day offshore and had good action on tuna to 90 lbs. the weather was outstanding for the most part, a little bit breezy in the afternoon. We are going to try this again tomorrow , Jeff and the Indy crew
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08-23-2006 - Hello everyone, the Independence returned from another successful 5-day trip, and we are back out on another 5-day extravaganza, this group of anglers represents King Harbor Yacht Club. After a stop at the bait receivers, we got underway at 1200 hrs under beautiful skies, light breeze. We are headed down to the promise land in hopes of putting together a quality trip. Wish us luck please, Jeff and the Indy crew
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08-22-2006 - Today we returned from the tuna trackers 5 day trip with a beautiful catch of 40 to 113 lb, yellowfin tuna and good numbers of 20 to 50 lb. yellowtail. There was no jackpot on this charter but the big fish for the trip went to Gail and Ian Orr who tag teamed a 113 lb. yellowfin tuna for big fish honors on the trip. We would like to thank everyone who made this year's trip, and of course Al Frink who is the charter master for the trip. Next year's trip will be in the same time frame and Al will be taking over all the bookings for the trip. Thanks for tuning in.
Mark Pisano and the entire staff of the Indy.
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08-21-2006 - Hello again, Sorry for the late report as our e-mail program would not respond last night. We spend the day catching 40 to 75 lb. yellowfin tuna as well as 20 to 40 lb. yellowtail. All in All it was another good day of fishing. We are now headed home in improving weather and plan to get in about 7:30 AM. Thanks for tuning in, Mark and the guys.
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08-20-2006 - Hello again, today we fished the yellowfin tuna zone and were not disappointed, the fish we caught were mostly in the 40 to 80 lb. range with one stand out at about 120 lb. caught by Gail Orr. We also caught some nice yellowtail in the 25 to 40 lb. range early this morning on the mackerel and dropper loop rigs. The weather is still a bit windy but there is no sea to go with it so it's good for us while we are fishing. We are going to try this for another day so wish us luck, Mark and the crew of the Independence.
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08-19-2006 - Good evening, That's a good thing because we were busy catching fish ‘till' late tonight. We had a good day on the 40 to 70 lb. yellowfin tuna and we also caught Wahoo, Striped marlin, Yellowtail and Dorado. The weather is a bit on the windy side but overall it's good. We plan to do this again tomorrow so have a great day and we'll talk to you later, Mark and the guys.
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08-18-2006 - Good evening, This what we have been doing the last 2 days out here. Our last day of the trip was spent traveling home and fishing for very little. Today we returned to Point Loma and the jackpot fish for the trip were Hidetaro Kashima with a 121.2-lb. yellowfin for 1st place, Pete Fosselman in 2nd. place with a 74.6 lb. yellowfin and Loren Cogswell with a 71.0 lb. yellowfin good for 3rd. place. Honarable mention and then some goes to Sam Raiter with a 128.2 lb. yellowfin tuna. We would like to thank the whole Tuna Turner group for the great trip we had, as you were all very fun to work with. We then departed on another 5-day trip and after loading a nice bunch of sardines are headed to points south and will let you know how the trip starts tomorrow. Mark and the guys.
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08-16-2006 - Good evening everyone today was spent looking for yellowtail and we found some willing to bite our hooks just not as many as we had hoped for. We did catch some on yoyo iron and bait. The weather was absolutely perfect all day. During dinner tonight the giant squid made a showing so the guys went out and caught some in the 25 to 40 lb. range. We our currently headed up the line and are planning on trying for some more yellowtail on the coast. Good night, Mark and the guys.
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08-15-2006 - Good morning to all, We fished offshore again today and were treated to a great day of fishing on 35 to 70 lb. yellowfin tuna. We stayed busy throughout the day with 2 to 5 going most of the day. The hot ticket to get bit was 30 and 40 lb. test blue Izorline with a short leader of fluorocarbon of the same test and a 2/0 circle or J type hook with a hot sardine. I would also like to mention the small Avet jx and lx 2 speed reels, they have been by far and away the best to fish with in terms of landed these better grade fish due to the low gear. The weather continues to be very nice as well. We plan to try for some yellowtail tomorrow so wish us luck. Mark and the Indy boys.
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08-14-2006 - Good morning, Today we started looking in an area at about 9AM and had very slow fishing; at about noon we rolled into a different zone and got busy on a school of 35 to 120 pound yellowfin tuna. Staying busy well into the dark with 2 to 5 going most of the day with up to 12 going before dark. We ended the day with 96 of these beautiful tuna, the weather is gorgeous with a flat ocean and air temps in the 80's at mid day. We plan on doing this tomorrow and hope for the same action. Mark and the guys.
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08-13-2006 - Hello everyone, Today we returned from our annual Rusty Hook 5-day charter. We spent the trip offshore in pursuit of tuna and we had a very nice trip on good grade yellowfin. The jackpot winners were as follows: 1st place Frank Olachia 66.2YFT, 2nd place Jerry Newman 64.4 YFT and 3rd place 63.8 YFT. Today we departed on another 5-day trip and after putting on a good load of sardines we are headed south in nice weather. We'll let you know how the trip starts out tomorrow, Mark, Kyle, Tommy. Ron, Frank, Billy. Walter and Edward out.
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08-12-2006 - The Independence will dock at Point Loma Sportfishing at 6:30 Sunday Aug 13. Jeff, Kyle and Indy Boys.
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08-11-2006 - Good evening everybody, here is the latest from the independence. Again we had an absolute stellar day out here on the high seas. Things really went well for us today. Clear skies and hot sunny weather, pulling and jerking on good grade yellows and tuna off the giant kelps we found offshore today. Everyone had a super great time. Jeff, Kyle and the Indy boys
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08-10-2006 - Hello again, greetings from the vessel independence. Here is a brief account of our day on the high seas. Today we looked around an area we have seen a little sign, and spent part of the day hitting little spots of fish. We ended up having a really great day on yellowtail and tuna. The weather is really great, hot and sunny. We are going to look around this zone again tomorrow, until then, take care, Jeff and crew
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08-09-2006 - Greetings to all once again. We tried a different area today and had a nice day fishing for yellowtail and tuna. The weather was as good as one could want, hot, and sunny, yanking and a cranking on fish. We might try this zone again tomorrow, or just keep looking for more fish down the line somewhere. Until then take care, and wish us luck, Jeff and the Indy crew
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08-08-2006 - Hello again everyone. We just returned from another successful 5-day trip. The jackpot winners are as follows: 1st place Wayne Elsaesser 62lb YFT, Mark Matusiewicz and Bob Gershon each had a tie at 57.4 YFT for second and third. Again this year was one fun group of people we had the pleasure of working with and would like to thank everyone who made the trip and hope everyone can make next years trip with us. We have departed on yet another 5-day extravaganza; the Rusty Hook Tackle shop sponsors this one. We have a decent load of sardines and some good weather at departure time. There were some great giveaways for everyone onboard to use this trip, rods and reels and lots of other. We will report again tomorrow, Jeff and the Indy crew
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08-07-2006 - Good evening everybody, we fished a different area today, and ran across some albacore, but the little devils did not want to cooperate. We did stop the boat numerous times, and had some good action a couple times. This was a perfect way to end our 5-day trip. Everyone had a really good time throughout the entire trip. The weather was premium every day. We will return to San Diego tomorrow at 0730, and be departing again on another 5-day. See you all then, the Indy crew
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08-06-2006 - Hello again everybody, here is a brief account of what went on around here today. We were in the offshore tuna mode and had very good success at a couple of areas throughout the day. Everyone had an absolute ball pulling and yanking on these quality fish. The weather is still good and we are going to keep it that way. We plan on looking around the offshore zone again tomorrow. Jeff, Mark and the Indy crew
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08-05-2006 - Hello everyone, Today we spent the entire day fishing for yellowtail and had a very good day on mostly 14 to 22 lb. fish. We did catch two tanks of mackerel for bait last night, which did help us, as the yellows really wanted to bite the mackerel; we also caught fish on both the yo-yo iron as well as the surface iron. Our weather has been good with less than 10 knots of wind and almost no seas. Tomorrow we are going to try for tuna so wish us luck, The Indy boys.
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08-04-2006 - Good evening everyone, we spent the afternoon fishing for yellowtail and had fair action on good grade yellows. We need to find the ones that want to bite with more enthusiasm. The ones we got are beauties. We are going to try this again tomorrow in hopes of a full day fishing making a difference as well. By the way, the weather is absolutely awesome. See ya later, Jeff, Mark and the Indy crew
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08-03-2006 - Good afternoon, today we returned from our Fetsch This charter and the jackpot was as follows: 1st place was Dick Woolsey with a 40.4 lb. albacore, 2nd place was Arlen Williams with a 39.8 lb. albacore and Steve Williams rounded out the top 3 with a 34.6 lb. Albacore. We would like to thank everyone who made the trip this year and we will see you again next year, we are presently on our way out on another 5-day trip. Things look good in the bait department, and we have another eager group of anglers waiting their turn at the rail. At present we have good weather and hope it continues. We will report again tomorrow with the latest fishing report from the bridge of the independence. Until then take care, Jeff, Mark and the Indy crew
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08-01-2006 - Good evening to all. The report for today is as follows. We hit lots of kelps today in an attempt to put together a respectful day. We did have a couple of kelps that were promising, but all the rest were vacant. We ended up with 55 fish, yellowtail and Dorado. We are going to try for some island fishing tomorrow, in hopes that San Martin is ready. The weather today was windy and choppy. Wish us luck tomorrow, Jeff and the Indy crew
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07-31-2006 - Greetings from the sportfishing vessel Independence. Here is a play by play account of today. We started off with a bang, in that we had some good action on albacore and then things fell on their face. We did have a little sign in the late afternoon. The weather is still good. Wish us luck tomorrow, Jeff and crew
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07-30-2006 - Hello again everyone, We spent the day offshore, and had a really outstanding day catching albacore. The seas were flat, and the fish were biting. We see good sign of fish here, and we hope to put together another good day tomorrow. Until then, take care, Jeff and the Indy boys
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07-29-2006 - Good evening to all. We just got in from an excellent 5-day, A special thank you to Gary Kimura from Kimura’s Tackle as well as everyone who made the trip. We are on our way out today in hopes of another epic trip. Jackpot winner’s list are as follows: 1st place Ron Nishimura 102.8 lbs. Yellowfin, 2nd place Ray Diaz 91.4 Yellowfin and 3rd place Sergio Rodriguez 86.6 lbs. Honorable Mention Abel Saldana 107lbs. Yellowfin. The weather is still great, and we have a decent load of sardines. I hope we have a good report tomorrow. Please wish us luck, Jeff and the independence crew.
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07-28-2006 - The Independence will dock at Point Loma Sportfishing at 6am on 7/29/06
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07-28-2006 - Hello again to all. Here is a quick rundown on our day. We were in a different zone today, and had some great action on yellowtail, dorado, and albacore late in the day. All together we tagged 140 mixed fish for our efforts. This was the icing on the cake, the topper. We had an absolute stellar 5-day trip with the Kimura group again. We will be back to San Diego at 0600 tomorrow. See ya then, Jeff and the Indy boys
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07-27-2006 - Hello everyone, here is our day in a nutshell. We were in the area we have been in the last couple of days, and things were a bit slower today. We saw some fish, but did not get them to bite. We had a dozen tuna for our efforts before heading to another area for tomorrow. The weather is a bit funky due to the depression down below us, but we have no complaints. We will report again tomorrow, Jeff and the Independence crew
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07-26-2006 - Good evening again everybody, we spent the day down in the general vicinity as yesterday, and had just an outstanding day catching tuna and a few yellowtail on kelps. We ended up with 141 tuna, up to 75lbs. . There were some pretty busy times, as we had many fish going at once. The weather is as good as one could imagine, hot and sunny, everyone with a bent rod in there hands. Truly an epic day these guys will not forget soon. We are going to try around here again tomorrow. Wish us luck, Jeff and the Indy crew
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07-25-2006 - There Seems to be a slight glitch with the Sat Phone, Jeff said he tried to post his report last night but it did not transmit until early morning, Please be patient, We'll get the info on the internet as soon as we can. Judy
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07-25-2006 - Hello everyone, we looked offshore today in hopes of some action. We did see some noteworthy signs of life, and we were in an area around noontime that we worked around for most of the day. We did manage to catch 53 tuna, most of which is 40 to 60 lbs. and a couple that were 80 to 90 lbs. the weather is as good as it gets, and we are going to keep it that way. We plan on trying for more of the same action tomorrow, Jeff and the Indy boys
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07-24-2006 - Good day everyone, Today we returned from our Baja paddy hoppers 5 day and the jackpot for the gang went as follows, 1st place was Chris burt with a 69.2 lb. yellowfin tuna, 2nd place went to young Ernie alex Montano with a 65.6 lb. yellowfin tuna and Marty Connoly rounded out the top 3 with a 65.0 yellowfin tuna. We would like to thank everyone on this years trip for making it a wonderful time for all onboard. Overall another good trip with good variety and good numbers of quality tuna and yellowtail. Next years trip is planned to go on the same dates. Thanks for checking in Mark,Kyle,Judy,Ron,Sean,Steven,Frank, and chef's Ed and Rolf.
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07-24-2006 - Good evening everyone, we just departed on our annual Kimura Tackle 5-day trip. We ended up with a good load of sardines and cleared the point before we all melted on deck. There were some great giveaways, and everyone is ready to use all the gear they received. The weather is flat here offshore, and we are going to do the best to keep it that way. Please wish us luck tomorrow, Jeff and the Indy crew
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07-23-2006 - Good evening everyone, Today we fished offshore and had a fair morning on yellowfin tuna, dorado, yellowtail and even a couple of fat albacore as we looked at some new water working toward home. The big fish today was a 40 plus pound albacore, our weather has been beautiful with almost no wind most of the day and very mild seas. We will be at 6:00 am. Good night the Indy boys.
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07-22-2006 - Hello again folks, Today we had the day we had hoped for with a very good bite on 40 to 70 lb. yellowfin tuna and some good grade yellowtail. The kite was the hot ticket as well as the flylined sardine with 40-lb. test and a floro leader of the same size. Everyone today landed a kite fish and some had two on the kite. The weather is out of this world just a little on the hot side. Tomorrow we plan to fish offshore again. Wish us luck, Mark and the guys.
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07-21-2006 - Good evening, We just finished our second day on the offshore grounds and we had a slower day overall then yesterday, we did however catch some big fat albacore up to 40 lbs. or so with the yellowtail, dorado and yellowfin we caught. Tonight we'll travel to a different area to see if we can improve on our day today. The weather was a bit windy most of the day which made it again tough to see fish sign and kelps. Wish us luck, Mark and the guys.
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07-20-2006 - Hello everyone, Today we fished offshore and had good fishing on yellowtail, dorado and a few yellowfin tuna. The weather has come up a bit so looking for kelps is a little tougher. Tomorrow we are going to try to fish for some of the big albacore that we had on our last trip. Have a great day, Mark and the guys.
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07-19-2006 - Good day, today we returned from our West Coast Marketing / Avet Reels / Smitty belts 5-day trip. We really had a good time with the group this year as the weather and the fishing all came together. The jackpot fish are as follows David Rocchi 1st place a 75.6 YF, Stephen Earner III a 65.4 YF, and Greg Gostainian a 64.6. YF. We would like to thank everyone who was on board with us and a special thank you to Rick Ozaki of West Coast Marketing as well as charter masters Rocky Rocchi and Allen Smith. We are back out today on another 5-day trip with the Baja Paddy Hoppers. Take care and check back for more updates.
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07-18-2006 - Hello from the Independence, Today we were on the offshore grounds and fishing was tough for us in the morning as we opted to start in a different area and try to locate some new fish. The afternoon was a completely different story as we had good fishing on big albacore along with good grade yellowtail and dorado. The weather again was flat out perfect with lots of sunshine. We will be in at 08:30 so until next report have a great day. Mark and the guys.
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07-17-2006 - Hello again, Today we had very good action on 20 to 40 lb. yellowtail as well as (15) 40 to 70 lb. yellowfin tuna. The weather is as good as it gets with flat seas and hot air temps. We plan to spend our last day looking offshore for tuna and yellowtail. Take care, Mark and the boys.
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07-16-2006 - Good day to all, Fishing was slower for us today as the albacore were on a down cycle for most of the fleet. We did however pick away at yellowtail, yellowfin tuna and dorado off and on and though out the day. The weather was a slice of heaven with very little wind and flat seas. We are headed to Guadalupe Island for tomorrow to give everyone a shot at something bigger. See ya soon, Mark and the guys.
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07-15-2006 - Good evening. We had a very good day of fishing on big fat albacore, yellowfin tuna and yellowtail. The albacore are mostly 20 to 40 lbs. and at times bit everything that hit the water. The weather started out choppy but by afternoon it has gotten very nice. We plan to do this again tomorrow but right now the squid are biting full speed so we are loading up for later in the trip. Good night, Mark and the boys.
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07-14-2006 - Hello everyone, today we returned from our Sav-On 5 day trip and the jackpot winners were as follows: 1st place was Mike Myers with a 52 LB yft, 2nd place Bob Hunt with a beautiful 49.4 yft and Chad Henderson nice 43 LB yft. -. We would like to thank everyone who made the trip this year and also thank Roger at the shop for all the work he does getting the guys together every year. We departed at noon on our 5 day trip with the west coast marketing group, after taking on good load of dines we are headed offshore to look for tuna. Mark and the guys.
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07-13-2006 - The Independence will arrive at Point Loma Sportfishing at 6am.
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07-13-2006 - Hello again everyone, We fished again offshore today. Things are not easy for everyone out here right now. We scratched out a day on albacore and yellowtail just barely. All things considered we had a good trip. We will be back to San Diego at 0600 tomorrow. See you then, Jeff and the Indy boys
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07-12-2006 - Things were tough out here on the offshore scene. We’re hoping for better conditions tomorrow. Jeff and the Indy Boys
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07-11-2006 - Hello again everyone, here is the latest from the independence. Today we fished for yellowtail, and had a spectacular day fishing for big mossbacks (aged, mature yellowtail). We had action right from the beginning. The fish were eating jigs and bait. The action was non-stop on 15 to 28 lb. yellows. Everyone had a great time pulling and yanking on these brutes in the hot sunshine. We are currently headed offshore for tomorrows activities, and hope to put together a few good days out there. Please wish us all luck, Jeff and the Indy crew
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07-10-2006 - Good afternoon to all. Today we fished offshore and had some fair action on yellowfin tuna, yellowtail and some dorado. While these were not the big trophies, we still made a day of it. We ended up with 80 mixed fish we are going to try for some yellowtail for tomorrow. The weather is good and we hope it stays this way. Jeff and crew
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07-09-2006 - Hello everyone, Today we returned from the Art's tackle 5 day trip. The big fish for the trip were all bluefin tuna and 1st place went to Ron Jacobson with a 70.2, 2nd and 3rd were both 69 lb. fish Caught by Doug Mets and Jeff Wityak. There were also another half dozen in the 60 lb. range. We would like thank everyone who made the trip this year as well as our long time sponser Terry Randell owner of art's tackle in Gardena and right hand man Rob "Hot Stick" Waiale. Next year this trip will fall on the same dates 7/4 to 7/9 and will be a 5 day trip. Thanks for checking in, The Indy Crew.
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07-08-2006 - The Independence will arrive at Point Loma Sportfishing at 6am on July 9. Anyone going on tomorrows should arrive early due to limited parking. If you have someone dropping you off at the landing a 9:30 arrival time is adequate. See you tomorrow. Judy
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07-07-2006 - Good evening everyone, we were in the yellowtail zone for most of the day. Great success on excellent grade fish, 18 to 30 lbs. At times we had 12 to 15 going. The weather is outstanding down here, hot and sunny, yanking and cranking on mossbacks. They were biting on bait and jigs. Everyone had an absolutely great day they will not soon forget. We are going to fish offshore tomorrow. Please wish us luck, as the fishing out there is slow right now. Good night, Jeff and the Indy crew
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07-06-2006 - Good evening everyone, The weather today was not cooperating so fishing was a bit on the tough side for us. We managed to have some action on a few kelps for good grade yellowtail, yellowfin tuna and some Dorado. We are going to try our hand on yellowtail at an island for tomorrow. Wish us luck, the Indy crew
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07-05-2006 - Hello everyone, greetings from the independence. We hope everyone survived the celebration yesterday. As for us we are doing just fine. We got busy first thing this morning around 0700, and drifted until dark. We had a spectacular day offshore on bluefin tuna, and yellowfin tuna, as well as a few albacore and Dorado. The initial school we stopped on was a dandy one, 50 to 70 lb. Bluefin. When we totaled the score we had 100 bluefin, 29 of them were the big ones, and the rest were 30 to 40 lbs. The yellowfin tuna are good grade, 25 to 50 lbs. The total was 150 mixed fish for the day. The seas are good as well. We are planning to try this again tomorrow, so please wish us good luck. Good night, Jeff and the Indy boys
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07-04-2006 - We returned today from our Purfield's 5 day trip and we ended up with 5 days of really good fishing for a fantastic group of guys on board this year. The big fish for the trip went to Brain Koester with a 50.4 lb. Yellowfin tuna which was not in the jackpot. The jackpot winners were Roger Phelps with the 1st place 49.6 lb. Yellowfin tuna, 2nd place went to Dick Shaffer 48.0 lb. yellowfin tuna and 3rd. place rounded out the top 3 with Elliott Thompson's 47.6 lb. yellowfin tuna. Our tally for the 5 days was 259 Yellowtail, 158 Yellowfin tuna, 26 bluefin Tuna, 3 White seabass, 4 Albacore and lots of Calico bass Released. We would like to thank everyone who made the trip as well as Dick Shaffer from Purfields tackle for all the "fish'in stuff" give aways. Today we depart for another 5 day trip with Art,s tackle as the sponser.
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07-04-2006 - Good day, Today was another great day of fishing with flat seas as well. we will be in at 6:30 am.
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07-02-2006 - Good day to all, The yellowtail fishing was again good for us as we caught near limits of mostly 18 to 30 lb. fish in flat calm weather. We took off a little early to be offshore for tuna tomorrow and hope the weather holds for our last day. Good night, Mark and the guys.
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07-01-2006 - Good day, We fished yellowtail today in beautiful weather and had a good day on 18 to 30 lb. fish. We also had a few 20 to 30 lb. White Sea bass as an added bonus. The fish bit both the surface iron and the yo-yo iron as well as the sardine. The middle of the day was slow so we fished calico bass and caught and released a couple hundred bass and kept a few to eat for lunch. Never the less it was a great day to be fishing. Thanks for checking in and wish you were here, Mark and the guys.
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06-30-2006 - Hello there, Today was are first day on the grounds and we did manage some tuna in choppy windy conditions. We ended the day with 50 Yellowfin tuna most were 15 to 30 pounds, 4 albacore 20 to 30 pounds and 5 yellowtail 15 to 20 pounds. Since the weather is up a bit we are going to head to one of the islands to fish for yellowtail tomorrow and see how that goes. Wish us luck, Mark and the guys.
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06-29-2006 - Updated..July 2, 06 We returned from our Fish N Fools Tackle
Shop 5-day trip with a very good catch of Bluefin tuna and yellowtail.
The big fish honors this trip went to Earl Durham with a 37.8 lb.
bluefin tuna, second place went to Cory Concha with a 35.8 lb. Bluefin.
Chuck Robinson took 3rd with a 35.6 bluefin. A special thank you to Stu from the Fishing N Fools Tackle shop for all the great give-aways, Dennis Evans our charter master and everyone that fished this trip. This same trip
is planned for next year so give us a call to save a spot.
Today we departed on our Purfeild's tackle shop annual 5 day adventure and after loading a great tank of dines we are headed south to fish offshore for the first day.
Dick Shaffer from the shop did his usual raffle and had tackle packs for all, after a great prime rib dinner we are ready to get'um. wish us luck, Mark and the boys.
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06-28-2006 - The boat will arrive at Point Loma Sportfishing at 6am Thursday Morning.
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06-27-2006 - Summer is here, and in full swing. The weather has been absolutely perfect, hot sunny days and great yellowtail fishing. We had another outstanding day on big yellows. We looked at a couple of areas and had steady action all day on 18 to 30 lb. fish. They were hitting on jigs, bait and everything else we threw at them. Everyone is having a great time. For tomorrow we are going to look offshore for some kind of tuna fish to top us off. Wish us lots of luck, Jeff and the Indy crew
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06-26-2006 - Hello everyone. Today we are in paradise. Hot, sunny weather and big yellowtail biting. Who could ask for anything more? We fished a couple of different places and had good action on 18 to 30 lb. fish. Around 1530 hrs things went dead, and we didn’t catch any thing more, but by days end we had limits. We ‘re going to try this again tomorrow in hopes of another good day. Wish us luck, Jeff and the Indy crew
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06-25-2006 - Good evening everyone, we are currently on our 5-day Fish N Fools Tackle open. We left San Diego yesterday with a great load of sardines, along with an enthusiastic group of anglers. After clearing the point everybody received some great Give-a-ways. As for today, we fished offshore and had a great day on bluefin tuna. Early in the morning we got onto a huge school, only to have a purse seiner do circles around us as close as 50 feet away. After the episode with the purse seiner, the fishing subsided so we need to move. We got another school later in the day, and had good action. We ended up with 90 fish for the day, 25 to 40 lbs. the weather is getting better all the time, although we had some rain squalls today. We are going to try for some yellowtail tomorrow. Wish us luck, Jeff and the Indy boys
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06-24-2006 - Hello, Today we returned from our Parent/Child Family 3-day trip. It could not have turned out better for everyone on the trip. The weather we had for the 2 days of fishing was as good as it gets and the fishing was great as well. We did have some luck for sure as we caught 213 albacore and 81 bluefin tuna and we just seemed to stay on the fish with every turn we made. The kids did a remarkable job of hooking and landing fish and the parents and grandparents were there throughout with help when they needed it. We would like to thank everyone on board, and send out a special thanks to Robyn Osaki our Jr. Charter Master, Rick Ozaki of West Coast Marketing for putting the trip together and all the giveaways, tackle, the and GAF-tech rods. Each youngster also received a trophy. The big fish weigh-in for the kids catagory was 1st place Jeanne Kelber of Carlsbad a 38.6 Albacore, 2nd place Riley Barilla of Santa Barbara a 37.4 Albacore and 3rd place Robyn Osaki a 36.6 albacore. In the adult category Mike Griffin of Capistrano Beach a 39.0 Albacore. Thanks for checking in, The Independence staff.
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06-23-2006 - Good evening everyone, Today was another good day on the albacore and bluefin tuna although it was a slower than yesterday it was still plenty good for the group as we caught 45 bluefin and 54 albacore for the day. The fish are mostly in the 15 to 35 lb. class with a few bigger and a few smaller. The weather is still very nice with about 10 knots of wind and no sea state to speak of. We will return in the morning at 06:30 hrs. Take care, The Indy boys.
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06-22-2006 - Hello again, Today we had a great day of fishing for albacore and bluefin tuna. By days end the parents and kids managed limits of albacore and 36 bluefin with most fish in the 15 to 30 lb. range with just a small percentage of fish in the 10 to 15 lb. range. The weather is as good as it gets, no wind and very mild seas. we are going to fish this again tomorrow. Take care, The guys on the Indy.
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06-21-2006 - Good evening, today we returned from the Sal Proetto 5-day adventure the jackpot is as follows. Henry Maze took 1st place with a 56.4 Yellowfin; Sal Proetto our Charter Master mastered 2nd place with a beautiful 55.4 and Allan Mackenzie winding in with a nice 51.4 Yellowfin. Congrads guys. We would like to thank everyone on the trip and hope you enjoyed the fishing and weather. Next year this trip will be an 8-day as the guys and Sal would like to do a longer trip. We departed at noon on our family 3-day and after loading some nice sardines we are headed south to try for albacore. Check back later to see how the trip is going. The Indy crew.
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06-20-2006 - Hello everyone, here is a rundown for today. We had a somewhat decent day offshore. The weather has come up a little bit, but we managed to catch 60 mixed fish, mostly big fat albacore, and the rest bluefin tuna. Looking back on this trip I think we had some great fishing on yellowfin, bluefin, yellowtail, and albacore to top it off. The guys are really in a good mood right now as we are breaking down our gear. I would like to thank Sal Proetto for all the great giveaways and the fun group he brought out this year. Until tomorrow 6am arrival at Point Loma Sportfishing. take it easy. Jeff and the Indy crew
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06-19-2006 - Good evening everyone, We tried our hand at the offshore today, and had a slow morning. We did have some action in the later part of the afternoon. Between some porpoise that we caught some nice grade yellowfin tuna 15 to 45 lbs. and a school of bluefin tuna, we managed to tag 62 fish for our efforts. We are going to try for some more tuna of some sort tomorrow. The weather is good as well. Wish us luck, Jeff and crew
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06-18-2006 - Hey there everyone, happy fathers day to all the dads. We fished for yellowtail today, and were rewarded with an action packed day chasing bird schools and color spots. The fish were biting everything we threw at them. The guys had a really great time pulling and yanking in the hot sunshine. We ended up with plenty of 16 to 30 lb. Yellows. We are now headed offshore in hopes of some kind of tuna action. The weather is great. See ya later, Jeff and the Indy crew
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06-17-2006 - Good evening everyone, we departed on a 5-day Proetto Charter yesterday afternoon. we ended up with a great load of sardines for the trip. After some great giveaways, rods, reels, jigs, tackle boxes, etc. we headed down the coast. The weather has corrected itself and we are enjoying some classic weather. We saw good sign of fish today, but they did not want to bite all that well. We ended up with 30 yellowfin tuna 30 to 50 lbs. Tomorrow we are headed to another area to try our hand at some yellowtail fishing. Wish us luck, Jeff and the Indy crew
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06-16-2006 - Hello everyone, We returned today from our mission bay marlin club 5 day charter. the big fish are as follows: Gerry Charest with a 48.4 yellowtail, Mike Bratton with a 48.0 yellowtail, Mike Bratton with a 44.7 halibut, Ron Anderson with a 44.2 yellowtail, Frank Woolrich with a 41.6 yellowtail and John Ash with a 40.4 yellowtail. We would like to thank everyone on board who made the trip a fun outing for all of us. Mark, Kyle, Judy, Tom, Ron, Dan, Walt, Steven and Rick.
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06-15-2006 - Good evening, Today the weather dealt us a bitter blow and we did not catch a thing for the day other than a rough ride. We will be in at 08:00 at the landing. Good night, The guys.
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06-14-2006 - Good day, Today we spent another day catching good grade yellowtail up to 50 lbs., we have a few fish in the 40 to 50 lb. range as well as one halibut that is about 35 lbs. The weather continues to windy and choppy. We will head up the line tonight and hope the weather comes down or it may limit our chances at offshore fishing tomorrow. Mark and the guys.
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06-13-2006 - Good evening, Today we had a nice change in the fishing department with good fishing on 18 to 25 lb. yellowtail. The fish bit the jigs best but also bit the flylined sardines and sardines on sinker rigs. The weather has been windy with choppy seas so we are hoping tomorrow brings better conditions. Good night, Mark and the guys.
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06-12-2006 - Hello everyone, Today was very tough fishing as we only tagged a couple of fish for the day. On the bright side the weather was perfect and we did catch and release some small yellowtail for a little bit of action. The weather is coming up a bit so we are going to try a different venue for tomorrow. Take care, Mark and the crew.
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06-11-2006 - Good Day, Today we returned from our fisherman's hardware 8 day adventure. The jackpot winners were as follows, Ying Lee big fish honors with a 91.6 yellowfin tuna, Pete Vickers took 2nd with a 62.6 yellowfin tuna and Alex Mobile had a 56.4 yellowfin tuna for 3rd place. We would like to thank Fisherman's Hardware and all the guys who made this 8-day spring
trip with us this year. We departed at noon on our Mission Bay Marlin Club 5-day trip and after loading a great mix of sardine and big anchovies we are headed south/west in good weather to start the trip offshore. Good night, Mark and the guys.
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06-10-2006 - The Independence will arrive at Point Loma Sportfishing at approximately 6:45am. See you all there.
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06-09-2006 - Hi everybody, we spent the day at San Benitos Island looking for yellowtail for most of the day. We had good action early in the morning, and then things shut off for the rest of the day. We tried for some jumbo reds in the afternoon, and had good success on 5 to 8 lb. red cod. All & all we caught 81 nice grade yellows, 18-lb. average up to 25 lbs. we are headed up the line in hopes of some offshore action for tomorrow. The weather is now a little bit breezy and choppy. See ya later Jeff and crew
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06-08-2006 - Good afternoon to all. Here is a quick report for today. We fished until 1200 hrs, and had great success for those Alijos brand yellowtail. While we caught only 3 tuna this morning, we boated 44 of those big yellows. We are on our way up the line in hopes of a good day trying for more yellowtail tomorrow. The weather is still good, and we hope it continues for a while. We should arrive at our destination around 0900, and see what the day brings. Wish us luck, the Indy crew
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06-07-2006 - Today was a whole different day than yesterday, literally. Things were on the tough side for us. We saw quite alot of fish, but they were on their own program. We caught 11 tuna and 11 yellowtail for our efforts. The weather is still great. We are going to fish here for half a day and then get a move on. See ya later Jeff and crew
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06-06-2006 - Hello again everyone, here is the fishing report for today. We had a really fun day today. We did not have much current early in the morning, but about 1030 the fish started biting, and stayed steady for the rest of the day. We kept 2 to 5 going for most of the time. These are a beautiful grade yellowfin, 25 to 60 lbs. The final tally for today is 92 tuna and 5 yellowtail. The weather is absolutely gorgeous, just enough breeze to keep us cool. We are going to try this again tomorrow. Wish us luck, Jeff and the Indy crew
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06-05-2006 - Good evening to all. We arrived at the stones around 1130 this morning. The weather has been as good as it gets since departing San Diego. We got to work as soon as we arrived here. While we did not have the greatest conditions, we managed to stay fairly busy for the most part. We ended up with 31 tuna 25 to 50 lbs. and 21 yellowtail that were good grade Alijos brand. Things look good out here for the most part. Wish us luck for tomorrow, Jeff and the Indy boys
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06-04-2006 - Good evening everyone, not too much to report for today. We traveled all day, and had a tackle seminar, got everyone rigged up properly. We had trolling jigs in the water all day and caught nothing but a few bonito. The weather is great, just a little breeze. We will arrive at the rocks around noon tomorrow. Wish us luck. Jeff and the Indy crew
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06-03-2006 - Good afternoon everyone lets get up to date. We just arrived from a day and a half trip. Things were a little slow for us, but we had a great time anyway. We are now out again on an 8-day trip sponsored by Fisherman’s Hardware. After loading some choice sardines, we headed out of San Diego bay. There were some great giveaways, including 5 new fishing rods, jigs, and other assorted gear. The weather is good as well. We are headed south at this time, and have Alijos rocks as our destination. Check back again for further up dates. , Jeff and the Indy crew
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06-02-2006 - The Independence will tie up at the Point Loma Sportfishing dock at 6:45am on Saturday.
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06-01-2006 - Hello again, Today we returned from our 5 day brian and Ric charter and the big fish as follows 1st place went to Bud Edwards with a 54.2 pound yellowtail a new best yellowtail for bud, 2nd place went to Steve Virture with a 40.6 yellowtail and Lee blaisdell took 3rd with a 36.1 yellowtail.
All and all we good fishing at the island but the offshore fishing was rather tough on us. The water conditions look good in the entire 5 day zone with clean 63.5 to 65 degree water so I feel good about the near furture for albacore and bf offshore. I would like to thank all guys and gal on the trip for making this charter so much fun to fish on. Good luck, Mark and the entire Indy Staff.
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05-31-2006 - Good evening, The report for today is short and sour as the fishing offshore was a blank on the tuna types. We did catch and keep some yellowtail however as well as release some to grow and bite another day. The weather was good with less than 12 knots of wind and moderate sea conditions. We'll be out on a 11/2-day trip tomorrow so hopefully fishing picks up in the short area. Good Luck, Mark, Kyle, Sean, Walt, Rolf, Tom, Dan and Steven.
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05-30-2006 - Hello again, Today was another good day in the lee. We had an all day pick on beautiful grade yellowtail up to about 50 pounds with some of the folks landing there personal best yellowtail. The weather here is nice also; tomorrow we will try our hand at some offshore fishing for albacore. Have a nice day, Mark and the guys.
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05-29-2006 - Good day to all, Today was a nice change of pace from yesterday as we had fair fishing on good size yellowtail for most of the day. The fish were in the 20 to 30 lb. range so we did lose many to the rocks, but 78 good ones did end out on the deck of the Indy. Weather is good fishing here in the lee of the Island as well. We'll spend tomorrow here in hopes of the same action. Take care, Mark and the boys.
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05-28-2006 - Hello everyone, We hope that you all had a safe and fun Memorial Day. Today we worked our way down the coast and fished offshore looking for albacore and bluefin tuna. Fishing was very slow to say the least, we did not catch a single fish for our efforts. We did see one school of 20 to 40 lb. bluefin that boiled up good but did not bite and that was all we saw fish wise for the day. The weather was ok with 15 knots of breeze and moderate sea conditions. Tomorrow we will be at one of the islands looking for yellowtail so wish us luck we will need it. Mark and the boys.
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05-27-2006 - Good day everyone, We returned today from our Bakerman's Fish Fest 5-day charter and our Jackpot was a 65 pound yellowtail. The fish tally for the trip was 115 yellowtail and 13 albacore. We would like to thank James Baker and the guys for putting together this charter with only 13 fisherman. Today departed on Brian and Ric's 5-day charter and after putting on a good load of Sardines we are headed south and will look offshore for tuna tomorrow. Talk to you later, Mark and the guys.
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05-26-2006 - Hello everyone, not too much to report today, as we opted to run up the beach and take a look at San Martin Island. It was quite windy on the offshore scene, the beach was the call. We did not see any yellowtail, but had good action on lingcod and some reds. We should be back to San Diego at 0700 tomorrow. See you then, Jeff and crew
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05-25-2006 - Good evening everyone, here is the latest. Today we had a little less wind, and that was quite nice for fishing. We had many chances at these good grade yellows, and managed to catch 54 of these beauties. Everyone had a really good time pulling on these brutes. We are headed up the line for tomorrows fishing activities. Right now we have choppy seas. Talk to you all later. Jeff and the Indy crew
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05-24-2006 - Hello again everyone, we fished San Benitos island today for some yellowtail. We did not have perfect conditions, as the lack of current made things tough for the most part. We did scratch 47 good grade yellows 20 to 30 lbs. and we have one standout fish I think will go 60 lbs. we plan on spending the next day here as well. There has been a lot of wind, and I hope it backs off for us. See you all later, Jeff, Kyle and Indy crew
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05-23-2006 - Well today was our first day to try for fish, and we had a little bit of action on the offshore scene. For the most part we had windy, choppy conditions. We released quite a few yellowtail, and caught 13 albacore. We are going to try for some yellowtail tomorrow at one of the islands down below, in an effort to get out of this wind. wish us luck, jeff and the Indy crew.
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05-22-2006 - We started off the season in April after our off season painting and boat maint. program along with our bottom and topside coast guard inspections with a 1 day ,1.5 and 3 day Freezer specials. Jeff returned from a 3-day offshore trip today at 7am. Jim Mcfadden landed a 31.4 bluefin to take 1st place, Dan O’Leary brought home a 29.2 for 2nd place jackpot, and Brian Norris a 29.0 bluefin for 3rd place. the boat count was as follows: 200 Yellowtail, 29 albacore, 29 bluefin tuna and 2 yellowfin tuna. We left the dock at 12 noon today for a 5-day. The summer has started and we definitely are glad to be back on the water. Our e-mail system on the boat has been a probelm for months now but hopefully the new system we have will work right and the daily reports from the boat will up after each day of fishing. Check back to see how the current trip is going later as the week progresses. Jeff, Kyle and the Indy Boys.
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02-27-2006 - Hello everyone, I know you are all anxious to get a detailed report from the Indy on their trip, That should be posted after tomorrows arrival. Calls are coming in regarding the E.T.A, Just recieved a call from Mark at 10:45am this morning that the boat is due in between 11:00am -12 Noon. Everyone has had a great time and it was told to me that they are all going to be happy to put their feet back on solid ground. The weather is great today for traveling. Thanks for being there. Mark, Jeff and The Indy Crew.
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02-23-2006 - Good day everyone, Today’s fishing was on the slow side, we had some good size wahoo. Managed to bring 8 tuna on board that weighed in between 50 – 165#. There seemed to be plenty sharks around the area, which made fishing a little tough. Still good weather and the guys are enjoying each others company. Still have one more day of fishing. So wish us luck. Jeff, Mark and the Indy Crew.
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02-22-2006 - Hello everyone. There was a small problem with our Sat phone yesterday, for some reason the captain couldn’t call out, so here’s a run down on the last 2 days. On Tuesday they scratched on some small tuna 75-100#. Picked up some good grades of wahoo. Today’s report was a little better fishing. 41 wahoo, 8 tuna. 3 of which was 170-185#. Most of the tuna they brought on board were 70-80#. The weather is good, nice breeze, so the kite fishing is fun. Hopefully the fishing picks up for Thursday. Tune in for more up-dates. Jeff, Mark and the Indy Boys.
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02-20-2006 - Good evening everyone, the report for today is quite bleak, the signs are good for some of the smaller grades of tuna, but not much on the big tuna yet. We are in hopes of getting into some tomorrow. Because of the lack of tuna we managed to bring 25 nice size wahoo onboard. Everyone is having a good time, so check back on Tuesday night for more reports. Mark, Jeff and the Indy Crew.
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02-19-2006 - Hello everyone, Sorry that there were no reports displayed for the last few days. Judy was out of town from Friday til late Sunday night. Reports will be back on track again. The computer is still not able to send reports, so they must be done the old fashion way. Jeff called in report for Sunday as follows. They fished the beach the first day and a half only to catch some small fish, so they headed on down to Hurricane Bank. They arrived at noon on Sunday, fished until dark with catching about 27 nice sized wahoo and tagged 6 tuna. They averaged from 70-100#, losing sevaral bigger tuna. Check back Monday night after 7:30pm for updates on Mondays fishing. Mark, Jeff and the Indy Boys.
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02-13-2006 - Good evening everyone. We just left San Diego harbor, got a good load of fresh bait and we are headed down the coast. Our sponsors this trip is Rod & Reel Radio and Catchy Tackle. We look forward to getting into some big tuna once again. Check back in a few days for more updates. Mark, Jeff & and Indy Crew.
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02-11-2006 - Hello again, Today the boat returned with another great catch of yellowfin and wahoo. The jackpot fish were as follows 1st place went to Brent Taylor with a 285 lb. yellowfin, 2nd place went to Larry Wicker with a 279 lb. yellowfin and 3rd place was Craig English with a 266 lb. yellowfin. Honorable mention with a 280 lb. yellowfin when to Richard Bartholomew. In all the trip returned with 47 tuna over 200 lbs. to go with many fish in the 150 to 199 lb. range, there were also 127 wahoo to go along with the tuna. We will post all the big fish for the trip in our hall of fame section ASAP. We leave monday on the rod and reel radio 15 day trip which will be our last trip until april. We will start our reports again next week so wish us luck and we will talk to you then, The indy staff.
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02-10-2006 - Good evening everyone. Just a quick update on the Independence. She will arrive at Point Loma Sportfishing at 6:30 am, If you wish to see them unload the fish, be there early. Mark will put on the internet the winning totals. Thanks for checking in with us. Paul, Kyle and the Indy Boys.
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02-07-2006 - We are headed home in good weather with a very nice catch of tuna and wahoo in our wells. We will stop on the way up the line and fish for something different for the dinner table, either reds or yellowtail or hopefully both. Thanks for checking in and wish you were here, The Indy guys.
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02-06-2006 - Hi Again everyone, here is a run down on our night bite from last night. We managed to catch 14 total tuna ranging in size from 165 –195 pounds. 3 of which were over 240#. This morning we had our run of 26 wahoo and a couple of tuna 150 pounds plus. We left the Hurricane at noon today, we plan to do some fishing as we head north up the line. The weather is beautiful today so we will have good traveling weather. Depending on the action as we head home there may be another report here in a couple days. Check back with us. Paul, Kyle and the Indy Boys
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02-05-2006 - Hi everyone, just a quick run-down on our night bite last night. We caught 13 tuna 6 weighed in at 165-190; 7 of which was 210-265. Our fish story for today... Little slow on the tuna bite, We brought in 41 wahoo and 2 tuna. The tuna each weighed in at about 195 pounds. Some of smaller tuna were release. This evening after watching the Super Bowl and having dinner we just set out for our night bite. At the time of this report we now have 4 Tuna on the boat, 2 hanging.. Those are estimated at 170 –200. The weather is super flat calm, no wind. In the morning we are going to try our hand at a few more hours of fishing and start for home at about noon. Check in Monday night for our last report on our morning bite. Paul, Kyle and the Boys
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02-04-2006 - Hello everyone, We had a slight computer glitch, as everyone knows our server was down for Saturday This posting is being posted Sunday morning. Friday night we fished into the wee morning hours and picked up 10 big tuna, 4 of which weighed in over 200. Today, Saturday was a little slower in the fishing sense. Managed to pick up 25 wahoo and 12 fish were released. We notice lots of big tuna hanging around the boat so we anticipate some good night fishing in hopes of picking up some cows. Today the weather was very good and on our side, no wind to speak of. Check back tonight for more info on Sunday fishing. Paul, Kyle & the Indy Boys.
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02-03-2006 - Hello Again everyone out there in web-land. The fishing these days seems to be good both day and night. Last night we landed 7 cows with 6 others between 160-195. Today’s fishing we caught 4 cows and kept 6 others between 160–190, with 20 wahoo mixed in. Some of the smaller tuna were released. The weather is good today. Our fish holds are almost to capacity and with 3 more days of fishing we’re going to be selective. David Fry has a message to his friends that could not go on this trip; he landed a cow today that weighed in at 249, plus various other sizes. Having a good time you all should be here. Way to go David!!!. Check back for more future updates. . Paul, Kyle & the Boys.
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02-02-2006 - Good evening everyone, The fishing continues to be good and steady. The fish also are going to more of a night bite pattern. Last night we kept 21 tuna in the 150 to 250 lb. range of which 3 were over 200. Today we only had 7 fish but 3 were over 200 lbs. as well. We also tagged 12 wahoo for the day. With the night fishing being the ticket we will split the crew up so everyone can either fish day or night or both. Beth Smith landed a nice fish that taped out at #247 first thing this morning. The weather is nice with the wind down to 8 to 10 knots. We still have 4 more days to fish so check back for more on this trip in progress. The Indy boys.
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02-01-2006 - Hello again everyone. Just another day in paradise. the bite once again was steady all day. We tagged 22 fish from 150 to 220 lbs. and 3 were over 200. We also had 9 wahoo. We’re going to continue on fishing tonight to see if we can catch more of these big tuna. Take care and check back again for more updates. Paul, Kyle and the Boys
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01-31-2006 - Hello again, Another good day on the tuna as we had 10 over 200 with two tapeing out at about 290 lbs. We also had 1 last night at 240 lbs. We are going to stay put to night in hopes of a night bite on the cows. We also kept 9 more tuna in the 160 to 195 lb. range as well as 17 wahoo. weather is the usual 15 knots we have had the entire time here fishing. Thanks for checking us out and we will report again tomorrow. The boys.
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01-30-2006 - Good evening, Today we had about the same weather pattern with 15 to 18 knots of wind and moderate sea conditions. The fishing was a bit on the slow side this morning but improved as the day wore on. We had 5 fish over 200 lbs. up to about 250 lbs. We also kept about 13 in the 165 to 195 lb. range.
We are currently trying to catch some flying fish for the kite. Hot baits for the day were Chunks and sardines for the flyline guys and squid and flyers best on the kite, so nothing new there. Thanks for checking in, The boys.
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01-29-2006 - Hello everyone. Our first full day of fishing was very eventful. For the most part we had some good steady action on the kite. Brent Taylor had a yellowfin that tapped out at 295 lbs. Way-to-go Brent!! We kept 31 fish that weighed in between 150-295 lbs with 8 over 200 lbs. we also landed a couple of wahoo. we had some action on smaller tuna in the 40 to 140 lb. range that were released. The fish were caught on just about everything including squid, sardines, flying fish and chunks. Tonight we are trying to catch more flying fish for bait. Check back tomorrow for more updates. Paul, Kyle and Indy Boys.
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01-28-2006 - Hello everyone. We arrived at the Hurricane Bank about 3pm today. The Anglers were all very excited to get some line wet and we only had a couple hours to fish before it got dark so we dropped anchor, threw some bait and managed to pull in 7 tuna 40-80# and 1 was 130#. The weather is fair, good kite weather. We are going to get a good start at the break of dawn in the morning. Check back for another report Sunday night. Wish us luck. Paul, Kyle and the Indy Crew
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01-27-2006 - Good morning everyone. We are still in our kickback mode. We’re all trying to get as much rest as possible for the big tuna that lie ahead, plus the anglers are still preparing and rigging their gear. We’re going to have our final seminar in the galley today. The guys have lots of questions. We are having good traveling weather. We should begin our fishing on Saturday.
Wish us luck and please check back Saturday night for more updates. Paul, Kyle and the Indy Crew
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01-24-2006 - Hello everyone, We just left San Diego this morning about 10:30am on another 18-day trip. Stopped off at the bait receiver and loaded up on some good bait. Had our seminar on safety, rigging and what is expected when we arrive at our destinations. Everyone is just relaxing in the galley, playing cards, watching TV and we just enjoyed a great dinner created by our master chef Garret, its time to sit back and enjoy talking fish stories and tomorrow we will prepare our gear for what lies ahead. If the Tuna Gods are with us we are hopeful for another historic trip. Tune in again for more info on this trip, its only the beginning. Paul, Kyle and the Indy Crew.
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01-23-2006 - Hello everyone, This is our final trip report from our West coast marking / Rick Ozaki 18 day adventure.
We ended up with 82 fish over 200 pounds. The jackpot fish were Ron Moy 1st place with a 292 lb. yellowfin tuna, Dana Trieschman with a 280 lb. yellowfin and Louie Marzari with a 269 lb. yellowfin. Everyone on board caught a yellowfin that went 200 pounds or better, a first on the Independence. Rick Ozaki 201, 200, 207, 216, 217, and 258. Allen Smith 200, 202,219,228,234,237 and 268. Jim Mann 206, 207, and 235. Louie Marzari 200, 206, 226, 232, 234, and 269. Anastasia Schmoll 201, 221, and 267. Victor Ness 200. Norm Sogioka 217 and 253. Beans Sogioka 201, 217, 222, 229, 231 and 239. Bruce Sogioka 217, 226, 238 and 249. Don Sogioka 207, 220, 221 and 225. Dana Trieschman 220, 224 and 280. Yo Shibuya 240. Don Drummey 208, 213, 223, 230, and 244. James Evans 206 and 236. Dave Rocchi 215, 223 and 239. Rodney Couch 200, 230, 231, 233, 238 and 246. Alan Moy 241 and 246. Steve Chambless 205 and 220. Ron Moy 202 and 292. Art Caballero 215, 217 and 247. Eddie Sison 203, 208, 215, 231, 233 and 234. Al Day 241 and 255. Sarkis Alajajyan 201,214, 228, 239. we would like thank Rick, Dave and Alan from westcoast marking and Sarkis from Avet reels for all the give aways during the trip. This was by far the most gear I have ever seen given away as prizes on a trip. A big thanks also goes out to all the fisherman that made this record breaking trip so fun to be part of. Take care and we'll talk to you soon, Jeff, Mark, Kyle, Sean, Ted, Ron, Walter, Rolf and judy.
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01-22-2006 - Good-day everyone, here is the final report from the boat. The weather has finally subsided, so we are now having much better traveling weather. The boat will tie up at Point Loma Sportfishing at 6:30am. Mark will post land report after the weigh in. Thanks for checking in. Jeff, Mark and the Indy Boys
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01-18-2006 - Well today was our last day at the Bank. spectacular fishing at it’s finest. Today we tagged 25, 21 were over 200 up to 250 the other 4 were 190-195. Also picked up a few wahoo.. We left the Bank early as the boat is wedged. Weather was much better today that it has been for several days here at the Bank. For the most part it was a vast improvement, small breeze, good traveling weather. We’re going to start making our way home, but may stop off to do some other type fishing. There won’t be much posted here until we arrive back in San Diego. However feel free to visit back on our report page for ETA or even maybe some other trivial information. Thanks for checking in. Jeff, Mark, and the Indy Crew.
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01-17-2006 - Hello everyone, just a short run down on our trip here at Hurricane bank. Really had some great fishing on the Wahoo. We tagged 38 Wahoo in the 25 – 40# range. Managed to tag 18 tuna; 14 were over 200 and 4 were 185-195. Also released 30 Yellowfin that weighed in between 125 – 185. The weather is starting to dissipate and get better for us. We have one more day of fishing here at Hurricane with a little more room for a few more fish, and then we are heading back home. Tune in for more info for our last day. Jeff, Mark & Indy Crew.
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01-16-2006 - Well, we arrived at Hurricane Bank at midnight on Jan 15. Anchored up and did some fun night fishing. We were able to pull in a handful of 150-170 Yellowfin tunas, 2 were 190 pounders. Today our morning bite was off, but this afternoon we enjoyed some very good fishing. Tagged 29 Yellowfin.. 10 were over 200. A couple of 205’s, 215’s, 220’s and 235. In amongst the big tunas we managed to tag several 185-195. The weather is not the greatest here at the Bank, but it’s still workable. We have 2 more days here to see what Mother Nature will and our good luck will have in store for us. So tune in again about this time Tuesday night for more up-dates on the Independence. Jeff, Mark & the Indy Boys
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01-13-2006 - Wow here we are once again with just a great day in paradise.. The fishing could not be better for us. The yellowfin tuna fishing at it’s finest!! We tagged 27 from 175-235.. Out of the 27 – 6 tuna weighed in over 200. They averaged out at 215 – 235. The anglers chose to release 18 big ‘uns –125-175. What a blissful day!!!! To add to that the weather once again today is absolutely gorgeous. We decided to make a move at the request of the anglers to head on down to Hurricane Bank to check out the wahoo and see what’s in store for yellowfin in that area. Check back with us on Monday night for updates, as we will be traveling Saturday and Sunday. Have a great weekend everyone. Jeff, Mark and the Indy Crew.
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01-12-2006 - WOW!!! What more can we say about this weather.. Just another great day in paradise. Everyone should be here. Our fishing today consisted of 29 beautiful tuna that weighed in between 185 – 220. We had 2 over 200, which 1 was 220 the other 211. The signs of good fishing is sure to continue. Everyday it just gets better and better. Once again if you want to get in on some good action there is still a couple spots open on our upcoming trip Jan 24. Don’t hesitate call in for details. Jeff, Mark and The Indy Crew.
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01-11-2006 - Excellent flat calm weather, beautiful sunshine today, we had a good morning bite, but the afternoon was on the slow side. Tagged 12 tuna from 175 –245. 6 were over 200. They were 2 at 245, 2 at 230, 1 225 and 1 at 211. Some of the anglers onboard already put on deck several from 150 – 175, so they chose to do some catch and release for fun. Everyone is still having a great time out here on the water. We’re going to work tomorrow for some bigger tuna, check back for more updates. Jeff, Mark and Indy Crew.
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01-10-2006 - Hello to everyone, We really had some great action on 185-195 pounders. What a day!! Tagged 29 and released a few.. We had 8 over 200, 2 we figured were 280+. Louie MARZARI and Dana TRIESCHMAN were at the top of the heap with their 280’s. What beautiful fish. We’re going to continue this spectacular fishing frenzy on Wednesday. Tune in again for our epic fish stories. Hi to all the families, your husband/boyfriends/and sweeties are having a time of their life. Jeff, Mark and Indy crew.
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01-09-2006 - Today was another great day of fishing along with beautiful weather. We were fortunate to land 38 of these great tuna. We had 30 fish from 175-199 pounds and 8 over 200 up to 275#. This epic fishing just keeps going with no let up in sight. We are still seeing good schools of big fish, and are anxious for tomorrow to get here so we can get back to fishing. Hope to have another good report tomorrow. Jeff, Mark and Indy Crew
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01-08-2006 - Hi to everyone from the passengers and crew. The first day for fishing was good action.. 180-245#. Today they tagged 19 fish of which 5 were over 200. Weather is ok, hopefully improves. If we put together another day like today we’ll be in good shape. Check back tomorrow for more news aboard the Indy. Jeff, Mark and the Indy Boys
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01-06-2006 - The Indy left San Diego on Jan 5, picked up a good load of bait and headed South to Big Fish country. Our Sponsors on this trip is West Coast Marketing (Rick Ozaki), Avet Reels, and Smittie's Belts. Today They did seminars and started rigging up gear. The weather is great, perfect traveling weather. Flat seas, no wind, blue skies, lots of sunshine. The Indy still be traveling on Saturday, So with the Satphone still not working, Jeff said he would call in with a report late Sunday night, so check back for further details. Jeff, Mark, and the Indy Boys.
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01-03-2006 - Today the boat returned from our end of the year 8 day. They did come in with a fair catch of tuna a nd yellowtail but did not catch any of the big fish. The days they spent in the big fish area the weather was up and made things tough on locating any of the bigger fish. The weather came down and the bigger fish came up and bit for the guys that were there. We will be leaveing on our first long trip of the season on the 5th. We have had some probelms with both our web site and the e-mail link on the boat and we are trying to get things worked out asap. Thanks for checking in.
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