ROLLING RITE ALONG

We had another great day down here despite sub par conditions, you really had to leave no stone unturned, scour this place. The end result was a few cows and plenty of those 70 to 140 lb. fish with a few bigger and a few smaller ones. One wants to be around when things get straightened out down here for sure, one thing for certain is we'll keep trying. With one bulging well of beautiful RSW fish we are working on another one. Big fish honors went to Felix Alejandro with a 247 and Daniel Blalock with a 215. Great weather, sea ya later, Jeff

PLUGGING AWAY

Sounds like a broken record but it's the truth, pretty poor conditions but there are some beautiful tuna to be had. We had another great day on that 70 to 150 lb. fish with a few bigger and a few smaller ones to round things out. It seemed like we always had one hooked up, sometimes 2 or 3 all day long. We are going to keep working at it , thanks for checking in on us, Jeff and the Indy crew

REGULATION BANK WITHDRAWL

Good evening folks we made a change of scenery and were very pleasantly pleased with the results when we got set up on the spot. From 2 am till dark it was goooood fishing for 150 to 270 lb. Tuna. There were some smaller fish in the 70 to 125 class , but for the most part it was all,bigguns. 40 fish for the day and 8 nice cows to round things out. We are going to camp out and do this again for our last day, sea ya then , Jeff

WOW! GOOD LIVING

Shortly after typing up yesterday's report we got hit by these warriors from the deep, it was one of those nite bites you read about. 150 to 250 lb. tuna biting everything, this went on till daylight, after that we got a break and caught a fish here and there until the afternoon hit again. We put a few more cows on board during all this and sorry for the lack of more pics , but it was too busy during the night bite. We are all done here with 65 fish for the effort today, and going to start running up. Everyone is worn out. Sea ya later , Jeff

ETA Saturday 12/10/2016

Well, as usual after experiencing fantastic fishing like we had , we are paying the piper , as the weather is less than cordial out here. Nonetheless we'll take it any day. Roger has lots of great sponsorship and many thanks to all of them, Phenix rods, salas lures, Tady lures, lead master, snider flyers, owner hooks, seaguar flouro , yozuri, izorline, mustad hooks, jax sabiki, v c gurlz, raider jigs. We will be docked at 0500 tomorrow and unload our stellar catch. Sea ya then , Jeff

ETA Saturday 12/10/2016 UPDATE 7AM

THERE IS a change in ETA for Saturday 12/10...7am, weather is not cooperating...

INDEPENDENCE RETURNS

Jack pot winners
1st Daniel Blalock 245 lb. 215 lb.
2nd Gary Sturney 243 lb.
3rd Sal Proetto 230 lb. 210 lb.
other cows no particular order
Nalie Kim 225 lb.
Don Klahs. 200 lb.
Joe Soloman 208 lb. 214lb.
Rick Berg. 230 lb.
Paul Gains. 239 lb.
Dane Barriault 215 lb.
Larry Morris 200 lb.
Fred Lee 203 lb.
Bud Edwards 203 lb.
Felix Alejandro 234 lb.
Roger Eckhardt 223 lb.
Ben Amboy 230 lb.
great job everyone, 18 cows , much thanks to everyone who made the trip this year, sea you all next year, Jeff and the Indy crew

AFTCO SPONSOR TRIP

We are out on another great trip here. We left yesterday on the Aftco 10 day. In our travels down we have some time to rig up for the battles ahead. Aftco supplied us all with a ton of great gear. Let's just say we will be fishing in style! We have a couple days to get to our destination but will keep our eyes peeled for the ride down. Another great group on our hands and with great reports. We are all anxious to start fishing and hope to have some great reports. Matt and Indy crew.

STILL HEADING SOUTH

On our way down still and traveled over the usual high spots today with little to no sign. We are gonna try for some bait tonight and continue our mission south. Today was spent doing our last minute rigging and getting ready for the big fish that are hopefully off our bow. Let's hope we find some native bait to give us a bit of an advantage. Tomorrow we will be fishing our way down and will let you know what we come up with.

Super Cow Start

Well we have finally made it to our destination this afternoon and we got a little taste of what's around. We landed our first fish of the trip and it taped out at 339 pounds! I hope this is the start of good things to come. Way to go Bob Cartier of Oxnard. The hard work paid off. We hooked a few more larger fish and ended up with one at 150#. Tomorrow is another day and we are gonna give it hell trying to land some more. Wish us luck. Matt and Indy crew.

GOOD SHOW

There is great sign of good grade Tuna down here! Fish from 100 to 200+ pounds! Just one problem, they aren't so hot to eat the hook... we watched hundreds of fish today blow out of the water and put on a really good show. We stayed very patient throughout the day and managed to scratch away at a couple handfuls of nice fish from 130 to 216 pounds. It was pretty frustrating watching this spectacular show but we never lost our participation. I think it would be hard to tough it out another day so we are going to make a little move up the line and try elsewhere. We gave it a good shot and were mildly rewarded for our efforts but hey that's fishing! We have great weather down here and tons of time. We will check in tomorrow. Matt and crew.

FUN IN THE SUN

We had good action today on school grade Yellowfin. Everybody had some fun tugging on quite a few today. The weather is epic so far and everyone has got their fill on Tuna. We are moving on up the line for tomorrow and Yellowtail is the next target. Wish us luck.

YELLOWTAIL

It was a little bit windy today but we managed to catch a few Yellowtail. The hot ticket was the yo-yo jig. Everyone was a grinding in the wind and we got a good start on our Yellowtail catch. We moved up a bit and we are gonna try for more yellow tomorrow. The weather is forecasted to come down a bit and we have all day to give it a whack. The nights are a bit colder than down south! Wish us luck guys! Matt and Indy crew.

ETA

The Independence will dock at 6:00AM Tuesday morning. To all of our passengers and friends have a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year.

A SAD DAY

It is with heartfelt sadness to report the passing of our dear friend John Rowe. He passed on peacefully this morning with his wife Kathy at his side. For all of us that knew John, we feel so blessed to have had him be a part of our lives.John was a true gentleman in every meaning of the word. John was best know for his long relationships with Izorline, Seaforth Sportfishing, and Friends Of Rollo where he served as Executive Director. His tenure with Friends Of Rollo was instrumental in making it the huge success it is today. Our prayers go to Johns' family in this time of grief.
Fair winds and following seas my friend
The entire Independence family

AFTCO 10 DAY RETURNS

We arrived in San Diego yesterday with a great catch. First place jackpot was Richard Hodges of Fairbanks Alaska going 221 Second place Dave Klein at 215. Third place Bob Hager at 203. Honorable mention went to Bob Cartier with his monster at 349.6. Thanks again to Aftco and everyone who came out. See you next year.

YELLOWTAIL ACTION

We left yesterday on our annual Christmas special 5 day trip. We started off this afternoon at our first spot and got a few handfuls of nice grade Yellowtail. We had a ton of action on those pesky Bonito and got a nice taste of Yellowtail. We are going to give the Yellowtail another try tomorrow. We have great weather and we are ready for action! Matt and Indy crew

GOOD DAY

Had some good action today on Yellowtail. We gave it all day and ended up with a decent catch of Yellows. There is a ton of life down here and lots of different fish to pull on. We are going to give it another shot in the morning. Matt and Indy crew.

MORE FUN IN THE SUN

Another day of beautiful weather and some yanking away on Yellowtail. We got ourselves another nice catch of 16-20# Yellowtail today. All are happy and we are headed up to do some rock fishing in the morning. Thanks for checking in. Wish us luck

ETA

The Independence will arrive at 7:00AM Saturday morning.

New ETA

Slight change in ETA.. 6am-6:15am on 12.31.2016