Greener Pastures

Well the move outside proved to be worth the time and fuel, as we were greeted with good conditions and good fishing all day long. The early bite was best for 130 to 198 lb. Tuna as after day lite the grade was mostly 80 to 125 lb. fish. When I checked the board we had tallied 50 tuna and 4 or 5 Wahoo for the effort today. Everyone had a really great time today in the warm sun trying for fish and fun. We re going to try for some bait tonight and give this another try tomorrow, I hope I works out, wish us luck, Jeff and the Indy crew

Early Bite Again

good evening everybody, here is what we know about today. Things got going today around 0300 and around 1000 hrs they got lock jaw. I will say one thing, the fish we did catch and lost were mostly good ones, as we had ample chances this morning. The over all grade was 130 to 255 lbs. lots of that 140 to 190 lb. fish... The stand outs today were Steve Pettibone with a 255 lb. tuna and Rick berg's 215 and John Collins with a 205 lb tuna. The afternoon was saved by some Wahoo that kept us entertained. 17 tuna and a couple of hand full's of skin for the day. Great weather all around. Wish us luck tomorrow, Jeff

WAHOO INVASION.....

Hello from the independence. The early morning hit on yellowfin lacked the numbers we were used to seeing, as there were only a few biters for the early tuna fisherman. 10 tuna was all we could muster up today. The largest tuna today was caught by Sam Raiter and weighed 240 lbs.the wahoo stepped it up today and put on a good show for us and we enjoyed fishing for them most of the day. 40 nice big wahoo for the effort was what we got today. Flat calm weather again made things really enjoyable out here. That pretty much sums it up for us, wish us luck, as we have 2 more days to fish and then we're done. Sea ya later Jeff

CINCO DE MAYO, GOING OUT IN STYLE

Hello again from the Independence. With poor fishing yesterday we were hard pressed to make the most out of our morning we had left to finish the trip. We were not disappointed, as the sign of big tuna was just awesome this a.m. We had lots of chances at bigguns and had a few heart breaks, BUT when the dust settled we had put together a beautiful catch, 36 tuna, 3 cows, another 10 were 190 to 199 lbs. and many 150 to 185 lb.ers and the rest were stock grade 80 to 100#. Big fish honors today went to Jim Poore with 225# tuna, Clarence Becker with a 230# fish, and Steve Vetrone with a 205# as well. The sign of big fish was as good as I've seen in a while, too bad we had to leave at 1100 hrs for San Diego. We will try to put some pictures up on our FB page in the next few days. Everyone caught fish this morning, and is now relaxing with the nice ride home. Sea ya later, Jeff

Almost Home.......

although we had pretty good success fishing down below this trip , we didn't have a very good ride home as in we payed the piper for the good fishing we had. What worked this trip is simple, time at the rail, as usual, and being able to switch gears , try different techniques. The guys had good success with capt jimmy wahoo bombs for the wahoo also. If all goes as planned we should be back to the dock at 0715 tomorrow morning. Sea ya all then, Jeff

Trip wrap up.......

the independence returned today with a great catch that included 18 fish over 200 lbs. and many 150 to 199 lb.ers as well. The jack pot winners were 1st place 263 lb. Steve Pettibone, and 2nd place Clarence Becker with a 262 lb., and Sam Raiter with 3rd place 258 lb beauty. We would like to thank Sav-On Tackle and Steve Vetrone for another great trip, and many, many thanks to everyone who made the trip this year such a huge success. I look forward to the next adventure with everyone. Thanks again,

Our Season Begins

We have just completed our Annual Maintenance, including Coast Guard Inspections and the boat looks pristine..Our first 8 day trip will depart on Saturday, so watch for fish reports and pictures. Bluefin and Yellowfin are on the bite. Jeff will head into them this weekend..We do have WIFI for some reason the Logo has dropped from our home page. working on it...