June 2013
Fish Report & Photo Archive
Season Opener Begins
by Indy Crew, 6-01-2013
Well I must say it is good to be back on the water, as we are back out on our annual Dick Shaffer 8-day extravaganza. After a stop at the bait receivers we were on our way. A brief safety meeting followed by a tackle seminar which included tackle give-a-ways and some reels and rods for the lucky ones. The forecast is good weather and a sign of bluefin offshore, we have high hopes for starting the trip off on a high note, please wish us luck, Jeff and the Indy crew, Jesus, Matt, Doug, Tyler, Oscar, Ed, and Michele, Watch our postings on Facebook.
BFT Beauties
by Indy Crew, 6-02-2013
Good evening to everyone from the Independence. Our first day of fishing was not by any means a barn burner, but I can say we saw plenty of fish around to make you want to spend some time around here. As far as catching goes, we tagged 28 yellowfin tuna, 18 to 30 lbs. and 2 bluefin tuna 120, and 140 lbs.. We did see good sign of these bigger bft, but getting a bite was tough. The weather is just beautiful, and we are going to camp out here for another day to see if the fish gods can give up some more of these beauties to us. Check out our face book page for some photos of today's hot action, and please wish us luck for tomorrow, Jeff and the Indy crew
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8 Bluefin and a couple dozen Yellowfin
by Indy Crew, 6-03-2013
I just got off the phone with Captain Jeff DeBuys called in. The weather is flat calm. We have 8 bluefin tuna (5 at or above 100 pounds) plus a couple dozen Yellowfin Tuna in the 15 to 20 pound class. We have three more big ones hanging right now.
We wish we had some wind right now. If the wind was blowing we could get the kites up and catch more fish. But right now there is no wind.
Note from Chad: By the way, sorry about the misinformation earlier today. They got a 110 pounder not 110 fish. Sorry!
The Independence lands 2 Bluefin over 100 lbs. and 30 Yellowfin on the 2nd day of their 8 Day Trip
by SportfishingReport.com Staff, 6-03-2013
Jeff checked in from the Independence with this report. "It is Monday morning, the 2nd day of our 8 day trip. We spent the 1st day offshore yesterday, we saw some very good signs for the upcoming Summer season. We saw numerous signs of big Bluefin. Although it is very tough to get a bite, there is a lot of bait in the area that they are on. We did manage a 120 & a 140, along with about 30 Yellowfin. The Yellows were from 18 to 30 lbs."
If you'd like more information on trips with the Independence call 619-226-6006.
Holy Smokes ? Lots of Potential
by Indy Crew, 6-03-2013
Captain Jeff DeBuys called in to report a great day today. We got a 110 pounder Bluefin Tuna early in the AM on the Jig. We then scratched away on some Yellowfin early in the morning (18 to 30 pounds). Then we found a jumbo school of jumbo Bluefin Tuna. We drifted for 9 hours and caught 25 Bluefin Tuna (22 over 100). We did have one tape out at 150 and another at 130. We did lose quite a few too! We had flat calm weather. We are making a move and will get back in touch with you soon!
Action At Its Finest
by Indy Crew, 6-03-2013
What an opportunity we had today. It all started at 0430 when we caught a 110 lb BlueFin Tuna on a jig. After that we short stopped on yellowfin tuna for a couple of hours. 1100 hrs we got on a really good spot of jumbo bluefin, and drifted for 9 hours. To say we had our chances doesn't quite cover it, as we were really busy at times. When the smoke cleared we had dropped 25 of these brutes in the rsw hold. 22 of these were 105 to 150 lbs. and the other 3 were 60 to 90 lbs.. Quite a few casualties, but over all everyone did an excellent job, including the Indy crew. Jigs were popular, and sardines. Flat calm weather was the key. Check our face book page for some great pictures from today. We plan on making a move, so please wish us luck on that, Jeff and the Indy crew. One spot left on trip#4..Get in on the action, Don't be left at the dock.
The Indy Report
by Indy Crew, 6-04-2013
Hello everyone, not too much to report today, as we were currently in travel - fish mode. We covered lots of good water, and have just a few yellowtail for our efforts. We will be at our destination early tomorrow, and get back to work, thanks for checking in. Check us out on our Face book page shows hour by hour pictures..., the Indy crew
Yellowtail Classic Fishing
by Indy Crew, 6-05-2013
Hello again from the Independence, today we had just a classic fishing day for the spring time yellowtail down at the rocks. We had non stop action on 18 to 35 lb fish all day long. the salas 6x was a big hit for the yo yo guys, as was the sardine fisherman, and dropper loop killed 'em just as well, to say a good time was had by all doesn't do the day justice. We easily obtained our daily limits for yellowtail all the while enjoying the beautiful sunny weather. We are currently getting set up on one of our favorite night time big yellowtail spots, so please wish us luck tonight. Also there are some pictures from today on our face book page, good night Jeff and the Indy crew
Daydream Believer
by Indy Crew, 6-06-2013
Today was again the kind of day you dream about when you sign up for one of these spring time early summer trips. Although the night bite never got with the program we did have stellar day fishing for yellowtail. The over all grade today was better than yesterday. Again we easily achieved our daily limits of this 25 to 35 lb. Jacks with a few bigger and a few smaller in the mix. We departed around noon to gain some altitude and check out an island for tomorrow. The weather is a bit choppy at the moment, but not too bad here on the mighty Indy. There are a few pictures on face book from the hot action, thanks for checking in, Jeff and the Indy crew
YT, Halibut, Sea Bass
by Indy Crew, 6-07-2013
Well we finally got out of the wind today. We fished behind the island for yellowtail, and some big halibuts. It was a fun day as the long rod guys got in on some surface plugging, with the salas 7 x,'s being the jig of choice. As I am writing this Joe Armstead just landed a 40 lb. sea bass and Bill Worden landed a 40 lb. halibut. Good for them, we are going to head up the line tonight and stop somewhere tomorrow for a while and wet a line, wish us luck please, Jeff and the Indy crew
Returning to PLSF Landing
by Indy Crew, 6-08-2013
The Independence will return on Sunday 6/9 at approximately 6am. I will begin sign-in for next trip at 7am. We will try to get the boat back on the water as quickly as possible..Don't forget your passports.
ETA & Points Four Future Interest
by Indy Crew, 6-08-2013
Hello again from the independence, we are on our way home now, but we did stop this morning for some deep water table fare. Good ling and red fishing put the icing on the cake. Here is a brief run down, and what worked best this week. As far as the offshore thing goes keep it simple. If the big rigs are around a good sound 50 or 60lb outfit with the same pound floro and a 3/ 0 circle hook, I would start with the 60 lb. when you first stop, and then drop down only if you really have to. If it is that school size yellowfin around then some 30 and 40 lb. with floro is all you need. as far as the jigs for the bft the jigs that worked best for us were salas 7x and 6x heavy, blue n white , and chrome n blue, or a tady 4 / 0 all tied to some 80 or 60 lb.. One thing, leave the flimsy, light stuff at home, you need to pull on 'em, so stout rods are best, well balanced outfits are the rule. As far as yellowtail fishing, it really doesn't get any easier on one of these trips, jigs, or bait, take your pick. I hope it helps out on the future trips. We have had another banner trip with the Dick Shaffer group again, many personal bests, bft, and some yellows. We will be back to San Diego at 0600 tomorrow, Jeff and the Indy crew
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Turn around
by Indy Crew, 6-09-2013
Hello everyone, we did our turn around today and are back out on the yellowtail/ tuna shoot out. The 8 day Dick Shaffer trip returned today and had some really nice bluefin tuna with 24 fish over 100 pounds!! Jackpot fish on the trip went to Steven Raye at 174, Max Dennemeyer took 2nd with a 157 and 3rd place fell to Robert Edwards with his 153.6 Bluefin tuna. Other fish over a 100 pounds were caught by Terry Sandoval 106 and 113, Mary Hollifield 117, Mordy Kay 120, Bud Edwards 122, Amir Azmar 130, Michael Foreman 107, Kevin Foreman 108, William Crowthers 126, Aaron Lee 114, Joseph Bellantonio 116.8 and 119, Robert Edwards 111.8 and 125.4 in addition to his 153, Gary Vander Lyke 125, John Hernandez 123, Bill Worden 134, Michelle Worden 113, Randy Benner 117, Joseph Montoya 123 and Dick Shaffer 119. The trip also had limits of yellowtail and some nice 18 to 30 pound yellowfin tuna. We are currently headed south in nice weather with a great load of bait and plan to start offshore in the BF area, wish us lots of luck. The Indy gang.
Good fishing
by Indy Crew, 6-10-2013
Hello again from the Independence, today we had good fishing on bluefin tuna in the 25 to 80 pound range, for the day we ended with 61 beautiful bluefin, 28 fish were in the 25 to 45 pound range and the rest were 45 to 80 with most around 60-65 pounds. We have great fishing weather and plan to do this for another day and see how it goes.
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Great quality BFT fishing
by Indy Crew, 6-11-2013
Good evening, today we had excellent fishing on quality Bluefin tuna, we ended the day with 89 fish with most in the 50 to 65 lb. range a few in the 40's but not many. Weather was again key to our success with less than 10 knots of wind and a mild sea state. Tomorrow we are going to try for yellowtail at one of our favorite spots. We will send some pictures when time permits.
Great 6 Day Trip
by Mark Pisano, 6-12-2013
Captian Mark Pisano called in from the Independence this afternoon with an update from Cedros Island. We are in the middle of a 6 day trip. We had excellent fishing for two days on nice grade Bluefin Tuna. The majority of the Bluefin were in the 50 to 70 pound class. We are currently fishing nice big Yellowtail at Isla Cedros and we will be visiting the offshore grounds for Tuna on the way back home. It has been a great trip! We will update you in a couple days!
Lots of fish, but all show
by Indy Crew, 6-12-2013
All show and not much go today on the yellowtail, we looked at thousands of puddling yellows today that just would not bite. We ended the day with 35 nice yellows in the 20 to 30 pound range for the morning, in afternoon the wind 20 to 25 knots limiting us to a small fishable area so we did some calico bass fishing and had a nice bite on those for while. We are going to try tomorrow for yellows and see if anything changes. Wish us luck.
Fun day in the sun
by Indy Crew, 6-13-2013
Today we had beautiful weather and yellowtail that wanted to bite a lot better, fishing was good on 15 to 22 pound yellows, the jigs worked well as did the fly lined sardine on 30 and 40 pound test. Calico bass again were up in force as we released lots while fishing for yellows, one nice halibut also made it aboard. Plan A for tomorrow is to give the tuna another try on the way north, wish luck the Indy crew.
6am arrival 6/15/13
by Indy Crew, 6-14-2013
Hi Anglers, this is to let you all know that the Indy will arrive at approximately 6am on Saturday 15 at 6am...I will begin sign-in about 6:30.Departing Anglers..Don't forget your passports
Great trip
by Indy Crew, 6-15-2013
Hello everyone, we have returned from our annual Westcoast marketing/ Independence shoot-out, first I want to thank Rick Ozaki from Westcoast who donated Avet reels and Graphtech rods for prizes on biggest fish caught. A big thanks goes out to all the fishermen and fisher ladies that made the trip.
Grand prize winner of the $1,000 independence gift certificate was Matt Puetz for his 68.2 bluefin tuna, other winners in the tuna category were Kevin Ho 66.2 BFT Avet 2sp, Randy Toepher 65.4 BFT Avet 2sp, Greg Atkins 64.6 BFT Graphtech rod, George Roxas 64.2 BFT Graphtech rod, Tom Porter 62.2 BFT Indy hoodie.
In the yellowtail category biggest yellowtail was caught by Ruth Atkins for her 29.6 YT winning an Avet 2sp, second biggest YT went to Wilma Atkins 27.9 yellowtail taking a Graphtech rod and Tom Porter taking home a Graphtech rod for his 27.8 yellowtail. Thanks again to all our sponsors Avet Reels, Graphtech rods and Westcoast Marketing. Next years trip will again be a six day trip with lots of giveaway prizes, please call Judy to rebook your spot now.
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Big Fish Tackle Departs
by Indy Crew, 6-17-2013
Hello again from the independence. After a quick turn around Saturday we departed on the big fish tackle 8 day. With a good supply of sardines we were on our way. we had the usual tackle seminar, followed by another huge tackle raffle , cal star, okuma,Sabre hats and shirts, jigs, eagle claw hooks, we rolled down to the offshore grounds only to find that things had changed a little bit, mainly in the weather dept. we did see little bits here and there, and one good school, but the weather was far from perfect. We did manage 9 of those beauties and a few yellowtail for our efforts. Not the start we had hoped for, but there is still time. We are going to give it another try before the weather really kicks up. Thanks for checking in, and wish us luck, Jeff and the Indy crew, Paul, Jesus, Kevin, Oscar, Doug, Ed and Rolf "aka Rolls"
Weather Is Slightly Up
by Indy Crew, 6-18-2013
Hey there, here is the latest from us out here on the Indy. We had a half day travel, half day fishing yesterday for a hand full of tuna in the morning, then we traveled some more. Today we had good yellowtail fishing for the first half day we spent here. Most fish in the 17 to 25 lb. category, with a few bigger and a few smaller. The Salas 6x was on fire, as well as the sardine, and dropper loop guys. The weather is up, so we are going to do this again tomorrow and go back off shore when things settle down. Please wish us luck, Jeff and the Indy crew
Memorable Yellowtail Action
by Indy Crew, 6-19-2013
Well we had a good day fishing for yellowtail. The over all grade today was really good, as the Alijos brand yellowtail were out in force. Everyone enjoyed the day trying for bigguns. We are now running up to the offshore tuna grounds with high hopes for the last 2 days of the trip. Again the hot jig was a Salas 6x blue n white, a few on 7x for the long rod guys. The weather is still far from perfect but expected to improve by Friday. Please wish us luck, the Indy crew
Yellowtail Action
by Indy Crew, 6-19-2013
Well we had good day fishing for yellowtail. The over all grade today was really good, as the Alijos brand yellowtail were out in force. Everyone enjoyed the day trying for bigguns. We are now running up to the offshore tuna grounds with high hopes for the last 2 days of the trip. Again the hot jig was a Salas 6x blue n white, a few on 7x long rod guys. The weather is still far from perfect but expected to improve by Friday. Please wish us luck, the Indy crew
Limits of Bluefin Tuna
by Indy Crew, 6-21-2013
Captain Jeff Debuys called in to report a fantastic day of offshore Bluefin Tuna fishing. It started early in the morning and lasted all day long. We ended up with LIMITS of Bluefin Tuna (30 to 50 pounders). At times they were biting really well. The weather was beautiful. It's a great time to go fishing.
BLUE FIN BONANZA....
by Indy Crew, 6-21-2013
WOW what a day we had here on the Independence, things got going early, and kept on going all day long. The over all grade is a beautiful 30 to 60 lbs.. The sardines were the hot ticket with flouro. We did have some success with the heavy salas 6x for the jig guys as well. After all the dust cleared we had limits for everyone for today. Today the weather was good off shore fishing weather. We sent in pictures, so you can check them out on our face book page. We are gaining some altitude, and are going to check some different water tomorrow before we head for the barn. Thanks for checking in on us, Jeff and the Indy crew
Indy Returns 6/23/13 5:30am
by Indy Crew, 6-22-2013
On our way back home... today we spent looking in another ocean for some kind of sign of tuna, or yellowtail. We found the yellows, but released most of them to grow. No sign of tuna, at least where we drove through. We have had a good trip, but we earned every fish we caught, as the weather at times was not on our side. Everyone had a great time, and lots of personal bests were had on this trip. Our E T A for tomorrow is 0530 am, so until then, tight lines, Jeff and the Indy crew
Lucky JP-trip#1304
by Indy Crew, 6-23-2013
Good morning everyone, here is a recap on trip#1304, Thanks to everyone that came out with us , including our Chartermaster Ron Hirao from Big Fish Tackle/Okuma Tackle. Lots of prizes were distributed for our passengers., Our Jp winners were Louie Gagliardotto from DIAMOND BAR, Ca came home with a 59# bluefin our 1st place winner. 2nd place was Scott Smith from POWAY, Ca. 57.4 Bluefin, and 3rd place goes to George Costa from MIRA LOMA Ca. 57# Bluefin. Once again we thank all of you for your participation and your continued support and loyalty, see you all in 2014. The Indy Staff and Crew
We're Back On The Water
by Indy Crew, 6-25-2013
Hello again from the Independence. We had a quick, smooth turn around on Sunday, and a good trip with big fish tackle, thanks to everyone who made the trip with us this year, as well thanks to big fish for everything. We departed on another venture, this one our good friends at seeker rods being the sponsor. After loading bait we were off and running. Many great raffles and giveaways were distributed to all. Yesterdays fishing was a challenge to say the least, as things down in the tuna zone had really changed. We along with one of our code boats spent the better part of the day churning up the water till dark. We were able to salvage the day right before sun down with a school, and proceeded to boat 51 of these beauties before total darkness took over. We are on the move today to see if we can locate some more fish for our group. The weather is ok and looks to get right by the end of the week. Please wish us luck, Jeff and the Indy crew, Matt, Jesus, Oscar, Kevin, Tyler, Michele and Rolf
YELLOWTAIL BONANZA..
by Indy Crew, 6-26-2013
WHAT A DAY... Today was one of those days that keep you coming out here time after time again. Things got going right after daybreak, and didn't even slow down till we left to start for the tuna zone. It was steady 4 to 8 going, 25 to 40 lb. Yellows biting everything. we even had a couple fish pushing 50 lbs. the guys with the salas 6x yoyo jigs absolutely killed em, as well as the sardine fisherman, and long rod 7x guys were busy as well . The weather I would give a high rating, a 10 along with fishing a 10 plus. Everybody really had a great time, pulling, and yanking in the hot sun. We are all fixed up on these yellows, so we are going to spend the rest of the trip offshore in hopes of some bluefin tuna schools that want to join the festivities. Please wish us luck, Jeff and the Indy crew
Independence Update reporting Fantastic Yellowtail Fishing
by Indy Crew, 6-27-2013
Jeff DeBuys called in to report on the Independence's 8 Day trip."The first day out we had a decent
Catch-up On Reports and ETA 5:45 7/1/13
by Indy Crew, 6-30-2013
Let's get caught up on what's going on. We spent a day at the island catching big calico bass, releasing them back to bite again, along with a few big halibut we kept. With all the great reports from the bluefin grounds we thought we were going to run back out there for a few days and do some business. When we got out to the grounds we found conditions had changed, really changed. This sort of thing is very common in our line of work, so we just kept at it for a few days and we did not score any bluefin, but had good scratch fishing on yellowfin tuna 18 to 30 lbs., by the end of the second day out there the weather was back to the way we like it. Everyone had good time fishing for these yft, quite a few jig strikes; the hot trolling jig was the braid blackjack. We are going to switch gears today and fish for some lings and reds to add a little color to our beautiful catch. We will post a report, and e t a for tomorrow later on, thanks for checking in on us, Jeff and the Indy crew
ANOTHER UPDATE
by Indy Crew, 6-30-2013
We made a few drifts for reds and lings today to round out our catch. With a little luck we should be back to San Diego at 0545 tomorrow. Many thanks to Seeker Rods and everyone who made the trip this year. Everyone did a great job on the fishing end, with limits of beautiful yellowtail, 135 mixed tuna, bunches of big calico bass, and a few halibut and Dorado. Sea you all in the morning, Jeff and the Indy crew
