Reports From the Bridge

Well we have 35 happy people and a very happy fuel dock owner.
That’s right Mike went the distance again and it payed off with limit style fishing at Cedros for Quality yellows
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They will be heading back up the line tonight and give the tuna a try again tomorrow.
tight lines and good times
IRV

Thanks for all the support but enough said

Lets get back to what’s important FISHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mike spent the day looking offshore and working his way south. Over night he made the run to Cedros in hopes of haveing one good on the yellows we will keep you posted.

I would like everyone to know we take your comments (Good and Bad) very seriously. We listen the criticism and try to improve our operation.

 Some times we get a comment like the one I am posting.  I would invite your comments. Please note this was from the guy that posted the comment that he wanted to fish for  only tuna and going 300+ miles for yellowtail was a waste of time.

WOW, where do i start,Mike the captain, needs glasses, he couldn’t find a Tuna in a 5gal bucket and if he does stumble on one, his crew will make sure nobody catches it. I was on this trip, it was the worst, and thieves to boot.
First the troll was at high speed,it would take a flying tuna to catch the tiny lures. Second the crew is telling everyone not to use weights,(how are you going to catch the tuna 60 ft down if no weight),Third the crew was no help at keeping the people out of the corners.Fourth the crewman with the mohawk hair is taking the belly meat of the peoples fish and giving it to whoever they want. Fifth they steal your fish, a regular size fish fills about two bags almost three.One of my fishing partners caught a fish and recieved half a fish, he paid for a whole fish,and a bag?(what bag)$2.00 for that bag.It’s impossible for that fish to fit in one bag.
And laying a chum line one fish at a time, doesn’t seem like it’s going to bring any fish to the boat.
Well Irv, you said maybe i shouldn’t go, well you were right and I don’t recomend this boat to anyone. They will rob and steal from you.And your fish storage doesn’t even freeze the fish, it was warm after being there 24 hours, and lets not talk about the bathrooms.
!!!!!!!DON’T GO ON THIS TUG !!!!!CAUTION!!!!!!!!!
 

This is our answer it was written by Larry Edwards and approved by me.

Well, James, you certainly missed your profession. Someone with the wide spectrum of knowledge you profess should have been able to afford a charter yacht for your fishing. Lets see, you start as being an optometrist, knowing sure well that Captain Mike needs glasses. Your 2nd guessing is certainly 2nd to none, so apparently you believe you are Captain’s material and have the ability to do a better job. I just love your insinuation of high speed trolling aboard the boat. You probably got a nose-bleed from the super-sonic speed of the “Big Game 90″ Then, you are a prosecutor and blindly and blatantly accuse the crew of “rob and steal from you”, none of which I believe is accurate and may well be defamation. You maintain that your fishing partner was charged $2.00 for the fillet bag, which is not true. Then, you incorrectly state that “It’s impossible for that fish to fit in one bag” and that’s not true. Then, “laying a chumline” was incorrectly accomplished by chumming “one fish at a time”, which says you don’t know too much about fishing albacore….I could go on and on but then, you already know everything there is to know about fishing albacore and running a boat operation. Summing it all up in a single word, HA!

Irv Grisbeck Manageing Owner BIG GAME 90

Capt. Mike called in to let us know that they are south west of the fleet and the have had 9 jig stops for 23 fishalthoe this isn’t a bonanza it is incouraging that there seems to be more scatered fish showing up.We will keep you posted !We have openings on trips 42 departing at 9pm on Aug. 4 returning Aug. 6 and 44 de…parting 9pm Aug. 6 returning Aug 8. Both of these trips are 2 days and if you book one full fair you can bring a buddy for 1/2 fair.FOOD PERMITS AND TAXES ARE EXTRA

Thanks to OKUMA , EAGLE CLAW , AA LUERS AND all of the OTHER  great tackle companys that make these trips possable.

 
The final KIDS FISH FREE trip is this Sunday August 1 and there is still room on the trip

Sometimes you just have to go for it. That is what I told Mike last night when he called to let me know he was headed for Cedros for the 2nd day of a 3 1/2 day that they are on. Mike said that the the Bulefin and Albacore are still not wanting to bite and makeing the long run to Cedros was what he felt he needed to do to give the folks some Quality fishing. It’s one hell of a lot more fuel but you got to do what’s best for your passengers I told him and then went to check if I had enough money in the bank to pay the *(^%&^fuel bill.
What the Hell OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ryan Childs landed this nice Opah  about 100 miles south fo San Diego on our last 2 1/2 day trip.

The fish was hooked while drifting on a school of Bluefin that didn’t want to bite.

There seems to be plenty of Tuna and Albacore arround but it’s hard to get them to bite.

Perhaps with the full moon coming they will start biteing better.

I just got word that the albacore are biting again this afternoon at about 115 miles Boats have between 30 and 75 fish so far and still lots of time before dark.

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Due to some last minute cancelations the Big Game has openings on trip # 36 a 2 1/2 day departing next Sunday evening and returning on Wed. morning
Call larry @ 858 270-7525 to book
tight lines and good times
IRV

You can’t say we didn’t try but we found very little that wanted to bite.

From the Dumping Grounds to the Worm to the Cortez over the Butterfly and finish up in the squid grounds at La Jolla. for just 13 albacore and 1 yellow tail and some rockfish.
A brite spot on this trip was that Lucas Ogg  caught his first Albacore and as tradition goes he eat it for lunch good going Lucas

 

Well I wish I could say we killed them BUT!!!!!!!!!!!!
That was the first thing Capt. Mike said when we met on the dock yesterday morning. “It was a tough trip. After a slow morning in the area where the fish had been earlier in the week we went looking and found very good water good amounts of bait and even some fish marks on the sonar but very few biters.
On the last day we found an area north west of the old one that had some albacore that wanted to bite and we ended up with a fair last day.”
The Jack-Pot winner where 1st. place Wan Huokane 28.8 albacore
2nd place went to Casey Shafer with a 26.7 albi. and Jerry Goeinez took 3rd. place with a 25.4 fish