We had 4 boats out but only 2 of them were able to catch something.

On our 32' Rum Runnin', Captain Javier and Mate Americo were able to help Dustin Duey and Michelle reel in a 8ft long, 160 Lb. Marlin. These guys are visiting from Illinois. They did not come back to the office, but I was told by our crew that they were happy! Glad to hear that and hopefully we can see them again in the near future.

From the beautiful Bay Area....(Yes, I am from San Francisco!) On our 32' RedBeam we had Patrick, Amelia, Sam and Beenadette Lupinetti along with Michael Baily fishing with us today. Captain Ramon did his best to end the day with 9 Sierra for these nice people.

We were in the upper 70's today and the water temperture was 74F.

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YELLOWTAIL SPARK THE BITE AND TEARING UP ANGLERS!
La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of March 7-14, 2010
 Quite a week of big fish, promise and frustration! Check out some of the pictures this week, but know that we're having trouble stopping these big fish!  Click this for all the details:  [link]
We also have a new blog this week aimed at first time Baja vacationers!  Click this:  http://tailhunter-international.com/jonathansblog.htm  
Have a great week.  Fish are biting!
Best fishes!
Jonathan and Jill

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HM Landing checking in this evening with the Malihini on their 3/4 day trip picking up 1 yellowtail, 50 rockfish, and 9 sheephead. The 1/2 day trip on the Premier brought in 15 sculpin, 31 rockfish, 1 calico, and 1 sand bass for the 12 anglers.

Listen in below for upcoming trip information then call 619-222-1144 for reservations.

Listen to Ollie live - Click Here For Live Report

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The Pacific Voyager heading home from a 2 day trip today with 29 California Yellowtail, 5 California Sheephead, 299 Rockfish, 10 Lingcod, and 6 Pacific Bonito. Just a few yellowtail on the 3/4 day runs today with the 1/2 day trips sacking up a good mixed bag of bottom fish.

Seaforth Landing has a full schedule of trips running daily.

Call 619-224-3383 for reservations.

Listen to The A Team live - Click Here For Live Report

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The Freedom out of 22nd Street Landing is on line daily for overnight trips for just $100. The bass are on the chew at San Clemente with a good sign of yellows.

The Freedom also has a 2 day trip coming up for just $275 and that includes your meals.

Call 310-832-8304 for reservations.

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Tom Lee This Thursday in Torrance at 7 PM
March 18th at the Nationals Sports Grill in Torrance, 7 PM
3210 Sepulveda Blvd
Torrance, CA 90505-2719 

What a great seminar! Tom will be at the Nationals Sports Grill in Torrance this Thursday at 7 PM. Tom puts on one of the best seminars you will ever see so make sure you are there this Thursday!

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Now is the time to start thinking about your groups charter for the 2010 season and the first place to look is the Pacific Queen out of Fishermans Landing.

The Pacific Queen is a graceful, smooth-riding Sportfishing vessel with a length of 88' and a beam of 22'

Spacious air-conditioned sleeping accommodations for up to 40

The Pacific Queen operates anywhere from 1-day overnight trips to 3-day trips out of Fisherman?s Landing in San Diego. These trips take advantage of the world-class tuna fishing that is found in the offshore waters of the Baja coast. Albacore, bluefin tuna, yellowfin tuna, bigeye tuna, yellowtail and dorado are the gamefish that are found in these waters. Depending on the type of year we are having, we may encounter incredible fishing for albacore and bluefin tuna. During warmer water years, we might see excellent fishing for yellowfin tuna, bigeye tuna and dorado. The offshore waters of the Baja coast consistently produce outstanding tuna fishing and the trips we have scheduled take advantage of this.

Book now and get the best dates!

Click Here for more charter information then call 619-992-7686 for more information and to book your groups trip.

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Attention all stations

This is the promotion that we will be running at the

Fred Hall shows in March

and in keeping with our promise to give our loyal readers first shot at some real money saveing deals we are offering it to you 6 weeks early 50% off selected trips

　
      Trip # 25, 26, 28, 30, 34, 66, 70, 74, 76, 80, 84, 88, 90,

                     
                     LB 96, LB 98, LB 100, LB 102
　
            A 25% nonrefundable deposit is due @ booking
                      Food, permits and taxes are extra
                          Offer expires April 15 2010
        Book now there are a limited number of discounted spots on each trip

                                 Call 858 270 7525 for information and to book your trip

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The Legend out of Seaforth Landing had a nice day of yellowtail fishing yesterday for their overnight trip.

The Legend is back to their 1 day trips leaving again this Friday March 19 and Saturday night March 20th..

This is an Izorline trip with lots of give-a-ways and free reel refills.

Call 619-224-3383 for reservations.

Left is Trevor nickolls from banning, pictured with deckhand JJ.  Center and right Jermey Clark and Dad from San Jacinto winner of a  brand new penn reel.

Also winning a Penn Reel in a raffle is Layne Oaks from Temecula.Big Thanks to bob at Penn Berkley for the Raffles Prizes.

The Legend has another sponserd trip with giveaways this friday night with Izor Line, Free line for you reel when you board. Target is going to be Coronado Island Yellowtail.

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After several weeks of very hard weather the Pot of Gold Halibut Derby is back on track with only 1 more week before the final Top 25 halibut are selected for the fish off.  This week produced some very fine halibut with Captain Kevin Nguyen; the largest weighed in at 22.15 lbs - caught by Victor Fukuhara of Long Beach on Thursday 3/11/10.  Victor is an avid local fisherman and the designer of 544 Lures!

The final day of the tournament is Sunday March 21st and the final Fish-off for the Pot of Gold is on Sunday Mar. 28th.  Jim Willard of Whittier still leads the tournament with his 28 lb halibut, if he is not upset next week, or during the fish off he will win the Annual Free Fishing Pass!

Call 562-432-8993 for reservations.

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The 90 foot Condor is now taking charter reservations for the fast approaching tuna season.

Captain Tuna knows how to put you on the fish and is looking forward to another banner year.

The Condor is a large safe and modern sport fishing boat. At 90ft long and 25ft wide, she is low to the water and ready to fish. The ALL STEEL construction assures she is one of the best riding and safest vessels in the fleet. The Condor is able to fish safely and comfortably on days that some of the older and smaller wooden boats are stuck closer to home or at the dock.

The Condor operates as a zone 2 vessel (NO 150-MILE LIMITS).

For charter pricing CLICK HERE then call 619-221-8500 or shoot an email to condor@condorsportfishing.com and book your groups trip today.

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  Sea-Adventure 80 is on the Whales every day / departing from H & M Landing in San Diego.
The cod father has been whaling for decades and loves putting his whalers on a photo shoot of a life time.

Call H & M Landing today ( 619) 222-1144 and take out the wife and kids on a fantastic family outing. Sea-Adventure 80 / Capt. Scott McDaniels

H&M Landing     Landing Phone: (619) 222-1144
2803 Emerson St.

San Diego, Ca. 92106 Cell Phone: (619) 889-0621  Hm. Phone: (619) 224-8062 Web Site: www.fishSeaAdventure80.com    Booking charters every day / all day

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976-TUNA open party charters are starting to book. We do have more trips coming up daily so stay tuned. 

This is going to be another fun season with the tool belt challenge on every 1.5 day trip or longer with your chance to win great prizes and trips. 

Check out our trips then call Rick for reservations at 310-328-8426.

The Big Game 90 goes for a 2 day trip leaving March 17 - $200

The Big Game 90 2 day trip leaves March 31 - $200

Pacific Star 2 day trip leaves Wednesday April 7 - $200

The Big Game 90 2 day trip leaves April 25 - $200

Prowler 1.5 Day trip leaves Friday May 14 - $250

CLICK HERE for a full 976-TUNA open party schedule then call Richie at 310-328-8426 for reservations

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 Fish Talk Radio- Live from Angel Stadium -This Sunday at 8pm

Special Guests
Bill Wilkerson, Malahini Sportfishing
Bubba from www.BubbasHotRods.Com
Brian Friedman from Lipriperz
Shawn Morgon from the Long Beach Halibut Challenge
Buzz Brizendine from the Prowler
Chris Volaski- Coroloma- Redondo Sportfishing
Jack McCullochs from Fishers of Men
& Lots More

 
Win A free Fishing Trip - 877- 8- 830- 830
Listen on line-   AM 830 KLAA

Make sure you join us on AM 830 Radio Sunday Night at 8 PM as we will have all the latest fishing info as well as a Free Trip to be given away to the winner of our Fish ID Game. You hear great interviews, learn about some tremendous fishing all on KLAA. Make sure you join us Sunday at 8 PM on KLAA, AM 830  

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With the official start of the spring season now less than two weeks away the recent patterns have been rapidly changing and unpredictable. Last weekend there was scattered rainfall, then wind from the north, switching out of the south, but considering the time of year that it is the weather has been more than acceptable. Days are reaching close to 80 degrees, mostly sunny skies and within weeks there will be consistently warmer days and the worst of the winds should reside.
 
The water temperatures are averaging 72 to 74 degrees, strong currents continue to affect the clarity in certain areas. Anglers found a mix of species on the local fishing grounds. Most consistent action was found closer to shore for sierra, striking best on sardinas, with a few smaller sized roosterfish and dorado also accounted for from the same stretches. Sardinas were available in limited quantities, these baitfish are most prevalent inshore near Vinormama, which is a long run for the commercial fleet. Caballito, mackerel and giant squid are also being found locally, but quantities often changed from day to day.
 
In recent days there was improved action found for striped marlin off of the San Jose del Cabo region, this is the time of year typically where more of these migrating billfish move in the direction towards the Sea of Cortez. Also there were reports of a couple of swordfish being hooked into near the 95 spot, that would be interesting if something developed with that, it has been many years since any significant bite happened for the daytime swords off of the Cabo area.
 
The wahoo bite that occurred off of Punta Gorda late last week faded out as quickly as it had developed was fun for the anglers that did get in on it, a bonus during late winter time when these speedsters are normally not even found in local waters.
 
Yellowfin tuna continue to be scarce, but some schooling yellowfin have been encountered traveling with pods of porpoise, this has been hit or miss, fish that were found this way were mostly in the 10 to 20 pound size, this action should improve as spring time arrives. A handful of nicer sized tuna in the 60 to 80 pound class were accounted for by dedicated local pangeros seriously putting in the extra effort on either the Iman or Gordo Banks. Their technique was to jig up a few giant squid early in the morning and then use them as chum and chunk baits for drifted over the structure where some of these nicer grade of yellowfin were holding.
 
The bottom action showed significant improvement the past few days, mainly for anglers willing to work yo-yo jigs off the rock piles, amberjack to 30 pounds were becoming more common, with a few grouper and cabrilla in the mix. Palmilla Point became a hot spot in recent days, with the word getting out there has also been more pressure on this relatively smaller area. Huachinango, or the true Pacific Red Snapper are becoming more prevalent, but so far mainly for the commercial panga fleet using either intestinal parts or even eye balls from fresh giant squid, not the normal technique, but if that is what it takes to catch these valuable fish, this is what they will do.
 
The combined panga fleets launching from La Playita/Puerto Los Cabos sent out approximately 69 charters for the week, with anglers reporting a fish count of:
2 striped marlin, 2 wahoo, 26 dorado, 9 yellowfin tuna, 38 bonito, 332 sierra, 12 roosterfish, 9 surgeon fish, 29 pargo, 7 grouper, 16 cabrilla, 2 mako shark and 56 amberjack.
 
Good Fishing, Eric

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Yellowtail showing at the Coronado Islands Sunday Morning 

Decent show on the yellows early on Sunday morning as water temps are at or above 60 degrees. Amazing considering all the wind we have had and another great El Nino signal and sign. Stay tuned as we will have updates all day today.

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  Great Local Bass Fishing for 976-TUNA Gold GPS Member Ryan Gilete Sunday Morning

Just a slight breeze and calm seas for 976-TUNA Gold Members Ryan Gilete and Phil Porter at 9 AM Sunday morning. Gilete says the bass are chewing full speed on the plastics on a summer-like glorious morning. You just have to love this as we are headed for a week of fantastic warm weather where anything is possible!

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The New Lo-An out of Point Loma Sportfishing is now taking charter reservations for the upcoming offshore season.

Albacore, yellowtail, yellowfin, dorado, and more.

Whatever is biting Captain's Markus and Travis will put you on the fish.

The New Lo-An specializes in one day and one and a half day trips, both Open Party and Limited Load, as well as private and company charters. Some of our charter groups have been fishing with us for over twenty years!

The New Lo-An is the prototype of the modern sportfisher. She is the widest sixty-five footer in California's fishing fleet, and combines a low to the water profile with a very efficient deck arrangement for your fishing enjoyment.

CLICK HERE for more information then call 760-944-4483 to book your groups charter.

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The Coroloma out of Redondo Sportfishing is now on line for 9 to 4 trips daily.

Good bottom fishing going on now with a few bass here and there and lite loads are expected all week.

Call 310-372-2111 for reservations and ask for the Coroloma.

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Weather: Friday 12 March 2010
Partly Cloudy
Temperature: 50s 65s F
Calm wind in the morning
Swells 3 ft
Water temp 58s F

Hi Folks,

On Friday Vonny-I with Beto went out for the first time in all week (bad weather) , some nice ling cods (limits) were caught on dropper loops anchovies and squid, Mark Maxwell (left) from Bowman Ga. and his friend Raymond Greenberg (right) from Anderson SC; few gallon bags of fillets for first time Baja fisherman. GOOD Fishing and NICE weather.

THank you. Ivan.

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 The World Famous EL BUDSTER goes fishing today. But is unable to catch anything. They go out looking for a school of YELLOWFIN TUNA. But are unable to find one. They fished 18 - 25 milers out from Cabo. The watrer temp. was 74 - 75 degrees.

Billfish released to date in 2010Cabo: 23

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They're Here!
 
Hello again!

Things are defintely getting better here in Cabo San Lucas. We are in a high 77F with very calm winds today. We had our 4 boats out Tantrum, Rum Runnin, RedBeam and Nuevo. Fishing was great! couple of Marlin, Yellowfin and Sierra was today's menu.

Aboard our 28' Tantrum was Tom Spina and Kathleen Buonarosa along with Captain Omar and Mate Juan. They started doing some inshore fishing for a while and then headed out for some more action. They reeled in 1 Marlin.

On our 32' Rum Runnin we had a shared party with Captain Javier and Mate Americo. It's funny because yesterday we had the Andre Hage and Cynthia Jenkins coming in to share a boat with someone, we didn't have anybody on our list and all of the sudden Frank Statile comes in looking to share a boat as well. They had a lot of things in common...it was a match made in Heaven! These guys went out 38 miles in the Pacific and came back with 13 Yellowfin. The biggest one was 160Lb! and was reeled in by Andre Hage! Good job to everyone on the boat!

On our 32' we had Captain Cesar and Mate Ramon fishing for half a day with Jeff Roper and his 5 buddies. They did inshore fishing and caught 10 Sierra. Very good guys!

On our 33' We had Gary Gonzalez and crew who are staying at the Portofino Condos and fishing with us for 2 more days on Nuevo along with Captain Alex and Mate Manuel. These guys came back with 8 Yellowfin and 1 Marlin. I knew they'd catch something!

Hopefully they will be able to surpass their own number in the next couple of days!

Yellowfin and Marlin are back and biting well! So folks, come on down to Cabo San Lucas and fish with us, we can't guarantee you'll catch something, but we can guarantee you'll have an awesome time!

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'Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is.
The way You cope with it is what makes the difference.'

SEE YOU IN lONG BEACH STARTING THE NIGHT OF MARCH 17 FOR OUR FIRST 976
TUNA 2 DAY CHARTER OF THE YEAR
CALL RICHIE @ 310 328-8426 TO GET ON THIS CHARTER
THERE IS PLENTY OF ROOM ON THE TRIP AND IT'S ONLY $199 FOR THE 2 DAYS
 
THEN WE WILL RUN 1 DAY TRIPS ON SATURDAY  & SUNDAY MRACH 20 & 21 .
THE ONE DAYS DEPART AT 10 PM THE NIGHT BEFORE CALL THE MARINA OFFICE
@ 562 598-6649 TO BOOK REMEMBER IF YOU BOOK AT LEAST 24hrs. IN ADVANCE 2 GO FOR $199

SEE YOU ON THE BOAT
IRV,MIKE AND THE CREW

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The Freedom checked in late last night after their day at San Clemente. Lots of wind but they made a nice day of rock fishing out of it and the bass were chewing. They also saw some spots of yellowtail but couldn't get any takers.

The Freedom is on line daily for overnight trips and the price is just $100 the rest of the week.

Call 310-832-8304 for reservations.

Listen to Tom live - Click Here For Live Report

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The Big Game 90 once again kicks off their season from Long Beach Marina with 976-TUNA.

This is a 2 day Island freelance trip leaving Wednesday night March 17

OK so you all got new gear at the Fred Hall Show. Give it all a test run on this trip with your chance to win a free ride on the next Big Game 90 trip and a trip to Palmas de Cortez.

Cost of the trip is just $200

This will be a tool belt trip with the big fish riding for free on the next 976-TUNA 2 day trip leaving March 31 plus the tool belt winner will be in our end of the year fish off for a chance to win a 6 day stay at Hotel Palmas de Cortez.

Come fish with Earl the Peral McVicar for good times and good fishing.

Call Rick at 310-328-8426 for reservations now or CLICK HERE to book right on line.

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