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By Seamus on 1/16/2025 5:31:18 PM • Views (101)
We finished the trip off with the first bluefin of 2025. The fish weighed 40-120 pounds and bit fly line sardines and sinker rigs. We also had good action on 20-40 pound yellowfin tuna which we released. We are now full and headed home in beautiful weather. TEAM RP

By Seamus on 1/14/2025 9:08:39 PM • Views (29)
We have spent the last couple days traveling up in beautiful weather. Our passengers have been relaxing and taking some gear down. We will be at the rocks tonight and try for bait then spend the rest of the evening and part of tomorrow fishing for yellowtail. Our charter master for this trip was Ron…

By Seamus on 1/13/2025 8:51:54 AM • Views (32)
We had another nice day of tuna fishing and picked up a wahoo. With everyone having plenty of beautiful tuna 236 wahoo and only room left for 10-12 fish we have elected to forgo our last day at the bank and try and add a little variety to our catch and try for yellowtail and…

By Seamus on 1/12/2025 5:23:13 AM • Views (29)
We enjoyed another good day of fishing. Most of the tuna weighed 120-180 pounds with a couple standouts. John Halcrow picked up a 260 on a fly line sardine Kim Hofer a 232 on a fly lined sardine and a 189 on the kite and Manny Rivera caught a 192 on a sardine and a…

By Seamus on 1/11/2025 8:13:36 AM • Views (50)
Weather was up but still had another nice day of fishing on 120-180 pound tuna. We tagged 23 and released a a few that were under 100 pounds. Mel picked up a 226 on a fly line sardine. TEAM RP

By Seamus on 1/10/2025 4:52:30 AM • Views (46)

By Seamus on 1/10/2025 4:49:24 AM • Views (27)

By Seamus on 1/10/2025 4:45:48 AM • Views (47)
We focused on tuna and had an awesome day of fishing. We got things started early and picked up a few fish in the dark and then followed that up with a great afternoon. We ended up tagging 55 tuna and 6 wahoo. The tuna weighed 120-150 pounds with a few larger and a few…

By Seamus on 1/9/2025 12:25:53 AM • Views (43)

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By Seamus on 1/9/2025 12:14:02 AM • Views (44)
We enjoyed another awesome day of fishing. We ended up with 127 wahoo and 36 tuna. One hundred of the wahoo came before noon. The tuna weighed 120-150 pounds with a few smaller and a few bigger. With everyone having plenty of wahoo we will spend tomorrow focusing on tuna. TEAM RP

By Seamus on 1/8/2025 12:58:13 AM • Views (40)
We enjoyed an awesome day of fishing in beautiful weather. We ended up tagging 90 wahoo and 34 tuna for the day. The majority of the tuna weighed 100-140 pounds with a few smaller and a couple bigger. We will try for bait tonight and get after it again tomorrow. TEAM RP

By Seamus on 1/5/2025 11:38:44 PM • Views (59)
We arrived on scene in the late afternoon and trolled up some wahoo and caught a few tuna. Hooked a couple better fish late that got away. See what tomorrow brings. TEAM RP

By Seamus on 1/5/2025 9:02:57 AM • Views (23)
We spent another day traveling in nice weather. Our passengers spent the day relaxing and working on tackle. TEAM RP

By Seamus on 1/4/2025 9:25:29 AM • Views (24)
We spent another day traveling down in beautiful weather. Jonathan gave a tuna fishing seminar after breakfast and the crew spent the rest of the day helping people make top shots and kite leaders. We made a quick stop right at dark and picked up all the bigger bait we had room for. TEAM RP

By Seamus on 1/3/2025 8:52:59 AM • Views (45)
We spent the day traveling south in beautiful weather. Jonathan gave a wahoo fishing seminar shortly after breakfast and then the crew spent the rest of the day helping passengers rig up. TEAM RP

By Seamus on 1/2/2025 8:34:28 AM • Views (105)
Happy New Year! We departed this evening on our annual Taka’s Tackle 16 day trip. We have a great group of passengers and everyone is excited to be out on the first trip of 2025. TEAM RP

By Seamus on 12/31/2024 5:48:03 AM • Views (27)
All in all we had a great five day trip! We had a little bit of rough weather to deal with on the way down and the way back but still managed plenty of very nice fish. Last night we ended things off with a delicious pork chop dinner. We will be tied up at…

By Seamus on 12/29/2024 10:52:21 PM • Views (44)
Today we had a very nice day on the beach fishing Yellowtail. Most fish came on Yo-Yo jigs and there was plenty of action to go around for everybody. We are now working our way up the coastline heading towards home. TEAM RP

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By Seamus on 11/18/2025 9:15:19 PM • Views (4)
We started off our day with some fun Yellowtail fishing along the coast. We eventually ventured offshore and had some good action on some nice sized mahi and even some wahoo. Tomorrow we will be fishing for wahoo. TEAM RP

By Seamus on 11/18/2025 9:22:31 AM • Views (3)
Once the sun came up we began our hunt for Yellowfin Tuna. The fishing was slow and we didn’t see much until later in the day. Later in the afternoon things picked up and everyone had plenty of opportunity on some fun grade YFT. Tomorrow we will be fishing a whole different area down the…

By Seamus on 11/18/2025 9:19:48 AM • Views (3)
We had a great first night of fishing quality Bluefin Tuna! Everybody who stayed awake had a shot at a very nice tuna. We will be starting in the same area today.

By Seamus on 11/18/2025 9:14:38 AM • Views (3)
Yesterday we departed on the Davis Boats Ten Day Trip! We had a slow start leaving the bay yesterday due to weather. The ocean has definitely calmed down and has made for a very nice ride down. We will begin looking for tuna tonight and tomorrow. On top of that the food from Perle and…

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