Ahoy! Whales Round two! Royal Polaris is thrilled to be hosting the Cabrillo marine Aquarium on this 8 day natural history adventure! It started out with rain and rough seas and suddenly overnight the clouds lifted and it became glorious! San Benito is rugged and beautiful! Critters a plenty great people wonderful food and the…

Hey Gang! Royal Polaris is ending our exceptional 8 day whale adventure! After one night of choppy seas it’s been smooth sailing! Our day at Cedros island was terrific! Heading north there were whales dolphins and birds a plenty! We stopped for a San Martin quickie and home tomorrow! Cabrillo Marine aquarium is coming out…

Hello! RP has left the lagoon and we are heading north! Whaling was fun the mangroves great and today the beach was windy and beautiful! More tomorrow!

Ahoy RP whalers here! We are having a blast! The weather is great! The day two 5.7 mile Isla San Benito’s hike was arduous and fantastic! Today was our first day in the San Ignacio lagoon and the Gray Whales did not disappoint! So far the food has been delicious! More whales tomorrow! Team RP

Be in this afternoon and then taking a short break for fishing to run a couple of 8 day ecology trips. If you have never done one before they are definitely something to add to the bucket list. TEAM RP

We put a nice trip together for our Accurate Reels group. We ended up with 187 yellowfin tuna and 75 wahoo. The majority of the tuna were in the 120-180 pound range with some filler. We had 9 over two and 1 over three. We would like to thank Accurate Reels and our charter master…

We spent the day traveling up on beautiful weather. Made a quick stop for a few yellowtail. TEAM RP

We dropped off our passengers in Cabo this morning. After a quick clearance we started rolling up in beautiful weather. TEAM RP

Our passengers finished breaking down and then spent the rest of day relaxing while we traveled to Cabo in beautiful weather. At dinner Gary presented Larry with the Accurate Reels big fish trophy for his 316 pound yellowfin tuna. We will be in Cabo tomorrow morning. TEAM RP

We wanted to take a moment to thank Chris Yamada and Calstar Rods for sending us a bunch of new rods for our passengers to use. We were able to put them to good use this trip and break them in on heavy fish. Our 770 XH’s through XXXH’s and 775 XXXXH’s performed flawlessly. Chris…

We started out the day fishing tuna and picked up a few fish. The largest of which was caught by koi and weighed 224 pounds. We then spent the rest of our day trolling for wahoo and making a few grouper drifts to add some variety to our catch. We are currently Cabo bound in…

Started off the day with a 175 in the dark then caught a 120 before things deteriorated. Went looking around and got on good fish late morning. We had good action on stockers and caught a few wahoo. Overall fun day with plenty of bites. Get baited up and ready for our last day of…

Scraped up some more wahoo in the morning and then spent rest of day traveling. TEAM RP

Wahoo kept us busy for the better part of the day. When we did try for tuna the fishing was poor with the exception of Francois 150 pounder. Be in wahoo mode again tomorrow. TEAM RP

Had some action in the morning on 60-140 pound tuna. Pulled it late morning and trolled and around for very little. Spent the rest of the day traveling in beautiful weather. We also enjoyed another one of Steve’s Famous BBQ’s. TEAM RP

With the lack of sign last night we decided to start in a different area this morning and we were able to get the fish relocated. We caught our first fish just before daylight and enjoyed steady fishing on good grade tuna. The majority of the tuna were in the 120-180 pound range with a…

We got off to a good start and got a couple over two and saw decent sign of nice fish in the morning. Jim Mitchell had one right at 200 and Eddie Contreras a 220. Both fish came on fly line sardines and Eddie’s won him an Accurate reel for catching the largest fish of…

We enjoyed another good day of fishing in beautiful weather. The day started out with Buddy landing a 197 on a fly line sardine. He later followed that up with a 245 pounder on the kite. Francois and Steve both picked up their second two’s of the the trip with Francois fish weighing 201 and…

We put together a decent day. The bigger fish showed late morning and we hooked 4 on fly line sardines but unfortunately didn’t fair well in the landing department. Rocky and Francois pulled on fish for a while only to have their hooks pull just out of gaff range on a couple of mid twos.…

We got off to a nice start in nice weather. The majority of the fish weighed 100-140 pounds with a sprinkling of 150-180. The largest fish was caught by Steve and weighed 252 pounds. TEAM RP

We departed on our 32nd annual Fujimoto 8-day trip continuing a tradition that means a lot to everyone involved. After picking up bait and welcoming aboard a great group of passengers we made a stop by the Coronado Islands to hold a memorial honoring those we’ve lost over the years. With calm seas and beautiful…

Shortly after breakfast Jonathan started the day off with a fishing seminar where he went over how everyone should be set up for the fishing to come. Fuji and crew then had their annual raffle and lots of great prizes were raffled off. We made a stop for bait in the late afternoon and got…