Friday, September 3rd, 2010 Buenos noches amigos. Our final day day of travel aboard Garry Roberts 9 day trip was spent in normal fashion for us. The weather last night was a little bit bumpy but we broke on thru to the other side and enjoyed a very nice day of weather from early this morning to right now. This morning the passengers completed the break down of their gear as us crew members completed our standard clean up/maintenance procedures.

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After that it was just a relaxing day for everyone involved. Some read, some played cards, and some watched a flick or two. The cinema features this afternoon included "The Blind Side" (2 thumbs up) and "Gran Torino" (1 thumb up). Classic day of eat, sleep, and enjoy ones company. The simple life for sure. All in all we are all extremely satisfied with our trip and we can't wait to do it again next year. Garry once again put together a cast of characters that rivals groups of my closest friends of dozens of years. A real treat to take this group out for a fishing vacation and it surely validates the fact the we love our jobs and have such a unique mix of amazing passengers that makes waking up everyday to go to work a true pleasure. I'm surely speaking on the behalf of the entire crew when I say not once during the trip did I feel like I was at work. It really felt like a paid vacation with all of our friends. This was one of those trips that we would've had an exceptional time regardless of how full our fish holds became and how adverse weather conditions were. We here at the Polaris Supreme family would like to say THANK YOU to Mr. Garry Roberts and friends for being such awesome people, from Tommy & Susan, Drew, Jed, Chase, Barry, Mark, and myself. We'll see you all again real soon. So wrapping it up, I'm truly sad that we're closing the book on this trip but all good things must come to an end. Tomorrow morning is a special time as we motor up thru San Diego Bay, empty the fish wells, and get to see the look of bewilderment as our passengers take a look at their catch from the trip. After 9 days aboard, time flies with the fun and people forget about the truly stellar catch we're bringing back to San Diego. Tomorrow is the reminder that we had phenomenal catching. Our ETA is scheduled for 7:00 am tomorrow and we'll chat with you again when the time arrives. Take care everyone and we hope you have a great start to your weekends. Richie and the Family. Gary Roberts' 9 Day Trip More photos

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 Hi friends. Our weather got a little bit better throughout the duration of the night and currently our weather as of now is just some breeze with a light sea state. We kept on motoring up the line today and found ourselves at our familiar yellowtail spot to do a little fishing for some cows before calling it a trip. The afternoon bite or lack there of didn't really materialize but we gave it a good shot up until dinner time. We managed to capture a few nice one and some calicos in absolutely pristine weather but the hot bite here was nonexistent. Back to the weather, it honestly seems like with the exception of the days traveling down that we haven't had a nice weather day the entire trip. Bottom line, we were ecstatic to be out of the weather and it was a nice day for "change of pace" fishing. What I mean by that is for the past 5 days we've been doing some hardcore angling for large tuna and wahoo so to just wet a line and not worry about making a huge catch was a breath of fresh air. We weren't worried about trying to yank on a big yellowfin or trying to catch up with a fast paced wahoo bite that gives us the adrenaline rush that we all desire. The day was reminiscent of when you're on the bicycle at the gym and you do the 2 minute cool down after the intense pedaling session is complete. This afternoon was the 2 minute cool down. Don't get me wrong, we would've loved to have pulled on some premium yellowtail's but it never happened so we took it in stride and enjoyed our last hours of fishing with our good friends. Just like when you go to the pond as a kid and hope to catch a blue-gill or something like that. Nice way to wrap this trip up that's for sure. So we're done. We anchored up and enjoyed a tasty pork loin dinner before we pushed the throttles forward and set her on course for San Diego. We'll be traveling all day tomorrow and hopefully the weather will cooperate. The forecast looks OK, we'll see if there is any truth to that. Hopefully the weather man is wrong but in a good way. We'll check back with you tomorrow and thanks for checking in. Richie and 6 other members that currently make up TEAM SUPREME. Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 Good evening folks. We successfully made it through a very sloppy night of weather to arrive our destination in the early morning hours. After trolling around for a bit and with only a small handful of wahoo to show for our efforts we decided to drop anchor to get setup for tuna fishing. Not long after we got established in our spot the tuna's started to bite a little bit and this trend would continue throughout the morning. Nice grade of fish too. 40-65 lbs. with a few bigger and a few smaller to round out our already stellar catch of fish. We certainly didn't land everything we hooked and we had some real heartbreaks. Whether it was pulled hooks, chew-off's, or shark related incidents we did lose our share of fish, but that's fishing. Needless to say, we were happy with what we threw in the fish holds this morning. While doing work on the tuna the wahoo seemed to build up as the day progressed as well and we picked away at them when they rolled on through. Kind of herky-jerky fishing to be honest with you. Does one tie on a wire leader for wahoo and risk the chance of not getting a tuna bite or does one stick with straight mono and risk the chance of landing a wahoo? Either way, we still lost a lot of wahoo and when the tuna bite disappeared we pulled anchor to go take care of some wahoo fishing proper. Marauders, bombs/raiders, and wire leaders. We were ready to roll as were the wahoo and we slowly but surely put a really nice day together on the skins. A real nice grade of fish too. Definitely a few more hoo's from 40-60 lbs were captured today. Breaking it down, we had a very nice day on the skin with a nice mix of tuna to go along with it. We're happy and we couldn't have asked for a better way to end our stay down here. When all was said and done, our wahoo honey hole had dried up and we pointed her on-course for yellowtail land to try to not only get in a few hours fishing tomorrow but also to try and avoid the weather that's forecasted. Our weather is currently OK. It could definitely be better but as long as the water pitchers are staying on the dinner table you're not going to hear too much more complaints out of us. We'll be trying for some of those premium yellowtail's to put a lid on the Garry Roberts 9 day trip. We bid you farewell, happy September, and we'll chat with you tomorrow. Richie and Crew. Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 Hi friends. After having the kind of day like we had yesterday, it was pretty much known by all that today was a wahoo or bust kind of day. Well, if we were going by that then today would be a bust. In reality, it wasn't but we really were hoping for a cherry on the wahoo but it never happened. Once again, we have some pretty good back-up plans and they worked out just fine for us. The morning session for us was more dorado and yellowtail, most of which we released but we did keep a couple nicer models of both as well. In the afternoon time we got on another breezer of that 18-25 lb. class of yellowfin tuna and we slowly but surely put together a nice drift on those creatures. If we really wanted to, we could've easily had all we needed on that size of fish but we obtained another clich? saying "go big or go home". In actuality, that is what we're doing for our final leg of the trip. We pointed her on course mid-afternoon to our final stop on the Garry Roberts extravaganza and we'll be looking for trophies and then going home. Currently, our weather is sloppy and serving dinner is a little bit challenging but Barry/Mark are pushing through and getting it done. Just trying to type this report is rather difficult with the weather but Paul Simon and Capt. Drew are helping me get over the hump. So that is all. Nothing much to talk about today. Just remember, go big or go home. We'll arrive to destination "large fish" tomorrow morning in the early hours. Take care now. Richie and The Supremes' P.S. I'd like to wish a happy birthday to my lovely mother Cindy. Happy Birthday Mom. Don't party too hard tonight. Also, Chase says hi Julie. Monday, August 30th, 2010 Good evening sports fans. One of the beauties about a trip of this length is that we have plenty of time to make a nice, healthy catch to bring back to San Diego for our passengers. There are times that the whole trip is just picking and scratching and by they end of the trip you have a pretty darn nice load of fish. Other times, you might not be able to provide the catch that keeps people telling stories of "you should've been here last year". Today, for whatever reason the stars aligned just right, the conditions were perfect, and we had ourselves "one of those days" - in a good way. Oh yeah. We arrived to our destination in the morning hours to find that the wind was up and the wahoo were down. No troubles, we had a back-up plan and Plan B happened to work out just fine for us in the form of yellowtail. The yellow's we caught this morning were a solid 18 lb. average, some bigger, some smaller, all in all it was a very nice size of fish. To say we had an excellent morning on yellowtail would be putting it lightly and by no means would I be putting into true focus the action on yellowtail we enjoyed. Any way you wanted to hook em', you hooked em'. Easy fishing. To throw in some variety we managed to boat a handful of some tasty groupers and a tasty wahoo as well. Next thing you know, Barry/Mark are serving wahoo enchiladas (I'm speaking on behalf of the entire group and saying that they were money) and we were pulling anchor to concentrate solely on tuna/wahoo to finish out the day. Maybe others would be pretty content with the morning we had but we hold high standards here on the Polaris Supreme and we we're just getting warmed up. Once we set out the trollers, part II commenced as we motored around the shallows looking for the elusive wahoo and to be honest with you, they remained elusive this day. It's OK, the dorado kept us busy throughout the afternoon and when they ran their course, we decided it was time to focus on some tuna. It didn't take us long to locate a nice breezer and the first few baits to hit the water resulted in immediate yellowfin tuna boils. Next thing you know, we're on. The entire boat was bent and the pandemonium ensued. Classic run and gun fishing on 18-25 tuna was the M.O. for the remainder of our afternoon with a sprinkling of dorado to keep the action steady. We did a lot of catching today but we also did a lot of releasing as well. The juvenile fish were let go to grow and when certain angler quotas were met, we released some very healthy fish back to their habitats. I'd be fairly right on by saying we released half of what we caught today, no doubt in my mind. To round out our already epic day, the dorado decided to let themselves be known once more and we had a nice little sun downer on the flat's with a couple nice bull's coming over the rail. Cherry on the sundae. You can't beat the day that we had. If you want to get nit-picky, we could've had a bunch more wahoo today but why would you with a day like we had. Anyhow, we need to have something to do for tomorrow. Wahoo or not, we had an excellent day today, period. One can admire everyone's attitude towards scratch fishing and lousy weather but when you have great fishing and good weather, people's true personalities come out and it just makes for a very fun, enjoyable day of fishing. Needless to say, the gang couldn't be happier at the moment and our plan for tomorrow is to remain here to target some more tuna and hopefully get a whack at those wahoo. We're hoping for some pargo to spice things up tonight but nobody in their right minds has left there staterooms to try. Can't blame them. They did a lot of work today and we're all in need of some recovery time. On that note, I'm going to recover myself. Chat with y'all tomorrow. We're out. Richie and Team Supreme. P.S. Discovery Channel moment of the day: We saw a whale shark on multiple occasions. How cool is that? Talk about a massive creature, very humbling to see such a massive body right next to a 90 foot boat. I love my job. Later. Sunday, August 29th, 2010 Hi friends. I'm going to be blunt with you guys. Things didn't quite work out like we had hoped for today. With the decent sign of fish we saw yesterday we never in our wildest dreams would've thought today would've ended up like it did. But, if there is one guarantee in fishing it's that things are guaranteed to change...and they did. We awoke this morning to find that the weather also did a complete 180 from yesterday with a stiff breeze and a following swell to go along with it. We saw sign right from the get-go when we began fishing and first thing this morning we boated a couple nice tuna in the 50 lb. class. Then all of a sudden, it died. No sign whatsoever. Where they went, we don't know. They're probably just down with the weather up, that's our best guess. We did scratch up a couple handfuls of wahoo this morning and a couple of anglers landed their first ever skin (congrats) but all in all, it wasn't enough to keep us around to finish out the day. Right around lunch time we decided to point the bow towards greener pastures (hopefully) and give this place a day or so to regroup not only fish-wise but weather-wise as well. On our travels today, we came across a few kelp patties that were either holding "fly-swatter" dorado's or nothing at all. Our weather is a tad bit rolly but it's definitely manageable. We'll be at our next destination tomorrow morning and we'll take it from there. Enjoy your Sunday and we'll chat with you tomorrow. On a sad note, on August 28th, 2010 Capt. Drew unintentionally parted ways with his lucky dykes and he asked me to say a few words for our fallen brother. All I'd like say is you became not only a dear friend to all of us on-board but also a part of our family here on the Polaris Supreme. You worked hard and for that I say this, good-night sweet prince. On a lighter note, that local fishing took on a new story-line. Small bluefin are starting to bite as well as some 35-50 lb. yellowfin tuna. Just give Susan a call already at 619 390 7890 and ask her about our Labor Day 3 day trip. Take care folks. Richie and Crew. Saturday, August 28th, 2010 Good evening. Now that things have settled down here I have time to fill you guys in on our day. We arrived to our destination in the late morning time and we immediately began dragging the jigs it didn't take long for a couple of wahoo to find themselves on the wrong end of those jigs. We bombarded them with the usual barrage of jigs, bombs, and bait rigs and all the fancy gear we threw at them didn't matter this morning. The wahoo weren't in the biting mood early today but the small dorado sure did enjoy everything we threw at them. We tagged a few of them and took a few for the galley but we released the majority of them. Anyhow, after patrolling the area for wahoo and coming up short we decided to get the anchor down and do some tuna fishing. Right out of the gate, it was on. If you could get a bait to swim away from the boat you were tugging on a tuna. One problem, they were footballs (12 lbs. or less). We applied the same practice on the tuna that we did with the dorado. Sashimi, poki, and ceviche will be had for afternoon snacks in the very near future. We did happen to find a few of those nicer tuna swimming around and I'd have to say our hook to land ratio was pretty good. We didn't set any records today on our count but we had a nice start to our trip on 40-70 lb. Yellowfin tuna. So the tuna thing fizzled out in the afternoon and we busted a move around the ridge on the hunt for wahoo. Problem was, those pesky dorado found us again. Kind of frustrating to be honest with you. We kept at it with the trolling jigs and we finally got rewarded with a couple nice "bingos" on wahoo in the late afternoon time. Our last stop of the day was pure mayhem. Fast-paced wahoo action is chaos to begin with, now add in the factor of the dark of night, what a circus. I mean that in a good way though, it really keeps not only us crew members on our toes but our anglers as well. It was somewhat of a challenge at times to keep track of things but we were all plenty ready for the task. Bring it on. We ended our day with a nice deck load of wahoo's and we're currently anchored up with the hopes of a nighttime yellowtail bite (here we go again). We'll see what gathers up underneath us tonight and we'll be at it first thing tomorrow morning. With day 1 in the books, we're anticipating an even better day manana. On that note, we're tired, we're hungry, we're out. Take care. Richie and crew. P.S. Couple things here gang. First off, Hurricane Frank is no longer a hurricane, it's a tropical depression and it in no way has had any affect on us whatsoever. It never did to begin with. End of story. We're all good. Also, the boats fishing yellowfin closer to home once again had a very good day on 15-25 lb. fish. Just reminding you to give Susan a call about our Sept. 4-7 trip and come join us for some late season tuna action.   Friday, August 27th, 2010 Good evening folks. Today was a standard travel day for us on the Polaris Supreme. After breakfast we had a full in-depth tackle seminar on the various types of fishing we'll be employing on this 9 day trip. Trolling for Wahoo, jig fishing for Wahoo, bait fishing for Wahoo/Tuna, and kite fishing were all explained in detail and tomorrow we will be testing our anglers on everything they've learned. Other than that, the gang rigged tackle, made wahoo leaders, took naps, or just lounged around and enjoyed a lovely day rolling down swell in super weather. As for the crew, we completed some miscellaneous maintenance jobs as well as make sure our wahoo/tuna tackle were in tip-top condition. Standard travel day. Just a laid back, relaxing day to get us prepared for the next few days of fishing. Reports sound encouraging from the area so we're ready to get on down there and get at em'. We should arrive at our destination tomorrow morning sometime. In the meantime, we've got turkey on the brain and Barry/Mark vow not to disappoint. Thanksgiving in August. Sweet. Chat with you tomorrow. Richie and Crew. P.S. A few of the boats in 3 day range are starting to really put some scores together on Yellowfin tuna 16-25 lbs. It sounds like scores range from 50-100 fish per boat. Just a friendly reminder that we have a 3 day trip leaving Sept. 4th returning September 7th. Maybe this fish is starting to get settled back in and we can enjoy some good late summer/early fall fishing. Give Susan a call to book a spot at (619) 390 - 7890. Thursday, August 26th, 2010 Hi friends. We arrived back to Fisherman's Landing this morning at 7:30, a little later than our expected ETA due to the weather but we made it. We began the task of unloading the beautiful catch of yellowtail that Joe Beck and friends captured and all were amazed by the display of toads wheeled up to the scales this morning. You couldn't ask for not only better quality but better quantity of yellows that we brought home with us, it was just a stellar trip, plain and simple. Oh by the way, Greg Dewitt's white seabass weighed in at 57 lbs. with some of the belly missing due to "seal interaction". Congratulations Greg, some people fish for seabass exclusively and have never caught a toad like that one. Our thanks goes out to Joe Beck and the gang for being such a pleasure to have on-board and to the entire group, we'll see you again real soon. So today we departed on the infamous Garry Roberts 9 day extravaganza with a whole bunch of familiar faces joining Garry and ourselves for a good time. We're pretty happy with our load of bait and we're currently very happy with our weather as well. On a side note, this trip means a couple of different things for us crew-members on the Polaris Supreme. It means not only the half-way point of the 2010 season but it also means the beginning of our transition from our Summer 3-5 day trips into our late Summer/early Fall 7-10 day trips. The places that we would normally stop and fish in the previous months are merely travel points to let us know how much further we still have to go to points south. A thought process transition from Albacore, Bluefin, Yellowtail are now thoughts of big Yellowfin Tuna, Wahoo, and Dorado corroding our fish holds. The trolling feathers are stowed away and the big Marauders are ready to be set back into the wake. It's definitely a special time of the year and we welcome the change with open arms. Here we go. We're fired up, to say the least. Enough gab for one day, we'll report to you tomorrow and let you know about all the fun one can have on a travel day aboard the Polaris Supreme. Take care. Richie and Crew