Friends, I have some excellent news. WE CAUGHT A WHITE SEABASS...FINALLY! I was beginning to think that these fish where just some urban legend or a figment of our imaginations. Anyhow, we arrived to the spot at around 2:00 in the morning, dropped the anchor, and the gang got after it with various jigs and dropper loop assortments. It was that type of fishing where you just send your rig to the bottoms, cradle your rig under your arm, sip coffee and BS with the person next to you.

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At about 5:00 in the morning, the sun was just starting to crack when Mr. Greg Dewitt's reel started screaming. After wraps on the propellers, wraps on the anchor chain, and a fight with a seal, we successfully boated the beast. Sweet, estimated weight is around 45 lbs. or so. A beautiful fish and congrats to Greg. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. A little after that, Kub Ito hooked one but when we boated the fish, a groan of disappointment rang out as all Kub did was catch a 25 lb. Yellowtail. It must've been a great trip if we're bummed about catching another quality yellowtail. Aug. 24, 2010 Trip for more photos

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 So that was our morning. A Yellowtail and a white seabass for a couple hours in the morning light and after that we called it a trip. Our weather is very nice and our ETA tomorrow morning is 7:00 am. Thanks for checking in and look for the trip wrap-up report tomorrow. Take care. Richie and crew. Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 Hi everyone. Today was our final day down here at Cedros Island and we couldn't have scripted a better way to finish our trip. Standard morning routine for us - catch mackerel, immediately send them back where they came from on dropper loop rigs, catch big yellowtail, take pictures. Mission accomplished, on to the next spot. We motored around a bit and we weren't all that flattered with what we saw so we made a U-turn and decided to give one last spot a little more of a thorough investigation. Going about this particular spot with a fine-tooth comb, we stumbled upon what looked to be a very fishy looking area and man did it look good. We initially drifted along the ridge and hooked a couple but after awhile it was apparent that these fish were content with their surroundings so we dropped the anchor to stay right there with them. It didn't take these fish long to get comfortable with us there and it didn't take us long to get down to business on these brutes. We stayed very busy from about 10:00 in the morning all the way until about 2:00 in the afternoon when things died down. Preferred method to capture these cow yellow's was a fly-lined sardine for sure. The one negative from this whole thing was the lack of surface iron action. It would be one thing if 30-40 lb. yellows weren't boiling everywhere around the boat but they were and they didn't eat the surface jigs too well. Oh well, we'll take em' any way we can get em'. The few we did hook on the surface jigs was the highlight of the spot. Watching multiple 30lb yellowtail fighting for your jig and then finally inhaling it is one of the most exciting feelings in fishing, no question. Chef David has a new appreciation for not only surface iron yellowtail fishing but also for a 9'3" Ulua rod. You know it's good fishing when you're hooking and handing off yellowtail to your chef because everyone else has a fish on. Priceless, he caught a very nice fish as did all of our anglers today. Just an epic day of fishing and I'll be writing about this day in my personal log book for sure. A+ fishing, A+ weather, thanks Yellowtail Land, we're out. We're currently heading up the line in and we're rockin' and rollin'. Not fun. Anyhow, we're going after the elusive Seabass in the morning time and then we'll be putting a lid on our final Summer 5 day trip of 2010. Thanks for checking in, talk with you tomorrow. Richie and crew. Monday, August 23rd, 2010 Well friends, I could keep this report very short and tell you to just read our previous twenty fishing reports from down here at the Yellowtail grounds but that wouldn't be fair to all you readers out there. Maybe I'm just trying to glorify my reports in some way but I do feel the urge to give you the "broken record" report. If you just want the meat and potatoes report, here it is. We once again had excellent fishing on quality Yellowtail today and once again had very nice weather to boot. If you want the juicy details, please read on. The morning bite on bait/yellow's wasn't too hot but we did do enough damage on both species to keep us busy in the morning. All the fish we hooked on the mackerel were lunkers but like I said, it wasn't really anything to set the world on fire. So we began searching around various spots just after breakfast and it took us a little time to find what we were looking for. To end the suspense, we found what we were looking for and we ended up putting a nice afternoon together on 15-22 lb. Yellowtail. Any type of outfit worked well to capture these specimens but what was great about today more-so than previous days was the surface iron action that we enjoyed. Always a blast watching big yellows chase the jigs up on the surface. Basically, we could've clobbered that grade of fish but we what we really wanted to do was to get in position to be pulling on some premiums' for the rest of the day. To be honest with you, we're kind of still waiting for that to happen but it actually did give us some time to concentrate on catching some more mackerel to add to our arsenal. Blessing in disguise I guess. Bottom line, we had a fun day in the sun pulling on Yellowtail. Not a bad sounding broken record right? Good yellowtail fishing, good weather, good yellowtail fishing, good weather. You get the deal. Music to our ears that's for sure. We'll be here tomorrow for one final day and it's trophies or bust. Take care now. Richie and crew. Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 Good evening friends and happy Sunday to you back home. How did we spend our Sunday you ask? Well, we awoke this morning to find that the dirty, cold water we have been traveling through the past few trips was now clean, blue, and warm water. Encouraging, but we did not see nor hook anything noteworthy so we continued on our course for an afternoon/evening Yellowtail bite. We arrived at our first destination shortly after lunch, picked our spot, and tossed some lines in the water. The Yellow's didn't take long to locate our offerings and we enjoyed steady action of those critters for a while. The grade was mixed up but for the most part they were 18-24 lb. fish. We hooked a few smaller ones but we released them back to freedom and took great satisfaction in doing so. The Yella's bit fly-lined sardines best but it seemed like the better grade of fish came on the yo-yo jigs. After a few hours of keeping 1-5 hooked, things dried up so we made a move to another location and got setup a little before the sun went down. We'll call this particular location "Big Fish" and the Yellowtail which make their home here were just that, big fish. We ended our day catching a box-full of those premiums and also ended our day catching some mackerel to use for bait. We're hoping this trend continues throughout the dark because the mackerel have been the key bait to have when attempting to capture these bruisers. So all in all, we had a very productive day and we'll be giving this a full days effort tomorrow. Hammer time. Our game plan for the night/early morning is simple. Catch mackerel , catch Yellowtail, and catch White Seabass (Please, please, please). Pretty simple, we don't like to complicate things too much here on the Polaris Supreme. So there you go. Our weather is gorgeous as can be and we'll be reporting back to you tomorrow evening. Wish us luck. Dreaming of early morning Seabass, Richie and Team Supreme. Saturday, August 21st, 2010 Good day folks. This morning we tied up at 5:30 am at Fisherman's Landing, said our farewell's to the Blue & White gang, and welcomed aboard Mr. Joe Beck and the fine crew he has assembled for this 5 day voyage. Joe will be filling in for Mr. Bob Vance as charter-master and we'd like to say hello to Bob and wish him well from all of us here on the Supreme. Anyhow, we did our lightning quick turnaround once again, left the dock at 9:10 am, and cleared Point Loma at about 10:15 with a decent load of bait and an eager group of anglers. The weather is super and we'll be reporting back to you tomorrow evening with tales from our first day of fishing. The game plan is still the same. Get down to the Yellowtail grounds and do work on those beauties for a couple days. That's our plan and we'll see how things unfold. Enjoy your weekend and have a lovely rest of your day. Richie and Crew. P.S. Tommy asked for me to relay this to anyone who'll be riding the boat this year. We've recently discovered this amazing device called a camera and the majesty it has bestowed upon us has been quite entertaining for us on-board. What I'm getting at is that with all of these pictures we have been taking and putting on the website some photos that haven't made it onto the website are just sitting in our computer. Tommy says that if you would like all of the photos we take on your particular trip, bring with you a 1 MB "SD Disk" and at the end of the trip we will copy/paste the photos from our computer onto your disk for you to enjoy at home. Thanks.