Today was a beautiful day on the Polaris Supreme. The seas of flat calm gorgeousness were a welcoming sight after it had been blowing for the last week and a half (I'm making it sound like we have been fishing in rough weather when in reality, we've been in flat calm sun visor and jock strap weather ourselves for the last 3 days But if we were offshore, we would have been sniveling about it, believe me). It was a foggy morning. There was a boat driving around without a working radar so we had to direct him on a safe course line around a reef.

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For those of you boat owners at home, don't go driving around where sharp rocks stick out of the water and lots of small pangas motor around without a working radar. The thing is, when it's foggy, the rails on the Polaris Supreme and probably every other boat in the world do this thing where all the little pores in the wood (ours being teak, yeah that's right) open up as if saying "scrub me now, you won't regret it" so we took advantage and scrubbed the rails, later on we will oil those bad boys and though they looked great as was, they will look a special great now. Aug 12, 2010 Ron Heil for more Photos

Monday August 16 2010 Other things that went on aboard this rig today were book reading, movie watching, poker playing, napping was definitely involved, conversation, we stopped and checked out a sunfish a.k.a. mola mola. He or she put on a bit of a show, he came up right next to the boat and started rubbing on the hull and stayed there doing it until we left acting just like one of those whale sharks we see down on the ridge. It must of had an itch. We drove by our good buds on the Vagabond and cheered them on while they were gettin um. Always nice to see that. Finally some good Yellowtail fishing for our 3 day boat friends. The boat had a nice take your time scrub today along with the rails and it was a great day for detailing out that Engine Room. We're getting in early again this trip so we can have another quick turn around to get down to the zone at a descent hour the day after tomorrow. Thank you Mr. Ron Heil for bringing out another great group of anglers and making our job the enjoyable job that it is. Good fishing, good weather, and good people, what's not to love? I have to get back in O.G.F. mode again and get down there and stuff my belly with fillet, lobster and finish it off with some carrot cake. P.S. This is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R were eliminated. Your good friends on the Polaris Supreme Aug. 15, Sunday I thought yesterday was Sunday due to the Padre game being a day game. It just made it feel like a Sunday. Anyway, after I was on this morning at 3:00 a.m. I thought we may be starting her off early with Mr. Heil losing a biggin but we never got another bite until day break. There were only two gentleman fishing in the dark but no bites until day light. Everyone else were in their staterooms dreaming of different various themes. At day light we began gettin her done. We pretty much kept at least one of those jumbo's going all morning scratching out a nice morning until around 10:00 A.M. the sea lions sort of took over and started getting more then we were so we made a move. Before, during and after lunch we had some good fishing at another spot, 1 to 3 going all the time with very occasional flurries of 6-10 fish going at a time and that kept up until around 2 when it slowed. The rest of the day we scratched on those 30-40 plus pounders until dark. All in all we had a very successful trip here and are now running up the line. We're going to hug the beach tomorrow due to the windy offshore reports and we're going to make some halibut drifts in the morning and take it from there. Drew and crew Aug. 14 Good evening folks. Well it's good morning for me. It's 3:30 in the A.M. on Sunday the 15th, but for writing purposes we'll just pretend that it's 9:30 P.M. yesterday. We never did catch any White Sea Bass or Yellows last night, lots and lots of Calicos until we made a move back to the calm waters around 1:30 A.M. Tommy put the boat on a hot spot pretty early in the morning, before dark anyway and shortly after day break we started to hook fish. We remained like that for quite some time. A comfortable pace 1 to 3 going at a time with an occasional flurry for 6 or 7 going at a time. Most of these being in the 28-35 pound range. This was all good until some time before lunch the pressure just got to great for the fish. All morning long there were boats of all shapes and sizes trolling every which direction all around the boat. That's what we're blaming the bite stopping on anyways. We tried a couple more spots, one producing 14-16 pounders and the other a few of those premiums. We took a run to the cove and found the fish there eager to climb on and in an hour or so we had another 40-50 yellows before that stopped biting. We then made a move back eventually making it to where we started in the morning and threw another 10 of those toads on before dark. No bites other then calicos until just recently charter master Ron Heil came up to the bridge where I'm typing and said he lost the biggest toad of his life. Hopefully that means another great day to come. Got to go. Drew and crew August 13th Friday There will be a slight delay on the pictures Drew promised you. Because we are trying to send a large amount and they are high resolution the servers as well as the .com's and the .net's on both ends keep dumping them. Jed and I spent the Better part of the morning while traveling down resolving the issue we hope. We wont know till we hit the dock on the 17th. Then we should have The Lets Talk Hook Up trip, The Eric Rogger Trip and this trip the Ron Heil. Which by the way is the longest running charter we have (28years). Tommy. O.k., on with the fishing talk. We arrived to the fishing grounds a little after lunch. Chef Schooler made us a nice chicken Caesar salad for lunch so we wouldn't have one of those make you tired full bellies (I highly doubt that's what he was thinking when he decided to serve it today). We made a few drifts in the windy choppy north head of the island for just a few fish before biding it ado (I bet spell check can't figure that one out). Just a few yards from there was windless flat calm sun screen wearing weather so we decided that's the place we'll find the fish and we did. The birds were very active and when we slid up to them and stuck our heads out the window yellowtail is what we saw. We had a nice drift on those but unfortunately it was short lived. We sniffed around there for a while before getting back in the search mode and covering more water. We found a few more spots here and there fore a handful more of fish here and there and then poof, it was dark. Tommy decided to take us around to an area of the island that very rarely if ever gets fished at night to try our luck at some night time yellowtail/white sea bass fishing. We are currently on anchor having a lovely thanksgiving dinner (I know the irony of having a turkey dinner when we're trying to stay up all night catching white sea bass and yellowtail so you don't need to mention it). Check back tomorrow and I'll tell you all about our night and day at the Island. Drew and crew August 12 I'd like to start off saying that I am sorry. Richie is off this trip so your stuck with me writing our daily trip reports. So here we go. We had an early wake up this morning. We arrived to Fisherman's Landing at 5:45 a.m. Shortly there after we noticed the tide was at a low. Time for a leg work out. We had a large dinner the night before, and the night before that and so on for every meal of the trip and for me, as you will shortly see in the website photos for last trip, I needed the work out. After hauling all the passengers stuff, the fish, the trash up the steep ramp and carefully bringing the carts of next trips food down the ramp (which by the way chef Schooler and I slightly lost control of and broke a dock light post, sorry Fisherman's Landing) we scooted off to the fuel dock, did our oil change, fuel filter change, fueled the boat, fixed the nick knacks, fresh water scrubbed the boat, scooted back to our slip, loaded passengers, got bait, left the channel, we put her on course for tomorrow afternoons hot fishing grounds (Yellowtail Land that is) with the annual Ron Heil 5-day charter. We are currently making good speed and the weather is behind us. We finished our fishing seminar so now we're going to eat team galleys prime rib meal and then we'll all have sweet dreams, get up in the morning and start our day. Due to the great speed we're making and our hard work for a quick turn around, we should make the fishing grounds at a very descent hour. I know I'm not Richie but I hope this was educational and entertaining anyway. Check back tomorrow for the hopefully great fishing report. P.S. As always, we are still on operation get fat mode (OFF), even more so now thanks to Mr. Bob Hagan (A.K.A. Ice Cream Man), for bringing on two coolers full of various ice cream pints and bars of various flavors. We're hoping for that low tide once again. Not really. Your friends, Drew and the crew of the Polaris Supreme