Sorry for the lack of reports from the boat, we had trouble sending reports thru our satellite system. As you already know we had very good fishing at Hurricane Bank and are presently traveling up the coast fishing a couple of our favorite Yellowtail areas as we go, trying to break up the ride.

One thing of note we did see today at Alijos Rocks was pretty good sign of twenty to forty pound Yellowfin Tuna, this was in 64.38 water temperature and could be a very good indicating of things to come this spring. Yellowtail fishing today was fair overall on fish 18 to 40 lbs. Our ride going homeward bound has consisted of twenty knots of wind and moderate to choppy sea state, the forecasts for the next three days is for improving weather conditions.

As far as our stay at hurricane Bank we caught fish on all applications but the top producing methods for big cow fish was squid used under the kites and chunking during the day light hrs and jigs and jigs, chunks and mackerel down a sinker type rig at night. We had good fishing during the day but what really stands out is the night bites we experienced every night at Hurricane Bank with fish not only biting close to the boat but swimming around the boat under the lights making for a very exciting rail time.

The over all grade of fish is very impressive with a good percentage of big cows to go along with the outstanding one hundred and sixty to one hundred and ninety pound average fish. The size of the two hundred pound tuna is equally as impressive with most of the cows ranging anywhere from two hundred and thirty to two hundred and ninety pounds, very few of the big tuna are just over the mark. There appeared to be fair to good sign of this fish and we are all hoping it holds up to produce equally as outstanding trip as this for our long range fleet the remainder of the 2006 winter season.