"The fishing down here has been pretty steady," said the report from skipper Justin Fleck aboard the Excel, January 15, 2012. "There is a pretty good grade of tuna around. It is all mixed up from 40 to around 150 pounds; we really haven't seen too many big jumbos around. We've been scratching away. Just about all the tuna we have caught we have released, the guys have done really well on the tuna this trip.

 We've also had steady fishing on wahoo. The wahoo fishing has been good this trip. Everybody has a few, some guys have done better than others but we've had a good all-around trip, lots of tuna, lots of wahoo. The weather down here is flat calm right now, so we are going to make a move up to be at our next destination the day after tomorrow."