Fish Report for 8-3-2004

Royal Star Fish Report

8-3-2004
Royal Star

Now this was more like it today with bona fide long range action that began just after daylight and lasted through the early afternoon. Although we had to put in our time running, the beautiful scenery and yellowtail action more than made up for it and we enjoyed the entire day mixing up our approach both catching on the anchor and drifting. Following our slow afternoon yesterday this was just what the doctor ordered. Reports from above continue to detail the rigors of looking at good spots of albacore that don't want to cooperate but some of the guys did find improved action on kelps today even mixing a few yellowfin tuna into their totals. As such we will be targeting yellowfin and yellowtail tomorrow hoping to finish up with a good hit before heading in for our next turn around.


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