The final fishing report from the outside island was a few (literally a few) more of the forty to fifty pound size class yellowfin tuna yesterday along with a couple of incidental keeper yellowtail and a couple of handfuls of release size ?forkies?. As you are able to determine, the fishing was very slow, and Captain Brian Sims logged a full day and night searching for both the bigger yellowfin and night time yellowtail for scant results.

With a brimming hatch full of beautiful twenty five to forty pound albacore from the first day, Captain Sims elected to finish up the trip with a final morning targeting trophy yellowfin at Guadalupe and succeeded to a small degree with a couple more forty five pound class yellowfin for the effort. Otherwise Brian reports very little sign of fish at Guadalupe with only a smattering of the better size yellowfin around and a few yellowtail. In the end the quest for quality fish was certainly the right move to make as the guys had plenty of albacore in the hatch, and feasible alternatives were a stretch at best. So, the boat returns and departs again tomorrow on our annual Labor Day five day adventure with Captain Toussaint at the helm. Look for reports to continue as I have been charged and/or bribed with the daily reporting duty. Honestly it didn?t take much as you have probably determined that I enjoy relating Royal Star?s daily experiences. Who knows, may be I?ll write that book you all have been encouraging me to someday soon?

Tim Ekstrom