Fish Report for 1-18-2006
Excel Update 1/18/06
1-18-2006
Excel Long Range Sportfishing
After a slow day yesterday and today being our last day we were hoping for the banner ending to our adventurous trip. We covered a lot of miles of water looking for these giants and we saw good scattered sign of fish but they were very squirly and uncooperative for us. Around 1500 we headed for the area that had been good to us early in the trip and we found what we were looking for. Straight 170 to 260 pound yellowfin crashing around the boat and free swimming everywhere like we were not even there. They were so aggressive I saw a fish about 240 pound come out of the water and try to get a bait away from a bird that was just above the water, quit the site. If you could imagine the best albacore bite you have ever seen, with fish coming from under the corner of the boat to get your bait, just imagine the fish being all 170 to 250 plus pounds, just incredible. In the initial hit when we first stopped we hooked 18 fish but we did not fair too well because they were all bit at the same time and you could imagine the chaos that took place. When we got established in our drift we kept 4 to 8 big ones going at once until dark when they finally left us. We finished up our bite with 32 fish and 8 to 11 from 200 to 260 pounds. We could not ask for a better way to end the trip than with the best bite we have seen this year. There is still really good sign of quality fish in the area and I think there is still going to be some really good catches to be made down in this zone. We will check in when we get the fish weighed up