RE: Long Range Fishing
Fieldmouse, I've done a fair bit of that type of fishing out of San Diego. Mostly 4-6 day trips, but did do a late November-December 10 day trip last year on the Royal Polaris. We fished the water off the Lusitania Bank, northwest of Cabo, for five days. We only got one huge cow, it was a 300 pounder that one of the other guys caught, but we did catch a good number of yellowfin up to 199 pounds. My personal biggest on the trip was a 150 lb. yellowfin. Catching those big fish on stand up gear is awesome. On our shorter trips, we mostly fish albacore offshore, orsometimes yellowfin and yellowtail down at Alijos Rocks. We normally fish on two boats, the Excel or the Royal Polaris. Some other boats I'd like to fish on, but haven't yet,include the Royal Star and the Independence.
As I write this, my 20 year old son is headed down there to Fisherman's Landing, to look for a job as a deck hand on a long range boat. The first time Iever took my son, he was 10 years old and we went on a 4 day albacore trip. He nearly got pulled out of the boat on that trip, 200 miles west of San Diego.
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