This trip was the real beginning of the Fishy Boys adventures and the plan for the subsequent 2008 fishing adventure to Alaska was hatched onboard the El Dorado during this trip. The rest is history, but those are other stories you’ll see in video and pictures on other pages of the site.
For this trip we did a private charter on the El Dorado out of Fisherman’s Landing in San Diego, California. We ended up with 13 anglers and Tim, the camera guy which kept the boat from being crowded, but also kept the price affordable for the guys.
The fishing had been great leading up to the trip and after a very slow start the ol’ “You should have been here yesterday” quote was running through our minds by midway through day 1. Our captain had decided against going with the majority of the fleet who headed due west and instead we gambled and headed South and a bit west to fish off the Mexican coast. Truthfully, it wasn’t that big of a gamble since the two days before, the fishing had basically shut down for everyone and all of the boats were still searching for consistent action. There were reports that a few fish had been caught the day before about 120 miles west of San Diego, but the area down South hadn’t been fished much at all for the past two weeks or so and the logic was that the area may be ready to turn on and if so, we might just hit it big.
The first day saw a few small “football” yellowfin tuna in the 6-8 lb. range and a couple of larger yellowtail in the 15-20 lb. class and that was about it. Even though the fishing was slow the weather was beautiful and the water was calm with one of those infrequent “Lake Pacific” days to cherish.
Day 2 started with more of the same or less of the almost nothing of the day before so Captain Eddy thought we should head west to try the dumper and if we didn’t have any luck there, we might still have time to circle up north near the rest of the fleet and get in a few hours there before it was time to head back. The trip out to the dumper saw a much angrier sea and dropping temperatures to add insult to the injury of the slow fishing.
We did manage to pick up a couple of larger albies on the troll, but with some reports of more fish being caught up North, we headed that direction and had a good couple of hours just before dark and made the trip home with several bigger fish in the 30-40 lb. class. It only takes one or two of the big boys to wear you out anyway, so all in all not a bad trip.
The production on the video turned out well enough to air on any sports network, but we didn’t think we were quite ready for that so decided to keep filming and working out the kinks before we perused any placements seriously.
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