CharkBait  Charters

What a wonderful year of fishing we've seen...and we will see some more with November's 10 day trip. We expanded our trips this year to include a couple 3 day charters aboard the Royal Polaris, Shogun, and of course our two trips aboard the Red Rooster III.

I had some other staff on the first two charters (Tom from the warehouse on the SCI Shogun trip and Jeff from the shop on the RP), but got to go myself on the four day RRIII trip. Here are a few of the images from that trip. We had many options available, and Andy always seems to make the right calls. He did so again this year. We spent one day's fishing time on each of three different types of fishing. We started out at Guadalupe Island hoping for some larger grade yellowfin, then spent a day at Benitos bringing up yellowtail, and finished up fishing offshore hunting kelp paddies and porpoise schools for tuna, dorado and a few yellowtail. Guadalupe was a slow pick for about 15 yellowfin, with little size to 'em averaging about 30#'s and some good grade yellowtail. Our second day produced almost 90 yellowtail, some very good quality fish approaching 40#'s. But, our third day was no doubt the best days fishing with some troll stops, paddy hops, and the finishing touch was finding a large kelp paddy loaded with dorado and other fish. This last stop resulted in everyone catching fish, we made five or six passes of the kelp. Each pass was productive. We'd catch the dorado near the paddy, then as we drifted off the kelp we'd start hooking into tuna. It was a bit of wide open pandemonium, and a great way to end our day...and our four day charter.

Video Link: MPEG 4 file type, some windows computers (thanks Bill) may not recognize this format, but it will play back in Windows Media Player just fine - and with good quality reproduction ~ 50MB

Video Link: Real Media format -To make life easier for some, we'll also be uploading a simpler file format in Real Media which won't depend upon Mr. Gates updating Windows Media to the newer file format. - Please give me another day to accomplish this one. ~ 10MB

For those of you who were on the charter, if you'd like a better quality version of the video plus the photos in a high quality please send me back an email using one of the links at the bottom of this page.