Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Lynn Rose East Cape Classic

The Lynn Rose East Cape Classic was once again 

a great success. The 3 day tournament was held at the East Cape resort Palmas De Cortez, October 23 thru 25.

 

The Classic is held each year as a fund raiser for children’s issues in the little town of Las Barilles.  Approximately 150 anglers came from all over to Participate.

The catches included tuna, billfish, dorado, wahoo, roosterfish and more.

 Accurate Fishing Products is one of the major sponsors of the tournament and many lucky anglers went home with new Accurate reels and Calstar rods to match.  









Lynn Rose with Lynn Rose Tours gathers up a host of prizes from many of the manufacturers.  There are also cash prizes for the daily-designated fish. 











The Classic is a total release tournament for all billfish and points are gained for released of both marlin and sailfish.

 










Phil Caldera, from Norco California walked with three Accurate reels for his efforts.  Phil received an Accurate ATD-50W for landing a 72-pound yellowfin tuna on tuna target day. 

He also received an Accurate Boss 665NN and an Accurate Boss 197C in the silent auction and raffle functions. Congratulations Phil and welcome to the Accurate family.

The Lynn Rose Lynn Rose Classic will be held again next year in October 2009.




 







Next years tournament will the 20th year and will surely be another great time of fishing and fun for all.

 










Contact the Lynn Rose at Lynn Rose Tours office for all details of this great annual event, 714 771-4499

Monday, October 27, 2008

Boss 665 2-Speed Kills It!!

I got a chance to do one of my favorite things recently: field test a reel I've been dying to use. 

The reel was the Accurate 665 two-speed. The quarry: yellowfin tuna on a 10-day trip on the Excel. 

The reel was loaded to the brim with 80-pound Blackwater Spectra to a 6-foot topshot of 60-pound fluorocarbon. (Maybe leader is a better term since it's so short?)

I put it on a Calstar Grafighter 7470H. The combo ended up working like a charm on yellowfin from 25 to 70 pounds. Not huge fish, but the action was hot and heavy at times: Cast a bait, hook-up, fight the fish, gaff, retie, repeat. And repeat. And repeat. We had wide-open tuna fishing everywhere we went, from Guadalupe to the Ridge. The reel definitely got put through the ringer. 

The 665 was kept in high gear 90-plus percent of a time, but when the fish were just out of gaff range low gear made things easier. It was great just keeping the tip up and be able to straight grind or do super short strokes. 

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Big Fish on Little Reels by Captn. Bruce Smith


The last couple of trips to Guadalupe Island have opened my eyes to some new, effective techniques and the tackle that is used to compliment them. To say things or the way we fish is changing is an understatement, west coast anglers have always been at the forefront of tackle technology and innovation. I believe live bait has a major role in what pushes us to find smaller tackle, clearer monofilament and fluorocarbon, composite rods and a ’mad scientist’ outlook of trying different approaches to present the most lively sardine or anchovy as far away from the boat as fast as possible.

In past articles I have named names and this will be no different. There are products that I see that work and many that don’t. Fishermen enjoy hearing specifics, although many times it doesn’t matter what color of jig you use, we want to hear what color is the hottest, newest out there, that “magic bullet.” I am here to put out some new things that I have seen work, on the water, day after day. Many times it will take years for a lot of us to come around to new techniques or materials, but you have to understand also that captains and crews don’t like to endorse hot, new, magic bullets until they see for themselves that they works, under pressure.

 

Smaller, smaller, smaller reels; when is it going to stop? Not very soon, I hope. Accurate and Avet are leading the way to the small reel revolution. If you haven’t picked up a small Accurate Boss TwinDrag 2-Speed 870 or 665, or Avet JX or LX, now is the time to do it. Hands down, these reels are awesome fishing killing tools. Ten years ago I was not too fond of Accurate reels, there were some problems. Today this opinion of mine has done a 180-degree flip, and I fully endorse these little powerful two speed reels. And no, I am not getting paid to say this, nor have I received compensation in any way, Jack Nilsen and sons have come a long way and they have always pushed the two speed envelope with their innovative products and I really can’t say enough good things about their new reels today.

 

Why should you go out and spend your pretty pennies on small reels? Two words: bait presentation. Of course reels won’t help you select that hottest sardine in the tray, but they do allow that sardine to pull the spectra off your spool with a minimum of inertia and continued free spool. This matters. How much drag that is created between the spool and line in the water will determine how many bites you get. What do we do? We decrease the size or diameter of our lines (spectra) and the size and diameter of the reels or spools.

 

The hard part of doing all of this is to do it without sacrificing line strength or pulling power. Secondly, it’s a lot easier to tote around a smaller reel all day than it is a two speed 4/0, plain and simple. And yes, these diminutive monsters will do just that, take the place of much of your bigger older tackle. Third, the two-speed aspect of small reels was a big question mark when they came out. Why would you need a two speed for 40 or 50-lb. line, much less for 30? Well, for one thing, not everyone and his uncle gets to fish off of Mag bay or Hurricane for a few weeks every winter. Us working Joes spend our time at places like said Guadalupe island and Alijos rocks, where the fishing can be less than wide open and we actually have to fish our baits away from the boat.

 

In situations like offshore bluefin fishing, you have to use smaller diameter lines like thirty and forty to get a bite. One thing in common with these locals is the size of the fish. Guadalupe especially this year, gives the five-day angler a serious chance at getting that Holy Grail of a 100-lb. yellowfin tuna. Not that everyone is getting them, in fact only a very small percentage are over 100 lbs. right now, but almost all of them are over 50! Now trying to get in a 70-lb. yellowfin tuna with a single speed reel is a chore to say the least. Do yourself a favor, drop it in low and get that fish to the boat.

 

Next item of the day: short top-shots and Blackwater fluorocarbon. Here is a slightly different take on things. I am on the Blackwater pro-staff, but this is because I went to them and asked to work with their product, since it’s so good. As in previous articles, I can say enough about the abrasion resistance of the Blackwater material, but today I want to mention the elongation factor or simply put how much it stretches. Yes, Blackwater fluorocarbon stretches, so put away your belief of pulled hooks because of short top-shots of fluorocarbon.

 

No more feeling like you are fishing with a piece of wire attached to your spectra, fluoro has come along way since its inception to be used for a fishing line. Again I would like to state on how clear the BW material is. Just hold up to the light of the tackle shop next to any other brand and you will be a believer. For me personally, clear lines help in getting bites, whether its due to the fish actually have trouble seeing the color or the line or its just because I have more confidence in clear line, the more clear the better.

 

Short top shots: here I make a stand. Many people will disagree. Short top shots kick butt. I love ’em. What it comes down to is that I am as much of a gear head as the next guy and you have to be if you want to do these things right. Seizing or crimping, when used in conjunction with cyanoacrylate glue (Zap-a-Gap, Mega-stick, and no, they are not all the same and there is room for improvement in this area), both work well. Hollow spectra for seamless connections that pass through your guides on the cast has helped immensely.

 

These are a couple things that are happening out here this late summer. If you are not scheduled on a boat right now, you may want to find an opening. Guadalupe has been a lot of fun for the last two weeks, and the Rocks are just that, they’re rockin’ right now. Fishing is good, come out and enjoy it on any one of the fine long range boats that run out of San Diego. 

Captn Bruce Smith

Report by Bill Roecker

Monday, October 13, 2008

Report from the Shogun on the B2-870N


Report from Shogun Sportfishing out of San Diego, California

We had a complete turn around of events here aboard Shogun. With all this wind and weather going around Norm Kagawa pulled a right hand turn and we arrived at Guadalupe island last night or early in the morning. Believe me the ride out here was not pleasant, but the lee of the island was a nice place to get the anchor down. The morning started off a little slow, but by 07:00 we had three going and by 10:00 all you had to do was get a bait in the water. Yellowfin in the 20 to 40 pound range were biting, well. Again the forty pound and small two speeds were getting the job done here at the island. I want to send kudos out for the Accurate 870 N, this little narrow version is a real butt kicker, as in real fish butt kicker. Hot stick of the day has to go to Mike Henn as he was able to pull a wahoo out of the depths along with many YFT's.

Captain Bruce Smith

Friday, October 10, 2008

Accurate Boys Hit Great Barrier Reef





We just got off the Great Barrier Reef on Friday, October 3rd. We fished 4 days with Captn. Laurie Wright out of Cairns, Australia. 

This was great adventure trip, we took off from Cairns toward the Great Barrier Reef. The reef is about 30 miles off the coast. Each day we would troll outside of the reef in the open ocean. At the end of the day we would just come to the inside of the reel where the water was really calm. Pretty cool how you can be so far out and be safe behind the reel for the night. We would sleep on the boat then wake up in the morning for some skin diving and jigging on the reef. After a couple of hours of playing around we would head outside the reef to troll for the Giant Black Marlin. In 4 days we ended up traveling about 400 miles north of Cairns. 

Fishing was pretty good. We ended up with raising 7 Black Marlin and tagging 3 of them between 200 -450 pounds. We were looking for the 1000 pounder!! Now we'll have to go back next year and do some more product testing! 

Thanks Laurie, Davo and Dingo, we had a great time on the boat. Check out their website at Australian Fishing Adventures

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Fishing the TwinSpin 12 in Oman








Howzit Accurate!

We did a trip down to Southern Oman last week in the Persian Gulf. The trip was shore based and we drove for about 11 hours to reach the area called Ras Madrakah. There is nothing there except a lot of wind! We had to take all of our supplies, tackle and beer. The wind was pumping but we still managed to fish off the small island just off the beach. Really awesome stuff fishing into 8-10ft surf.

I used the SR-12 with the 15-30lbs spinning rod with 50lbs braid. The outfit was awesome and I had no trouble with fish in the surf surge. I did get reefed a few times but that is par for the course! I was casting 40-70g lures into the wid and still getting good distance. Both rod and reel got thouroughly soaked and I fell into gullies a few times with the reel going under and everything carried on working. I have opened the reel now back at home and cleaned it up.

Cheers,
Nick Bowles

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

78 Pound Yellowfin on B2-665NN on the Excel

Excel Sportfishing, San Diego, California

“It looks very encouraging for future fall fishing. There’s lots of clean blue 75 to 85-degree water.”

Two big fish were caught on the kite and therefore not eligible for the jackpots. One came to Joe Chavez of Cerritos, a 101-pounder that found “double trouble” sardines dangled at the surface. The other was a 92-pounder taken by Lance Corporal Yoen Santana.

Dave Geis of Truckee won first place for a 78.8-pound yellowfin tuna he bagged with a mackerel on a 3/0 ringed Mutu hook. He said he used Suffix 40-pound fluorocarbon leader and 65-pound solid Line One Spectra, an Accurate B2 665 XN reel and a Kevin Bogan custom Calstar 765 ML rod. 

Report by Bill Roecker with FishingVideos.com

Monday, October 6, 2008

Boss 270 2-Speed Delivers

“Fish don’t have a chance against an Accurate Reel”! I was fishing in Mexico last week and I was using my new B2-270 catching 50lb tuna.

My friend Frank told me that you can’t catch those tuna with that small of a reel. Well 8 minutes later the fish is on the gaff. Very impressive is all he could say!

We caught several more that day the same size and now he’s totally convinced that Accurate Reels are the best. (I told you so).


Please tell Matt and George thanks for all of there help.

Best regards,

Mark  Frankenberger

Saturday, October 4, 2008

Accurate Boys in New Zealand



Early last week we (Douglas, David and Ben) took a trip to Taraunga, New Zealand to visit our new distributor Decoro. Taraunga is about 2 hours south of Auckland. 

We took a day off 
from business and headed 
out 50 miles to fish for Kingies (Yellowtail) with Captn Mark Armstead with Extreme S
portfishing.  New Zealand gets some really big Kingies and we tried our hardest to find them even when the seas were really rough that day. We end up each getting a Kingie. New Zealand is a really beautiful country. Thanks for showing us a great time Kane, Matt, Dave, Mark and all your families.