Best Supercow Day Ever?
The dust has mostly settled, but we’re still chasing some numbers for big fish here at FishingVideos.com. Any late-coming information will be shared here as it becomes available.
Here are the scores, by the boat, from yesterday’s arrivals. It likely was the best day ever for the weighing of supercows, or tuna over 300 pounds.
American Angler had 12 tuna over 200 pounds, including four over 300.
Royal Star had three fish over 200 pounds, including a 335-pounder.
Red Rooster III had eight fish over 200 pounds, including a 311-pounder.
Intrepid caught 16 tuna over 200 pounds, including four over 300.
Excel had 24 tuna over 200 pounds, including six yellowfin over 300.
Independence found 19 cows, including four fish over 300 pounds.
Total for the day: 82 cows, including 20 supercows.
Super Cows, Super Day, Super Winners
Net Update January 5, 2009
San Diego, California Long Range
Not since Steve Loomis had a night for ten 300-pound fish in 1977 has a catch like this one arrived at the San Diego sportfishing docks. Six boats arrived and all of them had 300-pound tuna aboard.
“It was a winter night,” remembered Loomis at Fisherman’s Landing January 5, “and the cows, 300-pounders, were swimming all around us under the lights. It was chaos! Tommy Rothery gaffed one going by that went 326. I don’t know how many we got that way. We didn’t have all this good gear and bait. We got some on flying fish and some on wads of anchovies.”
Nacho Camarena of Oceanside had a 40-minute tuna that weighed 262 on the boat. He baited a mackerel on a 5/0 ringed Super Mutu hook tied to 100-pound Blackwater fluorocarbon and 100-pound Izor Spectra on an Accurate 30 reel and a Calstar 7465 H rod.
“He had my nerves on edge the whole time,” Nacho said of his first cow. “He got it all but 100 yards before I put the hammer down, then he took me around the boat two times.”
Calstar rep Gary Gillingham of Duarte took home a 256-pounder that erred by slurping his mackerel on an 8/0 Owner Offshore hook. He used 130-pound Blackwater fluorocarbon and 130-pound Line One Spectra with an Accurate 50 W reel and a Calstar (naturally) 6465 XXH rod.
Rooster Cops A Three
Andy Cates docked Red Rooster III at H&M Landing January 5 after a ten-day New Years Special trip to the lower banks.
The big fish was the jackpot-winning 311-pounder caught by Paul Palmer of Temecula, on his first long range trip. Paul baited a squid under the kite, fought the fish for an hour and beat his personal best by 276 pounds. He used the boat’s rig: 130-pound Izorline and 130-pound Izor Spectra on an Accurate 80 reel and a Calstar 760 XH rod.
“What I’ll remember,” said Paul, “was the total fight of the fish, how strong he was.”
Allen Lemberg of San Diego found a 255-pounder at the end of his 130-pound Izolrine and Izor Spectra. It ate a sardine under the balloon on a 5/0 Eagle Claw hook. He used and Accurate 50 reel and a Seeker 6465 XXH rod.
Four Supercows For Intrepid
Kevin Osborne docked Intrepid at Pt. Loma Sportfishing January 5, following a ten-day Accurate trip with 23 anglers. Fishing on the lower banks was good, and the boat found four supercows and three more fish with kissing distance of 300 pounds.
David Choate of Torrance nabbed second place for a 316-pounder. Dave is an Accurate/Seeker rep and nearly had a brace of supercows. His second fish weighed 299, and he had a 289 and a 223-pounder. He got his big one on a sardine and a 6/0 Gorilla hook. He fished with 130-pound Seaguar fluorocarbon, 130-pound Spectra backing on an Accurate 30 reel and a Super Seeker 6463 XXXH rod.
Mike Blumenfeld of Laguna Hills got a 224-pounder on a sardine and a 6/0 Matsuo hook. He fished with 100-pound Blackwater fluorocarbon and 100-pound Line One Spectra. He used a new Accurate B2-30 reel and got the fish in 30 minutes.
The count for the trip: four over 300 pounds, 12 over 200, and three over 100 pounds
Report by Bill Roecker with fishingVideos.com
