Team Old School "Schools" the Cow Stripers

We are having a GREAT Trophy season. I have been very busy in promoting these incredible Accurate products. Ben has been helping me quite a bit in providing me with what I need to do so in the way that I feel is most effective. I have taken a page out of your "long-range" book. I have always felt, since day one, that to hold and use an Accurate reel is the only way to appreciate these animals. I have loaned out rods and reels to anyone and everyone I could find, (and trust), during this trophy season. I deal and mentor the East Coast's best Striped Bass fisherman. These men are the best of the best and incredibly set in their ways.

HOWEVER!- They cannot argue that to boat a Cow Striper on an Accurate set-up is like going fishing again for the first time. I can honestly say without ANY exaggeration that every guy that caught a fish on an Accurate rig will be re-rigging over the next few months. The reels speak for themselves.

Thank you so much for your continued support,
I will continue to carry on, showing this side of the world what they are missing!

If there is anything else I can do, please let me know.


Thanks again and Happy Holidays.

Mike Smedley, Captain, Team Old School.

Rookie Comes Up Big

Roy Rose docked Fran LoPreste’s Royal Polaris at Fisherman’s Landing December 23 after an Izorline-sponsored trip with 19 anglers and chartermaster Howard Hada that lasted 14 days and visited Hurricane Bank, the Clarion Buffer Zone and the southern banks.

There were nine cows caught, with the largest an ineligible 291-pounder. In an impressive display of memory, skipper Rose recalled the name of each angler who got a cow, along with the weight of the fish, as all were weighed on the boat.

That largest tuna was taken by first-timer George Iwata of Montebello, on a sardine (skipper Rose said all the fish but one came on ‘dines) on a 6/0 ringed Super Mutu hook tied to 130-pound Izorline and 130-pound Izor Spectra backing on an Accurate 50 reel and a new Seeker 2 x 4 rod.

This fish fought hard for over an hour and Iwata needed some help, so his catch didn’t count in the jackpot.

“It was fantastic,” said George. “We got a lot of fish. I’ll be back again next year.”

Report by Bill Roecker at FishingVideos.com

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SuperCows Come Home

Everybody Got One

Tim Ekstrom docked his Royal Star at Fisherman’s Landing December 22 with a wonderful catch of 33 cows, including four supercows. The trip was a 13-day Accurate-Bart Ryder expedition with a flyback option for those who wanted to come home after ten days of fishing. There were 13 anglers aboard, and each of them got at least one cow.

The trip’s whopper was a 364-pounder caught by Rob McAdam of San Francisco, after a fight of an hour and a half. It bit on a chunk hiding a 9/0 Eagle Claw hook. He used 130-pound Izorline and 130-pound Izor Spectra on an Accurate 50 reel and a 6465 XXH rod. Rob wasn’t at the landing, having flown home from Cabo. He won first place.

John Santaella of Santa Maria bagged the fish he’s been looking for after many years, a 312-pound yellowfin that sucked up his sardine on a 9/0 Eagle Claw and then spooled him, requiring a backup. He got all that line, too, and then expired and sank after about an hour.

Some four hours later Ekstrom was able to move the boat from its anchorage, and Santaella’s tuna, still on the line out there on the bottom, was slowly and carefully raised to the surface. John also had a tuna of 204 pounds.

Stas Velonakis of Torrance bagged the final 300-pounder after a tussle of an hour. He fished a sardine on a 5/0 Gorilla ringed hook, tied to 100-pound Izorline and 100-pound Izor Spectra on a small Accurate 12 reel and a Calstar 670 XH rod. Stas also had tuna of 221 and 208 pounds.

Jeff Burroughs of Long Beach, a former major league baseball all-star, also got a whopper of 295 pounds.

“He fought me on the bow for an hour and 20 minutes,” said Jeff, “around the anchor line. He was a big bulldog.”

Jeff said he fished a sardine on a 6/0 Gorilla ringed hook tied to 130-pound Blackwater fluorocarbon and 130-pound Line One Spectra on an Accurate 12 reel and a Calstar 7465 H rod.

Gary Nishi of Glendale popped four cows, at 277, 254, 248 and 246 pounds. He flylined sardines on 6/0 Gorilla hooks. He said he fished with 100-pound Blackwater fluorocarbon, 130-pound Line One Spectra, an Accurate 30 reel and a Calstar 6460 XXH rod.

Report by Bill Roecker at FishingVideos.com

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Accurate visits the 2009 SKA Nationals In Biloxi

David Nilsen and I (Ben Secrest) were lucky enough to be invited to the recent SKA Nationals in Biloxi, MS to man a booth and talk with anglers prior to the tournament. The main bonus to the trip is the day of prefish we spent with Andre Moore and his team "Crikey" fishing for kings 100 miles off the beach. The morning started with a very cool breeze but ended up with decent fishing for kings with a couple decent ones caught and lots of action from other predators including some hyped up sharks. The BX2-500 really got a work out that week with "Crikey" prefishing and catching their fill of kings as well as a 94lb Wahoo and several big Yellow fin tuna.
Our Angler of the Year, Ron Mitchell got into the mix with a 100+ yellow fin on the SR-30 which he said worked perfectly. Fishing in general for the tournament was off the hook and the largest King fish caught in a tournament was weighed that exceeded 70+ pounds.
The Accurate teams finished highly with Ron Mitchell's "Bandit" taking Top Angler for the second time in recent years followed by Andre's team "Crikey" getting second Top Angler and Top Lady Angler for his wife Kim Bain Moore. Our friend Conrad Lau finished in fifth place for Top Angler and won Top Senior Angler for team "Koolau".

Overall the SKA Nationals is a great tournament and we really appreciate the support from those anglers using Accurate reels on the Tournament trail.
We look forward to next years finals and spending a few more days prior to the tournament listening to the sound of a smooth drag giving up some line to a fast swimming adversary.

Congratulations to our Pro Staff guys and we look forward to a great 2010 season for all.

Till next time, team Accurate signing out.

Shogun Get 14 200+ Cows

Shogun Gets 14 Over 200

The Seeker 13-day trip to the Hurricane Bank aboard Shogun with skipper Norm Kagawa returned to Fisherman’s Landing December 10 with 25 anglers.

Chartermaster and Seeker pro staffer Brian Porter of Downey remarked, “We had steady fishing with lots of new people. The fish got bigger as the days passed. We got one fish that broke off on a kite, double-sardine rig and then was caught again the next day, hook to hook, on the one hook that was still dangling from its lip.”

Skipper Kagawa said, “Fishing was very good, and we spent four and a half days at the bank. Most of ourt fish came on sardines. Some were caught on very large jigs, like th4e PL 68 and he TNT, during the dark. We got some on big baits like small tuna or skipjack.

“The kite worked well,” Kagawa continued, “and we got a few big wahoo as well. Pat Doyle won the Rollo jackpot for a 52.8-pound wahoo on the troll. This as one of our better trips to the bank.”

Dennis Groat of Redondo Beach won first place for a 233-pound tuna. He also had a 213-pounder.

“This one ties for my best,” said Groat. “He was a tough fish and stayed on the stern corner with another one, so we had to keep passing our rods. He came up to gaff in the other corner.”

Groat fished sardines on 6/0 ringed Super Mutu hook, with 100-pound Blackwater fluorocarbon and 100-pound Line One Spectra on an Accurate 50 reel and a Super Seeker 6463 XXXH rod.

Mike Kaneen of Hunting Beach won second place for a 218-pound tuna. He got it with a double sardine rig on the boat’s kite rig: 7/0 Super Mutu hooks on 130-pound Izorline and 130-pound Izorline Spectra, with an Accurate 50 reel and a Super Seeker 6463 XXXH rod. He also had a 213-pounder.

Report by Bill Roecker at Fishingvideos.com

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Nice Pair of Twins Brandon

Saltwater Editor Brandon Hayward of Western Outdoor News got a 252-pounder and a 202-pound cow on the Excell Long Range boat. He remarked that he only made two or three casts between those hookups.

He baited sardines on 5/0 gorilla hooks tied to 100-pound Seaguar fluorocarbon and 100-pound Line One Spectra on an Accurate 12 topless reel and a Super Seeker 2 x 4 rod.

Report by Bill Roecker at FishingVideos.com

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97 Pound Yellowfin on Boss 870

Bob Wheeler fished Isla Quadalupe on the Long Range Boat
Islander. Bob landed a 97 pound YFT on 40 pound test line. The big yellowfin was a personal best for Bob and also won the Jackpot for the trip.

Congratulations Bob !!!

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B2-270 on Cabo Yellowfin

Greetings Accurate,

My Accurate Reels never cease to amaze me, with a small reel I have so much power, its unbelievable. I caught this 50 lb Tuna, Using my B2-270 with 30 lb test line and a 1 / 0 live bait hook I was surprised to say the least. Thanks again for the great innovations you guys have brought to the fishing industry, it will never be the same again.

Kind regards to the Accurate Family,

Mark Frankenberger

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Two Super Cows for Wahoodad on the Intrepid

Intrepid Long Range Trip, San Diego, California

“Today's fish is one we all dream about when it comes to giant yellowfin tuna,” said the Intrepid report for November 22. “Charter master David Choate, ProStaffer for Accurate Reels, caught the fish he has been after for a long time today. All of us here on the Intrepid are very proud to have been a part of it. Congratulations Wahoodad! As for our day, two more super cows and several large cows to go along with half a dozen between 150 to 180 pounds!”

Chartermaster Choate wrote this: “I have a couple of things to say about this trip. I was out on the Intrepid on the December 26th-January 5th trip this last year. On that trip, I hooked a fish that took three backups, and finally it chewed through, after a three-hour battle. I thought that was it, my only chance ever at a fish like that. Then, I was fortunate enough to go again on the Red Rooster III with John Grabowski three weeks later. On my birthday on that trip, I got boiled on by the biggest tuna I had ever seen, and it cherry-picked my bait. Again, I thought, blew that chance! Never again.

“So, here we are again, and I did indeed get that 3rd chance. And this time I was able to overcome all obstacles, landing a very large Yellowfin Tuna, biggest one I've ever seen. Weight is only an estimate, not record shattering by any means. But a doggone good one. Next, it was a spectacular trip because of our 26 anglers, I'm pretty certain 25 of them have a personal best! We didn't all get cows or super cows, but we did an amazing feat in my eyes. I'm sure Kevin will have more to talk about on the way home.”

More details to come........

Report by Bill Roecker with FishingVideos.com

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313# Yellow Fin Tuna on the ATD-12

He Called The Shot

Like Babe Ruth pointing toward the outfield when he stepped up to the plate, Mark Oliver of Poway called his shot just before an experience that resulted in the biggest tuna (313 pounds) on the lightest (60-pound) line that Bill Roecker could remember in the past 16 years.

“It was about two pm,” remembered Oliver at the Fisherman’s Landing scales November 14, “and I was on a long soak with my sardine. I told everyone around me I was gonna get bit, that I’d need a backup rig, and about four hours later I was gonna have a big fish on the Royal Star.

“When I did get bit we were down to our last 20 minutes before we were supposed to leave. I pushed the lever on my Accurate 12 into strike position, and the fish left. He damn near spooled me before we could get the backup. The guys thought I was fooling when I called for the backup, maybe because of what I’d said.

“We got the backup connected while the fish was still going. He had all but 50 yards of the original rig, and he took out over 300 yards on the backup. At one time we had about 1,000 yards of line out.

“I had the fish almost close enough to get the first rig back four times. He took a final run of about 10 minutes. We had a second backup ready, and that’s when we figured therer was about 1,000 yards out.

“I started bringing the fish back. When I was about 100 yards from the buoy on my rig, the fish died. I got my reel back, locked it down and pulled steady until we pulled him off the bottom. Half an hour later, I saw color. Then we got four gaffs into him and it was over.”

Mark Oliver’s fish was the first cow from the Baja coast this season. It weighed 313 pounds on the boat’s scales. It was gilled and gutted and stowed in the refrigerated seawater tank. Oliver wanted to tank Greg Tanji and the other deckhands who helped him during the ordeal. He won first place in the jackpot.

Skipper Tim Ekstrom was impressed with the performance of Oliver’s small Accurate ATD 12.

“The water just poured out of it and it still worked great,” noted the captain. The trip was ten days, with 24 anglers aboard including chartermaster Fred Fukanaga.

Mark Oliver said he used a 7/0 Mutu hook with his sardine bait, on Yo-Zuri 60-pound pink fluorocarbon and 60-pound blue Izorline with 80-pound Izorline Spectra on his Accurate ATD 12 reel, with a Calstar 660 H rod.

Report by Bill Roecker of FishingVideos.com

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