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
The annual 12-day Seeker trip aboard the Shogun returned to Fisherman’s Landing December 10 guided by owner-skipper Norm Kagawa.
“We had a good day on the Finger Bank,” allowed Norm. “I think we got about eight cows.”
He was correct. The best fish was a 264.6-pound tuna caught by Roger Kang of Fresno, who also had a 232-pounder. He told Bill Roecker about the experience of catching the big one.
“He bit while I was up on the bow,” said Roger, “and he got wrapped on the anchor line. He got unwrapped, and we went back to the stern. He pulled me around and I got caught in a trolling strap and almost lost my rod. After an hour and 15 minutes, he came up on the port bow.”
Kang baited a mackerel on a 7/0 ringed Super Mutu hook, tied to 130-pound Yo-Zuri fluorocarbon leader and 130-pound Line One. He used an Accurate 50 reel and a Super Seeker XXXXH rod that was custom spiral-wrapped by former fish of the year angler Pat Doyle, who was also on the boat.
Report by Bill Roecker, fishingVideos.com
Last Boat In
San Diego, California Long Range
Norm Kagawa docked his Shogun December 23 at Fisherman’s Landing after the 13-day Will Fish Tackle charter. Co-owner Jack Hill was aboard as chartermaster, and the trip produced seven cows, or tuna over 200 pounds.
“We had good fishing,” said Norm, “with a variety of methods working. Afternoons were better than the mornings.”
Here’s what the Shogun’s Internet log said December 20:
“Yesterday the Shogun passengers and crew said farewell to Hurricane Bank for 2008. Once again we landed tuna over 200# with the average a little smaller than the day before. The kite had a hot spell in the afternoon when the baits wouldn't sit for 5 minutes before a strike. We emptied the slammer of the last of the sardines to make way for RSW tuna, and the wahoo put on a show boiling on all the bait around the boat.
“All in all the fishing was good every day for tuna and wahoo and the bite varied from day to day. Sometimes it was the kite and other times it was strictly a fly line bite. Right now we are traveling home in bumpy seas but all of our fishing days were in fair seas and light winds. Only yesterday did the kites for moderate winds come out. The Shogun will be back out in early January, the crew and our staff in the office thank you all for fishing with us this year, and hope to see you back on the Shogun soon in the New Year.”
Lew Hurlbutt of Tehachapi won the first spot in the jackpot for his 229-pound tuna.
“He got tail-wrapped,” said Lew, “so I brought him to gaff in ten minutes.”
Lew said he baited a sardine on a 5/0 Super Mutu ringed hook, and used 100-pound blue Izorline and 130-pound Line One Spectra on a new Accurate B-2 50 reel and a Seeker Black Steel rod that appeared to be a 6364 XXXH model.
Report by Bill Roecker of FishingVideos.com
Roy Rose docked Royal Polaris at Fisherman’s Landing, San Diego, California on December 23, just in time for Christmas. His 16-day Izorline trip with chartermaster Howard Hada of Cerritos appeared to be the third-best ever, with the counting still going on as fish came out of the last RSW hold. When it was over Roy’s anglers had 68 cows from the Hurricane Bank.
“The afternoons were best for cow fishing,” said Roy. They bit from about 2:30 until dark. They bit on the kite, sardines, chunks, whatever. In the morning they’d bite around dawn, and then disappear.”
Maury Newton of Orange had six cows: 203#, 208#, 226#, 205#, 211#, 202#. He said he fished with sardines on 3/0 Gorilla hooks. He used 100-pound fluorocarbon leader and 100-pound Line One Spectra on a new Accurate B-2 30 reel and a Calstar 765 H rod.
Report by Bill Roecker with FishingVideos.com
San Diego Long Range Report by Bill Roecker
Ken Cirks used another new Calstar rod with the guides underneath, to go with his new Accurate TwinSpin 50 spinning reel, and caught a 160-pound tuna. He said he was hoping for a cow, and had no doubt the spinning reel could handle a big tuna. He fought the fish with a harness hooked to the reel seat of the new rig.
Bill Roecker, FishingVideos.com
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