Times Spent Outdoors: Priceless!
Times Spent Outdoors: Priceless!
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"We got down to the Banks yesterday midday, " reported Excel skipper Justin Fleck January 1, 2014. "After bouncing around a little bit the fishing has been good. Most of the fish we're catching fish from 50 to 100 pounds. We got several fish in the 170 to 195-pound range, and we caught one Cow at 210 pounds yesterday afternoon. Anyway we're getting steady action, they started biting in the morning, and we usually have two or three hooked. The guys are having a good time, the weather is coming... Full story
Bluefin Dive Long-range boats reporting from the bluefin area south of San Diego yesterday indicated bluefin fishing was tough at best. Some boats managed one or two fish per rod; others didn’t fare so well. There were reports indicating fishing was okay in the morning, but non-compliant in the afternoon. Skipper Andy Cates of Red Rooster III offered a typical report: “We started off good in the morning with a couple of stops on school size bluefin. We dropped the ball and spent the aft... Full story
Overview Windy weather and a morning-only bite foiled many boats going into the weekend, but a few managed to deck one or two tuna per rod out on the bluefin grounds. Some boats opted to fish for yellowtail, white seabass and halibut near islands. Here’s how Randy Toussaint of the Royal Star put it August 2: “We got off to a nice start with a grey bite for 40 bluefin but the rest of the day produced very little aside from a few flats (dorado) and small bluefin tuna. Overall, a down day for the... Full story
In his "Net Update," Bill Roecker of www.FishingVideos.com highly recommends this DVD, Fishing Long Range 101, which is available at http://www.fishingvideos.com/shopping.htm... Full story
There was a small crowd waiting when Justin Fleck backed Excel into the slip in front of Fisherman’s Landing Dec. 9 sometime around 4 a.m., and it rapidly grew until there looked to be several hundred folks clustered around the biggest yellowfin tuna ever caught. By 6 a.m., to say the place was a zoo might be understatement. The trip was a Braid charter to the Hurricane Bank with 22 anglers. The star of the event, electrician John Petruescu, was pinned to the dock rail by reporters, p...
The heftiest, best-illustratedbook on long range fishing: At The Rail: Long Range Fishing, by Bill Roecker, has been recently released by Oceanic Productions. The big new 208-page coffee-table volume is colorful, about the best bites ever seen, the closest calls, oddest events, the most gratifyingresults and heartbreaking losses of the original extreme sport. It’s printed on high-quality slick paper and is available in hard and soft covers. At The Rail shows fishing for giant yellowfin tuna, a... Full story
New 2013 Sportfishing Calendar Bill Roecker’s fresh, colorful 2013 Sportfishing Calendar is stuffed with information and great features like the long range record fish of the year, the most common hook knots, world records, holidays, equinoxes, long range schedules, moon phases, LA tide charts and tidal corrections for San Diego, San Francisco and Santa Barbara, with those gotta have 'em, copyrighted Tidelines™. It won't set your hook for you, but Bill Roecker's 2013 Sportfishing Calendar, wit... Full story
Contractor Ken Cirks spends a few days each fall fishing up in the Northeast. This year he was fishing out of North Lake, Prince Edward Island. I talked with Basil Pappas via telephone a few days ago, on September 7. Pappas remarked that Cirks was tucked into the corner of the boat at that very moment, working on a tuna of over 800 pounds. I’m assuming that the fish you see here is the same one. Here’s what Cirks sent along to me: “Hey guys, I’m just got back from another unbelievable trip to... Full story
Saturday, September 22 was a good day for trips returning from week-long trips. The four rigs that arrived in the morning had very good to excellent catches of mixed yellowtail, yellowfin and bluefin tuna, some chubby albacore and a few dorado. The Independence even had three wahoo in the catch. There were a few old-timers in the crowd to meet them. One of those was Charles Hunter a well-known jig fisherman not much seen for the past ten years. The catches were sweet, even exceptional. “Excellen... Full story
His Last Book Ed Ries Leaves Us A Valuable Legacy By Bill Roecker FishingVideos.com. Ed Ries had a wealthy fishing career. He caught swordfish, tuna, blue marlin, sailfish, black sea bass, halibut, and just about any game fish you can think of, including bonefish in San Diego Bay. He fished for mackerel and barracuda, white seabass, bonito and dozens of different kinds of rockfish. He knew about every sportfishing boat, barge or pier south of San Francisco, and in his day was a respected marine... Full story
