CAPTAIN: ANDY CATES
DATE OF TRIP: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19 to SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
LENGTH OF TRIP: 14 DAYS
PASSENGERS: 22
AREA FISHED: HURRICANE BANK
FISH COUNT: 165 YELLOWFIN TUNA (8 OVER 200 LBS), 127 WAHOO, 38 DORADO
1ST PLACE JACKPOT: 233.5 LB YELLOWFIN TUNA caught by: DENNIS BIDIGARE OF OSCODA, MI
2ND PLACE JACKPOT: 223.1 LB YELLOWFIN TUNA caught by: ROB TAPERT OF STUDIO CITY, CA
3RD PLACE JACKPOT: 215.6 LB YELLOWTAIL caught by: BOB MICHENER OF OXNARD, CA
Other 200 lbs.: 207.3 Mike Massey of Jacksonville. Or.
207.9 Roger Nichols of Carlsbad, Ca.
207.1 Roger Nichols of Carlsbad, Ca.
205.2 Rob Tapert of Studio City, Ca.
201.9 Roger Nichols of Carlsbad, Ca.
REMARKS: Roger Nichols caught three yellowfin over 200 lbs., Rob Tapert caught two yellowfin over 200 lbs. and the trolling
jackpot was a 50.3 wahoo caught by Dale Sommers of Costa Mesa, Ca.
An excellent trip on the larger fish over 100 yellowfin tuna from 100 lb to 200 lbs. Average size of wahoo was 35 lbs at
Hurricane bank. Kelp pattie wahoo averaged in at 45 lbs.
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Oct 23 2003
Good evening folks. We arrived at the Bank this morning. We had decent bait fishing with nice flat calm weather for drifting.
First thing this morning we noticed is no heavy presence of sharks. We are glad to see that. We had very few even while
chunking.
Rob Tapert started us off with this nice fish in the high hundreds. We picked at the wahoo on the anchor most of the morning
and had a few other nice fish and some smaller 70 to 90 pounders mixed in.
The afternoon was the most promising picking up a couple of fish over 200 pounds...//...
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