Independence Sportfishing - San Diego, CA


December 2025

Fish Report & Photo Archive

Rice Bowl 10 Day

by Brian Pifer, 12-01-2025


We started our journey yesterday morning, as we departed on our Rice Bowl 10 Day. We stopped at the bait receiver to fill up our tanks with sardines before continuing south.

 

Today is dedicated entirely to preparation for targeting wahoo, tuna, dorado, and yellowtail. Following Captain Brian's insightful seminar after breakfast, the crew has been working non-stop to ensure everyone is fully equipped and ready to fish.

 

Adding to the excitement, Dr. Fred hosted a generous raffle/giveaway, distributing excellent gear such as Penn and Accurate reels, rods, jigs, hooks, shirts, hats, anf much more for the group to use.

 

We anticipate starting our fishing action tomorrow, around noon.


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Rice Bowl 10 Day

by Brian Pifer, 12-02-2025


Great start to our Rice Bowl 10 Day with wahoo and yellowfin tuna to kick things off. Hitting it again at first light for more wahoo, then switching gears to search for that bigger-grade tuna.


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Rice Bowl 10 Day

by Brian Pifer, 12-03-2025


We had a great day thanks to finding a few productive kelp paddies! Now, we're shifting our focus to a team goal: we still have a few anglers waiting to land a wahoo. So tomorrow, we're dedicated to making sure every single person on this trip gets to take one home. 

 

Some amazing weather we've had.


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Rice Bowl 10 Day

by Brian Pifer, 12-04-2025


We're celebrating a full boat of happy anglers! With everyone catching at least one wahoo, it's time to shift gears and dedicate tomorrow to finding that bigger yellowfin tuna!

Shoutout to Ed and Rolo for dishing out an amazing sushi spread


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Rice Bowl 10 Day

by Brian Pifer, 12-05-2025


No luck on the big yellowfin today—rain and bad visibility defeated our search efforts. Still, we ended on a positive note, hooking a few wahoo late!

Try for trophy bluefin tomorrow


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Rice Bowl 10 Day

by Brian Pifer, 12-06-2025


We hit a small window of opportunity today and made the most of it, landing some nice yellowfin tuna and a couple of wahoo! Now, we're swapping the offshore hunt for some inshore action—it's yellowtail fishing time tomorrow!


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Rice Bowl 10 Day

by Brian Pifer, 12-08-2025


Yesterday's struggle for hungry yellowtail along the beach was frustrating, but thankfully, today offered a major improvement! We thoroughly enjoyed spending the final day fighting and landing yellowfin tuna.


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Rice Bowl 10 Day

by Brian Pifer, 12-09-2025


To officially conclude our Rice Bowl 10 Day Trip, we managed a few successful cod drifts and pulled up some beautiful lingcod! A massive shoutout goes to Dr. Fred and everyone who made this year's trip possible. Thank you all for the great times and good company!


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Denio Charters 10 Day

by Brian Pifer, 12-12-2025


Left Wednesday for the Denio Charters 10 Day Trip. Beautiful conditions for relaxing and sipping on some Knee Deep Brewing Landfill Blonde/Indy Light.

 

Today was prep day for the wahoo and yellowfin tuna fishing. The countdown is on—we expect to start fishing sometime around lunchtime tomorrow!