Independence Sportfishing - San Diego, CA


July 2013

Fish Report & Photo Archive

JP for trip#1305

by Indy Crew, 7-01-2013


Good morning Anglers, here is a recap on trip#1305, Sponsored by Seeker Rods, and our Charter -master Bryan Porter. Thanks to everyone that came out with us your support is greatly appreciated. Our JP winner on this trip was: 1st place Tom TAMANAHA from GARDENA, Ca. with a 52.6 Yellowtail, 2nd place went to Seth Levine from DURANGO, Co. carrying in a 50.8 Yellowtail . What a story he had to take back to Colorado with him. And 3rd place rolled in was Mike Brennan from MARTINEZ, Ca. a 45.8 BFT...Good job everyone...Once again we want to than all our sponsors and Bryan for all the help you give to the Anglers, your participation in helping on first-timers on-board before yourself is impeccable. See you again Next year.. Jeff and the Indy Crew and Us. Watch us on FB, make your reservations early for 2014, trips are now posted.

ETA 7/4/2013

by Indy Crew, 7-03-2013


on our way home... we are now on our way back to san diego. our 2, 75 day trip complete, with lots of fish for everyone, bluefin tuna and yellowtail. everyone had a really great time fishing together, and the kids got some really good fish tales to bring back home, as well as quality bluefin tuna. we will be back at 0800 tomorrow, 4th of july.. sea ya then, the indy crew

Departure 7/5/13

by Indy Crew, 7-04-2013


Departure is at 8am...all passengers sign in at 5:30am, Bring your Passports to my office Please. Judy

A Family Affair

by Indy Crew, 7-04-2013


We are back in from our 2

LOOKIN' FOR HONEYHOLES

by Indy Crew, 7-06-2013


We hope everyone had a safe and fun 4th of July holiday. We had a vacation night in for a little celebrating ourselves. We had an early departure set for the 5th, and after a positive experience at the bait receivers we were off and running. With many new faces on board as well as a hearty group of veteran Indy fisherman the table is set for our 5 day extravaganza. good bait, great weather in the forecast and some good reports from down in the fishing grounds all add up to some great potential for us this week. But as we all know from experience, there are no sure things out here. As I am writing this we are just a few hours from the grounds, and I can say with out a doubt that this is the best set up to go and try for these trophy bluefin tuna, please wish us luck, Jeff and the Indy crew, Matt, Jesus, Doug, Oscar, Tyler, end and Rolf

Action Action Action

by Indy Crew, 7-06-2013


WOW WHAT A DAY WE HAD.... steady action out of one drift that started at 1300 hrs and went till dark. We had steady 5 to 8 going for hours. The over all grade is a beautiful 30 to 40 lb. and then the 50 to 65 lb.ers. we easily obtained our daily limits and chef Ed Lacombe caught a couple for dinner and sushi .the weather is about as good as it gets out here and looks to stay for a while. With the sign of fish we see here we are going to give this another day. I really have to say, this being the first stop of the trip; everyone did a superb job working together while it was busy. Let's hope this bluefin tuna keeps on the bite. Thanks for checking in on us, Jeff and the Indy crew (Watch us on Facebook) Get in on the Action, a couple spots opened on trip#10. Call the office today or book on line.

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BIGGUNS BITING IN THE DARK...

by Indy Crew, 7-07-2013


Today was the classic find a school of tuna in the dark and shut down on it and hope it bites. It didn't take long for them to gather around the boat and start what can only be described as tuna lust. Our morning drift lasted 5 hours, and we tallied 72 beautiful 50 to 70 lb. fish. Everyone had lots of chances this morning to get sum. The rest of the day was slow except for a drift for 25 more fish in the 30 to 40 lb. category. The weather remains satisfactory as well. We are going to try our luck at an island tomorrow for some fun in the sun thanks for checking in on us, Jeff and the Indy crew, Watch us on FB...

The Independence enjoys steady Bluefin action with daily limits

by Bill Roecker, 7-08-2013


Independence had "...steady action out of one drift that started at 1300 hours and went till dark July 6. We had steady five to eight going for hours. The over all grade is a beautiful 30 to 40 pounds and the 50 to 65-pounders. We easily obtained our daily limits and chef Ed Lacombe caught a couple for dinner and sushi . The weather is about as good as it gets out here and looks to stay for a while. With the sign of fish we see here we are going to give this another day. I really have to say, this being the first stop of the trip, everyone did a superb job working together while it was busy. Let's hope this bluefin tuna keeps on the bite. Get in on the Action, a couple spots opened on trip #10. Call the office today or book online."

trip#1308

by Indy Crew, 7-08-2013


There is always a good chance that we could have an early departure. Sign in starts at 7am. Get to the Landing early for parking. Bring your Passport to my office.

SPECTACULAR DAY ON THE INDY

by Indy Crew, 7-08-2013


today things got going very early, and kept right on going till dark. Can you say variety? we had really really good yellowtail fishing on 18 to 30 lb. fish biting salas 6x jr, salas 7x , long rod guys had a super great day as well. Throw in 5 sea bass up to 40 lbs. and 6 halibut up to 40 lbs. along with limits of yellows for the day and call it good. beautiful weather was here all day long, we are going to start gaining some altitude tonight and make a stop somewhere tomorrow for a couple of hours. Everyone is in very high spirits tonight, including the entire crew, thanks for checking in on us, Jeff and the Indy crew

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Departure 7/10/13

by Indy Crew, 7-09-2013


ON OUR WAY HOME.... we tried a few deep water drops this morning for reds and ling. kinda slow, but got a few stringers before calling it a trip. with 2 R S W holds full of beautiful 40 to 75 lb. bluefin tuna and yellowtail and some c bass and halibut we are headed to the barn extremely happy with the results. our ETA is for 0530 tomorrow, sea ya then, jeff and the indy crewHi Anglers. this is in regards to the trip on 7/10...I always start sign-in at 7,,,sometimes earlier. I need to finish all my paperwork, when the boat is done with whatever they have to do you leave.. I never go by that 11 am departure time. We always manage to get out early. .and don't forget your passport...Judy

JP Winners trip#1308

by Indy Crew, 7-10-2013


Hello again from the Independence, we have retuned from our latest 5 day adventure and are back out on a 4 day trip. Big fish honors go to the following anglers 1st place a whooper of a Bluefin goes to Ken Aiso 82.0, 2nd place goes to Mark Miller 71.4 Bluefin, and 3rd place goes to Jeff Chaney 64.8 Bluefin. We have a nice load of bait and flat calm weather as we head down to the fishing grounds, we will report tomorrow as our fishing will start in the morning. thanks for checking in, the indy guys

Tough day

by Indy Crew, 7-11-2013


Today was tough going, the weather was absolutely beautiful but fishing was rather slow, we found only one really good school today and landed 33 bluefin tuna out of it that were 25 to 40 pounds, the story was the same for all of us offshore, it was very hard to get the bluefin under the boat let alone bite our hooks. We kept a few yellowtail but most were released to gain a little weight for next season, hopefully tomorrow brings more fish that want to bite. Wish us luck, the Indy crew

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Another slow day

by Indy Crew, 7-12-2013


Slow again for us, we did stop on several nice schools of big BFT for not a lot of action, the fish would either give us the fin and keep going or boil up and then keep going, we did get 1 BF that is about 130 pounds, the 18 to 25 pound yellowfin tuna did keep us a little busy at times also.. Tomorrow is our last day so wish us luck we need it.

Banner way to end up!!

by Indy Crew, 7-13-2013


Today things turned around for us, we got on a school of 50 to 100 pound Bluefin at 05:30 and keep busy until it was time to call it a trip. Wow they were biting, 50 to 80 pound line was the best range to fish most of the time. Occasionally the bite would back off and the 40 pound got bit very quickly, weather remains very nice and we should be in about 06:30 hours depending on the scheduling with the vagabond. We will update the eta this afternoon or early evening. Please keep in mind if you going fishing on any long range trip, you need to a ready to switch gears from 40, 50, 60 and 80 pound outfits at a moments notice, one school may 30 to 50 pound fish and next may be 100 to 170 pound fish, the bulk of our catch today was 50 to 75 with bigger models flashing around. Thanks for checking in with the Independence. couple spots open on next trip. Call in if you want to get in on the Action....

Back in

by Indy Crew, 7-14-2013


Hello again everyone, we just finished our 4 day offshore adventure, big fish honors go to John Collis with his 124 lb. Bluefin tuna, 2nd place goes to Douglas Edwards for his 117 lb. Bluefin tuna caught on 40 lb. Izorline and 3rd place going to Mike Verdugo with a 70.2 lb. bluefin. We had lots of fish in the 60 to 70 pound range with a very solid 60 pound average. Thanks to everyone on the trip. We are now on a six day adventure with another excited group, weather is good and we are currently headed to the BF grounds with high hopes that the fish will continue biting. Thanks for checking in. The Indy gang.

BAJA PADDY HOPPING 7/13

by Indy Crew, 7-14-2013


BAJA PADDY HOPPING... good evening everybody, today was the first day of the annual Baja Paddy Hoppers 7-day extravaganza hosted by Sherman Lim. some of the other sponsors are Calstar, Fish Works, Okuma, Savage Wear, Owner Hooks, Bloody Decks, 5- Star Processing. as far as fishing goes, we had a good start for the trip as we caught 87 bluefin tuna , most being 30 to 45 lbs.. We saw good sign at times today, and wished we got more bites, but we will take what the sea will give us. Everyone had a fun time, and the weather is great, and looks to stay for a while. We are going to look somewhere different for tomorrow, Please wish us luck, Jeff and the Indy crew, Jesus, Matt, Tyler, Oscar, Kevin, Ed and Rolf

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Off and running

by Indy Crew, 7-15-2013


Hello from all of us out here on the high seas, we had an excellent day on the 50 to 75 pound bluefin tuna today, 90 percent of the fish are 60 to 70 pounds, just a fantastic grade of tuna we are catching, the weather again was very nice to us. The plan is to stay here and hope to repeat the day we had. We will send some pictures when we can. Have a great day. Mark,Paul,Kevin,Doug,Jesus,Oscar,Ed and Michele.

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It's fishing!!!

by Indy Crew, 7-16-2013


Today was a lot more of fishing than catching, we stayed in yesterday's hot zone to find it ice cold, we did manage (11) 60 to 70 pound bluefin along with a few yellowfin tuna and dorado. We are planning a different approach at angling for tomorrow, the weather has come up a bit and is forecast to blow a little for the next couple of days, that may or may not change our plans. Thanks for checking in.

Good on yellowtail

by Indy Crew, 7-18-2013


Hello everyone, the weather has taken a turn for the worst on the offshore grounds, with some very nice tuna under our belts we opted for the beach to fish for yellowtail and had two days of steady Fishing on good grade yellows in the 18 to 25 pound range, the weather was a bit on the tough side with 20 to 30 knots most of the time. We are headed up in improving weather and will be in about 6 am Saturday morning. Thanks for checking in, the Indy Staff.




Daily Pictures

by Indy Crew, 7-21-2013


Here are some pictures from our current trip.

BAJA PADDY HOPPING...

by Indy Crew, 7-21-2013


Good evening everybody, today was the first day of the Annual Baja Paddy Hoppers 7 day extravaganza hosted by Sherman lim. some of the other sponsors are Calstar, Fish Works, Okuma, Savage Wear, Owner Hooks, Bloody Decks, 5 star processing. as far as fishing goes, we had a good start for the trip as we caught 87 Bluefin tuna , most being 30 to 45 lbs.. We saw good sign at times today, and wished we got more bites, but we will take what the sea will give us. Everyone had a fun time, and the weather is great, and looks to stay for a while. We are going to look somewhere different for tomorrow, please wish us luck, Jeff and the Indy crew, Jesus, matt, Tyler, Oscar, Kevin, Ed and Rolf

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DOING THE LEG WORK 7/21

by Indy Crew, 7-22-2013


Today was a long day searching for fish in absolutely perfect weather. Such is the case after a few days of windy weather, and then relocating the schools we have been fishing with huge success the past few weeks. The day was not a total loss, as we tagged 41 tuna 18 to 30 lbs. of the yellowfin variety. We are moving to yet another location in search of fish; please wish us luck, Jeff and the Indy crew

Good Fishin'

by Indy Crew, 7-23-2013


Good evening again from the Independence. Today we fished for excellent grade yellowtail, and had a really great day catching them. Bait worked well, and the yoyo Salas 6x's produced lots of fish as well. I was using the Salas 5x model and did really well with the long rod. Just an opinion but I think the Salas 5 x is the best surface plug ever made for surface jiggin, 99.99999% of them are swimmers. Throw in a couple of sea bass, and lots of giant calicos and there you have it, a beautiful day on the Indy. We are going to try this again tomorrow, sea ya then, Jeff and the Indy crew

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THIS IS GOOD 7/24

by Indy Crew, 7-24-2013


I MEAN GREAT LIVING... well our day started off very early, way earlier than normal. We had one of those night bite sea bass bites that you only see once in a blue moon. Things were hot n heavy at times, flurry type fishing. When all was said and done we had racked up 75 sea bass 25 to 55 lbs.. After day light we were on the prowl for this beautiful grade yellowtail we caught yesterday. We had another outstanding day on the yella, as we came close to limits on them. Today we saw some of the best calico bass fishing ever. The weather has been very good so far, and we hope it stays with us. We are going to start in the offshore zone tomorrow, please wish us luck, Jeff and the Indy crew

AHI FOR US TODAY...

by Indy Crew, 7-25-2013


We had a great morning catching 18 to 30 lb. yellowfin tuna. We stopped the boat 4 times for a total of 140 fish before calling it quits and starting the long run up to the bluefin tuna grounds. Good weather is still with us, but a little bit of breeze is in the forecast. We will be targeting the bluefin tomorrow, so wish us luck, Jeff and the Indy crew

ETA 7/27/2013

by Indy Crew, 7-26-2013


Hello Anglers, Report from Indy will follow soon, they are still fishing..Tomorrows ETA is 7am. Bring your Passports for next trips sign-in.

ICING ON THE CAKE..

by Indy Crew, 7-26-2013


Today we got up to the bluefin tuna zone just in time to get a school before they put their noses down for the day. We made one drift for 90 fish, most being 25 to 45 lbs.. It was a great way to end our fabulous trip. Everyone got to pull on a few of them today. The weather was, not perfect by any means, but with a fantastic catch already aboard no one even noticed the 18 kts of wind. We are going to be back to San Diego approx. 0700 tomorrow, turn the boat around and do this again. Thanks for checking in on us Jeff and the Indy crew

QUICK TURN AROUND...

by Indy Crew, 7-27-2013


we returned this morning from a very successful Baja paddy hoppers 7 day trip. Thanks go out to everyone who made the trip this year, and to Sherman Lim our host. Jackpot winners for this trip go to John Collins of SAN DIEGO, CA. 51.4 LB. White sea Bass, 2nd place goes to John Keeler of SANTA MONICA 44 LB.White sea Bass AND Randy Britton of LAWTON OK. With a 40lb White Sea Bass. Honorable mention to Jerry Watkins of ARCADIA, Ca. Congratulation guys... we have rick Ozaki from west coast marketing and Avet Reels for our 7- day trip that left today. We have a good supply of sardines and some eager fisherman ready to do battle with what ever we run across this trip. The weather looks to be on our side as well. There are many huge give a ways and raffle prizes being given away as I type this report. Please wish us luck, Jeff and the Indy crew, Matt, Jesus, Doug, Oscar, Phil, Ed and Michele. Watch our Facebook pages for daily updates and pictures throughout the trip.

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Winners from the Independence's Baja Paddy Hoppers 7 Day trip

by Bill Roecker, 7-29-2013


"We returned this morning," wrote Independence skipper Jeff DeBuys July 27, "from a very successful Baja Paddy Hoppers 7-day trip. Thanks go out to everyone who made the trip this year, and to Sherman Lim our host.

Jackpot winners for this trip go to John Collins of San Diego: 51.4 LB. white seabass
2nd place goes to John Keeler of Santa Monica: 44-pound white seabass
Third Place to Randy Britton of Lawton, OK 40-pound white seabass
Honorable mention to Jerry Watkins of Acadia.

"Congratulation guys. We have rick Ozaki from West Coast Marketing and Avet Reels for our 7-day trip that left today. We have a good supply of sardines and some eager fisherman ready to do battle with whatever we run across this trip. The weather looks to be on our side as well. There are many huge give a ways and raffle prizes being given away as I type this report."

MORE LEG WORK...

by Indy Crew, 7-29-2013


We began the trip offshore looking for better grade bluefin tuna down below, and had zero success for our efforts, a few Dorado and yellows is all. A day at the island for good scratching on yellowtail today took some of the edge off, as we made a day of it. The writing is definitely on the wall, as to where all that beautiful grade bluefin we were catching went to. We have our sights set now on the zone, and will be there for the next few days hoping to connect along the way. The weather is good for now, so please wish us luck, Jeff and the Indy crew

LONG DRIFT....

by Indy Crew, 7-30-2013


We were in the bluefin zone today and things were a little bit on the slow side in the morning for the majority of us out here. At 1300 hrs we got on a spot of fish that stuck around till dark. When it was all said and done we scratched 77 beauties up to 75 lbs. It was not any barn burner by any means, but we kept a fish or two on pretty much all afternoon. The weather is good, and we plan on doing this again tomorrow, sea ya then, Jeff and the Indy crew

GOOD QUALITY TODAY...

by Indy Crew, 7-31-2013


The offshore scene today was no barn burner, but what we did see was good grade bluefin that were 40 to 70 lbs, mostly a plunker bite. there were a few times that looked like they would get with the program, but over all it was 1 or 2 at a time, some times 3 or 4 . We scratched out a day for our efforts with 57 fish and a few Dorado. We will try this again tomorrow in hopes they feel like chewing again. The weather is good. Wish us luck, the Indy crew