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Denizens of deep still biting strong
By Ed Zieralski, San Diego UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
November 17, 2002
Call it the ocean fishing season that may never end.
Or, how about some Thanksgiving tuna?
Albacore bit for private boaters as close as 65 miles last week at the 295 Bank off Ensenada, and albacore and bluefin both performed for sport fishers between 120 and 140 miles of San Diego.
The action inspired Capt. Chuck Taft on the Sea Adventure out of H&M Landing to start his engines and head back out to the fishing grounds.
Taft left Friday night for a two-day trip that returns tonight at 6. The Cherokee Geisha also went out, part of a two-boat charter booked by a construction company, according to Ken Wehinger at H&M Landing.
Taft has scheduled a series of 11/2-day runs "until the fish quit biting," with the first leaving Tuesday night aboard the Sea Adventure.
"There were two boats out there (Thursday), eight miles apart, and they both had over 100 fish," Taft said.
Taft said the Big Game 90 was on a two-day run when it found biting albacore and bluefin. And the Bright and Morning Star, on a multiday trip and returning from Guadalupe Island, hit 141 albacore, 48 bluefin tuna and 86 yellowtail fishing 120 to 140 miles from San Diego.
"Fishing was kind of slow at Guadalupe, and they were battling a big white shark that got some of their yellowfin tuna," said Suzy Griffith, wife of Bright and Morning Star owner Ben Griffith. "They were on their way back when they got into the fish."
By Ed Zieralski, San Diego UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
November 17, 2002
Call it the ocean fishing season that may never end.
Or, how about some Thanksgiving tuna?
Albacore bit for private boaters as close as 65 miles last week at the 295 Bank off Ensenada, and albacore and bluefin both performed for sport fishers between 120 and 140 miles of San Diego.
The action inspired Capt. Chuck Taft on the Sea Adventure out of H&M Landing to start his engines and head back out to the fishing grounds.
Taft left Friday night for a two-day trip that returns tonight at 6. The Cherokee Geisha also went out, part of a two-boat charter booked by a construction company, according to Ken Wehinger at H&M Landing.
Taft has scheduled a series of 11/2-day runs "until the fish quit biting," with the first leaving Tuesday night aboard the Sea Adventure.
"There were two boats out there (Thursday), eight miles apart, and they both had over 100 fish," Taft said.
Taft said the Big Game 90 was on a two-day run when it found biting albacore and bluefin. And the Bright and Morning Star, on a multiday trip and returning from Guadalupe Island, hit 141 albacore, 48 bluefin tuna and 86 yellowtail fishing 120 to 140 miles from San Diego.
"Fishing was kind of slow at Guadalupe, and they were battling a big white shark that got some of their yellowfin tuna," said Suzy Griffith, wife of Bright and Morning Star owner Ben Griffith. "They were on their way back when they got into the fish."
