David Yu and his friends joined aboard the Benchmark for their first ever Tuna trip and they didnt leave dissapointed with 9 Tuna for the day including a nice Yellowfin that got away at the back of the boat. At the end of the day we kept our over 47" and under Bluefins and headed for the barn.

Scott Chritensen and friends joined us aboard the Benchmark saturday mroning for a half day of seabass fishing. We started off with a bang and some nice keepers on one of the inshore wrecks and then ended with a good bite. All total about 50 keeper seabass including a nice 16 inch blackfish for the morning. Nie day on the water and good fishing.

Myself, john, Joe, Al, Matt and Kevin headed out for our first exploratory canyon trip late on wednesday afternoon. Setting up on the chunk around 10pm we immediately had lots of squid and other life around the boat. Around 2 am we hooked what turned out to be a large sword on one of our 30 class tuna outfits, one angler and 6 hours later the fight seemed to be nearing its end when about 15 scranks from the boat the main line finally gave way. It was a heartbreaking loss but I was amazed that 50 lb line and leader held up that long on a big sword. We started to troll around 8am and thought we may have missed the early tuna bite but within 10 minutes we had our first bite and dropped it. After that the next 3 hours produced 6 out of 9 yellowfin in the 50lb range and we stopped at a pot and picked a half dozen Mahi's before heading home. It was a nice way to start the Tuna season.

We fished the High rollers shark tournament saturday and quickly realized the water temps had risen to almost 80 on the shark grounds. Despite the temps we had a small mako zip through and tear up some baits during the day, caught a blue shark and had atleast 3 small hammerheads circling the boat for a few hours. Interesting day of shark fishing but no money fish.

Jim Schlupp and his coworkers joined us for a bluefish trip on Wednesday, we arrived at the grounds and saw lots of bait and read fish but could not buy a bite. In the last 2 hours of the day the fish decided they were hungry and we ended up keeping a couple dozen nice 10 to 12 pound blues, losing a bunch and we left them biting at the end.

John Pionzio and his sons joined us for a half day seabass on tuesday and came away with several nice keeper seabass and a few ling. It was so hot that we called the day off a little short but not after Johns son Chris caught his first seabass and atleast 15 more on top of that. Nice job

Janet and George Gardner joined us with some friends for an afternoon trip on the 4th and luckily even with all the heat the south wind didnt come up until the last hour. We hit the reefs and picked a few seabass and then moved off to a couple wrecks which produced well with over 50 keeper seabass, ling and a couple nice cod.

Kevin and Liz joined us a July 4th with their son for a last minute seabass and Fluke trip. During the short half day trip we boated about 30 keeper seabass and 2 keeper fluke to finish off the catch.

Dan Rayniak and his group joined us for a little Mako hunting and came away with a nice day on the water and a 163lb Mako for the table. We also had a smaller mako during the day and several brown sharks swimming around thtoughout the day.