Frank LoPreste's Royal Polaris has arrived at the southern fishing grounds on the 18-day Nakaki- Tsujicuhi Open with 20 passengers. Here's yesterday's brief report:

"We arrived at the Naval garrison at Clarion Island at 06:30 hours. By 07:45 we had completed our inspection and we were on our way to fishing the buffer zone (six-plus miles off the island) area.

"We saw decent sign of fish that were pretty wild, and most were in the 40 to 70-pound class. We caught five Yellowfin tuna for the morning and by 13:00 hours we took off for Hurricane Bank. We are hoping for good Wahoo fishing and obviously plenty of big Yellowfin tuna."

A longer report with photos is expected today or tomorrow.
Finishing Up At The Rocks
Shogun's report from the previous day read like this:
"It was another good day here on Shogun. The fishing wasn't wide open like we have been seeing, but it was a nice steady pick bite with sometimes one going, sometimes seven going. No real standouts as far as big fish go: possibly fifty pounds on the YFT and thirty-five on the YT."