We had another great, enthusiastic group today that were real easy to please. They made easy work of catching limits close to home just offshore the Ritz and enticed a couple of lingcod onboard, too. On the albacore front, it looks like Southern California is really getting a great wave of fish coming through. Maybe we might just get a shot at something good by mid-September if the weather will give us a break to be able to go offshore.......

The wind that was staying offshore yesterday decided to mess with us today. But once again it was not what had been forecasted: we were supposed to get northwest winds and ended up with wind straight out of the south. South winds on top of the already good size swell made us very grateful to do as well as we did, because it tends to put the fish completely off the bite. It wasn't limits and there were no lingcod,......