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UPDATED DECEMBER 18, 2025

Tanner and Cortes banks — The Cortes has bluefin! And it’s wide-open, Plus these outer banks offer some of the best and biggest bottom biter action in the Bight. But once you go deep and tap it you can’t fish inside those 50-fathom lines any more for anything except with a hoop net or squid brail.

Inner pelagic waters — Deep Drop swordfish is what it’s all about right now, with hot spots along the drop-offs at offshore high spots as well as the shelf break between the 9-mile and the Long Beach Shelf.

Outer pelagic waters — No word except the Butterfly and other high spots could count as outer and have counted in the deep drop swordfish game.

Long range — The great wahoo fishing down on the Ridge for the long range fleet continued as the great grade held and the numbers actually improved. At the same time the usually wide-open yellowtail and yellowfin fishing took some effort. Also somewhere along the line there were some big bluefin on tap and the photos came in. Erstwhile CCA-Cal ED Wayne Kotow was on the RP, and those guys appeared to be not to serious, fishing bass reels and micro spinning tackle for tuna. However the folks on the American Angler Izorline/Turners Outdoorsman sponsored 10-day were hard charging, crew straining their eyeballs for bitty kelps loaded with ‘hoos and anglers not messing around with tiny tackle. Wendy from Izorline (Izorline seems to be her last name) boated 4 of the skins, from 40 to 70 pounds, but Lori Sachow got an 80 pounder. Wendy’s two biggest were 60.3 and 70.7 pounds while her largest yellowfin was over 120 – just shy of 100 pounds gill and gutted.

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