11-13-2010 - Hello again from the independence. Yesterday we departed on the annual 12-day cow shoot out. We are heavily armed with live bait, and everyone on board is in high spirits. Today was spent talking about giant tuna, as well as rigging up properly for these beasts. Aside from that, most watched football, and told fish stories. The weather is absolutely gorgeous, and looks to stay good for a while. We have high hopes for the trip, and look forward to doing battle in the next few days. Thanks for checking in on us, Jeff and the Indy crew
11-15-2010 - Today was the first day of fishing, and we saw good sign of tuna, and not a lot of biters. We did manage 4 fish in the 130 to 150 lb. class, and some biting 40 lb. ers. We are going to try in another place for tomorrow. The weather is very pleasant. Good night from the Indy crew
11-20-2010 - Here we go, yesterday was on the slow side, but today we put some serious wood to the tuna out here. Things got going rather early, as in before daylight, and ended after dark. It was an all day affair pulling and yanking, and more pulling. When all the dust settled we caught 109 tuna, 85 of which are 100 lbs. or better, most fish are 125 to 170 lbs. and 8 fish 170 to 190 lbs. Needless to say most anglers are worn out and battered. The weather is just gorgeous out here. Thanks for checking in on us, sleep well, as we certainly will. Jeff and the Indy crew
Back on Track
11-18-2010 - Sorry for the lack of reports the last few days, so lets get caught up. We had a technical problem and got it fixed, so we are on line again. The last few days we had fair fishing on smaller tuna, and bonus kelp for some wahoo. As for today we had a really good day of yellowfin tuna fishing, fish 90 to 190 lbs. and biting well. The weather is as good as it gets, and everyone is having a fantastic time so far. We are back on line, so thanks for checking in on Jeff, the Indy crew and us
11-23-2010 - The Indy will arrive at Point Loma Sportfishing at approximately 9:30am on Wed Nov 24.
Heading Home
11-22-2010 - Good evening everyone, we have been on the move in the direction of San Diego for the past two days. Everyone is in relaxed mode, and trading fish stories from the past few days. The weather is up, and our e t a for wed. Is still up in the air. We will have a better idea tomorrow, so check in then, Jeff and the Indy crew
11-29-2010 - We have the final for the cow Shoot-out, first we want to thank everyone who made the trip this year and hope to see everyone again soon, The Grand prize on the trip went to Mark Roden for his 175.6 yellowfin which earned him the $1,500 gift cert. for another trip on the independence, 2nd place for the Avet 30W/2-SP went to Rick Berg with a 173.4 yellowfin, 3rd place went to John Arndt for a 161 yellowfin that took an Avet 30/2-SP, 4th place was caught by Dale Lethcoe and weighed in at 158.2 to earn an Avet HX/2SP, 5th place fell to Ric Kramer for his 155.6 yellowfin and won an Avet JX/2-SP, 6th place went to Dale Lethcoe again with a 150.4 yellowfin and won a Seeker rod, 7th place was landed by Tom Drake and tipped the scales at 147.2 and earned another Seeker rod, 8th place fell to Fred Lee and weighed in at 146.6 and took the final Seeker rod, 9th Place was John Arndt again with a 146.2 yellowfin that put a new Independence jacket on his back and last but not least 10th place and our final prize was caught by Bob Crawford that weighed in at 145.4 and took home an indy sweatshirt. We want to thank our sponsors Avet reels and Seeker rods very much for being on board with the Independence since day one. Next years trip will again have lots of great prizes and this trip will be a 10 day trip for 2011. Thanks again everyone and have a great christmas and new year. Next year will be season 8 for the Indy.
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