Posted on June 26th, 2025
The fam and I are having a great time on vacation celebrating Ryan’s graduation and I am getting some great fishing reports from back in OC. We’ll be back early next week and I can’t wait to bend a rod on some of this action.
Captain Shawn Gibson of the Wound Tight had a crazy good day of trolling yesterday putting 13 yellow tuna in the box before 1 PM.
Captain Nick Sampson in the crew from MobSquad fishing had an awesome day with some bluefin and yellowfin tuna action.
anglers fishing with Captain Jason Mumford on board Lucky break. I’ve been having a great time with the Flounder putting lots of keepers in the cooler on most trips.
The Kevin McNelis’s had an awesome day of flounder fishing over ocean structure with a limit of nice fish by 10 AM. Kevin Sr. Had his personal best flounder on the trip that was 25” and 6.5 pounds.
This big 18 inch Seabass was caught on board the Miss Kathleen fishing out of Bahia Marina.
Young Mya is posing with a very nice 22” keeper flounder caught by her uncle Mike Barth who was fishing ocean structure on June 25.
Captain Will from Local Hooker fishing charters showed these folks some excitement with some catch and release sandtiger shark action.
Captain Monty Hawkins and his crew on the MorningStar had some good fishing in flat calm seas.
Another stunningly calm day.. You just couldn’t ask for a flatter sea. Couple local fellows made our block drop today. Joe, Pasha & Tony dropped a small terracotta over reef block unit first, then sent loose blocks down to Crystal Ann Brinker’s Memorial Reef where I’m trying to form (naaa, where I will form) a foundation for a special reef pyramid later.
From there, eastward.
Our first drop was into no current at all. Nicked a few, but not as if from the abundance my sounders indicated.
Wasn’t long and the current was again quite strong from the north. Like yesterday, fishing remained less than marginal through the peak of water velocity with the bite improving nicely as it backed off
..but that took a good while!
Was a beautiful day but not a banner day of fishing. Ahhh.. But fish always seem to bite when it’s time to go home..
Fortunately I don’t schedule an afternoon trip save for spreading ashes or lowering a memorial reef unit (with ashes in the pyramid unit.) That allowed me to put in two full hours of overtime once they started to bite. (Departed 25 minutes early too!)
One of our last stops was a forgotten reef block site. It only has 72 blocks but it’s been down at least a decade. (Used to take 24 every day..) I had started on it back when then went to work on another.. Caught doubles around the rail there including a few dandies. Just once – but it happened.
Yup. Just 72 blocks. (Coming up on 44,000 reef blocks for the project of 18 years – at least twenty thousand have been donated by York Building Products – Thank You!!)
Guess I’ll have to put the forgotten block drop back in rotation..
Cathy looked to have a lock on today’s fish pool with a fluke caught first thing. Then she knocked her flounder out of the running with a monster sea bass ..and then Hugh boated one bigger still!
Have a few spots open tomorrow. Forecast looks real nice until late rain..
Cheers,
Monty
Capt Monty
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