Here is Adam again with the jackpot Albacore!!

Here are anglers Johnny, Jody and Kris Kristofferson hooked up to some nice fish!!!

Captain Bill Cavanaugh proudly displays a 73 pound Albacore caught by Darrel Andrada aboard the Pacific Queen out of Virg?s Landing! The fish was caught on 30 pound test and took 1 hour to get in!

We left the dock around midnight with two bait tanks full of nice sized super lively sardines! We woke up at 6:30 AM around sunrise. We started to troll. We searched far and wide and could not find many fish. We did get one stop in the morning that produced four nice sized fish 35 to 44 pounds. Angler Mark Sauders (Venice, CA) caught this nice 44 pound albie on a live sardine!

Virg?s Landing (Morro Bay, CA)

Angler Gary Sawa also capitalized on our first stop by catching this nice 42 pound Albie.

Angler Jay Robinson enthusiastically celebrates his first stop FAT ALBERT!

Ryan Nosek shows off one of his dozen albies!

The bite lasted for 4 hours. Here Carl Yoshioka is pictured with a fine MORRO BAY Albie!

Angler John Troy was one of our prize winners. He caught the most Albacore at 20! He is the proud winner of an Albacore II Tackle Bag.

Albackore Tackle Bags

SFR Member Dennis Evans takes the lead in our annual angler awards with this nice 48 pound Albacore!

Angler Wayne Chido was our jackpot winner today. Here he is pictured with his 50 pound FAT ALBERT!

Angler Angel Gonzalez caught his all time biggest Albacore. Here he is pictured with his monster! Congratulations Angel.

Here I am pictured with my largest Albacore to date. This 46 pounder really made my day. Thanks to the Captain Dennis and his great crew for putting us on the fish.

SFR member Mike Ortiz moves up with this nice albacore. Too bad Dennis has you by two pounds!

We really had a great day. Here are a few of the guys celebrating a fine day on the ocean!

Angler Angel Gonzalez scored well too. Here he is pictured with a monster!

GO ANGELS GO!

Congratulations to Virg?s Landing and the Princess to providing our best trip to date. For four hours straight every time you dropped in you hooked up. The fish were so big we broke 3 gaffs. We fished until the bait was gone and then we used iron. Finally we pooped out and went home! My sister the Halibut Slayer also fished with us and caught her first 4 albacore.

FISH COUNT: 19 Anglers caught 206 Albacore ranging in size from 30 to 50 pounds!

Thanks to everybody at Virg?s Landing especially Darby!

Jim Hughes caught this monster Albacore on the Cortez. The fish bit on the troll. The Albacore tipped the scales at 77.7 pounds. Photo: Leroy Shntaku.

We had a great giveaway during boarding that featured Catchy Tackle Spinner head Squids, Sportfishingreport.com T-Shirts, Pacific Queen Sweatshirts, finger tape, and fish traps!

Catchy Tackle
Pacific Queen Sportfishing

We departed Virg?s Landing around 11 PM on the Pacific Queen with Captain Bill Cavanaugh. The bait tank was loaded with a nice mix of Anchovies and Sardines. We headed South towards Point Conception. At morning light we began fishing! The weather had picked up and we had some wind and swell. We got our first bite at around 9:30 AM. Here is Theo from Northridge CA pictured with an Albacore!

Angler Tom Spagnola from Paso Robles, CA had a great day. He caught his share of the Albacore on the Pacific Queen today!

I would like to thank my sister Tracy Woods for taking most of the photos.