Fish Report for 8-23-2026

Fishing has been interesting the past couple of trips

8-23-2026
Freedom Crew


Fishing has been interesting the past couple of trips nice volume of mixed grade yellowfin tuna have been moving in our zone with some dorado and for our bait situation every day has been different one or 3 days out of the week we get sardines and the other 2 or 3 small anchovies that we use to chum at night to snag mackerel and the small tuna that showed up in our overnight zone. Pretty soon the anchovies in our zone will be big enough to pin on a hook to fly line for a decent size tuna. Yesterdays overnight trip produced


172 small fun size Yellowfin tuna


7 grande size yellowtail with a-lot of casualties daily on them


And 46 bullet tuna !


The tackle recommendations i know its a-lot due to not knowing the bait situation but we recommend for a fly line set up a


20/25/30/40 pound set up the 20 pound set up one that u can easily cast out a small anchovies and all fly line set ups loaded with at least 100 yards of monofilament to avoid the spectra tangles due to conditions


A variety of plastics for example 1oz and 1oz hook up bait


A variety of metal jogs all different sizes


A variety of yoyo and surface irons


A variety of sliding egg sinkers


Size 4,6,1/0,2/0,5/0 J hooks


20/25/30/40 fluro carbon line


And some 10-ounce sinkers for fishing yellowtail at night with whole squid!


We do have our schedule up for September with a few multi day trips if you are interested please visit our website or simply give 22nd St. Landing Sportfishing a call to book your spot with us!