Local Sea Conditions

1 NOAA - National Weather Service Forcast Office for San Diego Area
National Weather Service website provides great resource for weather, hydrologic, and climate forecasts and warnings for the United States, its territories, adjacent waters and ocean areas. Visit their site for local weather conditions.
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2 Southern California Wind Analysis
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3 Fish Weather- Wind Obs + Marine FX
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4 Tide Condition
Provided by Freetidetables.com.
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5 Water Temperature
Supplies users with free near-real-time satellite derived sea surface temperature, oceanographic, and El Nino information for the U.S. west coast.
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6 Fish Dope
FishDope.com was created for one purpose, to help Southern California anglers catch more fish without wasting precious fuel or time. Fish Dope has been designed to give members all the pertinent information needed to plan a successful day on the water.
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Fishing Reports

Whether you fish the local Southern California waters or down in Mexico, these links listed below will help you locate the best areas to fish and what you need for catching them . . .

1 East Cape
Located in the Sea of Cortez from Los Frailes to the south and Punta Arena de la Ventana to the north, this area is one of the most consistent areas in the world for tuna, dorado, sailfish, roosterfish, stripped marlin, and blue marlin.
East Cape

2 La Paz
One of our favorite places to stay in the beautiful Sea of Cortez. La Paz with its friendly people, drop dead gorgeous sunsets, and year round fishing make it a must for those wanting the vastness of Baja and the true Mexican experience.  We recommend Jonathon Roldan's Tailhunter Sport Fishing & Diving Adventures as who we would personally use when fishing pangas out of La Paz.
La Paz

3 Cabo San Lucas
Located on the southern tip of Baja, this area is home of some of the largest and most prestige's marlin tournaments in the world.
Cabo San Lucas

4 976BITE
This would have to be one our "GOTO" websites when fishing for Bluefin, Albacore, Yellowtail, and Yellowfin during the months of April through October.  Very close with the private boaters out of San Diego, Bob only puts up verified information and we would consider his information top notch for fishing southern California offshore and northern Baja.
976-BITE

5 976-Tuna
These guys have it all together regarding accurate fishing reports for Southern California to Mexico. Believe us, there's plenty of fishing news on this site. SIGN UP FOR 976-TUNA GOLD MEMBERSHIP AND TELL THEM YOU HEARD IT HERE!
976-TUNA

6 Gene Kira's Mexican Fish Report
Fish Report information for most of Mexico, including Baja. "Arriba!"
Mexican Fishing Report

7 Sport Fishing Reports
Get the latest sport boat reports.
Sport Fishing Report

Royal Polaris Feed

Current Conditions
Royal Polaris Sportfishing
  • eta
    Hello everyone out there ,
    The Royal Polaris will be arriving back at Fishermans Landing between 930 and 10 am due to poor weather we are a little behind schedule to say the least .The 18 to 25 knots of wind aren't helping out if you know what i mean , we will see you all tomorrow .
    RP Crew

    please check our website later to see if we have an updated eta , thank you
  • Coming Home (051212)
    Hello everyone;

    Reporting from the Royal Polaris. Things are going good, with a slight breeze out of the northwest, and clear skies. The crew was busy for most of the day getting the boat ready for it's annual maintenance. There's a lot of work to be done, and the boat will be getting new engines this year, and some face lifting on the inside.
    We will continue to post, but not everyday. We will update you on our ETA tomorrow afternoon. So until then good luck and good fishing. The R/p crew.

    "BeNt RoDs 4 LiFe" [:{)}
  • What a Great Trip
    RP Family & Friends,

    We have had a very pleasant ride up toward Cabo. Most of the passengers spent the day packing and relaxing. Poker, cribbage, books and movies were the main activities of the day. We had a phenomenal prime rib dinner with all the fixings. Everyone aboard truly deserved a quiet day and nice dinner to recharge before heading home...

    The trip was outstanding and exceeded any of our long range trips prior. The boat totals for the trip were 220 tuna and 259 wahoo. In addition, we released more than 150 tuna in the 80-190lb range and a few that were likely over 200lbs. The boat ended up with 31 tuna over 200lbs. The 200lb Club for the trip are as follows:

    - Clyde "the Glide" Smith tied his best trip ever with 5 tuna at 201, 205, 224, 234 & 235
    - Frank "the Crank" Fink with a 243
    - Jim "Chopper" Travis had his personal best at 232
    - Marc "I'm having soooo much fun" Calder a first timer had a 225
    - Jack "Babyface" Gruschus had 2 tuna at 228 & 208
    - John "the Best of the Best" Yamate had...
  • The Last Bite
    RP Family and Friends,

    Once the crew rearranged the fish last night, it appeared we could fit 2 more of the larger models in the remaining space before departing at noon for Cabo. We did just that adding 2 more 2's to the boat total to 31 tuna over 200lbs. Mike Hieshima (me) caught his 3rd over 200 early in the morning at 206lbs and Roy caught a 204lber. Let me tell the story of Roy's fish...

    Earlier in the morning, Bill Nakaki and a few of us devised a fishing tourney for the crew. The basic rules were simple, we would give the entire crew 30 minutes to catch the largest fish while worked the deck. At exactly 10am we called the crew (including Bill Golder and John Yamate designated anglers for Anthony and James) to the back of the boat and asked them to choose a rod and reel. Surprisingly, almost all of them chose 100lb outfits
    except Roy stuck with the 130 Blackwater and 8/0 circle hook


    (instead of 130lb covered in the seminar). In addition, most chose 5/0 hooks instead of the requested 6/0's. Just before the start, we added...
  • Full
    RP Followers,

    We had another great day and filled the RSW tank early this morning with several nice fish over 200lbs. Jim "Chopper" Travis caught his personal best, a 232lber. Jack "Baby face" Gruschus caught his 2nd 2 at 208lbs. Gary " Welcome Back" Cotter caught his 2nd over 200 at 205lbs. Clyde "The Glide" Smith matched his record of 5 over 200lbs with a 207lb beauty. We had 20 wahoo that filled the remaining voids. From that point on, we cut off all tuna including several that were likely right at the 200lb cut off. Officially, we are now at 29 fish over 200lbs, unofficially 31 ,

    The entire group is exhausted but has found energy to catch mackerel for the morning bite. While I use the word exhausted, it is the type of fatigue that only arises from having 9 days of truly amazing fishing days in a row. Veteran and first timer alike agree that it would be difficult to make the trip any better...

    While I mentioned Roy numerous times, the crew deserves like billing as Dharyl, Eddie, Jonathan, Kenny, Terrence, Anthony and James have done a tremendous job making the trip...