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Happy New Year to you and your families from the Independence Sportfishing family! Here's to another fantastic year of tight lines, big catches, and wonderful memories on the water.

The last area of the recreational Dungeness crab fishery in Humboldt County opened today after being delayed due to elevated levels of domoic acid.  State health agencies determined that Dungeness crab in waters from the southern boundary of the Reading Rock

Just wrapping up our end of the year 4-day trip where we had fun fishing for tuna offshore with some coastal variety mixed in. Thank you to everyone who came out with us this year.

Excellent flyline Bluefin action yesterday. Up to 107 Bluefin, with 19 from 90-120lbs. Had a nice stop on the Yellowtail this morning bringing our total up to 220 for the trip, along with 23 Dorado and 5 Yellowfin. Great way

Its been a fun December! The smart angler would come prepared to fish the surface and deep up to 600 feet. Colt snipers and flyline baits on 30lb for the surface game fish. A reel filled to the rim with braided line with

Sea Watch Local 3/4 Day The Sea Watch checked in from their Local 3/4 Day with limits of 8-12lb Bonito! Next available trips are this coming Thursday and Saturday. Be sure to check out the schedule. Trips depart at 7AM and

The Dolphin AM trip will continue targeting rockfish, unless an opportunity to pursue bonito presents itself. Given the excellent bonito fishing we’ve been experiencing, we highly recommend bringing both your deep-water setups and a lighter rod for targeting bonito. Live

Daily Double 1/2 Day AM 12 42 Rockfish, 1 Lingcod, 60 Bonito The Daily Double has ½ day trips scheduled to depart daily at 8:30 AM.  Give us a call at (619) 223-1627 or book online through the following link (BOOK HERE) The Oceanside 95 departs

That’s a wrap! The 2025 season was one for the books for us on the Pacific Queen. Thank you to all our charter masters and passengers that make this possible year after year. Thank you to the crew that work

We returned yesterday from our last trip of the season with 30 bluefin, one of which was in the 90 lb range! We enjoyed great sunny weather and good bottom fishing as well! Big thanks to all of you who fished

Danny Cheng just caught a 4.3 pound trout from the second dock using a white power worm!

Kolsen Stelzer with two good catches from the buoey line. He utilized a pink mouse tail and rainbow PowerPoint.