Hi, I'm Dan Hernandez.
I'd like to welcome you to this week's episode ofSport Fishing.
Today we're on the island with 20 of my friends
we're fishing off-shore lookingfor tuna and yellowtail
we have a big yellowtail right here.
Twenty guys with us, he's got a fish on collar.
He's gonna gaff it here in a couple seconds.
Right here, Jay.
[Dan] Oh, big yellow.
This will be a big yellowtail.
Nice fishing, man.
It's a big yellowtail. Jay just gaffed it for us.
A beautiful fish.
This is the kind of fishing we'll be doing today
off-shore aboard theIslander.
So stay tuned for this week's exciting episode
ofSport Fishing.
Whoo!
Get on it. Get on it.
Nice fish. Whoa!
Blue Marlin.
[Dan laughing]
Nice. Nice. Nice.
Oh!
Once more. There you go.
Whoo-hoo!
[Announcer] This week's episode ofSport Fishingis brought to you by:
[wind howling]
I'll get him around the back here.
[wind howling]
It's your turn. It's your turn.
[fish splashing]
Nice fish. Nice yellowtail.
Hold her. Hold her. Hold her.
Hold him. Hold him. Hold him...
Okay, walk down to your right. Walk down to your right.
...we're movin.'
There's some yellow ones.
Nice boy. Huhh!
Here's another nice little yellowtail.
All right. great.
Whoa.
Comin' over.
Goin' over and over.
Nice.
You tip?
Yes.
Yep.
If the Captain's fine with it, let the wind blow...
It's gone under.
Nope.
Whoo! Good fry.
Good, nice, strong.
All right.
Underneath. Underneath.
Ain't nothin' like it.
And they're under me. Watch it down.
[clears throat] Gaffer.
Grabbing it. It's right behind you.
Okay. When he comes back around...
Let me get...
[fish splashing]
Another nice yellowtail. Upside down.
Very nice.
It's not like the roof was flying around.
[wind howling
Check your cable.
Not up under, under a month.
Turn around and look pretty for the camera.
[laughing] If I can stand up.
Nice shot.
Gaff!
Come on, come on, come on!
Right here. Lay him flat.
I saw three of them.
Yeah.
Okay, we've had a little emergency out here at sea today.
One of our older gentlemen's out with us,
he's from Phoenix, took a fall.
We're out in 6 to 8 foot waves out there a little while ago.
And he fell pretty bad and hurt his hip.
So we've called the Coast Guard
Right now we have Coast Guard airplanes circling us.
A helicopter will be here any minute.
The helicopter's gonna come in
and take the guy off the boat and rush him to the hospital.
We're still a good distance from San Diego.
We're about 100 miles outside San Diego.
The helicopters don't have a lot of range.
Don't have a lot of fuel.
So9 they don't want to waste a lot of time
trying to find us, so that's what this plane's doing by here.
He's circling around us and he's gonna be giving them
the location of exactly where we are.
Now on the back of the boat, on the deck on the stern,
they have the injured guy on one of the benches from the galley.
They have him laid out there
They're gonna keep him on that until the helicopter
gets within range to drop down a basket to put the guy in.
[Coast Guardsman] When we do respond
to somebody I distress,
we take a crew of four. Pilot, Co-Pilot,
A flight mechanic in the back who's in charge of the cabin
and then a rescue swimmer that's ready to go into the water
or down onto a vessel to help a person
that might be in distress.
On this particular day, we were notified
of a 68-year-old male
who had a possible broken hip off the fishing vesselIslander.
I was approximately 120 miles south of San Diego
when we got the call.
We first lowered down the rescue swimmer
onto the fishing vesselIslander.
He assessed the patient and the situation
and based on the condition of the patient,
we decided the best course of action
was to put the patient I a litter.
I'm Lt. Jim Pershing, a pilot with the Coast Guard
here in San Diego.
I'm Lt. Jr. Grade Jeremy Denning
and I'm in the Coast Guard.
I've been with the Coast Guard four years,
flying the 60 Jayhawk.
Prior to that I was in the Navy and I flew 60's
for them for 9 1/2 years
and prior to entering the Navy,
I grew up in Bloomington, Indiana.
I'm from the Midwest.
I've been stationed here for the last four years.
One of the aircraft commanders that stands duty
regularly here in San Diego.
I'm originally from Phoenix, Arizona
and I've been in the Coast Guard for almost 12 years now.
We always maintain a crew here 24 hours, 7 days a week.
365 days a year.
Our response time is 30 minutes.
So we got the call and we started preparing to launch.
Because of this particular patient,
and the recommendation of the flight surgeon and the doctor,
we decided to call t he San Diego Fire Department
and take a paramedic with us as well.
Our crew normally consists of a pilot, a co-pilot,
flying the aircraft up front,
a flight mech. in the back and a rescue swimmer.
As the co-pilot, I sit in the left seat of the aircraft
and I handle all the navigation and communications
and I'm backing the pilot up on all of his duties.
My job is to give a vessel brief
to the fishing vessel to make sure
that they are aware of what we're planning on doing
to execute the hoist,
and so I go through a few items with them
a far as lowering antennae,
clearing off the deck,
briefing them on how to handle our rescue equipment,
and rescue swimmer when they're lowered down to the vessel.
So I give that brief to them
just to make sure that the evolution
goes off as safely as possible for us
and for the people down on the fishing vessel.
[Dan] This week, the Tackle Box is brought to you by:
Manufacturer of America's best-selling fishing rod,
The Ugly Stik.
This week in the Tackle Box,
I want to talk to you a little bit about
what we're doing on theIslander.
We're on a multi-day fishing trip
on these multi-day trips you can get tuna, yellowtail,
you never know what to expect.
But for yellowtail fishing, I want to tell you a technique
that I really like to use.
You need to start off with a rig like this.
This is n Ugly Stik Tiger Rod.
It's not a really long stick, which you would think
for traditional jig fishing,
but when we're using these heavier jigs,
this works fine.
Got the Pflueger reel, 40 lbs. test Cajun red line,
and what I like to do is with this is throw out metal jigs.
Now, the Magic Metal jigs, this is what it looks like
that we're fishing with,
this is the Blue and Silver
and it's called a blue sardine,
and there's two ways to fish this.
With the yellowtail up on the surface
and you want it to scream back,
you just cast it out, let it drop to a count of 2 or 3,
then grind it as fast as you can,
it'll dart back to the boat.
the other way we fish this is what we call "yo-yo fishing."
We'll drop it down over a meter spot,
drop it down maybe 50 to 100 feet,
and then we'll grind it straight up as fast as we can.
As our lure is darting up,
the yellowtail can't resist it,
comes up and strikes it and you just keep winding.
You don't need to set the hook on it.
The fish are traveling so fast, the lure is moving so fast
that they attach themselves.
This is what the lure looks like in the stores.
Called Magic Metal. They come in different sizes.
3 3/8, 4 1/2 would be my pick.
If you start seeing fish pedaling right up on the surface
around the kelp paddies,
you want to go with a little bit lighter jig,
You can cast back and just swim it back to you.
You wanna work it a little bit faster than you would
for barracuda or calico bass.
When it's strictly yellowtail,
open water like this,
you want that lure to move pretty fast.
This is what the Magic Metal Lites look like
when you go find them in the stores.
Those are the only two baits you really need
when you're off-shore fishing like this
looking for yellowtail, maybe an occasional tuna,
but yellowtail fishing under the paddies
or meter marks, this'll work great.
Let's get back on the water and show you more exciting action
here onSport Fishing.
[wind howling]
I got it.
Whoo!
We don't have the best conditions today.
We're a hundred miles out at sea
the weather's turned on us,
big swells, big seas, heavy wind,
it's pretty rough conditions.
But you know we're all hardcore anglers
and we all want to catch some fish so we're gonna fish.
You've got some Yellowtail and Dorado in the area.
I'm gonna throw a B-52 buck tail jig.
Got a Pflueger reel,
the brand-new four outsize reel,
it's got the leverage rag, 40 lb. test Cajun red line,
the Shakespeare Ugly Stik custom Tiger rod.
What I'm gonna do is just drop this down.
I'll cast it out a little bit...
and just let it go down a little bit
and then go grind it back in.
Normally you don't like to be out in weather like this,
but we're already out here,
nothing we can do about it,
it isn't so bad on the ride out
but the weather's really changed
since we got here in the dark.
So I got this line out there and gonna let it fall.
Let it get down about 50 feet,
put the reel in gear,
and just grind.
That's all you do with these buck tails.
There's a lot of fish in the water
These buck tails work nice.
You might have to run back to the bay tank.
Here they come. Right on it.
Ohh! Right on it. Right there.
See, the yellows are right on it.
Just drop it down.
You got rough conditions,
I don't wanna be running back there like good bait.
Just hanging out here. Drop this down.
Got pretty good bite going on,
Quite a few fish being hunged.
You're in the starting gear in this grind.
If the fish were smaller, I would just use a smaller reel,
a high-speed reel. Ooh. There's a nice one.
Nice yellow.
That's a--
Pretty good.
Go collar!
Yeah!
Yes.
All right. That's one good fish.
[Dan] This week, the Tip of the Week is brought to you by:
Magic metal jigs and B-52 buck tail jigs.
For this week's Tip of the Week, I want to talk about
setting your drag.
Just make sure before you start fishing
that you adjust your drag
so you have nice tension but not too tight.
If you're not sure how to do it,
ask one of the crew members or at your local tackle shop
When you change the line,
make sure you have your drag adjusted for you.
That's this week's Tip of the Week,
and I'd just like to thank everybody on theIslander
We had a great trip out here.
It's a little dramatic with the rescue out at sea.
The fishing was awesome, it was a lot of fun.
I'm Dan Hernandez, hoping you enjoyed
this week's episode ofSport Fishing.
And I hope you join us again next week.
As we go looking for more of the best
in sport fishing.
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