"We had a very long day looking for some action today," reported the American Angler May 19, "checking out all of our Yellowtail spots with Gold Stars next to them, only finding cold water, cold, dirty water or cold, dirty, smutzy water. ('Smutz' is the term used by skippers to describe meter readings that are heavily marked, flecked with minute organisms or objects like plankton.)

"Sometime in the late afternoon we found the right conditions; warmer clean blue water and can you believe it... fish. We are going to go out on a limb and hope conditions stay the same here and go to work a little earlier in the day tomorrow.

"The photo of the day is Ms. Tammie and her personal Capt. Taro with a sample of the grade fish we enjoyed today. We have another day to fish the shallows before we make the run offshore (weather permitting)."