Dana Wharf Friday: 202 yellowfin, Fury’s 27 dorado, and a rockfish stop on New San Mateo

Dana Point’s Friday dock is a tuna day with a rockfish boat mixed in. Dana Wharf Sportfishing’s own Oct. 16, 2026, report opens with 7 boats and 163 anglers. The landing total is 202 yellowfin tuna, 27 dorado, 35 yellowtail, 55 skipjack, 42 bullet tuna, 20 rockfish, 22 bonito, 12 calico bass, 9 sand bass, 1 sculpin, and 4 sheephead.

Fury’s 2-day charter, 8 anglers, carried the offshore mix: 79 yellowfin, all 27 dorado, 21 skipjack, and the only sculpin. Sum Fun’s three-quarter-day charter, 34 anglers, added 62 yellowfin, 12 yellowtail, and 10 skipjack. Clemente’s morning half-day charter, 8 anglers, put up 52 yellowfin, 2 yellowtail, and 7 skipjack. Dana Pride’s three-quarter day, 65 anglers, was the bullet-tuna trip: 42 bullet tuna, 12 skipjack, and 3 yellowfin.

New San Mateo’s three-quarter-day charter, 20 anglers, is the groundfish line: all 20 rockfish, plus 7 yellowtail and 2 skipjack. Helena ran two half-days. The morning charter, 10 anglers, stayed inshore on calico bass, sand bass, bonito, and sheephead. The afternoon half-day, 18 anglers, mixed 14 yellowtail, 6 yellowfin, 14 bonito, calico and sand bass, skipjack, and a sheephead. This Dana Point sheet is separate from the Seaforth and H&M totals already filed for the same Friday.

This is a The Gillnet news desk summary, not a reprint.

Source: Dana Wharf — fish counts (Dana Wharf fishing report, October 16, 2026).