San Diego Saturday: H&M’s 305 yellowfin, Apollo’s 69 yellowtail, and one bluefin

San Diego’s Saturday sheet is a tuna day offshore and a bass day inshore. San Diego Fish Reports’ Oct. 17, 2026, boat counts, matched on the H&M landing page as of 2:30 p.m., put four H&M boats and 116 anglers at 305 yellowfin tuna and 62 yellowtail.

The overnight boats carried the tuna. Producer, with 29 anglers, called 145 yellowfin, 34 yellowtail, 32 bullet tuna, 6 skipjack, and 1 dorado. Sea Adventure 80, with 27 anglers, called 160 yellowfin, 28 yellowtail, 10 dorado, and 8 skipjack. Premier’s morning half-day, 53 anglers, stayed on the bottom: 91 sculpin, 47 sand bass, 11 sheephead, 6 croaker, 5 calico bass, and 1 bullet tuna. Tradition’s seven-angler lobster trip kept 47 spiny lobster and 3 rock crab and released 162 lobster. H&M’s dock total also includes 33 bullet tuna, 14 skipjack, 11 sheephead, 11 dorado, and 5 calico bass.

Seaforth’s two boats split the same way. Apollo’s 2.5-day trip, 17 anglers, docked 78 yellowfin, 69 yellowtail, 24 sheephead, 1 dorado, and 1 bluefin. New Seaforth’s morning half-day, 54 anglers, kept 52 calico bass, 6 sculpin, 3 sheephead, 1 sand bass, and 1 bonito. At Point Loma, Daily Double’s 26-angler morning half-day kept 10 calico bass, 3 yellowtail, 3 barred sand bass, 3 bonito, and 1 sheephead, and released 80 calico bass. These are Saturday counts, separate from Friday’s Seaforth and H&M totals already on the desk.

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

Source: San Diego Fish Reports — fish counts by boat, Oct. 17, 2026 and SoCal Fish Reports — H&M Landing (H&M totals as of 2:30 p.m. Oct. 17, 2026).