Red Rooster III Scores Wahoo Bonanza on First Day at the Bank

The Red Rooster III crew wasted no time making their presence felt at the Bank, logging a wahoo bonanza on the very first day of their long-range run out of San Diego on March 5.

The crew's report, posted to San Diego Fish Reports under the long-range section and aggregated on LongRangeSportfishing.net, kept it straightforward: "Wahoo bonanza today with a couple of nice tuna for a nice first day at the Bank." The wahoo action headlined the day, but the addition of a couple of quality tuna gave the trip a well-rounded early ledger.

Conditions cooperated throughout the day. "Conditions looked good today," the crew noted, and the summary line left little room for interpretation: "No complaints today. Good weather and good wahoo fishing." For a first-day report from the Bank, that kind of clean weather window and willing fish is exactly what long-range anglers hope to see when a trip gets rolling.

The crew wasn't content to simply bank the early success and wait. Their March 5 update closed with a forward-looking note: they were "hoping to get some bait for the kite tonight," signaling intent to add kite-fishing to the program as the trip progressed. Whether that bait run came together and what the kite produced in subsequent days remains to be seen in follow-up reports.

The Red Rooster III is one of several San Diego long-range vessels tracked on San Diego Fish Reports, sitting alongside boats like the Royal Star, Shogun, Excel, and Polaris Supreme in the site's long-range fleet listings. The Polaris Supreme, for context, was already generating its own buzz around the same time, with a March 13 three-day departure targeting bluefin tuna confirmed as a definite run.

For the Red Rooster III, though, the story on March 5 belonged entirely to the wahoo, and a strong opening day at the Bank sets a promising tone for wherever the trip goes from here.