San Diego dock totals show mixed tuna bite at Seaforth Sportfishing
Seaforth’s June 3 totals paired 70 skipjack with 38 yellowfin, a mixed offshore signal that still kept San Diego anglers looking hard at the water.
Seaforth Sportfishing’s June 3 dock totals did not look like a pure tuna smash, but they did show enough life to keep San Diego on the short list. Four boats brought in 70 skipjack tuna and 38 yellowfin tuna, with the tuna coming alongside heavy counts of vermilion rockfish, calico bass and rockfish. For anglers trying to read the offshore picture from the dock, that mix mattered: yellowfin were present, but skipjack carried the bigger share of the tuna bite.
The live totals told the story in two slightly different versions. One San Diego feed listed Seaforth at 4 boats, 5 trips and 113 anglers, with 220 vermilion rockfish, 144 calico bass, 100 rockfish, 70 skipjack tuna, 38 yellowfin tuna, 19 yellowtail, 2 halibut, 2 sheephead, 1 sculpin and 1 barracuda. Another Southern California feed showed the same 70 skipjack and 38 yellowfin, but marked Seaforth at 4 boats, 4 trips and 87 anglers, with 220 vermilion rockfish, 124 calico bass, 95 rockfish, 17 yellowtail, 2 halibut, 2 sheephead and 1 barracuda. The difference is a reminder that dock totals are live snapshots, not a single fixed manifest, but the core tuna read stayed intact.
That core read points to a San Diego offshore scene where tuna were in play without dominating every trip. Seaforth’s mix suggested boats were finding enough surface and midwater life to put fish on deck, while the bottom and nearshore counts gave captains other ways to salvage a day if the tuna drifted. The broader Southern California board backed that up. Davey’s Locker in Newport Beach posted 51 yellowtail and 41 bonito, and Long Beach Sportfishing turned in 81 bonito, 27 barracuda and 5 yellowtail. Early June was fishing like a coast-wide transition, not a single hot lane.
Seaforth’s own June 2 saltwater report had already hinted at that rhythm, saying the crew had “started off our 4 day trip with a good grade of Yellowtail.” A year earlier, San Diego’s June 2, 2025 counts looked different again, with Highliner, Pacific Voyager and Tribute all putting bluefin tuna on the board. The species mix changes, but the signal stays the same: when Seaforth’s numbers show skipjack, yellowfin and solid bycatch in the same run, San Diego is still a place where a tuna trip can pay, as long as expectations match the mix.
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