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This is the working calendar for Hobie & Friends Fishing Club.
If Hobie sent you this link, this is where the dates, boats, costs, links, and trip notes live. This is a private club trip page, not a public booking service, charter company, guide operation, or magical “I found a website so now I’m on the boat” machine.
The current club rhythm is mostly Southern California sportboat fishing: a spring overnight groundfish trip, a June Thunderbird overnight, and at least one San Diego 3-day tuna trip each year. Bay Area trips may still happen, but the main calendar has shifted south.
If you are invited on a trip, read the notes, check the Planning page, and ask questions early. If your entire preparation system is “I’ll text Hobie the night before,” that system has been reviewed and denied.
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2027:
2027:
June TBD: Thunderbird Three: Clemente After Dark, Overnight, Thunderbird, Newport Landing, ~$230
Overnight Offshore Gamefish Trip; Fish legendary, less-pressured offshore grounds including San Clemente Island, Catalina Island, Santa Barbara Island, and offshore banks. Targets may include yellowtail, bluefin/yellowfin tuna, dorado, white seabass, and halibut, with opportunities for calico bass, bonito, whitefish, rockfish, barracuda, sheepshead, and more.
9pm departure
April TBD: Second Annual Groundfish Opener in LA! Overnight, El Dorado, Long Beach, $270
Overnight Freelance! Targeting White Seabass, Halibut, Yellowtail, Rockfish, Whitefish, Sheephead and Lingcod aboard LAs finest overnight boat.
2026:
2026:
Nov/Dec TBD: First Annual Holiday Duck Hunt! Full Day, TBD, $300
This year we are duck hunting. Get your license, get some clay practice in, and come join us. Private guided hunt — details to follow.
5am departure
TBD
June 27th: Thunderbird Two: Clemente After Dark, Overnight, Thunderbird, Newport Landing, ~$230
Overnight Offshore Gamefish Trip; Fish legendary, less-pressured offshore grounds including San Clemente Island, Catalina Island, Santa Barbara Island, and offshore banks. Targets may include yellowtail, bluefin/yellowfin tuna, dorado, white seabass, and halibut, with opportunities for calico bass, bonito, whitefish, rockfish, barracuda, sheepshead, and more.
9pm departure
Completed Trips & Reports
Completed Trips & Reports
Below are past Hobie & Friends trips, reports, photos, bad decisions, good fish, weird weather, and evidence that this whole thing somehow became an annual operation.
The archive stays because the stories matter. Also because if Hobie writes a trip report and nobody reads it, he will still bring it up in person.
2025:
2025:
Nov 30th: Third Annual Holiday Crab and Cod Combo! Happy Hooker, Berkeley, $250
Offshore Deep Water Fishing and CRAB!
OCT 5th: Second Annual Hobie Memorial Tuna Madness! 3.5 Day. Ranger 85, San Diego, $1375
Target Tuna, Yellowtail, Dorado, and other offshore game fish. Mexican Fishing Permits and Meals included. Open Ocean Endorsement required. Passport NOT required.
SPONSORED BY SEEKER RODS
Report | Pics | Tackle Seminar
Sept 13: Deep Water Island Fishing! Pacific Dream, Berkeley, $200
Deepwater Islands Rockfish & Lingcod. Its a fun thing when regulations change and new areas open up. Hoping for big rockfish and even bigger Lings!
July 27th: Live Baitin' in the Bay, Pacific Dream, Berkeley, $200
Live Bait Halibut / Striped Bass and / or Rockfish / Lingcod
July 5th: Fourth Annual Freedom Fishing on the Fourth! (Fifth but you get it..) Happy Hooker, Berkeley, $250
This is all dependent on the fleets NOT hitting the quota by the July opener.
CANCELLED
June 28th: Overnighter in LA, Thunderbird, Los Angeles / Davey's Locker, $220
San Clemente Island, Catalina Island, Santa Barbara Island as well as several offshore banks.
Yellowtail, dorado, white seabass, halibut, calico bass, bonito, whitefish , rockfish, barracuda, sheepshead and many more
April 5th DEEP DROP ISLAND FISHING Happy Hooker, Berkeley, $225
GROUNDFISH OPENER!!! Rittenberg bank DEEP DROP fishing. Slow Pitch and Jigging. Hobie Custom Tackle provided.
2024:
2024:
Dec 7th: Second Annual Holiday Crab and Rockfish Combo! Happy Hooker, Berkeley, $250
Offshore Deep-Water Fishing and Crab.
July 4th: Third Annual, Freedom Fishing on the Fourth, Happy Hooker, Berkeley $200
Live Bait Halibut/Striped Bass and/or Rockfish/Lingcod
Feb 24th: Hobie's Bday Trout Bash! 1/2 Day PM, Hawk II, South Lake Tahoe
2023:
2023:
WILL THERE BE ONE MORE 2023 TRIP?!?!?!
NOPE!
Dec 3rd: Crab / Offshore Combo, California Dawn II, Berkeley (moved from 12/1)
Nov 7th: Crab / Offshore Combo, California Dawn II, Berkeley
Postponed due to weather.
July 4th: Deep Sea Bottom Fishing / Tuna Trolling, Pacific Dream, Berkeley
June 27th: Inshore Coastal Rockfish, Velocity, Santa Cruz
Cancelled due to low tickets
May 18th: Deep Water turned Halibut, Pacific Dream, Berkeley
By joining a trip organized here, you consent to Hobie taking or receiving photos or videos from the trip and sharing them on this private website and the BDOutdoors forum for trip documentation and community discussion; if you wish to opt out, please discuss it live with Hobie, as this is not a business or brand but simply a group of friends who like to fish together.
Upcoming and Annual Trips
Upcoming and Annual Trips
April Overnight Groundfish Trip
April Overnight Groundfish Trip
Status: Annual spring trip
Trip Type: Overnight groundfish
Typical Area: Southern California / Channel Islands-style fishing
Primary Targets: Rockfish, lingcod, whitefish, sheephead, and whatever is legal, open, and dumb enough to bite
Experience Level: Beginner-friendly to intermediate
Planning Notes: See the Overnight Groundfish section on the Planning page.
This is usually the first real saltwater club trip of the year. It is a good trip for newer anglers because the fishing is more vertical, the gear is simpler, and the goal is steady action rather than pretending your shoulder enjoys casting surface iron all day.
Bring warm clothes, basic bottom-fishing gear, cash, and the ability to follow directions from the crew.
June Thunderbird Overnight
June Thunderbird Overnight
Status: Annual June trip
Boat/Landing: Thunderbird / Newport Landing
Trip Type: Southern California overnight
Primary Targets: Yellowtail, white seabass, bonito, calico bass, rockfish, or whatever the captain thinks gives us the best shot
Experience Level: Intermediate, but newer anglers can come if they prepare correctly
Planning Notes: See the Thunderbird section on the Planning page.
This is a flexible SoCal overnight. It may be live bait. It may be dropper loop. It may be casting jigs. It may be rockfish backup. It may be all of that before breakfast because the ocean enjoys making liars out of everyone.
Bring a reasonable number of setups, not a mobile tackle museum.
Annual San Diego 3-Day Tuna Trip
Annual San Diego 3-Day Tuna Trip
Status: Annual offshore trip
Trip Type: 3-day San Diego tuna trip
Primary Targets: Bluefin tuna, yellowfin tuna, dorado, yellowtail, and whatever else is around
Experience Level: Intermediate to advanced
Planning Notes: See the San Diego 3-Day Tuna section on the Planning page.
This is the main offshore trip of the year. A 3-day tuna trip is not an overnight with extra snacks. It requires real gear, real prep, multiple line classes, heavier tackle, rigging before the trip, and the ability to function while tired.
If you are new to tuna fishing, ask early. Do not discover at the landing that your heavy setup is imaginary.
Other Possible Trips
Other Possible Trips
Bay Area trips, freshwater trips, local trips, duck hunts, and last-minute nonsense may still happen. These are not the core annual schedule, but they are part of the club ecosystem because apparently none of us can just sit quietly at home.
These trips will be added when they are real enough to deserve a spot on the calendar.
Slow Pitch Jigging Explained:
Deep Drop Rockfishing:
Speed Jigging Seminar
30lb Outfit for Large Tuna
How To Make a Deep Drop Rig
How To Fly Line
San Diego Jam Knot
I Need to Catch a Giant Bluefin Tuna.
FG Knot
RP Knot / Modified Albright
Slow Pitch Jigging with Benji Kim 1/2
Slow Pitch Jigging with Benji Kim 2/2
White Sea Bass
Yellowtail
A Shout Out to my Grandpa Hobie
A Shout Out to my Grandpa Hobie
Warren "Hobie" Hoberman passed away April 12 2024 from natural causes. He was a kind and generous man that loved fishing the west coast for trophy fish. He held many records in the 70s and won several Rod and Reel Club calico bass tournaments, and at least 2 marlin derbies that I am aware of. He favored light tackle and encouraged me to do the same. He will be remembered, and his spirit lives on in me and my fishing adventures.
The tides may carry them away, but their stories will echo on every wave.
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