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| John Pearce with Adolfo and me yesterday (Wednesday) |
The best news I have this week,
after almost 20 years of preaching the need to use circle hooks, are
finally being used for live bait fishing. Maybe with time, it will transfer to
the blue water fishing.
Offshore (average) surface water temperature - Includes from the 5-6 mile mark at the 100 fathom line,
then to the 1,000 fathom line being at 32 miles: 86°.
Inshore (average) surface temperature. From the beach to about 5 miles: 86°
Blue water: (Chlorophyll
amounts and surface temps from Terrafin SST) Blue water from the beach to way
out. There are still a few isolated inshore areas with discolored water, but
mostly at the river mouths. Yesterday (Wednesday), fishing the back side of the
waves, we got 50 yards south of the open bar at the river mouth of Valentine
and had clean water. There is a strong blue water current flowing to the north.
Offshore- The
annual July mini-migration of sailfish has shut off, with the sailfish action
being slow. The latest rains we have had were basically “the first flush” from
the grasses and tree limbs which have fallen into the rivers.
On
our way back from fishing the inshore yesterday, we picked up Cheva, who had
finished his day of fishing offshore, and had finished cleaning the Dos
Hermanos II for the next day. We took him back to the pier with us.
In
his gravelly voice, half talking to himself, and half taking to us, he
explained his frustration for the day he had. Apparently he went out 30 miles,
without a single strike from a sailfish. All he encountered was weed line after
weed line, which kept the trolled baits continually fouled. This will clean up
this week, and become better defined.
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| After pumping me for information, he got this nice rooster today (Thursday) |
Inshore: Cheva
lives near my house, so I offered him a ride home, but we must first drop off
the client on Playa Ropa. He said “perfect, because I need some more live bait
hooks”. I have always given these guys what they need, and he wanted circle
hooks in the 4/0 to 6/0 size. I said sure, no problem.
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| A bait stealing needle fish, with a very serious set of dentures., |
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couple of months earlier, I had taken him to fish with spin clients down at
Puerto Vicente Guerrero, and because they would be fishing with live bait also,
I had put in a tackle box all of my circle hooks. I had also included some of Keith
Pauls’ hooks, because I was running low. Keith trusts me enough to keep his
rods and all gear here. I told Cheva to use what he needs. But, I screwed up by
not telling him to use what he needs for the ONE day of fishing.
When
Cheva and I got back to my house, there wasn’t a single circle hook! Chevas’
explanation to me was “you told me to take what I needed” Now I have to email
Keith.
The
roosterfish and jack crevalle bite has slowed down. I assume it was from a low
pressure situation, combined with cloudy weather. Yesterday, we fished with
Adolfo on the panga Dos Hermanos with fly fishing client John Pearce from the
San Francisco Bay area. We ended up with 5 jack crevalle (small, medium, and
large), and a couple of roosters. We got nothing on the fly rod, even though
John stayed up on the bow all day. We also got 3 or 4 missed strikes on roosters
on the Ranger surface popper, and hooked 3 more roosters on the popper. But,
they shook the hook.
After losing a 12 pound sierra on live bait, Adolfo was starting to get frustrated. He said “necisita
un gallo grade, y bravo”. In other words, the fish were not aggressive, and if they had been aggressive, it would have been whole story
different than nothing with the fly rod.
Ed
Kunze
(Director of the Roosterfish Foundation, IGFA
Representative)
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