The blue 84° water
is basically on the Beach…(See the Terrafin satellite photo below). The only
discolored water is from the Rio Balsas releases up at Lazaro Cardenas.
The offshore
action has been picking up, and then the full moon hit us. But, surprisingly
the sailfish per boat count has remained about 2-3 hooked sailfish a day, which
is decent fishing. All the captains are excited about the good fishing, knowing
it will only get better as the full moon wanes.
Fishing with Martin
on the panga Spuma on Tuesday, with fly fishing clients Bryan and Scott McCowen
of Orange County, California, we only raised two sailfish, of which one came to
the boat, but refused the fly three times ( and only 15 feet from the boat). And, we had a blue marlin completely swallow
my favorite $40 teaser lure. As I had explained to Bryan about a half an hour
earlier, “when fly fishing I really hate big blue marlin. Because they come up,
make a huge swipe like a monster vacuum cleaner, and you always lose your
favorite lure”. But this time, the dam###
fish at least had the decency to cut the 40 pound line just above the $7.00
swivel, without spooling the reel. $47 was gone in about 5 seconds.
After that happened, Bryan told me I am the
only fisherman he knows who does not like blue marlin, but at least he now
understands why. (It is very important I run very short 18 inch leaders, in
order to pop the hookless teaser lure into the boat easier when fly fishing for
sailfish, but it can be cut off by a big blue when they swallow the whole thing).
… I can only hope they get a bad case of indigestion.
Had we been
trolling with hooks, instead of teasers for fly fishing, we would have had 1
sailfish for sure, and a blue. Which would have been a decent day…. anywhere.
The inshore is still leaning on “just
forget the boats and fish the beach”. But the trick is you have to be at the
right place and at the right time. Adolfo and Cheva, on the Dos Hermanos
pangas, did make the long run up to the Ranch, trying to intercept the roosters
which should be coming down soon. And they did score on one rooster each, but
it was mostly a lot of action on big sierras. They have also had a couple of
jack crevalle.
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| Martin's son, Ulysses was our deckhand and is about to make the release. Note the tag |
And, I fished with
Bryan and Scott down at Puerto Vicente Guerrero on Monday. We scored on a 20
pound jack crevalle, and a nice 10 pound rooster, which we tagged and released.
But, how can you
explain when Bryan and Scott, after fishing with me all day in a boat, go back to
the hotel at Barra Potosi, barely having time to chug down a cold one, and huge
jack crevalle explode right in front of their room? Scott hooked 4 on spin gear
and the hand lining locals, picking up the live bait pushed up on the sand from
the feeding frenzy, got between 20 and 30. It was absolute mayhem and nonstop
action for over an hour. I chewed them out for not getting them on the fly rod,
and they told me they didn’t have time to rig up, and then he was hooked into
fish until the bite was over.
Plus, after they
had arrived from the airport to the hotel on Sunday, the bite went off almost
before they had unpacked. They got their first nice jack before they had been
here an hour. See what a guide or a panga captain is up against? “I just think
I will go back to my hotel and catch more fish in an afternoon than we will get
all day on a boat”…Ouch.
Ed Kunze
(Director of the Roosterfish
Foundation, IGFA Representative)
CURRENT MOON
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