April
7th to 13th, 2012
Overall
Catch Success Rate 78%
BILLFISH:
The week started out on the slow side, but as
the moon began to decrease in size the marlin catches started to come back.
Starting out the report was “Tracy Ann” with two striped marlin released for
Riley and Drew Walker from Lakeville, Minnesota, at the 11.50 spot on live
jurelito, aboard “Tracy Ann”. Boats went back the next day to this same place
and drew a blank with the exception of “Andrea” who released a solitary marlin
for Steve Ruthenberger from East Greenville, Pennsylvania. Then we started seeing
the majority of boats getting at least one. The best day of the week though was
Friday, the 13th which was decidedly lucky for several of our anglers.
Andy Banbury and friends from Surrey, in B.C Canada had a fabulous day on “Rebecca”
catching and releasing three striped marlin on ballyhoo at the 11.50 spot. “Valerie” also had Canadians on board, Darcy
Burton & Kyle Schuarte from Calgary; they released three marlin too on live
bait in the same area. Catch of the week however, has to go to “El Gallo” a
beautiful 61 ft Viking. Jess and Stacy Richards from Sugarland, Texas were on
board and released two marlin on ballyhoo at the 11.50 spot, when legendary
local captain Nayo Winkler, spotted what he thought was another marlin, it
submerged and turned purple at which he shouted “swordfish”. They lost sight of
the few and crew and anglers scanned the sea trying to find it. Nayo brought
out his binoculars and found the fish, again. In the meantime the deckhand
brought out his special rig, ready for an opportunity like this. It is a two
speed Shimano 30, with 50 lb test line, a number ten hook and double leader
consisting of 400 and 150 lb fluorocarbon. They cast live bait to the fish and
hooked up, putting angler Jess in the chair, who had it to the boat one hour and
ninety minutes later. When they were confident they could get it on board, the
fish got a second wind and went nuts, striking the boat so hard with its bill,
thrashing constantly that it broke its bill.
They managed to get it on board and back to the dock, where it was taped
out at 350 lbs. One other notable catch
was a 190 lb striped marlin, released at Punta Gorda by Shawn Hall form
Arlington, Washington aboard “Andrea”. Fifty three percent of our anglers
caught marlin this week giving us a total of 29 striped marlin and one
swordfish.
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| The bill had to be taped on for the photo. Anglers Jess and Stacy Richards shown Left with Legendary Captain Nayo Winkler shown standing behind them, deckhands on right. |
OTHER
SPECIES: Most boats concentrated on billfish this week, so not a
lot happened on smaller game. Boats had to decide either to try for marlin, or
skip it altogether on big moon day and try for stuff inshore, along the windy
Pacific, making it tough to get hooked up. There were just a few dorado caught,
mostly when looking for marlin on trolled lures. Inshore sierra, skipjacks, a
few yellowtail and jack crevalle were caught as well as the odd mako and
hammerhead shark.
LOCATION:
11.50
spot, Punta Gorda, Cerro Colorado, Desal plant.
WEATHER
CONDITIONS: Sunny, calm on Cortez, rough on Pacific,
windy on Pacific.
AVERAGE
WATER TEMP: 71 F
BEST
LURES: Live caballito or jurelito, dead ballyhoo.
Based on the catches of
Pisces by Tracy Ehrenberg
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