Relato de Pesca - 01/30/10

GREETING FROM THE TROPICS

THIS WEEK WE WELCOMED BACK BROTHERS KURT AND RICK SCHEETZ WHO CAME WITH A GROUP OF THEIR FISHING FRIENDS THAT INCLUDED; DAVID KESSLER, JOHN WARNER, JOHN MORGAN, MARK CATTON, BROTHERS BRUCE AND DOP PAVLOV, GREG HOWELL AND GREG RICHARDSON. LET ME TELL YOU, "THIS IS A FUN GROUP OF GUYS TO FISH WITH." APART FROM THE SCHEETZ GROUP WE ALSO WELCOMED BACK SPORTSMAN JULIEN CARTIER- MILLION WHO WAS ACCOMPANIED BY YANN BOURGAR.

OUR FIRST FEW DAYS OF FISHING WERE SLOW. FISHING INSHORE OUR ANGLERS CAUGHT A HAND-FULL OF FISH THAT INCLUDED POMPANO, AMBERJACK, BLUE TREVALLE, JACK CREVALLE, CUBERA SNAPPER, MULLET SNAPPER, ROOSTERFISH AND SEVERAL OTHER VARIOUS SPECIES. OFFSHORE, WE HAD A FEW DORADO HIT THE DECK AND A COUPLE OF BIG PACIFIC SAILFISH WERE CAUGHT AND RELEASED, BUT THE FISHING OFFSHORE WAS PROVING TO BE EVEN SLOWER. WE ALL BLAMED IT ON THE BIG FULL MOON, GREEN WATER, AND THE BIG TIDES WE WERE EXPERIENCING, BUT WHO REALLY KNOWS? THE SEAS WERE EXTRAORDINARY CALM AND THE SURFACE WATER TEMPERATURE HAD COOLED DOWN TO 82 DEGREES, BUT THE FISH WERE OFF THE BITE. WHAT WE WERE NEEDING WHAT SOME HOT FISHING ACTION!

BY MONDAY OUR FISHING BOATS HAD MOVED SOUTH TO FISH THE JICARON AND JICARITA ISLANDS, WHILE THE BARGE STAYED ANCHORED IN PLAYA HERMOSA, THUS GIVING OUR ANGLERS THE CLOSEST ACCESS TO THE BEST FISHING AREA. THE FISHING ACTION FARTHER SOUTH WAS ALSO SLOW BUT SOME FISH WERE CAUGHT INCLUDING SEVERAL CUBRERA SNAPPERS WITH GREG RICHARDSON LANDING A COLOSSAL CUBERA THAT WEIGHED IN AT 60 LBS.

FIRST ANGLERS OUT ON THE WATER EVERY MORNING AND THE LAST ONES TO RETURN TO THE BARGE EVERY EVENING WERE JULIEN AND YANN. THEY WERE AFTER JUST ONE THING, BLACK MARLIN! YANN CAUGHT HIS FIRST BLACK MARLIN ON HANNIBAL BANK WHEN IT ATE A SLOW TROLLED LIVE BONITA. AFTER AN EXCITING ONE HOUR BATTLE ON STAND-UP TACKLE, HE WAS ABLE TO RELEASE A BEAUTIFUL BLACK MARLIN THAT WAS IN THE 500 LB CLASS. JULIEN WAS ABLE TO GET SOME GREAT PHOTOS WHILE YANN WAS FIGHTING THE FISH.

THEN NEXT DAY OUR BOATS MOVED OFFSHORE ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF MONTUOSA ISLAND. THE THE SEA WAS ALIVE WITH DIVING BIRDS, LOTS OF SEA TURTLES, JUMPING PORPOISE AND SCHOOLS OF YELLOWFIN TUNA. THE TUNA WERE FINICKY AND NOT JUMPING ON POPPERS, JIGS, OR LIVE BAIT. OF ALL THINGS THEY WANTED THE OLD TUNA STAND BY, THE "CEDAR PLUG". SEVERAL OF THE BOATS WERE ABLE TO LAND TUNA IN THE 120 TO 150 POUND RANGE. DAVE AND SEVERAL OF THE OTHER ANGLERS ALSO LANDED TUNA THAT ATE THE POPPERS THEY WERE THROWING. IT TURNED OUT TO BE A GOOD DAY OF YELLOWFIN TUNA FISHING.

BOTTOM LINE, OUR ANGLERS HAD TO WORK FOR THEIR FISH THIS WEEK. BUT THE WEATHER WAS FANTASTIC AND THEY ALL AGREED IT WAS MUCH BETTER THAN FREEZING THEIR BUTTS IN THE NORTH. SO ALL IN ALL WE HAD A WINNER OF A WEEK.

TIGHT LINES,
CAPTAINS JAY GUSTIN AND BEN FLOYD

FISHING TIP OF THE WEEK: TO BE A SUCCESSFUL FISHERMAN YOU NEED TO HAVE THE BEST FISHING EQUIPMENT. THE LAST 2 WEEKS WE HAVE ORDERED 4 NEW CROWDER 50-80 LB STAND -UP RODS, 4 NEW CROWDER JIGGING RODS, 3 NEW STELLA 18,000 SPINNING REELS, 2 NEW STELLA 10,000 SPINNING REELS, 2 NEW TIAGRA 30WLRS, 3 NEW SHIMANO TYRNOS 20'S AND 4 NEW SHIMANO STRADIC 6000 SPINNING REELS AND THIS IS JUST THE BACK-UP EQUIPMENT. THE LADIES HAVE ALWAYS TOLD ME, "IF A MAN DOESN'T HAVE THE RIGHT EQUIPMENT HE JUST CAN'T GET THE JOB DONE!" SO I WENT OUT AND BOUGHT SOME MORE EQUIPMENT. J

PHOTOS OF THE WEEK:


JOHN WITH A CUBERA SNAPPER


RICKY WITH AN ARM LOAD OF YELLOWFIN


GREG AND JUAN WITH A 60 LB CLASS CUBERA


YANN WITH A BRIGHT DORADO


YANN READY FOR THE RELEASE


KURT STARTS LOOKING LIKE HIS CATCH


JULIEN WITH A SAILFISH


GREG WITH A DORADO


BRUCE WITH A YELLOWFIN TUNA TAKEN ON A CEDAR PLUG


MARK WITH A ROCK SNAPPER