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| Around 10% of the world's total fish species can be found just within the Great Barrier Reef. |
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| Not all animals with the word fish in their names count as fish. |
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| As of 2020, there were 34,000 known fish species around world. That’s more than the number of species in all other vertebrates: birds, reptiles, mammals, and amphibians combined. |
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| As of 2020, there were 34,000 known fish species around world. That’s more than the number of species in all other vertebrates: birds, reptiles, mammals, and amphibians combined. |
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| Taste Buds ? Catfish have a more refined sense of flavor than humans. Our 10,000 taste buds may seem like a lot, but catfish can have as many as 175,000. This helps them find the exact location of their next meal. |
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From Jan 01, 1999 To Sep 22, 2025
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Jun 10, 2006; 12:44PM - Sardina Make the Difference
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Category: Saltwater Fly Fishing Reports
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Author Name: Gary Graham
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REPORT #1014. “Below the Border” Saltwater Fly-Fishing reports since 1996
Endless Season Update 06/10/06
East Cape
After an unbelievable 10 day period, the inshore fishing action has settled down a click or two. Plenty of large roosters can be found cruising well within casting range. Pairing off, they seem to be more interested in making whoopee than chasing the many bait schools along the shore.
Down toward Cabo Pulmo, a few miles offshore, the YFT bite has been consistently good all week as well some dorado, billfish and, for the very fortunate, a wahoo or two.
Different from last year is the availability of sardina for chum, which can make the difference between a good day and an incredible day. The sardina allow the guides to keep the tuna school in casting range; an occasional dorado, skipjack, needlefish or mystery bite keeps everybody happy. Take Mike Little, Calgary, Alberta, fishing the day before his wedding day (now that’s a Bachelor Party I could get into) whacked the tuna on the fly all morning with fish to 20 pounds. Then a large dorado – teased up on the way back to the hotel – capped off his last day of singledom.
Water temperature 74-85
Air temperature 71-96
Humidity 78%
Wind: WNW 4 mph
Conditions: Clear
Visibility 10 miles
Sunrise 6:02 a.m. MDT
Sunset 8:04 p.m. MDT
Magdalena Bay, Baja Mexico
Tim Linsky owner of the charter boat “Aristokat” visited Lopez Mateos to explore the area before bringing the boat down later this season. Fishing inside the bay he found halibut, grouper and spotted bay bass. The next day, he headed out to Isla Magdalena. Surf action was great as a variety of fish had driven a school of sardines into the surf and a feeding frenzy ensued. Locals were trapping halibut, corvina, and small snook by hand. Tim managed to catch a 20 pound halibut.
The windy conditions offshore continue to prevent much exploration. Water temps are steadily creeping up and once the wind lightens up and the boats can spend some time outside, the action should begin to pick up.
Down at San Carlos, they are also experiencing good action inside the bay with both Los Barriles and Devil’s Curve being the hot spot for small snook, corvina and a few leopard grouper.
Water temperature 61 - 66
Air temperature 65-77
Humidity 86%
Wind: WNW 20 mph
Conditions: Clear
Visibility 5 miles
Sunrise 6:36 a.m. MDT
Sunset 8:16 p.m. MDT
Zihuatanejo, Mainland Mexico
This week has had a lot of disruptions from the weather, causing slow fishing. We had one morning where I recorded 5.25 inches of rain between 3:30 and 8:00. For the week, at 12 inches of rain, we have had an almost average year for Southern California.
The large influx of fresh water from the rivers has pushed the blue water out to the 8 mile mark, and cooled the inshore areas substantially. Plus, the inshore waters have very low visibility.
The bright side is the weather map shows this unsettled pattern leaving us alone this next week, and we should be able to get back to some decent fishing.
Ed Kunze
Water temperature 78 - 84
Air temperature 75 - 84
Humidity 83%
Wind NE 2 mph
Conditions: Scattered Clouds
Visibility 7 miles
Sunrise 7:10 a.m. CDT
Sunset 8:17 p.m. CDT
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Jun 9, 2006; 04:48PM - Tukes on the Fly
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Category: Fly Fishing
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Author Name: Stan Wright
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Randall Sakai was in town last week for a graduation so we decided to grab our fly rods and relax for a few hours on Wahiawa Reservoir. The action was slow as we cursed along the shore line blind casting around brush piles for peacock bass. We caught a few small ones and had several more chase. Even the Red Devils were not very aggressive.
We were working only 20 or 30 feet from shore when I snagged a bush and had to go in close to retrieve my fly. That's when we spotted 4 big peacocks guarding nests in one foot of clear water. I backed the boat out a ways, and Randall laid his fly just beyond the larger of the fish. As the fly (a weighted Crazy Charlie looking thing tied with white/red polar bear hair) dropped into the nest the fish attacked with a vengeance.
We went round and round for several minutes, I trying to position the boat and Randall trying to keep the fish from getting tangled in the underwater brush. The fish won. It had to have been over 6 pounds. (but then everyone knows that any fish that breaks the line is always 'over 10'.
We decided right then to try another technique. Standing in the bow of the boat we used the electric trolling motor to move along the shore looking for the nests of spawning fish. It didn't take long. I wonder how many fish we had bypassed earlier? So now the action picked up as we spotted a pair of spawners, repositioned the boat, and cast our flys to the male fish (the larger of the two fish guarding the nest.) It's really fun to see the fish your casting to and watch it turn and grab the fly. It's also not as easy as it sounds. You have to make an accurate cast and set the hook when the fish strikes. Lots of times a fish will just 'blow' the fly out of the way. Other times it grabs the fly, moves a few feet from the nest, and spits it out. This happens so quickly you can't even see it. I've seen people make 30 casts into a nest and never hook the fish. Fishing for peacock bass on a nest may not be that easy, but it sure is exciting.
Aloha,
Stan
Randall with a 4# Peacock Bass.... Wahiawa Res., Hawaii.
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Jun 7, 2006; 03:56PM - 'Amateur Maneuver'
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Category: Hawaii
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Author Name: Stan Wright
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I first met Dean Shirota on a trip to Christmas Island. He's always willing to share his knowledge and love of fly fishing. I learned a lot. The following is an email I got this week from Dean telling me about all the fun I missed by passing up a morning bonefish trip here on Oahu.
'There was a slight tide coming in and I was thinking the fish would start to tail pretty soon. In about 15 minutes the tails started popping out of the water. We stalked tails for a while but the sun was in a weird angle so was hard to see. I decided to head out towards the deeper channel. At this one spot I made one blind cast and hooked into a huge fish. Man this thing took off and eventually cut me off in the breakers. It must have ripped off over 150 yards of line. After that I decided to go back into the shallows and try to sight fish again. On the way in I saw a tail pop out nearby and made a cast. I stripped once and the fish grabbed the fly. The fish took off and as I was clearing my line the last section looped around the reel. Not wanting to cut the fish off I started running in the water and tried to take the loop off. Somehow I dropped my rod and reel and the fish was taking it out water skiing. I ran to catch up to the rod, picked it up, untangled the loop, fought the fish and eventually landed the 30 inch 10 lb fish. Man talk about a major 'amateur maneuver'.'
As you can see, fishing with Dean is always an 'adventure'. You should see the picture of the two 8 pound octopus that....... well, that's another story for another day.
Aloha,
Stan
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Jun 5, 2006; 10:19AM - Cabo Bite Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrum
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
Cabo Fish Report
May 29-June 4, 2006
WEATHER: The warm weather continued this week with our daytime highs in the mid to high 90’s while the nights were much cooler with temperatures in the mid to low 70’s. At least that was how it was before this weekend. The wind started to blow and it really cooled off, I had 62 degrees here at home early Monday morning. That’s not to say the nights were not warm, I have still been running the air-conditioner in the evenings (except for last night)! We had mostly sunny skies this week with a little haze out to sea on the Pacific side early on, but the wind kicked in from the WNW and the haze went away. Unfortunately, so did the nice conditions on the Pacific side. We had a few days in the middle of the week where the Pacific was calm, it allowed a window for a lot of the bigger boats to leave and go up to San Diego. After the wind came back, it was victory at sea once again.
WATER: There was not much change this week from last week as far as the water conditions go. The Cortez side of the Cape continued to be a lot warmer than the Pacific side with some of the hot areas reaching temperatures of 84 degrees. The water blues up a lot and on the Pacific side it remained cool with a lot of the areas still in the 60’s and green. There has been a decent break right out in front to 30 miles where there is both color and temperature change and most of the fleet has been working it hard. Unfortunately this is also where the rough water from the Pacific side are meeting the calmer, warmer waters from the Cortez side, and there have been quite a few boats returning early from this area.
BAIT: The usual Mackerel at $2 per bait and there were some Mullet and Caballito as well at the same price. I saw some decent Sardinas at $25 per scoop.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Striped Marlin continued to be the billfish of the week but there have been a few Black and Blues caught as well, undoubtedly due to the warming water on the Cortez side of the Cape. The majority of the Striped Marlin have seemed to be along the 74-75 degree temperature break to the SE of us and a lot of boats are getting two or three fish per trip. The Blues and Blacks have come from farther up the Cortez side with most of them up around the Punta Gorda area. Live and dead bait have worked best for the Striped Marlin and lures have produced the Blues and Blacks.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: The Tuna scattered once again and have been found all over the place. The clue, as normal this time of year has been to find porpoise that are feeding. A lot of time the Porpoise are traveling and you can work them for hours with no results. If you are not marking fish on the depth sounder it does not pay to waste your time on them. If there are fish under them, stay around the area, the fish will come up and feed sooner or later. Most of the fish have been in the 20-pound class with a few larger fish to 60 pounds reported once in a while.
DORADO: I was blown away early in the week when I saw several boats flying outriggers full of yellow (and red) flags when they returned, I thought that it might have been a holiday or something, but it turned out that a piece of net had been found. The first boat to the net found it out along the Cabrillo Seamount and over the next three days it came closer to the cape and more boats got on it. The surface appearance was small, only a couple of yards square, but the net extended deep and was loaded with Dorado. Limits were the norm by boats that found it with most of the fish in the 20-pound class. Elsewhere there were Dorado caught as well with quite a few fish beginning to show up in the better weight classes. Bright colored lures worked well in the open ocean while live and cut bait was the ticket around the net.
WAHOO: I saw more Wahoo flags this week than I have seen combined for the rest of the year so far. While there were a lot of nice fish caught off of the net, there were a lot of fish as well along the temperature break to the SE. Lots of bite-offs were reported due to the use of monofilament leaders, but there were plenty of fish in the 40-60 pound class caught as well. Surprisingly, there were more Wahoo reported from offshore than were reported from the ledges and banks.
INSHORE: Small Roosterfish and a few scattered Sierras have been the majority of inshore fish this week as we are going through the seasonal temperature change. A few Pangas are trying bottom fishing but most of them are going a few miles out and trying to get into Dorado and Tuna.
NOTES: This weeks report was written to the music of “The Amazing Rhythm Aces” on the 1994 Sunshine Marketing release “Ride Again”. Listen and enjoy! Until next week, Tight Lines!
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Jun 5, 2006; 05:52AM - Guatemala Sport Fishing
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Category: Guatemala Sport Fishing
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Author Name: The Great Sailfishing Company
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This fishing report is for the week ending 06-04-06 and is prepared by The Great Sailfishing Company which operates out of the new Pez Vela Marina,Guatemala.The fishing grounds for this past week have ranged from as close as 12 miles to as far as 30 miles. Seas this week have been light ranging between 2 to 4ft. This week skies ranged from sunny to overcast days, with a few bringing light rain.Most days started with no to light wind in the mornings to light / moderate winds in the afternoons.The week started out with fair to good results with boats reporting releases in the high single digits to mid twenties on conventional tackle.Fly fishermen were releasing their sails in the low to mid single digits.Unlike the past week these results maintained themselves thoughout the week.On Friday the La Piragua released 25 sails.There's more good news in that the marlin bite still is active with a couple of releases being reported over the past two weeks.For more info. contact us at greatsailfishing@yahoo.com or visit our website at www.greatsailfishing.com and check out our free fly-fishing special for June.
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Jun 5, 2006; 05:51AM - Guatemala Sport Fishing
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Category: Guatemala Sport Fishing
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Author Name: The Great Sailfishing Company
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This fishing report is for the week ending 06-04-06 and is prepared by The Great Sailfishing Company which operates out of the new Pez Vela Marina,Guatemala.The fishing grounds for this past week have ranged from as close as 12 miles to as far as 30 miles. Seas this week have been light ranging between 2 to 4ft. This week skies ranged from sunny to overcast days, with a few bringing light rain.Most days started with no to light wind in the mornings to light / moderate winds in the afternoons.The week started out with fair to good results with boats reporting releases in the high single digits to mid twenties on conventional tackle.Fly fishermen were releasing their sails in the low to mid single digits.Unlike the past week these results maintained themselves thoughout the week.On Friday the La Piragua released 25 sails.There's more good news in that the marlin bite still is active with a couple of releases being reported over the past two weeks.For more info. contact us at greatsailfishing@yahoo.com or visit our website at www.greatsailfishing.com and check out our free fly-fishing special for June.
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Jun 3, 2006; 11:41AM - No Gloom this June
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Category: Saltwater Fly Fishing Reports
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Author Name: Gary Graham
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REPORT #1013. “Below the Border” Saltwater Fly-Fishing reports since 1996
Endless Season Update 06/03/06
East Cape
Large schools of small roosters have been everywhere, attracted by bait schools that are hanging just outside of casting range from the beach. Using hookless teasers, our guide Josh Dickinson convinced Mark Saba, from Maryland, how effective the technique can be. Josh consistently enticed fish from a couple hundred feet away close enough for Mark to get plenty of shots; and by the end of the day he landed three and hooked a few more.
Fishing from a panga, most of the fish are being taken from a drifting boat as the roosters follow the chum into casting range. Wed. (5/31), Matt Weaver, Bozeman, Mont., had a mixed school of sierra and roosters long enough to land seven roosters on a small sardina patterns and 20 sierra, up to eight pounds. Josh and Matt will be talking about that day for some time to come.
Yesterday, Lance Peterson and Don Murnane, visiting from Chatham, NJ, also had a good beach day. He spent most of the day running up and down the sand casting to some grande pez gallo, with plenty of lookers but no takers until late in the day when the schoolies came after the teaser in packs. The day’s action also included jack crevalle, ladyfish, and look down.
Offshore, tuna, dorado and marlin are all on the chew if you are willing to take the boat ride. Most of the dorado and tuna are in the 'reasonable' size category for the average fly angler – from the single digit to 20 or more pounds. Josh, using sardina for chum, kept the dorado and tuna around the boat so Homer Tollenaere and his wife, from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, could cast small sardina patterns with great success. With all the bait and large schools of fish we are seeing, June 2006 should be a great one.
Water temperature 74-83
Air temperature 73-96
Humidity 78%
Wind: W 2 mph
Conditions: Clear
Visibility 10 miles
Sunrise 6:02 a.m. MDT
Sunset 8:01 p.m. MDT
Magdalena Bay, Baja Mexico
Water temperatures continue to creep up slowly on the outside. Windy conditions continued to hamper the boats from doing much exploring offshore. Inside the esteros, corvina, leopard grouper, a few small snook and enough mystery bites to keep things interesting. Down at Devil’s Curve, tight to the west side of the channel there were a few palometa to be found.
In San Carlos, several angers reported fair fishing near the bridge at the entrance to town. Catches included small grouper, spotted bay bass and a few smaller corvina at slack tide.
Enrique Soto reported a few yellows out at the entrada first thing in the morning and as the day wore on some corvina and bonito under the bird schools. The shallows off the sandy beaches at Belchers produced plenty of the smaller variety halibut.
Water temperature 61 - 66
Air temperature 65-77
Humidity 86%
Wind: WNW 17 mph
Conditions: Clear
Visibility 5 miles
Sunrise 6:36 a.m. MDT
Sunset 8:13 p.m. MDT
Zihuatanejo, Mainland Mexico
The 80º blue water is only two miles off the beach. Fishing has been good. Sailfish are being taken at a rate of about two or three fish a day per boat. A few smaller 20 pound class yellowfin tuna are showing up, enough to keep things from getting boring.
Plus, the blue marlin are still coming to baits, on an average of one boat out of three.
The only drawback is we just got our first rains of the year this week, and even though 95% of our rain is always at night, the wind has made for two or three uncomfortable days on the water.
Adolpho, on the panga “Dos Hermanos,” told me he had a great week inshore on roosters and jack crevalle. Most of his fish were taken near the close-by White Rocks, or just a couple of miles below.
Ed Kunze
Water temperature 78 - 84
Air temperature 78 - 80
Humidity 83%
Wind ESE 15 mph
Conditions: Thunderstorms
Visibility 8 miles
Sunrise 7:10 a.m. CDT
Sunset 8:17 p.m. CDT
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May 29, 2006; 11:29AM - Cabo Bite Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrum
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
Cabo Fish Report
May 22-28, 2006
WEATHER: The heat of summer continued at the beginning of the week, we had daytime highs in the high 90’s with a tad over 100 degrees in the sun at my house on Wednesday afternoon. On Thursday afternoon the wind started to blow and Friday morning I woke to 69 degrees! I don’t think we broke 85 degrees for the next two days. On Sunday the winds had died down and out at the golf course (Country Club) I worked up a sweat. Of course that may have been because I was chasing the ball all over hell and back, but I think it was because it became hot with no wind. Don’t even think about asking what I shot, if I told you I’d have to keep out of sight for at least a year!
WATER: The Pacific side of the Cape continued to be cooler than the Cortez side and the water was much rougher and green as well. The difference between the two areas was almost 15 degrees early in the week but late on the warmer water continued to intrude on the Pacific side. At the end of the week we had a cold spot right of 63 degrees in front of Cabo while the water up to the area of the Golden Gate bank was around 71 degrees and on the Cortez side it maintained an 80-degree presence. With the wind later in the week being offshore on the Cortez side was bouncy, on the Pacific side unthinkable for a charter.
BAIT: The usual Mackerel at $2 per bait and there were some Mullet and Caballito as well at the same price. I saw some decent Sardinas at $25 per scoop, a little pricey but if you were after some of the Tuna that were out there they paid off.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Marlin continued to show themselves and continued to frustrate anglers this week. The effort was concentrated on the Sea Of Cortez side of the Cape due to the strong winds, but the fish were there. These Striped Marlin might stay in the area for another few weeks, but as the water temps continue to climb we will be seeing fewer of them and more Blue Marlin. The bite was definitely focused around the tide change, though it was either very early in the morning around the low tide or late afternoon with the high tide. Almost all the boats were finding a couple of dozen fish a day and with luck 20% of them were biting. Live bait was the key, and light leader helped. The action was concentrated within 5 miles of shore on the Cortez side, off of Chileno Beach and the San Jose Bay area.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: It was nice seeing the flags flying for Tuna early in the week; almost every boat that put in any effort was able to get hooked up to fish in the 15-25 pound range. A lot of the fish were open water fish while there were slightly larger ones associated with the Porpoise schools. One friend of mine got lucky in finding a pod of Porpoise that has #60 class Tuna associated with them. That was not the norm however and most of the boats caught the football sizes. The fish were either due south of us (open water 20-30 pound fish), up the pacific side with the porpoise (the larger ones) or on the Cortez side with the porpoise (the footballs and a bit larger). The larger fish were biting on live bait dropped back after an initial hook-up on lures.
DORADO: Surprisingly enough the warmer water and the wind have not brought on a great Dorado bite for us. Perhaps it will take another two or three weeks. The conditions are perfect, but all we are getting are the scattered schools of little chicken fish and only a few of the larger #20 . Those that have been caught have been found with the Striped Marlin so they have been incidental fish. If someone concentrated on them the results might be different.
WAHOO: The new moon resulted in very few Wahoo being seen or caught this week. The few nice fish that were reported came from the Gorda Banks and Punta Gorda area on live bait and Marlin lures in darker colors.
INSHORE: Tournaments are over for a while and I am caught up on boat work! I think we are getting a cement delivery scheduled for Wednesday (new patio) as we have all the curb forms and rebar ready and laid. Everything is leveled and filled with sand and gravel; it’s time to find out what the ready-mix is going to cost! Next is the roof (if my buddy Tom ever gets things together) and then we’re ready for the hurricanes! This weeks report was written to the music of Neal Young on the 1972 Warner Bros. Release “Harvest”. Until next week, Tight Lines!
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May 27, 2006; 12:14PM - Blue Marlin!!!
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Category: Mexico Ixtapa Zihuatanejo
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Author Name: Gary Graham
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As I predicted, the warm water current moved in from the south and the fishing improved. The big story is the blue marlin. The fleet is averaging about five blue marlin a day. This is about average for us in the month of May, making Z one of the best locations in the world (for May and June anyway) to get a shot at a big blue marlin.
Santiago, on the panga “Gitana,” had a great week on sailfish. Early in the week he fished with John Wilkinson of Michigan. They released seven sails on Tuesday. Fishing with John and Ben Fuller of Boston on Wed, Thurs., and Fri., he released six, five, and five sailfish each day.
The 82º water inshore has also improved the roosterfish fishing. The best action is still 30 miles south near Papanoa, but in the next couple of weeks all the traditional roosterfish areas should have good populations of fish.
Ed Kunze
Water temperature 78 - 84
Air temperature 73 - 82
Humidity 83%
Wind N 4 mph
Conditions: Thunderstorms
Visibility 8 miles
Sunrise 7:10 a.m. CDT
Sunset 8:15 p.m. CDT
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May 27, 2006; 12:13PM - Tuna and Dorado . . . Ignore the Wind
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Category: Saltwater Fly Fishing Reports
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Author Name: Gary Graham
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REPORT #1012. “Below the Border” Saltwater Fly-Fishing reports since 1996
Endless Season Update 05/27/06
East Cape
Homer Tollenaere and his wife, from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, spent a day inshore and had good action for both dorado and tuna in spite of the windy conditions this week. Beach action slowed somewhat as the wind waves took their toll causing off-colored water along the shore. Offshore, the billfish continued to provide the best action along with tuna and even some dorado. According to the recent SST reports, the water temperatures are continuing to creep up which should attract more bait which in turn should bring in more fish as we slide into the summer.
Water temperature 68-79
Air temperature 75-94
Humidity 78%
Wind: SSW 4 mph
Conditions: Clear
Visibility 10 miles
Sunrise 6:33 a.m. MST
Sunset 7:58 p.m. MST
Magdalena Bay, Baja Mexico
There was some improvement in the weather this week and a decent grouper and pargo bite just outside Boca Soledad close to shore. Outside, the sea temps are still cool and seas are stirred up by the wind. A few boats went out as far as the Thetis for nothing this week. The local shark fishermen also are reporting seeing very little on the way out to their buoys west of the entrada. The entrada itself is still producing fair action under the bird schools for small yellows, bonito and an occasional sierra if they don’t bite through the leader. Devil’s Curve produced a few smaller snook, corvina and a couple of leopard groupers.
Water temperature 60 - 69
Air temperature 60-77
Humidity 88%
Wind: NW 7 mph
Conditions: Clear
Visibility 5 miles
Sunrise 6:37 a.m. MDT
Sunset 8:10 p.m. MDT
Zihuatanejo, Mainland Mexico
As I predicted, the warm water current moved in from the south and the fishing improved. The big story is the blue marlin. The fleet is averaging about five blue marlin a day. This is about average for us in the month of May, making Z one of the best locations in the world (for May and June anyway) to get a shot at a big blue marlin.
Santiago, on the panga “Gitana,” had a great week on sailfish. Early in the week he fished with John Wilkinson of Michigan. They released seven sails on Tuesday. Fishing with John and Ben Fuller of Boston on Wed, Thurs., and Fri., he released six, five, and five sailfish each day.
The 82º water inshore has also improved the roosterfish fishing. The best action is still 30 miles south near Papanoa, but in the next couple of weeks all the traditional roosterfish areas should have good populations of fish.
Ed Kunze
Water temperature 78 - 84
Air temperature 73 - 82
Humidity 83%
Wind N 4 mph
Conditions: Thunderstorms
Visibility 8 miles
Sunrise 7:10 a.m. CDT
Sunset 8:15 p.m. CDT
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