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Don Jorge
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Trevally & Striped Marlin & Dorado on Poppers
Great fishing for quality trevally in the estuaries of Mag Bay.
Feels good to be back in action after a 4 month hiatus for lumbar spine fusion surgery. Doc did a great job and so grateful he did.
Offshore has been great too and PSC is hopping right now. Shrimp, scallop, clam, eco tour divers filming marlin on bait balls and sport fishing season
all colliding making it very busy and everyone is making hay while the sun shines.
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�And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry
years. It was always that way.�― John Steinbeck
"All models are wrong, but some are useful." George E.P. Box
"Nature bats last." Doug "Hayduke" Peac-ck
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DouglasP
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Nice!
I like beer, better than most people.
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Skipjack Joe
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They're a great fighting fish. I've caught them at Christmas Island.
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AKgringo
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Aggressive fish! I watched a video of one of them going after sea birds.
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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100X
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So jealous!
A life of fears leads to a death bed of regrets.
Find someone who will take care of you, and take care of them.
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Mulege Canuck
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Freakin awesome!
I fished the northern end of Mag Bay near La Poza Grande and got some beauty Corvina but never even heard of that fish.
Nice job.
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vandy
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Also called a golden jack, delicious!
Raw or cooked, nice white dense meat.
Used to get them from Puerto Escondido
to Ligüi.
I'm glad you're able to fish again.
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Maderita
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A successful spine surgery and a big fish. What more could you ask for?
¡Feliz cumpleaños!
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El Jefe
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Congratulations on your successful surgery Don Jorge!!
I'm three weeks post op from my lumbar surgery, no fusion just some widening of the nerve canal etc. Hoping to look as good as you do in a few months
and get back in the water. Heading back south Friday. Can't wait to get my rehab in full gear with some walks on the beach, some warm water swims and
just a little bit of medicinal Don Julio.
Oh, and nice fish!
No b-tchin\' in the Baja.
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nice palometa! they fight like hell
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eguillermo
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Does anyone have a searchable "scientific" name for that fish? It looks a bit different from the "giant trevally" or "crevalle jack" that I'm finding
online.
It's a gorgeous fish, and I congratulate Don Jorge with envy!! I've fished the mangroves quite a bit and never seen one of those.
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searchable "scientific" name for that fish?
Gnathanodon speciosus
Jack family/Carangidae
AKA: Jurel Dorado, Golden Trevally
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Skipjack Joe
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Unlike the other trevally mentioned this one is good to eat.
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hombre66
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Are Crevalle related to Trevally? I had C/4,5 and 6 fusion in July and have finally got my docs blessing to surf in Baja this January, a month long
rambling journey , longer than I've ever stayed in my 54 yr affair with Baja. The board is getting longer, and the waves are getting smaller, I'm
afraid. But its all good.
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Skipjack Joe
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Definitely. Even a pompano is related but more distantly.
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Don Jorge
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Trevally , Striped Marlin too!
Thanks everyone! It is indeed nice to be on the water again and especially nice to walk again more than 100 ft without the legs going numb and pain
dropping one to the ground. As we get older body parts wear out. Despite common sense mitigation efforts of exercise, diet, rest, less alcohol and
more rest, 67 years of physical, outdoor work takes and shows a toll. Bless the medical professionals who relieve the pain.
Jeffe, good luck on your recovery. Stenosis and lumbar injury are part of your professions risks. A few too many, large people, stuck in the tub. Or
so my retired firefighter friends tell me.
Hombre66, hope your recovery continues and good for you surfing again. I traded the surfboard for a bodyguard after my knee replacements. The good
news it is almost always double overhead when you are lying down?: 
Maderita thanks for the b-day shout out. To celebrate we went looking for marlin and right now if you go south from the boca twenty miles or so you
cannot miss them. Locals are calling this moment the largest concentration of bait fish and marlin in recent memory. After a very successful day of
striped marlin fishing, brining to leader and releasing four stripers my local friends surprised me with a birthday cake and homemade flan!
My friend and tocayo Jorge was fishing with me and his fourteen year old son, Gael, was able to join us. We put Gael on his first marlin ever and he
handled it like a pro. We were all very happy for Gael. He was super stoked. Memories, making memories.
 
The next few days the wind came up so we stayed inside. We went to Isla Magdalena just checking it out, caught a few halibut for supper and called it
a day.
The island has a small full time population and during whale season many more spend time there staffing the eco camps, glamping,, has arrived here
too.
The current rage is for divers to swim near the bait balls to observe and film the marlin packs herd hunting the huge sardine schools. Stripers dart
in and out of the sardine balls in synchronized movements marlin moving the ball and feeding on it simultaneously. This underwater dance show has
attracted divers from far and wide. The other iight on a rare night out for me I noted visitors from Japan, Germany, Australia and the Americas
represented at the local hotspot, Lores. The upstairs supper venue was packed and it was mostly divers, not fisherman.
There are many operators providing this service and a lot of them are from Cabo and La Paz. It is creating fiction with the locals. Hope they can
resolve it.
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Thats it for now.
�And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry
years. It was always that way.�― John Steinbeck
"All models are wrong, but some are useful." George E.P. Box
"Nature bats last." Doug "Hayduke" Peac-ck
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surfhat
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Thanks for the awesome underwater video.
To me, that is THE best way to catch these magnificent creatures, freely hunting.
I sampled some smoked marlin years ago and it was pretty damn tasty, but when I see these doing what they do off hook, I hold hope their species will
continue to survive for future generations to appreciate with videos such as this one.
One can hope that those marlins who are brought alongside the boat and released will survive. Apparently some don't due to the stress. The less damage
we do, the better. It all adds up eventually.
When I see them hanging upside down on the dock, I always ask myself why. If we love the ocean and its creatures great and small, and I believe we all
do, catch and release should be employed whenever possible, specifically for such grand species of fish as these are.
I have caught my share of fish that fit in a pan to feed myself when camping. Catching more than one needs for sustenance was never part of my
motivation. Ok. Enough preaching.
Seeing these hunt and not being hunted was illuminating to say the least. Thanks again for that underwater feeding video.
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The marlin catch and release bug caught on pretty well quite some time ago, especially with stripers. They taste okay, but not exceptional and other
than their aerial stunts, really do not pull that hard. The fight is further diminished by the large gear most pangeros use, although I believe that
may result in less stress to the fish.
Over time, the tuna and dorado (and others) seem to be the species most anglers continue to target, although C&R has not been as widely practiced
with them, nor with pan-size species.
A life of fears leads to a death bed of regrets.
Find someone who will take care of you, and take care of them.
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Don Jorge
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When offshore we usually come across a strand or two of seaweed. And no matter how small this time of year it will be holding a few dorado. We pass
nearby with some feathers and typically score one or two dorados and move on.
Last time offshore after a very successful day marlin fishing and scoring a few dorados on the way home we practically ran over a huge seaweed patch.
Bingo. We quickly had double hookups and saw lots of following fish. I quickly set up a 6,5 Calstar rod paired to a small Shimano Trinidad reel
spooled with Trident big game 20 lb line connected to a Yozuroi popper.
For the next twenty minutes it was nonstop action on the surface popper, The dorado were racing on the surface fighting to be the first one to explode
on the popper. We bagged our limits and then some catch and release. Poppper fishing for dorado is fun!
We were still two hours offshore and running out of daylight soon. Fortunately the weather was beautiful, the oceans surface como las nalgas de un
indio. We made it back with the sun setting off our port side. Perfect ending to another day fishing the bountiful waters offshore of Mag Bay.
�And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry
years. It was always that way.�― John Steinbeck
"All models are wrong, but some are useful." George E.P. Box
"Nature bats last." Doug "Hayduke" Peac-ck
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Your reports make me smile!
A life of fears leads to a death bed of regrets.
Find someone who will take care of you, and take care of them.
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