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Absolutely wide open dorado fishing over here!

Hook - 5-7-2009 at 04:27 PM

Has been going on for about 3 days now.

Three 30# radio fish today; two caught at 11 miles. A number in the mid 20#. All mixed in with jumping marlin and sails. A 300 pound blue was confirmed last week.

We boated six and released four. The two we kept we weighed at 17# each. I saw dorado chasing more flying fish at 3.5 miles from the bay!!! Fish caught from 11-25 miles out in a 20 degree spread; a huge area of fish.

Two boats from San Carlos that had been fishing off the ocho-ocho down by Cerralvo and also off Loreto on a 10 day trip were hustling back to SC, as we apparently have the best dorado fishing in the Sea right now.

I'd say every boat we talked to had boated at least 6 fish and kept fewer. One guy had a quintuple hookup near a paddy. Lost three.

Going out Saturday again; taking all women crew.

Temps are now 72-76 and water is blue. Air is upper 80s, low 90s. Some fog around as is usual this time of year.

Dorado sashimi tonight................better than the hamachi down here!

woody with a view - 5-8-2009 at 06:19 AM

good stuff! what are they chewing?

Hook - 5-8-2009 at 06:24 AM

Most people are just dragging feathers. Green yellow and green white seem to be the best. But I caught two yesterday on a purple/black cedar plug. I always run a CP at the back end.

What is also big over here is trolling rigged ballyhoo so they skip along the surface. Shops supply them frozen but they are about a dollar each so I am not interested. KISS fishing for me.

baitcast - 5-8-2009 at 08:02 AM

Quick somebody call Cypress maybe we can finally get him hooked up,he has been a little cranky lately:lol:
Rob

Hook - 5-8-2009 at 08:38 AM

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Originally posted by baitcast
Quick somebody call Cypress maybe we can finally get him hooked up,he has been a little cranky lately:lol:
Rob


Getting him to come back to Mexico might be more difficult than finding a clean restroom down her for Caboron. :lol:

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Cypress - 5-8-2009 at 09:00 AM

Yea, the wild turkeys are giving me a hard time. No luck yet. Really like Mexico. If I ever return it won't be for the fishing.:D

Pescador - 5-8-2009 at 11:50 AM

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Originally posted by Cypress
Yea, the wild turkeys are giving me a hard time. No luck yet. Really like Mexico. If I ever return it won't be for the fishing.:D


Aww, come on Cypress, Next time you are down I will take you out and let you feel what a real fish feels like. Those big yellowtail will surely put the hurt on you. ;D

Bob H - 5-8-2009 at 12:14 PM

Hook... that's what retirement is all about, huh? Seems like you are having the best of times!
Bob H

Cypress - 5-8-2009 at 12:22 PM

Thanks Pescador, Been a while since landing a fish has made me sweat. Have caught a few since last time we talked. Would be nice to get some of those little San Lucas oysters and swap a story or two. Opened four sacks of those good northern Gulf of Mexico oysters, about a gallon and a half/sack. Fished down in the bayou country last winter, a little bit of everything, specs, reds, flounders. Up in the fresh water, catfish, shellcrackers, crappie, and bass. No offshore fishing. Good luck with all your endeavors.:bounce:

Cypress - 5-8-2009 at 02:58 PM

Don Jorge, :light: Yea, me also.:biggrin:

bill erhardt - 5-8-2009 at 03:16 PM

Here's one about 20# that I released day before yesterday and sent on his way north towards San Carlos. In the last month I have released 70 or 80 dorado out of Loreto just to make sure neighbors to the north are not deprived this summer. (I've also kept a couple for the table.)

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fishbuck - 5-8-2009 at 03:29 PM

Bill, your my hero!

Cypress - 5-8-2009 at 03:59 PM

bill erhardt, Thanks for the photographic evidence.:bounce:

baitcast - 5-8-2009 at 04:25 PM

Cypress anyone can catch fish from a boat but only El Pescador Grandes catch them from the beach.

We are talkin fish here my man,shellcrackers,just what is a shellcracker?:lol: Rob

Cypress - 5-8-2009 at 04:40 PM

baitcast, Shellcrackers are similar to bluegill, have a red gill flap, they like the marsh areas that have a tidal flow and are a little brackish. ;) Get bigger than most Bluegill, put up a heck of a fight on a cane/fiberglass pole and are mighty good eating.;) Use worms to catch 'em.;)

woody with a view - 5-8-2009 at 05:15 PM

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Originally posted by baitcast
Cypress anyone can catch fish from a boat but only El Pescador Grandes catch them from the beach.

We are talkin fish here my man,shellcrackers,just what is a shellcracker?:lol: Rob


i'm not bragging.....:P

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baitcast - 5-8-2009 at 05:21 PM

Now there is a pescador grande,just had to bring them suckers out:lol: Cypress Woody didn,t have to fire up a engine to get these guys.
Rob

Thats two of the biggest spots in the same pic I have ever seen.

[Edited on 5-9-2009 by baitcast]

Cypress - 5-9-2009 at 05:39 AM

That photo has made the rounds several times. :lol:

baitcast - 5-9-2009 at 08:56 AM

What makes this pic so unusual Cypress is that the record Spotfin weighed 10.5#,now look at the fish on the right hand side hmmm,when was the last time you caught a record or near record fish?

I,m sure that Woody will see to it that we see it again in the near future:lol:
Rob

Hook - 5-9-2009 at 02:27 PM

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Originally posted by Don Jorge
Hey PJ,

In the spirit of BD, I'm calling bs until you post some pics! :lol:
Like to see what a 20 lb San Carlos dorado looks like?? :lol:


Here ya go, Jorge!!! :lol::lol::lol::P:P:P

45 lber. caught today. I did not fish. There is a dead whale about 11 miles out that is attracting alot of attention, as you might imagine.

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baitcast - 5-9-2009 at 07:35 PM

Cypress you can even get these guys with a little old tin boat,don,t even need to go all the way down to Loreto or Mulege,some years you have to beat Dorado off with a club at BOLA like these guys.

Hook - 5-9-2009 at 07:56 PM

Turns out the estimated 45 lber was "only" 38 back at the dock.

Here's hoping buoyweather is more accurate tomorrow than it was today. Very nasty conditions in the AM.

Cypress - 5-9-2009 at 08:14 PM

Nice fish. Expect that some years, were some years past.:lol:

Hook - 5-13-2009 at 08:50 AM

Got one the next day. Personal MAINLAND best 26lber.

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Hook - 5-13-2009 at 08:52 AM

But the big news is GOOD SIZED YFT HAVE JUST SHOWED UP !!!!!!

These boys are running 45-55 lbs! Wouldnt you know they come through the day I make a run to Nogales for stuff from storage. Now I have a day of unloading and then hoping that the AHI are still around!!!!!!!

Ford - 5-23-2009 at 08:17 AM

Bill what is that thing that looks like a gaff? What is wrapped around it?

capt. mike - 5-23-2009 at 09:49 AM

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Originally posted by Hook
But the big news is GOOD SIZED YFT HAVE JUST SHOWED UP !!!!!!

These boys are running 45-55 lbs! Wouldnt you know they come through the day I make a run to Nogales for stuff from storage. Now I have a day of unloading and then hoping that the AHI are still around!!!!!!!


Hook - man that's awesome! i'd kill for some raw YFT off the back of a boat now.

my buddy from Payson RR had his corp pilot fly him and his buddies down to san Carlos yesterday for i think a tourney this weekend? he has a boat there, good sized sport fisher but i never been on it. maybe you see them. initials RR, ask around, from Payson AZ a contractor civil eng work.

bill erhardt - 5-23-2009 at 05:09 PM

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Originally posted by Ford
Bill what is that thing that looks like a gaff? What is wrapped around it?


Ford.......It is a de-hooker. A great device with which you can release a dorado, billfish, or any other fish for that matter, without ever touching it. It has a hooked end that you slide down the leader to the hook in the fish. Then with a smaller fish you hold the leader tight and shake it off. With a bigger fish you can often slide it down the line and the weight of the de-hooker will dislodge the hook. I seldom touch the bills of marlin/sailfish since I got it. A petrolero marlin feather that the dorado hit is wrapped around the de-hooker in the photo.

dao45 - 5-23-2009 at 05:59 PM

hmmm A dehooker? Maybe I,ll get fish Bock one for christmas

Hook - 5-23-2009 at 08:01 PM

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Originally posted by dao45
hmmm A dehooker? Maybe I,ll get fish Bock one for christmas



BWAAAAHAAAHAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!

Score one for the Daoist!