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.



[Edited on 11-22-2021 by Don Jorge]

[Edited on 12-3-2021 by Don Jorge]

[Edited on 12-6-2021 by Don Jorge]

Quote: Originally posted by hombre66

Are Crevalle related to Trevally?

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.

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.