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[*] posted on 5-19-2014 at 07:01 PM
East Cape lights up!


East Cape lights up.

What a difference a week can make.

Last week marlin were not in the mood to bite and tuna were nowhere in sight. This week marlin have gotten hungry and many anglers have had double and even triple hookups.
The big news is yellowfin tuna under porpoise schools have finally arrived. On Friday afternoon while fishing for stripers off of Cabo Pulmo we encountered a huge school of spotted porpoise with a few spinners mixed in. The school was moving south at a pretty quick pace. Diego pulled the marlin lures and deployed a couple Halco Lazer Pros and a cedar plug. We trolled and trolled and trolled through the porpoise without a bite, a meter mark or a sign of tuna. Now we were off Los Frailes and it was getting late. As we were ready to turn around and head back, Kazam! We got a triple. Next pass through the porpoise bendo! Another triple. Now it was really late but what the heck we made one more pass and bagged another fish. Our largest fish tipped the scale at 79.1 pounds

Heading back with very happy anglers I sat in the bridge with a huge smile thinking about how lucky we were to find the first real volume of decent sized tuna of our season.

The following morning tuna was the buzz on the VHF. My thoughts were, at the pace the fish were moving, they were probably in Cabo by now and really had no hope of finding them again. We gave the info we had to several skippers and a few went looking. In the afternoon there were no radio reports of the tuna being found.

In the late afternoon we were again trolling for stripers off Cabo Pulmo when I sighted a school of porpoise off in the distance. My thought was there is no way lightning is going to strike twice two days in a row in the same place. It didn't take long before the first yellowfin hit our deck. Again it was late when we found the fish. After bagging five tuna I headed the boat for Buena Vista.

Yesterday the marlin bite backed off a bit but a couple fleet boats found porpoise holding tuna off Punta Arena and El Regalo landed one over 100 lbs on a Yummy behind a fishing kite. It is the real deal. Yellowfin tuna have arrived!

Conditions couldn't be better with blue 82 degree water and calm seas. The bait situation is as bad as I have ever seen it with ballyhoo being the only constant game in town most days.


Marlin on the ballyhoo


Surprise, surprise!


I would tell what color this Halco Lazer Pro 190 was but all the finish got knocked off so long ago I can't remember. Last year we caught a tuna that went 130 lbs on the same lure. It is not color, it is all about the way they wiggle.


Phil Rice with a 79.1 yellowfin


I love seeing that deck a little bloody


Accurate Twin Spin and a Halco Roasta popper is a deadly combo.


Diego scores!


Right on que! The bite always goes off when Accurate Jack shows up.



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