To the 14th...Fish Report

Gerald and Mark Micho, Gary Miserlian and Michael Coe with a nice sail.
The fishing here has continued to be good with an incredible amount of bait over a big area of water. The bait looks like small butterfish and it is being balled up by sails all over the place. The last few days the bonito have arrived and there have been some big 'foamers' where the bonito are pushing the bait to the surface in a feeding frenzy. It wont be long before the marlin show up with all the bonito out there. For now it is bonito and ALOT of sailfish that are feeding on the small baits. With all the bait around it has been hard to pull the sails off the balls though generally the late afternoon bite has been very good.
We just had through the Gary Miserlian group consisting of 4 father and son teams John and David Wojciechowski, Glen and Norman Korpi, Jim and Kent Daehling and Jerry and Mark Micho along with Bob Minster, Bill Whitney and Mike Coe. The group stayed at the brand new Quinta Pez Vela and fished aboard Allure, Intensity and Spindrift from the 12th through to the 14th. They released 36 billfish the first day and a nice 54 inch dorado was boated on Allure for sashimi in the evening. The same again for the group on day 2 releasing 36 sails with Intensity seeing the majority of the action today. On Allure we went out wide and came accross several large foamers, bonitos gorging themselves on the bait. With the bonito holding we live-baited a couple around the outsides and raised a marlin on the long bait that dissapointingly did not eat. Today, the 14th we fished more to the east and there were birds working the baits all over, the action was steady and very good in the afternoon with 52 sails released for the group. A grand total of 124 SAILFISH RELEASES for the group in 3 days of fishing and several slammer dorado as well. Awesome stuff!!

THE INFAMOUS WALKER GROUP

Marshal Reid, Matt Mabry, Chris Walker, Rob Bailey, Tommy Walker, Burke Lane, Frank Marquez, Ray Duerer, Keenon Raynor and Gerald King from Houston.
The guys fished aboard Allure, Intensity and Canaso for a couple of days. The first day out the action was great just 12NM from the Marina Pez Vela. The bite was good right through the day with triples and doubles for all the boats, the group ended with 54 sailfish released. There were also several big dorado boated and plenty of fresh sashimi and fish sandwiches enjoyed.

Ray Duerer took this great shot of a sail charging the boat (and himself)
The action slowed a little the second day out with 23 sails released between the boats, still a great day on the water and 77 releases in 2 days of fishing. These guys know how to have a great time and were great fun to fish with. We're looking forward to seeing them all back next year. Ray also captured this breaching humpback whale on the way back in from fishing. We have been seeing them regularly the last week or so just a few miles off the beach.


With all the bait around out there and the incredible amount of sails we are expecting the bite to continue to be outstanding. The water is a deep blue and with the amount of bonito out there as well the marlin should start to make their presence felt. There is also plenty of big dorado to mix things up, all in all great fishing. We still have some openings through to May and the later in the season traditionally the marlin bite heats up.............
Previous to this we had Jim Williams along with Don Smith and Ron Hauck from NJ. The guys were in for 3 days on the fly. With all the bait around getting them to bite the fly was a little tough, we raised over 140 fish in the 3 days and had multiple shots