Fish Sniffer On Demand Digital Edition Issue 3818 August 16-30 | Page 33

SALTWATER
VOL.38 • ISS. 18
MONTEREY BAY
cont.
said Carol Jones of Kahuna Sportfishing.
“The olives were chasing small and top water
artificials of every kind possible. It was fun
fishing for sure watching fish grab your lure.
NO BAIT – you don’t need it, you don’t want
it.”
The 24 anglers aboard the boat caught 240
rockfish, 3 lingcod and one cabezon.
On a previous trip, the 21 anglers headed
way down the coast and were rewarded with
wide-open vermilion action.
“Captain Brian said they couldn’t keep them
off the hooks! Fast and furious was the game.
Again, there was not much on the lingcod
action. You don’t want to leave a wide-open
biggie vermilion bite for sure,” said Jones.
The Kahuna has also both targeting salmon
on Monterey Bay. On August 3, the 19
anglers aboard the boat caught 5 salmon and
released 3 while mooching with anchovies
inside of the bay.
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“The salmon fishing is still good straight
out of the Santa Cruz Harbor in 300 feet
of water,” said Todd Fraser at Bayside
Marine in Moss Landing. “There were
some early limits caught in the morning at
36’50/122’00.”
“Halibut fishing is wide open,” said Fraser.
“The halibut are still being caught all over
the Bay. They are hitting in 40-70 feet of
water near the Mile Buoy and up the coast.”
“The rockfish action has been good up
the coast near Davenport. The wind and
swells are down
and conditions
Tanner jumped
aboard the Huli
are perfect
Cat on July 20
in the
and was rewarded
morning,”
with this beautiful
he added.
16-pound salmon.
- Dan
Bacher
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Tuna Plentiful Off Cabo!
CABO SAN LUCAS- Warmer water
temperatures on the Cortez and Pacific brought
some good fishing in the first few days of the
week. We saw anglers heading out to find lots
of tuna, some marlin and landing a few dorado
per boat, even if some were too small to keep
and others, like the 56.7 lbs Trophy Bull Dorado
caught by Rudy Mendoza on the Pisces 35’
Valerie impressed at the dock.
Pisces 31’ Rebecca also came back last
Monday with a very nice approx. 50lbs Wahoo,
making it seem that this week was going to be
one of our best so far. But, as fishing would have
it, it began
to get a
bit more
inconsistent
come
midweek,
Big tuna are on the chomp off the East
and crews
Cape. This fish was caught aboard the
had to work cruiser Don Julio on July 17.
Photo courtesy of VAN WORMER
very hard
RESORTS, East Cape, Baja.
to find and
land the fish,
as we had some picky billfish. With that said,
the Pisces 31’ Rebecca still managed to catch
and release 5 striped marlin at Destiladeras in
one day and we saw some Blue Marlin start to
show up too; all released and mostly around 200
to 250 lbs each. We had seven blues and 49
billfish caught total for the fleet this week, along
with 160 yellowfin tuna. Inshore fishing included
grouper, jack crevalle, triggerfish, and a couple
of roosterfish.
Pisces 35’ Valerie had a great day with anglers
from Texas, Christine Solis-Mendoza releasing
her first striped marlin of about 80 lbs at the
11:50 on a “cosinero” lure. Her husband Rudy
closed out the day with a 56.7 lbs Dorado that
also hit on a cosinero at the 11:50.
Pisces 31’ Rebecca did well off of the Cerro
This huge bull dorado was landed
Blanco area, about 35 miles out, catching and
off the East Cape during a July 9
releasing a striped marlin of about 120 lbs on a
trolling adventure.
Photo courtesy of VAN WORMER tigrillo lure. They also caught an approximately
RESORTS, East Cape, Baja. 50 lbs wahoo there on lure, for anglers from
Kentucky: Valinda and Walter Weibel.
The next day 31’ Rebecca was the only boat to catch 5 Striped Marlin. Most other
boats caught anywhere from 1 to 2 billfish, (with striped marlin being the most
prominent, followed by blue marlin and even a sailfish this week). Their marlin were
caught out at Destiladeras on the East Cape, some 35 miles up the coast. Two of the
marlin hit on lures, a tigrillo and chiliwily, while the other three hit on live lisas. The
marlin ranged from about 80 to 130 lbs each and were tagged and released by Hilda
Vallecillo and Ronald Benard form Bayou Vista, Texas.
Pisces 30’ Karina, now Captained
by Orlando Murillo with Deckhand
Pablo Martinez (previously Captain
and mate of the 28’ Andrea) did
well with tuna this week as well,
landing 21 yellowfin on cedar plugs
and feathers out at San Jaime
for Chase and John Lorentz from
North Carolina. They also caught
and released 1 striped marlin
of about 90 lbs which hit on live
caballito bait. The guys headed
out again on Karina two days
later and did very well again, this
time releasing 1 striped marlin at
Michael Wu traveled down to La Paz this July to test
Destiladeras of about 120 lbs on
Baja Beast rods and landed several fish including
live caballito and 10 yellowfin tuna
this beautiful roosterfish.
on cedar plugs.
Photo courtesy of MICHAEL WU, American Premier.