Sunday, December 13, 2009

Another great week of fishing in San Carlos! It is looking like another epic year of yellowtail fishing. On Saturday we got out for my first real day of jigging at the island. We pulled up and no one else was jumping up to put their lines in. Almost before we were in place I had my line down. Within ten seconds I had the first yellowtail on. On the second drop I picked up a bonita and on the third another big yellowtail. Unfortunately this one broke off, along with another dozen for our group that day! We landed six yellowtail though, along with over fifteen large sierra and another fifteen large skipjack. I was very sore and even bruised afterwards. I would jig with nothing less than a 50 pound line and 80+ pounds fluorocarbon leader and be ready to hold on!Do you think that the water has cooled off and all the summer big game has left? We had a marlin jumping in the calm water off the south tip less than a mile from the island. Then we were at the north tip and had another one jumping by the boat. So we started trolling for marlin AND yellowtail. We headed back to the south tip and headed in closer for the bonita. I started to pull in the big lures and we saw one jumping inside us less than a couple hundred yards off! I have never seen one in that close.Water up to 73 degrees has moved up the coast and the southern current is still going. It looks like there should be numbers of dorado just twenty miles from town. Thirty miles out the water is up to 74 and even higher when you get out fifty miles. We might be making a run in search of tuna tomorrow!Yesterday we were in close off of San Antonio. We caught seven bonita but were mainly after the yellowtail. We caught one nice fish, breaking off another on a light spinning rod. The fish were everywhere in boils on the surface. They were tough to catch though as they were focused on small baitfish a lot of the time. The guys 'running and gunning' to the schools and jigging fared better than most trolling. We found lots of fish boiling just on the seamounts (Social Security Reef) just outside the harbor. You can find them out there any time of the day right now, but the fish might be biting best around certain times of the tides. We found the bite in the morning and between one and two in the afternoon at the island. So you never know when you might get lucky!We are always looking for people to share charters at a very reasonable price so let me know if you would like to get out on the water.On a final note, we saw a marlin jumping just two miles off San Antonio yesterday. We also passed one feeding inside of that. Have a big game rod ready. Maybe you could join the record books with a December marlin. Will let you know if we find dorado and tuna down south!tight lines.

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