Bloodydecks.com - Saltwater Fly Fishing http://www.bloodydecks.com/forums/ surf, inshore, bluewater en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:02:03 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.bloodydecks.com/forums/images/misc/rss.jpg Bloodydecks.com - Saltwater Fly Fishing http://www.bloodydecks.com/forums/ Anyone Flyfish Dominican Republic? http://www.bloodydecks.com/forums/saltwater-fly-fishing/168174-anyone-flyfish-dominican-republic.html Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:26:29 GMT Hey guys,

I'm goin over to the Dominican Republic in early December and was wondering if anybody has had any experience (or heard of any) over there. Thinkin about takin my 8wt over and checkin the surf. Any info would be much appreciated. Thanks.

P.S. I will be staying at Punta Cana ]]> Saltwater Fly Fishing streetnfish http://www.bloodydecks.com/forums/saltwater-fly-fishing/168174-anyone-flyfish-dominican-republic.html Ventura County Starting to Get Hot http://www.bloodydecks.com/forums/saltwater-fly-fishing/168151-ventura-county-starting-get-hot.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:54:52 GMT The beaches around here are starting to heat up as the large waves we've recently seen have left good structure. I went out this morning and landed 5 nice perch in an hour, all on a orange checkerboard fly. The surf was bigger then on Thursday and made things interesting but I still wet wadded as it was a beautiful ou6t there. ]]> Saltwater Fly Fishing flyfishthesurf http://www.bloodydecks.com/forums/saltwater-fly-fishing/168151-ventura-county-starting-get-hot.html Fishing Report Some Large Tuna Remain http://www.bloodydecks.com/forums/saltwater-fly-fishing/167705-some-large-tuna-remain.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:45:37 GMT Endless Season Update 11/08/2009
REPORT #1188 "Below the Border" Saltwater Fly-Fishing reports since 1996
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After several years of waiting for the opportunity, I finally hooked a dorado on the fly from shore. It wasn't a big fish. But
I'll take it. I saw it chasing bait. At first I thought it was a roosterfish. But as soon as it ate the fly I could see it was all lit
up in classic dorado fashion! Unfortunately, Colleen wasn't with me and I didn't have a camera. So I had to race down the
beach some distance to get a photo. Hence, the dull colors on the fish. This one will be dinner tonight. Courtesy of the
‘mono lisa’ fly on 20lb. fluorocarbon…Lance Peterson.
The yellowfin, dorado and sailfish are all very close to shore. Lots of sailfish spread from the north to the south within
three miles of the beach. Larger tuna to 100 pounds outside under the porpoise, but most anglers are opting for the
smaller fish closer to shore, from the light house south. Fifteen to thirty five pound yellowfin are all within one mile of the
beach. Dorado from five to twenty five pounds are mixed in with the yellowfin. Inshore fishing is very good, with very
light fishing pressure. Big roosters, pompano, sierra (early), pargo and huge schools of jack crevalle are all biting
aggressively.
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Magdalena Bay, Baja Mexico
Strong winds plagued offshore this week and continue to produce rough seas. The dorado, tuna and wahoo catches have
been decent, with our clients, Jeff Dean and friends, catching limits of wahoo, tuna and dorado. In the bay, they limited
out every day on pargo, grouper and corvina.
So far, the billfish action has been sparse with only an occasional blind strike. There’s still very little bait around.
The Success, on a multi-day trip, had sixty wahoo and limits of tuna and dorado for eight anglers…Bob Hoyt.
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Zihuatanejo, Mainland Mexico
The clean water is only one or two miles off the beach, with the 84 degree deep blue water six to seven miles out. For the
eight to ten boats fishing every day, it does not matter if they choose the blue water or inshore, they are experiencing
some great fishing!
The boats are releasing between two and three sailfish a day each, and like last week, the counts would be higher if the
dorado wouldn't beat the sails to the baits: Each boat is also getting four to five of the twenty pound class dorado a day.
Inshore is just as exciting, especially using light line or a fly rod, with a lot of sierra, roosters, and jack crevalle. Adolfo, on
the panga, Dos Hermanos, said each day the boats are each getting between 12 to 15 of the smaller jacks (from two to
five pounds), five to six large roosters (averaging about 35 to 40 pounds), and as many of the smaller sierra as they want
for ceviche or evening dinner
The following is a quote sent to me on Wednesday by John Carroll of New York. He and his wife, Erika, fished with Luis
Maciel on the Gringo Loco.
“We had two great days---Monday and Tuesday. Monday we went out for billfish and caught four sails and two dorado.
Two sails were 90 to 100 pounds and two were juvenile. The dorado were small in the 10 to 15 pound range.

Because of the very calm weather, Luis suggested we go rooster fishing yesterday. Ran a good ways south, 30 miles by
my ‘guesstimate’, but the roosters were not there. Had one runoff on a live bait but lost it. Picked up one dorado at the
mouth of the bay on the way out and caught another five or six on the way back; same size fish with one larger one in the
25 pound class. Going offshore again tomorrow for billfish…will let you know that report before we leave on Monday.

Thanks again for hooking me up with Luis and Jorge. We're having a blast with them.”
Clients fishing with Mike Buckley and Francisco on the Huntress had a great day on Wednesday. They got fifteen yellowfin
tuna and two sailfish and they were back at the dock by noon.
Jose Pino, down at Puerto Vicente Guerrero, told me there are a lot of roosters on the beaches down there, and a lot of
dorado just a couple of hundred yards off the beach. We will be going for them tomorrow with the fly rods…Ed Kunze

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Cabo San Lucas
A black marlin was reported to have been caught on the Gordo Bank during the Western Outdoor News Tuna Tournament
that ended up weighing over 650 pounds. That was the only large billfish this week. Most of the action was on striped
marlin and a few sailfish. There were fish found scattered about all along the Pacific side with no strong concentrations
anywhere.
The big news on the tuna front was the capture of a yellowfin during the first day of the W.O.N. Tournament that weighed
383 pounds! That fish was a real toad and was reported to have been caught while fishing with a live bollito on the
surface at the Gordo Banks.
Dorado have slowed down a little overall, but a few boats are continuing to do extremely well when finding debris on the
surface. One boat found a dead turtle and loaded up on decent size dorado averaging 20 pounds. For the most part the
numbers are down - a good trip is five to ten fish and the average size is now down to 10 pounds. During the Tuna
Tournament there were only two dorado weighed in over 30 pounds.
The wahoo bite was good for the boats that targeted them and for everyone else it was an incidental catch. I have one
friend that managed to get 15 wahoo in three days, losing a lot more than that, with the largest one being 85 pounds.
During the Tuna Tournament the largest to come to the scales was 61 pounds.
It appears that the size of the roosterfish shrinks week by week. The week before last they were averaging 5 to 10
pounds and this past week anglers were lucky to get one that weighed 5 pounds. Other inshore fish have yet to really
arrive. There are a few sierras being caught and an occasional small yellowtail, but neither in any numbers. …George
and Mary Landrum
Current Cabo Weather AccuWeather.com - Ciudad Constitucion, MEXICO - Weather Forecast - Local Weather Forecasts ]]> Saltwater Fly Fishing bajafly http://www.bloodydecks.com/forums/saltwater-fly-fishing/167705-some-large-tuna-remain.html Fishing Report Wind for Some http://www.bloodydecks.com/forums/saltwater-fly-fishing/166863-wind-some.html Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:55:50 GMT Endless Season Update 11/1/2009
REPORT #1187 "Below the Border" Saltwater Fly-Fishing reports since 1996
East Cape
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Then there was the Magdalena Island beach which produced a memorable day of mixed catches.
October is over and hopefully we have seen the last of the Chubascos for 2009. The seasonal north winds have begun and the trick now is to pick the right days to fish or take up wind surfing.
On the good days, billfish and tuna (both football and some verging on gorilla class) can be located under the porpoise. Though according to Mark Rayor the porpoise have been tough to find and usually only the first few boats that find them are successful.
Rick Maxa, “Let’s Talk Hookup” co-host, passed along a good tip: try the ranger lures that we sometimes use as hookless teasers for jacks and roosters. If you get in front of a school of porpoise and don’t get a bite, try one; it seems that tuna cannot resist the Roberts Rangers . This is the perfect solution for the fly guys when attempting to keep the tuna on the surface long enough to get the fly in front of them.
There are still some quality dorado for the taking…mostly schoolies with a few toads up to fifty pounds mixed in.
The persistent wind waves have chewed up the beaches and left dirty water. However, the water clears up quickly when the wind subsides. Gary Barnes Webb, manager at Rancho Leonero, caught some quality roosters recently along the beach on the non-windy days.
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Magdalena Bay, Baja Mexico
While the marlin show began early this yea,r the September and October parade of storms seem to have pushed them out again. Consensus is the lack of bait is the reason; earlier there were baitballs everywhere, but unfortunately they have disappeared.
Boats traveling down the ridge reported excellent tuna and dorado fishing all the way down to the 23’s, then nothing on down to Santa Maria.
Some of the Loreto trailer boats are reporting fair to great wahoo action on the Thetis. Closer to shore, ten miles outside Boca Soledad, limits of tuna and dorado were a slam dunk.
Our recent Estero trip produced a steady bite of pargo, snapper, grouper, a few large snook lost and some “what the hell was that”?
Then there was the Magdalena Island beach which produced a memorable day of mixed catches.
Effective immediately Mexican fishing licenses may be purchased in Lopez Mateos without any hassle. They are available near the launch ramp from a Fonmar representative.
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Zihuatanejo, Mainland Mexico
The clean water is only one or two miles off the beach, with the 84 degree deep blue water six to seven miles out. For the eight to ten boats fishing every day, it does not matter if they choose the blue water or inshore; they are experiencing some great fishing.
The boats are releasing between two and three sailfish a day each, and like last week, the counts would be higher if the dorado wouldn't beat the sails to the baits: Each boat is also getting four to five of the twenty pound class dorado a day.
Inshore is just as exciting, especially using light line or a fly rod, with a lot of sierra, roosters, and jack crevalle. Adolfo, on the panga, Dos Hermanos, said the boats are each getting between 12 to 15 of the smaller jacks (from two to five pounds),five to six large roosters each day (averaging about 35 to 40 pounds), and as many of the smaller sierra as they want for ceviche or evening dinner..…Ed Kunze
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Cabo San Lucas
The striped marlin bite, as well as blue and black marlin bite, slowed this week. It may have something to do with the full moon. As the water cooled, we expected the big girls to slow down but the striped marlin should be picking up. Maybe soon the big groups will start to show. The fish that were caught were found on the Pacific side fairly close to the beach by boats looking for dorado. A few boats did all right, releasing two or three fish per trip, but we have not yet seen the numbers of fish as we have over the past three years.
Yellowfin were scattered, some fish were found as close as two miles from the lighthouse and others were out 30+ miles to the west. Almost all the fish were found with porpoise; there were a few unassociated schools found but it was hard to keep on the fish without the mammals to show you where they were headed. Most of the fish caught were football to school size fish, from 8 to 40 pounds with an occasional 60 to 80 pound fish in the mix. The few boats that got to the schools first did all right with an occasional larger fish to 130 pounds. At the end of the week the bite slowed down and the fish were harder to find.
The dorado bite was wide open early on. Boats were catching all they could handle and were releasing anything under 10 pounds. Later in the week the water started to cool and the bite slowed down. With the moon getting larger the bite moved to the afternoon as well so it often seemed that there were no more dorado around. Even with the slow bite late in the week, most of the boats were able to catch near-limits of fish averaging 12 pounds.
The full moon brought the wahoo bite back and there were more fish found late in the week than earlier in the week. Most of the fish averaged 30 pounds and were found near the points by boats working for dorado.
With the great water conditions most of the pangas were trying their best to put clients on the dorado and tuna early in the week. At the end of the week the morning boats returned to the near shore ground and targeted roosterfish, sierra and snapper. Most of the roosterfish were on the small size with an average of 10 pounds but there were some 30 to 40 pound-class fish found in the Cabo bay near the RIU resort beach. The sierra were small at an average of four pounds and were found farther up the Cortez side of the Cape. The main species of snapper found this week were the smaller yellowtail snapper along with a few cubera and barred pargo…George and Mary Landrum
Current Cabo Weather AccuWeather.com - Ciudad Constitucion, MEXICO - Weather Forecast - Local Weather Forecasts ]]> Saltwater Fly Fishing bajafly http://www.bloodydecks.com/forums/saltwater-fly-fishing/166863-wind-some.html San Diego Offshore Report 10/19/2009 http://www.bloodydecks.com/forums/saltwater-fly-fishing/165953-san-diego-offshore-report-10-19-2009-a.html Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:52:34 GMT I went out Monday 10/19 with Floyd Sparks (Tuna Kahuna). We headed south towards the 390 Bank (about 50 miles SSW of San Diego), but were not 100% sure where we would go from there. There were... I went out Monday 10/19 with Floyd Sparks (Tuna Kahuna). We headed south towards the 390 Bank (about 50 miles SSW of San Diego), but were not 100% sure where we would go from there. There were reports of albacore and big bluefin tuna out towards the Mushroom Bank, but that was another 30+ miles further west.

The water was mostly around 67.5 - 68 degrees and clean, with a small swell from the SSW, and a light breeze of 5 knots or so. We averaged about 25 mph all the way down to our starting point.

Weatherwise, air temps were great - maybe high 60's in the early AM, low-mid 70s during the rest of the day, but there was a heavy marine layer. We got maybe 20 minutes of sun, and much of that was in the afternoon when we were on our way back in.

Once we got near the 390 Bank, we put the trollers out, and headed south. We found several paddies along the edge of a cooler water band (around 65.5 degrees), but we saw only a solitary dorado, and hooked nothing. We weren't hearing any radio reports of fish on the Mushroom bank, so we decided to continue south towards the 450 Bank.

About this time, Floyd decided to go below to get some sleep, and said, "This is a guaranteed strike in 5 minutes, just wait". Well, he was a bit off. It took about 15 minutes, a double on some small skipjack. Not what we were looking for, so we continued on, and got another skipjack on the troll a few minutes later. Then nothing more until...

Right near the top of the 450, we found "the paddy". It was loaded with hungry yellowtail, mostly small fish in the 3 - 6 lb class, but with a few fish to 10 lbs mixed in. There were also a few dorado in the 10-12 lb class hanging around.

We broke out the fly rods, and had a great time, landing a dozen or more of these guys, releasing almost all of them. Blue-white or pale-green/white Sea Habits or Tuna Kahunas in smaller sizes (1/0, around 3"), sinking lines, and a fast strip did the job for us, but other things might have worked just as well.

As we drifted off the paddy, about 75 yards down-swell, we starting marking fish down around 70', so we cut up some sardines and started throwing chunks to bring the fish up. We had one person fishing conventional gear and maintaining the chunk stream, while the other person fly-fished.

The fish responded well, rising up in the chunk stream, and occasionally boiling on the surface. These were yellowfin tuna in the 10-15 lb range, with a few fish to 20 lbs mixed in, and Floyd managed to catch one bait fish that was close to 30. The flies seemed to do best dead-drifted or twitched occasionally.

Floyd was fishing a T&T 12 wt, while I rotated between the new Sea Level Fly Fishing Extreme rods (10 wt & 14 wt), and a TFO Mini-Magnum. We were using sinking shooting heads, 450 - 550 grains, and 12-20 lb test leaders.

Flies were mostly the same as what we used for the yellowtail, although the pale-green color seemed to get a few more hits, as did flies with less flash. Again, other styles might have worked just as well or better, but we didn't experiment much.

We made several drifts off the paddy, picking up a number of fish on each pass. Our last drift took over an hour, and ran almost two mile according to the GPS, with the fish hanging out below the boat almost all the way.

Unfortunately, when we turned around to make another drift, we were unable to find the paddy again. As best we could tell, the current was taking it up-swell and against the wind, but even after backtracking along the GPS trace, and circling the area for about a half hour, we couldn't find it.

On the other hand, it was about 2:30pm and time to head home. The wind had picked up to about 15 mph, and the swells were getting a bit larger (3' sets rolling thru occasionally), so the ride back was a bit bumpy, with the occasional face-shot of spray over the windshield. We made it back to Shelter Island by 4:30pm, just in time to fight trush-hour traffic home.

Floyd was probably most jazzed about completing a TYD Tournament slam. He managed Tuna, Yellowtail, and a Dorado on the fly. I was 2/3 of the way there, with Tuna and Yellowtail. I missed my dorado shot when one followed Floyd's fish back to the boat. Where were these fish in August during the tournament?
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