The weekend finishes on 35 species for the year so far

IN THE ZONE

This has been as crazy a season as I can ever remember. In the springtime we were catching fish that normally don't show here until summer. Wahoo, huge tuna and sailfish were plentiful. Now should be big tuna time but most tuna landed are in the 30 to 60 pound range. Don't get me wrong. They put up a battle and are fun to catch but not the trophy of a 100 plus pounder. This should also be blue marlin season but they have manage to elued me.

I fish a lot of days in a year and have been out there constantly. I haven't even seen a blue marlin this season. Haven't even been near another boat with one on. Admittedly, anglers whom we have had out wanted to focus on other species, so we haven't only targeted the blues that many days. We have spent a lot of time fishing in the zone on the high spot off La Ribera and the canyon off Punta Pescadero where the big blues roam. It is also not uncommon to hang a big blue marlin in schools of tuna. So far not for me. The La Paz Gold Cup is coming up the first week in September. I know they will bite sooner or later and am happy waiting until then.

Early this week we had some guests from Guadalajara staying at Palmas de Cortez that were here to visit their family in Los Barriles. Jorge and Jacob both landed their first marlin ever on Jen Wren III.

Bill Potter of Stuart, Florida with his family found outstanding fishing. Sailfish, tuna, dorado, roosterfish and pargo kept Bill, his father in-law Joe and sons in constant action.

Jorge with is first marlin

Quadruple hook up for the Potter family

The Potter's show off some nice yellowfin

Diego wishes he could of come up with this one in last weeks tournament

8 year old Willy and 11 year old Ryan "Ryno" Potter with one of many dorado they landed

Even little Addison got in the action on her 4th birthday

Willy lands his first rooster fish

This pargo gave Ryno a battle

On the hook clean up at the end of the day Chuy's nephew Roberto and Jen Wren deck hand Diego managed to land a nice dinner.

Mark Rayor

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Times are good....

The fishing has been really good on the last set of good tides and we are still getting reports of good bass fishing over the current neap tides, moving into another set of springs this weekend with the wind in the South West the rocks should well produce some good fishing this weekend.

Due to the demand from our customers we are currently working on the online shop which should be up and running within the next couple of weeks, due to large amount of lures, soft plastics, rods, reels, braid etc you can understand it is taking a while to get everything up, but we are getting there.

Here is a small snippet of what the online shop will look like, with hundreds of products from all the popular brands it will be your one stop online lure shop....

Tight lines....

Fish Fight Update

Just watched the follow up C4 program on Hugh's Fish Fight and it seems amazing progress has been made with trying to change the Common fisheries Policy on discards, along with the fishing policies of fish processors and also trying to encourage consumption of a wider range of species rather than the old favorites of Cod Salmon & Tuna by the general public. Surely this can only be a good thing if we want to protect fish stocks, just hope it doesn't put pressure those in power to look at our Bass as an alternative.

Feedback to the above............

Sea Bass in Spain is highly prized and is eaten, and has been for many years. This is why myself and others don’t generally publish where we fish them. Sea Bass is bought at about 30€ a kilo in summer and only a couple of days ago a boat came in to port with over 20 tonnes! I’m sorry to say that it won’t be long before it starts fetching these prices in England and Ireland, so be prepared. The technique which is mostly used and criticised is called “embalo”. This involves setting up nets and then the fishermen go out in small boats close up to the coast and bang away at the water with their oars thus scarring the Bass and driving them toward the nets. Sorry to be the bringer of bad news but I thought you should know. Enjoy your catches while they last.

Colin and JH

Yesterday morning I guided a Father and Son, Colin and JH. I've guided a lot of father son combo's but this one was truly inspirational. Colin truly wanted the day to be about JH and it was just so cool to see this dad completely do everything he could to make the day fun for JH. The water was a little high and the rigs were just a little to bulky for JH to try and cast, so Colin let or at

least offered, to let JH reel in every fish. He also took his photo's and let him net and release the fish! It was a special day for both father and son and I was glad to be a part of the memories they will both keep forever!

Karrey and Robert

Saturday morning I had two new clients, Karry and Robert. The COE turned the water on early so the water was high and the fish were a little finicky at first, but after some tweaking of the rigs, we found some flies they just couldnt resist. Karrey caught this nice brown and it was icing on the cake for him. The boys had boated close to 50 fish by noon..not to shabby for fishing high water, huh?

Hoppers and Streamers!

Friday I fished with Matthew Owen. We got an early start and wanted to chuck some streamers. We saw gobs of fish and they were willing to eat! I bet we saw 5 fish over 20 inches swing on our fly. We didn't land any monsters but certainly landed a handful of quality fish. As the day went on we decided to switch over to hoppers! Matthew managed to stick foam in quite a few trout! In my opinion fishing streamers and hoppers are two of the most exciting ways to catch trout! What a great day to be on the water!