Matthew's first Bass.

Visiting angler from the UK Matthew Norman, age 10, landed this fish ten minutes in to his first ever Bass fishing trip and sportingly decided to return it to the sea
after a quick photo call. Well done Matthew!

Elephant in the room

No matter how you slice it the fishing during this years East Cape Bisbee was dismal. 62 boats fishing 3 long days and only managed to bring one qualifying blue marlin over 300 pounds to the scales. Until after lines out on the third day not even one short fish was weighed. That tells me not another fish even close to 300 pounds was brought to leader.

Dorado and tuna fishing was also poor. The largest dorado weighed was 47 pounds. On the second day a 33 pound dorado won the daily jack pot. I'm reading all the hoop da la about what a great tournement it was and scratching my head. Yes, I enjoy all the excitement of fishing a big tournament as much as the next guy. Part of that excitment was deflated by the lack of action. All that can be said is, that's fishing. The East Cape is a phenomenal fishery and hopefully will show more of what it has to offer at next years tournament.

On a bright note Buena Vista Beach Resort and the Valdez brothers were excellent hosts and did an outstanding job accomodating tournament participants and spectators.

I do want to make one more observation about the tournament before moving to other fishing action this week. It seems to me that there's an elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about. At last years tourney it was made clear that the use of circle hooks with bait would be mandatory this year. I'm not a fan of the circles and was reluctant. I do like the thrill of the competition so decided to enter the contest. As the rules of the tournament were explained at the captains meeting it was not clear what Wayne Bisbee was saying about the deployment of circle hooks. After a bunch of double talk I finally asked the question. "If we bring a dorado to the scale with a J hook hanging out of it's mouth will it be disqualified?" Waynes answer was, "No, you can catch tuna and dorado with a J hook and they will not be disqualified." Now I am more confused than ever. The Bisbees Off Shore Tournaments are kill tournaments. You don't win if you don't kill the biggest fish. Now it is mandatory to use a circle hook when baiting a marlin but not when baiting other game fish? I just don't get it.....

What are they thinking?

This week, George Gavallos showed up with some of his family and friends. When George fishes with us they always bite. This guy has good Karma and this year was no exception. First day out his request was some fish for the cooler and they bagged 14 yellowfin to 40 pounds and released a sailfish. Second day they filled our fish box with tuna again and came in early. Today was planned to be a lady and kids day. Before 8AM the kids had all the action they could handle including several roosterfish. While they retired to our air conditioned parlor George couldn't stand it so we went out and smacked the tuna one more time.

Kevin is thinking he might have a contender

Team Jen Wren thought they had it until the last fish was weighed

Cassandra fishing team Jen Wren III had the 2nd largest dorado on day two.

George havin a good time

The roosterfish cooperated for the kids.

The thrill of catching your first rooster. This young man will never forget it.

Show the kids a good time when they are young and they will love fishing forever.

Senior Gavallos with a nice tuna while his grandson fights another

Thanks for the good times

Mark Rayor

www.thejenwren.com

www.vistaseasport.com
markrayor.blogspot.com

Pisces Weekly Fish Report July 23rd to July 29th, 2011

Overall Catch Success Rate 90%

BILLFISH: Hot, hot, hot, hot, this week felt like popcorn in the microwave, one more degree and we would have gone puff! The “storm” we had scheduled for last week didn’t bring anything but heat and little bit of wind on the 23^rd so the authorities decided to close the port that day leaving nothing but frustrated fisherman as the seas were perfectly fit for fishing. Anyway, we had a great start this week, we saw a lot of tuna and dorado flags and a few billfish. “Tracy Ann” released one pacific sailfish estimated at 100lbs and a striped marlin at 140lbs and landed 2 dorados, one of them of 44lbs for our good friends Leocadio Perez and Whadzen Carrasquillo from Puerto Rico. Then on the 26^th “Tracy Ann” caught a 180lbs Blue, 3 tunas, one dorado and released a striped marlin for Michael McKown from Star, ID and Rick Martin from Neenah, WI. Hold on ladies, its Rick, not Ricky Martin. The next day “Ruthless” caught a 250lbs Blue for Tim Dold from Annapolis MD, also released a striped marlin and landed one Dorado and one tuna for his father David Dold. This week 40% of the boats caught billfish, a total of 10 striped marlin, 8 were released, 3 pacific sailfish, all released and 2 blue marlin were kept by the clients.

OTHER SPECIES: Very good week for dorado, 77% of the boats caught at least one, best caches were for “La Brisa” with 7 Dorados between 12-16lbs for Steve Murray and Paul Smulhante from Los Angeles, CA, and for the “C-ROD” with 7 dorados 15-20lbs and 8 skipkacks for the Gallardo Family from Mexico City. Tuna catches droped a little with only 37% of the fleet catching this specie, however we had some nice catches, on the 24^th “Adriana” landed 14 yellowfin between 20-30lbs for Kraig Willett from San Diego, CA, can’t imagine how many BBQ’s he’s gonna throw at home. On the inshore, pangas were catching roosterfish, skipjack, dorado and few yellowfin tuna.

LOCATION: Fish seem to be scattered, boats were fishing from Destiladeras at San Jose del Cabo, all the way to Golden Gate at the Pacific Side. Hot spots in between were Herradura, Chileno Bay, 95spot, Los Arcos, Morro Prieto.

WEATHER CONDITIONS: Hot and sunny.

AVERAGE WATER TEMP: 81 to 83F

BEST LURES: Purple lures, live bait, cedar plugs.

Based on the catches of Pisces by Tracy Ehrenberg & Jorge Narro

Bass on the Z Claw

I took the opportunity to the throw a few lures for an hour or so within the club match at the weekend. The Zenith Z claw really is a cracking lure with a smashing wide lazy walk when worked properly. The fish seemed to be interested in it when it was stationary or with the slightest of movements after a short walk. The Bass action was as good as it got with only some predictable dogfish turning up as darkness fell.

Few fish about...

The fishing is good at the moment and there have been some great reports of good numbers of fish coming to the lures in darkness, and with Ger smashing a nice double yesterday morning on the Jackson Athlete 140 the next couple of days will be interesting with the tides starting to fall back off the springs and the wind in the South West its certainly looking good as long as you can get away from weed which is making some marks very difficult to fish.

Heres some pics of some new colours in the popular IMA lures and we have also got in some Jackson lures....

Limited edition Komomo

SF 125

Molmo

Pugachev Cobra

Jackson Artist (sinking)

And here are the very popular Jackson Athletes, we have both 140s and 120s in both floating and sinking...

Tight lines.

Up A Lazy River

THE ELBOWS DESCEND

The Bears Persist

please park safely

TIE ONE ON !

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.. It's not your typical postcard idyll on the Gallatin River these days. In fact it's become a damn dangerous circus.

GREAT FISH FOOD

.. Cars, trucks, buses, motorpickles, dune buggy's, screaming bicycle riders, and bear jam congestion's are all on the roadway.
.. The river has finally come into it's own. You can fish all day and score with just a simple rig. A size 10 Elk Hair Caddis up top followed by a size 12 or 14 Prince Nymph 12" down on the point. You will catch fish.
.. There are PMD's that confuse the picture just before any clouds descend, (rare right now,) and spruce moths are beginning their dance in earnest. Two years ago at this time we were singing the virtues of hoppers. Well, this year, the little pogo sticks are about a week or ten days away from being our first pick.

THE PLACE

.. There are a few bears visiting the haunts of our neighborhood fishers. The Fan Creek bear is a cinnamon colored black bear that is curious and hangs out even in the presence of fishing parties and trail riders. This bear has been up the Gallatin River along the Bighorn Trail as well as along Fan Creek.
.. A small grizzly bear is causing traffic jams near Specimen Creek and the meadows below the road and the narrow canyon above the road. The annual visitation of the large black bear around Black Butte is also becoming a regular occurrence.

HAND CARRY

.. Fish with a friend or two. Sing ribald songs, tell dirty jokes, laugh and guffaw with gusto.
.. Make your presence known and by all means carry your bear spray in your hand.
.. There has already been one death-by-bear in Yellowstone National Park this year. Try not to become the second.
.. The Madison River is beginning to see some small hopper action along with a sparse but persistent PMD hatch. Caddis is still king along the big water and foam lines. Some of the fish are taking small brownish nymphs such as the Shop Vac.

BUBBLEBACK EMERGER

.. The folks down at Galloup's Slide Inn have a variation on the Pheasant Tail Nymph that is becoming popular with some of the neighbors. It's called "Trina's Bubbleback Emerger." Most of the neighbors use it as a dropper fly for general searching. It's pretty good early in the hatch as well.
.. The bear is still on the Mary Mountain Trail along Nez Perce Creek. So too, are the fish. This river is seeing better fishing than we've seen in a few years. Sage philosophers allow that this may be because a lot of Firehole River fish 'ran-up' the creek early during the monster high water phase last month. Could be.
.. What ever the case may be, they are still behaving like Nez Perce Creek Fish: Attractor dry flies and yummy-looking terrestrial imitations are working just fine. Even grasshoppers!

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AS CLOSE AS WE WANT TO BE !!

Personal Best Wrasse on the Soft Plastics!

So i know i have been focusing on the Mullet for a week now, and i have had 6 in total - 1 Thick Lipped and 5 Golden Grey's up to 1lb 10oz. But awaiting on the photos to do those reports.

Here is Ritchie with his first ever Mullet (he is hooked on Mullet fishing already)

Saturday morning i was awake by 5am went for a mullet till around 9am just getting annoyed watching this nice Thick Lipped eat every bit of bread but mine!

I Needed a break from the Mulleting! Headed down to one of my favorite marks and first cast of my soft plastic and my rod bent double oh god with was a big fish! after a great hard fight by the Wrasse i got it in the net! This is the time i have no camera or lure forum tape measure.

Found a nice rock pool for it to lie in whilst i got the phone out and made a few calls luckily Peter Haworth was the man who popped down! So here are the pictures of the 5lb 8oz Wrasse:

Here is a close up Shot :)

And finally a ruler shot (53cm)

I had 9 more wrasse another of 4lb 3oz and x3 Pollack up to 1lb 9oz

Later on ,or tomorrow i shall hopefully do a post with Bass, Mullet & Gilthead Bream