Hola Amigos,
This past week on the East Cape has been as good as it gets in terms of billfish. Boats continue to find mass amounts of billfish, mostly during the morning and late afternoon bite. From what I can tell from talking with captains, the fishing is a little better to the north of Palmas De Cortez. This week was the Roy Clark Billfish Tournament and it was the best tournament this group has ever had in 12 years. Most of the boats that fished the tournament and targeted billfish came back with 4-12 billfish per day consisting of sailfish and striped marlin. The Billfighter ended up taking the tournament, with Mi Pistola taking second and Julkate taking third. The winners of the tournament were David and Mary Scott of Southern California. I was on the dock yesterday when the Scott’s arrived with 11 billfish caught and released. Congratulations to the Scott family on an incredible 4 days of fishing.
We also had the Dark of the Moon tournament which ended on Friday and they too had some incredible fishing. A total of 18 Cruisers fished this event and caught 80 big game fish: 1 Yellow Fin tuna, [the first of the year], 2 Wahoo - 1 Mako shark - 14 Dorado - 20 Sail Fish - 42 Marlin. Dan Neidlinger, Phoenix Arizona and his grandson, Dallas Powell, LaPorte, Iowa took home Top Team Trophies and cash, catching 12 Marlin, 1 Sail Fish and that 1st Tuna in 2 days of fishing. Dallas was a "Rookie Angler", never having caught a Bill Fish prior to this his first trip. He was the Top Rookie for this event and took home the Trophy to LaPorte, Iowa.
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Right after the Dark of the Moon tournament departed, the International Roosterfish tournament arrived at Playa Del Sol. Their tournament is still on going, but I did see that yesterday the boat “Amante” had landed 10 roosters and another boat had landed 5 roosters. It appears that they are off to a great start.
The dorado bite continues to improve as well with some boat landing as many as a 12 dorado in a day. These are not small fish either, we are talking about 30-53 pound dorados that came in this week. Today the El Loco I caught the largest of the week which was weighed at the dock at 53lbs. We are also have an above average wahoo bite with 1-3 wahoo coming in each day this week and they have been around now for over a month. We saw our first Yellowfin Tuna of the season weighing in at 9lbs., but we have not seen another this week. Some of the other species that we saw this week included cabrilla, pargo, pompano, and jack crevalle. Air temps have been in the low 90’s and water temps are just about to hit 80. Fishing couldn’t be better, so make your plans to join us soon.
Until next week!
Eddie Dalmau
Baja’s Van Wormer Resorts
