It was an
up and down week on the East Cape.
Started off a little slow with some Striped Marlin, some football size
tuna, small dorado and a couple of roosters coming in each day. It wasn’t bad fishing, just wasn’t
great. On Tuesday, Ben Lasater from
Fort Worth Texas landed the fish of the year so far. Fishing out of Hotel Playa Del Sol on
board the 28’ Cruiser Miss Petunia, Ben landed a 197lbs. yellowfin tuna
(pictured below). While fighting
the monster tuna, the rod snapped and they were forced to hand line the tuna for
almost an hour. Congratulations to
the Lasater family on landing the fish of a life time.
The rest of
the week was up and down with some boats landing a few nice dorado in the 25lbs.
range, but we saw more under 25lbs. than we saw over 25lbs. Outside of the 197# tuna, most of the
others were under 30lbs., with a couple of 50lbs. and one 80lbs. tuna. Keith Davis of Commerce Township
Michigan landed a nice dorado while fishing on the super panga siboney, as did
the boys from the Pro Angler tournament from Orange California fishing on the
cruiser Amante (picture below).
We are
still seeing some striped marlin with most boats have shots at more than a half
dozen per day, but sometimes they just don’t bite. Most boats came in with 1-3 billfish
flags flying, but all of them said they say many others that just didn’t
bit. We would like to give a big
shout out to the 42nd annual Pro Angler tournament led by Dan
Bohannon. The group of nearly 30
anglers started fishing today and will be here throughout the weekend. Van Wormer Resorts would like to thank
the Pro Anglers for all the years they have come down to fish with us. We wish you all the best this
weekend.
That is it for this week
amigos!
Eddie Dalmau/Baja’s Van
Wormer Resorts
