From the watery desk of Mark Daugherty
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| Aftermath of a wide open tuna bite |
Here's a recap from the last few weeks on the East Cape. Weather on the East Cape has been consistent in the low 90s, and perfect nights with a light breeze. We had some wind a few weeks back but everything has settled down and the tuna bite took off. Although we had to make an hour to run down to the Iman Bank, we were rewarded with wide open bites when we arrived. Tuna were biting none stop on sardinas and bait was plentiful. Remember to bring that 20 and 30 flourocarbon, and plenty of size 1 and 1/0 bait hooks.
We also had a steady bite on the blue marlin with two clients taking blues on trolling lures. The magic color has been purple/black for lures for both billfish and dorado. A large school of striped marlin and sailfish have been actively taking lures about 10 miles off of Rancho Leonero.
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| Blue marlin on the move after being hooked |
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| Healthy blue marlin ready to be released |
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| Brutus from Makaira Pulling Lures = the hot blue marlin lure |
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| Suzie with a very nice sailfish |
Buena pesca,
Mark
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