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Marlin at Catalina! by Steve Lassley |
- By Steve Lassley
- Published 06/3/2009
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Youtube link with photo slides at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doMeZIo1flg
We departed Saturday afternoon at 2:30 and were back home Monday by 6. We found a load of Marlin, and Sailfish. Yep, we were back in Baja. Staying at Robert Ross's Beautiful home in Puerto De San Cosme. Robert knew we were needing a fishing fix, BAD. We readily accepted and came up with a quick game plan.
There were 7 of us total. Anthony, Jimmy, Leonard, Aramando, Rod, Ali (from Bloodydecks) and myself. 5 of the guys got on the plane at John Wayne, Ali and I got on at Palomar.
After a short 2 hour flight and a quick boat ride to the house we arrived in paradise. The beauty of this place is stunning. Magical, really. The mountains, Islands and Ocean all together with the afternoon sun.......spectacular.
We wee treated like royalty by Roberts full time staff, honestly they don't want to even let you get your own bottle of water without handing it to you. Silvario made us some insane fish tacos, homemade salsa and tortillas and a killer salad. A few laughs when we found a scorpion and teased Leonard with it and off to bed.
I think if I stayed there , like a month I would put on 20 or so pounds. 6:30 am the best Huevos Rancheros and refrieds of all times. Finally going fishing.
I really didn't have any fish dope. It was all 10 days old. Down here that might as well have been last season as the water is changing so much this time of year, it's amazing watching the movement. I looked at a couple stones in 2 different areas for Yellows where we had caught them good the previous year. I couldn't find any andthere was very little bait. The water hot was hot, between 80 and 85 degrees. The lack of bait bothered me more than the lack of Yellows so I decided with our limited time schedule to focus on Marlin and Dorado. If we could find any. When you fish down here you are the ONLY boat out.
Within 5 minutes Jimmy found the first one. It didn't bite. Neither did the next 20 or so. Jimmy finally went way down in leader size and we started hangin.
I was getting nervous as we didn't have a fish until maybe 3 o'clock. Between 3 and 5 I think we caught 5 Marlin, 2 Sailfish and a Dorado. These are not the typical Baja Stripey's. These are thick bodied, well fed, beautiful fish. Gorgeous.
We left the Marlin area super early and went to where the Yellows had bit in the late afternoon a couple weeks ago. Not a fish. Bummer. We went back had dinner and got ready for the next day. I finally got a SST shot. Plotted it out and was ready for our final half day of fishing.
I headed back to where we had ended up the previous day. We found a number of Marlin on the way as well as losin a Sailfish. Steady sleepers all morning long. As soon as it dried up I took off for the break I found on Ocean Imaging. It was about a 20 mile move. I should have left sooner but didn't know if it was holding. It was. Marlin, Sailfish and we even saw a Wahoo.
I think we saw probably a couple hundred Marlin and Sails, got to cast at most of them.
I don't know why the Dorados wouldn't bite we must have seen 60 or 80 of these, maybe Ballyhoo would have done it. Only 1 jig strike in a day and half. Anyway we were back at the Loreto Airport by 3 and home by 6. Whirlwind trip, but what a blast.
Thanks so much Robert. Team BC
1 Response to "Marlin at Catalina! by Steve Lassley" 
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said this on 03 Jun 2009 2:52:56 PM PDT
I had a GREAT time!
Thanks so much for hauling me along! You guys have the marlin game down to a science. I learned a ton (like I need gyros). Thanks. Ali |

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