November, 25 2009 Fishing Report
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
With December fast approaching; yesterday’s bite is the reason why I enjoy fishing so much this time of year. We had a late start due to the fact that we had some travel agents checking out the lodge. One of our boats from the previous day found a school of porpoises and was able to catch 3 tuna in the 30lb range and one dorado.
Louis was our captain we also had on board Ryan who works at the lodge as one of our bartenders and my friend Barry. We headed 20 miles due west. On our way out we came across some floating logs with birds diving. A large school of dorado were feeding. We started working the area with live bait. They had no interest what so ever in our baits so we started trolling. We hooked a double right away. I ran to the front of the boat and started throwing a popper with my spinning rod. A few seconds, hook up. It was 8:30am and we already had dinner on board. We trolled around and caught 3 more fish. Our mission was to catch tuna so we decided to leave the bite. Which was hard to do. We ran another 4 miles and came across a small school of porpoises. As we approached the most amazing spectacle of 100lb+ tuna were breaching the water they were chasing bait ahead of the porpoise school. At this time I got very excited today might be the day that I catch my first 200lb+ tuna. We stopped short and put our baits in. The tuna were down the porpoises were very skittish and would not let us get close to them. This made it very hard to hook a tuna. We worked the area for a while hoping that the tuna would come up. Unfortunately they did not. So we pulled up our lines and went out in search of another school. After a 20-minute run we came across a school of spinner porpoises. Spinners are the best for catching tuna since they are not boat shy. We started working the area every ten minutes or so the tuna would come up to feed. After a few tries with live bait Ryan start casting a Yo-Zuri popper and hooked a nice 60lb tuna. He fought it for 45 minute and had it to the surface. This was Ryan’s first tuna. We stayed with the school for another 45 minutes and decided to go back to where we caught our dorado’s ealier. We found the spot there were many bird circling and feeding. We started trolling and after 5 minutes a small marlin was in the spread he hit the lure on the corner of the boat. I grabbed the rod and pulled the hook. The Marlin started to run but after a few minutes he was off. We continued work the area and caught a sailfish and two nice sized dorado’s.
What a great day of fishing. We sill have plenty of room in December so give me a call if you are interested in coming down.
