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And the Big Fish Just Keep Coming
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]REPORT FROM GARY GRAHAM'S BAJA ON THE FLY:[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]PROVIDING QUALITY SALTWATER FLY-FISHING 365 DAYS A YEAR IN BAJA[/size][/font]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: bajafly@usa.net; USA toll-free (800) 919-2252;[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Mexico 011-52-624-14-10373[/size][/font]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Sat., Feb. 08, 2003[/size][/font]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]EAST CAPE, MAGDALENA BAY AND ZIHUATANEJO CONDITIONS[/size][/font]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]EAST CAPE, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO[/size][/font]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]IN GENERAL: Winds are still on-again, off-again with the last few days being[/size][/font]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]The unseasonable bite continues to be the big news with good-sized tuna and[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]dorado caught close to shore and on almost every trip the boats make.[/size][/font]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]AIR & SEA -[/size][/font]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Water temperature 69-73[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Air temperature 61°-79°[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Humidity about 88%[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Wind Calm[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Conditions Clear[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Visibility 15 miles[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Sunrise 6:53 a.m. MST[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Sunset 6:11 p.m. MST[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Feb. 9 First Quarter Feb. 16 Full Feb. 23 Last Quarter Mar. 2 New[/size][/font]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]· OFFSHORE: Wow! The dorado and tuna just keep coming.[/size][/font]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]· INSHORE: Plenty of sierra to keep everyone flinging flies.[/size][/font]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]· BEACH: Tough, with the early morning being the best. Find the sardina[/size][/font]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]that will undoubtedly equal sierra and jacks[/size][/font]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]BILLFISH - Lots of tailers reported, but few biters.[/size][/font]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]YELLOWFIN TUNA - Look out. These are not the football variety.[/size][/font]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]DORADO - Most of the fish are above average in size.[/size][/font]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]ROOSTERFISH - Look for birds diving on bait balls.[/size][/font]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]JACK CREVALLE - A lot of five pounders that think they are 20-pounders.[/size][/font]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]BARRILETE OR MEXICAN SKIPJACK - Forget 'em. Go look for tuna and dorado![/size][/font]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]PARGO AND CABRILLA - This is the time of year you may find a few around the[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]rocky points[/size][/font]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]SIERRA - Just before sunup or late afternoon on the calm days is the best[/size][/font]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]MAGDALENA BAY, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO[/size][/font]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Sat., Feb. 08, 2003[/size][/font]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]IN GENERAL: More and more whales arriving at the entrada every day and they[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]should begin to move into the bay. There has been a fair yellowtail bite a[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]mile or so outside the entrada with a few fish reaching the mid-teens. All[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]the rock structure on Magdalena Island from the entrada to Belchers is[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]holding tonnage of spotted bay bass with an occasional leopard grouper to[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]keep it interesting. At Belcher, there has been a consistent halibut bite in[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]shallow water and on the North side of the point the sierra have been[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]showing early morning.[/size][/font]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Water Temperature 67-71[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Air Temperature 59°-80°[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Humidity 92%[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Wind Calm[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Conditions Mostly Cloudy[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Visibility 3 miles[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Sunrise 7:03 a.m. MST[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Sunset 6:16 p.m. MST[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Feb. 9 First Quarter Feb. 16 Full Feb. 23 Last Quarter Mar. 2 New[/size][/font]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]YELLOWTAIL - Best bet is out a mile outside the entrada in deep water.[/size][/font]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]CORVINA – Well, it was great for the last two months, but is beginning to[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]slow[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]down.[/size][/font]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]SNOOK - Only an occasional one. Next month should be better with the[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]lessening tides. IGFA has created a new category for Pacific snook, so there[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]could be a few world records in Magdalena Bay's future and maybe yours.[/size][/font]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]HALIBUT - Usually the sandy beaches are best, but we have been getting a few[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]up in the esteros.[/size][/font]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]SIERRA - Punta Belcher is pretty good right now.[/size][/font]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]ZIHUATANEJO, MAINLAND MEXICO[/size][/font]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Please note the date. We are only providing weekly reports for this area.[/size][/font]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Sat., Feb. 08, 2003[/size][/font]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]IN GENERAL: The 80º blue water is still on the beach. With the 86º daytime[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]temperatures, we want a little breeze when we are out on the water, but the[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]seas are almost dead calm.[/size][/font]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Even though the fishing for sailfish is not considered wide open, we are[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]getting all of the game fish species, (with the exception of wahoo; none[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]were caught this last week). The 100-pound plus tuna are within the 15 mile[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]mark, with lots of schools of the smaller tuna. Most boats are averaging 2[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]to 3 sailfish a day and several large blue marlin were hooked this week. A[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]couple of 20-pound class dorado are still being caught by almost every boat[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]going out. The roosterfish are providing some great near shore action[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]because they are averaging about 35-pounds.[/size][/font]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]While fly-fishing for sailfish with David Gilbertson of Phoenix, Ariz.,a[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]huge blue[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]marlin came up and (literally) ate my green and black hookless teaser. We[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]got a good look at the fish and we estimated her a little over 400-pounds.[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]The teaser rod I was using only had a Shimano TLD 25 with 40-pound line and[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]a 100-pound leader, but the marlin cut the pound leader like it was thread.[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Dave did manage to hook a nice sail on the fly after I switched to a dorado[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]belly strip for the teaser bait. We are averaging one sailfish a day on the[/size][/font]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Gene Chiders from Houston, fishing with Captain Poli on the “Don Gordo,” got[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]a nice blue marlin weighing out at 375 pounds. Gene and his fishing partner[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Jerry Colapret also released 11 sails and 4 roosterfish in their 5 days of[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]fishing. Rich Lowther, also of Houston, fished with Rueben on the “Vamonos[/size][/font]

[size 3][font "Times New Roman"] I” and released 19 sails in 5 days of fishing.[/font][/size]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Don Alley, fishing with Captain Arturo on the panga “Whisky III” got a[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]couple of very nice roosterfish and a bluefin trevally estimated at about[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]15-pounds. Trevally are more common in the Western Pacific with a few caught[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]in Baja, but are very rare to our part of the coastline. Don fished with[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Arturo for three days and also took several sailfish and several dorado to[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]50-pounds.[/size][/font]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Bill Berg of North Dakota, escaping the ice and snow of the upper Midwest,[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]fishing with Santiago on the panga “Gitana” had a great day with two small[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]yellowfin tuna, another of about 120 pounds, and 4 sailfish (tagged and[/size][/font]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Water Temperature 82º[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Air Temperature 64°-86º[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Humidity 61%[/size][/font]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Conditions Clear[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Sunrise 7:13 a.m. CST[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Sunset 6:45 p.m. CST[/size][/font]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]First Quarter Feb. 9 Full Feb. 16 Feb. 23 Last Quarter Mar. 2 New[/size][/font]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]For more Information on Baja on the Fly's Zihuatanejo trips, go to:[/size][/font]

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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]-- Zihuatanejo Report by Baja on the Fly's Ed Kunze[/size][/font]

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