Sea of Corterz, East Cape-Summertime fish

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No footballs, no dinks. This spring has been all about quality not quantity.

Last week tuna fishing just started to get in gear when the winds came up and made it impossible for boats to travel outside to the tuna grounds. Yesterday the wind subsided and the tuna fishing picked up right where it had left off. Most fish have been between 30 and 100 pounds. Normally spring brings smaller football sized tuna and the larger fish start to show as summer approaches. Not this year! It has been straight summertime sized fish. Something odd, is that the tuna are traveling with bottlenosed and not the white sided dolphin. As the sea temp warms, Spotted and Spinner dolphin should show and that is when it really goes ballistic.

Large schools of summertime sized dorado have also shown up under patches of sargasso grass and are cooperating with anglers. None of those little spring time schoolies, these fish are bending rods and anglers are getting their moneys worth.

Billfish are also in the game. Huge schools of greenback mackerel have shown up near Punta Pescadero and the striped marlin are on the attack.



The thrill of hooking your first marlin



Brothers Matt and Bone had that thrill fishing Jen Wren III this week







Both boys release their first striped marlin.






Between marlin and dorado the action never seemed to stop...




Until a pod of orcas showed up. That shut the bite down.



This turtle didn't care.


Mark Rayor
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