Fresh Buenavista Fishing Reports

Last friday, we took out Larry Pierce and man we had a blast. Larry first for his first time with us on Monday, but that day was a very hard one, we only had one marlin bite, we could find the tuna, it was windy, green and cold water, rough and boring to make it short. So I decided to give him a deal for a second opportunity and he accepted. So he went out again on friday, and what a recovery. He ended up landing 17 tunas (many release as he was by himself) and 1 striped marlin. Lots of sashimi that day. It was a long run, as we ended up at 45 miles away, but totally worth it.

A week later from El Cardonal tourney, we set up to travel in one of our fleet boat Eclipse 91 across the Sea of Cortez to Topolobampo, Sinaloa. Hanna Shayota from San Diego CA, The Peraltas, father and son from Cabo, both of them Captains and one of the best down in Cabo San Lucas, David Ceseña, Miguel Sandez crew of Eclipse 91 and myself. This is a 2 day tournament, that pays out per day, and overall. On our first day, we were not sharp, we had 10 marlin bites and we lost them all. So we were a little dissapointed as we didnt presented anything to weight station on Day 1. But on Day 2 we were on it, 6-6 on Striped Marlin and 1-1 on Sailfish. We were able to come in with 2 qualifying fish, giving us 1st and 2nd place on Day 2, with a total earning of $290,000 pesos. Great experience to cross the Sea of Cortez, there is so much life out there that is incredible. If you are interested on doing something like, please let me know, and we can try to work something out.

3rd Tournament of the year for us, after winning La Ribera with the 50+ lb yellowfin tuna, we went north to Puerto Escondido, next to Loreto. Fished the 1st Robert Ross FT, with no luck, just a Yellowtail that we presented on the first day. We hurried up to come back to the East Cape, to be here ready to fish the El Cardonal Annual Fishing Tournament. With a participation of 50+ teams. We decided to make a big run to where good sized tuna where starting to show up. After picking up sardines, we travel almost 40 miles to get there, as nobody had sardines there, only us, we were able to chum a lot and lift them up from the bottom. We hooked up right away with this nice 48 lb tuna, and start heading back to the weight station. Trying to get a marlin or dorado to be in all categories, we released a small striped marlin, and beside that no luck. When we arrive to weight station a 104 lb tuna was just been weighted. Obviously they won the category, but for our luck, they were not in the jackpots, so we end up getting $26,000 pesos, not bad for a hard day of work.

We fished our first tournament of the year, this past Easter in La Ribera BCS. The tournament had 4 categories: Yellowtail, Dorado, Tuna and Wahoo. We decided to head towards the island and fish the banks there, it was a 40 mile run, but worth it. We hooked up on this yellowfin tuna, that weighted 58.4 lbs to make it the biggest fish of the tournament. Followed by the wahoo that was beaten by a 37lb and finally landed a small dorado, that was the only one presented at the weight station but it was 1 lb short of the minimum. Very good overall day giving us the title of champions and a $2000 usd prize money and a ticket for the State championship.