It’s Fishing Time Again!
I always enjoy every year when May rolls around. The big fish move in to feed and the excitement is incredible! This year we’ve had sail fish, blue, black and white marlin as well as the tasty mahi-mahi, also know as dorado here in Mexico, all on the line. I have had half and full day trips this year, all yielding anywhere from 5 -7 fish. We also have been catching the usual reef runners like barracuda and wahoo. I recently had a couple friends from Boulder, Colorado along with a friend from Mahahaul out on the boat for morning fishing. In the morning we started out catching a couple barracuda, and later in the morning we ran into a school of dorados. At one time we had three dorados on the lines, but we only landed one. The other two crossed their lines and got off. Ugh! Total catch for the day was 3 barracuda and 2 dorado.
On another full day trip with two couples from Breckenridge, Colorado, we had caught three barracuda in the morning. Around noon we pulled inside a barrier reef inside Punta Maroma to enjoy our Java Joes sandwiches and do a little snorkelling. Once the group had tuckered out from swimming around the reef we decided to get back in the boat throw out the lines and this time land a big one! As we motored out to sea Miguel, the captain, and I noticed that all the other fishing boats went in for the day. About that time we noticed a frigit sailing about 500 feet over the cantil wall not far from us. We sped the boat up and slowed down as we began to circle underneath the frigit and within minutes we had two dorados on the lines. Now a funny thing, on the trip one of the girls, Jessica, had never been in a boat, never been in the ocean, and certainly had never caught a fish… but today was her lucky day. As she reeled in her dorado the other dorado got off the line. Jessicas dorado broke the water and we saw that it was a bull dorado, meaning BIG. Just as she was about to tire out from reeling in the fish, I took hold of the line lead the dorado near the boat and with one swoop gaffed it and brought it into the boat. Jessica’s first fish ever was a bull dorado weighting 55 - 60 lbs.!!! Way to go Jessica…girls can fish!
