El Gato Dos 6 pack

Went out last weekend on a local boat, the El Gato Dos out of Seaforth Landing. This is a nice 6pack that I had always seen but never been on. Check another boat off the list. Great boat and great crew. Brian (Capt) and John (1st Mate) did a great job putting us on the fish and working hard to find us fish. Started out early, left the dock at 4AM to make the rock pile just south of the islands. But everyone else had the same idea for a Sat. morning. Counted more than 50+ boats. But still got 4 yellows and some nice Cudas. But the bite shut down early with all the preasure, so we moved due west to see if we could find a few paddies. About 5 -6 miles west of the islands we came on a 200lb Marlin and got him to chase the jiggs. He hit one and the battle was on, for about 30 seconds... This guy had plans on going south and he spooled me in before I had a chance to even pull on him. The reel was straight mono and he was taking it all. He gave us a few parting jumps with the jigg hanging out the side of the bill as he headed south. Note to Brian, one word "Spectra".... We moved on and came across a few large whales and metered some fish deep, but could not get them to come up and play. Headed back toward the islands to see if we could find the yellows in the middle ground. On the way back we spotted a small paddy and trolled by with a large yellow hitting the Marlin jigg. He put up a good fight and came in at 23.8lb. tried a few other paddies with mixed results, hooked up but the broke off in the paddy on us. So it was close to 2PM and stopped a few more spots but could not find anyone who wanted to play and we called it a day. Total for the gang was 5 Yellowtails and 4 Cudas, 1 Marlin hook-up.

Here is the link to the photos - http://community.webshots.com/album/560480225?vhost=community

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Mexico Fish Report - Erendira - Castro's

Here is the link to the Mexico Fishing report, I was quoted in the Erendira Report. Thanks to Gene for the posting.

http://www.mexfish.com/mfn/mfn2007/mfn070820/mfn070820.htm

New Milestone reached - 100,000 hits and 1000+ viewed

Well thanks to all the fans who have checked out my Photos and visited my site. I have just passed 100,000 hits on my photos and had over 1000 visitors to Cool Tuna Photos site. I am working on a new and better site already with more features and more photos. As well as great links to other sites and more fishing and photo info. Hope you have all enjoyed my stuff and I hope you will come back often to see the latest updates.

Back from Castro's - 2 days of fun and fishing

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Well got back from Castro's Sunday night, the boarder crossing was helllllll.... 4 hours in line to get across... Note to self...Don't come back on Sunday again.... Well got out of town on Friday afternoon, picked up new friends Jim and Dillon and headed out for the weekend.

Arrived at Castro's about 7pm and got settled in with a little dinner and set up the rigs for the morning. Planned on having 8 total but found out late that 2 had been a no show. So 6 people and 2 boats would have to work. No problem, had Oscar booked on day one and was ready to go hunt down the White Seabass (WSB). Got up at 5 AM and headed out at 7AM. We started out making bait and hit a few boils but only hooked a couple of young WSB about 1-3Lb. Heard a report that they were biting south at Colonet and made a B-line down the coast. Spotted lots of bait balls and some boils but could not get a bite. Started working on the bottom and started to fill up the cooler fast with Reds and Lings as well as the assorted rock cod. Even hooked up on a 4ft Thresher but only had it on 25lb test and could not get it in the boat before the line was cut. We still had a great time and worked the area hard. Made a few stops on the way back up the coast but still could not get the WSB or Yellows to bite. I did manage the big fish of the day, a 11lb Ling, that was fun. Back at the camp we did see another party had landed 2

WSB, one was 34lb and the other was 42lb. So they are down there we just could not find the hungry ones. We did make plans to out on Sunday as well and we hoped for the chance to get our target then.

Day 2 - Got up at daylight and headed out with Pancho and headed south as well. Bait was not as thick this morning and Pancho did not have a bait well to hold them in, so it was catch re-pin them on and re-cast them out. We did see our prize once, as we were cruising along this 40-50lb WSB was just swimming along side of us. He had to be on more than 4 ft down and 4 ft out from the boat. As we stopped for him, he turned and burned and that was it. Did spot more life but only could manage bottom fish that morning. Still had a good time as always down at Castro's. Our other boat did better, Daryle and Ellis and Miguel managed to get a Thresher as well as a 13lb Ling and a Bonita as well as the assortment of Rock Cods.

So between the 6 of us we filled 2- 100 gallon coolers with cleaned fish and headed out of town by 4pm for the drive home. Should have left earlier, but the 3 hour drive took 8 hours instead. Line at the tolls and did not get to TJ until 8 and then had to go to the Otay broader to cross back into the US. 4 hours in line, did not get back home till midnight. The trip recap was:

Great time at Castro's as always.

Oscar is the best capt down there.

WSB are the hard ones to catch, but they are down there.

Make sure your foot is on the tire before you get out of the boat... Ouchhh ..

Don't leave on Sunday, stay the extra day and take your time going back on Monday.

I will be posting the link to the complete set of photos in the next day.

Link is posted and a slideshow is added here as well.

Heading South of the Boarder this weekend

Going down to Castro's Fish Camp, it is a fun little spot just south of Ensenada in Baja. Great rock fish and WSB and Yellowtail sometimes. I am hoping to get on some of the big WSB (White Sea Bass) if you don't know the code.. Last year I got my first one down ther around the same time. But they are know as the "Ghost". I will give an update when I return, there are photos from other trips to Castro on my Webshot site, check out the other links.

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