FISHING WITH LORETO'S CAPT. MANUEL TORRES

July 7, 2004, Dean Mitchell, Loreto, Mexico Fishing with Capt. Manuel Torres:

We fished with Manuel Torres from Torres Sportfishing, Loreto, fishloreto.com/, on Monday the 5th and Tuesday the 6th.

Each day we got into classic Baja Dorado action about 5 miles southeast of Punta Pulpito. One boat would find a Sargasso paddy and everyone would zoom in and get their limits. There were plenty of Sailfish in the area too. This is Loreto Dorado fishing at its prime.

Monday we caught limits of nice 20-35 pound Dorado. Tuesday we got into more of them but we were the first boat on the paddy and Manuel threw a bait "lariat style" at a big 55# bull. He had pulled baits out of a few smaller Dodo's mouths. We had limited and were out of bait so we put out Mirrolure 111's and got about 50 yards and wham, I hooked a 45# Wahoo. My Orange Mirrolure has worked awesome this year, catching Yellowtail, Grouper and Cabrilla in March at Loreto, Huge Jack Crevalle in Cabo in April and now this nice Wahoo.

We launched from Loreto downtown sportfishing harbor for these 2 days. Manuel is definitely one of the best pangeros I've found in the peninsula. He only charges $150 and we burned a ton of fuel each time I've fished with him. Torres Sportfishing, 011 52 613 1350240 (Manuel Torres), 011 52 613 1044030 (Jose Torres).

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