FISHING WATERS SOUTH OF TOWN PRODUCING DORADO

Aug. 23, 2004, Pam Bolles, Baja Big Fish Company, Loreto, Mexico Fishing Report:

Loreto boats fished south yesterday and found the dorado. We fished in line with Punta Perico and Isla Catalan. Loreto seas were calm up until the early afternoon so the ride in was not very comfortable but the fishing was good. All of the boats landed Dorado. The Dorado in the southern waters are larger than those to our north.

The prized fish yesterday was caught by John Rohmer of Arizona Fly Fishing (Tempe, AZ.) with a 45 pound bull caught on one of his lambswool and synthetic hair streamer patterns.

Yesterday, like the past several days, the Dorado preferred live sardinas over the big mackerel. So if you want large fish, be ready to chum them up to the surface with the live sardinas and then hook them with a big mackerel. You'll definately need a good baitwell pump to keep those sardinas alive, they're very delicate and will die if not properly aerated.

I haven't heard any news on billfish yesterday.

Inshore & Structure Fishing: Holy moly, if you want Roosterfish all you have to do is fish off the small island that's off the beach at Isla Coronado. On Friday we stopped there after fishing Dorado. We immediately saw several Roosterfish after chumming live sardinas. At one point I saw a pair that had to be the size of a small Harley. We couldn't get any interest in them to our flies or a hooked sardina.

We continued to the Loreto shoreline south of the stone structure at Punta Terra Firma that's called "La Ballenita". Again we saw several sizeable Roosterfish. They'd move at us and disappear in a flash. We'd also see them boiling a few dozen yards away. If you know what you're doing with roosterfish we have lots of them right now. I didn't catch any as I don't know how to go about it.

In addition to these nice roosterfish which are the subject of many a panguero conversation, there are some nice Cabrilla off Punta Baja. Loreto sportfishing vacation area fishing Capt. Jose "Chanto" Fernandez Davis brought back some very nice looking Cabrilla. He got them off Punta Baja while fishing the deep holes with live mackerel. He broke off two while using 80 pound line! The ones he brought in were in the 20 pound range.

Beaches/Shorelines: No report on Loreto beach fishing.

Bait: The mackerel supply was again very lean this morning. Boats had to troll in front of the mairna to get them. Squid are still available to jig up. Look for the group of boats about two miles off the marina in line with La Cholla. That's where they be.

The sardina have been plentiful inside and around the outside walls of the marina. Prime time for the sardina is about ten before seven in the morning, unless there's cloudcover.

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