DonO,
Hold on inventer of the fly! Sargasso is Atlantic-side and you were Pacific. ;-)))
I used to do quite of bit of bill fishing ect in the deep-blue. Caught a white marlin over 90lbs between St. Thomas and St. Johns some years back, tagged it, and got a mention in the IFFA report. Seems somebody caught the same fish of the coast of Africa.
What scares me is the ballyhoo or bait fishing that seems to kill a lot of prime billfish (nothing like a sailfish with its gut turned inside out to get you out of bait fishing), pollution that is destroying the coral, and long-lining which takes turtles and fish not meant to be caught. Babble....
Anyway, it is evident that flyfishing is the only way to fish for fun while those who fish with bait are okay by me if they are eating the fish. Thoughts?
BTW, there is a huge discussion on menhadden limits and oysters in the Chesapeake Bay right now. Menh are the food of gamefish (blues & stripers) here and oysters filter the water. Anyone want to discuss?
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Subject: [VFB] Baja Report
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 08:48:40 -0600
We had a great time in Baja this year. The fishing was 'off', and towards
the end of the dorado season, but we still got into a school of smaller
ones, in the 3lb to 10lb class- great fun on 9wt. or less. It was fast and
furious top-water flycasting, and awesome-hair sardines were the ticket. A
combination strip and drag was the only way to entice a strike,
The water chopped up for a
couple of days, which was hard on my back, but otherwise the weather and
seas cooperated.
Just too few fish (although
we did catch the 25 or so small ones BTB, and the tuna). Also, we couldn't
find any Sargasso-weed, a favorite haunt of dorado. My favorite method is
casting poppers along the edges of the Sargasso rafts. One of the reasons
a local American gave us for the 'poor' fishing is that the Pacific water
was warmer this year than the Sea of Cortez water, so the fish didn't come
in to the gulf in anywhere near the numbers as previous years.
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