Puerto Vallarta Sportfishing highlights September

Report by Angler Brad Owings September 06-10

My friend (Ricky Clark) and I went out fishing two days this
week (Monday & Tuesday). We had a third friend with us,
but on the first day the seas were 12-14 foot rollers and
raining, so he decided to stay home the second day of
fishing, big mistake. We were fishing a board a 35' Cabo
part of the P.V. Sport fishing fleet.
Tuesday morning we headed out to "El Banko"/"The
Banks" around 5:30AM, the day was beautiful, sun shining
and calm seas. Our first hook up was a 200-250lb Blue
Marlin, I lost the fish about 20 minuets in the fight to the
hook coming out. The baits were in the water for only 10
minuets before we hooked up. After I lost the Blue, my
friend Ricky hooked into a Striped Marlin and landed the
80lb fish in 15 minuets.
The second we released the fish the caption saw a swirl
behind the boat about 40 yards, he tossed out a live bait
and we were hooked up again with a 300lb Blue Marlin. I
landed the fish in about 20-25 minuets, released
unharmed. It was again Ricky's turn on the chair, after
about one hour, he hooked into a 400-450lb Black Marlin,
this fish, was pissed, jumped at least 20 times in the first 5
minuets of the fight and through the hook back at us.
Ricky was disappointed but enjoyed the fight, by the way,
my friend Ricky had never been Marlin fishing prior to our
trip. What a day!

The biggest excitement of the trip came on the next hook
up, we had been fishing for about 1-2 hours before the
"Big Bite". The captain yelled, "Monster Marlin" and about
that time the fish hit the bait and the fight was on. I fought
the fish for about 2hrs, I had it at the boat four times,
every time I thought the fight was over, it would rip out
another 300+yards of line. At this point I thought I was
going to die...

Finally on the fifth time to the boat the fish was done, tired
out, as was I. At this point we all noticed the fish had
swallowed the hook, J-hook!!! I hate this part of the story
because we are always catch and release anglers and this
fish was almost dead. After cutting the line and trying to
revive the fish for ten minuets it showed no signs of
recovering, the fish died. Great reason to ALWAYS use
circle hooks...for now on I will require them or will not go
out.

I was told the fish will be used to feed many, many families
in P.V. and I'm going to mount the head of the fish on the
wall, only because it died and that will be a replica.
So, we ended up with five hook up's that day, 2-Black
Marlin, 1-Stripe, and 2-Blue. All were released except the
Big Black. In the pictures I'm sending you will see the "Big
Black" flying through the air in two pic's and two pic's back
at
the marina later that night. The "Big Black" weighed in at
756lbs, 14' long, 66" in girth. The fish was caught on 100lb
test and 150lb leader. My biggest fish to date!

Enjoy the pictures!

Brad Owings

Angler report Larry Haynes. September
18-19-2010
For years I've had the dream of catching a 200+lb
Cow, but never dreamed that I would catch a 200+
lber and a 300+ lber in the same trip!

My wife, son Eric, and I fished with Captain Steve
Torres and Crew

Day 1

Met Capt and crew at the lighthouse at 0600, did
the meet and greet thing, got food, fuel, bait and on
our way. Hit the rock, made bait rather quickly and
lines in the water just as fast as the bait was coming
in.

About 0920, and raining like heck, the first bite was
on. Our son Eric was in the driver's seat and it was
"game on" for the next hour on a 200+ pound Blue.
After that, things went cold for a couple hours when
the next bite was on. The battle didn't last long,
because the hook either pulled, or the fish spit it out.
I just know that it had some real shoulders on it. A
bit later we bagged a 75 lb yellow fin and things
went quite again....Capt Steve said, the bit will turn
back on about 1 p.m., so we just cooled our heels
and trolled around to see what we could pick up.
Like clock work, at 1:04 the next bite was on.....then
off.....a bit later....another.....and then off.....then
another......Dang it. We then plowed the water for a
few hours when the next bit was on. While fighting
this fish, a school of big tuna were jumping all
around the boat - it was crazy cool seeing
50-100lbers jumping all around me, while fighting
the first dream fish. 1 hour later, a 200+ lb cow lay
on the deck and I was about 10lbs lighter from
sweating.

Day 2

Same as day 1....greatings, bait, fuel and back to
the rock. Wife was up first this day....0900-ish she
lock's up with a nice bull doroado. After a decent
fight, she bagged the bull and was ready for more.
After a lul in the action....Our son reeled in a really
nice Wahoo. A little while later, Capt Steve tells
Freddy, who just caught a big skippy, to put it on the
down-rigger at about 100 ft. Approximately 30
minutes after setting the bait at 100 ft, the big one
hit - I've never seen a fish take so much line, so fast.
The reel was at the Spectra in a flash. The fight was
on....and on.....and on....1 1/2 hours later, the 300
lber was brought on the boat and I was exhausted.

Day one....200+ lb Blue, 75lb yellow fin, and a 200+
lb Cow

Day two....Bull Dorado, a nice wahoo, and a 300+ lb
Cow

Larry Haynes,

Puerto Vallarta fishing Report September 26 2010
8 Yellowfin tunas 2 big ones, the boat reached El Banco
about 8 am and it was wide open the tuna’s were boiling
the guys caught 6 smaller tunas early in morning and 2 big
girls in the afternoon after 1pm.
day 2 We hit the Bank about 9 am lots of boats but no bait
and no bite heard on the radio lots of captains were
having the same problem so We decided to troll lures.
About an hour of trolling at the bank and there was a big
splash behind the boat a nice blue Marlin not hooked just
leaping behind the boat it seriously almost jumped aboard
it had to be running from something this thing was going
nuts one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen Iwish I had it
on film.The bite was very slow at the Bank nothing like the
day before and still no bait so we decided to go back to
Corbetena and maybe pick something up on the way,
about ½ hr later we had our first bite a small mahi mahi,
about 20 minutes after that a We reeled in a nice Sailfish
and released, 30 minutes after the Sailfish We reached
Corbetena lots of bait we caught 4 baits finally and started
trolling, about 4:30PM in afternoon we got a big bite a
giant tuna to finish off the day. enjoy the video.