You know it’s finally summer when we have our first Hurricane of the season.
Now, don’t be alarmed, but we have several every year. They’re mostly hundreds of miles out to sea. One good thing about a Hurricane is it will push fish into our area. For now, we still have Blue Marlin, Striped Marlin, Sailfish, Rooster fish, Dorado and more to satisfy your fishing “itch”. Water temperatures are perfect, bait levels are a bit excessive. We have seen a slight increase of the numbers of fish in the area from last week. We’re in the upswing now and day by day the fishing in Puerto Vallarta is turning in the world class fishing grounds we’re famous for.
This week has been much the same as last week, El Banco doesn’t have a pulse, but there are some Spinner Dolphin with 30 lb Yellowfin Tuna if you can find them. Not much else to say about El Banco for the moment. North Corbetena is another thing. We’re continuing to see Blue Marlin numbers increase and are still in the 400 lb range. Striped Marlin are still running the area but they will soon be a thing of the past. Striped Marlin prefer cooler water temperatures and will be heading to the Cabo fishing grounds soon enough. Sailfish are also on the uptick as well. We’re still waiting for Dorado to show up, stay tuned, it won’t be too long.
El Morro this week is doing just fine with Rooster fish averaging 40 lbs, but there have been some 60 lb beauties boated in the last week using Skip Jack Tuna as bait. Red Snappers are here as well running a nice sized 15 lbs. As mentioned earlier Striped Marlin are just a few miles towards Corbetena as are possible Spinner Dolphin, so be ready. At Punta Mita no real reports of anything since the last week was slow with fishing tourism due to computer generated weather forecast. Not the best tool predicting weather more than two days out, but it’s what we have. The bottom line here is any debris or floating logs in this area could be a Dorado goldmine, feeling lucky?
Inside the bay we’re pretty much the same once again as last week. Some nice new changes are the fact we have come up in the form of possible Striped Marlin or Sailfish in the bay. We have a direct channel to Corbetena and some of the smaller of both species will wander into the bay chasing bait. But we still have Dorado from 7 to 20 lbs. Rooter fish at about 10 lbs are still running at Punta Negra. Jack Crevalls are in and out, but if you’re in the right place at the right time Jack Crevalls are running 20 to 30 lbs. Bonito of 20 lbs are pretty much everywhere. “Bullet” Bonito and 6 lb Skip Jack tuna are running all over the bay right now. Sierra Mackerels are still at the buoy of Marina Vallarta. So early birds can get them easily before too many boats head out of the bay. FYI: the local authorities are finally checking the size of fish being taken out of the water and finally doing their job. Also, most of the Dorado in the bay are females and even the 7 pounders are full of eggs. It’s imperative that concerned fisherman throw the females and smaller of the species back so we can insure a healthy population of Dorado for today and the future. Enough said.
We just had Hurricane Enrique pass us here in Puerto Vallarta. Normally Hurricanes either push fish into the area or out of the area. Hopefully this will push more fish into the area. But the fact we’re coming into July our normal summer species will start increasing in numbers and size. So for now be patient. But we are seeing an increase in Yellowfin Tuna on our 2.5 day and longer trips. Even with Hurricanes it’s a safe trip, but we may have to back off a trip a day or two if weather conditions warrant. The bite is still amazingly late in the morning at 10:00, but there is no reason you can’t get out early and if you own a boat, this gives you a chance to “tug boat” out to the fishing grounds and save a bit on your fuel dollars
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