This year, the fishing has been strange. Especially Puerto Vallarta’s world famous fishing grounds.
Last week we had many of our favorite summer species, Dorado, Yellowfin Tuna and Sailfish to mention a few. They all came in fast and hungry. The bait remained, but the different species have either moved on or have thinned out in number by spreading out across all of PV’s fishing grounds. Bass are still around, kinda strange with warm water temperatures in the bay. It’s a “La Nina” year, which means the normal conditions are anything but. We’ve seen summer species in the area now for months, when normally they wouldn’t be. Dorado are a perfect example. We’ve been dealing with this for about a year now, but things will be changing. The only question is how and when?
The report this week is much the same as last week. With the invasion of Sailfish and Dorado last week, they’ve had time to move around and now they’re all spread out. At Corbetena things are much the same, “maybe” Sailfish or Striped Marlin, but thin in numbers. Jack Crevalles are everywhere and no reason to head out 35 miles, save your fuel money. If we move north to El Banco or The Bank, things are up and down. Yellowfin Tuna to 200 lbs were running the area, that is until the illegal and unrestricted production fishing factories (Seingers) showed up. Capt. Pablo and Capt. Nachillo took a chance and went about 15 miles north of the high spots. And they came up winners with many Dorado, but it was a 15 hr. day on a super Panga. Feeling lucky? If you’re serious about catching this level of fish, you’ll need a long day and even then, nothing is guaranteed. Feeling lucky?