Different captains today, but same locations with the exception of a couple of different spots. The whole bait operation went much more smoothly and fast today, but I timed the actual trip to the fishing grounds - 1 1/2 hours. But you can’t go wrong fishing sea mounts, it’s a natural fish attraction, so if they’re there and biting……..

Like yesterday the first rod down and we’re bit, only difference is we all reeled in because what bit was a blue marlin. To make a long story short, 45 minutes later and the 100”, 100lb. Marlin was in the boat. The captain (different one than yesterday) handled the boat very well, kept up with the fish as it ran and wore the fish down while Joe kept the line tight and gained line when he could. He was wiped afterwards……

That was the only keeper our boat landed, had numerous hits but all came unbuttoned or cut the line. I did manage to pull a 6-7’ gray shark up to the boat that we cut loose and the other boat landed 3 nice yellow tail, also with missed opportunities. All in all an exciting day. We did take some of the yellow tail and marlin back to the hotel restaurant and had them prepare dinner for us- yellow tail sashimi and ceviche with grilled marlin steaks. Fantastic meal……………….

Looking forward to the rest of the week!

Made it to Lap Paz on Sunday, no real hiccups except our van driver/shuttle was pulled over by the Mexican National Gaurd and had to pay $500 pesos to continue to La Paz from the Cabo airport, hmmmmmmm.

1st day of fishing was on Monday, breakfast at 6:00am, shuttle to marina at 7:00am, motored out and purchased sardines and then caught mackerel to use as bait. Then an hour cruise to the sea mount fishing grounds in a 23 ft center console, long ride out, long ride in. Started fishing around 10:00 am, our tour company had 3 boats there and our group occupied 2 of them. Our captain baited 3 rods and set them out and the bite was immediately on. The first rod took off and he handed it to me, then a second rod took off and it was handed to Jim. About the time I got my fish to the boat, gaffed and in, the third rod took off and was handed to Tom. Jim got his fish to the side of the boat and it was landed/gaffed. Tom’s fish got off. After that we had 2 more fish on and lost and had an occasional bite, made for a long morning. On the way back in while trying for Dorado we hooked into a snapper that the captain landed by himself. The captain was a good fisherman, but his teaching/training skills and “bedside” manor needs work. Not the best day, but not the worst…….

Total fish count 3 for our boat (+1 skip jack that was released) and 1 for our partner boat with the release of a 4’ shark of some kind.

3 yellowtail and 1 snapper total for the day.

We still have 4 days of fishing and if we really get into them hope my old bones hold up! Also this is the group that I go to Alaska Salmon fishing with, we decided to try something different this year.

After researching Walleye charters for a few weeks back in February, I finally chose Captain Drew Bercaw to take our group out for two outings, Friday morning and Saturday afternoon. We worked out of N.E. Port Marina, Port Clinton, Oh. and boated about 9.5 miles to just south of the Canadian border. We cast and drift fished with spinner rigs and nightcrawlers in about 25' of water. The bite was very good with catching many fish from 13"- 26 .5"
It was a little breezy and rough on Friday with 3-5' waves and a little rain but slightly smaller 2-3' on Saturday. It definitely gave our legs a workout.
We ended up with between 45 & 50 pounds of fillets which will be enjoyed by multiple families.
We are excited about scheduling with Capt. Drew again for next year if not sooner as we are possibly looking at a fall trip.
A good time had by all.
MAS fish

Hit the ramp about 5:15 on a beautiful partly cloudy Sunday afternoon. Air temp was 70 with a 5 to 10 knot southwest wind and the water temp ranged from 56 to 59. Got some good info at the ramp from a nice fella on his way out. Said they were catching them in close off the Gold Coast trolling bandits 35-40ft back. Since his report and my plan pretty much lined up I was feeling confident. We started trolling just after Edgewater beach 1.6-1.8 MPH headed dead west in 16-26 ft of water. The graph was showing plenty of life so why not, I figured. Ran 2 perfect 10’s, 2 Bandits, a Flicker Minnow and a Husky Jerk. Took about 45 min to get our first on a Perfect 10 40ft set back. 20 min later we got our second fish on a Bandit 35 ft set back. 15 min later we got another on the Husky Jerk set back 50. Five minutes after that we had our forth on a flicker minnow 35ft back. Then we hit a lul and it wasn’t until we turned north mid way thru our turn around that we got out 5th fish on a Bandit set back 40ft. 20 min later we got our sixth fish on the Husky Jerk set back 50ft. Trolled back east till 8:40 then called it a day. We fished from 16-36ft of water and there were plenty of fish. The key was to keep your lures in that 10-15 ft running depths. We caught on purple, green, yellow, blue/red,& blue/green. Basically color didn’t matter. That’s why I like to keep a variety out even if I catch a lot on one particular color one day. All fish caught where post spawn males. Beautiful evening on Lake Erie couldn’t ask for more!!

Tight lines
J