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Bi-weekly Summary for March 14th - 31st
March 14th - 21st
When is the last time you can remember Albacore to 34 lbs, Blue fin to 46lbs and Yellowtail to 28 lbs being caught in March. This last week has been very productive down as far as the Dumping Grounds and as close as 43 miles from the point.
We started off the week with fish being caught at around 3135 11803 for the first fish of the season some 77 miles from the point, I think that this was a surprise to everyone including myself. The fishing only got hotter from there. The 295 Fathom spot seemed to be holding the bulk of the fish and that is where most of the reports came from.
With the push of early warm water a lot of us were caught off guard. For those that were ready to pull the trigger the past week proved to be quite a pleasant surprise. The overcast mornings and light winds brought beautiful conditions to the outer banks which made site fishing the most productive means of locating schools. The albacore were up on top for the most part feeding on small sardines and could be seen “puddling” on the surface. The majority of the fish were caught on bait but most stops were a result of the jig strike. The usual colors of feathers, blk/prpl, grn/yllw, pnk/blue seemed to be working along with natural and colors “cedar plugs”.
Fishing the kelps also was a good place that produced some great fishing. Capt Pat Daly aboard the sportfisher “GO BIG” was having great success on the yellowtail and albies around 3130 and 117 21 on a large paddy fly lining sardines. They pulled 12 albacore and 4 yellowtail of the one kelp.
As the week ended and we got into the weekend we saw an increase of wind and swell that abruptly slowed down the bite. It looks like the water temp dropped slightly possibly pushing the fish back out past the dumping ground . Look for building seas over the next few days and possibly a little slower action. High pressure this building this weekend which should be a good sign for the count to pick back up.
March 22nd - 31st
Well once again we have seen the increase of wind and wave action over the past two weeks. The outer banks from the dumping grounds to the 1010 trench out to the mushroom bank have seen a mix of swell direction and quite a bit of wind as strong as 28knts at times.
The trend that the staff at bullmahi® noticed was this, with increase of wind and swell the fish in general moved down in the water column, this is to be expected. At the same time the schools appeared to be moving in a direction that has placed them as close as the 371 and 390 fathom spots.
Albacore and some BFT’s are still being caught at the 295 off of Ensenada along with some nice grade YT under the paddies. The Bonita and Skipjack are also making a strong and early presence. In by the 400 which is in the inner bank of the 238 produced some nice grade Albacore up to 30lbs some fat Yellowtail up to 28lbs on the Vessel Huachinago the week of March 23rd.
Folks keep an eye on the 400 spot to “heat up” as the high pressure builds back up, also the 238 out to the 60 fathom into the 390 spot should be a great production areas as the first two weeks of April.
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