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Current Reports
Bob Marriott's now provides up to date fly fishing reports for all your favorite hotspots:
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Baja Anglers
The Sea of Cortez has been
described as the world's greatest fish trap. The waters
are warmed in the shallow sea that stretches about 100
miles between mainland Mexico and Baja California and
that warm water attract shrimp and squid, anchovies,
sardines, mackerel and other food. The predators -- the
marlins and the tunas, the roosterfish and the dorado,
sailfish, wahoo, Sierra mackerel, yellowtail, black
skipjack, bonito, ladyfish and jack cravelle come to
feed.
When the sun breaks in the east of the Gulf, the world
comes alive. The boats depart the marina at 6:30 a.m.
and return 8 hours later at 2:30 p.m. Soft drinks and
chilled bottled water are complimentary on your boat and
can be made for full box lunches from the next door
restaurant.
Your skipper may suggest you target marlin first or you
could be onto a feeding school of yellowfin tuna, dorado
(mahi-mahi), jack crevalle, Sierra mackerel, black
skipjack, bonito, ladyfish or others. Your skipper will
position you to cast into the action and once into a
school, the sea can turn into a veritable white froth of
game fish, baitfish, chum and birds. Your mission is to
get a fly into the water, make a few strips, set the
hook and get ready for the pull of your life. If
everything is right -- if the fish is in a feeding mood,
if the cast is accurate and the hook well set, if your
knots hold, if you don't get bill-wrapped and broken
off, and your arms don't cramp -- you will have
experienced the second greatest thrill an angler can
enjoy. You'll have caught your billfish. You'll
experience the greatest thrill a moment or two later
when your captain gently releases your fish back to the
sea.
Baja Anglers also will work the surfline looking for
roosterfish or pez gallo. If a gallo grabs your fly or
light tackle offering, it will be another moment you
will remember forever. Or it might be a jack cravelle --
toro "the bull" they call them -- with a reputation as
the toughest pound-for-pound competitor with fins. Or a
dorado or black skipjack or ladyfish. You can literally
take seven species of fish on seven casts. |
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