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PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Retired dentist, Dr. Dave Perine from Washington state, repeatedly broke off in shallow water off Cerralvo Island on 130 pound leader and 80 pound mainline using big 24″ ladyfish as bait trying to land some of our big dog tooth pargo (cubera snapper). He finally got one in the boat…this 35 pounder with the aid of Capt. Valente, but these are the kind of toads (and larger) still taking anglers to school in the rocks right now.

THE FISH REPORT -DORADO SIZZLE ALONG WITH THE SUMMER – MARLIN STILL ON THE CHEW – TUNA POP AND TEASE AT LAS ARENAS – WAHOO YOOHOO? – AERO CALIFORNIA – PHOTO OF THE WEEK

MAHI RIP IT UP

Weather almost as hot as the fishing this past week with water temps finally hitting the 90’s and air temps tickling triple digits as well but at least it’s not humid like it was last week. Last week, the air was as thick and sticky as gravy!

Right now…for the fishing, if you put in a day or two on the water, it was pretty hard NOT to get bit by dorado. You might have an off day or miss the spot but for the most part, it’s dorado rodeo time with fish seemingly getting bigger and more and more bulls for both my Las Arenas and La Paz fleets.

Wish people would release more fish actually. No reason to be taking as many fish as I’ve seen. One guy (not our clients) was bragging about 100 fish today as I listened in a restaurant. I didn’t have the heart and was too pissed to ask him if he kept them all, but even if he kept 1/3 of them, that’s stupid. Heard someone else talking about 50 yesterday. C’mon…

Quite a few marlin and sails around sometimes literally begging to be fed. Tuna keep popping up at Las Arenas and surprising everyone for a day or two then going to ground then showing up again a day or two later. Nice grade 10-30 pound footballs. Still nice roosters around as well as big dog tooth pargo if you have the patience. Wahoo are in the area, but no one seems to be able to make one stick.

THE ELECTIONS AND AERO CALIFORNIA

Well, as expected, there was movement after last week’s July 2nd Presidential election. However, no one seems to be quite sure who won! Actually, PAN candidate Calderon won by the slimmest of percentage points, but it took like…4 days to figure it all out and opposition party candidate Obrador is screaming fraud as he won by something like 200,000 votes out’ve 40 million ballots! That’s a drop in the bucket. There have already been a few protests, but most are accepting the fact that Calderon is the new head hombre here.

What did that mean for us at ground zero who felt the Aero Cal fiasco was all politically motivated? Well, surprise…Aero Cal got the OK to officially fly and hit the air with 5 planes. The bad news? Aero Cal canceled all flight until at least July 17 with no end in sight…Lovely… That’s my story!
Jonathan
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