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PQ Almada
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Posted: Wed Jul 12th, 2006 11:35 pm |
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Here are a couple more pictures of the same sailfish and the final version of the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UJyw-BavRg
Saludos!
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Posted: Thu Jul 13th, 2006 01:36 am |
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Steve, I'd take a dozen or more. Am coming down on the 21st and fishing through the 27th (not in the tournament). How much would a dozen set me back?
Jimmorrill@cableone.net
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ROMBO
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Posted: Thu Jul 13th, 2006 07:36 pm |
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Fernando & Stephen,
Great photos and a great finished product on the video. Keep em coming!! We need a Black video on the site! See you guys next week! Watch out for Team Richochet!
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Clay
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Posted: Sun Jul 16th, 2006 08:52 am |
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Steve,
Where is bait masters? The only place we have found mullets is at Tetabampas but it is a real hit and miss if they have them and what condition they are in, also they are not rigged.
Clay
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Posted: Sun Jul 16th, 2006 09:04 am |
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Fishing report July 8-14 Family just returned from SC on a week of fishing and diving. It was great. We caught something every day. One nice 20+ pound bull then the rest were smaller. Many of them small enough we let live for another day. Thanks stewart for help on lures. The ones I bought from you were hits plus I re-rigged many of mine and they had much better action and success. Missed the bills though. Only saw one on top of water all week and he wasn't looking. Friday the water was smooth and beutiful. We were in an area we found several pods of dorado (boat would be surrounded when we hooked up). that area also had sails jumping all around but we couldn't get any takers. Question for you pros Are most of the bill fish you catch after you see them finning or laying on the surface? Do you get many and if so how if they are just jumpers?
Clay
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Stuart
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Posted: Sun Jul 16th, 2006 05:24 pm |
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Glad to hear my lures caught some fish for you Clay! Baitmasters is an outfit in Florida that sells a variety of rigged and unrigged baits. They are frozen and vacuum packed. That's where Steve does his bulk-orders. It's pretty pricey to buy just a few from them on your own because the shipping is at least $75. I have occasionally ordered a case of rigged ballyhoo from them. Just be prepared to open your wallet -- wide!
Your question - Are most of the billfish you catch after you see them finning or laying on the surface? Do you get many and if so how if they are just jumpers?
To date, I have yet to catch a billfish I saw jumping and went after. However, I have caught many billfish I've seen tailing on the surface. That's generally what we look for, in addition to birds working or other signs of bait or feeding activity. I've also caught marlin (and big solitary bull dorado) by keeping an eye out for a single frigate sailing high above the water. Frigates have excellent eyesight and will often follow a large fish, waiting for a chance to swoop down on any leftovers. When the bluewater seems like an empty desert, a soaring frigate can be your best friend. Learn to recognize them and you'll catch more fish.
When you see a tailing billfish, try to approach it with the fish on your starboard side. Marlin will invariably turn to the left to take a lure. Why? I don't know for certain, but they will crash a lure presented to their left far more often than one presented to their right. I'll also pick up a little speed and start cutting a wide circle around the fish. This pulls the lures out into the clear water and they ride on the waves of the wake, rather than in the turbulent white water behind the boat. If the marlin is interested, you'll see him light up and head after one of the lures. If he's got a full belly, he'll often just slowly swim under the surface and ignore you. Just the way it goes sometimes!
One other thing that can help you -- you'll get more strikes trolling down swell, or with the wind and waves at your stern, rather than trolling into head seas. Marlin will be riding the swell as well, rather than wasting energy and swimming against it.
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