Here sometimes June fishing happens in March. This year, June is
happening in June. And forget spring coming like a lamb; it has
roared in like a LION on steroids. North, south, out, in - it’s all
hot and fish flags are beating down the outriggers and it's just the
first four days of the month. The ‘Awesome’ story of our week was
Rancho Leonero angler, affectionatly called 'Lucky' Tim Galli on
board again Friday, June 3. Fresh off their RLTournament win for
Guild
Scholarships two weeks ago, Galli and crew were after cooler fish –
cool, yes, but the kind to put in the cooler. After
Friday, they’ll need more coolers! Burning north Captain Luis headed
to the rich fishing 30 miles towards Cerralvo and off the buoys. The
spring’s ubiquitous school of bottlenose dolphin was working the
surface. Equipped with sardines - the
tuna bite of choice, they yanked in 3 tuna in the 50 lb plus class. Then,
a GIANT 180 pound tuna inhaled two lines at
once – causing double hook up panic until the fight began; 3 anglers
and 1-1/2 hours later, the 6 foot monster was
onboard. Catching wasn’t over and three more 60 pound plus tuna were
on the deck. With such onboard action, one of the clients put a 60
pound tuna into the fish bag on the swim platform…and missed! Head
weight first, the tuna was pointing
to Neptune bound back to the clear waters. Deckhand Adan Ruiz couldn’t
believe his eyes, but his brain registered that they were losing a
hard fought tuna to the deep. He had time to whip off his hat and
dive overboard. Grabbing the descending tuna by the tail after
chasing it 15 feet down, he turned up for the light and dragged that
recalcitrant fish right back to the surface – caught now the second
time! All agreed Adan earned his propina in a big, wet way!
Saturday, who cared where the ubiquitous dolphin
were, because it was GOLDEN anyway! Baja anglers Norm and Mary Kay
Burmeister traveled from Wyoming to celebrate their golden
anniversary and 50 years of marriage, joined by daughter Susan, son
in law, Brian Bewey and 2 year old granddaughter from Du Bai in the
Middle East. A quiet ride on glassy seas ended when a non-stop,
wide-open golden dorado bite took OFF. Voracious, hitting sardines
before the lines hit the water; it was a show stopper for these
seasoned Baja visitors. With twelve dorado on deck, folk lore juju
says the bite will stop if you catch and release; they did just that
and kept catching and releasing until they couldn’t drag any more
in. Wednesday the Burmeister’s released a 140 pound marlin, the
first time for guest Randall Mang from Vancouver, Canada. An
‘Awesome’ fish report – ‘The Sea of Cortez – get ON it’
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