633 lb Marlin Report Puerto
Vallarta August 25/2011
report agnlger Larry Hanyes
Captain Steve Torres
boat Ana Maria \visit website
Fished again this year with Steve and
Freddy on the Ana Maria.
BLUF: Feeling like the second luckiest
guy in Vallarta - caught a couple cows
last year and this year it was a 622lb
Blue Marlin with Steve and Freddy's
help.Met Capt Steve, Freddy, and our
new amigo Joel at the light house at
0600. Then it was off to the rock.Made
it to Corbetena about 0800ish to find
poor weather, more
logs and stumps in the water than you
can shake a stick at (ha ha), and off-
colored water.......BUT, there was lots
of bait working and tuna (50-100lbers)
jumping all over the place.
Unfortunately, we just couldn't get
them to bite. We threw
everything at them, (including the
neighbor's kitchen sink!) but just
couldn't get them to bite.
Fortunately, the weather and water
color improved for the
fternoon and we finally stuck a sail
about 3 pm. Then had a
dorado bite and then something with
allot of teeth that only left
behind about 1 pound out of 5 pound
skippy. Went through a bit of
lul in the action, when a big Blue Marlin
hit the shotgunned chorra.
Freddy set the hook, handed me the
rod and it was game on for
the next hour and 18 minutes - what an
awesome battle on that
50lb tackle! Want to thank Capt Steve
for his boat handling skills.
There's no way that I would have
landed that fish if he hadn't
backed down on it so agressively, so
many times. Seems like evertime I got
her somewhat close, she turned her
head and peeled off a couple hundred
feet of line. Afterdoing that about a
dozen times, she finally came along
side the boat. Unfortunately,
she was in bad shape and gut hooked.
Sucked. I would have liked
to have relased her. But, I understand
things don't always turn out
that way.
After we got her on board, she taped
out at 595. She was weighed
later that evening on a scale, and
came out at 622 lbs.
There's lots of tuna guys. Go GET
'EM!!
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August 2011