THE OFFSHORE FISHING ACTION CONTINUED TO HEAT UP FOR THIS WEEKS GROUP OF ANGLERS. JIMMY CYWCZYNSKI AND DENNIS KLUM WERE RETURNING ANGLERS FISHING WITH JOHN SAWYER AND CHARLES MCKINLEY. BRUCE YUNG AND BRUNO GABRIELO FLEW UP FROM BRAZIL. MARK SNYDER HAD RETURNED WITH DOUGLAS KLEES. THEN WE HAD THE LANSBURGH FAMILY, LEONARD AND HIS TWO SONS DAVID AND ROBERT. NEXT WERE TRAVELING ANGLERS HARVEY SCHULTZ AND JIM RICHARD.

LOTS OF YELLOWFIN TUNA IN THE OVER 100 LB CLASS WERE CAUGHT THIS WEEK. DENNIS BESTED HIS RECORD WITH A 160 LB TUNA TAKEN ON A POPPER. AT ONE TIME DENNIS SAID THE YELLOWFIN WERE FEEDING ON A HUGE BALL OF BLUE RUNNERS AND EVERY TIME YOU WOULD THROW IN YOUR POPPER YOU WOULD BE HOOK-UP A YELLOWFIN. NOW THAT SOUNDS LIKE MY KIND OF FISHING!

IT WAS A GOOD WEEK FOR MARLIN. JOHN WAS FISHING WITH CAPTAIN TOMMY WHEN HE CAUGHT AND RELEASED TWO BLACK MARLIN IN THE 400 TO 500 LB CLASS.

BRUNO AND BRUCE WERE FISHING CAPTAIN LUCHO THIS WEEK AND REPORTED LANDING LOTS OF BIG CUBERA SNAPPERS AND MANY OTHER DIFFERENT SPECIES, ALL ON TOP WATER. FISHING WITH JIGS THEY WERE SUCCESSFUL CATCHING BIG "REEF DONKEYS." THEY ALSO CAUGHT A 300 LB. BULL SHARK FROM THE BARGE ON 30 LB LINE! TO TOP IT ALL OFF WAS A 500 LB BLACK MARLIN ADDED TO THE LIST.

THE ANGLING LANSBURGHS WERE INTO THE MARLIN THIS WEEK. WHEN IT WAS TALLIED THEY HAD CAUGHT AND RELEASED FIVE BLACK MARLIN BETWEEN 400 AND 600 LBS AND ONE BLUE MARLIN ESTIMATED AT AROUND 300 LBS. OH, THE FATHER WANTED TO ADD THAT HE CAUGHT THE MOST FISH THIS WEEK. OLE MEN RULE!

HARVEY AND JIM PROBABLY CAUGHT THE LARGEST BLACK MARLIN THIS WEEK. WHEN THEY MEASURED IT ALONG SIDE OF THE BOAT IT WAS 14 FT LONG FROM THE TIP OF ITS' BILL TO THE END OF THE FORK OF THE TALE. THESE TWO ANGLERS ALSO LANDED OVER 20 DIFFERENT SPECIES OF FISH ON THIS ONE TRIP.

MARK AND DOUGLAS GOT INTO SOME KNEE BUCKLING ACTION WHEN THEY HOOKED INTO SOME OVER SIZED "REEF DONKEYS." THOUGH THEY SPENT MOST OF THEIR TIME FISHING INSHORE FOR CUBERAS THEY ALSO GOT INTO SOME GOOD TUNA ACTION ON POPPERS. BUT ON THE LAST DAY CAPTAIN TATIN HAD THEM FISHING NEAR ISLA LADRONES WHERE THEY CAUGHT THEIR LAST FISH OF THE TRIP, A 300 PLUS POUND BLACK MARLIN.

TIGHT LINES,
CAPTAIN JULIAN JAY GUSTIN


FISHING TIP OF THE WEEK: THIS WEEK WE RECEIVED 100 OF OUR FAVORITE JIG. IT IS THE SUMO JR JIG IN BLUE AND CHROME. NOW I KNOW THAT THE "BUTTERFLY JIGS" ARE ALL THE RAGE RIGHT NOW AND YES THEY CATCH FISH. BUT BETTER YET THEY CATCH FISHERMEN AND THAT IS WHO HAS THE MONEY. ONE OF MY LONG DEAD MENTORS TAUGHT ME YEARS AGO, "JUST BECAUSE IT IS NEW DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN IT IS BETTER." SO WHEN YOU GO FISHING REMEMBER TO THROW SOME OF THE "OLD STUFF" IN YOUR TACKLE BOX. IT HAS BEEN CATCHING FISH FOR YOU FOR A LONG TIME.