Fishing Report - 3/25/06

GREETINGS FROM THE TROPICS,

WE HAD SOME CREW CHANGES THIS WEEK AS CAPTAINS TRAVIS AND BEN RETURNED TO ALASKA. AFTER WORKING THE DECK FOR THE LAST FOUR YEARS MATES TATIN AND TOMMY ARE NOW RUNNING THEIR OWN BOAT. SO HOLD ON AS YOUTH AND ENTHUSIASM TAKES TO THE WATER.

JOHN KABAY RETURNED TO FISH WITH US THIS WEEK AND BROUGHT ALAN WRIGHT WITH HIM. THEY FISHED WITH CAPTAIN MACHO AND THOUGH THE MARLIN FISHING WAS SLOW THEY DID CATCH AND RELEASE TWO BLACK MARLIN WHILE FISHING NEAR MOUTUOSA ISLAND. MACHO ALSO PUT THE BOYS ON A COUPLE OF GOOD CUBERA SNAPPER BITES.

GUIDE MIKE AUGAT HAD TWO BOATS CHARTERED THIS WEEK FOR HIS ANGLERS. FISHING WITH CAPTAIN LUCHO WAS; BRIAN BUCCIERI, MICHAEL TEHAN, DAN BURNS AND KENNETH BOSS. TED MERLETTI AND DAN HUTCHINSON WERE FISHING WITH CAPTAIN TATIN. THESE TWO BOATS FOUND FANTASTIC TUNA FISHING AT JICRON ISLAND. ONE DAY, THE TWO BOATS TOGETHER CAUGHT OVER 40 YELLOWFIN TUNA ON POPPERS. MOST OF THESE TUNA WERE IN THE 25 TO 50 LB RANGE WITH THE LARGEST YELLOWFIN HITTING THE SCALES AT 90 LBS.

CAPTAIN TATIN ALSO GUIDED HIS ANGLERS TO SOME GREAT FLY CASTING ON COIBA ISLAND. HERE THEY WERE SUCCESSFUL IN LANDING A ROOSTERFISH ON A FLY ALONG WITH A LONG LIST OF OTHER SPECIES WHICH INCLUDED; YELLOWFIN TUNA TO 30 LBS, BIG RAINBOW RUNNERS, JACK CREVELLE, HORSE EYE JACKS, BLUE JACKS, LADY FISH, YELLOW SNAPPERS AND CUBERA SNAPPERS.

CAPTAIN BARTOLO FISHED WITH NEW COMERS MIKE AND DENNIS KULM, KEITH BROWN AND JIMMY CZYWCZYNSKI. THIS GROUP ALSO GOT INTO THE TUNA ACTION AT JICRON ISLAND WHERE THEY BOATED 14 YELLOWFIN, THREE WERE OVER 100LBS, WITH THEIR LARGEST WEIGHING 172 LBS. ALL WERE CAUGHT POPPING WITH THE YO-ZURI SURFACE BULL GT.

THE SUMMARY FOR THE WEEK:

INSHORE, COIBA ISLAND PRODUCED GOOD FISHING ACTION ON TOP WATER AND ALSO ON FLIES

OFFSHORE, THE YELLOWFIN FISHING AT JICRON ISLAND WAS NOTHING SHORT OF FANTASTIC. WE HAD SCHOOLS OF 100 LB PLUS TUNA FREE JUMPING. THERE WERE BLACK MARLIN TO BE HAD NEAR MONTUOSA ISLAND BUT YOU HAD TO WORK FOR THEM.

BOTTOM FISHING WITH JIGS FOR AMBERJACKS AND REEF DONKEYS WAS PRODUCTIVE IN ALL AREAS, THE NEW BUTTERFLY JIGS WORK GREAT. BE SURE TO BRING SOME DOWN WITH YOU.

TIGHT LINES,
CAPTAIN JAY GUSTIN

FISHING TIPS:

LAST WEEK I MENTIONED THAT WE MODIFY THE YO-ZURI SURFACE BULL GT. THIS MODIFICATION CONSISTS OF REMOVING THE FACTORY SPLIT RINGS AND HOOKS. WE REPLACE THEM WITH OWNER HYPER WIRE SPLIT RINGS, SIZE NUMBER 10, RATED AT 220 LBS AND OWNER'S ST-66 TREBLES, SIZE 4/0. THESE MODIFICATIONS MAKE THE BULL GT CLOSE TO PERFECT.


JIMMY LANDS A SAIL


DENNIS WITH A GOOD ROOSTERFISH


KEITH WITH ANOTHER ROOSTERFISH. THIS MUST BE EASY!


TWO OCEAN MASTER FISHING MACHINES


DR DAN DISPLAYS HIS AMBERJACK


BRIAN AND KEN WITH TWO NICE CUBERAS


SNAPPER COMING OVER THE RAIL


MIKE WITH A SMALL AMBERJACK


DAN WITH A JACK CREVELLE ON THE FLY


TUNA BITES THE GT BULL