| DORADO
PROVIDES GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY
(continued) Now it becomes a battle of wills, Wroblewski observed. They turn their bodies sideways and leverage their mass against you. You cant move them. It took another 5 to 10 minutes before we finally got my first dorado in the boat. It was a beautiful fish that must have weighed close to 40 pounds. We caught dorado every day. But on this day out, we concentrated on them and caught the biggest and the most. We fished onboard the Guerita II, a 33-foot boat operated by Capt. Efren Beron Zamora and his first mate, Alfredo Espinosa. Their English was better than my Spanish, so we had little trouble communicating. We met at the Cabo marina at 6 a.m., which, at that hour, is bustling with activity as dozens of fishing boats prepare to head out. There were anglers boarding charters, boats lined up to leave the harbor and small boats with men selling bait fish to the fishermen. We bought some bait and motored out past El Arco - a natural arch formation in the rocks that is Cabos landmark - then turned north past a series of shear cliffs, sand dunes, resort developments and craggy rock formations jutting out into the deep blue Pacific. Cabo has a tremendous variety of underwater canyons, sea mounts and reefs which concentrate game fish, Wroblewski said. There is extremely deep water close to shore. You dont have to travel far to get into big game deep-sea fish. About 25 miles north of Cabo, we started trolling at higher speeds than Im used to, about 10 mph. We put out some squid baits, which are multicolored artificial lures with a cylindrical plastic head followed by long soft-rubber strips that, when trolled, give the impression of a bait fish swimming on the surface. The big brass reels had 80-pound fluorocarbon line Look, Wroblewski yelled at one point. You can see the dorado chasing the lures.-- more>>> |
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