anybody fish over the long weekend?

I didnt go down but suprised there are no fishing reports yet from the memorial day weekend....

I caught a whale shark using my 2500 pound test camera... (on top and underwater)

I saw that! great video!

Did you see the underwater photos..?

Here's a facebook link...
Whale Shark at Bird Island May 27, 2012 | Facebook

Hey folks! First time responding to any thread on here but I have been trolling (pun intended) on this site for a very long time. We were down Wed-Tue and had what I would consider an epic surf fishing trip. Tons of the little trout, lots of the pesky sand bass and those little leather jacks. What was really fun was putting down my surf rod and trying my trout rig with 2lb test. Go figure that on the first cast I hook what turned out to be the biggest Pompano I have ever caught in RP. We caught probably 10-15 Pompano that were normal size (2lb) but this guy was at 4-5 lb.Took about 10 minutes to finesse him to the beach.Between me and the 2 kids we probably landed 100+ fish and that was after the wind finally died down on Sat.

FYI- For some reason my standard size Kastmaster was not working as well as the smaller ones. The big boy was caught on a spoon better fit for a stocker rainbow,

Wow, can't wait to get down there next week.

Ahhhhh can't wait to fish!!! Pics?

pics or didnt happen

Pic with news papers date in it, or it didn't happen that day.

HD Video will suffice as well

:grin::grin::grin: Location, spill it , or we'll get you banned !!

ckyevanjay said:

HD Video will suffice as well

Maybe

ckyevanjay said:

I didnt go down but suprised there are no fishing reports yet from the memorial day weekend....

Ended up going down at the last minute with family and to meet up with some friends. Fished for an hour or so on Saturday after the wind died down from Friday. Started fishing at what I thought would be too late, on the outgoing high tide. Caught these on my 2nd & 5th cast of the day using a silver crocodile. Was pleased with the size after reading reports of so many small covina being caught. Got 4 very nice size filets out of them. Still has got to be one of the best eating fish around. Also caught a half-dozen or so pampano but no more corvina. Ditto for Monday. No corvina but about 6-8 small pampano. A fun couple hours. Weather was unbelievable.

rplarry said:

Ended up going down at the last minute with family and to meet up with some friends. Fished for an hour or so on Saturday after the wind died down from Friday. Started fishing at what I thought would be too late, on the outgoing high tide. Caught these on my 2nd & 5th cast of the day using a silver crocodile. Was pleased with the size after reading reports of so many small covina being caught. Got 4 very nice size filets out of them. Still has got to be one of the best eating fish around. Also caught a half-dozen or so pampano but no more corvina. Ditto for Monday. No corvina but about 6-8 small pampano. A fun couple hours. Weather was unbelievable.

Location ```~~~POR FAVOR~~```

Will be fishing Friday AM I better get into some pompano

Location, location, location.... You guys all crack me up.

A school of Corvina can move 30 miles in a day, but schools always breeze through the 1st estuary at least a couple times a day. Use the tide schedule and plan to be out there during the tide changes, and during either first light or at dusk (or both).

It's June- PRIME time to be out hammering the shorelines.

You know I never take a camera and always kick myself when I actually catch something that is worthy. The only fish we normally keep are the bass/bait so the kids can catch those nasty guitar fish at night. After reading about how tasty the Pompano are I wished I would have shoved him in the cooler. As for locations, right off the beach in Encanto for most, but the big Pompano was right at the mouth of the Estuary as the tide was coming in. I really don't want to be banned so I have placed a camera in my tackle box for my July trip.

Sounds promising, we'll be down on Encanto tomorrow and all next week.
I have a new camera for the kayak so will try to catch something to photograph.

Is it this guys setup? I just need to get one of those GO PRO Hero HD cams and this mount would work perfect! Check it out JMCD

How to make a "Hands Free" kayak camera mount!! - YouTube

Yup, that's exactly the video I used. PVC man!

My camera's a Tachyon, but I think the GO PRO's are as good or better.

moore_rb said:

Location, location, location.... You guys all crack me up.

A school of Corvina can move 30 miles in a day, but schools always breeze through the 1st estuary at least a couple times a day. Use the tide schedule and plan to be out there during the tide changes, and during either first light or at dusk (or both).

It's June- PRIME time to be out hammering the shorelines.

That's so funny because I was just getting ready to reply to Mexico Joe and was thinking the same thing. Those fish move around so fast and so far that often times it really is luck if you show up at the right place at the right time. I could have been 20 min later than I was that morning and wouldn't have caught a thing. As I mentioned, I caught both of those in my first 10 minutes out there, and then fished another 50 min. for nada. Same thing when coming back on Monday. It's completely hit & miss as we all know.

To reply to Mexico Joe, I was out in La Morua . As Robert stated, these fish can be all over. I have caught tons off the beach/reefs in Las Conchas from my kayak and casting into bait balls. In fact one time, there were so many corvina, ever time my lure barely hit the water, I would get a hook-up. I would be sitting in the yak, getting the corvina off the hook and onto the stringer and my lure would be dangling from my pole down in the water and I would get a hook-up just sitting there.

I have also had good luck casting at high tide and off of the rocks in Mirador. And funny as it seems, the largest corvina I have ever caught was right below the Malecon/fish market. I caught 3 in about a 20 min timeframe, the smallest being 20" and the largest going about 25". My shrimp guy was just laughing as I kept bring up fish for him to filet for me. That was fun.

But again, I was lucky in being there at that time. Came back several other times and got completely skunked. Same goes with each location mentioned. Don't necessarily have a "favorite spot", usually fish the spot I have a gut feeling about that day and can get to quickly because with young kids back at the house, fishing time is a bit more limited when we are down in RP now.

I wasnt asking because I planned on fishing the exact same spot, just compiling data. I also would like to have multiple spots to fish but its not as easy for me. Ive wanted to fish in front of the boo bar and south along those rocks for about a year now. From the boo bar at sunset I have seen fish running bait. However the hard problem for me is that I need help launching and I dont know anyone at La Bahia. Same with La Muara and La Pinta, would love to fish them but cant. I just came across an excellent GPS phone app that I believe can be utilized in Mexico for marking. The app claims that you can utilize the GPS in your phone WITHOUT cell coverage or DATA. I had a handheld Garmin for a short period of time and I can say so far this $10 app is 100 times better. If this thing works in Mexico Im going to lose my mind... which brings me to my next question, does anyone want to share any MARKS near Cholla Bay??? PM would be awesome!

I caught 3 nice pompano and 1 corvina from the rocks on Pinto Pt. in Cholla on Saturday. Wind and spray were a bit brutal.

No pic it didnt happen.

brokenwave said:

I caught 3 nice pompano and 1 corvina from the rocks on Pinto Pt. in Cholla on Saturday. Wind and spray were a bit brutal.

azfish said:

No pic it didnt happen.

lol POIDH