Well, better late than never, right?
Went down with mi amigos Audi and Dennis last Thursday to visit the sauna known at this time of year as Puerto Penasco. No issues going down or coming back. We fished Fri. and Sat. on Audi's boat, El Gato Blanco. My boat is currently resting comfortably in Tempe after having a tree crash down on it during a monsoon storm a couple of weeks ago. Fortunately, no major damage.
What in the hell is up with the gas prices?????? About $4.00 a gallon on average. Wow! I pity the locals paying this everyday. Bad news filling up a boat!
We heard that the halibut were starting to show up at the 51, so that was Friday's adventure. Very flat with virtually no breeze on Friday and the humidity was so heavy, it was like a haze limiting visibility to a couple 0f miles on the water. On our first drop at the 51, all three of us hooked up instantly on halibut. Headshakers that they are, we managed to get one in the boat. That was total psych, so we spent the next couple hours doing similar drifts catching nothing. Finally ended up with one more nice size halibut, but no other takers at the 51, not even gold-spot. We speculated that the halibut are just starting to come in and we were lucky to have dropped right on them on the first drop. Other boats before and after us had the same basic results - onesy, twosey, but no big numbers for anyone yet. We hit the 43 on the way back in and piled on a bunch of always-willing-to-bite gold spotted bass, making it back into the harbor just as the sun dropped below the horizon.
Saturday was a bit more breezy and we went north to try a little grouper hunting. Loaded up with lots of nice big corvina and nice corbina, but only caught one little grouper guy - a baqueta (Gulf Coney, actually) and we took his picture and sent him back down to grow up.
Miserably hot both days, a real sweat factory. Looking forward to cooler weather! C'mon fall!
Went down with mi amigos Audi and Dennis last Thursday to visit the sauna known at this time of year as Puerto Penasco. No issues going down or coming back. We fished Fri. and Sat. on Audi's boat, El Gato Blanco. My boat is currently resting comfortably in Tempe after having a tree crash down on it during a monsoon storm a couple of weeks ago. Fortunately, no major damage.
What in the hell is up with the gas prices?????? About $4.00 a gallon on average. Wow! I pity the locals paying this everyday. Bad news filling up a boat!
We heard that the halibut were starting to show up at the 51, so that was Friday's adventure. Very flat with virtually no breeze on Friday and the humidity was so heavy, it was like a haze limiting visibility to a couple 0f miles on the water. On our first drop at the 51, all three of us hooked up instantly on halibut. Headshakers that they are, we managed to get one in the boat. That was total psych, so we spent the next couple hours doing similar drifts catching nothing. Finally ended up with one more nice size halibut, but no other takers at the 51, not even gold-spot. We speculated that the halibut are just starting to come in and we were lucky to have dropped right on them on the first drop. Other boats before and after us had the same basic results - onesy, twosey, but no big numbers for anyone yet. We hit the 43 on the way back in and piled on a bunch of always-willing-to-bite gold spotted bass, making it back into the harbor just as the sun dropped below the horizon.
Saturday was a bit more breezy and we went north to try a little grouper hunting. Loaded up with lots of nice big corvina and nice corbina, but only caught one little grouper guy - a baqueta (Gulf Coney, actually) and we took his picture and sent him back down to grow up.
Miserably hot both days, a real sweat factory. Looking forward to cooler weather! C'mon fall!
