Fishing Reports by Capt. Mark Rayor

sea of Cortez, East Cape-Fantacies do come true! - This morning we hooked a marlin at 7:30. While La Rissa Travers battled her first marlin, my VHF radios were going crazy. It was enough to make me crazy. Dorado under serggaso grass, tuna on spotted dolphin, marlin feeding, it sounded like the whole more...
Capt. Mark Rayor - Buena Vista

Sea of Cortez, East Cape-Summertime fish - No footballs, no dinks. This spring has been all about quality not quantity. Last week tuna fishing just started to get in gear when the winds came up and made it impossible for boats to travel outside to the tuna grounds. Yesterday the wind subsi more...
Capt. Mark Rayor - Buena Vista

East Cape - Fins to the left, fins to the right - It has finally happened! East Cape striped marlin have become aggressive. For the last couple of days boats targeting marlin are releasing multiple fish per day. Fish are close as well. Yesterday afternoon we saw marlin feeding 3 miles from our bu more...
Capt. Mark Rayor - Buena Vista

East Cape fishing Making adjsutments - A few days ago Tom Shellenberger arrived with three of his fishing buddies from Moab UT to do a little marlin fishing. The bite had been slow but they had 3 days so I was confident we could scratch out a couple of fish each day. The main concentratio more...
Capt. Mark Rayor - Buena Vista