Wahoo-Tuna-Dorado Bite Wide Open !
Capt. Bob Baker
September 15, 2008
Boca Chica - Saltwater Fishing Report
Even though the passing tropical depressions, Hanna, Ike, and family have kept us at home for the most part, when we do have boats out, all anglers are having a great time with very good sized WAHOO, some BIG yellowfin, and enough DORADO bites to keep the grill smokin'.
Yo-Zuri bonito lures in red/black and yellowfin colors are taking all species. One long(4th wave) and the other on the 2nd wave are the meal ticket.
I've been dragging a Yo-Zuri Surface Cruiser, blue/pink/white, off the rigger and that lure is just about bare of paint but it keeps catching fish. I put a 2-ft. wire leader in front of all lures to keep from being cut off. Run a feather, yellow/green, off the other rigger.
Black marlin are on the Hannibal Bank and at Montuosa Island, where slow-trolled, feather-caught live bonitos will get you bit.
Even a few sails around to mix things up.
Snapper and corvina continue very good inshore, both around the islands and in the estuaries, and I recently stopped to drift some live sardines over Roca Bandera and was into a school of very nice sized AFRICAN POMPANO. Every drift had me on a fish. Awesome for awhile, until I ran out of bait. Then dropped a butterfly jig , pink/glitterwhite, and probably could have filled the boat , but went catch and release until I couldn't feel my arms.
Boca Chica Fishing Forecast:
Looks like September will be really good the rest of the month for everything I've written about here. We're tuning up for the prime season, Dec. to May, but can't find any reason to complain with the fishing in this "low" season.
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