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  1. Rancho Leonero Resort, East Cape BCS, Mexico A report right from the source: The week of May 11-18 Water - Water temps have stabilized with inshore at 72 degrees; outside 80 degrees, flat and calm. Air - Cool mornings, nice weather … highs in the low 90s. Last couple of days were beautiful and clear. The Environment: As we say in Mexico, “Perfecto!” The Bottom Line: A solid Leonero 8 on a 1 to 10 scale. Marlin – They are jumping into the boats! Very, very good billfishing. All boats targeting marlin are releasing at least one, most multiples. The fish are an easy 15 to 20 minutes from the "Ranch," directly in front of La Ribera. Dorado – Good fishing early in the week with all anglers limiting although the bite has slowed some in the past few days. Roosterfish and more – Roosters have been on and off this week. The best gallo bite has been south, around Los Frailes. Fish in the 50-pound range are being released daily. Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch … The first yellowfin tuna showed this week. On Friday, the JenWren ran into a school of tuna off Los Frailes. The boat limited with the largest fish a bruiser weighing 63-pounds.
  2. Rancho Leonero Resort, East Cape BCS, Mexico A report right from the source: The week of May 4 - May 11 A report right from the source: Broadcast live on Sunday mornings on “Let’s Talk HookUp” 7-9am PDT http://www.themighty1090.com/pages/listenlive'>http://www.themighty1090.com/pages/listenlive Water - Water temps have stabilized with inshore at 77° degrees; outside 82° degrees. Air - Warm days in the mid-80's and cool evenings. The Environment: Another interesting week. Things started slowly but a couple of breezy days turned the water over and lit the fishing back up by the weekend. Most of the boats were working to the south where there has been good warm water this week A few boats went north which was a mistake as there was not much going on up there. The Bottom Line: A solid Leonero 7 on a '1-10' scale! Marlin – The striped marlin bite was again producing multiple fish for those staying with it. Again ballyhoo was the hot bait. Plenty of jumpers and tailers around, spread from the hotel to the south of Los Frailes. Dorado – The dorado bite is back on after slow days on Monday and Tuesday; Scott Curry and his brother Randy from Newport limited every day they went out. Best dorado fishing was also to the south … around Rincon and Frailes. Wahoo - Another bit of good news was that there were wahoo in the warm water south of Frailes. Biggest fish we had was 40 pounds. Roosterfish and more – There have been fish about all month, but this week they really became feeders. This is good news for all the beach fly fishermen. Plus there was pargo as well as a few cabrilla on the reefs.
  3. Rancho Leonero Resort, East Cape BCS, Mexico​ A report right from the source: The week of April 26-May 3​ Water – 77- 82° Air – Low 90's The Environment: An inconvenient swell -- most likely a weather front from up norte had inconvenient swells breaking right on the Rancho Leonero beach. This made for some tricky launching mid-week. It even prevented the bait boat from launching one morning. However, all was back to normal by the weekend. The Bottom Line: A 7.5 on a “1-10” scale! Marlin– Praise be the striped marlin! The bite remains strong. These are good-sized fish and vigorous fighters. Most stripers are being hooked just 3 to 6 miles off the beach. Just like last week, rigged ballyhoo was the most successful. Live caballito are a good choice when pitched to tailing fish. Go get ‘em. Dorado– Our early season dorado (or mahi-mahi) blitz continued. The bay past the Lighthouse (Rincon) is still producing the most fish. Rigged ballyhoo is the preferred bait. The fish were slightly bigger than last week, with the largest right around 30 pounds. Roosterfish and more–While fishing dorado in the Rincon area, most anglers gave the roosters a try. There are some really big gallo all along the beach. Best was right in front of the houses in the bay. Roosters were 50 pounds and over; all taken on the caballito. Meanwhile, back at the ranch … Pompano – Significant action was right in front of Leonero with a memorable pompano bite. Best bet is drifting live caballito and trolling them very slowly. Mixed in with the pompano are some good-sized barred pargo as well as some dorado. Good news for any kayak angler: This is all within an easy paddle!
  4. Rancho Leonero Resort, East Cape, BCS, Mexico The week of April 19-April 26, 2014 A report right from the source: Broadcast live on Sunday mornings on “Let’s Talk HookUp” 7-9am PDT http://www.themighty1090.com/pages/listenlive Water - 79-81 degrees; clear and flat all week. Air - Highs in the mid-80s; cool mornings. The Environment: Flat water, light breezes, clear skies and noisy reels followed by ceviche and margaritas. The Bottom Line: A solid Leonero 8+ on a “1-10” scale! Marlin – Off the board! Striped marlin are loving the trolled Leonero-rigged ballyhoo off the La Ribera Bank, with three or four releases a day not unusual. These are all big fish … right around 200 pounds. Dorado –The dorado were bigger and were found in greater numbers than the past couple of weeks. Most of our boats have been limiting, with the average fish around 12 pounds and some bulls pushing 40. The area around the Lighthouse has been by far the most productive with the fish biting very close to the beach on the Rincon side. Meanwhile, back at the ranch … Steven and Nicholas Lawrence, Los Angeles each landed bucket list sized roosters this week when Dia del Niño, a Mexican holiday was being celebrated. Roosterfish and more – Our big roosterfish have finally come to the party! Five days out of the past seven have produced pez gallo in the 50- to 70-pound class. These will put a bend in your rod and a curl in your hair to say nothing of brightening your disposition after a long winter. Caballito and mullet are both working, with the Lighthouse area again producing the biggest fish. Pompano – Not too many boats looking for them with marlin, dorado and roosters on everyone’s mind … but if you want to give them a try, stick around Scott Glen’s house.
  5. The Environment: Beautiful! In the past few years, the days surrounding Easter have tended to be windy, but not this year. The water has been generally flat as a tortilla. We've had warm days and cool evenings. The Bottom Line: A solid Leonero 8.5 on a '1-10' scale! Marlin – Stripers rule! One boat got 5 fish for the day; another hooked 6 and boated 3. Most fish are hitting rigged ballyhoo. One boat counted over 40 jumpers … many nearly close enough to grab over the gunwale. Not that we’d suggest that! These fish were only three miles in front of Leonero. Dorado – A continued strong bite in the bay at Rincon, just past the Lighthouse. Most fish are being taken on fly-lined ballyhoo. There are toothy needlefish mixed in with the dorado, so it’s a good idea to double up on the bait … you’ll need it. Pompano – Rancho Leonero continue to pick up good sized pompano as well as barred pargo. You’ll find ‘em by going deep at 60- to 150-feet. Best areas are directly in front of Leonero, in front of Scott Glen's house and at the Lighthouse. Roosterfish and more – Everything seemed to go quiet on the beach with not much action for our cadre of fly-fishers. This should change as spring normally brings a lot of activity accompanying the arrival of baitfish schools.
  6. Rancho Leonero Resort, East Cape, BCS, Mexico The week of April 5-April 12, 2014 A report right from the source: Water - A big temperature spike this week, the water temp range was from 77 to 81 degrees. The water was clear and flat with afternoon breezes early in the week. Air - Pleasant, cool mornings; highs in the mid 80's. The Summary: It was all about the marlin this week. Excellent striped marlin fishing with some good-sized fish in the 200-plus pound range, very concentrated right off the La Ribera drop off and south to the Light House. Boats targeting bill fish are releasing at least one per day but four or five fish released daily has not been unusual. Good dorado fishing, although not wide open, are still a couple per boat per day averaging from 10 to 15 pounds; the largest was 37 pounds. The pompano are still biting, with very light fishing pressure. The roosters really came in as well. Large schools are feeding right in front of the hotel. Hotel guests were picking off 30-pounders on iron right off the rocks in front. The Environment: Mild, warm days with mild, cool nights --- no extreme highs or lows. The Bottom Line: About a 7 or 8 on a 1-10 scale! Marlin –At least one striper per day; most boats are enjoying multiple releases outside of the area between La Ribera and Punta Colorado … almost all are on trolled rigged ballyhoo. Dorado – Rancho Leonero boats are finding bigger fish in the same area as the marlin, with schoolies closer inside … just 2 to 3 miles off the hotel. Again, ballyhoo has been working like a charm. Roosterfish –The pez gallo are really charging the beach. At dinner this past week on two nights, roosters started feeding in the water right off the hotel. Hotel anglers hurriedly swapped their forks for fishing rods and picked up some nice 20- to 30-pounders.
  7. Rancho Leonero Resort, East Cape BCS, Mexico A report right from the source: The week of March 29-April 4, 2014 Water - 73-77 warmer than normal. Beautiful mornings with some afternoon winds for the last couple of days; very mixed this week. Air - Pleasant with cool mornings and evenings, highs in the low 80s. Although cooler than last week, it's still very nice! The Environment: Water temperatures from 73 to 77 degrees are somewhat warmer than usual. Air temperature highs were in the low-80s. Mild afternoon winds. The Bottom Line: About an 8 on a '1-10' scale! Marlin – Stripers are aggressive for anglers targeting them. Multiple releases have been common; one Rancho Leonero guest released 6 striped marlin in two days. Dorado – Bite very consistent, though not wide open. They’re right in front of the hotel … feisty scrappers, in the 10-pound range. African Pompano – A real bonus the past few weeks. These are in the 15-pound range and pull like freight trains. Test your tackle, knots and willpower! Pargo and More: Good to very good bottom fishing, with some quality pargo being taken right off our docks.
  8. Our fishing continued at a good pace after last week's abrupt turnaround. Billfish action was only a few miles from the hotel. Our guys found ’em north at Punta Pescadero around the first line of shark buoys and only two miles from shore. The trick was to catch some of the bonito that gathered beneath the buoys, then immediately slow troll them, which attracted everything including blue and striped marlin, sailfish and dorado. Meanwhile, the tuna action that has been so good most of the summer has moved further down the coast to the Gordo Banks in front of San Jose del Cabo. Inshore action with light pressure is producing excellent catches of both roosterfish and jacks. Last Sunday, our friends from Animal Lovers of Mexico Association held their annual sportfishing tournament that produced nearly 20 billfish and more dorado for the 10 local boats that participated in the event. Money raised goes for abandoned pets throughout East Cape. The 7th annual "For Pets' Sake" Fishing Tournament Raising funds to spay and neuter the animals in and around Los Barriles and provide pet food for those who can't afford it! Totals for this week: (R indicates Released) 1 Blue Marlin about 350-pounds R 1 Striped Marlin R 2 Sailfish R 49 Dorado 10 Snapper 5 Sierra 3 Cabrilla 11 Roosterfish 3 Jacks Saludos, from Hotel Buena Vista Beach Resort in sunny East Cape Felipe Valdez
  9. The message has been the same, as the North wind raged for the past five days ... slow! What a bummer! This after suffering through a ridiculously slow October that is finally coming to a close with ghosts, goblins and witches lurking in the final dark night. However, the dorado have reappeared at the shark buoys, and it looks like there might be an early November marlin bite that could turn out to be memorable. Trick or treat tonight and be up early tomorrow to see if it will work on the water as well. Here are the numbers from Oct. 21-27: (R indicated released) 11 Striped Marlin 11R 3 Sailfish 3R 32 Dorado 1 Tuna 1 Wahoo 3 Amberjack 100 Snapper 3 Sierra 1 Cabrilla 7 Roosterfish 7R 5 Jack Crevalle 5R 2011 Tuesday, October 25 Fish Tale – It’s been just over a month since my last “Fish Tale” and although I have been busy with construction projects at both houses and visiting friends from California and Alaska, I have managed to wet my lines nine times between Tales. Today was beautiful; about 90 degrees on water as clear and dark blue as your imagination will take you. Lots of fishing this week, but not much catching. Tuna have been scarce and the marlin and sailfish have changed tactics. Most of the catching resulted from going to known bait-holes, turning off the engines and soaking bait (fishing with live bait) on 100 to 200 feet of line. Now, if you thought trolling for 6 to 8 hours without a strike was boring! The other 8 days of fishing we had conditions ranging from calm days like today to a day with 6 foot waves and wind. We did catch and/or release two Dorado, one tuna, four Striped Marlin, three Sailfish and a number of large Skipjack. One of the marlin was caught by the son of friends from Alaska and it was his first! We were out-smarted by at least one Wahoo, six sailfish, two striped marlin and a blue marlin. The tournaments are over for the year and the temperatures are cooling off at night. The winds are starting to change and come from the North, so I know the end of the fishing season is not far off. I won’t be fishing as much, but will keep you updated of my adventures as they come along. Attached are a couple pictures including the new arbor added to Casa Beerman for more shade during the summer. Life is Good!
  10. October 10, 2011 Recent billfish fishing included striped marlin in addition to a few blues and sails which provided the most consistent action. Unfortunately, there were many more bites than releases as most came unbuttoned before the leader was near enough to touch to make it official. With the fish moving inside the 20-mile mark, it was a quick run to find them and get the party started. While the sails seemed to be on the large side, the stripes were average and blues barely hitting the 200 mark. Tuna action fell off not because they were gone. Plenty were spotted feeding with the porpoise, but were not interested in lures or live bait. While the dorado action seem a bit on the ho-hum side, our fleet still caught nearly 10 times more of them than tuna … go figure. Inshore action was great for Captain Victor on Mosca 1. Most of the roosters landed were in the 30-pound class plus a slug of jacks working close to the beach allowed guests to post release number in double digits for the week. The numbers: (R indicates Released) 2 Blue Marlin 1R 10 Striped Marlin 8 R 11 Sailfish 10R 29 Dorado 3 Tuna 30 Snapper 3 Wahoo 6 Cabrilla 16 Roosterfish all released. 16 Jack Crevalle all released We hosted Mark Davis from Penn Big Water Adventures fishing with his buddies from Mustad Hooks; plus Jeff Pierce and Nick Honachefsky from Saltwater Sportsman, researching an article for the magazine.
  11. Emilio Valdez with his first striped marlin at 5 years old. Sorry I didn’t write last week, I was on vacation! But everything remained the same without me, just check the numbers of fish. We actually had a number of fisherman during my absence. Not bad right? The tuna continued to be in the 20 to 50 lbs range, however when the wind blew for a few days it was difficult to locate the porpoise. Billfish action took up the slack when the tuna action slowed for the anglers. Dorado action was sporadic with the fish only found on a couple of days last week, nothing consistent, just two decent days. This week we had a large group of 30 people from Tamaulipas. Fishing on eight boats they racked up: 1 blue marlin, 6 striped marlin, 10 sailfish, 1 wahoo and 3 dorado. For most of them it was their first time catching billfish (blue, striped and sailfish) and of course first wahoo. We have some pictures of this group from their awards dinner, not from the fish unfortunately. Bait continues to be plentiful, sardina, mackerel, jacks, ballyhoo, and mullet. It was a hot week, but is changing already for the following days. Let's see how it goes this week. Totals: (R indicates Released) 2 Blue Marlin 17 Striped Marlin 11R 20 Sailfish 18 R 26 Dorado 54 Tuna 2 Wahoo 1 Amberjack 4 Roosterfish 4R
  12. How do we characterize the tuna bite? Start with Hot, Hotter and Hottest. Then go from there with bent rods, aching backs, sore muscles and plates of sashimi during cocktail hour. While the tuna action continues for quality fish in the 30- to 50-pound range, our other species continue to play catch-up with dorado leading the pack. The perennial favorite, roosterfish, was not targeted by any of our anglers this week because of the excellent yellowfin tuna bite. With the warm water, sailfish releases led the way in the billfish category with only one blue marlin caught We had a total of 20 charters with the following numbers: (R indicates Released) 1 Blue Marlin 4 Sailfish 4R 5 Dorado 72 Tuna 1 Cabrilla 5 Amberjack 1 Pompano 2011 Thursday September 15 Fish Tale – My quest continues for a world record length fish. In my last ‘Tale’, I had two records and had completed all the applications, written the checks and was ready for the mail. Then I got the update from IGFA. Both had already been broken. Good news is, I was able to retrieve and VOID the checks and buy another keg of beer! More good news: I went out today and caught another record. This time a jack or almaco. The current record is 80 cm, mine was 81. Bad news – you have to exceed the existing record by 2 cm to replace it in the record books. Next week. Today starts the big Mexican holiday weekend, Independence Day. I can celebrate two Fourths of July each year. Life is Good!
  13. We did something this week that was someplace between “special” and “amazing.” We had a group from San Diego that came over to celebrate a birthday and hold a bachelor party. Besides being fishermen, these guys were surfers. On their first day, they requested two boats for a surfing\fishing trip. We took them to shipwrecks, La Fortuna and sand castles to surf; these are areas beyond Los Frailes, about 30 miles south. They said that the waves were unbelievable and it was one of the best surfing trips they had ever experienced. On their way back to the hotel they completed the doubleheader by catching dorado and tuna. There were eight anglers, four on each boat. In regards the fishing, all the action was concentrated on tuna, which is currently a wide-open bite. In the words of one angler, “They are everywhere.” Most sailfish have been found near the porpoise. There were a few dorado, which has been the case for several weeks. Numbers for this week: (R Indicates Released) 1 Blue Marlin R 14 Sailfish 14R 24 Dorado 103 Tuna 2 Snapper 1 Shark R 1 Pompano 2 Roosterfish 2R Fish Tale –Today was it was a World Record day. Three times. But I will have to see what officially stands after I apply to the IGFA for certification. This year, the IGFA started a new program for World Records called “Length.” It’s catch and release using an eight inch wide tape measure purchased from the IGFA. Since this is the first year of the program, and there is such an abundance of the species of eligible fish, I thought “Why not?” I may get my name in the World Record book at least for a short period of time. So, today was my first day to try for records. I grabbed the measure, packed a couple light line rods, picked out some bottom jigs and then loaded up on a whole lot of sardines. After discussing the day’s strategy with my boat captain Juan, we began to target different places where I knew there would be a variety of the eligible fish. The program identifies fish that are hardy and easily handled for measurement. Yeh, right … not! I identified about a dozen species of the 65-plus that are eligible. We made passes over seven fishing holes and ended up with three fish that should be World Records: A Red Snapper, Black Skipjack and a Ladyfish. The rules are fairly simple: Catch the fish, lay it on the measure, take pictures and release it so it will swim away. When measuring, the mouth of the fish is to be closed. HA! Good luck on that one. But, even better, try and get a live fish to hold still for five or more pictures. These fish are not interested in their 15 minutes. All they want to do is get back into their watery environment. The first fish I caught was the Black Skipjack and in all the excitement of the first catch, I forgot to take a picture of me holding the fish (which is required). Duh! We’ll just have to see what happens with the other two. Life is good. Beerman
  14. As a result of Hurricane Greg that passed to the west far below the Baja peninsula, we had some much needed rain followed by stronger than normal winds. The weather improved in just a nick of time for the arrival of Paco Marroquin, host of the popular Mexican TV show "Vamonos de Pesca." http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/226024_257048054312874_108304129187268_1025820_1577937_n.jpg We were greeted with excellent inshore fishing for roosterfish in the 40-pound class as well as a yellowfin tuna bite near the lighthouse that produced fish from 15 - 40 pounds. Later, we headed offshore for billfish and found a few sailfish eager to be stars in the show. Needless to say, Paco and I were delighted with the results and it should be an entertaining show to watch. Also received a note from Erik von Heideken, Metolius Climbing, from Bend, OR who visited the resort with his family earlier this summer to fly fish. "I am enclosing a few pictures from my fly fishing with young Victor aboard the Mosca. My family and I had a great time. The pool was great, as was the food, the grounds keeping and the entertainment." Victor is a great captain. Please give my regards to him and I hope to return again next year. Eric Fish Count (R indicates released) 2 Blue Marlin 1R 1 Striped Marlin R 12 Sailfish 11R 35 Dorado 81 Tuna 1 Amberjack 13 Roosterfish 13R
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