puerto-vallarta-fishing-report-09-06-2010

Puerto Vallarta fishing report September/06/2010
Report by Angler Brad Owings

My friend (Ricky Clark) and I went out fishing two days this
week (Monday & Tuesday). We had a third friend with us,
but on the first day the seas were 12-14 foot rollers and
raining, so he decided to stay home the second day of
fishing, big mistake. We were fishing a board a 35' Cabo
named "Ana Maria" part of the P.V. Sport fishing fleet.
Tuesday morning we headed out to "El Banko"/"The Banks"
around 5:30AM, the day was beautiful, sun shining and calm
seas. Our first hook up was a 200-250lb Blue Marlin, I lost
the fish about 20 minuets in the fight to the hook coming
out. The baits were in the water for only 10 minuets before
we hooked up. After I lost the Blue, my friend Ricky hooked
into a Striped Marlin and landed the 80lb fish in 15 minuets.
The second we released the fish the caption saw a swirl
behind the boat about 40 yards, he tossed out a live bait
and we were hooked up again with a 300lb Blue Marlin. I
landed the fish in about 20-25 minuets, released unharmed.
It was again Ricky's turn on the chair, after about one hour,
he hooked into a 400-450lb Black Marlin, this fish, was
pissed, jumped at least 20 times in the first 5 minuets of the
fight and through the hook back at us. Ricky was
disappointed but enjoyed the fight, by the way, my friend
Ricky had never been Marlin fishing prior to our trip. What a
day!

The biggest excitement of the trip came on the next hook
up, we had been fishing for about 1-2 hours before the "Big
Bite". The captain yelled, "Monster Marlin" and about that
time the fish hit the bait and the fight was on. I fought the
fish for about 2hrs, I had it at the boat four times, every time
I thought the fight was over, it would rip out another
300+yards of line. At this point I thought I was going to die...

Finally on the fifth time to the boat the fish was done, tired
out, as was I. At this point we all noticed the fish had
swallowed the hook, J-hook!!! I hate this part of the story
because we are always catch and release anglers and this
fish was almost dead. After cutting the line and trying to
revive the fish for ten minuets it showed no signs of
recovering, the fish died. Great reason to ALWAYS use
circle hooks...for now on I will require them or will not go out.

I was told the fish will be used to feed many, many families in
P.V. and I'm going to mount the head of the fish on the wall,
only because it died and that will be a replica.

So, we ended up with five hook up's that day, 2-Black
Marlin, 1-Stripe, and 2-Blue. All were released except the
Big Black. In the pictures I'm sending you will see the "Big
Black" flying through the air in two pic's and two pic's back at
the marina later that night. The "Big Black" weighed in at
756lbs, 14' long, 66" in girth. The fish was caught on 100lb
test and 150lb leader. My biggest fish to date!

Enjoy the pictures!

Brad Owings

Puerto Vallarta fishing report, by PV Sportfishing.