DORADO - DORADO - DORADO The dorado have arrived in Mulege. The first dorado was caught on May 1st and the numbers have been growing exponentially ever since! Just about everyone who has gone out this week has limited. Dale DeRemer, Ralph Frey and his friend Larry (no last name) went out on Wednesday and boated six dodos that weighed 6 to 26 lbs. on the scale. Ken Wright, owner of the Cuesta Real Hotel in Mulege, went fishing twice last week. On Tuesday, he and James Sherman of Hollywood, CA went out and Jim got his two first yellowtail ever. They weighed about 20-25 lbs. On Thursday, Ken nailed his second roosterfish of the year. This one weighed 45 lbs. and his passenger, Robin Champlin, who is a guest at Ken's hotel, got a 32 lb. yellowtail to go with it. On both days, they went out north of Santa Inez and trolled the large Megabait lures. Ken noted that there was a lot of bait in the water and the live bait fishermen weren't getting any hits but those who were trolling picked up the 'tails.

Guides Mateo Apodaca, "Gringo" Mexia and Alejandro Buckovecz have also been scoring very well on dorado lately. They all have been scoring 10-14 fish per trip for their clients. All the dorado have been concentrated about 15-20 miles out from the Mulege harbor entrance on a 60-75 degree heading. As Dale DeReamer put it, head out on a 60 from Mulege until you hit 27 degrees of latitude then head due east (090) until you hit 75 degree water. According to Alejandro, there are some paddies out there and where there are paddies, there are dorado.
On the "cabrilla" scene, Marty Robison, Dave Landgraf, Gene Lee, "Kalamity" Jane Brooks and others have been having a lot of success on a reef just north of Santa Inez where they've been boating 8-14 cabrilla up to 18 lbs. every trip. Marty took time out from harassing the cabrilla last week to take Sharon & John Ferrelli and their two daughters Geena and Sarah out for some dorado fishing. They went out 18 miles on a 65 degree heading where the girls boated a couple of nice dorado, a 25 lb. bull and a 10 lb. hen. Welcome to Mulege girls!!! Sharon is the daughter of Mulege residents Tom and Patti Higginbotham. Marty also recounted the story where he and Rafael Cuesta Meza were trolling for cabrilla when Marty snagged a 40 lb. sting ray in the wing. He said it took about 20 minutes to land the fish (?) but boat it they did. Just like a bullfighter, Marty got the tail and Rafa got the fish to take home to eat.

That's the roundup for this week. I'm sure I missed a lot of stories about the action but I'll try to get them in next week's report. Until then, sea ya on the water.

Rick:

I posted a reply to your previous report, but you've probably been a little too busy fishing to see it If you could give me your thoughts on those questions, it would be greatly appreciated. From reading your posts, it looks as though the action is hot, but the trek to get to the fish is beyond a kayak's range (or past this kayaker's range to say the least). We're trying to see how realistic it is to plan a trip to Mulege and use it as a home base to paddle from directly, as well as to make runs to San Nicholas / San Sebastian and up to San Lucas.

Again, if you could read the original post, it would be appreciated.

Thanks.