March Madness Puerto Vallarta Fishing
March has started off with a BANG. The weather has been perfect sunny skies 80 deg.
light winds with the water temp up to 72 deg and moving up. The bay fishing has been
great. Lot of jack carvalles ,tunas and snapper. On some days we caught the jacks schooling
over by Yelapa and could not keep them off the line. We tried to run some skip baits, well
more jacks, ran some wahoo lures, more jacks. We were hooking 5 at a time. Lot of action.
There were some blue sharks mixed in with the jacks a few days. Lot of fun to catch.
The offshore has been good but not great unless you are willing to spend a lot of money on
fuel and time. The tuna have been going off like crazy at Marias Islands. Good friend caught
5 huge ones 200 plus and 30 med ones in the same day. These are 2 day trips as the run out there is
a 70 mile run but can pay off big. Lot of stripped marlin mixed in with these tuna. When the tuna
were schooling they would hit just about anything. Yo zuri lures working good on the troll.
The best bet has been out by the Marietas islands which can be done in 8 hrs trip. There has been
huge roosterfish, snapper,pargos,spanish mackerel,bonita,sailfish and mahi mahi when the water has
been clear. The roosterfish has been eating the rapalas up along with cookies we catch while trolling
for the spanish mackerel. The cookies are bigger than google eye and the roosterfish love them. The
snapper have been taking live bait and rapalas as well. Diamond jigs have been working as well.
The fishing is holding strong and will only continue to get better are the water temp keeps going up.
For more info on fishing here in Puerto Vallarta Mexico I can be reached toll free 1 877 3012058
or just go to my web site www.travelvallarta.com
Tight Lines
Capt Peter Vines
ps along with the great fishing we have been having the whales , huge manta rays and dolphin are still here in the bay
