Rancho Leonero Report 6/13 to 6/23

Mahalo Chuck for posting those pictures.  Those are some nice fishes and I bet you guys had a great time.  I told myself that I need to do one of those trips down south.

Looks like everyone had a great time.
Glad to hear you all made it back safely.

Great pics!!!!  Sounds like another fantastic trip.  Can't wait to see the rest of the pics/stories when the others return.

BTW, that's a really cute looking mackerel 

Stuart

There are some fish... even a fishsniffer pose won't help.   

Sorry Chuck, couldn't resist.




Looks like a ton of fun and lots of action!   

Fuzz and Stu don't you recognize a "softball" tuna.... Sorry Chuck , you know we love you..

Nice going people....Chuck did that yellow tail come in the resealable type bag or the key type tin totally jealous. Frank

Eww. I hate you guys. 

Glad you guys made it back safe and sound. Cute little bugger Chucke. When you said you hooked into a little yellow fin, you really meant "little". I know everybody is capping on your catch but I still can't believe that Terry got is ass handed to him by a little toro... The East Cape isn't anything like Clear Lake, did somebody forget to tell him to tighten his drag? 2 1/2 hours is about 2 hours too long... That is too funny. Looks like a great trip though. Wish I could've made it... I'm looking forward to getting back down there next year... I hope.

Freddie

Great pics and variety there

Terry fishing in the Ocean ???? Unimaginable

Terry fishing in the Ocean ???? Unimaginable

INCONCEIVABLE!!


Z

What a trip! A trip of a lifetime! Here are a couple of random pic's.

Great pics!!!!  Sounds like another fantastic trip.  Can't wait to see the rest of the pics/stories when the others return.

BTW, that's a really cute looking mackerel 

Stuart

There are some fish... even a fishsniffer pose won't help.   

Sorry Chuck, couldn't resist.




Looks like a ton of fun and lots of action!   

Fuzz and Stu don't you recognize a "softball" tuna.... Sorry Chuck , you know we love you..

Softball....looks more like T-Ball 

Chuck, tell the rest of the story, you bridled that baby up and trolled it around for billfish right?   




Looks like a killer trip guys, those roosters are pigs.  I'm jealous.

looks like Zilla had too many chilies in his FishTacos! ...ouch

I'm speachless!  Thanks for sharing the pictures 

I had a great time on this outing.  Everyone on the road trip and the NCKA guys at the ranch were great!  I picked up the nickname Aquaman and I wanted to use it as my screen name, but it was already taken. I have a lot of pictures and video to post, but I am going to start with some fish porn.  My buddy Greg and I stayed at a resort in La Vantana near La Paz for 3 days because we wanted to spearfish at Isla Cerralvo (http://www.palapasventana.com/).  We had a blast and I had the best stroke of luck in my spearfishing career. 

Our panga driver dropped us off on a pinnacle near the island and told us there could be wahoo there. I leveled off at 40 feet on  my first dive and immediately saw a small wahoo.  I took a shot at it and missed.  The water was very clear (60-80 feet of visibility) and the wahoo was way out of range.  I grabbed my tuna gun, took a few more dives and started dropping a CD down as a flasher.  I saw some yellowtail swim by so I shot one for shashimi.  I got a good shot and landed the fish.  Then I shot my first wahoo.  It put up a great fight and tasted delicious.  I shot a small amber jack off the same pinicle.  I saw 6 other wahoo, but then the current slacked off and all the fish left.  I was exctactic that I whot a wahoo so I gave the panga a nice tip and half the wahoo. 

The next day we moved to a reef that was 45-65 feet deep and started diving for dog tooth pargo.  I was laying on top of the reef when a "big" pargo stuck his head out of a hole.  I got a perfect stone shot on him and landed my first dog tooth without bending my spear  .  About an hour later I was laying on top of the reef with my flashers trailing out behind me when a    amber jack swam in front of me.  I thought it was about 30 pounds.  I lined up a head shot and also stoned that fish.  when I got my hands on it I realized it was much bigger.  It weighed in at 55 pounds.  My friend Greg was having a slow trip up intill this point.  He shot a nice yellowtail and a dog tooth pargo. 

The 3rd day we went back to the pargo reef.  We had seen some really big pargo (45-60 pounds) but they were too far to take a shot at that would be precise enough to ensure that we would land the fish.  I was laying on the reef and saw Greg shoot and stone a 35 pound dog tooth, but his slip tip failed to deploy and the fish came off his spear.  Luckily Greg's shot was perfect and the fish was paralyzed.  I put a second shot in the fish and we were able to land Greg's biggest pargo.  After that I pulled out my underwater video camera and started filming Greg hunting on the reef.  He shot another pargo and I got it on film.     

OK!....who's in on the next one? and WHO/WHERE do I send my $,$$$ to?

July 11th to 16th -- punta colorada....

a week or so ago jim s asked me if i knew anyone else that wanted to go, as he still had one space left....

I had a great time on this outing.

Thanks for posting up Justin, I didn't realize you were back.  Nice fish.