Fishing Report Punta Cana

[Michael_Wagner]

The real start for the 2006 white Marlin season we aspected starting with the first quarter moon, 50% full, rising 8:19AM on wednesday april 5th, but last sunday march 26th charter client Jason Jones was close to a record for our local waters white marlins, moon a Waning Cresent, just 10% full, early for the season to start.
On board of our 42ft Post Intrepido with charter captain Jose Manuel Mota and mate Franklin Johansi Recio they hooked at 9:20AM, 50 minutes after leaving port, only 35 minutes lines wet, 2.5 nmls offshore, their first hit of the day on an 30lbs Penn International reel, 4.00 line on.
They enjoyed a 49 minutes stand up fight fighting one of the biggest white marlins in our local waters for the last decade, bringin a weight of 104.5lbs.
continuing the trip the charter received 3 more white marlin hits, hooking up an other one of 60lbs.
I will continue to write at least one fishing report a week on this board to keep you guys informed about our white marlin season, lasting at least til mid/end july, joined by blue marlins starting around mid june.
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check this Fishing Reports page out frequently, i'll keep it up to date
Mike
Mike's ************************ Fishing Charters S.A.
for the best fishing Punta Cana Dominican Republic

[Michael_Wagner]

this is the weekly fishing report from Mike's ************************ Fishing Charters S.A., Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
this sunday's winner is our 40ft Searay with charter captain Luis Alberto Caridad and mate Alberto Rodriguez fishing a full day charter with Jake Walker.
leaving port 8:30AM that morning, sea very calm on a beautiful sunny day on paradise island, moon a Waxing Gibbous 88% full, rising 11:48AM today on 78' front of our east coast, lines wet 25 minutes after leaving port around 2nmls offshore.
we're mid white marlin season for our local waters so used reels are 30lbs internationals, nothing bigger than 50lbs reel with 30lbs line on, at 10:00AM they got a nice hit and hooked a out of season Blue Marlin with approximately min.200lbs of weight on a penn international 30lbs, starting a nice long fight in which the fish had several advantages over his hunters. after a 90 minutes the marlin stayed on the surface, allowed the boat to close in to picture and release the tired fighter, he showed his big effective trick, the blue jumped right behind the boat, landed on the diving plattform which we have to replace now, taking her in two nice piezes, line cutted on the sharp fiberglass edge and away he was with his ballyhoo, fish been hooked in his sword close to mouth, so he'll survife his victorious fight.
boarding several dorados(mahi mahi) since then til noon Jake hooked a nice 60lbs white marlin and fought him down, the tired but unharmed animal was released without bringing him on board, on our catch & release charters we allow pictures of the tired fish only while he's in the water, if his condition seems to be fine to release him we let him go without taking him on board. i'm happy on any advise from experienced catch & release anglers, still learning, to release a billfish is absolutely unknown on our island and Mike's ************************ is the only outfitter who started a change in that behavior.
after the white marlin fight the charter took several more dorados out before heading back to coast around 4:00PM when i talked to Jake Walker via our board phone, he seemed to had a great day of fishing that lovely sunday april 9th.
to be continued
Mike

[Charlie_Helmer]

Interested in fishing for white marlin, vacation 4/29-5/7, staying at Bavaro Punta Cana. My girlfriend and I are looking to split or charter ouselves depending on price. I have a 53 Rickey Scarbough I charter so I'm not looking for the wooden boat.Is this the time to catch fish, I don't want a boat ride. Thanks Capt. Charlie Helmer.

[Michael_Wagner]

hi Charlie,
i am a cap myself, operating a 40ft Searay and a 42ft Post at the moment.
we run white Marlin season at the moment, always mixed up with sail, early blues and dorados.
your stay will be within the right moon phase, effecting the feeding of our big ones vitally.
contact me on Mike@Mikes************************.info to check the available dates for the boats, it's a last minute booking Charlie
tight lines
Mike