San Cristobal, Galapagos Islands

The last few days have been a mixture of emotions. We are sad to know about our friend Jose Wejeve's trajic death in a plane crash April 6, 2012. Jose was truly one of the best anglers, mentors and ambassadors the sport fishing world has witnessed. He will be missed.

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Now on to the fishing... The water has remained 77 to 79 F in most areas we covered. Rosa Blanca had a bit more bait and some marlin were raised there as well. However 88 Banks has been much more productive for stripes.

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April 5th, 2012 on-board the Big Fish we picked up Brian Temple's group of 4 anglers in Baltra. The airlines screwed up the direct flight to San Cristobal so now it was time to pick up anglers from Baltra and show them some fishing on 0-30 Bank. Unfortunately two anglers got dizzy and we call it an early afternoon. Brian and Al went back out to do some bottom fishing near San Cristobal and a few nice groupers were caught for dinner.

April 6th, 2012 we headed out on the Big Fish to Rosa Blanca. Tunas were the story of the day and a few boobies were diving. Bait was seen on the monitor and the ocean conditions were nice and calm. We managed to raise a stripey on the Honey Hole which appeared totally electric blue while chasing the dredge. We were able to get it to bite a bait but on a short run it spit the ballyhoo. Later in the day we would get a double raise of stripeys to end the day with 4 nice big eye tunas and 3 striperys raised and 1 bite.

April 7th, 2012 we headed out on the Big Fish to 88 Bank. Sea conditions were very calm and a small storm made the last 10 miles a bit choppier but the wind died down and by 10:30 AM the ocean was smooth. The bank had bait and the action started close to 11:00 AM. The fishing was nonstop through the day and eahc angler had 2 to 3 shots at marlin. We wound up raising 16 stripeys with 11 bites and 6 released. A very fun day and everyone caught 1 or 2 stripeys.

April 8th, 2012 a day to do a little snorkeling, tuna fishing and bottom fishing. The general inshore fining was slower than usual but the group had fun and enough fish were caught to have a great dinner prepared at the Miconia. The highlight of the day was Al's 15 lb Galapagos grouper.

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