Off to Furuno

[Down East Guide]

Although we've had a couple decent days this week, caught 9 and 2 nice blue marlin 3 days ago, followed by a blue one and a handful of sails the next day......but those reports keep coming in about some big numbers off of the Furuno Bank. We'll be checking out that today, spending the night on the reef and getting after them early tomorrow. Hopefully a good report and pics to follow.

Nice to have a fish hungry crew and a group of guys willing to do something different.

More to follow,

George

[gottaflylee]

Good Luck George, standing by for your report. Meantime here at home the weather and water is warming and the fish are turning on. See ya soon...

[Capt Josh]

Go gettum George! Looking forward to the report when you get back!

[Down East Guide]

Got back yesterday afternoon, pics and complete report to follow as soon as I get them downloaded and sorted out. The quick report, 28 sails on the way there, the best of it was the afternoon bite, anchored up on the Furuno and had a great dusk and daylight snapper bite, catching 38 of them, then 14 more sails on the way home, plus the tuna.....

[Down East Guide]

Here are an assortment of sail shots.

We started out on the 26 looking for live bonito to carry offshore, we only caught 3, but in the hour that we trolled around, we caught 2 sailfish on the only ballyhoo that we had out there. James was ribbed a little bit about cutting us short, if he can catch 2 sails while fishing 0 teasers and 1 bait, imagine if he stepped it up and put out a full spread.......

We did run into a shcool of tunas and got a good bite out of one of those big sickle fins that nearly dumped a 50, pulling off when he made the turn and came back to us.

James arrived on the scene just in time to piss on the coals, we caught a heavy handful, then things slowed until the afternoon bite that James predicted fired up. We ended up with 28 sails on day one. Running into Furuno we found the tunas again and caught a nice 40 pounder with just enough time to get to the reef for a few drifts, catching a dozen nice yellowtails.

Not much too the nighttime snapper bite, but it was on at daylight, catching another 25 snappers, including a rock snapper and a 20 pound cubera. I pulled off a BIG cubera.

Loaded the tubes full of live bonitio, hoping for another chance at those big tuna, working our way back to Los Suenos. We caught enough sails to bring the two day total to 42.

The bite is getting closer to home every day, making this good fishing available out of Los Suenos.

[SeaBiscuit]

Nice fishing captain George! You are a lucky man!
SeaBiscuit

[gottaflylee]

Sweet George, somehow missed this report. Nice to see you gotum, now go kick butt in leg 2!

Great pictures, see ya when you get home brother...

[CFScheer]

What were you catching the snappers on at foruno?

[Down East Guide]

Exclusively on Shimano butterfly jigs and the Lucanus jig. One big bite on a live bonito.....but I pulled him off.

130-150 feet of water.

When they're really aggressive, the butterfly jig rules, but when the bite is slower, I've seen the Lucanus outfish the mariposa 3 to 1.

My humble and limited observations........

[CFScheer]

I like your observations. Thats the same way I fish em at foruno! It's a great place to fish. When the trolling and live bait fishing is slow you can go to one of the many bottom marks and drop some lead...never know what kind of snapper you're going to catch either.

You ever catch any strawberrry groupers at foruno? They've been thick down near Cano this dry season.