Mexico Yellowfin Tuna & White Marlin

We had a great 3 days trip to Mexico with Captain Greg from High-Spirited Adventures.
Captain Greg contacted us to come check out the operations and see the potential, I posted the open spot on Facebook and Bryan and Bogdan immediately joined me on the trip.
We had a direct flight to Puerto Vallarta from Newark, easy access, fast clearance at immigration and customs and we were welcomed by Captain Greg at the airport after 4 hours and 50 minutes of flying.
On the first day we ran close to shore and we encountered 9 marlin on topwater were we sight casted to them and had them interested with our presentation, Bogdan succeeded on getting a strike and hooked his first ever topwater Blue Marlin, the fish took a Tackle House Britt 120mm in green.
We saw lots of life and tuna busting, and as the day progress the bite started to get better and better. We had multiple shots at them and we ended the day peacefully after spending hours on the water.
On the 2nd day the weather eased down a bit and we made the run to the Tres Maria Island, the area was dead with no life at all, couple of birds here and there looking around.
We saw a charter boat drifting by us over and over again but we did not see them catch a single fish, the only fish we saw was caught from a local boat that was drifting a kite, it might be that the area have been hammered badly since they open it to the public.
With all that being said we did not stop casting and we did drifts after drifts casting 200g popper hoping to raise a monster from deep under with no success.
Sure enough that decision was a good one, upon our arrival to the fishing ground we started seeing tuna on topwater and as the day progress the bite got better and better to the point where we were surrounded by yellowfin tuna all round us and under us, the ocean erupted in anger with fish busting in every direction with sizes ranging from 40lb to 200lb class fish.
We had multiple shots on topwater and on the jig, the CB One jigs such as the Quick Zero1 & Zero1 did most of the damage where Bryan get smashed with a descent fish and landed a butter ball solo.
Bogy had an amazing memorable explosion on his Hammerhead Cherry Pai 200 in squid color, we thought for a second that a meteoroid just hit the water.
The Race Point 250 did the magic not to mention the way bogy handle the fight and the best gaff man onboard 😊 congrats on that beautiful fish Bogdan, awesome work!!
I will summarize that great trip and let the pictures do a bit of justice and lastly I will take this opportunity to thank Captain Greg from High Spirited Adventures and his wife Kristin for the hospitality and the great service, we will be back soon.
Tackle used:
Rod: Race Point 250, 100, Monster Ledge 300,250ST, 200ST, OBX-400, Ghost Hunter
Reel: Stella Shimano 18k, 14k, Daiwa Saltiga 5500H
Line: Jerry Brown 100lb, Momoi Prototype
Leader: Saltywater Tackle Twsited Leader:
Lures: Hammerhead, Tackle House Shibuki, Britt,
Hooks: BKK, Shout
Belt: Centaur
Tight lines
Sami

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Fantastic video.

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La corveteña Sammy 👍🏽