Scott McKenzie from Seattle and his sisters, Jana and Lauren, have fished with us many times for many years and caught all kinds of fish with us including marlin that they released. But this one was quite a story! While fishing with our Tailhunter fleet at Bahia de Los Muertos, they caught a few dorado, then saw a marlin on the surface.

They tossed a bait at it and the fish went off. Over three hours, the three of them battled the fish on a light rod and 40-pound test. However, during the first hour they almost had the fish to the boat and it was battling down and bulldogging without doing much jumping. Suddenly the big striper went ballistic as two killer whales started to chase it! During the balance of the battle, the fish stayed largely airborne trying to avoid the killer whales which circled the marlin and the panga adding quite a measure of excitement!

They finally got the fish to the boat but were not able to revive it...but the marlin probable didn't want to go back in the water anyway. The killer whales kept circling and finally swam off.

It was a worrisome week on a lot of levels. The previous week had been one of the slowest weeks of fishing for the season for no apparent reason. All the signs were there for good fishing, yet the fish just either didn't show up or just weren't ready to cooperate. It wasn't just slow, it was dead.

So, we jumped into this week not knowing what was going to happen.

As it turned out, the fishing came back to life! Maybe not full blast, but compared to the previous week, we were rocking with bent rods and good variety. Both of our fleets...the Tailhunter fleet in Las Arenas and our Tailhunter fleet in La Paz found dorado between 8 and 15 pounds on the average, but also some of the trophy bulls running 20 to 40 pounds. Limits were not uncommon and it was good to see that sometimes there were so many fish that anglers were releasing them as fast as they could go or at least kicking back the small ones! It's been a few weeks since we had that kind of bite. More so, we often had double...triple...and quadruple hookups!

Even better, for our Las Arenas fleet, where it's really been a struggle sometimes, we not only had dorado, but a surprising number of sailfish and marlin, hooked between 70 and 200 pounds. Most were released, but really did a number for some of the guys using light tackle!

As well, rooster fish showed up again between 10 and 50 pounds and we even had a few wahoo hooked up although none made it back to the boats! Add in some big bonito...jack crevalle...some pargo and snapper and it made for a pretty decent week of fishing.

Until...well...at the time of writing this, we're intently watching the weather as Tropical Storm/Hurricane Norbert may or may not make it's way into S. Baja. Every hour, it seems to change, so hopefully, it keeps heading out to sea and will let us keep hanging fish