Cubera Bonanza !

Last week of April, the dry season conditions are oficially gone. Water has warmed up a lot and the sardines and resulting frenzy are scarce. In fact, numbers have been particularly low this week, but damn the cubera snappers were playful ! When coming to fish the Tuna Coast, it's a good idea to arrive with an open-mind as one of the key to avoid disapointment is being able to adapt to what, and how it's biting at the moment. It can be so different from week to week... For example, in March, it was all about popping the shoreline. Action was intense, but trophy fish were scarce. Some weeks the jigging prevails, sometimes one or more specie is abundant while others are absent. Some weeks have a bit of everything, and unfortunately some weeks are slow. Perhaps more than elsewhere, no 2 weeks are the same, and if you ask me "what should I expect ?", I would have a hard time giving a short answer...
So, our Captains have learned to adapt to the ever-changing conditions. This particular week, the best thing there was to do was using the heavy rod over the big fish marks. And that's what we did for the most part. Cuberas were biting good, many were lost and good numbers were landed. One angler landed 4 and lost 11, amazing numbers considering the specie. It was all about "going big or going home". To illustrate that, the day I went out with some of the guests, we fished the big popping rod for the most part of the day. Between the 4 of us we landed only 4 fish besides the bits and bobs not even worth mentioning. You would think it was a bad day but each one of us landed a trophy cubera snapper, and the other fish was one was the biggest rainbow runner I've seen with my own eyes. In the end everybody thought we had a great day ! Oh, and we (or rather me, to be honnest) also lost another monster cubera snapper...