November brought the expected high number of charters among the various boats, so due to fishable and actually rather pleasant weather throughout we saw a considerable amount of fishing activity. Unfortunately the quality of the fishing took a dip about mid-month but until then especially the Yellowfin Tuna provided for some great popping. They showed up at last and especially during the second week of the month their sizes were pretty overwhelming. Literally often enough as so many hookups resulted in spooled reels and fish coming away in different other ways after often long fights. On the 9th of November Mervin treated his guests to three of those barrels all above 80kg.

Really ask myself how they found time to jig at all but obviously they did. Probably necessary to recover.

The quality spell persisted and it was not only Mervin running into battles with these monsters. Brandon`s guest caught one of which I sadly never got the foto to show you and was on the worse end of some more encounters. Sandro also had one in that range and a Marlin in those days though that one I think was caught trolling. A couple of days later it was again Mervin who set the local fishing scene buzzing as he brought in a Tuna that weighed at 100.6kg after an epic battle. To be honest I am not sure if I really want to fight such a thing on a popping rod. Surely not before a really good breakfast.

The abundance of these massive fish did not last though, so the usual school size became common catches for a few more days until also these turned ever more uncooperative. As also the jigging and even the trolling faltered despite no spell of total calm and heat, fishing became successively tougher along the second half of the month. Still it was possible to catch quality fish at least at first as a selection of Brandon`s catches from three trips along the 3rd week of the month reveal. The Sail was caught on popper btw.

Also the 19th provided returners Michael & Kristiina from Germany with a pleasant trip with a few quality jigging fish and a handful of Tuna on poppers later afternoon but long dull hours had to be overcome already.

From then the Drop Off fishing really went downhill. The Tuna hardly surfaced at all any more, the jigging bite was as good as off for days and also the trolling boats came in with very low results for our standards. In fact this massive GT caught by Greg`s guest on jig was the last real quality fish from the Drop Off I got aware of between the 20th until Thursday, so for a whole week.

This was most unfortunate for Mariano from Aquafish Argentina who had such a good time here with his guests in 2019 and now returned with 6 guests fishing for the final week of the month on two boats simultanously. Along their days the Drop Off jigging produced fish in shockingly low numbers. That was true even for the shallows and nothing special came up. Mervin managed to find the school size Tuna a very few times and on their penultimate trip even the bigger ones for a few casts which produced two fish just under 50kg.

Luckily they found better activity along their GT popping attempts around the islands getting a few decent ones and got reefed by several more. I added the rather few presentable jigging fish to this album.

All in all it was a slow and difficult week for the boats and anglers which is very sad for the group that travelled so far with high expectations after the previous successful visit. Fish were plentiful on the sonars on pretty much every spot but what can one do if they just don`t eat?

For the preceeding reports check the archive.