Puerto Vallarta Fishing Report, Puerto Vallarta Sportfishing in March

Captain Steve Torres and Freddy have been on the tuna hunt even though it is late in the season. Captain Steve found a great boil of Yellowfin off-shore about 20 miles past the El Banco recently. It was about a 70 mile run from the Marina Vallarta.
We left the docks last Tuesday a little before 4 am and hit the fishing grounds about 7 am. Right as we approached the Island we saw a nice flock of birds and smaller tuna jumping. Captain Steve hollered, "smaller tuna jumping early means the big bite after 2 in the afternoon!" After we boated the first tuna we caught up with the school. As soon as we starting drifting again, there was another bite, then another, then one more--all about the same size: 30 -50 lbs. That got everyone’s blood pumping! We kept catching one tuna after another with one more triple hook up. By 2 pm we decided to get a little further away from the Island and try for the bigger tuna. We only moved about a mile when Captain Steve spotted more birds and suddenly we were back on top of them. All of us saw a big splash in the water behind us. This was much bigger then we had seen all day, and 5 minutes later we were hooked up again with a Yellowfin weighing about 120 lbs to top the day. Total catch for the day, eleven Yellowfin tuna; 30-60 lb range, and one about 120 lbs.
That's a great day of off-shore fishing in March for Puerto Vallarta!