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 News from Around Banderas Bay | October 2005 
Big Yellowfin Taken Off Puerto Vallarta
 Ed Zieralski - Union-Tribune
A group of California fishermen has invaded Puerto Vallarta in recent weeks and turned in some incredible catches of yellowfin tuna from those fertile fishing grounds in the Pacific Ocean.
San Diegan Don Burnside started it with a 313-pound yellowfin, taken on Stan Vath's Tin Knocker, a 60-foot Hatteras that Vath runs out of Paradise Village's Nuevo Vallarta Marina, north of Puerto Vallarta.
"Don's 313-pounder was our first fish of the season, which was a great start, but a tough one to follow," said Vath, whose home is in Oxnard.
Coronado's Bob Dawson checked in next with a 226-pound yellowfin, landed last week on the Tin Knocker. It was Dawson's 29th yellowfin of more than 200 pounds in a long-range fishing career that includes many trips on Bill Poole's Excel.
On Wednesday a group of anglers approached Vath's Tin Knocker in the harbor and asked to weigh a fish on the boat's certified scale.
"They thought they had a 280-pound yellowfin, but when we put it on our certified scale, it went 301 pounds," Dawson said. "Turns out the guy, Mark Stoneking, is from Escondido. He and his buddies (Greg Motshagen and Mike Reese) trailered their 25-foot WellCraft boat (The Unreel) here, like a 36-hour run."
Dawson said word yesterday afternoon at the marina was that the charter boat, Yolaray, had a giant yellowfin that weighed in at 383 pounds, 5 pounds, 12 ounces off the IGFA all-tackle world-record mark. |
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