2017 Mazatlan
It has been an up and down year for me. Lots of happenings in my life...mostly good...but also some troubling times. I was still fishing and catching some new species, but I was quite nonchalant about it and the desire to update the blog and the lifelist simply wasn't there. I barely spent any time on the fishing forums.
Anyways...I was invited to fish in Mazatlan by my friend George, joined by our friend Josh. We graciously stayed at George's timeshare and enjoyed some luxury that we're not accustomed to. The fishing was fantastic, the food even better and what a treat it was to dip in a pool at the end of each long fishing day.
I had previous caught 33 new species from Mazatlan. I had an ambitious yet achievable target of 15 new species for this trip. But by Day 3, I upgrade that target to 20 new species and actually finished the trip with 25 new species!
If you wish to read more, you can start here and navigate through the 6 days.
http://muskiebaitadventures.blogspot.ca/2017/10/2017-mazatlan-day-1.html
If you simply wish to see fish pics...here they are.
Species #751 - Oraangemouth Weakfish (Cynoscion xanthulus) 
Species #752 - Mexican Barred Snapper (Hoplopagrus guentherii) 
Species #753 - Blackblotch Pompano (Trachinotus kennedyi) 
Species #754 - Burrito Grunt (Anisotremus interruptus) - previously misidentified the Silvergrey Grunt for this species.
Colorado Snapper (Lutjanus colorado) - previous misidentified the juvenile of this species as Pacific Dog Snapper. So I've caught this species in 2015, but this time properly identified.
Species #755 - Longfin Salema (Xenichthys xanti) 
Species #756 - Bigeye Trevally (Caranx sexfasciatus) 
Species #757 - Pacific Creole-fish (Paranthias colonus) 
Species #758 - Gafftopsail Pompano (Trachinotus rhodopus) 
Species #759 - Pacific Dog Snapper (Lutjanus novemfasciatus) 
Species #760 - Unicorn Leatherjacket Filefish (Aluterus monoceros). 
Species #761 - Threadfin Jack ((Carangoides otrynter) 
Species #762 - Grey Grunt (Haemlon scudderii) 
Species #763 - Mottled Soapfish (Rypticus bicolor) 
Species #764 - Gungo Highhat (Pareques viola) 
Species #765 - Vacuocua Croaker (Corvula macrops) 
Species #766 - Banded Wrasse (Halichoeres notospilus)
Species #767 - Longnose Puffer (Sphoeroides lobatus) 
Species #768 - Threebanded Butterflyfish (Chaetodon humeralis) 
Species #769 - Bumphead Damselfish (Microspathodon bairdii) 
Species #770 - Giant Damselfish (Microspathodon dorsalis) 
Species #771 - Tinsel Squirrelfish (Sargocentron suborbitale) 
Species #772 - Mexican Hogfish (Bodianus diplotaenia) 
Species #773 - Spotted Head Sargo (Genyatremus dovii) 
Species #774 - Mexican Lookdown (Selene brevoortii) 
Species #775 - Longfin Silverside (Atherinella eriarcha) 
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And now some non-fish pics (sorry, not many food pics on this trip since we ate at the same locations, and the same dishes, as my 2015 trip)
Homemade ceviche
Francis
Posts: 326
Date Joined: 17/06/08
Nice fish ! That Mexican
Nice fish ! That Mexican Lookdown is an interesting looking fella. Why on earth would a fish evolve and take on that shape haha
Nice pics, thanks for sharing !
Alan James
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Date Joined: 30/06/09
Interesting
Some of those pics look very similar to species we catch here in Western Australia. Despite it being a big ocean clearly some species are well scattered. Thanks for posting.
Faulkner Family
Posts: 17861
Date Joined: 11/03/08
looks like you spend too
looks like you spend too much time fishing all over the world. god i wish i had that problem.
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
Jadeo
Posts: 269
Date Joined: 08/06/15
Man there are some pretty
Man there are some pretty awesome looking fish there!
Auslobster
Posts: 1901
Date Joined: 03/05/08
I'm surprised, Ken!
That that was your first bigeye trevally...they are extremely common in most tropical locations around the world!
And those two lutjanids bear more than a passing resemblance to the mangrove jacks we get in the northern parts of Australia!
KenTse
Posts: 139
Date Joined: 23/11/10
Thanks for the kind words!
Thanks for the kind words! Australia is still one continent I wanted to explore much more. I've only visited Perth 4 days and caught 4 species. One day I hope to spend at least 2-3 weeks and fish Australia all around the continent. I know that's not much time since it is a huge continent...it could just mean I'll be jumping all over the map!