It’s been years since I last fish for Dorados at Laiya Batangas.  Last Sunday I had a chance to do so.
We left Manila 12mn and arrived at Laiya around 2:30am with the weather not cooperating very well. But no matter, we had a few hours of waiting and hoping that the rain subsides when the sun comes up. We took a nap inside Alan’s Revo until around 5:30am when we decided to call our boatman, Roger. It took quite a while for us to get ready, Roger had …

November 2, 2008. Yeah, it was All Souls Day. But it was a free day for most of the FilAnglers. So we headed off to Brgy. Pundaquit, San Antonio, Zambales for some fishing. A few of us already caught some good sized game in Pundaquit, JL caught a 4kg King Mackarel and a 11kg Yellow Fin Tuna, Alan Caught a 12kg King Mackarel, I caught a 6kg King Mackarel and a 4.5kg Trevally. We were hopefull that the group will get a good haul.
We …

Yellow-fin Tuna (Thunnus albacares ) reach a maximum size of 450 pounds. Yellowfin have thick round, elongated bodies, dark blue or black above with yellow on the sides and fins tinged in yellow with the finlets yellow and can be found in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Yellowfin Tuna are a highly prized gamefish. They are schooling fish that toils on the deeper part of the ocean. They will undoubtedly burst onto the surface when feeding and running after baitfish. Schools of tuna will sometime set up residence on the …

Capones and Camara Islands are small Islets located in the area of Pundaquit town in San Antonio, Zambales. A mere 45 min. bus ride from Subic or a 3-hour from Manila (Victory Liner station in Monumento)
JL, Randy and I, already went there a month or two ago. We came there almost after a storm, ended up soaking wet, and caught a few small snappers, groupers but none were notable sized. I caught two papakols around a kg each but I wasn’t able to take a pic. I think it’s still …