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March 14, 2003

Pete Thomas, L.A. Times

First Hints of Spring Fever Creep North

Spring may still be a week away, but spring fever has already reached epidemic proportions south of the border and is working its way north.

"Unusual? It's unheard of for this time of year, really," Jeff DeBuys, skipper of the Red Rooster III, said Wednesday of his encounter two weeks ago with a large school of albacore 340 miles south of his home port in San Diego. "It's really interesting because [another boat] found some albacore 140 miles below where we found ours, so that makes me think there are a lot of fish in the area."

Albacore fever usually doesn't set in until June or July, but with fish off Baja California so early, and presumably migrating slowly northward, it may start much sooner this year.

As for the Red Rooster III, it will arrive Saturday morning after a 20-day trip to Hurricane Bank and Clipperton Atoll, where giant yellowfin tuna and slender wahoo were the main attractions.

"We only caught a handful of albacore on our way down because we had to get a move on," DeBuys said.
 

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