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San Clemente Woman Hooks up 1st Yellowtail of the Season

Deborah Marie Kravitz also lands the first mahi mahi on the year caught in American waters.

A San Clemente woman has become the first person of the 2013 saltwater fishing season to land a yellowtail from the Dana Point commercial sport-fishing fleet.

On Friday, Deborah Marie Kravitz, reeled in a 10.4-pound yellowtail.

“We had a great day with Captain Calvin and his incredible crew on board the HELENA,” Kravitz said in a press release. 

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She also “doubled-down” by being the first angler in all of SoCal to land the first dorado in USA waters. (Others have been caught out of San Diego but were secured in Mexican waters.) Her dorado, or mahi mahi, came in at 15.7 pounds.

Kravitz is the vice president of operations for Capital Familia, a mortgage company that specializes in servicing the Latino housing market, and has lived in San Clemente for the past four years.

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