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Women make up about 33% of fresh water anglers and
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Jul 25, 2011; 01:23PM - Cabo Bite Report
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FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrum
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
http://captgeo.wordpress.com/
Cabo Fish Report
July 18-24, 2011
WEATHER: Once again we had an interesting week with the threat of Hurricane Dora. Thankfully it became a non-event with the exception of some very large swells on Thursday and Friday. We were hoping for some decent rain but that did not happen, we got a bit of cloud cover on Saturday. Our days have been staying in the high 90's to just over 100 and the nights have had slightly lower temperatures at 82-85 degrees.
WATER: Hurricane Dora brought in large swells and the Port was closed Saturday morning because of them and the threat of very gusty winds. We did have the gusty winds for a few hours in the morning and then they settled down. With the swells spaced far apart the water was comfortable. At the end of the week we had a defined temperature break on the Pacific side with water to the inside of the San Jaime Bank and just outside the Golden Gate Bank being a warm 84 degrees while the water to the outside was a cooler 77-80 degrees and the change was a very sharp edge. On the Cortez side the water in front of Cabo and San Jose was a very even 84 degrees and as you got toward the East Cape it warmed to 88 degrees.
BAIT: Caballito and Mullet were the baits of the week with a few Mackerel in the mix. Everything was the normal $3 per bait.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: The bite was decent for Striped Marlin on the Pacific side early in the week, not great, but all right. A few boats were able to release tow or three but most boats did well for one release a trip. Blue Marlin have begun to show more often as the water keeps warming up and that has the anglers and crews excited. A few of the fish caught have been over 400 pounds but most have been in the 200-250 pound class. With no real concentration of them, it was exciting to know that once could appear in the pattern at any moment.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: It was exciting to start the week with some great fishing for Tuna in the 20-40 pound class, then disappointing to see all the purse seiners show up. Perhaps the threat of Hurricane Dora chased them away, but most of them were very low in the water when they did leave. For whatever reason, they were not out there on Thursday, and with the large rolling swells, no wind and no seiners around, the boats had a great time on fish that ranged in size from 20 pounds to 80 pounds. There were quite a few 50-60 pound fish caught, very nice to see them in the fish box! Most of the action was taking place to the south and west, but there were also reports of some real large fish being taken in the area of the East Cape. In our immediate area almost any boat that wanted was able to put between 6 and 12 of these quality fish in the box.
DORADO: I think I have to say that Dorado were the fish of the week for us, and probably will be this coming week as well. We the Tuna were mostly offshore a way, the Dorado bite really turned on off the beach on the Pacific side. With boats catching between four and 12 a trip and with the fish ranging in size from 10 to 50 pounds it was a good direction to go! There were a lot of happy anglers at the end of the day.
WAHOO: I saw a few wahoo flags this week but did not have a chance to talk to the anglers or crew to find any particulars.
INSHORE: Early in the week the inshore fishing was good with large Roosterfish to 50 pounds (most of them smaller at 15 pounds), some decent Amberjack and Grouper. The Swells really affected the inshore fishing as it was dangerous to get too close when the started and then at the end of the week the water was too green as a result of the heavy pounding.
FISH RECIPE: My recipe has been taking too much space so if you want to see it, check out my wordpress blog a little later in the week, or subscribe to the blog and you will receive an email as soon as I post it. Sorry about this last weeks no show, I got busy and forgot!
NOTES: As usual, this is written on Sunday morning so being the first full day of fishing since Hurricane Dora I will not have any updated information until late this afternoon. I will try to get an update out either tonight or tomorrow morning.
Until next week, tight lines!
I will be posting more to my blog now, please go to http://captgeo.wordpress.com/ and subscribe, you will be sent a notice every time I post a new article. Please feel free to send suggestions or if you have any ideas for articles. Thanks George
Gordo Banks Pangas
San Jose del Cabo
July 24, 2011
Just like across most of the United States, we are also dealing with high
temperatures and humidity here in Southern Baja. The main interest this week has
been following the development of Hurricane Dora and closely watching its projected
path. Dora had become an extremely powerful category 5 storm before encountered
cooler water temperatures and upper sheer that has caused it to no rapidly weaken.
It is just over 200 miles from Cabo San Lucas now, Cabo San Lucas Marina was closed
Friday, but a handful of charters did launch from La Playita/Puerto Los Cabos Marina
on Friday, though for Saturday both Ports are slated to be closed. Dangerous surf
conditions of 12 feet or more are pounding local beaches, but there has not been any
rain or wind to speak of yet. It looks like we have escaped another close call,
though some rainfall as the system dissipates would be welcome.
Schooling dorado moved in throughout the region this past week, the majority of the
fish were juveniles under ten pounds, but there were larger fish mixed in, so
remember to release the young fish and fill your limit with larger specimens. The
dorado were striking on a combination of lures and bait. There were mullet,
caballito and jurelito available for bait, as well as some small sized sardinas that
have showed up in the last few days, these sardinas need to grow some, at this size
they plug the filters on the bait tanks.
The yellowfin tuna bite was hit or miss, some tuna were found further offshore
traveling with porpoise, but this was no guarantee and often over 20 miles out.
Yellowfin tuna were only found in limited numbers near Iman and San Luis Bank, early
in the week there was one tuna caught from a local panga that was in the 170 pound
class, a handful of other yellowfin in the 20 to 50 pound range were accounted for,
but anglers were lucky to catch one of them.
Water temperatures were above 80 degrees in most areas, strong currents caused water
clarity to change from day to day. Southern swells made for choppy conditions much
of the week. Schools of bolito and some smaller yellowfin are now found on the
offshore fishing grounds and this has attracted some larger sized black and blue
marlin. Several black marlin were hooked into this week, problem was that the
majority were on lighter tackle and were lost after extended battles, at least a
couple of medium sized blacks were landed out of the Puerto Los Cabos Marina. There
are a few sailfish and striped marlin to round out the billfish action, several of
the stripers were of impressive size.
Inshore action for roosterfish and dogtooth snapper is tapering off, in fact just
like last week, there were several large roosterfish landed while trolling bolito on
the offshore banks. The few dogtooth snapper that were accounted for also came from
deeper rock piles. Cabrilla, grouper, snapper and amberjack were being hooked into,
no big numbers, but some quality fish, striking on yo-yo jigs and various baitfish.
The local panga fleets launching out of La Playita/Puerto Los Cabos Marina sent out
approximately 48 charters for the week, with anglers reporting a fish count of, 1
black marlin, 13 striped marlin, 4 sailfish, 19 yellowfin tuna, 260 dorado, 58
various pargo, 9 dogtooth snapper, 18 cabrilla, 15 grouper, 17 amberjack, 16
roosterfish and 22 jack crevalle.
Good fishing, Eric
GORDO BANKS PANGAS
Eric Brictson
Owner/Operator
800 4081199
Los Cabos 1421147
ericgordobanks@yahoo.com
www.gordobanks.com
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