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| Not all animals with the word fish in their names count as fish. |
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| As of 2020, there were 34,000 known fish species around world. That’s more than the number of species in all other vertebrates: birds, reptiles, mammals, and amphibians combined. |
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| Taste Buds ? Catfish have a more refined sense of flavor than humans. Our 10,000 taste buds may seem like a lot, but catfish can have as many as 175,000. This helps them find the exact location of their next meal. |
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From Jan 01, 1999 To Sep 22, 2025
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Dec 16, 2002; 12:05PM - 'Fly Hooker Daily Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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FLY HOOKER FISH REPORT FOR DECEMBER 9, 2002
Today is the third of three for our friend
David Reese and pals Mike and James. After the
action on the Dorado yesterday they were hoping for
a repeat, but it was not to be. They
returned to the same area but this time the whole
day was a boat ride. They saw no Marlin or
Dorado today. We sure are glad they managed to get
100 pounds of fillets on the first two days!
Thanks David, we look forward to seeing you again
sometime in April!
FLY HOOKER FISH REPORT FOR 10 DECEMBER, 2002
Today was booked by Dennis Bracken for himself
and five friends. He had originally wanted
five days with us but we were only able to give him
three, so for the last two days he fished
another boat. Well, he was not able to figure out
how to call us once he arrived and even though
he knew where the boat was, he booked another boat
for today. We found this out this morning
as he and his group passed by the gate to E Dock on
their way to the other boat. Wish we had
known as we turned down other charters for him and
could have gotten a trip for today.
FLY HOOKER FISH REPORT FOR 11 DECEMBER, 2002
Dennis Bracken and his group showed up at 7:10
this morning, a bit the worse for wear after
last night. Juan said they slept most of the day.
Juan and Manuel worked the area off of the Los
Arcos and Juan said they had one Marlin eat a live
bait tossed in front of it, but the fish got the
bait, not the hook. That was all the action for
the day.
FLY HOOKER FISH REPORT FOR 12 DECEMBER, 2002
Dennis Bracken had his brother come down to see
me yesterday afternoon and cancel todays
trip but we were able to put together two of our
repeat clients who were in town and wanted to
fish. Mike Henstra is vacationing with his wife,
her sister and her mother so he said he would be
happy to share a boat with Mike and Teresa rather
than go shopping. Juan and Manuel went 25
miles to the south looking for a band of warm water
that is approaching but found nothing once
they got there, it was on the way back when they
got a strike and that was a nice 35 pound
Wahoo that Teresa got to reel in. Good dinner
material!
FLY HOOKER FISH REPORT FOR DECEMBER 13, 2002
Today was a payback to our webmaster for all
his effort in building and maintaining our
website. Hats off to Mr. Phil Orr! Myself, Phil,
and our friends Leon and Robert were supposed
to go and Phil had also invited a couple of the
guys he works with at the golf course. Robert
missed the boat as he ended up waiting somewhere
else for us and he had a cooler of chicken and
ribs! Thank goodness Leon showed up with six box
lunches! One of the guys invited by Phil
showed up, Miguel, and this was his first time to
go fishing. We decided to try deep dropping
some live bait off the lighthouse at the beginning
of the trip and worked that for about an hour
and a half with no response from the fish except
for one bait getting scarred and taking a lot of
line but not getting eaten. Then we went in and
fished the area off the beach between the
lighthouse and Punta San Cristobal (Los Arcos) for
Sierra. Miguel got one to the boat and Phil
farmed one. The action shut down and we headed
offshore looking for something larger. Not
until the tail end of the trip did we find anything
except the large Black Porpoise, and as we were
returning to the marina we hooked up a Dorado right
outside the lighthouse, where we began the
morning deep dropping live bait! It was a nice
fish about 20-25 pounds and delivered up some
good fillets!
FLY HOOKER FISH REPORT FOR DECEMBER 14, 2002
Our new friends Sonny and Randy fished our boat
today. They went out on another boat
yesterday with friend Gary but Gary instructed the
Captain to return after three hours out, he
didn�t want to get that far away from town. They
caught a Dorado yesterday and would like to
catch some more of them today, but Gary is going to
stay ashore and they invited me to go along.
We wanted to be sure to get fish in the boat for
them and started out by working the are off the
beach between the lighthouse and San Cristobal for
about an hour, picking up two Sierra of about
4 pounds each. When the action had been slow for
about a half hour I suggested that we head
offshore to look for something larger. We worked
the deep water for several hours until we saw
a Marlin free jumping about a half mile away.
Another boat spotted it too and were there before
we were. In the same are there were a couple of
Frigate birds circling around way up high so we
decided to try and slow troll the area with live
baits. About 30 minutes after starting to slow
troll
there was action on Randy�s bait. It zipped out
line a few times and there was a big swirl behind
it. Juan had the rod in hand, ready to set the
hook when the rod on Sonny�s side dipped a little
and the line started to sing off of that reel.
Both of these baits were ones that had been trolled
on
top of the water, not the one on the planer. I set
the hook on the fish that had hit Sonny�s rod and
the fight was on! Lots of jumps were done by the
Marlin as he made a big circle. Sonny tired real
quick and Randy got on the fish as it completed the
circle and swam towards the boat. Randy
thought the fish had come off so Manuel goosed the
engines and there the Marlin was, not more
than 20 feet away, still hooked up. Juan was able
to grab the leader for a second before the fish
realized what was going on but it pulled out of his
grip almost immediately. Another series of
jumps took place and the rod switched hands several
times before Sonny took the last up and got
the fish close enough to the boat for Juan to try
and grab it. it was not easy because the fish had
just a little stumpy bill that projected maybe an
inch past it�s lower jaw. The fish was hooked in
the corner of the jaw and the hook was easy to
remove. The fish was tagged and released,
swimming slowly away, tired but in good shape.
After a round of High-Fives another bait was
put out as more rigs were readied. less than three
minutes later the one boat that was out got
eaten by a nice 25 pound bull Dorado! After the
Marlin action this one was easy and Randy had it
to the boat pretty quickly. We tried again but had
no more action and there was no action as we
trolled for the last hour. Not a bad day though,
and I hope we have this good of action
tomorrow!
FLY HOOKER FISH REPORT FOR DECEMBER 15, 2002
Today and tomorrow we have Larry Quinn and his
adult son Trey as our anglers. Larry
booked two days fishing as a birthday present for
Trey. They were kind enough to be willing to
share the boat today with our friends from Bend,
Oregon, Mike and Teresa. Since it is a birthday
gift for Trey, he is supposed to get first fish and
the guys tried hard but had little luck. They did
have a Marlin rap one of the lures and had another
one hook up just long enough to pull line for a
few seconds, but nothing was hooked solid.
Hopefully tomorrow will be better!
Until Next Week, Tight Lines from George, Mary,
Juan and Manuel, the �Fly Hooker� Crew
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Dec 16, 2002; 12:02PM - Cabo Fishing Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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CAPT. GEORGE LANDRUM
�FLY HOOKER� SPORTFISHING
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
CABO SAN LUCAS FISH REPORT DECEMBER 9-15, 2002
WEATHER: Keeping cool in Cabo! I check my outside
thermometer every morning and on
Saturday it showed 55 degrees! Sweater, long pants
and socks were my dress for the morning!
Our daytime highs have been a comfortable 85-88
degrees with a slight breeze. The desert is now
blooming from all the rain we received during the
Thanksgiving weekend so a drive out there is a
nice thing to do. We have not had any rain since
then but we did have quite a bit of cloud cover
in the early part of the week. (Deck The Halls)
WATER: The surface temperatures continue to drop
as we go through the transition from
summer water to winter water. This week the
highest I found was around 79 degrees. Most of
the water around the Cape has been in the low 70�s
but there has been a bit warmer water from
25-30 miles to the south. The surface conditions
have been great with small swells at the
beginning of the week, getting larger as the week
ended but with plenty of space between them
and no wind chop on top of it. (1st Nowell)
BAIT: Almost the only thing you could find this
week was Mackerel in the 8-10� range, a bit
small but they worked well. There were only a few
Caballito and I have no idea if there were any
Sardinas or not. The bait was the normal $2 each.
(Shepherd�s Night Watch)
FISHING:
BILLFISH: The only species around right now is
Striped Marlin as the water has become too
cool to be comfortable for Blue Marlin. There were
not a lot of fish found this week but a few
lucky boats were able to hook one or two and get
them to the boat. Most boats were lucky if
they were able to get one to toss bait to, the fish
were scattered out and not staying on the surface
very long. Most of the fish that were caught were
found while deep dropping live bait off of
Punta San Cristobal and Golden Gate Banks or while
slow trolling live baits in the same areas.
They have been averaging about 110 pounds with a
few fish reaching the #140 class. (Festival of
7 Lights)
YELLOWFIN TUNA: I did not see nor did I hear of
any boats finding Yellowfin Tuna this week,
but I did see a few boats flying Tuna flags. I
checked with the anglers from one of them and
found that they had caught Skipjack Tuna that the
crew had flown flags for because they wanted
to be able to fly something. The others may have
found Yellowfin, you never know, but I heard
no word. (O X�mas Tree)
DORADO: Even the Dorado bite was a bit slow this
week as most boats were very lucky to get
three or four fish, and most came in with just one
or two. Slow trolling live bait or pulling
brightly colored lures in the 9� range were what
seemed to work. Most of the action took place
on the Pacific side of the point and in the same
areas as the Striped Marlin were found. The
basics worked well, find the bait and work the
area. Hook up one Dorado then toss a live bait out
behind it as it comes in, there might just be
another one or two following it. (Away in a
Manger/Island X�mas)
WAHOO: A few Wahoo were caught this week and
they seemed to prefer dark colored lures.
Most of them were in the 30-40 pound range and
there was no concentration to them, the catches
were reported from a wide area. (Morning Glory)
INSHORE: Most of the inshore action took place on
the Pacific side between the lighthouse and
Punta San Cristobal. This area is where a school
of Sierra has been working the beach and the
best action was in water between 15 and 60 feet
deep. The fish were biting on small hootchies
and Rapalas in bright colors, the favorite being
orange/red and the fish ranged from 3 to 7 pounds.
The average catch was two to 6 fish before the bite
stopped, around 9 am. A bit farther out, in
water from 60-150 feet, there were a few schools of
Dorado found and a few boats found some
Amberjack and Snapper on the bottom around the
rocks. (We Three Kings/Santa Fe X�mas)
NOTES: We are in the transition from warm summer
waters to cooler winter water and the
fishing has shown it. The action has not been hot
and heavy but most days there was some fish to
be found. Checking my log book for last year the
same thing was going on. We can look
forward to some continued Dorado action and the
Striped Marlin should become more numerous
and the football and school Tuna should show up
very soon. This weeks report was written to
the sound of music for the holidays by one of my
favorite artists, Ottmar Liebert. The CD is
�Poets & Angels�, a 1990 Higher Octave release.
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Dec 9, 2002; 10:43AM - 'Fly Hooker Daily Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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�FLY HOOKER� FISH REPORT FOR DECEMBER 2, 2002
Returning client Roy Tull is here with his
friend David for a few days and today is their
fishing
day. And that is what it was, a fishing day, not a
catching day. Roy said it was a good day to be
on the water and that the fish got lucky. Juan and
Manuel again worked the Pacific side of the
Cape out to a distance of about 10 miles, and up
the coast about 15 miles but found no fish that
were willing to bite. In a few days Roy and David
will be fishing for one day on the East Cape. I
sure hope you guys have better luck up there! Let
me know when you return, ok? Tight Lines!
�FLY HOOKER� FISH REPORT FOR 3 DECEMBER, 2002
Our friend Harry Hudson is here with his friend
Nolan for four days of fishing with us. Nolan
has never caught a Marlin and that is to be the
target for all the days on the water. They would
like to be able to catch a Dorado each day so they
have fresh fish for dinner, other than that, the
target is to be Marlin! Juan and Manuel took the
boat 10 miles out from the lighthouse on the
Pacific side and worked their way up the coast. It
was raining a bit in the morning but by about
9am it cleared off and at 9:30 they got a Dorado in
the boat, dinner in the box! Around a half
hour later Manuel spotted a Marlin on the surface
and ran the boat over to him to toss a bait. As
he slowed the boat down the lures sunk and instead
of eating the bait he ate the lure on the bridge
rod! Nolan made pretty short work of him, getting
him to the boat in about 15 minutes, then the
continued the search, but got nothing else for the
day.
�FLY HOOKER� FISH REPORT FOR 4 DECEMBER, 2002
Fishing started about 12 miles straight out
today and then Juan and Manuel worked the boat up
the coast the same distance as yesterday. Today it
was Harry�s turn to catch fish and he got to
reel in dinner, but that was all. Juan said that
they had one Marlin strike that did not hook up. I
sure hope things get better tomorrow!
�FLY HOOKER� FISH REPORT FOR 5 DECEMBER, 2002
Juan called me at 5:30 this morning to let me
know he was sick (something he ate) and would
not be coming to work so it was me and Manuel on
the boat today. Harry and Nolan invited our
friend Chewy to go along. He is 19 and has never
been on a boat before but is always asking
about the clients fishing trips. Manuel let me
know that the bite had been good off of Los Arcos
yesterday so that is where we started for. We got
an early start and were one of the first boats to
the area. I marked no bait on the depth sounder
and saw only a few Porpoise on the surface and
no birds at all. We actually put the lines in the
water shortly before Los Arcos just in case the
fish
had moved and I continued past Los Arcos in case
they may have headed that way. With no signs
of life there and the Golden Gate Banks being only
7 miles away, I decided to go and check that
area out. Once we got to the Banks, there was only
one other boat there, I spotted a couple of
Frigate Birds working and big splashes underneath
them. Big Yellowfin Tuna, in the 150-200
pound class were feeding on small bait. We tried
for an hour to get them to eat something,
anything, but had no luck with lures or live bait.
Eventually a few more boats arrived and we
tried deep dropping live bait for about a half hour
with no results. I headed back to the Los Arcos
area and when we got there I realized that is where
I should have stayed as it must have been a
tide associated bite. One boat was fighting a
Marlin and just before we got to him we had a
strike
on the bridge rod. I did not see the fish, only
the splash but Manuel said it was a big Dorado.
About five boats were working a very small area and
suddenly two Frigate Birds swooped down
and there were a pair of Striped Marlin under them!
They were only about 50 yards in front of us
and by the time Manuel got a bait hooked up to toss
they were just off the bow and went down.
Norman said that if he had a very long handled tag
stick he could have free-tagged him! No luck
for us there and as we continued towards the Marina
we saw a monster concentration of boats off
of the lighthouse. Lots of Frigates working and
boats zooming here and there showed that they
were trying to get some Tuna in amongst the
Porpoise but we saw no one hooking up. There
were at least 50 boats in there! We made it back
to the Marina with no flags but at least Manuel
and Juan have a target for tomorrow!
�FLY HOOKER� FISH REPORT FOR DECEMBER 6, 2002
Juan was feeling better today so the worked the
boat as crew. Manuel had decided to spend the
day working the area off of Los Arcos and Harry and
Nolan were all for it. They spent all day
and saw lots of bait and lots of Porpoise, but
never got a strike. Harry said that he and Nolan
thought about going somewhere else but that every
time they started to say something the bait
boiled to the surface and the area looked so fishy
they changed their minds! Well, it was not a
very productive four days of fishing for the guys,
but Nolan did get his first Marlin! Both Harry
and Nolan are fishermen and they acknowledged that
sometimes you strike out, hopefully next
time their luck will be better. Until then, Tight
Lines!
�FLY HOOKER� FISH REPORT FOR DECEMBER 7, 2002
For today and the next two days we have our
good friend David Reese fishing aboard the �Fly
Hooker� and he is here on a �Guy�s� vacation
with his friends Mike Shane and James Fu. We
promised David�s wife Peggy that we would try and
keep the guy�s out of trouble! Today Juan
and Manuel tried once again to fish the area off of
Los Arcos, on the Pacific side. There is just so
much bait there and so much going on that it is
hard to keep away. You just KNOW that with all
that bait there has to be some predators around the
area! Well, at about 9am to 10am they did
have two Marlin hook-ups, but they both came
unbuttoned. The first fish they thought they were
going to have a good chance at but no...it threw
the hook after a few minutes. The other fish was
just a strike and quick pull before it came off.
They have decided that no matter how good it
looks there they are going to try somewhere else
tomorrow! We will keep our fingers crossed for
them.
�FLY HOOKER� FISH REPORT FOR DECEMBER 8, 2002
The second day of fishing for David, Mike and
James was a lot better than yesterday�s trip! No
Marlin strikes today, but that may be because they
went elsewhere in the morning. Today was
Manuels day off and we had Chino working the deck.
Juan pointed the bow of the boat to the
south as they left San Lucas Bay and ran out about
9 miles than began to troll. At a distance of
16 miles they saw a boat stopped and went over to
check him out. The boat had found a piece of
wood floating in the water and was hooking up
around it, getting some nice Dorado. It turned
out to be a good thing that David had purchased 20
baits instead of the usual 10 pieces! The live
bait turned the Dorado on and Mike and James had a
blast! Dave was the beer server and coach
most of the time, but when they had six fish hooked
at one time he had to step in and assist.
About four or five fish were lost due to tangled
lines that broke but they ended up with 10
Dorado, a limit for five people (including Chino
and Juan). It was not until they were down to
two live baits that Dave told them to start using
chunks, otherwise they were going to run out.
With a limit of Dorado in the box they started to
look for Marlin or Wahoo or Tuna, but there
was no other action. The Dorado, weighing between
15 and 30 pounds, filleted out to 83 pounds
of meat and Dave decided to have it vacume packed
and frozen to take home. Tomorrow
anything goes, and hopefuly they will come across a
Marlin willing to eat!
Until next week, Tight Lines!
George, Mary, Juan, and Manuel , the �Fly Hooker�
crew!
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Dec 9, 2002; 10:39AM - Cabo Fishing Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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CAPT. GEORGE LANDRUM
�FLY HOOKER� SPORTFISHING
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
CABO SAN LUCAS FISH REPORT DECEMBER 2-8, 2002
WEATHER: It�s starting to get a bit cooler here
in Cabo so we know that its winter time! Our
morning lows have been in the 60-63 degree range
while our daytime highs have been in the mid
80�s. Early in the week we had mostly cloudy
skies as we had a front move over us and on
Tuesday we got some rain in the morning and the
afternoon. After the rain last week you should
see the desert out there, green as can be and the
flowers just shooting out! Right now we have
clear skies and light winds from the NNW for the
mornings at around 5-7mph with it picking up
to around 12-15mph in the late afternoon. (Trade
Winds)
WATER: Just as our air temperatures have cooled
a bit, so has the water temperature. Last
week we were looking at surface temps in the 80-81
degree range out front and now we have
them in the 78 degree range. Looking at the area
in the larger sense we are not seeing the 80-81
degree water unless you go up past Golden Gate
Banks or at least 35 miles to the SE. Within a
15 mile radius of Cabo it is an even 78 degrees.
25 miles to the southwest we have a finger of
cold water moving in from the Pacific that is
showing temps of 75 degrees with a well defined
edge. There have been no swells to speak of and
the surface conditions have been great. Most
mornings there has been just a light wind riffle
and in the afternoons just a light chop on fairly
flat
seas. Good blue water everywhere you go! (Oceans
Apart)
BAIT: There were some Mackerel early in the week
and now it is mostly Caballito. The
normal price of $2 per bait. I have not asked for
nor have I heard if there are any Sardinas
available. (Holding Back The Years)
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Not too surprisingly with the lowering
surface temperatures the number of Blue
Marlin being found has dropped considerably. There
were a few at the beginning of the week and
almost none at all over the weekend. The main
Billfish for the week was Striped Marlin, a
situation likely to continue now until next summer.
Just because they are the most numerous
though does not mean that they are out there in
great numbers. Most boats have been able to find
at least one or two a day and a few lucky ones have
been able to catch up to three a day, judging
by the flags I have seen flying on boats coming in.
Most of the fish were being found on the
Pacific side and were pretty evenly mixed with
about half coming from the area to the south of the
Jaime Banks and the other half coming out of the
area between the lighthouse and Los Arcos, out
between three and ten miles. The average size is
down a bit with most of them in the 100-120
pound range and the bite has been mostly on live
bait. Boats have been finding them just as you
usually look for Dorado, spotting Frigate Birds
working then racing over to toss a live bait under
them. (Blue Universe)
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Very few Yellowfin were caught
this week although on Thursday if you
had been out at the lighthouse on the Pacific side
you would have thought that the bite was wide
open! There was a giant group of Porpoise working
the area and clouds of Frigates working
them. The action attracted about 50 boats that
were tossing live bait right and left, dropping
bait
down hopeing to get bit and pulling every lure
known to man in the hope of a Tuna bite. Any
time the Frigates would re-form and start feeding
again there would be a race with around a
dozen of the closet boats running full throttle
into the middle of the mess, tossing out bait as
the
slid to a stop. I only heard of one boat getting a
Tuna out of it! The same day I was up at the
Golden Gate Banks earlier and there were Tuna in
the 100-200 pound class feeding on very small
baits, Manuel said they were Bullito (sp?). We
worked them for a while until other boats showed
up and the fish went down. The few other fish that
were found this week were footballs,
unassociated with any Porpoise. They were caught
on feathers pulled for Dorado. (Dream
Catcher)
DORADO: It seemed the key to getting numbers of
Dorado this week was to find some
floating debris. If you did, and there were not
too many boats working it at the time, you stood a
good chance of picking up a limit. Most of the
fish caught under debris were caught on live bait
or chunks. If you wee not one of the first few
boats there, and if you were not getting bit on
fly-lined baits, it sometimes helped to rig them
with a 2-4 ounce lead about 5 feet away and let
them down around 60 feet. There were a few
scattered fish found within 3 miles of the shore
and
they were most often spotted under working Frigate
birds. Best lures were 6� feathers in bright
colors with some of the larger Dorado going for 12
inch plastics in rainbow hues. (Feelin�
Alright)
WAHOO: There were some Wahoo caught this week
and I heard of a few in the 80-90 pound
class. Most of the fish I heard of were found off
the coast on the Pacific side while boats were
working for Dorado and Striped Marlin. There were
a couple caught at the Jaime Banks that
were over 60 pounds but most of the fish were in
the 30-40 pound range. Best lures were Braid
Marauders in purple/black and chromed jet heads of
at least 6 ounces with dark skirts. (Midnight
Swim)
INSHORE: While not seeing them myself, I heard
reports of a halfway decent bite on Roosterfish
on the Cortez side of the Cape, with one boat
getting a fish in the 50 pound class and getting a
lot
in the 15-20 pound size. There are Sierra showing
up as well and they are 3-5 pounds average.
The Roosterfish were hitting live Mullet and the
Sierras were biting on Clark spoons and on small
Rapalas. I have also heard reports of a few
Yellowtail being found as well. Most of the Pangas
have been focusing on Dorado since there have been
a few nice sized fish within their reach.
(Dipsea Trail)
NOTES: While the weather and the water were very
nice this past week, the fishing has been
just average. A fair selection to be found, but
nothing in any great quantities. It may have
something to do with the new moon on Wednesday, but
things should start to pick up real soon.
The Whales are starting to show up in force and
have been sighted on every trip this week. This
weeks report was written to the music of one of my
favorite guitarists (I have a lot of them!)
Craig Chaquico on his 1997 Higher Octave Music Inc.
release �Once in a Blue Universe�. On
this album he is joined with artists such as
Richard Elliot, John Klemmer, Dave Koz, Douglas
Spotted Eagle, 3rd Force and Peter White. As you
can tell, this is a great Jazz and Rock mix!
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Dec 2, 2002; 09:57AM - Fly Hooker Daily Fishing Reports
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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�FLY HOOKER� FISH REPORT FOR 25 NOVEMBER 2002
Rick Harris is in town again on a short notice
vacation and today he went fishing aboard the
�Fly Hooker� with a friend of the family, Kyle.
Juan and Manuel took the boat up the Pacific side
and worked the area about three miles offshore of
the Margarita/Los Arcos area and had a lot of
fun with Dorado. Rick only wanted to keep a little
bit for dinner so they started releasing fish. A
total of 8 large Dorado gave them a lot of jumps
and lots of fight and they were back at the
Marina by 12:30! Thanks Rick, we look forward to
seeing you again next year!
�FLY HOOKER� FISH REPORT FOR 26 NOVEMBER 2002
Walt Ehnat and his grown sons Tom and Marty
were our anglers today. This is their third day
of fishing on this vacation and they had a blast!
Well, everyone except Marty. He crawled out of
the cabin when the boat got back in at noon and
wanted to know when we were leaving! A little
bit of the old �Tequila Flu�! Well Walt pretty
much took it easy since it wasn�t too long ago
that
he had a triple bypass so it was up to Tom to do
most of the fishing. Juan and Manuel were able
to keep him busy by hooking up 9 Dorado, 2
Yellowfin and letting him fight an estimated 310
pound Blue Marlin for over an hour before tagging
and releasing it! I sure hope the fishing stays
this good.
�FLY HOOKER� FISH REPORT FOR 28 NOVEMBER 2002
It clouded up last night and this morning, just
after the boat left the Marina with John and Ray
aboard for a half day of fishing, the skies opened
up and it poured! This was the first time for
John and Ray to do any kind of fishing and one of
them had a very worried wife. About mid day
we were able to calm her down with the report that
the guys were catching fish, were not seasick
and would be coming in on time. Manuel and Edgar
went back to the Pacific side, up off of Los
Arcos and caught 7 Dorado and 2 Yellowfin Tuna.
�FLY HOOKER� FISH REPORT FOR 29 NOVEMBER, 2002
Brothers Zach and Brian Eastman are fishing
today and tomorrow and they really want to
catch a Marlin. We had our fingers crossed when
they left this morning. Juan and Manuel went
back to the Pacific side and were able to get 4
Dorado in the boat but no Marlin. They did have
strikes from 4 Striped Marlin and saw lots of them
on the surface and jumping but were not able
to get a hook to stick in any of them. Hopefully
tomorrow!
�FLY HOOKER� FISH REPORT FOR 30 NOVEMBER 2002
The second day of fishing for Zach and Brian
was not as eventful as yesterday. Juan and
Manuel returned to the same area as yesterday but
the fish had moved on. Today they didn�t even
see a Marlin and they only caught one Dorado.
�FLY HOOKER� FISH REPORT FOR DECEMBER 1, 2002
Zach Eastman decided to give it one more try
and Brian decided that he wanted to do the Sand
Dunes ATV excursion. Zach invited me to go along
and I was happy to get the chance. Lines
went in the water outside the lighthouse on the
Pacific side and for the next three hours we had a
boat ride as we worked our way up the coast toward
the Golden Gate Banks. About three miles
short of the Banks Juan spotted a turtle in the
water and as we passed by him we had a very large
Bull Dorado come and grab the long rigger lure.
The fish didn�t stick and we worked the area for
a little bit with no luck. We even dragged a live
bait by the turtle, hoping that there were more
Dorado under it. When we got to the banks there
were 12 boats there and all of them were
trolling, with no luck. At about the same time
everyone stopped trolling and dropped down live
bait. We gave it a shot for about a half hour but
with no luck. We were told that the bite had
been early using the deep dropped bait. Lots of
bait balls, schools of Mackerel on the depth
finder, but no interested Marlin. It was not until
we were almost all the way back, just about 4
miles off of Los Arcos, that we finally had a
Marlin strike. The fish grabbed the shotgun lure
but
did not hook up. I dropped back a live bait and we
saw the Marlin come in and grab it. I ended
up farming the fish! He ran with it for a few
second, stopped to eat it then ran again. I set
the
hook on the second run and I guess I didn�t wait
ling enough because I had good solid weight for
a few seconds then could feel the hook pull loose.
That was our only shot of the day and I blew
it! Again, I�m sorry Zach! Our fingers are
crossed that next time will be better. Until then,
Tight
Lines!
Until Next Week, Tight Lines form George, Mary,
Juan and Manuel, the �Fly Hooker� Crew!
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
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Dec 2, 2002; 09:52AM - Cabo Bite Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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CAPT. GEORGE LANDRUM
�FLY HOOKER� SPORTFISHING
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
CABO SAN LUCAS FISH REPORT NOVEMBER 25-DECEMBER
1, 2002
WEATHER: Our week started out very nice with the
nighttime lows in the high 60�s and the
daytime highs in the mid to low 90�s. On
Wednesday we began to get clouds moving in strong
and checking the weather maps found the Pineapple
Express had moved right over us. We have
had cloudy skies and showers everyday since then
but it is clearing up now. No really heavy
gullywashing downpours, just enough to mess up the
streets and wash trash into the Marina. The
cloud cover has caused the temps to drop and we are
now seeing low 60�s to mid-high 70�s. The
desert is going to be beautiful in a week!
(Tropical Legs)
WATER: Both the Pacific and the Sea of Cortez were
calm all week long but there was some
pretty choppy conditions on Wednesday as the front
moved over us. The inshore water dirtied up
on Thursday due to the rain but out past a mile it
gets blue again. Our water temps have lowered
a bit as well with water outside the Cape reading
in the 80-81 degree range. Our warm water is
now on the Pacific side but the temp breaks are
far, far away. (Amazon)
BAIT: Most of the bait available this week were
small 8-10� Mackerel and the price was the
usual $2 per bait. A few Caballito were in the
bait boat tanks as well. I have no knowledge of
Sardina availability. (Magic In Your Eyes)
FISHING:
BILLFISH: What a strange week! I was not
expecting much in the way of Marlin but I was
surprised. There were still Blues and a few Blacks
being caught this week, and a lot of Striped
Marlin being sighted and caught. Toss in a mix of
Sailfish and just about every billfish we have
available here in Cabo was around this week.
Naturally the Striped Marlin were the most
common, and most boats were able to get at least a
couple of them hooked up. Live bait was the
ticket and most of the fish were spotted tailing.
For lures, anything in Dorado colors seemed to
work well on all the Billfish, likely because there
are so many of them around right now. Most of
the bite has been on the Pacific side, up in the
Los Arcos area from 2 miles to 10 miles offshore,
and including the Golden Gate Banks. (Calypso
Getaway)
YELLOWFIN TUNA: The Tuna bite dropped off a lot
this week and almost all of the fish I have
seen or heard about have been footballs to 20
pounds. There have been a few schoolies in the
25-35 pound range as well but no large fish. The
fish have not been associated with Porpoise,
most of the strikes have been in the blind while
fishing for Dorado. 6� feathers and hard plastic
lures in smaller sizes worked well with no specific
color mentioned by anyone. Due to the effort
put in this week Dorado, most of the Yellowfin
found were caught within 5 miles of the Pacific
coast. (Dr. Macumba)
DORADO: Last week I said that it looked like the
Dorado bite was going to keep getting better
and it has. The average size is up to around 20
pounds and there has been plenty of them around.
Most of the boats were working the Pacific side up
to 10 miles offshore. A lot of the action was
within 2 miles of the beach and the boats were
pretty concentrated in there. The key was finding
Frigate birds working and getting in a pass on them
with the lures. If you hooked up, drop back
some live baits and wait for the action. Most
boats were able to meet the 2 Dorado per angler
limit without a problem early in the morning, then
went in search of other species. (Angelina)
WAHOO: I saw a few Wahoo flags this week but when
I talked to the anglers I found that most
of them had been flown by boats that had found some
nice sized Sierra inshore. I am sure there
were some Wahoo caught but don�t know the where�s
or what�s this week. (Long Ago And Far
Away)
INSHORE: Up until Wednesday there was some fair
fishing for Sierra and a few small
Roosterfish inshore, and there was good action on
the smaller Tunas, the Skipjack and Bonita.
Most of the Pangas were concentrating on the Dorado
bite and after Wednesday�s weather
change, the water inshore became too murky for
anything but the Dorado search. (Heart String)
NOTES: If anyone reading these reports has
questions about fishing in Cabo or just Saltwater
fishing in general, feel free to check the �Ask
The Captain� section at www.flyhooker.com , my
homepage. I have just gotten the bugs worked out
and will be answering questions each morning.
To all those anglers who have fished with us and
have tagged and released a Marlin using the
�Billfish Foundation� tags we provide, I am sorry
to say that the Foundation has changed their
policy concerning the issuance of free release
certificates. Here is a quote from them: �Yes,
it is
a new policy. We generate through the Release
Certificate Program 10,000 to 12,000 certificates
a year, all for free. It just got too expensive
not to do something. The new policy is $25
introductory membership offer where all
certificates are then free, along with the rest of
the
premiums, or, $20 a certificate. There was really
no way to give the heads-up to captains and
fleets, there are just too many.� So, if you want
the certificate you are going to have to pay for
it,
but hey, it�s not a lot of money and it goes to a
very good program! This weeks report was
written to the music of one of my favorite
songwriter/guitarists, Earl Klugh on the 1991
�Blue
Note� Capitol release, �The Best Of Earl Klugh�.
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Nov 25, 2002; 12:19PM - Fly Hooker Daily Fishing Reports
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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�FLY HOOKER� FISH REPORT FOR 18 NOVEMBER 2002
Our local friends Don and Cathy Cole booked
the �Fly Hooker� today to go fishing with their
pastor Mike and his wife and Kathy�s brother Bob
and his wife. Some fish for dinner and perhaps
a chance to fight a Marlin were all they were
looking for but instead they had a boat ride. It
was
enjoyable, and they did say that watching the
Porpoise was very nice but since there was only one
Tuna strike (didn�t hook up) they had a lot of
time to just rest and eat. Don and Bob are going
again on Sunday so we hope the action improves by
then. This is the first trip on our boat where
Don got skunked, I sure hope it doesn�t happen
again!!
�FLY HOOKER� FISH REPORT FOR 19 NOVEMBER 2002
Raul and Dave Hernandez and their friend Harvey
are fishing with us today through the 23rd
and I thought about just combining all the days
into one report but nah, never mind, I would
probably forget something then. They are from
Texas, the Dallas area and are usually found out
fishing for Catfish and Striped Bass. They wanted
to catch big fish and decided that Cabo was the
place to go. Sometime during the 5 days of fishing
they would like to be able to each fight a
Marlin, that is the ultimate goal. Of course, any
fish at all is great and the larger the better!
Well,
Juan and Manuel decided to go up the Pacific coast
again. They were lines in outside the light
house and had a triple strike on Dorado, getting
one to the boat. They continued up the coast
almost 25 miles and had no action at all.
Returning, they hooked into three more Dorado in
the
same area where they hooked up this morning and
this time they managed to get two of the fish
into the boat. Some very nice fillets were taken
over to the smokehouse and you know they are
going to enjoy eating them when they get home!
Tomorrow the plan is to go south and see if
there are any Marlin out there. I�m keeping my
fingers crossed for these guys, they are so nice
they deserve to get lots of fish! Until tomorrow,
Tight Lines!
�FLY HOOKER� FISH REPORT FOR 20 NOVEMBER 2002
Juan and Manuel took off with Dave, Raul and
Harvey this morning and headed south from the
lighthouse. They worked their way out 18 miles
without spotting any Striped Marlin. They did
pick up one Dorado on the way out and one on the
way back, both fairly close to the lighthouse
area. Enough Dorado they said, lets go for Marlin
tomorrow! Fingers crossed.
�FLY HOOKER� FISH REPORT FOR 21 NOVEMBER, 2002
Today was Juan�s day off and Abulito worked
as deckhand. Manuel decided to try the 95 spot
without success and then they worked up towards the
1150, again with no luck. A friend
contacted him on the radio and said that they had
some luck deep dropping live bait off of the
ledge at the lighthouse so they gave that a shot
for an hour and a half with no luck. Dave, Raul
and Harvey are getting antsy, they only have two
more days to get their billfish. Our fingers and
toes are crossed!
�FLY HOOKER� FISH REPORT FOR 22 NOVEMBER 2002
High tide was early this morning and Juan and
Manuel decided that they should try the deep
drop of the lighthouse first thing, working the
tide change. Finally some action! Dave caught a
Sailfish of about 80 pounds and a Dorado as well
while both Raul and Harvey had Marlin grab
their baits but were unable to get them hooked up
very well. They did get some jumps out of
their Marlin but the hooks were thrown. They also
got strikes from Wahoo but were not able to
get them hooked up either. Tomorrow they are going
to leave a little bit earlier because the bite
happened early today. They had gone through the 12
baits they had bought by 11 am so
tomorrow they are going to buy a few more!
Fingers, toes and eyes crossed for their Marlin!
�FLY HOOKER� FISH REPORT FOR 23 NOVEMBER 2002
Today was the last day of fishing for Raul,
Dave and Harvey and they went out to repeat the
action they had yesterday. It was not the same,
but both Raul and Harry got to fight and release a
Sailfish while working the bottom with live bait.
Dave was the designated photographer since he
had gotten his fish yesterday, and he did a fine
job of it as was shown by the results played back
when they returned. They also hooked up to four
big Skipjack Tuna and Dave got to fight a
Stingray estimated at 25-30 pounds that took a
liking to his live bait. The guys had a great time
and were happy that they managed to get a billfish
each. Thanks go out to Raul and Dave and
Harry for being a great bunch to be with! Looking
forward to either 2003 or 2004!
�FLY HOOKER� FISH REPORT FOR 24 NOVEMBER 2002
Don Cole and his brother-in-law Bob were our
anglers today and they invited me to go along
with them. When we left this morning we were
hoping to not have a repeat of Mondays outing
when they got skunked! Thankfully we found fish,
but it was a morning bite for sure. Don said
that he would rather catch fish for the table than
catch trophy fish so Juan directed the boat up the
Pacific coast and we fished less than two miles
offshore between Margaritas and Migrainos. Bob
was first up in the chair and the first strike was
on the bridge rod, a nice Dorado of about 20
pounds. It took only a few minutes to coach Bob on
the proper technique and the fish was gaffed
and in the box shortly thereafter. The next fish
was about 15 minutes later at 8am and it was a
slightly smaller Dorado, one about 15 pounds. Don
made short work of that fish and we
continued to work the area, along with about 10
other boats, but without any further luck. At
around 9:30 Juan had us working under a Frigate
bird and was getting frustrated when we could
not get a bite. He gunned the engines and it may
have been the increase in speed, but a big Bull
Dorado jumped on a lure and Bob was off to the
races again. This fish took a lot of line and
after
the lines were cleared we dropped a bait way back
there and managed to hook up another
Dorado, this one a big female that Don got to
fight. Both of these fish, estimated at between 30
and 35 pounds, ended up in the fish box! We did
have another Dorado strike at around 11 am, a
big Bull that struck the short line, but it failed
to hook up well. We returned to the dock with
Don�s cooler filled with zip-locked fillets and
with both Don and Bob with smiles on their faces!
Until Next Week, Tight Lines form George, Mary,
Juan and Manuel, the �Fly Hooker� Crew!
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
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Nov 25, 2002; 12:16PM - Cabo Bite Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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CAPT. GEORGE LANDRUM
�FLY HOOKER� SPORTFISHING
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
CABO SAN LUCAS FISH REPORT NOVEMBER 18-24, 2002
WEATHER: This week the weather cooled a bit,
seems as if we are approaching an autumn
kind of situation. Our nighttime lows have been in
the low 60�s while our daytime highs have
reached the mid 90�s with a bit of humidity at
times. The skies have been partly cloudy for the
most part and we have had no rain this past week.
The weathermen say that we can expect some
thundershowers this coming week, but I�ll believe
it when I hear/see it! (Theme For A Rainy
Day)
WATER: Surface conditions have been very good on
both the Sea of Cortez and the pacific side
this week. Weak winds from the northwest have
ensured good conditions all week long and the
most difficult situations we have had to deal with
have been the tide changes concurrent with the
full moon. Water temps have been the same as last
week with the exception that the cool band of
water coming down from the northern Sea of Cortez
has gotten closer. Everything else has
stayed about the same. There have been distinct
temperature breaks to the west of both the San
Jaime and the Golden Gate banks, and the breaks
have been pretty severe, but the distances have
been too far for most of the fleet boats here in
Cabo. We are looking at 50-70 miles out and a
temp change of 5 degrees in a mile distance. (Take
You There)
BAIT: Most of the bait we found this week has been
small Mackerel, the 8-10 inch size. There
have been some Caballito and both species have been
the usual $2 per bait. With a bit of
bargaining you can get 12 for $20. There are still
some Sardines at the usual $20-25 per small
scoop. (Jamaican Winds)
FISHING:
BILLFISH: This week has been a bit strange for
Billfish. We have been seeing a lot of Sailfish
caught early in the morning along with a few
Striped Marlin being hooked up. Normally the
abundance of Sailfish corresponds with a very
strong Dorado bite, but this week it seems that the
Sails have stood ground on their own. Most of
these fish have been found close to shore in the
same areas that the Dorado frequent, and most of
them have been caught on live bait. That
average size has been 70 pounds, no minnow for sure
but just a little shy of the 120 pound Striped
Marlin people are looking for. These fish (the
Striped Marlin) have been caught in the same areas
but are also being found on the 95 spot and in
areas further to the south. There have been a few
late season Blue Marlin hooked up, but not many of
them have been landed. Best baits for the
Sailfish have been the small live Mackerel, best
for the Striped Marlin have been the same baits
plus any Caballito. The Blue marlin have been
fooled by artificial lures this week, and mostly by
ones in darker colors. (Mobimientos Del Alma)
YELLOWFIN TUNA: This full moon seems to be a bit
different. Usually we see an up-swing in
the Yellowfin Tuna during the full moon but this
week there actually seemed to be a drop. The
fish that were found were footballs and they all
were associated with either Porpoise or floating
debris. Most of the favorite spots were in the
current lines at either 12 miles or 25 miles to the
south. These fish were still fun to catch and
there were plenty of them around if you were in the
right spot at the right time. 6� cedar plugs were
a hands down favorite, followed by 6� feathers in
Guacamaya or Petrolero. (She Never Said Why)
DORADO: Thank goodness for most of the boats that
there were Dorado around this week. If
not for these great fish, many of the boats would
not be flying any flags at all. The Dorado were
running from 15 to 25 pounds on the average and
most of them were found by trolling artificial
then switching to live bait once the schools were
located. Our fish this week seemed to show a
preference for the Pacific side of the Cape, and
most of them were only a short distance from the
shore. (Kissin� On The Beach)
WAHOO: There were a few nice fish caught this week
and I suspect it had a lot to do with the
full moon. They averaged 35 pounds and some of
them were caught on live bait while deep
dropping live Mackerel for the Striped Marlin. I
heard stories aplenty from anglers about the
number of baits they brought up that had either
been cut in half or stolen altogether. (Trailer
hook
hidden in the tail!?) (Every Moment With You)
INSHORE: The inshore fishing this week was
almost a mirror of last weeks escapades. Most of
the small boat fleet was focused on slow trolling
live Caballito or Mackerel in the hope of finding
a Dorado or a Striped Marlin. There were reports
of small Yellowtail and Roosterfish, but I did
find out that the bite for those small gear tackle
busters, the �Skipjack�, was wide open.
(Midnight In San Juan)
NOTES: Those of you with whom we have tagged and
released fish using the �Billfish
Foundation� tags during the past 3 months, you
need to be aware that things have changed just a
bit. When last we ordered the tags (two months
ago) there was supposed to be the option of
having a release certificate mailed to you stating
the date, location, angler, boat, species,
estimated size and fighting time. This certificate
was supposed to be at no charge to you as the
angler. Well, the �Billfish Foundation� is a
non-profit organization dependent solely on
donations
from anglers in order to keep its self afloat.
It�s purpose has been to educate anglers about
species sustainability, and the collection of more
accurate fish data to better understand the
reproduction and growth cycles of the Billfish.
According to the foundation, there has been a
lack of financial support, they claim it is due to
the economic situation in the U.S., and due to the
climbing expenses they have been forced to begin
charging for the release certificates. As a
non-member there is a charge of $20 per certificate
but if you decide to become a 1 year member
at the special introduction rate of $25, all
certificates are free. If you are confused, just
go to their
website and check them out. They said there were
too many charter boats and organizations to
be able to notify everyone in advance. Guess that
is why I had to find out by my clients e-mailing
me to ask why they were getting a charge for
certificates. Sigh, I guess it�s not just a
Mexican
thing after all! This weeks report was written to
the sounds of Earl Klugh and his guitar on the
1991 Warner Brothers CD release �Midnight in San
Juan�
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Nov 18, 2002; 10:16AM - Cabo Bite Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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CAPT. GEORGE LANDRUM
�FLY HOOKER� SPORTFISHING
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
CABO SAN LUCAS FISH REPORT NOVEMBER 11-17, 2002
WEATHER: Once again we have had wonderful weather
here in Cabo. Our nighttime lows
have reached the mid 60�s except on Thursday night
when it only got to about 75 degrees with a
lot of humidity. We actually had to turn on the
a.c. to be comfortable. Daytime highs have
reached the 90 degree mark on occasion but except
for Thursday, they have been very
comfortable. No rain and only scattered clouds all
week long. Early in the week steady breeze
from the northwest but later on it shifted a bit
and on Wednesday came from the south then just
died! (City Street Life)
WATER: The surface conditions on both the Sea of
Cortez and the Pacific are calm now, with
slight 1-4 foot seas. There were 3-5 foot swells
with wind chop early in the week. Water temps
have pretty much remained in the 80-83 degree range
within 30 miles or more of the Cape and the
temperature break is a long way out, 60 miles to
the southwest or 30 miles to the northwest.
Both these areas are showing a 5 degree change
within a distance of two miles or less. This area
of warm water that is wrapped around the Cape right
not seems to be moving slowly to the
southwest and away. (Self Preservation)
BAIT: Both Caballito and some Mackerel have been
available this week at the usual $2 per bait.
There have been Sardinas as well, and as normal
when they are not really thick, the price has been
a bit high, in the area of $20-$25 per small scoop.
(Full Moon Risin�)
FISHING:
BILLFISH: As the full moon approaches the Marlin
have started to bite better. It has not been
uncommon for boats to get multiple shots at the
Striped Marlin. They have been found from 2 to
30 miles out on both the Pacific and the Cortez
side, often in small groups. The bite had been a
mix of both bait and lures with live Mackerel out-
performing the Caballito and Bleeding mackerel
colors on lures working best. There are still Blue
Marlin around but not in great numbers.
(Funky Reggae Rock)
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Dolphin pods have been the key for
both football fish and some of the
larger schoolies, as well as a few #200 fish.
There has been no concentration close to the Cape
as the fish have moved considerably every day. A
few of the private yachts coming down the
coast have reported concentrations of fish in the
area of the Finger Banks, over 50 miles north.
Here, six inch feathers, cedar plugs and Marauders
have worked well on the football and
schoolies, while the larger fish have been mostly
on live bait. (Charo Luz)
DORADO: This weeks bright spot for sure, it seems
as if the fishing for these acrobats just
keeps getting better. Many of the fish are in the
20-30 pound class, perfect for filleting, but there
have been larger fish caught as well. As is normal
for Dorado, finding the first fish is the key to
getting the school. Most of the fish have first
been spotted under working Frigate birds on the
Pacific side, fairly near the beach. Bright
colored lures from 6-8 inches have attracted the
first
fish and live bait has gotten the larger ones.
Most boats focusing on Dorado have been able to get
the 2 fish per person limit for their clients, then
releasing the rest. (Survive)
WAHOO: We had a pretty good Wahoo bite this week
and it did not occur very far out. A lot of
fish were caught off of Gray Rock and Cabo Falso.
Almost any point held a fish or two and most
of them were in the 40 pound class. A few boats
were covered up as small packs attacked the
lures, and many of the fish left the area with
souvenirs as their razor teeth cut through the mono
leaders on most of the lures. Rapala Magnum CD�s
and Braid Marauders in both black/purple
and orange/black worked very well. (Everybody�s
Bizness)
INSHORE: All the normal pelagics were targeted by
the Panga fleet this week as they all could
be found fairly near. With Wahoo biting well and
it being almost a sure thing for Dorado, few of
them were focusing on the traditional nearshore
fish. There were small Roosterfish accounted
for, mostly on the Cortez side of the Cape, and
there was good fishing for Snapper when the tide
was right, as well as good fishing for grouper. I
heard of no large fish caught this week but did
see one grouper in the 80 pound class and several
Snappers in the 10 pound class in fish holds.
(Charity)
NOTES: If anyone reading these reports has
questions about fishing in Cabo or just Saltwater
fishing in general, feel free to check the �Ask
The Captain� section at www.flyhooker.com , my
homepage. I have just gotten the bugs worked out
and will be answering questions each morning.
Ah, we finally have outdoor live music back in
town! This week on Tuesday and Thursday at the
Tanga-Tanga bar, the reggae group �Riddim Forz�
was playing between 3 and 6pm. Last year
the city shut down outdoor music due to the
complaints of residents in the �Pedregal�, the
exclusive housing area above town. Those
complaints were all voiced due to the nighttime bar
bands and Brad, the owner of the Tanga-Tanga
figures that if the music is over by 6pm there
won�t be any reason for them to complain. Sheft-
Hat Khnemu has revamped the band since
putting out the CD this report was written to, and
he now has a more driven sound, one that has
everyone here smiling and dancing to! Brad says
that as long as there are no complaints the band
will be playing those days every week. Written to
the rockin reggae of �Riddim Forz� on their
self produced, self titled, undated CD, available
here in Cabo! Irie mon!
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Nov 11, 2002; 09:42AM - Cabo Fishing Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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CAPT. GEORGE LANDRUM
�FLY HOOKER� SPORTFISHING
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
CABO SAN LUCAS FISH REPORT NOVEMBER 4-11, 2002
WEATHER: Looks like we are in the fall season here
as the weather is almost exactly the same
as it was last week. Our nighttime lows are in the
high 60�s and the daytime highs got up to the
low 90�s once. Very comfortable and easy to live
with! Of course we had no rain and only partly
cloudy skies early in the week. (Baia)
WATER: Water temperature was important this week
and it seemed that almost everywhere you
went the temperature stayed at just around 80-82
degrees. Earlier in the week there was a temp
break to the southwest that ran southeast/northwest
but as the week came to a close this break
kept moving farther away. San Jaime bank was the
only place that showed a good change all
week long and the water there was 79-80 degrees.
The surface conditions were good all week
and only on Friday did we start to get a bit of
wind and that disappeared overnight. (Desafinado)
BAIT: Caballito and Sardinas, the same as last
week. Caballito at $2 per bait and $20 for a small
handful of Sardinas. There was no problem getting
bait if you were early. (Samba Dees Days)
FISHING:
BILLFISH: There were Marlin out there, both Blues
and Stripers, but the focus this week for
almost all the boats were Tuna. Marlin were not
targeted and to be honest, not really wanted.
That may seem strange for Cabo, but this week was
the big Tuna Tournament. There were
Marlin found almost everywhere and some of the
larger Blues were found around the 95 and 1150
spots and a few were found at Golden Gate Banks.
Most of the Striped Marlin were found on the
Pacific side and they were running in small packs.
There was about a Marlin for every other boat
this week with the average slightly higher on the
non-tournament days. (O Pato)
YELLOWFIN TUNA: The fish of the week and since
there was so much effort put into finding
them we have some good details. First off, it was
a long run to find the fish and almost all the
larger fish were found in the Dolphin. Runs to 40
miles were the norm when heading out and
there were a few boats that went as far as 60
miles. Dolphin action and live baits were the key.
There were 154 boats in the two day tournament and
20 fish over 100 pounds were weighed,
three of them were over 200 pounds. The largest
fish was #256 and was caught at the San Jaime
Bank on a live flying fish. Down the scale we saw
fish at #224, #219, #182, #157 and 15 other
fish in the 100-150 pound range. We quit counting
the 35-60 pounders! As I said, live baits were
the key as only one of the money fish was taken on
a lure. You had to find the right kind of
Dolphin and if you were one of the first ones, or
if you stayed with them after other boats had left,
you had a shot at a nice fish. Lures accounted for
many fish and the favorites seemed to be
Marauders and cedar plugs, followed by straight
runners in purple/black. Samba Triste)
DORADO: There were plenty of Dorado all week long
and they were schooled up. If you
caught one you usually caught more. Of course the
key was to get one hooked up and right
behind the boat, then the school would stay around
long enough to get a few more hooked on live
bait or chunks. Looking for frigate birds was a
good key, as was seeing small showers of flying
fish. The action was good at the San Jaime and on
the Pacific close to the beach. Most of the
fish were running 12-25 pounds. (Samba De Uma Nota
So)
WAHOO: With the number of boats we had out there
working the banks this week there were a
larger than normal number of Wahoo caught. The
largest brought in for the tournament was 74
pounds and the second largest was 60 pounds. There
were numbers of fish in the 40-50 pound
class as well and most of these fish were taken on
lures. (E Luxo So)
INSHORE: There was good inshore action this week
for Dorado and Skipjack, and the Sierra are
starting to show up as well. Smaller Roosterfish
are found every day and there have been fair
catches of assorted bottom fish also. (Baia)
NOTES: Now that tournament season is over for us
things should return to normal. It sure is
exciting but can wear you down quick! I have a new
section on my web site called �Ask The
Captain� that I have just gotten up, so if you
have any questions fell free to ask. Now I have
some time to devote to responding! The Tuna
Tournament we just had was one of the best run
operations I have ever been involved in and my hat
is off to every one involved, thank you for a
class operation and may there be many more to come.
This weeks report was written at 5am to
the sounds of Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd in their
1963 release titled �Jazz Samba�, recorded live
in Pierce Hall, All Souls Unitarian Church in
Washington D.C., February 13, 1962, Polygram
Classics and Jazz, Verve Records. Oh yeah, sit
back and enjoy! Until next week, tight lines!
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