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Oct 1, 2012; 11:25AM - Cabo Bite Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrum
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
http://captgeo.wordpress.com/
Cabo Fish Report
Sept 24 - 30, 2012
WEATHER: We are starting into the season of change, but while during this weekend we felt the temperature drop a few degrees, we still have a few weeks to go. As proof that storm season is not over yet, this week we had two systems that affected our area. The first was the passing of Miriam well to the west of us, the closest we came was 400 miles, but we did get some clouds and a bit of scattered rain, as well as some huge swells. As soon as Miriam had passed and was to the north, another system started up to the south of us. When initially seen this system appeared organized but had not been given a name or number. It covered approximately 350 miles north to south and was extremely heavy with rain, and we all took a deep breath and crossed our fingers. Eventually named Norman after it came along our side, it was very fast moving and too a sharp bend to the east so all we received was the moisture from the northernmost banding, but that was enough to drop up to 3 inches of water on us in 2 days. Our already soaked soil had a bit of a job trying to absorb this new onslaught so the run-off was heavy and once again the streets were not looking pretty after it passed. If this system had gone over the top of us there may have been some severe water damage to the area, but we got lucky. At the start of the week we were seeing the daytime highs in the high 90's and nighttime lows in the low 80's. At the end of the week both temperatures had dropped by 5 degrees. It sure feels nice now, but who know how long that will last! Most years you can almost set your clock by the weather change right October 15 so we may still have a few weeks before the change is permanent.
WATER: The passing of Hurricane Miriam to the west brought us large swells, large enough that the Port Captain decided to close the port on Tuesday. It looked decent out there to us, just large, long period swells, but for safety he closed it. On Wednesday it re-opened and there were still large swells but also heavy rains and wind, maybe the decision was made a day early, but that is the way it goes. With the approach of Tropical Storm Norman he once again closed the port on Friday, and for good reason this time. Heavy winds and lots of rain would have made fishing a bit dicey. With the cloud cover from these systems over our area it was difficult to get a good satellite shot but at the end of the week there was enough o get an idea. On the Pacific side of the Cape the water was 83-84 degrees from the beach to the banks and 82-83 degrees on the banks. Due south of the Cape we had 84=85 degree water while west of us it appeared an even 86 degrees. The main difference was the color of the water, mostly due to run-off from the heavy rain at the end of the week. Along the coast on the Cortez side of the Cape the water was green and dirty out to 8 miles, and extremely dirty within the first mile of the beach. On the Pacific side the water near the beach was still very dirty out at least one to two miles, but past there it cleaned up great. There were large swells on both sides of the Cape early in the week and these later tapered off greatly so that at the end of the week we were seeing only 5-8 foot swells with some winds to 12 knots on them.
BAIT: Live bait was a bit scarce this week due to water conditions but what could be found was Caballito and Mullet at the normal $3 each as well as some frozen Ballyhoo at $3 each as well.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Overall, the fishing appeared much better early in the week than late in the week, but on Saturday there was a Blue Marlin brought in that was reported to weigh in the region of 730 pounds. I did not see the fish nor did I get information on the who, what when where or how, but as soon as I do I will get it out on the blog. Early in the week there were decent numbers of Striped Marlin as well as Sailfish and we had one group fishing who caught small Blue Marlin (about 180 pounds each) two days in a row. The last day of the week for my report, Saturday, had slow Bill fishing results for us with just one Sailfish coming into the pattern for three boats, and one large hook being straightened out by an unidentified very large fish. As soon as the water cleans up things should get better as early in the week most of the billfish action took place pretty close to shore on the Pacific side.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Once again early in the week was better fishing as most boats were coming in with limits of Yellowfin that ranged from 12 to 30 pounds with a few to 80 pounds in the mix. Most of the small fish were found close to the beach, sometimes in the open and not associated with and Dolphin. Most of the larger fish were found farther offshore and were under Dolphin. In both instances the best bites were had on small lures from 3-5 inches in length and pink in color. Most likely the reason was the number of squid in the water, almost every fish we caught was choked with squid this size, so it made perfect sense to “match the hatch”. The largest fish of all were caught by boats that were flying a kite to get the lures away from the boat and in clean water.
DORADO: While the Tuna fishing at the beginning of the week was impressive, Dorado regained their title of fish of the week as I do not think there was a boat our there that did not have a chance to come in with limits, and most of the fish found were good size at 12-25 pounds. A few larger fish snuck in as I did see one at least 50 pound fish brought to the dock and there were others in the 30-40 pound class as well. Early in the week the water close to the beach on the Pacific side held most of the fish for us but at the end of the week everything had changed due to the run-off from the storm. The bite dropped off severely on Saturday, the best result I saw was three fish of about 15 pounds each. With Miriam dropping good amounts of water to the north of us it might suddenly switch right back on as we get floating debris that is washed out of the arroyos coming into our area. If this happens, and the water has a chance to clean up the fishing might just be fantastic.
WAHOO: Full moon was the 28th so we expected good results on Wahoo, and considering the number of days that there were to fish and the condition of the water the results were pretty darn good. Most of our clients had a shot at least, but with Wahoo you can never be sure, baits chopped in half, lure skirts sliced and mono-filament leader cut as if with a knife were the most common signs we saw of the presence of these fish. We did have one client that managed two Wahoo of about 40 pounds on two separate days, and he was fishing rigged ballyhoo on circle hooks. The leader was frayed but the hook lodged in the corner of the Wahoos mouth and they were able to bring the fish to the boat without getting cut off.
INSHORE: Strong currents and dirty water once again had an effect on the inshore bottom action and the numbers of Roosterfish available had dropped off. Many if not most of the Pangas were working just off the beach for Dorado and a few ventured offshore for Tuna and Marlin once the winds had died down.
FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this weeks recipe!
NOTES: OK, my music of the week was Professor Longhair on his CD “New Orleans Piano”, a 1989 Atlantic records release. Brought to me by our friend Ed, this is the best piano music I have listened to in a very long time. My favorite cut is #14, “Longhair's Blues-Rhumba”, talk about getting you moving your feet, wow! Hopefully we have good weather this week and the fishing returns to what it was before this last storm came through. I would also like to thank everyone who let me know that someone else based in Cabo is using my format, I already knew, and it is a bit of a compliment, just as long as they don't plagiarize, whats there to do about it. Until next week, tight lines!
GORDO BANKS PANGAS
San Jose del Cabo
September 30, 2012
Anglers –
As we have now officially began the Fall season, this last week has been
more tropical than anything else. Hurricane Miriam swept past on the
Pacific side of the Peninsula, some 400 miles from Cabo San Lucas, it was a
category three storm and a strong swells developed, no winds from this, but
as the system weaken, clouds shifted towards the east and brought up to
four inches of additional rainfall to the area. At the same time Miriam was
downgraded to a depression, there was TS Norman developing quickly, within
90 miles of Cabo San Lucas, bringing more thundershowers and wind gusts to
30 mph as it passed just south of the Baja as it continued towards the
mainland Mazatlan region. The roads had just been cleared from the last
storms, now we will all be busy once again cleaning up. Most all
sportfishing activity was canceled for Thursday and Friday, hoping
conditions improve for the weekend.
Before the weather turned for the worse charter fleets were catching good
number of dorado and yellowfin tuna were also being found. Larger yellowfin
are now in the area, including on the Gordo Banks, they have been more
active in the afternoon for the past week, but a few nice tuna were also
hooked earlier in the day. All strikes were coming on baits, preferably
live cocinero, bolito, skpjack, caballito of chihuil. Everyday a handful of
larger tuna from 80 to 250 pounds were being accounted for, most of these
fish were taken by local pangeros specifically targeting these fish.
Sardinas were harder to obtain with the higher surf conditions, this is
what the smaller sized yellowfin tuna around the Iman Bank have preferred,
this action was also best later on in the morning. Lots of skipjack to deal
with, some of them the species locals refer to as white skipjack, good
eating, similar to yellowfin, most are less than ten pounds though. Giant
squid have once again moved into the area, though they are north, off of
Los Frailes, the commercial pangeros are catching them daily now and some
of the sport charters from San Jose del Cabo were able to purchase them and
had mixed success using them for bait.
Dorado were the most numerous fish found, scattered throughout the entire
zone, ranging in sizes to over 30 pounds, though the majority of the dorado
were in the 5 to 15 pound range. There will certainly be more floating
debris found after these latest floods, this always help produce the food
chain, which in turn can attract gamefish. A few wahoo were found early in
the week, with ocean temperatures still in the upper 80s these fish prove
to be sluggish and not as active as they become when the water drops into
the upper 70s.
A few sailfish and striped marlin are on the offshore fishing grounds, no
black or blue marlin really to speak of recently, this is the time we
should hear about some black marlin be seen lurking around the high spots,
such as the Gordo Banks. Not much off the bottom, a few dogtooth snapper
and other miscellaneous pargo.
The combined panga fleets launching out of La Playita/Puerto Los Cabos
Marina sent out approximately 38 charters for the week, with anglers
accounting for a fish count of:
4 striped marlin, 4 sailfish, 4 wahoo, 5 amberjack, 6 dogtooth snapper, 9
cabrilla,
114 dorado, 79 yellowfin tuna, 25 various pargo species and 3 roosterfish.
Good Fishing, Eric
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
Eric Brictson / Operator
619 488-1859
Los Cabos (624) 142-1147
e-mail:gordobanks@yahoo.com
WWW.GORDOBANKS.COM
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Sep 24, 2012; 11:54AM - Cabo Bite Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrum
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
http://captgeo.wordpress.com/
Cabo Fish Report
Sept 17 - 23, 2012
WEATHER: We had some really great weather this week if you are in the mood for some heat and humidity! At the start of the week there was a good breeze from the northwest but by Wednesday it was still and muggy with sunny skies. That's not the perfect weather but pretty good if you are out on the ocean! Our daytime highs were in the mid to high 90's while the nighttime lows were in the low 80's. It seems as the week went on the early morning temps were a bit lower than at the start of the week and perhaps the humidity a bit less as well.
WATER: On the Cortez side of the Cape this week it was calm but with a few humping swells, spaced well apart at the start of the week. On the Pacific side it was a different story as the northwest winds on Monday and Tuesday made the fishing uncomfortable. On Monday it was like a sheep farm out there but the conditions steadily improved as the days went on. By yesterday it was like a lake with small, long period swells and no wind. On the Cortez side it was glassy. Water clarity was the big issue this week. At the start of the week we had a monster area of very green water from the Punta Gorda area in the Cortez all the way to the Cape and it extended out to the 1,000 fathom line. Currents coming down from the north pushed this green water around the Cape and up into the Pacific side, traveling about 7 miles a day. This water clarity issue was the largest factor affecting where the boats went to find fish, the preferred area was to the west, then north side of the dirty water as it worked it's way around the Cape. By Friday most of the boats were having to travel as far up the coast as Cerritos Beach to get to the north side of the clean water, but the water close to home and at the banks had cleared up.
BAIT: Caballito were available early in the week for $3 each and there were frozen horse ballyhoo for the same price.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: There was decent action on both Sailfish and Striped Marlin this week on the Pacific side but I did not hear of much happening on the Cortez side. Fish were found from close to the beach in 40 fathoms of water to 5 miles offshore, but there was little action outside that zone. I fished 4 days for Blue or Black Marlin with no results at all, but heard of a few boats getting strikes from big billfish. Most of the billfish found inshore were striking lures pulled for Dorado, but they were the perfect size!
YELLOWFIN TUNA: I think that Yellowfin Tuna have definitely taken the top spot and became the fish of the week. On Wednesday a potential world record was brought in to the marina. The boat had reportedly been out on it's third multiday trip targeting a world record and this trip it paid off 180 miles offshore while chunking with cut bait in a pod of black porpoise. While I am not 100% positive, it was told to me that the scale that weighed the fish at 427 pounds had been certified at the time and sent up to be re-certified after weighing the fish. Such a nice fish, but there were good fish closer to home as well. We had clients out on Tuesday who brought in one that weighed 156 pounds and brought two that weighed 85 pounds each on Wednesday. One of the Pangas we book on a regular basis returned on Saturday with a tuna the scaled out at 280 pounds, and caught on #40 test line! Not all the fish caught were that large, nor did all the boats fishing for them get Yellowfin, but those that did found quality fish that averaged 25 pounds. Almost 100% of the action was on the Pacific side of the Cape between the south side of the San Jaime Bank and the Cerritos Beach area to the north, in the clean water with dolphin around.
DORADO: If it were not for the fact that the fishing for Tuna was so impressive, Dorado would have remained my choice for fish of the week. Once again almost all the action occurred on the Pacific side of the Cape and for almost the entire week, at least through Friday it happened on the north side of the dirty water, right on the edge. There were some fish caught on the outside in the clean water but the concentrations were inshore. On Saturday the dirty water had moved far enough to the north and been filtered enough that the boats did not require such a long run and were able to find good numbers closer to home. Many boats were able to limit out on fish at averaged several pounds over what they were catching last week, most of the fish were in the 10-15 pound range with a few really big ones in there. Live bait worked along the edge where the fish were concentrated worked early in the week and later on there was decent action on bright lures.
WAHOO: This week we were coming from the new moon to the first quarter and we did have a little spurt of Wahoo action, something we have not seen for a few weeks. Most of the fish were caught offshore around the banks but there were a few fish picked up right on the beach. Most of the fish were between 20 and 45 pounds and were incidental catches made while fishing for Tuna and Dorado.
INSHORE: Strong currents once again had an effect on the inshore bottom action and the numbers of Roosterfish available had dropped off. Many if not most of the Pangas were working just off the beach for Dorado and a few ventured offshore for Tuna and Marlin once the winds had died down.
FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this weeks recipe!
NOTES: This week I have no music going but there is a lot of anticipation as one of my clients brought me 10 new CD's that I am going to start using and playing. A very esoteric mix of stuff, everything from Doobie Brothers to Yo-Yo Ma to Ry Cooder to Johnny Cash and Carlos Santana. Looking forward to it! Of course, being Sunday morning the pup is at my knee with her head resting on my leg looking at me with that look, “It's time for the beach, Dad, hurry up!”. So, until next week, stay safe and have a great time. Until then, tight lines!
Be sure to check the blog to see some of those big tuna!
GORDO BANKS PANGAS
San Jose del Cabo
September 23, 2012
Anglers –
There has been mixed crowds of anglers, surfers and just normal traveling
sun worshipping tourists enjoying the clear tropical weather for the past
week. The area is now lush green due to all of the recent rainfall,
humidity is high, but there a hint of fall in the air now, as early
mornings are cooler. Swells are moderate, there was very little wind at
all, just a slight afternoon breeze. There is a new low pressure system
forming at this time, should become Tropical Storm Miriam in the new few
days, this is projected to follow a path off to the west, keeping it clear
of any land. Ocean clarity has cleared up now along the coast, this is
where it had been clouded by the entire desert run off. Blue water has been
found within several miles of shore and water temperatures are averaging 88
degrees throughout most of the region.
The most exciting news of the week was on Wednesday morning, this is when a
crew aboard the 61 ft. “EL Suertudo” brought in a new world record sized
yellowfin tuna to Cabo San Lucas. The record catch was weighed in on two
different scales, 421 lb. and 427 lb. respectably, after certification the
final weight will be listed, either way this fish appears to be shoe in for
the new all-tackle IGFA record. Congratulations go out to angler Guy Yocom,
from Dana Point, Ca. and to the rest of his crew aboard his yacht, this is
an unbelievable accomplishment. These anglers were specifically targeting
big yellowfin tuna and appear to have also qualified for the “Hook a
Million”, one million dollar prize sponsored by Mustad Hook Company for any
new world record tuna caught worldwide before the end of September, 2012,
this definitely added to their motivation of going the extra miles to the
fishing grounds where the giants lurk.
Conditions are really shaping up nice now, as weather has settled, each day
the water is looking better, there is an abundance of baitfish scattered
throughout the area, more skipjack than anything else. Caballito are being
found near the marina jetty and sardinas are now being netted along the
shoreline, near Palmilla and north towards Vinorama.
For the panga fleets departing out of Puerto Los Cabos Marina they have
encountered more consistent action near Iman Bank and north to Vinorama,
though the bite has been up and down and below local late summer standards.
There has been a recent trend of the better action coming later in the day.
Mort common catches were dorado or yellowfin tuna, the majority of the fish
ranged 10 to 20 pounds, a few larger specimens mixed in. Live sardinas was
the best bet for this bite. There are big yellowfin on the Gordo Banks, but
they have proved very elusive, at times they were seen feeding in chum
lines, but they did not want to bite baited hooks. At least one tuna close
to 200 lb. was accounted for this week, it was landed on an afternoon
private charter. Tuna often become spooky on these shallow banks in clear
water, but they can also all of a sudden decide to bite just like that on
any given day, pressure is light now and we are encouraged to see this
larger grade of tuna now present on the local grounds.
A few sailfish and striped marlin found on these same grounds, but no big
numbers, basically just incidental catches. As well as a few wahoo now
being seen free swimming around drifting boats, but several were landed in
recent days, so we expect something to happen with these speedy fish to
become more active as fall weather transitions.
Not much bottom action found now, besides dropping larger baits over
structure for a chance at winning the battle against a dogtooth snapper.
Should be the time we hear about some grouper as well and we also usually
expect to see some amberjack in the mix. Just as we have seen now for the
last few seasons, we heard about a handful of nice sized roosterfish being
hooked into further offshore over the rocky high spots, this is out of
their normal feeding zone close to shore, I suppose they are adapting to
where they can find sustainable food supply.
The combined panga fleets launching out of La Playita/Puerto Los Cabos
Marina sent out approximately 61 charters for the week, with anglers
accounting for a fish count of: 3 striped marlin, 6 sailfish, 3 wahoo, 7
amberjack, 8 dogtooth snapper, 12 cabrilla, 137 dorado, 78 yellowfin tuna,
43 various pargo species and 4 roosterfish.
Good Fishing, Eric
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
Eric Brictson / Operator
619 488-1859
Los Cabos (624) 142-1147
e-mail:gordobanks@yahoo.com
WWW.GORDOBANKS.COM
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Sep 17, 2012; 11:13AM - Cabo Bite Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrum
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
http://captgeo.wordpress.com/
Cabo Fish Report
Sept 10 - 16, 2012
WEATHER: This time of year we can expect occasionally rough conditions since it is our storm season. We always hope for some rain, not too much mind you, but hope the storms pass far enough away that the winds stay down and the seas are fishable. This week we had Tropical Storm Kristy form up to the south and pass to the west. This formation brought us some rain, in fairly light amounts here in Cabo and it was light enough that the ground absorbed it, maybe ½ inch total. I heard that the weather and rain was much worse in the San Jose area though. We had mostly cloudy skies this week, but a couple of sunny days early on and our temperatures stayed in the mid to high 90's during the day and dropped to the low 80's at night with high humidity most of the time. The best weather was offshore where you got a breeze!
WATER: Let me preface this section by letting you know that the Cabo San Lucas Marina was closed on Friday due to the large surf conditions caused by Tropical Storm Kristy. It was also closed Thursday afternoon, and probably should have been closed Thursday morning, these swells were 12-15 feet and causing some extra large surf. Walking the beach was not safe nor was taking any boat close to the beach. At the end of the week the water on the Cortez side of the Cape was green with run-off but warm, the charts showed 89 degrees in front of San Jose and a large plume of dirty water extending out from there, across the Gorda Banks and out to the 1150 spot and the 1,000 fathom line. In front of Cabo it was 87 degrees and dirty water, but not as bad as around San Jose. If you went around the Cape into the Pacific side at the end of the week you found 85-86 degree water that was clean, at least between the San Jaime and Golden Gate Banks and shore. Swells during the passing of Tropical Storm Kristy kicked up the shore very hard and there were spume lines extending across the entire Cape up to three miles offshore. At the end of the week the swells had subsided to 2-4 feet in all areas with just a light wind on the Pacific side.
BAIT: Caballito were available early in the week for $3 each and there were frozen horse ballyhoo for the same price.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Sailfish were the billfish of the week as the warm water really seemed to set them on a feeding frenzy. Last week we were having pods of them coming into the lures and making the cockpits a picture of frenzy as lures were attacked left and right. These beautiful fish averaged 90 pounds with a few going as large as 130 pounds, Not all that bit were hooked up of course, but most boats managed to get two or three releases per trip. Not the numbers you see elsewhere, but very good for our area. Strip baits (tuna belly) dropped back to the fish that came in on the lures worked better than anything else to get them hooked up, better than live bait, which is strange for some of these guys to get their heads around. The Striped Marlin that were caught were mostly hooked on live bait, and the local fishermen are very used to that and have this fishing method down to a science. There were reports of a few Blue Marlin early in the week before the storm passed, but nothing since then. Almost all the billfish action in our area happened on the Pacific side of the Cape.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: I heard that early in the week there were some very nice Yellowfin to 200 pounds caught at the Gorda Banks and that has gotten everyone's pulse pounding. The Gorda Banks are well known as a large Tuna area, if they are around, and it is almost always a live bait fishery. In the rest of our local ocean most of the tuna were found with porpoise and were football fish, in the 5 to 12 pound class with a few 18 to 25 pound fish mixed in. The Purse Seiners really made their presence known and felt last week, but hopefully the foul weather forced them away and we will have a few weeks of decent Tuna fishing before they re-appear. After the storm passed a few boats went out and found that the Tuna were still around, getting decent results fishing on the Pacific side 2 miles off the beach.
DORADO: Once again fish of the week as they often are this time of year, Dorado are still out there in decent numbers. At the beginning of the week almost anyone could limit out on small Dorado that were between 5 and 10 pounds with a few to 15 pounds tossed in, but the larger fish were a bit harder to find. If you could find some floating debris your chance improved dramaticly, as they did if you were able to find frigate birds working. Working bright lures at slightly higher speeds than normal really caught their attention, then working the area hard with live bait brought in some decent fish. Almost all the Dorado action here in Cabo happened on the Pacific side within 5 miles of the beach.
INSHORE: Strong and variable currents at the beginning of the week and dirty water at the end of the week made inshore fishing problematic at best. A few Snapper and Grouper were found on the Pacific side as well as the occasional Roosterfish but almost all the Pangas were working a bit farther offshore in order to catch the easily found Dorado and Bonita.
FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this weeks recipe!
NOTES: My music this morning was the sound of my fingers going tickity-tack on the keyboard, but in my head I was hearing the sounds of a reel going off! It looks as if we might have some decent weather this coming week so the chances of it happening are pretty darn good! It is said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery so it's nice to know that there is another report out there that is flattering mine! It's off to the beach for the Sunday trip, and let me toss out a good morning to Mark and Char, we look forward to you guys getting down here! Keep the music going, and until next week, tight lines!
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Sep 10, 2012; 12:22PM - Cabo Bite Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrum
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
http://captgeo.wordpress.com/
Cabo Fish Report
Sept 3 - 9, 2012
WEATHER: Hot, humid and buggy has been our experience on land this week, that's one of the reasons to get out on the water, or in many cases, into the water at the beach. With our daytime highs in the high 90's and occasionally breaking 100 degrees combined with the 80% humidity the flies, bo-bo's (no-see-um's) and mosquitoes have been a big annoyance. This happens every time after we have a big wet spell, but since it has been three years we tend to forget. The skies were mostly sunny late this week with just a few high, passing clouds but it looked as if we might have received some rains in the mountains early in the week as another storm system moved over the peninsula to the north of us and Hurricane John passed to the west.
WATER: We had a breeze on the Pacific side early in the week that was a result of feeder bands from Hurricane John coming through, and combined with a storm that came in from the mainland conditions were choppy and very bumpy early in the week. On Tuesday we were seeing swells to 12 feet coming in on the beach at Medano, washing right up to the retaining walls at the resorts and washing over the sand berm at the arroyo, filling in the area behind so it became a saltwater pool. This swell, a result of the passing hurricane, fell off very quickly and by the end of the week we had almost flat conditions with swells on the Pacific at 2-4 feet and on the Cortez side at 1-3 feet. Water on the Sea of Cortez has been warm in our area, often in the 89 degree range. Looking at the charts we can see water as warm as 91 degrees up in the East Cape area. Right in front of the Cape the water is 88 degrees but farther to the north along the beach it cools a bit to 84 degrees. Out at the San Jaime and the Golden Gate Banks the water is between 85 and 86 degrees. It is blue water almost everywhere you go as well, with it just a bit deeper in color on the Pacific side.
BAIT: Caballito and Mullet were available at the normal $3 each and if you went to San Jose and were early it was possible to get Sardinas at $20 a scoop. Most of the bait boats had frozen Horse Ballyhoo available as well at a very proud $3 each.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Striped Marlin and Sailfish remained the most common billfish in the area but there were a few Blue Marlin reported hooked and released this week, and a few small one that were caught and brought in, sigh. I heard of no Black Marlin this week but there may have been a few of these fish as well. Most of the Sailfish and Striped Marlin were found just to the south of us by boats looking for Tuna. A few were caught to the east at the 95 spot and many were found between 3 and 10 miles off the beach on the Pacific side. Dropping back a live bait or frozen (then thawed) Ballyhoo to fish appearing in the spread was the most common method that worked this week, throwing a live bait at a tailing or sleeping Striped Marlin came in a distant second as far as working went. It is exciting when a pod of Sailfish appears in the spread and suddenly there is a fish behind every lure!
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Most of the Tuna caught this week were football sized fish, and later in the week you did not have to go far to find them. The area off of Chileano Beach had a good showing of these Tuna that ranged between 5 and 10 pounds early in the week. As time went on these fish slowly moved toward Cabo. At the end of the week the fish were right in front of the bay. The only difficulty was weeding your way through the numbers of Skipjack and Bonito that were mixed in with them. I was really surprised that with this amount of small tuna out there, there were not a number of Black Marlin hooked up. Maybe it's just a bit early for numbers of these billfish to show up. Offshore, looking for pods of Dolphin was the main method of finding tuna, either that or searching for the Tuna Seiners and their helicopters. There were enough Seiners out there looking to set their nets on fish that you had to get lucky to find fish for yourself. Most of the boats that got decent Tuna found small pods of Dolphin, pods small enough to draw no interest from the helicopters. Flying a kite to take your lure or bait well away from the boat was the most successful method used to catch fish to 150 pounds, but there were not many of these out there (fish I mean). I only hope that these vessels go away soon before they net everything in the area and leave us hoping for a stray tuna.
DORADO: Fish of the week, and most of them were caught close to the beach on the Pacific side, just as they were last week. Smaller lures in bright colors trolled at 8 to 81/2 knots brought them in, keeping the first fish in the water for a while brought in others. Most of the fish were in the 5 to 10 pound class but there were a few larger one to 20 pounds caught inshore as well. The majority of larger ones were caught at least 5 miles from the beach, and finding working Frigate birds was the key to getting more than one shot at fish that came as large as 35 pounds. There were not many of these, but if you worked it there was a chance of two or three in the box. Slow trolling live bait in the area of the Frigates worked well, very few anglers were willing to risk the chance of loosing a large Dorado by leaving one of them in the water as a teaser for more.
INSHORE: Inshore currents were variable this week and bottom fishing was scratchy as a result. The water is clearing up and the inshore catch was a mix of Roosterfish, Amberjack, a few Snapper and a couple of Grouper. Most of the pangas were going for the football Tuna and venturing a bit farther out for Dorado and Sailfish.
FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this weeks recipe!
NOTES: Off to the beach in a few minutes to get in some quality time before football! Sunday morning breakfast and Bloody Mary's when we get back from the beach. Think I'll fix up some Sashimi from our tuna as a snack! My music for this weeks report was something I have not listened to for a long time, a bit of reggae from a local band, Rhythm Force, off their self-titled album published about 10 years ago. Until next week, tight lines!
GORDO BANKS PANGAS
San Jose del Cabo
September 9, 2012
Anglers –
This week started off with thundershowers on Monday, this squall developed
from a local disturbance, shifting in from the east and joining forces with
the outer bands of Tropical Storm John, red flag conditions throughout the
area, ports were closed, winds to 30/40 mph, swells increased to 4/5
meters, before resided that same afternoon, a bit unusual to see such a
swell weaken so quickly. On Tuesday skies were clear and ocean conditions
nice, though for some reason local Port Authorities left the red flag
flying until later in the day, which meant morning charters were canceled,
at least this was the situation for Puerto Los Cabos Marina. There has been
a calming trend all week, the satellite map is the clearest it has been for
weeks, no area of low pressure at this time, of course this is still the
peak season when tropical storms can develop virtually overnight. In the
meantime the Atlantic has two named storms brewing, Hurricanes Leslie and
Michael. The next Eastern Pacific system will be named Kristy, hopefully
she stays clear of Baja, because local cleanup crews are already working
overtime, tackling the mess left by flooding rainfall. We can say that the
desperate local drought situation is now officially over.
We are starting to feel that first sign of cooler early morning fall
airflow, though by mid day the humidity is off the charters, September is
always a humid time of year, as days progressively shorten, in another few
weeks weather will really transition. Ocean currents are following
unpredictable patterns, raging shift one day and slacking off the next,
normally summertime has slower drifts, water temperatures are now in the
85/87 degree range. Inshore waters have been murky from recent runoffs, but
are now clearing daily, as surf conditions are weakening.
Crowds of anglers are light, ocean conditions are ideal, it is the perfect
time to try your luck fishing on the many local hot spots. In recent days
there has been encouraging signs, with large concentrations of skipjack
found on the fishing grounds, sardinas are once again available, being
netted off the Vinorama stretch and caballito is the common baitfish near
the marinas.
Yellowfin tuna have been slow to move in this summer, no real consistent
action throughout the summer, just in recent weeks there has been more tuna
activity being reported, most commonly smaller football sized, but there is
another grade of 100/200 lb. yellowfin in the area, a handful have been
landed. Everything appears to be gearing up for the action to bust loose at
any time. Though there is one discouraging note, that many commercial tuna
seiners are also now present in the area, just like clockwork, as soon as
the season’s first tuna are appearing within the range of local charter
fleets, now we have this armada of commercial vessels, equipped with
helicopters on board that are able to pinpoint the schooling yellowfin,
they rarely miss when they set their gear. Taking every last fish there is,
It is a big ocean, these operators can go elsewhere to fill their quotas,
would be hopeful to see enforcement of particular zones, designated for
commercial of sportfishing, very hard to maintain a sustainable fishery how
the situation is now managed.
Dorado remain the most common species being encountered by charter fleets,
the majority of the fish have been small to medium, 5 to 15 lb., though
there has been a fair share of larger specimens mixed in. Limits have been
the rule, remember to release as many females as possible, they have the
smaller rounded off forehead, the males have the squared off front.
Bottom action remained a productive option for early bird specials, as
these fish were only really striking on the yo-yo jigs early in the day.
The San Luis Bank was the spot for red snapper (huachinango), amberjack,
cabrilla and even a few yellowtail were rounding out this action. Of course
plenty of triggerfish for the asking, they hold in that shallower 30 to 100
ft. inshore zone.
Striped marlin and sailfish continue to be the more common billfish
encountered off of San Jose del Cabo grounds, we do expect to hear new
reports about more black and blues being hooked into. Recalling that during
this same period last year there was action on the Gordo Banks. More
tournament teams will now start to scout out and prefish the grounds,
preparing to gain an local edge for the upcoming high stake tournaments.
The combined panga fleets launching from La Playita/Puerto Los Cabos sent
out approximately 36 charters for the week, with anglers reporting a fish
count of: 4 striped marlin, 8 sailfish, 184 dorado, 12 yellowfin tuna, 8
cabrilla, 17 amberjack, 2 dogtooth snapper, 2 yellowtail, 28 huachinango,
18 white skipjack, 8 bonito and 6 hammerhead sharks.
Good Fishing, Eric
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
Eric Brictson / Operator
619 488-1859
Los Cabos (624) 142-1147
e-mail:gordobanks@yahoo.com
WWW.GORDOBANKS.COM
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Sep 7, 2012; 10:52AM - GOOD NEWS BAD NEWS
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: MARK RAYOR
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GOOD NEWS BAD NEWS
Some good news is the drought that southern Baja
and the East Cape have been experiencing is over.
During the past month we have received several
inches of rain. The desert is green and looks like a
lush tropical jungle.
Bad news is all the rain made fishing uncomfortable
for a few days. It is not all bad as the precipitation
has not hurt the bite for those willing to brave the
conditions.
Good news is live bait has become available. Sardines
have reappeared and available for purchase everyday.
Cavillitos and boca dulce (spanish mackerel) have
been easy to find.
Bad news is several tuna seiners have been working
East Cape waters. They drive the porpoise and tuna
down and make tuna fishing very difficult for sport
boats. The good news is they don't take them all and
experience tells me that as soon as they leave the
tuna will pop back up.
Good news is dorado and billfish have really filled the
gap for the hard to catch tuna.
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Aug 27, 2012; 12:04PM - Cabo Bite Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrum
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
http://captgeo.wordpress.com/
Cabo Fish Report
Aug 19 - 26, 2012
WEATHER: I cannot believe it! After almost three years of looking out on a dry and dusty brown desert I can finally see green everywhere! The almost 10 inches of rain we received recently has resulted in an almost garden appearance if you decide to wander out into the desert, everything is budding out and in a few more days we should start to see plenty of flowers as well. This time of year is normally when we get our rains, and after the recent delivery we have been expecting more almost constantly as the dark clouds continues to move in every few days. At least the rain is getting dumped up in the mountains, but there is a possibility of more coming our way in the next month and a half. For this week out highs have been in the low 90's and the lows in the low to mid 80's with the humidity between 72 and 84 percent, and mostly cloudy skies.
WATER: Surface conditions have been great with swells at 2-5 feet on the Pacific side and 1-3 feet on the Cortez side of the Cape. On the Pacific side the water temperatures have been running between 81 and 84 degrees, on the Cortez side it has been pretty evenly 84 degrees this week. A lot of this has to do with the cloud cover we are experiencing, the water a few weeks ago was several degrees warmer across the board. One nice thin the rain did for us was wash quite a bit of debris out of the arroyos and into the ocean, there has been decent amounts of floating debris to work for the past week, but that has also meant keeping a sharp eye out for debris large enough to damage the props or the hull. Sometimes these objects are mostly submerged, so if you do spot them the likelihood of them holding bait is very good.
BAIT: Caballito and Mullet were available at the normal $3 per bait and you could get them if you were out early, many boats were unable to get bait and had to settle for frozen horse ballyhoo at $3 each. I heard reports that there were a few Sardianas available in the San Jose area, but you had to know someone and pay well for them.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Not surprisingly the numbers of Sailfish that have been caught this past week were much higher than normal, perhaps due to the continuing warm water and strong current flow. When the water is this temperature the numbers of Striped Marlin that we see drop off quite a bit from what we see when the water is in the mid 70's, but there are always a few around. This week they were a bit scarce, but there were still some found. Blue and Black Marlin really like this temperature so we have been seeing quite a few Blue Marlin appearing in the lure spreads, especially when working the schools of football size Yellowfin Tuna. There has been fairly good success rates on these fish, with most of them under 300 pounds and being released (thank goodness!). Good success rates don't necessarily mean everyone is hooking up, just that the boats that are getting hooked up are not losing so many. Even with the water this warm and the large numbers of Skipjack and Bonito we are seeing, I have heard of very few Black Marlin being caught. This is a bit unusual since the fishing grounds have been packed with the perfect baits.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Fish of the week without a doubt as almost every boat that went out came in with near limits of Yellowfin. All the fish were found associated with Porpoise and there were actually a few schools found. Like I said, most of the fish were footballs between 8 and 20 pounds but there were a few larger fish caught as well. One boat came in last Sunday afternoon with a nice Tuna that weighed in at 205 pounds, way to go Mike! A few schooling fish have been caught as well, these are fish in the 30 to 70 pound class, but the numbers of them have been small. Speaking of small, most of the schooling fish were caught on that time honored Football Tuna lure, the three inch pink hootchie trolled about 50 to 80 feet behind the boat and worked steadily with a jerking motion. I was out last Sunday and every Tuna we caught was loaded with small squid between three and five inches long. The Tuna have been scattered on both sides of the Ca, from the lighthouse on the Pacific side to the area offshore of El Tule on the Cortez side. It looked like perfect water around the San Jaime Bank last weekend and we worked it hard, but saw nothing out there until we came back to the starting area about five miles off of the lighthouse.
DORADO: I really expected the debris in the water to attract and concentrate the Dorado this past week and was surprised when the reports came in that these great fighting and eating fish were scarce. A number of smaller fish to 10 pounds were being found inshore, but not in any concentration or numbers, and there were a few larger fish being found offshore. When boats were finding floating debris and pulled up to it, only a few pieces held Dorado, and not in any great numbers. I am not sure of the reason for this, it runs completely counter to what is normal and expected this time of year.
INSHORE: Roosterfish numbers were way down this past week due to the near-shore dirty water after the passing of the rain, but that was expected. Strong currents have effected the bottom fishing as well so the numbers of Grouper and Snapper as well as Amberjack were also off. Most of the Pangas have been going a bit offshore looking for the football Tuna and have been doing well on them.
FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this weeks recipe!
NOTES: Beach time! Tawny just came up and put her head on my lap and let me know that I am taking too long, she really needs to get into the water and swim for a while. It looks as if the fishing is picking up a bit, as soon as the currents slow it should get even better. The desert is green and starting to bloom, the water is clean again as are the streets. This weeks report was written to the music of Hayes Carll on his album “Little Rock”. For those of you who like country, check him out! Until next week, tight lines!
GORDO BANKS PANGAS
San Jose del Cabo
August 26, 2012
Anglers –
What a difference some much needed rainfall can make, in a matter of days
the landscape in Southern Baja has blossomed into a lush green tropical
desert oasis. Presently there are no new named storm systems in the Eastern
Pacific, the coming weeks is when historically there has been the highest
percentage of hurricane activity. This entire week there have been
threatening clouds and isolated rain squalls offshore and to the north of
the International airport, common pattern for late August. Humidity is high
with all of the moisture in the area, I guess we can say the drought is
over for now, despite still needing more rain, the amount of rain that fell
last week was significant and a great relief for the entire region.
Ocean swells have settled, there are now comfortable sea conditions for
anglers, as there are no storms presently kicking up high winds. Water
clarity is clean throughout, at least from 5 miles offshore and out.
Currents have remained particular strong, making any bottom fishing
particularly challenging, ocean temperatures ranged from 82 to 85 degrees.
Quite a bit of floating debris encountered in recent days, due to last
week’s flooding.
The Puerto Los Cabos Marina was holing schooling caballito, jurelito and
moonfish, all being used for bait, while there were also some sardinas
beginning to return to the jetty entrance area, still limited for these
smaller baits, larger schools of these preferred baitfish are now found
along the beaches north of Vinorama. Offshore fishing grounds are
attracting sizable schools of skipacjk, all sizes, from tiny, smaller than
mackerel size on up to fifteen pound bruisers. We are seeing abundant food
supply on the local grounds, despite the more than favorable all around
conditions the local fishing action remains substantial off as compared to
typical summertime consistent fish counts. Global weather patterns is
making it harder to predict what is going on, we are seeing a possible el
Nino condition now develop off of Southern California, last time that
really happened, I remember that we had an incredible winter bite on
species such as sailfish and wahoo.
Even though we normally would expect to see more productive daily fishing
action on larger sized catches, we are seeing the bite show signs of
improvement, just that it has not been consistent from day to day. Some
anglers were more fortunate, encountered floating debris that held larger
dorado to 30 pounds of more, while the majority of the other boats are
finding small sized dorado, particularly closer to shore, offshore there
has been a better chance at finding a larger sized bull. Most of the
yellowfin tuna recently were associated with porpoise activity, weighing 10
to 30 pounds, though there were some larger tuna reported on the Pacific
side of CSL, one 205 lb. yellowfin was landed last Sunday by Renegade Mike.
No tuna have been reported from the Gordo Banks and only a handful of
smaller yellowfin have been accounted for on the grounds from Iman to San
Luis Banks. More tuna seem to be found south towards Cabo San Lucas at this
time, a lot can happen from day to day during the late summer, both the
weather and fishing conditions become even harder than normal to predict.
Billfish action produced striped marlin, blues and sailfish, quite a few
sails now moving in with the warmer currents and plentiful food supply. A
few wahoo also being reported, lure strikes while trolling on the familiar
tuna, dorado, billfish grounds. Using small to medium sized hoochie type or
feather lures have been working well.
Commercial pangeros are continuing to produce quality red snapper, grouper,
triggerfish and even an odd yellowtail, they are fighting strong currents
and departing the docks in the predawn hours.
The recent rain resulted in breaking the San Jose Estuary open to the
ocean, this got the snook to wake up and a handful of these prized fish to
over 30 pounds were caught by a group of die hard locals who work this area
when the favorable periods arrive, it was a higher tide bite, near noon,
when the snook decided to feed, one person caught three himself in a short
period of time, while his father landed a 30 pounder.
The combined panga fleet out of La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos Marina sent
out approximately 78 charters for the week, with anglers reporting a fish
count of: 2 wahoo, 8 sailfish, 236 dorado, 58 yellowfin, 2 yellowtail, 8
amberjack, 7 grouper, 17 cabrilla, 76 huachinango (red snapper), 38 pargo
and 14 bonito.
Good fishing, Eric
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
Eric Brictson / Operator
619 488-1859
Los Cabos (624) 142-1147
e-mail:gordobanks@yahoo.com
WWW.GORDOBANKS.COM
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Aug 21, 2012; 12:55PM - SHOULD I GO OR SHOULD I STAY NOW?
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: MARK RAYOR
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SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO NOW?
Early this week we experienced some rain. Then we
got more rain. I was beginning to think it would
never stop but after 3 days it finally did. This weather
brought low pressure that not only made boat rides
uncomfortable it also shut the great fishing we were
experiencing right down.
Then the rain stopped and the tuna popped. The bite
has been a little different every day but boats willing
to go the distance and take the time have been
rewarded with limits. The fish have been from 20 to
35 miles off shore. Sometimes we are finding them
with spotted dolphin and sometimes they are just
breezing.
Most mornings, using our gyro binoculars, we have
been able to spot working birds in the distance which
is always where the tuna are feeding. Finding the fish
doesn't mean they are going to bite right way though.
Yesterday first thing in the morning the tuna charged
the boat and bit everything in the water. The day
before they were foaming around the boat but we
couldn't buy a bite. It was a matter of just working
hard, having patience and waiting until the fish
decided to cooperate.
I had a little difficulty with a group this week that
didn't have the faith or patience and made me leave
the scene before making the score. It was very
frustrating to go the distance, find the fish and have
to leave them. I learned many years ago you don't
leave fish to go find fish.
It has been a little inconsistent for boats targeting
Marlin, Dorado and roosterfish. Sometimes they will
go but it is the tuna that has been pure action.
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Aug 20, 2012; 12:54PM - Cabo Bite Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrum
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
http://captgeo.wordpress.com/
Cabo Fish Report
Aug 13 - 19, 2012
WEATHER: We finally got some rain, after almost three years with just an occasional sprinkle. A lot of folks thought that the weather was a result of Hurricane Hector, but Hector passed well to the southwest of us and had no effect at all other than some swells. This rain was a result of a large area of weather moving in over us from the east, coming in off the Mexican mainland, and slowly passing across our area. Here at the house we measured 8 ½ inches, out at Cabo Real Golf Course there was just under 10 inches of rain. What was nice for us is that all this water did not come down in just one day, as often happens during a hurricane, instead it started off slow and allowed the soil to absorb a lot of moisture, great for the plants and helping to fill the aquafier. The rain started on Tuesday, just a ¼ inch every few hours, then came heavy on Wednesday morning, light showers after that, and then really dumping on Thursday morning. On Thursday morning I measured 3 inches at 10 AM, starting at midnight with most of the rain early. As a result there was massive amounts of flooding in the low areas and in areas up to 2 feet of sand across roads or built up at intersection. You can go on line and do a search, there are a lot of pictures posted out there. Our highs for the week after the storm were in the high 90's with high humidity as well, our lows were in the mid 80's. At the end of the week the skies cleared and the rain was over, but the roads continue to be cleaned up. We were all happy at the quick response by the city in getting the main roads cleared so fast. Expect to see a lot of greenery in the next few weeks as the desert shows it's appreciation by getting everything in bloom! It looks as if we may get a bit more in the middle of the coming week as well as another cloud layer is moving our way.
WATER: Hector did deliver the surf we expected and it happened to almost coincide with our wet weather. Swells to 9 feet were experienced on Wednesday but it died off quickly. The Port Captain closed the port to small vessels such as Pangas and water taxis for two days but the larger boats were still able to go out. Heavy rain and the swells did not make for great fun, but the fishing was pretty good. One thing all the rain did was dirty the water for up to 5 miles offshore as the arroyos filled with water and took massive amounts of sand and silt to the ocean. Farther out it was still blue, but we didn't really get any decent shots of water temperature until the end of the week. As of today, it appears that the water on both sides of the Cape are between 83 and 85 degrees with no real temperature break anywhere.
BAIT: Caballito and Mullet were available at the normal $3 per bait and you could get them if you were out early, many boats were unable to get bait and had to settle for frozen horse ballyhoo at $3 each.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Striped Marlin, Sailfish and Blue Marlin continue to excite anglers when they show up, and they have been doing that on a regular basis. The action has been spread out but most of the boats this week were finding the fish on the Pacific side as the attempted to avoid the swells coming from the east. My guess is that 40% of the anglers looking for a Marlin were able to hook up and quite a few that didn't care hooked up as well. The Striped Marlin were the most common billfish this week with Sailfish coming in a close second. The Blue Marlin were scattered out but there were enough of them caught to get your anticipation up, and even a small Blue Marlin is a heck of a fight. Live bait was the key to the Striped Marlin and Sailfish bite and once again lures accounted for most of the Blue Marlin. I still haven't heard of any Black Marlin in the past week, and with the inshore water dirty we probably won't for the nest week as well.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: It was nice to see the catch get better on Yellowfin Tuna this week, and they were found all over the place, just no really big ones. One friend did well fishing outside the 1150 and caught a few fish in the 70 pound class and a lot of smaller fish, but most of the anglers were happy to do well on fish averaging 12-15 pounds. Find the Dolphin and birds and you found the fish. Closer to home there were small pods of Dolphin with no birds but they still held plenty of football sized fish, we will have to see what happens this coming week as this is the time of year we normally start to get the big ones come in.
DORADO: Once again fish of the week, but there were not as many as last week, probably due to the weather and dirty inshore water. Most boats were able to get several for their clients and some of them were large fish over 30 pounds, but the average was 12 pounds and there were a lot of the little slipper sized once as well. I expect it to be even easier to find them this coming week as the debris washed into the ocean by all our rain starts to attract chains of food. Due south and along the Pacific side were the areas most of the boats worked as they were the more protected areas to fish, avoiding the swells and rain in the face until the last couple of miles coming home.
INSHORE: Roosterfish numbers were down once again and I don't really expect them to go back up anytime soon with the conditions of the inshore water. Most of the Pangas that fished early in the week were able to do all right on Amberjack and Red Snapper with a few other species tossed in the mix but when the rain started in earnest the inshore bite went away. At the end of the week the Pangas were venturing offshore for Tuna and Dorado due to the dirty water inshore. Also, lest I forget to mention it, one of our clients, Craig, fished from the shore at Migraino Beach in the surf and caught and released a beautiful 50 pound Roosterfish, but that was before the rain really kicked in and the water dirtied up. Way to go Craig! Oh, he caught a Striped Marlin as well when he went offshore, lucky guy!
FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this weeks recipe! I know I'm slacking on this. I have a pile right next to me.
NOTES: Time for the Sunday trip to the beach with the dog. I don't think I am going in the water yet, I still think it's too dirty inshore but the pup doesn't seem to mind! This weeks report was written to the music of Dick Dale, that master of the Fender Stratocaster and early surf music legend. Until next week, tight lines!
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Aug 15, 2012; 11:09AM - WEATHER OR NOT!
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: MARK RAYOR
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WEATHER OR NOT!
After enjoying several days of outstanding weather
and a great bite The wind started blowing and turned
everything around. Yesterday about 11AM we
experienced quite a thunder storm with lightening
cracking and a down pour of rain. Our arroyos were
running and we were getting some much needed rain.
I'm sure our local farmers, ranchers and live stock all
have big smiles and are doing a dance.
By nightfall all was calm and we were getting mixed
forecasts. Sometimes it is hard to predict weather in
a tropical environment where there is a potential for
almost anything to happen. I was awakened at about
2 AM to the sound of doors slamming in our home
from strong winds. In a short time the wind stopped
and the rain started to poor. Now it appears we may
get rain all day.
The fishermen we had scheduled for today elected to
pass and give it a go tomorrow. I did see several
resort boats depart this morning.
It was almost on this date one year ago we
experienced similar conditions. On that date the rain
didn't keep our fishermen back. They were rewarded
with a killer day landing tuna and billfish.
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Aug 13, 2012; 10:43AM - Cabo Bite Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrum
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
http://captgeo.wordpress.com/
Cabo Fish Report
Aug 6 - 12, 2012
WEATHER: Well, I'm back from my delivery to Oxnard (great trip Carl!) and while it was hot up there, around 100 degrees, I came home to just as hot or a bit more at 103 degrees and a lot more humidity, 80% yesterday! Mary tells me it has been this way all week long, and yesterday we had some cloud cover move in. It's 7 AM now and the reading on the back porch is 83 degrees and 85% humidity! The lows have been in the mid 80's, warm enough that we have had the A/C unit on at night in order to sleep. It appears that the week was mostly sunny and warm, but we might be getting some more cloud cover a bit later in the week along with a bit of wind and larger swells. This will be due to tropical storm Hector passing to the southwest of us. As of today Hector is 480 kilometers to the south with winds extending out 240 kilometers and moving to the WNW with high expectations of moving more to the west shortly. This means that we will not be getting high winds, but probably some decent swells with a few gusts.
WATER: On the Cortez side of the Cape the water has been much warmer at 87-89 degrees, if you go up to the East Cape area it warms to 89-90 degrees. On the Pacific side it is a bit cooler at 81-83 degrees with the cooler water on the inside of the San Jaime and the Golden Gate Banks. This cooler water is a bit off-color, but not enough to really mess with the fishing. Checking the charts I can see 85 degree water out to the southwest that appears to be almost purple, it is so clear. The swells have been small for most of the week, but right at the beginning there were some giant ones coming in where they were actually coming into the beach-side bars and restaraunts. There were quite a few folks on the plane down who were coming in the expectation that Hector was going to deliver those same type of swells so they could catch some big surf.
BAIT: Caballito and Mullet were available at the normal $3 per bait and you could get them if you were out early, many boats were unable to get bait and had to settle for frozen horse ballyhoo at $3 each.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: The Striped Marlin are still out there and there appears to be more Sailfish than we normally have, both of these have been the mainstay of the billfishing this past week. The majority of the Striped Marlin have been found from due south of the Cape to the Pacific side inside the banks, in the slightly cooler water. Most of the Sailfish have been found due south and to the east in the Sea of Cortez in the slightly warmer water, but of course there have been both species found in both areas, it's just that the chances to get any particular species improves a bit in certain area. As far as the larger Billfish go, there have been a few Blue Marlin caught and many more lost this week, some of the fish that have been reported as lost were also reported as being well over 300 pounds (imagine that, huh?) but a few of the reports were made by skipper I have a lot of faith in. I did not hear anyone talk about getting any Black Marlin this week, so while there may have been a few, they were not large. Live bait was the most common method of getting the Striped Marlin and Sailfish, with the bait being thrown in front of sleeping fish or dropped back to fish appearing in the lure pattern. The Blues were all reported as being lure fish.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Not much to say here, there are still a few around but it appears that the purse seiners got most of the schools that were packed up around the Golden Gate Bank. On my delivery north we arrived at the Golden gate well past the charter boats leaving the area and we spotted two seiners pursing their nets about 6 miles to the northwest of the bank. Arriving in the area we spotted not birds or Dolphin but boxed the area for a while. Eventually we spotted tuns breaking the surface while chasing small baits and ended up limiting out on fish from 10 to 20 pounds. After about 90 minutes and the onset of dark we spotted two more seiners arriving from the north, and on radar spotted one more much farther to the north heading down. There went the tuna, sigh. Hopefully it won't be long before more show up. On the Cortez side there have been some tuna of about the same size found on the northern banks past Punta Gorda but it has been reported as an early bite because unless you get Sardinas (only a limited number available early) it is just an exercise in frustration.
DORADO: Definitely the fish of the week, Dorado have been keeping anglers happy with good numbers of fish from 8 to 15 pounds as well as enough larger fish to 30 pounds to test their skill. A few fish to 50 pounds have been reported as well. Most of the smaller fish have been taken close to shore while the larger ones have been a bit farther offshore. As usual, working the Frigate birds, if you can find the swooping down, has offered the best opportunity for good catches, but trolling brightly colored lures and keeping the first fish hooked up in the water has also worked well for multiple hook-ups. The Pacific side of the Cape appears to be producing more fish that the Cortez side, but that can change at any time.
INSHORE: The numbers of Roosterfish being found has dropped off a bit this week, perhaps due to the large swells at the beginning of the week. There is still a decent bite for Amberjack and a few Grouper. If you leave early there is also the possibility of getting a few red snapper. Most of the Pangas have been working off the beach fishing for Dorado as they have been very consistent.
FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this weeks recipe! I know I'm slacking on this. I have a pile right next to me.
NOTES: Off to the beach once again, and glad to go. I need to get into the water! My music for the week was once again Adele off of the 21 album. Until next week, tight lines!
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