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May 7, 2012; 11:33AM - 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
April 30 – May 6, 2012
WEATHER: This was a very strange, yet very great week for weather in Cabo as we received our first rain in almost a year! It was sunny and warm all week with the temperatures at 6 AM in the mid 70's while in the evenings it stayed warm, at 9 PM on Saturday it was still 85 degrees. Our first rain in almost a year arrived unexpectedly on Friday, which for some reason was also the best sea surface temperature shots of the week, amazing with the cloud cover we had. The front moved in from the southwest with heavy cloud combined with plenty of lightning and thunder. The animals were hiding under the bed with all the booms and rolling vibrations! The rain was not a large amount, just enough to get the cars good and dirty with runnels of water coursing down the dust, but it did manage to give the trees and plants a mush needed cleaning, and knocked the dust down for a while. The early part of the week saw mostly cloudy skies and after Friday the skies cleared up and we had sun and fun!
WATER: The water has started to change on us with warm water moving in from the east. Off of the Gorda Banks area we are seeing blue water at 78 degrees, changing to 74 degrees between San Jose and Cabo while in front of Cabo it is 72 degrees. On the Pacific side of the Cape we have 70 degrees below the San Jaime Banks and 67 degrees above it. That colder water above the San Jaime is green and just off the beach inside the Golden Gate Bank not only is it cold,but it is a very dirty red/green color. On the surface the Pacific side has had some swells to 8 feet with most of them averaging 4-6 feet. On the Cortez side of the Cape it has been smaller at 3-5 feet and spaced fairly far apart. The only real bad day on the water this week was on Friday when the front moved through, I would not have wanted to be out there after 1 PM!
BAIT: The usual Caballito and Mackerel with a few Mullet at the normal $3 per bait along with a few Sardines, but they are becoming more and more scarce recently. A few of the bait boats have been carrying frozen Ballyhoo, but you have to be careful as some of them have been frozen, thawed and re-frozen when they don't sell the first day. That kind of bait falls apart very quickly.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Fishing for Striped Marlin was mostly concentrated in the area between the 1150 and the Gorda Banks as that is where the bait was. It was common early in the week to see dozens of fish either sleeping or tailing on the surface and you could actually find a few that were hungry. A good trip early in the week resulted in 4 to 6 releases while an average trip might have one or two. As the week went on and the moon became larger the bite dropped off as did the number of fish seen. I went on Wednesday and we saw 13 fish, resulting in 8 strikes with four of these released. I heard of a Blue Marlin being caught early in the week but do not know the size or where it was supposed to have been caught.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: It is a waiting game for the Yellowfin still, and while there are a few small fish being caught there are no numbers. The only fish I heard of this week were caught 7 miles to the southwest of the arch in the blind, striking on cedar plugs. One boat brought in tree out of five fish and another boated one out of three strikes. The fish were footballs of about 8-10 pounds. I did not hear of any other Yellowfin caught within our normal operating range. By the way, the boat that caught the three Yellowfin also caught and released a Marlin on that cedar plug!
DORADO: Once again there were a few Dorado caught in the warm water in the Sea of Cortez. Small fish were found close to the beach while there were a few larger nice sized fish found offshore by boats fishing for Marlin. No real numbers were reported by any of the boats, but it seems to be a sign of good things to come!
WAHOO: The full moon resulted in a few Wahoo but no large numbers. There were more strikes resulting in cut off lures and baits than there were fish caught! Maybe 15% of the boats had a Wahoo strike and half of those managed to get one to the boat. Average size on the speedsters was 25 pounds.
INSHORE: The Yellowtail bite has dropped off and the Sierra have taken over the position of the fish of the week for the anglers fishing inshore. Not that the Yellowtail aren't out there, it's just that the numbers have dropped off. Toss in an occasional Amberjack, Grouper and a few Snapper and fishing the beach has been the best way to insure having something to eat for dinner! The best areas have been from the lighthouse on the Pacific side to the arch, and on the Sea of Cortes from Chileano Bay to Palmilla Point.
FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this weeks recipe!
NOTES: This weeks report was written to the music of Jack Johnson on the CD “On and On”, still one of my favorites from him. We hope you have a great week and check us out next week for an updated fishing report from Cabo San Lucas. Until then, tight lines!
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Apr 30, 2012; 12:47PM - 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
April 23-29 2012
WEATHER: Well, it looks as if I brought some weather back with me on my return from San Diego. While I was gone we had warm mornings where it was 77 degrees at 6am and the days warmed to the high 90's. Now, at the end of the week our morning high was 61 degrees and the daytime highs look to be in the high 70's. Not only that, but it has been cloudy for most of the week and this weekend the wind really started to blow with heavy gusts on Saturday afternoon, strong winds Sunday morning with the wind laying down a bit by noon.
WATER: With the cloud cover we had no decent sea surface temperature readings from the satellites, any readings we had were made from being on the water. From what we were able to ascertain, the surface temperatures on the Pacific side were in the mid to high 60's, depending on where you were with the cooler water occurring closer to the beach, and the surface conditions while great early in the week, became almost un-fishable by the weekend due to the winds. On the Cortez side things were quite a bit better with the water between 72 and 75 degrees early in the week and dropping an average of one degree for the weekend. Surface conditions were much better than on the Pacific, the winds did not generate a large swell on the Cortez side, just some choppy conditions around the 95 spot and a general choppy aspect in the afternoons.
BAIT: Caballito and Mackerel as well as a few Mullet could be had for $3 per bait. A few of the bait boats had “frozen” ballyhoo for between $3-4, each, but you never know how many times they had been “frozen”.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Still just “OK”, not wide open by any means, and the fish are still showing well from the 95 spot on up the coast on the Cortez side, across the 1150 and the San Jose Canyon. This warmer, very blue water has been showing us a lot of fish, but they have not been very hungry. A decent trip results in a release, a good trip in two releases and one of the best trips I heard of had 4 releases out of 12 bites. The fish have been there in good numbers but have been stuffed on all the squid that is out there. One of the secrets (but not any more!) has to been taking a 13 inch hollow plastic squid shell and stuffing it with some squid from the market, then slow trolling four or five of these so that they just slide on the surface. Match the hatch, right size and right taste, they are used to eating them and they are easier to catch than live Mackerel or Caballito. You just have to let the Marlin chew a bit longer, give them three or four more seconds before letting the line come tight so the circle hook sets in the jaw.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: We are still waiting for a decent showing on Yellowfin, and I hope that it happens soon. There were a few footballs caught this week by boats fishing approximately 25 miles to the south, but these were blind strikes with no signs of the fish being there other than a reel suddenly singing out. No porpoise, no birds, and the fish appeared to be moving fairly fast as a quick pass back over the same area seldom produce repeat hook-ups.
DORADO: There were some decent numbers of small fish caught this week, all on the Cortez side of the Cape in the warmer waters. Most of the fish were caught fairly close to the beach, but these were also the smaller fish. Once again the larger fish, though few in number, were caught offshore by boats fishing for Marlin. Everything likes to eat Squid!
WAHOO: Once again there were a few Wahoo caught, and they were found in the warm water around the 1150 area. While not large they were decent size, between 20 and 30 pounds. Farther up the coast on the Pacific side there were small Wahoo caught, small as in Min-hoo, with a large fish going 7 pounds. Wow, almost like a larger Sierra! The East Cape was seeing a few of these little guys.
INSHORE: Still fish of the week, Yellowtail have been the meat and potatoes for the fleet once again. While a few of the Captains are saying the Yellowtail are not biting, everyone we have had out has managed to catch at least three of four of them, and some of them have been as large as 40 pounds! Live bait fished just off the bottom was the key for success, yo-yo'ing iron was not as productive, and slow trolling large lipped, deep diving artificials did not do very well at all. The Sierra bite was on as well with decent numbers of fish being caught, and some of them were very nice sized for the species, coming in at 7-9 pounds, but of course the average was 5-6 pounds. Add in a scattering of Jacks and Grouper and the inshore action was pretty good this week!
FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this weeks recipe!
NOTES: I am back after a pretty uneventful delivery to San Diego. 9 days, traveling during the day with wonderful weather and only minor problems along the way. Sure is good to be back! This weeks report was written to the music of Adele, a decent mix from the albums 19 and 21. Friday night we had a chance to listen to the Brian Flynn band at the Cabo Lounge and our friend Daniel Touchman stopped by and played a few songs on Brian's guitar. His girlfriend (and my old editor from “Discover” magazine) stepped up to the microphone and wowed us with a fantastic cover of “Me and Bobby McGee”. What a great evening we had. Friends stopped at Zippers in San Jose on the way to the airport yesterday to drop off the kids and grandchild and watched at least three whales playing just off the beach. Nice to know that these are still around.
Until next week, Tight Lines!
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Apr 30, 2012; 07:41AM - EAST CAPE-LOOP DE LOO
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: MARK RAYOR
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Fishing has been a real roller coaster. Early in the
week striped marlin were in a feeding frenzy and
giving anglers lots of action. Then the marlin slowed
but big dorado showed. Just as the bite was getting
into high gear a low pressure system hit and it shut
off. The weather brought strong winds and we had a
couple of pretty ugly days. Now the wind is gone and
a huge volume of marlin have showed just a few miles
off Punta Colorada. It has been easy to spot fish but
they are finicky biters.
It has pretty much been the same roller coaster in
shore. Roosterfish, pompano and jacks are on the
rampage one day and just flat shut off the next.
Next week I will be off guiding SCUBA tours on a
private yacht. We will be diving from Ceralvo Island
to Gordo Banks and everywhere in between. My 19
years experience as a PADI SCUBA instructor and
thousands of dives guiding underwater tours in the
Sea of Cortez landed this adventure for me. With this
I may not be able to post up a fishing report.
For frequent East Cape updates 'Like' the Jen Wren
Sportfishing Facebook page.
Mark Rayor
teamjenwren.com
markrayor.blogspot.com
www.facebook.com/JenWrenSportfishing
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Apr 23, 2012; 12:39PM - 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
April 16-22, 2012
WEATHER: This has been a beautiful week. The winds have been blowing at night, and settling down as the sun comes up. Early in the week the afternoon high's were staying steady in the mid to hi 80's. Friday the heat index moved up over 90! When I was the marina around 3, it was 96 degrees! Summer is moving in on us.
WATER: The water on the Pacific side has settled down some, but not warm enough to hold the fish. San Jaime and Golden Gate have temps 68-69, which is warmer than the 65 it was last week. While on the Sea of Cortez side, those 70-72 degree waters are moving in closer to Cabo. The seas have been rough in the morning due to winds at night. As the sun comes up the ocean settles down to 1-3 ft seas.
BAIT: Caballito and Mackerel as well as a few Mullet could be had for $3 per bait. A few of the bait boats had “frozen” ballyhoo for between $3-4, each, but you never know how many times they had been “frozen”.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: The marlin bite has been just OK. They are there, but not interested in eating much. Although one guy picked up a double bringing lines in the other day. With the warmer waters moving closer to Cabo, the marlin should be getting closer. I didn't see as many shark flags this week. Some of the guys are out catching Bonita to use for live bait on the marlin You just have to find the marlin after finding the tuna! If you want to find them, you still need to head up to the 95-1150 areas. They should be moving closer to Cabo as the waters warm up. There was a couple of swordfish caught this week on the Pacific side. One of them caught with a speargun. LOL, 2 and half hour fight for a 200 lb swordie! As the waters warm up, the swordfish will disappear, they like the cooler waters.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: I am not sure when the Yellowfin will make an appearance, but I hope it is soon! Normally at this time we have schools of footballs all over the place but they have not shown up yet. It could be at any time though and our fingers are crossed. Meanwhile what we do have is an occasional school of footballs moving through the area very fast, giving the boats only a quick shot at them. If you are in the right place at the right time you might get a few. Some of the boats are still traveling up to the Inman Banks area and chumming for the larger fish, but they are not having a lot of luck at it. Not touching what George wrote last week, same this week. There are a few Bonita out there, not good to eat, but some guys are using them for love bait for the striped marlin.
DORADO: The Dorado are definitely around early this year. Not hot and heavy yet though. They like those warmer waters, and of course if the water is a little rough, they love to come out and play. With the calmer afternoon seas, there just hasn't been as many caught this week. A few small ones and a couple of the larger scouts. Don't be fooled by the flags flying. There are boats that are flying “yellow” flags for their yellowtail.
WAHOO: I know there was a couple wahoo caught this week, I saw pictures of it being marinated on Facebook.
INSHORE:Once again the Yellowtail are the food fish of the week. I have had most of my boats, stop and fish for a couple for dinner, then head offshore for the marlin. Everyone has been extremely happy. The best bet for fly fishing, guys have been hitting on the sierra and jacks. I haven't seen much else from inshore, mostly because the yellowtail bite is so awesome.
FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this weeks recipe!
NOTES: This weeks fishing report was written by Mary, if you couldn't already tell. George will have stories of his adventures North a little later in the week. I am writing this Saturday afternoon, with Tawny snoring at my feet. We'll still get beach time in the morning. I'm listening to local internet radio station HTTP://www.live365.com/index.live
Watch for Happy Hour, 2 hours of songs about Cabo! Run by a couple of local business women. Jennifer from Cape Marine, Jane from Amiga's del Mar and Carol from Cabo Realty Pro's. Great music all the time! Keeps me working!
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Apr 22, 2012; 04:31PM - MARLIN BITE, LINES GO TIGHT
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: MARK RAYOR
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Marlin bite, lines go tight!
The week started out with breezy weather and a
tough bite. Working hard we were still able to scratch
out a fish or two everyday and managed to get a few
of the folks that fished with us the experience of
catching their first marlin.
As the week progressed weather calmed and game
fish went on the rampage. From Punta Pescadero to
Punta Arena boats are sighting marlin jumping,
tailing and feeding on baitfish in a frenzy. Mixed with
the marlin are a few quality dorado and sailfish.
Schools of bait that was just puddling early in the
week is now balled up tight and being pushed around
by gamefish.
In shore is going off as well with Roosterfish on the
feed.
It seems the Sea of Cortez has come alive. Not only
are anglers experiencing excellent fishing they are
sighting a parade of interesting sea life. Sea turtles,
porpoise and whales are putting on a show.
For frequent East Cape updates 'Like' the Jen Wren
Sportfishing Facebook page.
Mark Rayor
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Apr 16, 2012; 11:28AM - 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
April 9-15, 2012
WEATHER: It has been a windy week if you were fishing on the Pacific side of the Cape as the northwesterly winds blew hard from the start, but appears as if we may get a slight reprieve for a few days. With our highs in the low 90's and the nighttime lows in the low 60's it has not been bad at all, very comfortable to be out and about. No clouds and the wind on the Cortez side of the Cape has been light.
WATER: Surface conditions on the Pacific side were pretty miserable this week with the swells at 4-6 feet and the constant wind blowing. Looking past the arch you could see whitecaps and rollers everywhere, it looked like a sheep farm out there. Look to the east and you would think you were in a different body of water, and in fact you were. The Sea of Cortez, at least in our area, was flat and had only light winds if you were inside the 1,000 fathom line, outside of there you got some of the effects of the wind. Water on the Pacific side was cool to cold at 60-64 degrees, and a bit green as well. On the Cortez side it was warmer at 70 degrees and blue.
BAIT: Caballito and Mackerel as well as a few Mullet could be had for $3 per bait. A few of the bait boats had “frozen” ballyhoo for between $3-4, each, but you never know how many times they had been “frozen”.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Boats were finding the Marlin in the area around the 1150 and to the northeast of there, but the fish were not real aggressive. You might throw a bait at five or six fish before you found one that was interested and willing to bit. Trolled lures would raise fish, but they would not chase for very long. My guess is that approximately 20% of the boats trying for them released Marlin. There were a few boats that managed multiple releases but it was not common. Once again there were plenty of sharks in the area as well with Blue Sharks, Thresher Sharks and small Mako Sharks being caught as often as the Marlin were.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: I am not sure when the Yellowfin will make an appearance, but I hope it is soon! Normally at this time we have schools of footballs all over the place but they have not shown up yet. It could be at any time though and our fingers are crossed. Meanwhile what we do have is an occasional school of footballs moving through the area very fast, giving the boats only a quick shot at them. If you are in the right place at the right time you might get a few. Some of the boats are still traveling up to the Inman Banks area and chumming for the larger fish, but they are not having a lot of luck at it.
DORADO: We are still seeing some small ones coming from the warm water on the shoreline on the Cortez side and some larger fish to 40 pounds from the offshore area there. The larger fish are striking lures pulled for Marlin while the smaller fish are coming into the chum lines of boats fishing for Sierra and Yellowfin just off the beach.
WAHOO: I did not hear of any Wahoo being caught this week.
INSHORE: Inshore was the way to go if you wanted to get anything other than Marlin or shark and plenty of boats went this route. With the water very bouncy on the Pacific side the action shifted to the Cortez side of the Cape. Sierra were the most common catch and they bit well on drifted Sardinas and not quite as well on pink and chartreuse hootchis and small Rapallas. The Yellowtail bite was off and on with one day a spot producing a dozen fish for a boat and the next day there only being one caught. It was a matter of looking at the depth finder and moving around. Live bait dropped down to them was the best method once they were found, but yo-yo'ing worked for a few boats. Small Grouper to 6 pounds were common and made quite a few anglers happy and once in a while a 25 pound fish was hooked. There were scattered Snapper as well and all of this action occurred in water 80 to 120 feet deep.
FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this weeks recipe!
NOTES: This weeks report was written to the music of Dr. John from a mix CD a friend loaned to me. Great blues and one of the songs was about fishing! Well, time for the Sunday beach walk with Mary and the puppy, then home for breakfast, off to golf, then home for a grilled dinner with relatives. I hope all of you have just as an enjoyable day, and until next time, have a great week, catch lots of fish, and get those reservations for Cabo made!
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Apr 9, 2012; 12:48PM - 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
April 2 - 8, 2012
WEATHER: As summer slowly approaches our weather starts to warm up and we had our indications this week that summer will be here soon. We had a high of 94 degrees on Thursday along with a low of 72 degrees in the morning, our highest levels all week. Our average was 64 degrees in the morning and 86 during the day. We had no cloud cover, it was sunny all week long with only light winds for the most part here in Cabo, but with a good afternoon breeze on the Pacific side.
WATER: While we experienced a “feel” of summer weather on land we also received a slight “feel” of summer water out on the fishing grounds as the water off of the San Jose area warmed to as much as 74 degrees this week. Combine that with the small swells and it was almost like fishing in August! Of course the water was not as warm as it will be then and there are no big Blue and Black Marlin around yet, but there were lots of fish in the area. On the Pacific side of the Cape the swells were a bit smaller than those we had last week but the water remained cool and slightly off color. With an average of 64 degrees and an occasional cold spot of 61 degrees from close to the beach to outside of the San Jaime and the Golden Gate Banks, you did not encounter clean water until 40 miles offshore. Directly south of Cabo and to the west to a line directly south of San Jose the water warmed a bit to 66 degrees but remained slightly green. East of the line directly south of San Jose the water warmed to 73-74 degrees and was blue. All this was of the end of the week, as the warm water stared much closer to Cabo at the beginning of the week and slowly moved to the east over the 7 days.
BAIT: Caballito and Mackerel as well as a few Mullet could be had for $3 per bait. A few of the bait boats had “frozen” ballyhoo for between $3-4, each, but you never know how many times they had been “frozen”.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: The marlin we were seeing last week between the 1150 and Punta Gorda were still there this week, but they were not as hungry as they were last week. The full moon has a strong effect on the feeding patterns and once the moon starts to wane these fish should start to feed again. Meanwhile, it was frustrating to toss bait in front of these fish just to see them ignore it, but once in a while one of the Marlin took an interest and bit. In the same area we were seeing plenty of Thresher sharks, and occasionally one of them would bite. Mix them in with an occasional Mako shark and there was a decent chance to catch something offshore this week.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Still not showing up with any numbers, there were a few football fish to be found mixed in with porpoise, but you really had to check out a large number of porpoise pods before finding Tuna. Once in a while someone would hook into a decent fish over 60 pounds, but they were few and far between. A few boats were making the run from Cabo up to the Inman Banks area and catching Tuna to 60 pounds on drifted Sardines, but it was a real scratch to get one hooked, and there were plenty of times it was a wasted trip, but for those who only wanted to target Yellowfin, it was just about the only game in town.
DORADO: The warm water off of San Jose produced the few Dorado we saw this week with the smaller and more common fish being in the 10 pound class and found close to the beach. I did see several larger Dorado, the biggest being 42 pounds, that were caught offshore by boats fishing for Marlin. There were no numbers on these fish as they were all singles, but as the water warms up there should be more of them around.
WAHOO: Still none that I heard of this week, and I was surprised since Easter is the full moon. Perhaps as with the Marlin, the bite will happen on the waning moon.
INSHORE: Inshore action continued strong this week with Yellowtail to 35 pounds, Sierra that averaged 4 pounds, small Roosterfish of less than 10 pounds and some decent Jack Crevalle to 20 pounds. Almost all the Yellowtail action took place on the Pacific side in water between 80 and 120 feet deep. Finding the fish and then going back over the spot again and again produced numbers, but having a good fish finder on the boat really helped as this week the fish were constantly on the move. Often you had to spend 10 or 15 minutes finding the school after catching one or two fish. As far as the Sierra are concerned, the favorite areas were just off the beach in front of the Diamante Golf Course on the Pacific side and in front of Cabo Real Golf Course on the Cortez side. Small hootchies in ping and chartreuse as well as Sardines worked well. The Roosterfish were small but aggressive, trying to eat any live bait that was slow trolled on the surface, but the best results came from continual casting of plugs into the surf from the boat, and retrieving it in a walk-the-dog style. With an occasional Jack Crevalle crashing the party you never knew what was going to bite!
FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this weeks recipe! It's a really great one.
NOTES: This weeks report was written to the music of Mason Proffit on their album “Come and Gone” released by Flaming Arrow Records with some of the music having been recorded as early as 1976. The Talbot brothers were great musicians and a big influence on a lot of us. It's Easter day, time to get cooking!
Have a great week, catch lots of fish, and get those reservations for Cabo made!
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Apr 8, 2012; 11:24AM - MY HEAR ALMOST STOPPED
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Mark Rayor
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My heart almost stopped
East Cape weather has just been spectacular. All week
we have enjoyed calm seas and warm days. In shore
the water has become crystal clear and off shore is
warming and turning a beautiful blue.
Biz was slow and I wanted to go fishing so I made a
deal with 11 year old Roberto to charter Jen Wren III
for the day. When we departed I had broadbill on my
mind. First thing in the morning we made the candy
bait for our target when a small skipjack ate our
hoochie.
Arriving at my favorite swordie location we started
trolling. We could see some bait breaking on the
surface and everything looked right. Suddenly
catching something out of the corner of my eye my
heart almost stopped. The instant thought in my head
was IT'S A SWORDIE! Turning my head for a better
look and confirmation the two fins rose higher above
the water. Crap! Just a mako.
All the charter boat skippers know I'm obsessed with
catching another broadbill and always call us on the
VHF to tease me if they spot one. It is OK because we
are getting good dope and I'll take it.
We did have a great day. Roberto landed a nice
dorado and we saw loads of sea life.
For frequent East Cape fishing updates check out Jen
Wren Facebook page.
Mark Rayor
teamjenwren.com
markrayor.blogspot.com
[url]www.facebook.com/JenWrenSportfishing[/url]
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Apr 2, 2012; 12:56PM - 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
March 19-25, 2012
WEATHER: We had another great week on the weather front, if you like it 65 degrees in the morning and 85 degrees during the day, with plenty of sun and mostly light winds. If you don't like that kind of weather, then there is something wrong with you! No rain of course, but we did have some wind kick up on Sunday morning.
WATER: At the end of the week surface conditions on the Sea of Cortez side were great with swells at 2-4 feet and no wind chop close to shore, and only a bit in the afternoons farther out than 10 miles. On the Pacific side the swells were 3-6 feet most of the time with some chop on the water the farther north you went. Water temperaturs on the Cortez side were ranging between 70-75 degrees with the warmer water being more to the north or farther out, the cooler water just to the east of a line running along the beach on the Pacific side and extending out over the water from northwest to southeast. On the Pacific side the water was pretty much 66-67 degrees everywhere and a bit on the green side.
BAIT: Caballito and Mackerel as well as a few Mullet could be had for $3 per bait. A few of the bait boats had “frozen” ballyhoo for between $3-4, each, but you never know how many times they had been “frozen”.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: We finally had an up-tick in the catch ratios on Striped Marlin this week. With an increase in numbers seen in the area from the 1150 to outside Punta Gorda came an increase in the number of Marlin that were hungary. This combination provided action that resulted in almost every boat that went looking for a Marlin having success. A few boats did better than others, I know of a few that were releasing up to 5 per day, but most boats were getting one or two releases per trip. The fish were there in pretty good number but were not really hot and heavy in the lures, most of them were caught dropping back live bait to fish that were just checking out the lures. A few were caught by throwing a bait ahead of them while they were tailing downswell. A number of boats started to chase what they thought were marlin feeding, but it ended up that there were a large number of Thresher Sharks in the area feeding as well.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Once again there were not a large number of Yellowfin Tuna found this week, and it was suprising since there were so many pods of white bellied porpoise to be found. A few boats got into some very small fish, and a few others got lucky and caught one or two fish in the 25 pound class, but there were no large numbers of large sizes reported to me.
DORADO: The warm water on the Cortez side of the Cape did produce some large fish this week, but not very many of them, and there were only a few boats that found them at all. I did see one fish that might have gone 50 pounds and several others that would have been in the 30 pound range, but there were no boats that I heard of that came inwith more than two Dorado, and to be real, most of the fish were smaller ones. Live bait dropped back where a Marlin came up resulted in most of the larger fsh, and boats fishing the shallow reefs and chumming caught most of the smaller fish.
WAHOO: None that I heard of this week, but perhaps the warming water and full moon of spring that is coming up will change these stats.
INSHORE: While the inshore fishing was the best way to go for the past several months due to the large numbers of Sierra and Yellowtail, this week the action dropped off a bit. The better captains were still able to put their anglers on good numbers of fish but overall success rates were down a bit. On the positive note, there was less pressure on these fish since the cruisers were going offshore for Marlin once again. The bite was still fair, with most anglers getting at least one or two nice Yellowtail to 30 pounds, but the better boats were still managing 4 to 6 per trip. Sierra numbers were down a bit as well with only a few boats managing to limit out, but anyone trying was able to get some for dinner. Sea Lions were a problem for boats fishing to the east of the lighthouse on the Pacific side, managing to find and gang up on any fish hooked up. There were decent numbers of small Roosterfish to be found in the surf, and anglers fishing off the beach did fair on Sierra and small Roosterfish early in the week, later in the week large swells caused some issues for the beach fishermen.
FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this weeks recipe! It's a really great one.
NOTES: It is approaching the end of Spring break and the beginning of Easter Week so things will continue to be a bit rowdy at the beaches for a while. This morning we went on Daylight Saving Time, it was a bit strange and will take a while to get used to. Our friend Brian Flynn (think Santana, Beck, Loverboy, Molly Hatchet, Guess Who) has been busy playing six days a week since he got back from assisting our friend Mike Hill with the recording of his new album “No Bad Days”. They formed a group called Cabo Cowboys with Roger Gillespie on drums, Oliver C. Brown on percussion, Hal Ratliff on keyboards, Brian Flynn on guitar, Ernie Nunez on electric bass, Brian Brazil on harmonica, Miguel Hill on vocals and Rick Dale with backing vocals. You can check it out at cabocowboysmusic.com and see if you like it!
Have a great week, catch lots of fish, and get those reservations for Cabo made!
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Apr 1, 2012; 03:07PM - COVER OF THE ROLLING STONE
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Mark Rayor
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Cover of the Rolling Stone not!
After a winter of continuous boat maintenance this
week we launched Jen Wren III for the season.
Yesterday was our shake down trip and it appears all
of our hard work has paid off.
Eight to ten miles off of the lighthouse schools of bait
are starting to puddle up in the blueish 70 degree
water. This is a sure sign of good things to come. We
sighted jumping marlin, tailing sailfish, and milling
dorado and wahoo. Early in the day I sighted a wahoo
following the bruja (ballyhoo) we were trolling. It took
some coaxing to get the fish to finally bite. As luck
would have it, the bite was short and the wahoo took
the back half of the Ballyhoo slicing it in two.
With that experience we quickly deployed a couple
wahoo jigs. My favorite is a Halco GT jig and the
Rapala X-rap. After trolling the area where the first
fish bit we had a double hook up on the hoo's.
All week the weather has been about as good as it
gets. Also there are a lot of fish in the area but they
are just not quite ready to go. It is good enough that
everyone is bringing home fish but they are not
turned on enough to take limits.
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Mark Rayor
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