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From Jan 01, 1999 To Sep 21, 2025
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Oct 31, 2011; 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
October 23-30, 2011
WEATHER: My Favorite time of the year, the fish are biting, the hot hot humid days have gone away. Daytime high's in the low 90's, nighttime low 70's. Light breezes in the afternoons. No need for air conditioning. And the fish are biting!
WATER: The best fishing has been on the Pacific side with San Jaime and Golden Gate Banks holding temperatures of 83-84 degrees and the best fishing. Water temps over by Gorda Banks are about 84-87, but they don't seem to be holding much fish there. The Pacific side is the place to be!
BAIT: Bait, at least good live bait was hard to come by this week. Many of the boats were going with frozen Ballyhoo instead, at least you could get those, but they were expensive at $4 each. There were a few live baits of the larger size, but not much in the way of quality baits. Toward San Jose you could get decent Sardinas, and the farther you got from Cabo the more you got for your money.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: The billfish have picked up this week, more striped marlin are being caught, and the sailfish numbers are remaining up there also. They usually feed with the dorado, but have heard reports of the sailfish being caught along side the yellowfin. I did not hear of any large blue or black marlin this, week, but some in the 100-200 lb range. George: We caught Sailfish and Striped Marlin outside Mag Bay on the way down, the water was 81 degrees and there were decent concentrations of Striped Marlin at the south end of the Ridge and on the lower Thetis Bank. More Sailfish again locally at the San Jaime Bank but we did not have a Blue or Black come in on the lures the entire trip.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Tuna Tuna Tuna, I want Sushi! Lots of tuna around which is good thing with the Western Outdoor News Tuna Jackpot coming up this Thursday and Friday. Most of the tuna I have seen coming in have been in the 30-40 lb range with a few 60 -100lb range. Reports of 200 lb fish jumping, but couldn't get them to bite. Tossing ballyhoo, mackerel, cedar plugs, they just wouldn't bite. Whoever figures out what they want will make some money this week if they are in the tournament! George: We were hoping to fish the Finger Bank on the way down and tried to time it so we could, but instead we passed the bank at 4AM. I saw three long range boats out of San Diego anchored up as well as a few private boats, but there was no one on the decks fishing except for a deckhand on each boat keeping the chum going. I heard one private boat captain talking to another on the radio and he reported catching three Yellowfin over 200 pounds while fly-lining live mackerel, but he was there for two days. I saw nice meter marks from big fish on the west side of the Golden Gate Bank but they were deep, 250 to 300 feet. Locally the boats were finding the football and school fish just 6-10 miles off the beach on the Pacific side, but every school had a wad of boats working it.
DORADO: Lots, and lots of dorado this week again. If you are trolling inshore, they are hard to miss. A lot of small ones, I even saw someone with a 2 lb fish the other day. Normally those are thrown back, but this one didn't make it. Most of the fish are in the 8-15 lb, with some hitting the 30lb mark. George: We gave up on Dorado after a while, it was hard to avoid them! You only need so many, after that they were getting in the way!
WAHOO: I have seen a couple wahoo flags this week. Fish in the 30 lb range. Not usually a lot this time of year. George: The owner of the boat I came down on caught his personal best at 65 pounds off of the upper Thetis Bank and we had quite a few other strikes during the trip, all of them in 15 to 30 fathoms of water whenever we neared shore.
INSHORE: The water temperatures are staying warm, so still some nice roosterfish around, snapper, groupers, almost November, but I haven't seen any sierra yet. The Dorado fishing is also good close to shore.
FISH RECIPE: posted on the blog Thursday or Friday.
NOTES: As you have noticed, this fishing report is a little short. Most of you have figured out that I, Mary, am writing the report today. George will be back sometime today and give you a better report. He left Monday to bring a boat down and stopped to fish a few days at Mag Bay. He was hoping to spend a few hours at Finger Banks this morning. All I know for sure is that he caught a couple of 50 lb wahoo. I didn't pay attention to anything else he caught, I was daydreaming about how I am going to eat some of that wahoo! My favorite Sam Choy recipe with the mango salsa! I'll see if I can get him to give you all a trip report for the ride down.
In the meantime Tight Lines and good luck to all of you in the Tuna Tournament!
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Oct 30, 2011; 11:23AM - CHANGES IN LATITUDES CHANGES IN ATTITUDES
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: MARK RAYOR
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Changes in latitudes changes in attitudes
There are large schools of yellowfin tuna 40 plus
miles East of the East Cape resorts. Finding them is
no guarantee they will bite. Many anglers are
returning after a long boat ride with
disappointment. Jen Wren boats have avoided the
frustration and horrendous boat rides by targeting
striped marlin closer to shore.
Getting the marlin to go has been a trick. For
several weeks we have not sighted tailers nor have
the fish had much interest in lures. The key has
been large schools of small bonita that have been
abundant off the La Ribera high spot and also
around the shark buoys off Punta Pescadero.
Catching and slow trolling these bonita have been a
very effective method to attract marlin.
An intersting note that has made photography
challenging is the marlin we have hooked using
small bonita for bait are not jumping during battle.
We went from fishing J hooks to circle hooks with
hopes that hooking the fish in the corner of the
mouth would change their behavior. The marlin just
shake their head as they stick it out of the water.
Also, a large percentage of them are regurgitating
their stomachs.
This week conditions have gone from hot and
humid with calm seas to cooler tempatures and
strong north winds. This is the third day we have
been stuck on the beach due to the winds. Looks
like we may have an early winter. The East Cape
weather is making the expected changes in latitude
which is affecting my attitude!
Mark Rayor
www.teamjenwren.com
markrayor.blogspot.com
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Oct 24, 2011; 11:23AM - 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
Oct. 16-23, 2011
WEATHER: Our break from the summer highs seem to be over, or perhaps it's just wishful thinking. In any case, our daytime highs this week only reached 100 degrees one day, the rest of the time we seemed to stay in the high 90's, and our nighttime lows were in the low to mid 80's. That may not seem low to you, but we had a few nights where we did not have to run the air conditioner in order to sleep and that's big for us! We had clouds in our skies this week on most days later in the week and actually had a little spit fall from the sky on Saturday, just enough to make interesting patterns on the windshields.
WATER: Water temperatures did not have a big change from one side of the peninsula to the other. On the Pacific we saw water at 85 degrees until you got 50 miles out and then it dropped to 83 degrees. On the Cortez side of the Cape we had water that was 86-87 degrees with a push into our area of slightly warmer 88 degree water outside the 1,000 fathom curve. Surface conditions were great all week with the exception of Friday when new clouds moved into the area and brought some windy conditions in the afternoon. Water clarity was great with blue water everywhere, slightly off-color due east but still good clarity.
BAIT: Caballito, Mullet and Sardines were the live bait available with the bigger baits at the usual $3 each and Sardinas in Cabo were $25 a small scoop.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Let;s see if I can keep from making a mistake on this weeks report! I fished the Bisbee Black and Blue so the numbers I have on big fish are correct. There were a reported 100 teams entered into the 3 day tournament for a total of 300 fishing days. 122 Billfish were caught, 2 Black Marlin, 56 Blue Marlin, 52 Striped Marlin and 12 Sailfish for an average of 1.22 billfish per team, or to be blunt, .4 billfish per day. You do have to realize that almost all the boats were focused on large Marlin and were pulling large lures or very large bait. This means that there were quite a few strikes from smaller fish that did nor result in a hook-up. For the charter fleet, working smaller lures for Striped Marlin, Dorado and Tuna the daily average was much better, around .6 Marlin per day. Almost all the action happened on the Pacific side of the Cape as the water was a bit cleaner and that is where all the Tuna and Dorado have been, one of the main food sources for these large fish. The Tournament was a success with the top money winner taking home a check for $1,162,842.50, once again proving the Bisbee Black and Blue to be the worlds richest billfish tournament (and a lot of fun too!).
YELLOWFIN TUNA: While running all over the place looking for Marlin, the boats in the Black and Blue found plenty of schools of Yellowfin Tuna from north of the Golden Gate Bank to south of the San Jaime Bank. Some of the fish were big, often topping the scales at over #200. The fleet boats were very into the tuna bite and the lucky ones had schools all to themselves, often managing to get limits on fish to 45 pounds with a few larger #80 fish tossed in. Even the fleet managed to get some of the larger fish, and it was often a matter of getting a bait far enough from the boat using either a kite or a very long 150 yard or more drop-back and slow trolling the bait. A few of the larger fish also came in right off the transom, crashing lures run in the second or third wakes, you never knew what was going to work!
DORADO: For the fleet boats these were definitely the fish of the week. Almost all the Dorado were found close to the beach on the Pacific side from right off the arch all the way up to Todo Santos. Perfect for the charters who wanted action and fish to eat, most of the boats started trolling at the lighthouse and kept working their way north until the anglers cried uncle and then they went offshore looking for the Tuna. The fish were not large on average, right around 12 pounds, but there were enough fish in the 20-25 pound class to make it interesting and once in a while a 40 pound fish would crash a bait or lure. Limits were easy to come by (2 per person), so easy that many boats exceeded the limits before they realized it.
WAHOO: Going into the new moon phase we did see a decrease in the number of Wahoo caught, but also saw more large fish than normal. This was probably due to the number of tournament boats fish the offshore structure with large lures and heavy leader, but there were some nice fish in the 50-60 pound class that came from the San Jaime and the Gorda Banks areas.
INSHORE: With plenty of Dorado to be had in easy traveling distance most of the Pangas focused on them. A scattering of boats went offshore looking for Tuna, often with success as well as Marlin since the water was decent and they had some luck as well. The usual inshore fish were present, but due to the fantastic Dorado fishing few of the Pangas focused on the Roosterfish, Snapper and Grouper.
FISH RECIPE: My recipe has been taking too much space so if you want to see it, check out my wordpress blog a little later in the week, or subscribe to the blog and you will receive an email as soon as I post it.
NOTES: I have to thank my wife, Mary, for updating the blog for the past week as I was fishing the tournaments, and she will be doing the fish report and blog next week as I will be gone. The boat I was fishing the Black and Blue on, Dan Lewis “Sporty Game” scored one Blue Marlin release (a fish of about 225-250 pound) as well as two Striped Marlin releases on day three of the tournament, and we had a fish that probably would have qualified get its bill into the gap of the hook on a lure on the second day, coming off after about 60 seconds. With the great weather and the number of Tuna out there, as well as having some really nice cows caught, then next tournament coming up should be a great one. The Western Outdoor News Tuna Tournament is always a blast and does not cost a lot to enter. With plenty of parties and great give- a-ways some teams enter just for those, but the fishing should be great as well. For only $800 to enter a team of four anglers is is affordable, and the dates are November 2-5, with the fishing days on the 3rd and 4th.
Thanks to my friend Mark Bailey, this weeks report was written to the music of Jason Boland and the Stragglers Band on their new release “Rancho Alto”.
Until next week, tight lines!
I will be posting more to my blog now http://captgeo.wordpress.com, please go to and subscribe, you will be sent a notice every time I post a new article. Please feel free to send suggestions or if you have any ideas for articles. Thanks George
Gordo Banks Pangas
San Jose del Cabo
October 23, 2011
Busy times now in the Los Cabos area, large crowds of anglers continue to arrive,
visitors are being greeting with ideal weather patterns, no storms on the horizon,
clear sunny skies and diminishing winds. This is tournament time as you all know,
the Bisbee Black and Blue just finishing now and the WON Tuna Jackpot just around
the corner. Water temperatures now in the 84 to 86 degrees, a bit warmer than
normal, should drop closer to 80 degrees soon, as days are progressively shorter and
cooling.
Sportfishing fleets are traveling in all directions to search for the best possible
action, with the most consistent areas now in the direction of the 95 spot, Gordo
Banks and north to Iman Bank. For whatever might be the reason, anglers have had to
search and work harder than would be expected to find cooperative fish. Supplies of
sardinas are holding up well, these baitfish were found schooling along the rocky
beach stretches from Puerto Los Cabos, Palmilla to Santa Maria.
Local panga fleets concentrated on three main areas, to the south near Cabo San
Lucas is where they found the most consistent dorado action, trolling lures anglers
encountered schools of these mostly 5 to 15 lb. dorado and most boats were limiting
and releasing many other fish as well.
Other spot was the Gordo Banks, this is where the larger sized yellowfin were
hanging out, these fish ranging mostly from 60 to 150 pounds, with chances of cow
sized tuna as well. Finicky, showing on the surface, feeding on chum, but not all
that eager to bit the baits with hooks, lighter leaders proved more successful at
times, also reports of a limited number of private afternoon charter doing well.
Just seeing these large sized tuna feeding and breezing on the surface was quite
impressive, being extra patient at this spot was the key. These tuna were hooked on
sardinas, skipjack, chihuil and chunk bait. Anglers were fortunate to land one or
two of these fish. Other area where tuna were found was in between the La Fortuna
and Iman Banks, most of these fish were in the 20 to 40 pound class, same deal with
them being very finicky, coming up readily and feeding on the chummed sardinas, but
not easy to entice into biting the hooked bait. Anglers catching
one, two or three of these yellowfin were doing well. A mix of bottom species and a
few dorado were found on these same fishing grounds, but they were limited in
numbers.
Biilfish action was very spread out, a few more sailfish being encountered, they are
one species that do prefer the warmer currents. Striped, blue and black marlin were
also in the area, but no specific spot was producing any quantities of these
billfish at this time.
We are nearing the time when wahoo typical become more active, but with the warmer
than usual water temps these fish are sluggish and not yet providing more than a few
scattered strikes here and there. A few wahoo were hooked into near the Gordo Banks
while fishing for tuna and other wahoo were hooked while trolling rapalas or skirted
lures, of these wahoo that were landed, most weighed in the 30 to 40 pound class. We
do expect the wahoo fishing to become more consistent in the coming weeks as the
water temperatures continue on a cooling trend.
The combined panga fleets launching out of La Playita/Puerto Los Cabos Marina sent
out approximately 144 charters, with anglers accounting for a fish count of: 1 blue
marlin, 3 striped marlin, 15 sailfish, 565 dorado, 134 yellowfin tuna, 16 bonito, 14
cabrilla, 11 dogtooth snapper, 46 yellow snapper, 12 barred pargo, 7 wahoo, 7
yellowtail and 12 amberjack.
Good Fishing, Eric
GORDO BANKS PANGAS
Eric Brictson
Owner/Operator
800 4081199
Los Cabos 1421147
ericgordobanks@yahoo.com
www.gordobanks.com
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Oct 23, 2011; 12:58PM - SO HOW SLOW IS IT?
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: MARK RAYOR
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SO HOW SLOW IS IT?
Most of the recent reports coming from the East
Cape including my own have indicated fishing has
been tough. I just downloaded the photos we
captured this week. So how slow is it? Jen Wren
boats landed several marlin, sailfish, tuna, dorado
and even a wahoo. Locating game fish has not been
difficult. Getting them to go has been the trick.
Working hard, trying different baits and methods
has been the key.
Early in the week Robert Jordan with 3 of his fishing
buddies fished 2 days on Jen Wren III. The first day
we ran outside about 40 miles. They were rewarded
with 4 nice yellowfin. The second day they elected
to fish inside and landed a wahoo, 3 dorado and a
marlin. Not half bad for 'slow fishing'
Wednesday started the 3 day Lynn Rose East Cape
Classic. Jen Wren boats did not place in the
tournament but we were able to show our guests
lots of billfish action. We had a great time fishing
with Accurate Jack Nilsen and I'm looking forward to
seeing his photos.
Mark Rayor
[url]www.teamjenwren.com[/url]
[url]http://markrayor.blogspot.com[/url]
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Oct 17, 2011; 12:59PM - 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
Oct. 10-16, 2011
WEATHER: As almost always happens at this point in the year, the temperatures dropped this week. I am not sure why, but the middle of October almost always sees this happen, one of the many reasons we look forward to it. Our early morning averages dropped from 83 degrees to 78 degrees while the daytime highs dropped from 100 degrees to the mid 90's. We saw no rain this week but there were a few clouds in the sky and we dis have some days in the middle of the week when the afternoon breeze picked up, from the northwest early in the week and from the southeast at the end of the week.
WATER: Water conditions were wonderful with the Sea of Cortez showing 87-88 degrees almost everywhere we went, from up around Los Frailles all the way to outside of Cabo. On the Pacific side it was a bit cooler with 84-85 degree water near shore and warmer 86-87 degree water across the San Jaime Bank. With only slight winds almost every day was smooth, and the water was a very deep blue color.
BAIT: Caballito, Mullet and Sardines were the live bait available with the bigger baits at the usual $3 each and Sardinas in Cabo were $25 a small scoop.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: My apologies as I have made an embarrassing mistake on the first draft of my report and listed the fish caught in the Los Cabos Billfish Tournament from 2010 instead of from 2011. I did not fish this tournament and apparently brought up the stats from last year and incorporated them into this years data. Now this is the correct information: Two tournaments over 5 days of fishing with a total of 101 teams with 264 total fishing days. There were a total of 106 Billfish caught and only two of them were over 300 pounds, one was a 503 pound Blue Marlin and the other was a 408 pound Black Marlin. As an average this was 1 billfish per team. Boats that were charter fishing did very well on Striped Marlin and on Sailfish, but the tournament boats were looking for the larger species, therefore the stats are a little skewed if you look at them for an idea of overall bill fishing success.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: The interesting thing about the tuna this week was during the second tournament there were more large fish caught than during the first tournament, but it was tuna instead of marlin! During the 2 day tournament there was a 204 pound Yellowfin taken and on the second day there was a 133, 181 and a 187 pound fish, more large Yellowfin than during the first tournament, even though there were some nice ones taken then as well. A few of the larger fish were caught by anglers fishing for big black marlin on the Gorda Banks, but there were plenty taken from schools found around the San Jaime Banks area as well. Regular charter boats had no problem putting their anglers on some good quality fishing this week, with most of them getting more than enough bite to keep coolers full!
DORADO: The Dorado bite this week was very steady on fish that ran in size from 8 pounds to 25 pounds. There were very few fish over that weight, even though the 2 day tournament had a category for Dorado, they had to meet the 30 pound minimum weight and there were no qualifying fish caught on the first day and only two caught on the second day. We were trying to catch bait early in the morning on both days of the two day tournament and on both days had Dorado swim into our underwater lights to feed on the sardines we were chumming with. We caught three of them on the first day and one on the second day, all before daylight! All the fleet boats fishing normal charters were coming in with riggers full of yellow flags for the Dorado they were catching.
WAHOO: There were not a lot of Wahoo flags flying this week even with the full moon but there were some nice fish caught. During the three day tournament each day saw a fish between 40 and 50 pounds brought to the scale, and there were more than that hooked up. The charter fleet did pretty good as well with fish in the same size range.
INSHORE: Very little inshore fishing change this week with most of the information mirroring last weeks and the week before. Mast Pangas were fishing the fantastic Dorado bite, there were some really good days when the Roosterfish were on with an average of 20 pounds in size. Plenty of Skipjack Tuna and a scattering of bottom fish rounded out the inshore action.
FISH RECIPE: My recipe has been taking too much space so if you want to see it, check out my wordpress blog a little later in the week, or subscribe to the blog and you will receive an email as soon as I post it.
NOTES: We have finally come to my favorite time of the year! The weather is perfect, the tournaments are happening and the fishing is just about as good as it can get! I have great expectations for the Western Outdoor News Tuna Tournament during the first part of November. With the size and the action on the Tuna we have been having the past few weeks it looks to be a great event with lots of fish and plenty of happy anglers! My fingers are crossed that the Bisbee Black and Blue Marlin Tournament that begins on Wednesday (I am fishing on my friends boat “Sporty Game”, follow the action on the Bisbee website and cheer us on!) and ends on Friday results in a few large Marlin being caught (of course, one of them will be for us!). My music is going to be updated this coming week and one of my main CD supplier is back visiting us, thanks to Mark Bailey I should have some more great selections to listen to, and relay to you!
Until next week, tight lines!
I will be posting more to my blog now http://captgeo.wordpress.com, please go to and subscribe, you will be sent a notice every time I post a new article. Please feel free to send suggestions or if you have any ideas for articles. Thanks George
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Oct 10, 2011; 11:30AM - 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
Oct. 3-9, 2011
WEATHER: While the week started out hot and humid things eased up a bit for us at the end of the week. Starting with morning temperatures averaging 88 degrees at the start, we ended up with morning temperatures averaging 82 degrees. Our daytime's were doing the same with the early part of the week seeing heat of 100 degrees and over and at the end of the week we were only seeing mid 90's. We had a bit of cloud cover move in on Saturday and it managed to drop some rain in the mountains and just a bit of mist in a few parts of town.
WATER: At the end of the week the only decision you had to make was where to go to get fish as there was no difference in the water temperature, it was 87-88 degrees everywhere, both on the Pacific side and on the Sea of Cortez side. The main difference was the surface conditions. On the Pacific side we had slightly larger swells early in the week and slight breezes from the northwest and the Cortez side was almost flat with no wind. Later in the week we had some larger swells from Hurricane Jova come into the area. They were coming in from the south so there were a couple of days with a bit of up and down.
BAIT: Caballito, Mullet and Sardines were the live bait available with the bigger baits at the usual $3 each and just a few of the Sardinas at $25 a scoop up in the Palmilla area. Sardinas were hard to come by late in the week due to the large swells hitting the beach.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: There are still some Sailfish being found as well as some Striped Marlin and Blues. I heard of some Black Marlin being caught up in the San Jose area but not anything really big, most of them were reported to be in the 200-250 class. The Sailfish were in close to the beach and were caught by boats fishing for Dorado. This is also the area where most of the Striped Marlin were found. Blue Marlin were being found by quite a few boats but once again there were only a few large fish. I was out this week and we had a small Striped Marlin come in on an outrigger lure and a bit later had a small Blue take a tuna lure off the long corner. Both of these fish were found while we were working Porpoise for Yellowfin Tuna just to the east of the San Jaime Bank. We had clients fish for two days and not have a Marlin strike at all so you just never know (they did get plenty of other fish).
YELLOWFIN TUNA: On one day, off the next and it definitely seemed to be a cycle this week. Same area, probably the same fish and the first day it would be a wide open bite, then next day the fish had their mouths sewn shut. Try again just one more time and the wide open bite happened again! Frustrating, yep, for sure, but the fishing was really really good when the fish were hungry! The Tuna were found from the Cortez side on the Inman Bank and Gorda Banks, the Cabrillo Seamount and the 1150 spot, south of Cabo from 6 miles to 35 miles, from 3 miles off the lighthouse on the Pacific to the west side of the San Jaime and farther north past the Golden Gate Banks. There was no one area of concentration, you just had to find the porpoise. Some large fish were brought in, a few over 200 pounds and quite a few in the 80 pound class. Most of the fish were 35040 pounds or 12-20 pounds and many times the schools were mixed. Boats flying kites seemed to get more than their share of the larger fish, but trolled marlin lures definitely brought in some super-sized Tuna as well. Seeing a hole the size of a washtub open up where your lure had been was one way of checking your blood pressure!
DORADO: The Dorado bite could almost be considered wide open as almost any boat that concentrated on these great eating fish had a successful trip. Catching limits was not a problem, in fact many boats managed to double or even triple the legal limit of two per person per day, chancing getting caught and having the fish taken and the boat fined. Most of the fish were found on the Pacific side a fair distance up the shoreline. Finding the area the fish were holding by trolling with lures, then slow trolling the area with live bait was the key. Fish were not super-size, most of them were in the 12-15 pound class, but there were a few that went over 20 pounds and a few that weighed over 50 pounds. There were also a lot that were smaller than 6 pounds. Most boats release these small fish but I did see quite a few of them brought in.
WAHOO: I did not see a lot of Wahoo flags this week but I know there were some caught. One of our clients caught one that was about 25 pounds while fishing for Dorado on Saturday. He and his friend also caught 10 Dorado that day, and came in with two coolers filled with Tuna averaging 30 pounds the day before, so they really had a great time!
INSHORE: There was no change this week on the inshore fishing. Roosterfish, Needle-fish, Bonita, Skipjack, Dorado with a scattering of Grouper and Snapper rounded out the fish inshore. There were no large numbers of any of them except for the Dorado, and there were plenty of them to keep anglers happy. Many of the Pangas went offshore in search of Tuna this week instead of focusing on the inshore fish.
FISH RECIPE: My recipe has been taking too much space so if you want to see it, check out my wordpress blog a little later in the week, or subscribe to the blog and you will receive an email as soon as I post it.
NOTES: I don't think there was an unhappy angler found in Cabo this week. We had some great weather and super fishing to go with it. Lots of the larger yachts are arriving and you see quite a few of these beauties out there getting prepped for the up-coming tournaments. If you are thinking of coming down to fish, now is the time to make your reservations as many of the best charter boats will start to be booked up with tournament dates. Hopefully the great fishing will continue through November!
Until next week, tight lines!
I will be posting more to my blog now http://captgeo.wordpress.com, please go to and subscribe, you will be sent a notice every time I post a new article. Please feel free to send suggestions or if you have any ideas for articles. Thanks George
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Oct 3, 2011; 12:21PM - 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. 26 - Oct. 2, 2011
WEATHER: Another week of hot weather following the heat of last week! Two more weeks before traditionally it starts cooling down again. This week we once again saw most days of over 100 degrees in town. Most anglers were happy to get on the water where it was at least 10 degrees cooler. We had a few days of partly cloudy skies, but the clouds for the most part were high in the sky. On Wednesday we did get a bit of a surprise as the clouds moved right in on us and spit some rain here in town. Just to the north a bit there was actually a pretty good downpour and of course, there was plenty in the mountains.
WATER: The Cortes side of the Cape this week was mostly 88 degrees out to the 1150 and the 95 spot and then it dropped a degree to 87 to the east of there, not a big difference, but there you go. On the Pacific side there was a band of cooler 85 degree water along the beach extending out a mile or two, then it rose to 86-87 degrees until you got a few miles to the west of the San Jaime and the Golden Gate Banks, then it dropped to 86 degrees. As you can see, there were no strong temperature breaks out there this week. Surface conditions were pretty darn good except for the large swells at the start of the week, a result of the passing of Hurricane Hillary to the west. The rest of the week saw reduced swells spaced far apart and only light wind chop for the most part.
BAIT: Caballito, Mullet and Sardines were the live bait available with the bigger baits at the usual $3 each and just a few of the Sardinas at $25 a scoop up in the Palmilla area. Sardinas were hard to come by early in the week due to the large swells hitting the beach.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Of course the big news of the week on the Marlin front was the capture of a fish variously called a Blue and then a Black, between 855 and 1,213 pounds. Maybe someday we will get a real, certified scale that can weigh fish like this installed at the marina. For more information on this fish go to my blog at www.captgeo.wordpress.com. I did not hear of any other large Marlin brought in or fought this week but I am sure there were a few more. I do know that there were a scattering of Sailfish around as well as some Striped Marlin. Not large numbers, nor large fish, but there were some billfish out there to be caught. One of the best days I heard of was a 3 for 5 release on Striped Marlin in one day, all on live bait, all on the Pacific side. I heard late yesterday afternoon a credible rumor that some big blue and blacks are starting to move in! Just in time for the tournaments! But I have not seen any myself this week.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: this week was a hot one for the Yellowfin Tuna, last week was a cold one! And then, just to top things off, the bite turned off on Saturday! There were scattered schools of porpoise holding Yellowfin all week on the Pacific side and to the south as well as the west, basicly they were scattered all over the place. We had clients who caught Tuna on Friday early in the morning that would have worn them out if they had stayed with the school. Back on the water on Saturday and could not find one fish! Word is that there have been quite a few Purse Seiners working out there, but to have that many fish gone overnight has to be something other than just the commercial guys.
DORADO: Once again the fish of the week, but just because the Tuna bite was not a steady one. The Dorado were steady as every time you went out you could catch them. Most of them were not large, averaging perhaps 10 pounds, but there were plenty of them to be found close to the beach on the Pacific side. Just like last week, a few boats got into schools of fish that were larger with an average of 15-18 pounds, but there were not as many of them and they were found a bit farther offshore.
WAHOO: The new moon phase was really quiet for Wahoo and I only heard of two fish caught. One of them was small at 20 pounds, I am not sure of the size of the other fish, and they were caught close to shore by boats that were targeting Dorado.
INSHORE: Roosterfish, Needle-fish, Bonita, Skipjack, Dorado with a scattering of Grouper and Snapper rounded out the fish inshore this week. There were no large numbers of any of them except for the Dorado, and there were plenty of them to keep anglers happy. Many of the Pangas went offshore in search of Tuna this week instead of focusing on the inshore fish. Early in the week this was really the case since we had the large swells hitting the coastline.
FISH RECIPE: My recipe has been taking too much space so if you want to see it, check out my wordpress blog a little later in the week, or subscribe to the blog and you will receive an email as soon as I post it.
NOTES: Well, so much for the hope of a Seahawk perfect losing season, guess we now have to hope for the team to get it together and win a few. I was really hoping for first pick in next years draft, sigh. We had a busy week this past week and there were plenty of fish out there as you can tell from the list above. Some big Tuna, big Marlin and plenty of good eating Dorado. If it were not for the heat things would be perfect! My music for this report was once again (for the 12th time) Brian Flynn! He will be playing at our favorite bar, Tanga-Tanga this afternoon after the football games! Southern Rock at it's finest! I'll take a few pictures to post on the blog later on.
Until next week, tight lines!
I will be posting more to my blog now http://captgeo.wordpress.com, please go to and subscribe, you will be sent a notice every time I post a new article. Please feel free to send suggestions or if you have any ideas for articles. Thanks George
Gordo Banks Pangas
San Jose del Cabo
October 2, 2011
The Eastern Pacific is now calm, late season now for tropical storms to develop,
though they have been known to pop up quickly at this time of year, presently the
weather is great, still quite warm and humid, light winds, with cooler nights.
Hurricane Hilary passed within 400 miles of Cabo San Lucas, before eventually
downgrading over cooler waters, ocean swells did increase the first part of the
week, but have since already dropped, only scattered reports of measureable
rainfall.
Significant increase in numbers of anglers arriving this past week, it seems the
fall season is starting early this year. With high stake tournaments just weeks
away, anticipation is high. Local teams are beginning to scout out potential jackpot
winning fishing grounds and with news of the monster 1,000 lb. class blue marlin
landed this past week out of Cabo, this has got the adrenaline flowing even more.
Water temperatures continue to average higher than normal, most of the region is all
in the 85 to 90 degree range, warmest areas in the direction of Los Frailes. The
passing of Hurricane Hilary created choppy seas, turned over waters closer to shore
and really pushed in a powerful current, this contributed to a few days of tougher
all around fishing action. Just the past couple of days the conditions have settled
and fleets are reporting improved counts of dorado, with yellowfin tuna and other
species also in the mix.
Finding sufficient supplies of sardinas became more difficult in the higher surf
conditions, with most of the schooling baitfish now congregated off the rocky
beaches from Palmilla Point to San Maria. Anglers are also jigging up some jacks and
moonfish inside the marina channel.
Action spread out more, charters were heading out in different directions, more
numbers of dorado were accounted for while trolling lures and various baitfish,
limits were not uncommon, sizes ranged up to 30 pounds, most fish were in the ten
pound class. The majority of the more consistent action was found from Santa Maria
to the Iman Banks.
Tuna activity dropped way off during the increased swell and current activity, but
the past couple days the yellowfin have made a showing off of the La Fortuna area,
finicky to strike, but some charters landed as many as four yellowfin tuna, weights
ranged from 15 to 60 pounds. Lots of aggressive skipjack, scattered schools of
dorado and an occasional sailfish or marlin hook up as well. There was one 130 pound
yellowfin landed from a panga that was slow trolling a larger live bait in the deep
channel just offshore of the marina entrance at first light, not an everyday
occurrence.
Not much steady bottom action found, mainly because of the ragging current, which
made it nearly impossible to reach bottom. Now with the slacking current we expect
to see more encounters with dogtooth snapper and amberjack.
Early in the week there was some good roosterfish action found right of the marina
jetties, anglers were trolling with moonfish, catch and release on many roosters
that were as large as 30 pounds. Roosterfish up to fifty pounds were landed in
recent days off of the offshore rock piles, a bit unusual, but something we have
starting to see more often, roosterfish normally patrol inshore waters, we now see
they will travel further offshore in search of a food source.
Only an occasional wahoo now being landed, these fish are still sluggish in the
warmer waters, we did hear of a few more wahoo being hooked off of Cabo San Lucas,
same areas where dorado were found. The Gordo Banks area also reported a handful of
wahoo, sizes up to 45 pounds.
The combined panga fleets launching from La Playita/Puerto Los Cabos sent out
approximately 105 charters for the week, with anglers accounted for: 4 striped
marlin, 7 sailfish, 1 black marlin, 5 wahoo, 188 dorado, 48 yellowfin tuna, 7
dogtooth snapper, 9 amberjack, 28 roosterfish, 1 pompano, 26 pargo, 22 bonito and 18
cabrilla.
Good fishing, Eric
GORDO BANKS PANGAS
Eric Brictson
Owner/Operator
800 4081199
Los Cabos 1421147
ericgordobanks@yahoo.com
www.gordobanks.com
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Sep 26, 2011; 12:20PM - 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. 19-25, 2011
WEATHER: Once again we had hot weather, just when we thought that there was a chance that fall was here early! What were we thinking? Our daytime highs have been over 100 degrees most days while the nighttime lows have only dropped to the mid 80's. With very little cloud cover this week it was a warm 7 days! What did keep our attention focused on the weather was the possible approach of Hurricane Hillary. She started in the usual place but then took off to the west due to some high pressure in our area but she is expected to re-curve to the north this weekend, but will be passing well to the west of us as a tropical storm. We have a very low chance (0-10%) of getting tropical storm strength winds, but we do hope that we get a bit of cloud cover and (fingers crossed!) a bit of rain.
WATER: At the end of the week the water across the Sea of Cortez was a very consistent 88 degrees with an occasional showing of 90 degree water. To the west on the Pacific ocean the temperature dropped a little bit, but there was no hard definition to the change. Across the San Jaime Bank we were seeing 85-86 degree water and on the Golden Gate Bank it dropped a bit to 84 degrees. The band of cooler water we had last week along the shore went away and now it is the same almost everywhere. Surface conditions have been great at the beginning of this week with little if any wind chop, small swells and smooth seas. With the approach of Hurricane Hillary we expected the size of the swells to pick up and we were not disappointed. If you have been to Cabo and know Medano beach, then you know when the swell is bucking up against the beach steps of the Pueblo Bonito Rose and Blanco hotels, then they are large swells. They are expected to pick up a little more in the next few days then go back to normal. If it is just the swells then we should have no problems offshore, but inshore fishing may be a very iffy proposition.
BAIT: Caballito, Mullet and Sardines were the live bait available with the bigger baits at the usual $3 each and the Sardinas at $25 a scoop up in the Palmilla area.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: I heard of a very nice Black Marlin of 580 pounds being caught by a Panga out of San Jose while fishing the Gorda Bank area this week as well as a few smaller ones from the same area as well as off of Punta Gorda. There were a few scattered Blue Marlin bites to be had scattered around our area as well, but once again no concentration of them. Most of the Blue Marlin were reported to be smaller specimens in the 150-250 pound range. With the warm water came a burst of Sailfish action, at least for a few days, for boats that fished the Cabrillo Seamount, the 1150 and the 95 areas. On the Pacific side of the Cape, as well as off of the Inman Bank there were Striped Marlin, but they were finicky and most of them were in the 100 pound range. UPDATE::::
Marlin Update! The 33 foot Blackfin “Go Deep” just came to the dock with a 855 pound Black Marlin after a fight lasting 28 hours. Anglers Richard Biehl and Tom Miller hooked the beast at 8:20 yesterday morning and finally landed the fish around noon today. More information and pictures tomorrow!
It appears that the Black Marlin I reported as weighing 855 pounds may actually be larger than that, making it the largest Marlin weighed here in Cabo in decades! After hooking the electronic scale to the fish and recording the weight of 855 pounds, the scale was removed and an attempt was made to zero it out. That attempt failed, making the recorded weight suspect. Therefore measurements were taken and re-taken in order to use a basic mathematical formula to find the weight. The girth of the fish (75 1/2 inches) squared (5,700.25) multiplied by the fork length (a measurement from the tip of the lower bill to the fork of the tail, 136.5 inches) = 778,084.125 divided by 800 = 972.60 pounds or - 10%. An extremely nice fish and one of a lifetime for Richard Biehl and Tom Miller. congratulations to both, and to the crew of the 'Go Deep' for their professionalism in staying the course of the fight instead of cutting the fish off after 8 hours.
This fish just goes to show that if you want to be afraid to come to Mexico and Cabo in particular, don't worry about anything on land, worry about what might happen to you if you hook up to a beast like this! If it happens during one of our Marlin Tournaments in October it might be worth a few million dollars as well! Now that is a real reason to fish our waters!
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Like I said last week, this has been a fish that has been hot one week and cold the next except for this past two weeks when it has been cold for most of the boats. One reason could be the 3 Purse Seiners that have been working our area for the past several weeks, the fish was good until they showed up. There are still some small area that have been producing fish on a fairly steady basis, but for most of the Cabo based boats running to the Inman banks is just too far an takes too much time. The Inman has been producing some fish in the 30-80 pound class for boats that are there at the right time, but it has been a very time specific fishery, be there when the fish pass through or don't even bother. Fly lined live Sardinas on #20 flouro-carbon leader with plenty tossed into the water for chum, or drifting chunks of fresh bonito have worked for some boats. On the Inner and Outer Gorda some boats were getting lucky on large fish by slow trolling or flying kites using live Skipjack as bait, but unless you were able to get bellow the green Jacks on the surface it was hard to get good bait. On the Pacific side there were scattered groups of porpoise that held some fish, but the fish were extremely shy and it took a kite to present a bait properly to these fish. Even then it was a very tough go as there were many short bites and the fish were moving fast. It comes down to slow fishing for Yellowfin Tuna for almost all the boats, but the ones that did get fish were usually getting quality fish.
DORADO: It looks like Dorado ended up being the fish of the week although at the start of the week it was very slow fishing for these guys. Mid-week the bite started to turn back on close to the beach on the Pacific side, but the fish were not large ones. There were plenty of small ones in the 4-8 pound class which bodes well for the future several months, but larger fish were a hit or miss. Almost every boat that went inshore and tried for the Dorado caught plenty, and almost everyone got at least one fish in the 20 pound class, but these fish were not common inshore. A few boats did manage to find small concentrations of larger fish offshore under small pieces of floating debris, but once again these were isolated incidents and you had to be very lucky.
WAHOO: Once again there were Wahoo reported in the catch of quite a few boats this week, perhaps as many as 15% of the boats fishing reported at least on strike, and about 5% were able to bet one in the fish box. The Wahoo averaged 30 pounds and most of the strikes occurred inshore and happened to the anglers fishing for Dorado. The use of light mono leaders had the expected result of being bitten off by the Wahoo, but sure helped on the Dorado bite!
INSHORE: There were some Roosterfish as well as plenty of action on Jack Crevalle close to the beach early in the week, but at the end of the week the increasing size of the swells made fishing in close a very tricky thing to try. With the increase in Dorado action just off the beach most of the Pangas focused on these fish instead and they did very well (see the Dorado section above).
FISH RECIPE: My recipe has been taking too much space so if you want to see it, check out my wordpress blog a little later in the week, or subscribe to the blog and you will receive an email as soon as I post it. This week I actually will be posting one since we finally got some Tuna to take home, a very nice piece from the 169 pound fish!
NOTES: For the story and pictures of the 972 pound Black caught yesterday go to my blog at http://www.captgeo.wordpress.com. Back from the Sunday morning beach trip with a tired dog and a Bloody Mary in hand as Mary fixes breakfast. My music for the morning is the sound of the talking heads (not the band) of ESPN giving their analysis of today's games. Our hope is for a Seahawk perfect season, if we can manage to lose every game we can get a good quarterback next season.
Until next week, tight lines!
I will be posting more to my blog now http://captgeo.wordpress.com, please go to and subscribe, you will be sent a notice every time I post a new article. Please feel free to send suggestions or if you have any ideas for articles. Thanks George
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Sep 19, 2011; 12:10PM - 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. 12-18, 2011
WEATHER: As summer slowly winds down we are seeing a slight lowering of our temperatures as well, not a lot, but a little bit. Instead of seeing 86 degrees in the early morning we are now seeing it around 81-82 degrees and the daytime highs are a bit lower as well. Not that it feels all that low since the humidity is still a bit high, but we can tell the difference. We had a bit of cloud cover this past week but no rain and the winds were light for the most part.
WATER: It appears that there is not a lot of change from the last report with the exception of the last two days. Prior to Friday we still had that cool water along the shore on the Pacific side with a warm band across the San Jaime and the Golden Gate Banks with the water dropping several degrees once you went to the west a bit farther. The Sea of Cortez remained a very steady 87 degrees almost everywhere. The change we experienced, while small, has affected the fishing a little bit. The water to our immediate south and to the east has dropped to between 80 and 84 degrees. It's hard to tell with any certainty, mainly because of the cloud cover and not a lot of boats going there, if there is a strong break somewhere. The effect it has had on the fishing is to spread out the areas where we have been finding Striped Marlin and Yellowfin. Now instead of just on the Pacific side there is more area to cover.
BAIT: Caballito, Mullet and Sardines were the live bait available with the bigger baits at the usual $3 each and the Sardinas at $25 a scoop up in the Palmilla area.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: The Striped Marlin have been finicky feeders this week with about one in four boats getting shots, and about half of them hooking up long enough to get a release. As in most fishing it was a matter of being in the right place at the right time with the right stuff. Sound familiar? This week the right place expanded as the water to the south and east cooled off a bit. While it had an effect on the Striped Marlin it did not change the Blue and Black Marlin bite at all, they still enjoy water that temperature. There were about half the number of Blue Marlin caught as there were Striped Marlin but they were larger in size with an average of just around 230 pounds. There were a few that were estimated at over 300 pounds but I don't know if there were any of the larger ones landed. Black Marlin are still showing up in the usual areas such as the Gorda Banks and Punta Gorda and they have been averaging 250 pounds, mostly caught on live bait.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: This was an off week for most of the anglers looking for Yellowfin Tuna, but there were a few boats that managed to find the right porpoise schools and get into the fish. I did not hear of any reel big ones, but there were nice fish to 120 pounds caught. Of course most of them were smaller and an average of 5 or 6 fish of 30 pounds were caught by boats that got into the fish. Toss in a couple of 40-60 pound class fish and the fishing suddenly became OK, if you were in them! Directly to the south at 28 miles, just to the inside and the outside of the San Jaime Bank and just to the north of the Golden Gate Bank were areas where the most consistent action took place. Once again the boats that used kites to fly baits had better success on the larger fish.
DORADO: The Dorado were a bit shy this week as well but I am not sure of the reason. Where we had been seeing plenty of Dorado caught inshore on the Pacific side, they suddenly quit biting, perhaps they moved farther offshore or up to the north. Whatever the reason, most boats working that area were able to catch a few in the 12-18 pound class, and there were a few larger ones caught farther offshore. There were very few reported from the Cortez side of the Cape in our area.
WAHOO: The full moon did the job and there were Wahoo reported this week! One of our clients caught on that was 62 inches long, as well as a very nice Dorado, and were happy to take home some of those wonderful fillets! There were others caught as well, and in the standard areas you find Wahoo, on the high spots and along the drop-offs.
INSHORE: There was some decent Roosterfish action this week on fish averaging 20 pounds and a few larger fish to 50 pounds. I had one angler report to me that he hooked a “Bubba” that he thought would have been over 80 pounds but lost the fish after 15 minutes. Snapper and grouper have been active as well with some decent grouper hitting the decks and a scattering of dog-tooth snapper joining them. Toss in some Dorado and Bonito and the action for anglers working inshore was steady, if not wide open.
FISH RECIPE: My recipe has been taking too much space so if you want to see it, check out my wordpress blog a little later in the week, or subscribe to the blog and you will receive an email as soon as I post it. This week I actually will be posting one since we finally got some Tuna to take home, a very nice piece from the 169 pound fish!
NOTES: This report is done early so we can get in our Sunday morning beach trip with the dog, get home for breakfast and then downtown to watch the early game. Go Seahawks (hope our new quarterback does better this week or he has to go). This weeks report was written to the music of Darius Rucker on a compilation disc given to me by a client. Thanks Steve!
Until next week, tight lines!
I will be posting more to my blog now, please go to http://captgeo.wordpress.com/ and subscribe, you will be sent a notice every time I post a new article. Please feel free to send suggestions or if you have any ideas for articles. Thanks George
Gordo Banks Pangas
San Jose del Cabo
September 18, 2011
Now at the midpoint of the month of September, the Eastern Pacific remains calm, no
tropical storm forming at this time. Ocean temperatures are ranging from 80 degrees
off of the Pacific Banks up to 88 degrees in the direction of Los Frailes. With the
officially end of summer one week off, there is now a feeling of fall during the
early morning hours, though days have continued to be warm and humid.
Sportfishing fleet are now spread out over the offshore fishing grounds, with the
majority of the more consistent action being found in the direction of the Gordo
Banks and north from there. San Jose del Cabo anglers relied on sardinas as the main
bait source, as well as the plentiful skipjack on the fishing grounds. Other bait
options included limited supplies chihuil, moonfish and caballito.
The Gordo Banks has come alive with larger sized yellowfin tuna, these fish are
hitting exclusively on bait, with chunks of fresh skipjack being the best bet in
recent days. Fish in the 100 to 200 pound or larger class have been hooked daily, no
huge numbers, but definitely quality. Charter crews are chumming heavily with cut
skipjack and sardinas to get the tuna up in a feeding mood. Cow sized yellowfin tuna
were seen coming right to the surface feeding and anglers were taking strikes on
lines as heavy as 100 lb. Slow trolling with larger live baits also resulted in hook
ups. Many stories of extended battles with larger fish were told, at least several
yellowfin over 200 pounds were reportedly landed, with other big fish lost.
There were yellowfin tuna spread through the area, over the recent full moon phase
these fish were not as cooperative, but with persistence anglers did account for
some impressive catches. There were reports of good dorado action found out of La
Paz, but in the Los Cabos area dorado counts have been low, with mostly smaller size
do do’s encountered, only an occasional larger bulls being reported, no particular
area.
Options have been somewhat limited, no inshore action at this time, all offshore on
the structure, main target species being the yellowfin tuna, a mix of bottom
species, but no consistency for dogtooth, amberjack or grouper, only a few missed
wahoo strikes reported and billfishing is hit or miss, no numbers, but a chance at
hooking into a big black or blue, one 532 lb. black marlin was weighed in recent
days out of La Playita, the black hit on a live skipjack midway between the Inner
and Outer Gordo Banks.
La Plaita locals have been spending time fishing off the panga docks and have
accounted for a handful of snook, weighing up to 40 pounds, drift fishing with live
moonfish, also some nice roosterfish hooked in the same area, only area locally
where roosters are seen feeding, the higher tides have produced more bait fish
activity in the marina channel.
The combined panga fleets launching out of La Playita/Puerto Los Cabos Marina sent
out approximately 59 charters for this past week, with anglers accounting for a fish
count of: 2 black marlin, 6 sailfish, 25 dorado, 97 yellowfin tuna, 22 bonito, 4
rainbow runner, 15 cabrilla, 7 dogtooth snapper, 26 pargo, 1 yellowtail and 7
amberjack..
Good Fishing, Eric
GORDO BANKS PANGAS
Eric Brictson
Owner/Operator
800 4081199
Los Cabos 1421147
ericgordobanks@yahoo.com
www.gordobanks.com
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Sep 12, 2011; 11:18AM - 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. 5-11, 2011
WEATHER: We had a hot week here in Cabo as our daytime highs were in the mid to high 90's and the nighttime lows only got down to 85 degrees. Our cloud cover varied as weather from the mainland appeared intermittently, ever few days a new cloud deck comes over and we get a bit muggy for a day. No rain here in town this week, but I bet there was some up in the mountains!
WATER: After a strange change in the water temperatures last week, we are back to about what we expect for this time of year. On the Sea of Cortez the water is a very consistent 88 degrees while the Pacific side as a band of cold water along the beach that reads as 83 degrees. The warm 88 degree water from the Cortez side has a finger running up the Pacific side across the San Jaime Bank and up to the western edge of the Golden Gate Bank. This finer of warm water extends out to almost the 1,000 fathom line, then the temperature drops to 83 degrees again. This week the swells have been small and the winds light so the fishing conditions have been fantastic!
BAIT: Caballito, Mullet and Sardines were the live bait available with the bigger baits at the usual $3 each and the Sardinas at $25 a scoop up in the Palmilla area.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: There are plenty of Striped Marlin being seen but not all of them have been hungry. A few boats have tossed baits to as many as 8 fish per trip and have been lucky to get three hooked up and released, for most boats just getting one released has been a reason for celebration. As far as the larger Marlin go, some Blacks are beginning to show up off the Gorda Banks and the Punta Gorda area and there have been Blue Marlin attacking lures both to the south of Cabo and around the warm water plume on the Pacific side. Most of these larger fish a=have been in the 200-300 pound class, but there have been reports of some in the magic 300 category as well. Lures have been the best stuff to use on the Blue Marlin and the Black Marlin really like slow trolled live Skipjack.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Strangely enough, Yellowfin Tuna have remained our fish of the week. I mean that because we have been seeing Purse Seiners setting on schools out here, and we are still catching some nice Tuna, in spite of them. There have been some very nice fish reported from the area of the Finger Banks, but that is a long haul for the fleet guys on a fingers crossed trip when there is good fishing closer to home. Boats fishing the Pacific side have been catching fish ranging from 10 to 100 pounds with most of them in the 20-30 pound class while trolling cedar plugs and feathers around porpoise and dolphin. The larger fish have been hooked on slow trolled live bait and live bait dropped back after hooking up to a trolled fish, but the very largest fish have been taken while fishing under a kite. We had clients this week who caught 5 Yellowfin between 30 and 60 pounds and several small one, the larger fish all coming from using the kite. Other boats working a bit farther out to the south reported larger fish over 100 pounds coming from under a kite.
DORADO: The Dorado bite did not change this week as there were still plenty of fish to be caught, you just had to be fishing the right areas get them. Almost all the big numbers were found within 2 miles of the beach on the Pacific side up past the Arcos area. Big numbers do not mean big fish though as most of these Dorado were in the 10 pound class with a few much smaller as well. The larger fish were found farther offshore, but were scattered, no concentrated, Boats that did well on the larger fish were looking for feeding frigate birds and running to them, tossing out live bait and slow trolling the area. Also, almost anything you found floating this week was likely to have fish under it. A few boats were able to get into small groups of Dorado averaging 25 pounds and catching 3 or 4 for the fish box.
WAHOO: Once again I did not hear of any Wahoo, but we are approaching the full moon and it is the right time of year, so I expect that to change this week.
INSHORE: Some Roosterfish as well as a scattering of Snapper and Grouper have kept most inshore anglers a little busy, but with the water conditions the way they are most of the Pangas are going offshore looking for the larger Dorado and some of those great Yellowfin Tuna.
FISH RECIPE: My recipe has been taking too much space so if you want to see it, check out my wordpress blog a little later in the week, or subscribe to the blog and you will receive an email as soon as I post it. This week I actually will be posting one since we finally got some Tuna to take home, a very nice piece from the 169 pound fish!
NOTES: I love having fresh Tuna to eat, yesterday I fixed some sushi and we pigged out, even the dog had some! Hopefully having the Tuna here is a situation that will stay the same for the next few months, it sure would be nice if they stayed in our area for the Tuna Tournament in November! This weeks report was written to the sound of techno-dancer music blasting from a neighbors outdoor speakers a block away, some kind of rave going on for the last two days. Noise pollution when it is that loud in a residential area! Oh well, it's off to the beach with the wife and puppy, home for a good breakfast and then a good sit down for a Sunday of football!! Don't forget all the victims of the terrorist act of 9/11 in your prayers today.
Until next week, tight lines!
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Gordo Banks Pangas
San Jose del Cabo
September 11, 2011
Light crowds now, always seems to be the same situation this time of year, with kids
back in school and summer winding down, people are staying closer to home. Just
around the corner is the busy fall season and we are anticipating a great turn out.
There are no tropical storms developing at this time, but it is the time of year
where we monitor forecasts closely. Mostly sunny days now, with high humidity, some
scattered cloud cover and light variable winds. Water temperatures are ranging from
85 to 89 degrees, larger swell conditions earlier in the week have weakened, though
there have been swift currents sweeping through certain areas. Supplies of sardinas
have continued to be schooling around the Puerto Los Cabos jetties, pangeros are
working hard at first light to net sufficient supplies for the local fleets. There
has also been a mix of larger baitfish available.
Anglers were finding the best success for yellowfin tuna while drift fishing with
sardinas over the grounds of La Fortuna, Iman and San Luis Banks. Lots of yellowfin
tuna could be seen breezing the surface, but they proved to be more finicky in
recent days, average catches ranging from one or two, up to four or five per
charter. Sizes were mostly in the 20 to 40 pound class, though there were a handful
of tuna accounted by the local panga fleets that were in the 100 to 170 pound class.
Larger tuna were seen on the Gordo Banks, but these fish proved even more elusive
than fish on the Iman and San Luis. Tuna acquire a taste for the particular food
source than is naturally present on the fishing grounds and at times it can be hard
to entice them with anything else.
Dorado action was found mixed in where the tuna and of course lots of skipjack were
present, most of the dorado encountered were juvenile, under 10 pounds, only a few
larger specimens reported. A few more sailfish found in recent days, also an
occasional story of a blue or black marlin battle.
Other action included limited numbers of amberjack and dogtooth snapper, strong
currents made this action not so easy. Larger live baits such as caballito or
moonfish worked over structure, with La Fortuna being one of the more productive
spots. Only a couple of incidental wahoo were being accounted for by the combined
fleet for in past weeks, these fish become less active in the warmer waters, which
have ranged now close to 90 degrees.
Local surf anglers reported some roosterfish action near the marina channel, as well
as several very large snook, these guys put in some long hours targeting these
prized gamefish, recently the mid day high tide produced more hook ups.
The combined panga fleets launching out of La Playita/Puerto Los Cabos Marina sent
out approximately 47 charters for the week, with anglers accounting for a fish count
of: 1 blue marlin, 2 striped marlin, 9 sailfish, 10 amberjack, 9 dogtooth snapper,
15 cabrilla, 45 dorado, 118 yellowfin tuna, 28 bonito, 8 rainbow runners, 9 barred
pargo and 20 triggerfish
Good Fishing, Eric
GORDO BANKS PANGAS
Eric Brictson
Owner/Operator
800 4081199
Los Cabos 1421147
ericgordobanks@yahoo.com
www.gordobanks.com
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