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Aug 1, 2011; 12:00PM - 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
July 25-31, 2011
WEATHER: I got up this morning to 84 degrees and 80% humidity, whew, good thing the fan was on! Our nights have been warm like that this week, and the days even warmer. With a few days of partly cloudy skies, the best place to be was out on the water, at least there was a little breeze outside on the Pacific! We have a tropical depression forming to the south of us, five-E, that is projected to stay well south but form into a hurricane on Wednesday. We will probably get some surf again, but like the last one, no rain.
WATER: Warm water has come our way! With an average of 87 degrees on the Cortez side of the Cape, it actually rose above 91 degrees up at the East Cape in a few areas. On the Pacific side here we have warm water wrapping around the Cape and working it's way to the north. 83 degree water is inside of the San Jaime Bank and across the Golden Gate Bank, and the water outside of there drops down to a cool 80 degrees, and to the south of us if you get outside of 25 miles it drops as low as 75 degrees.
BAIT: Caballito and Mullet were the baits of the week with a few Mackerel in the mix. Everything was the normal $3 per bait. There were also some decent Sardinas to the north around Palmilla at $25 a scoop.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: There were plenty of Striped Marlin and quite a few small Blue Marlin and Sailfish showing up this week, but they were not always hungry. The larger fish were scarce this week, and the results of the Bisbee East Cape Tournament bear that out. With 62 teams fishing three days only one fish over 300 pounds was caught. That's 186 fishing days for a Blue Marlin that was just over 500 pounds. Locally there was a small concentration of Striped Marlin just off of Gray Rock between ½ mile and 2 miles. That group of fish was there mid-week but apparently moved off on Saturday. On an interesting note, the Marlin bite seems to have been better in the afternoon this week.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Still around and biting! Not every trip resulted in lots of fish, but the boats that were able to get to the dolphin first really had a good chance at fish to 80 pounds this week. Of course most of the fish were smaller than that with an average of 20 pounds, but still, there were some really nice fish being brought in. Most of the action was along the temperature break to the south of us as well as around the San Jaime Bank. Small feathers worked great for the average fish but deep dropped live bait, dropped ahead of slow traveling schools of fish, as well as run under kites seemed to get the larger ones interested.
DORADO: Once again fish of the week, and we are really happy about that! Most of the action took place on the Pacific side close to the beach and the fish were a decent average of 12 pounds with a few lager showing up. The larger fish were 45-50 pounds and about every third boat managed to get one that size. Best action came on slow trolled live bait, but bright colored medium size lures run at 10 knots managed to get some action and worked well to find the concentrations of fish. My guess is that the boats were averaging 6 fish per trip with the better catches being limits and very few boats not getting any Dorado at all.
WAHOO: I did not hear of any Wahoo being caught this week.
INSHORE: Most of the Pangas were focusing on Dorado this week but those that tried for the normal inshore species like Roosterfish, Grouper and Snapper found that the bite was better in the afternoon. Good action was on the Pacific side of the Cape but there was some decent Roosterfish action off of Cabo Real as well. Most of the Roosterfish were smaller ones at 15 pounds but there were a couple of times when schools of 50 pound fish moved in and caused some excitement.
FISH RECIPE: My recipe has been taking too much space so if you want to see it, check out my wordpress blog a little later in the week, or subscribe to the blog and you will receive an email as soon as I post it. Sorry about this last weeks no show, I got busy and forgot!
NOTES: Hot, humid weather, so it's time for a walk on the beach with the puppy, then a swim! Come back home for a good breakfast, a nap, then watch some golf. It's too hot to play after 10 am so sitting in front of the fan watching the last day of the Senior Open sounds pretty good to me!
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
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Jul 25, 2011; 11:04PM - AND I THOUGH IT WAS TOUGH
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Mark Rayor
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We are officially in our hurricane season. When
there are reports of a storm heading this way it
adds stress to our otherwise stress free lifestyle.
Hurricane Dora with reported winds of 155 MPH did
just that. We were spared as she moved to the West
but not without causing a big swell and rough boat
rides for a couple of days.
In my mind I thought fishing was tough this week
until downloading the images we captured. Between
the bumps marlin, sailfish and dorado provided
plenty of action.
One highlight for Jim Durky was bagging his first
sailfish after 12 years of trying. One frustration was
finding only marlin in the Dorado Shoot Out only to
have them show up later in the week.
Mark Rayor
www.thejenwren.com
www.vistaseasport.com
markrayor.blogspot.com
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Jul 25, 2011; 01:23PM - 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
July 18-24, 2011
WEATHER: Once again we had an interesting week with the threat of Hurricane Dora. Thankfully it became a non-event with the exception of some very large swells on Thursday and Friday. We were hoping for some decent rain but that did not happen, we got a bit of cloud cover on Saturday. Our days have been staying in the high 90's to just over 100 and the nights have had slightly lower temperatures at 82-85 degrees.
WATER: Hurricane Dora brought in large swells and the Port was closed Saturday morning because of them and the threat of very gusty winds. We did have the gusty winds for a few hours in the morning and then they settled down. With the swells spaced far apart the water was comfortable. At the end of the week we had a defined temperature break on the Pacific side with water to the inside of the San Jaime Bank and just outside the Golden Gate Bank being a warm 84 degrees while the water to the outside was a cooler 77-80 degrees and the change was a very sharp edge. On the Cortez side the water in front of Cabo and San Jose was a very even 84 degrees and as you got toward the East Cape it warmed to 88 degrees.
BAIT: Caballito and Mullet were the baits of the week with a few Mackerel in the mix. Everything was the normal $3 per bait.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: The bite was decent for Striped Marlin on the Pacific side early in the week, not great, but all right. A few boats were able to release tow or three but most boats did well for one release a trip. Blue Marlin have begun to show more often as the water keeps warming up and that has the anglers and crews excited. A few of the fish caught have been over 400 pounds but most have been in the 200-250 pound class. With no real concentration of them, it was exciting to know that once could appear in the pattern at any moment.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: It was exciting to start the week with some great fishing for Tuna in the 20-40 pound class, then disappointing to see all the purse seiners show up. Perhaps the threat of Hurricane Dora chased them away, but most of them were very low in the water when they did leave. For whatever reason, they were not out there on Thursday, and with the large rolling swells, no wind and no seiners around, the boats had a great time on fish that ranged in size from 20 pounds to 80 pounds. There were quite a few 50-60 pound fish caught, very nice to see them in the fish box! Most of the action was taking place to the south and west, but there were also reports of some real large fish being taken in the area of the East Cape. In our immediate area almost any boat that wanted was able to put between 6 and 12 of these quality fish in the box.
DORADO: I think I have to say that Dorado were the fish of the week for us, and probably will be this coming week as well. We the Tuna were mostly offshore a way, the Dorado bite really turned on off the beach on the Pacific side. With boats catching between four and 12 a trip and with the fish ranging in size from 10 to 50 pounds it was a good direction to go! There were a lot of happy anglers at the end of the day.
WAHOO: I saw a few wahoo flags this week but did not have a chance to talk to the anglers or crew to find any particulars.
INSHORE: Early in the week the inshore fishing was good with large Roosterfish to 50 pounds (most of them smaller at 15 pounds), some decent Amberjack and Grouper. The Swells really affected the inshore fishing as it was dangerous to get too close when the started and then at the end of the week the water was too green as a result of the heavy pounding.
FISH RECIPE: My recipe has been taking too much space so if you want to see it, check out my wordpress blog a little later in the week, or subscribe to the blog and you will receive an email as soon as I post it. Sorry about this last weeks no show, I got busy and forgot!
NOTES: As usual, this is written on Sunday morning so being the first full day of fishing since Hurricane Dora I will not have any updated information until late this afternoon. I will try to get an update out either tonight or tomorrow morning.
Until next week, tight lines!
I will be posting more to my blog now, please go to http://captgeo.wordpress.com/ and subscribe, you will be sent a notice every time I post a new article. Please feel free to send suggestions or if you have any ideas for articles. Thanks George
Gordo Banks Pangas
San Jose del Cabo
July 24, 2011
Just like across most of the United States, we are also dealing with high
temperatures and humidity here in Southern Baja. The main interest this week has
been following the development of Hurricane Dora and closely watching its projected
path. Dora had become an extremely powerful category 5 storm before encountered
cooler water temperatures and upper sheer that has caused it to no rapidly weaken.
It is just over 200 miles from Cabo San Lucas now, Cabo San Lucas Marina was closed
Friday, but a handful of charters did launch from La Playita/Puerto Los Cabos Marina
on Friday, though for Saturday both Ports are slated to be closed. Dangerous surf
conditions of 12 feet or more are pounding local beaches, but there has not been any
rain or wind to speak of yet. It looks like we have escaped another close call,
though some rainfall as the system dissipates would be welcome.
Schooling dorado moved in throughout the region this past week, the majority of the
fish were juveniles under ten pounds, but there were larger fish mixed in, so
remember to release the young fish and fill your limit with larger specimens. The
dorado were striking on a combination of lures and bait. There were mullet,
caballito and jurelito available for bait, as well as some small sized sardinas that
have showed up in the last few days, these sardinas need to grow some, at this size
they plug the filters on the bait tanks.
The yellowfin tuna bite was hit or miss, some tuna were found further offshore
traveling with porpoise, but this was no guarantee and often over 20 miles out.
Yellowfin tuna were only found in limited numbers near Iman and San Luis Bank, early
in the week there was one tuna caught from a local panga that was in the 170 pound
class, a handful of other yellowfin in the 20 to 50 pound range were accounted for,
but anglers were lucky to catch one of them.
Water temperatures were above 80 degrees in most areas, strong currents caused water
clarity to change from day to day. Southern swells made for choppy conditions much
of the week. Schools of bolito and some smaller yellowfin are now found on the
offshore fishing grounds and this has attracted some larger sized black and blue
marlin. Several black marlin were hooked into this week, problem was that the
majority were on lighter tackle and were lost after extended battles, at least a
couple of medium sized blacks were landed out of the Puerto Los Cabos Marina. There
are a few sailfish and striped marlin to round out the billfish action, several of
the stripers were of impressive size.
Inshore action for roosterfish and dogtooth snapper is tapering off, in fact just
like last week, there were several large roosterfish landed while trolling bolito on
the offshore banks. The few dogtooth snapper that were accounted for also came from
deeper rock piles. Cabrilla, grouper, snapper and amberjack were being hooked into,
no big numbers, but some quality fish, striking on yo-yo jigs and various baitfish.
The local panga fleets launching out of La Playita/Puerto Los Cabos Marina sent out
approximately 48 charters for the week, with anglers reporting a fish count of, 1
black marlin, 13 striped marlin, 4 sailfish, 19 yellowfin tuna, 260 dorado, 58
various pargo, 9 dogtooth snapper, 18 cabrilla, 15 grouper, 17 amberjack, 16
roosterfish and 22 jack crevalle.
Good fishing, Eric
GORDO BANKS PANGAS
Eric Brictson
Owner/Operator
800 4081199
Los Cabos 1421147
ericgordobanks@yahoo.com
www.gordobanks.com
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Jul 20, 2011; 11:36AM - SEA OF CORTEZ, FAT CHICKS AND FLAT FEET
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Mark Rayor
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Marlin and sailfish have taken center stage on the
East Cape this week. Less dorado then previous
weeks and smaller tuna are also providing action.
There are still a few cow tuna in the area for those
lucky enough to be in the right spot at the right
time.
Walter Russo was one of the lucky ones and landed
a 200 pound tuna on Jen Wren III. Fishing about 5
miles off Punta Pescadero we sighted a pod of
bottlenosed dolphin. They were moving very slow
and just milling in the area. Our first pass trolling
marlin lures through them showed huge marks on
our fish finder. I suspected the marks were tuna but
we couldn't get them to go. We changed to cedar
plugs and smaller lures then started chumming live
sardines. Every pass over the dolphin huge marks
appeared in the fish finder at about 20 feet but
there was no surface action. I decided to stop the
boat and pitch out a live mackerel. As the boat slid
to a stop our short teaser rod went off.
Before we could get the other lines cleared the top
shot and more than half a spool of 80 spectra had
been ripped off the Accurate BX2-30 reel Walter
was holding. I was just getting ready to back down
on the fish when the spool finally came to a stop.
The fish stayed out toward the horizon and I was
beginning to wonder if in fact it was a tuna. My
thought was maybe a blue marlin or even that we
had hooked a dolphin. Walter kept the pressure on
but there was no sign of a tail beat. We didn't know
what to think. Finally the fish came to color and we
were all very pleased to see a cow tuna.
Some guys have all the luck. The following day we
fished the bouys off Punta Perico and hung another
tuna about 90 pounds.
Mark Rayor
[url]www.thejenwren.com[/url]
[url]www.vistaseasport.com[/url]
markrayor.blogspot.com
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Jul 18, 2011; 12:07PM - 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
July 11-17, 2011
WEATHER: This was a pretty nice week, even though it was warm. Our daytime highs were in the high 90's and the nighttime lows in the high 70's, but it was still cooler than in a lot of the states. Quite a heatwave you have going on up there, come to Cabo and cool down! We had partly to mostly cloudy skies at the end of the week but plenty of sun during the middle of the week and the week started off with a light sprinkle on Monday, just enough to spot up the cars.
WATER: We had an early week upwelling of cool water along the beach on the Pacific side where the water went from 80 degrees down to 73 degrees and it has been slow to get back up there. This cool water wrapped around the Cape for a few days, cooking the water in the bay, but then the warm water from the Sea of Cortez took over and replaced the cool bay water. The Pacific near-shore water remains a bit cooler than we have on the Cortez side, staying in the high 70's. On the Cortez side of the Cape we have been seeing water temperatures ranging from 80 to 85 degrees with the warmer water coming from farther to the east mid week. Surface conditions on both side of the Cape were good this week with light winds in the afternoon bringing some small whitecaps on the Pacific side. The swells got smaller as the week progressed and at the end of the week we were seeing swells of 1-3 feet on the Cortez side and 3-5 feet on the Pacific.
BAIT: Caballito and Mullet were the baits of the week with a few Mackerel in the mix. Everything was the normal $3 per bait.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: The Striped Marlin bite has fallen off as we expect when the water gets over 80 degrees, but there are still some to be found. My guess, based on what I have been seeing is a success rate of about 35%. I have not seen very many boats flying multiple flags, two at the most, and the fish have been scattered. Best results on the Striped Marlin have been from the area of cool water on the Pacific side close to the beach. There have been more frequent attacks on lure from the larger Marlin as well! Reports of Blue Marlin up to 500 pounds taking Yellowfin Tuna as they are being reeled in gives you a reason to get out there, but they have not yet arrived in any numbers, just an occasional fish or so. Smaller Blue Marlin and possibly a few Black Marlin have been reported attacking lures pulled around the Tuna schools, maybe it's time to down-rig a few Tuna on the banks?
YELLOWFIN TUNA: A bright star for our fishing this week was the Yellowfin Tuna action. As is normal with these fish, first boats to the action had the best luck, and finding the action for the most part consisted of finding Porpoise. Find those mammals and you stood a fair chance of getting into Yellowfin that averaged 15 pounds and once in a while jumped over the 40 pound mark. I did hear reports of a few larger fish coming from the area outside of Punta Gorda, fish that went over the 100 pound mark. Almost anyone that wanted Tuna this week were able to get a few, and some anglers limited out. On a worry note, the purse seiners nave started to show up, but that means that there are more fish on the way, just hope they don't get them all before we have a chance at some!
DORADO: Another bright spot this week was the number of Dorado we have been seeing, and pretty nice fish for the most part at an average of 12 pounds. There have been a few really small ones that bode well for the next few months as they get larger, and of course the 40 pound fish that get everyone all excited. The majority of the larger Dorado are being found on the Cortez side in the warmer water and the smaller fish are being found close to the beach.
WAHOO: Full moon this week did bring out reports of some Wahoo being caught out there. As far as I could determine there was no concentrated effort for them, most of the fish were incidental catches made while fishing for other species.
INSHORE: Inshore fishing was a repeat of last week with the inclusion of a few more Dorado showing up. Roosterfish to 60 pounds, Amberjack, Jack Crevalle, Bonito, Grouper, Snapper, all the inshore fish are showing in the reports this week. The ones not there are the cooler water fish such as Yellowtail and Sierra. Slow trolling live bait is the key to getting most of the fish except the bottom species, and those were biting on butterfly jigs.
FISH RECIPE: My recipe has been taking too much space so if you want to see it, check out my wordpress blog a little later in the week, or subscribe to the blog and you will receive an email as soon as I post it. Sorry about this last weeks no show, I got busy and forgot!
NOTES: I have the birds singing in the background for my report music, and can just hear my dog snoring in the next room, life is good! Time to get her and Mary to the beach for our weekly walk, come home for a Sunday breakfast and watch the finish of the British Open and the ladies World Cup!
Until next week, tight lines!
I will be posting more to my blog now, please go to http://captgeo.wordpress.com/ and subscribe, you will be sent a notice every time I post a new article. Please feel free to send suggestions or if you have any ideas for articles. Thanks George
Gordo Banks Pangas
San Jose del Cabo
July 17, 2011
No new tropical storm systems at this time, we did have a day
earlier in the week with a few scattered showers and for much of the past week
we have seen more tropical cloud cover. With the little moisture that did fall,
the parched local landscape does seem a bit greener and humidity has noticeably
increased. Southern swells have been steady, as have winds from the south,
fluctuating currents, but overall the ocean conditions seem to be improved in
recent days, water temperatures averaging 80 to 84 degrees.
Mullet, caballito, jurelito and moonfish have been available for
bait and schooling bolito are being found on the fishing grounds. Anglers have
been waiting patiently for this summer season’s action to take off, everything
seems to be happening late this season.
The fishing has still not been consistent from day to day and the
fish counts have been below Cabo standards. With the way the water clarity and
temperatures are looking now, we do expect the action to break open at any
time. We have seen encouraging signs in recent days, lots of bolito on the
fishing grounds is always a favorable, just a matter of more numbers of
gamefish showing up.
Local fleets have concentrated most of their efforts from the
Gordo Banks to Iman and San Luis. The Gordo Banks produced dorado and marlin
action on the surface, trolling with larger live baits resulted in strikes from
dorado up to 40 pounds, though the majority were fish of 5 to 20 pounds. Quite
a few striped marlin also hitting in this same area, a couple of stripers were
landed that weighed close to 200 pounds. There was at least one blue marlin and
one black marlin reportedly landed, as well as a few sailfish, this billfish
action should remain steady the rest of the summer. Off the bottom on these
same banks there were some quality species accounted for, dogtooth snapper,
yellowtail, amberjack and grouper. These fish hit on yo-yo jigs and drifted
baits, many fish were lost, as they could not be turned before reaching the
rocks and cutting the line. No huge numbers here, but definitely a chance at hooking
into a big fish, it is another matter to actually land them.
Near Iman and San Luis anglers were using a combination of
jigging, soaking baits off the bottom or slow trolling larger baits on the
surface. Bolito has been the most productive bait for this, but jurelito were
also working, patience was needed and making sure to capitalize on the few
strikes taken. This is the spot where a handful of the larger grade yellowfin
tuna were encountered, the tuna ranged from 30 to 200 pounds, no significant
numbers at this time, but on any given day this bite could break wide open. One
local La Playita panga hooked into a 70 pound class roosterfish while trolling
a bolito on the surface over the Iman Banks, close to four miles offshore, this
is not your normal everyday occurrence for roosterfish, as they prefer to
patrol the inshore beach stretches for mullet or ladyfish.
It seems that the inshore bite for roosterfish and dogtooth
snapper has tapered off and is now switching back to the offshore rock piles.
The inshore season for dogtooth snapper never really happened much this year,
now we are starting to see more of these larger sized snapper on the rock
piles, this is the normal pattern, as they move from inshore out to the deeper
banks.
We do expect to see increasing activity for dorado, the same type
of action that has been found off of the East Cape region should shift in a
southern direction in the coming weeks. There has not been consistent dorado
action yet, but this week we did see increased numbers, so that is encouraging.
No wahoo have been reported, a few cut off baits here and there, so there is
always a chance.
Surf fishing activity has been hit of miss, a few snook being
reported by the group of local anglers who put in their time near the San Jose
Estuary, also a few reports of roosters, jack crevalle and snapper as well.
The combined panga fleets
launching from the La Playita/Puerto Los Cabos Marina sent out approximately 62
charters for the week, with anglers reporting a total fish count of: 6
sailfish, 17 striped marlin, 1 blue marlin, 28 yellowfin tuna, 58 dorado, 28 amberjack,
8 dogtooth snapper,18 huachinango (red snapper), 22 yellowtail pargo, 20 jack
crevalle, 13 yellowtail, 21 cabrilla and 26 roosterfish.
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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Jul 13, 2011; 10:55AM - LIGHT LOADS AND LOTS OF TOADS
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Mark Rayor
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Traffic on the East Cape has been very light most of
this season. Each resort in the area is far from full
occupancy and only sending out a hand full of
fishing boats each day. With this the boats that are
fishing are enjoying a lot of real estate to them
selves and are not being swarmed by other boats
when schooling dorado or tuna are found.
The Dorado Shoot out is this coming weekend
which will certainly increase traffic. Huge dorado in
the 50 to 60 pound class have been brought to the
docks every day which is adding to the excitement
of this up coming event.
The East Cape Bisbee starts in two weeks and blue
marlin are showing on the seen in bigger numbers
everyday. This should be a good one!
After a great fishing trip in May Tom Shellenberger
and Colin Fryer of Moab Utah returned to fish Jen
Wren III and hunt the cow tuna they had been
reading about in our fish reports. It turned out to
be a case of 'you should have been here yesterday'.
Upon arriving at the 88 spot where the big tuna had
been, we found that the water had dropped 5
degrees from the previous day and turned green.
With the change in conditions the toads were
nowhere to be found. The boys did manage to catch
a nice mixed bag of dorado, tuna, marlin and
sailfish.
Mark Rayor
www.thejenwren.com
www.vistaseasport.com
markrayor.blogspot.com
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Jul 11, 2011; 12:27PM - 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
July 4-10, 2011
WEATHER: Warm. Need more information, well all right. Our morning lows have been in the low 80's and the daytime highs in the high 90's. We had very little wind this week but did have quite a bit of cloud cover early in the week with sunny skies from Thursday on to the end of the week. We had a pretty good shower on Monday and that was the end of the rain.
WATER: The water was 82-84 degrees almost everywhere you could go, on the Pacific side that was everything in range inside the 1,000 fathom line and on the Cortez side it was all the water out to a distance of 30 miles south of Cabo and 50 miles south of Punta Gorda and eastward as far as you could travel. Once you got past five miles off the beach on the Cortez side the water was blue, inside it was just slightly tinged with green. The swells were decent size at 3-6 feet but there was very little wind on top of them and they were spaced well apart.
BAIT: Mackerel and Mullet were easy to get this week at the normal $3 per bait, there were no Sardinas and only a few Mackerel to be had.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Well, thing are constantly changing on the ocean and as the warm water moved into our area the Billfishing changed a bit as well. We are still seeing Striped Marlin close to home, as a matter of fact one of the boats hooked two Striped Marlin within 100 meters of Lands End on Wednesday. Most of the Striped Marlin have been very close to home, but there are not the numbers we were seeing last week, and they are not as hungry. What we are seeing more of is Blue Marlin. A boat caught one over 600 pounds this week and quite a few smaller ones between 200 and 300 pounds were released. Not that they were caught by every boat out there, no it's not that easy! But there were Blues to be had if you were in the right place using the right stuff. Most of the action on these Blue Marlin occurred between 5 and 25 miles out, around the Tuna. Naturally they were following their bait!
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Not much of a change from last week as far as the Yellowfin are concerned. Between 5 and 25 miles to the south and southwest, find the porpoise and you were getting bit. The porpoise were all over the p[lace, finding the right pod to work was the key. The white bellied porpoise were moving fast and it was hard to get bit in them, but the spotted porpoise were easier to work and the fish were a bit more co-operative. Smaller lure in dark colors worked great on these fish that averaged 15 pounds, with large ones reaching 30 pounds. There were a few big ones caught as well, fish that reached over the 100 pound mark, but they were not in among the small ones.
DORADO: Dorado continue to come into our area and there are some nice ones out there! We had a young client who caught his first one the other day, it was Saturday, and the fish weighed just over 60 pounds! Now he is spoiled for life and probably expects every one he catches to be that large! Not every boat is bringing home Dorado, but the ones that are getting them are catching nice ones. Most of the action has been out past the 5 mile area, and on the Cortez side of the Cape.
WAHOO: Once again I did not hear of any Wahoo being caught this week.
INSHORE: Roosterfish to 60 pounds, Amberjack, Jack Crevalle, Bonito, Grouper, Snapper, all the inshore fish are showing in the reports this week. The ones not there are the cooler water fish such as Yellowtail and Sierra. Slow trolling live bait is the key to getting most of the fish except the bottom species, and those were biting on butterfly jigs.
FISH RECIPE: My recipe has been taking too much space so if you want to see it, check out my wordpress blog a little later in the week, or subscribe to the blog and you will receive an email as soon as I post it. Sorry about this last weeks no show, I got busy and forgot!
NOTES: Early morning, the birds chirping, just finished watering the garden after returning from the marina. The sun is just coming up and it is 83 degrees and humid! Reminds me of Guam! My music choice this week was a mix of classics with some Humble Pie, Jethro Tull, 10 Years After and Grand Funk Railroad, wow, really takes me back!
Until next week, tight lines!
I will be posting more to my blog now, please go to http://captgeo.wordpress.com/ and subscribe, you will be sent a notice every time I post a new article. Please feel free to send suggestions or if you have any ideas for articles. Thanks George
Gordo Banks Pangas
San Jose del Cabo
July 10, 2011
Summer time is definitely here, temperatures are reaching 90 degrees, scattered tropical cloud cover with high humidity.. At this time there is the season’s third storm system brewing off of Manzanillo, named TS Calvin. It appears that Calvin will not become too strong and will not have any impact with land, higher swells and humidity is about all we expect.
Conditions are stabilizing with the warming days, but there were times when winds picking up from the south. Inshore waters are still off colored, clear blue water was found further offshore. Ocean currents have been swift with moderate swells, expecting to increase in coming days. Water temperatures are now averaging 80 to 85 degrees throughout most of the Southern Baja. Most abundant inshore baitfish were mullet, jurelito and caballito, sardinas were found north towards the East Cape and La Paz. This week there were immense schools of bolito moving onto the fishing grounds, at times they proved very finicky to catch, but they were choice trolling baits for larger sized gamefish.
Fleets were reported mixed success 15 to 30 miles offshore looking for yellowfin tuna, most of the time associated with porpoise, fish averaged 20 to 40 pounds, a few larger tuna encountered as well. This bite was hit or miss, one day the concentration of porpoise and yellowfin would be in one area and the very next day they were nowhere to be found. Once the tuna were located, multiple strikes were the rule. A scattering of billfish are being accoutered for, sailfish, striped and blue marlin. These fish were striking on trolled lures and various baits. There were reports of blue marlin over 500 pounds caught off of the East Cape in recent days, so we expect these fish will be in our local waters soon.
Panga fleets found steady action for various snappers and amberjack off the bottom structure, San Luis Bank was one of the more productive areas. The bite was best first part of the week and then tapered off towards the weekend. Jigging with yo-yo jigs was the technique used. The larger grade of yellowfin tuna are congregated on the same grounds, from Iman, San Luis to Vinorama. They are not being seen much on the surface, but anglers are taking blind strikes while slow trolling larger sized baits, with the preferred offering being bolito. At times they would only strike these baits, shying away from mullet or small jacks. The fleet hooked into these tuna every day, with combined counts ranging from several fish, up to fifteen in one day, all of these yellowfin were in the 30 to 150 pound range. There was such an abundance of food source on the grounds now that the fish do not appear that enticed to bite baited hooks. No great numbers yet, but encouraging to see this quality and there is a good chance that you can hook into a couple of these yellowfin per morning. The key is having the right bait and plenty of patience and then hoping that the fish takes the bait deep enough for a solid hook up. With such quantity of bolito now on the local banks, we do anticipate that these quality yellowfin will continue to provide action for the rest of the summer.
On Friday there was 194 lb. yellowfin tuna landed by Frank Harbin of Chico, Ca. Frank hooked into the monster on the Iman Bank while drift fishing with a jurelito. Aboard a 22 ft. panga and using a lighter and lengthy flexible rod, he battled this fish for some six hours, with help from the crew, was finally able to bring it to gaff, but on the first attempt the fish took the gaff out of the mates hands and headed back towards the bottom, close to an hour later on their second gaff attempt they had success.
We have not been finding schools of dorado, only small groups, a few bulls to 40 pounds in the mix. No particular hot spot with big numbers, but most all fish are of quality size. Roosterfish and jack crevalle dominated the gamefish action close to shore, it is peak season now for these species, with many specimens over 40 pounds being landed.
Surf fishing activity is now in full swing, mid week there was a 40 pound class snook caught off the beach near the San Jose Estuary, there were reports of roosters and snapper as well, watch the high swells though.
The combined panga fleets launching from the La Playita/Puerto Los Cabos Marina sent out approximately 67charters for the week, with anglers reporting a total fish count of: 9 sailfish, 13 striped marlin, 1 wahoo, 69 yellowfin tuna, 64 dorado, 49 amberjack, 3 dogtooth snapper, 115 huachinango (red snapper), 13 yellowtail pargo, 45 jack crevalle, 22 cabrilla and 64 roosterfish.
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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Jul 2, 2011; 01:25PM - AND THE BEAT GOES ON
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Mark Rayor
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The East Cape continues to enjoy an unprecedented
big tuna season. In years past the Jen Wren team
have always managed to land a handful of tuna over
a hundred pounds but it really wasn't all that
common. This year the big boys showed up in May
and have been giving anglers all they want ever
since. It is always exciting watching rod tips thump
from the tail beat of big tuna.
In May we were finding the big dogs with bottle
nosed dolphin and then the spotted and spinner
dolphin showed and joined the party. Now it seems
the dolphin have left the building and large schools
of the bruisers are camping out on the 88 fathom
spot.
The best bite has been in the afternoon when most
of the boat traffic leaves. Several days we have
witnessed the fish pop up as soon as the traffic
thins outs. This has made long days for us but has
also been very rewarding watching anglers have an
experience of a life time with these trophy sized
fish.
Right on cue blue marlin have shown on the scene.
This is exciting news with the East Cape Bisbee in
just over 3 weeks. Yesterday Mahatini brought in a
blue that scaled out at 503 pounds. Just a bit
further off shore and also near the shark buoys
quality sized dorado and smaller tuna have been
cooperating with anglers.
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Jun 27, 2011; 12:51PM - 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
June 20-16, 2011
WEATHER: Last weeks weather continued on into this week as we started with lows in the high 60's and highs in the low 80's along with a lot of wind. On Thursday it started to change, at least the temperatures did! The wind continued until finally dying down on Sunday. At the end of the week our lows were in the mid to upper 70's and the daytime highs had returned to the mid 90's. Still no rain but we did have several days of cloud cover.
WATER: Our seas have slowly returned, or are slowly returning to haw they were a couple of weeks ago. At the beginning of the week the water had dropped about 12 degrees along both sides of the Cape, with a severe drop along the Cortez coastline. Finally, at the end of the week it started to warm up, and the trend continued offshore as well. Starting the week with 69 degrees in the bay, we ended the week with a slightly more reasonable 73 degrees, but the water remained very green and off color. On the Pacific side at the end of the week we had water as cold as 65 degrees but it did not intrude into the Sea of Cortez. The green water remained inside the 1,000 fathom line for the most part, and the water started to warm up eastward of a line due south of San Jose. Surface conditions were not all that great this week as the swells from the remnants of Hurricane Beatrice pounded the beach, making the surfers happy but when combined with the steady wind made fishing uncomfortable for most anglers. At the end of the week the swells started dying down as did the wind.
BAIT: Mackerel and Mullet were easy to get this week at the normal $3 per bait, there were no Sardinas and only a few Mackerel to be had.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Almost the only area that held Striped Marlin this week was outside the 1,000 fathom line on the Cortez side of the Cape. The water was choppy but a bit clearer and just a bit warmer there. For that matter, almost all the fish that were caught this week came from that area. A couple of “maybe” small Blue Marlin were reported from there as well, but that may have been wishful thinking considering the water temperature. For the most part boats were seeing three or four fish a day and managing to hook up and release between one and three per day. A few boats managed to really kick some butt and released up to five fish. A couple of fish were reported from the green water closer to shore, but this was a very scattered event, not normal during the course of the week.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Fish of the week as far as I am concerned! Yellowfin between 12 and 30 pounds were the lifeblood of the offshore anglers this week as they could be found along the color break at the 1,000 fathom line. Not associated with porpoise, it took a while to find them, but once they were found the action was decent. Most boats were catching between three and 10 fish per trip. Dark colored lures were the key, bright colors just did not work.
DORADO: Maintaining the trend started last week with the influx of cold water, the bite on Dorado continued on a downhill slide. The fish were smaller as well with a lot of fish in the 5-6 pound class being released, and they were almost the only ones being caught. Like all the other fish, they were found around the 1,000 fathom line, or up off the Punta Gorda area.
WAHOO: Cold water and the last quarter of the moon phase put the brakes on the Wahoo fishing this week. I did not hear of any being brought in.
INSHORE: Inshore fishing was a pain this week with the cold, green water and the large storm swells. Some anglers were able to get hooked up to Yellowtail on the Pacific side by trolling Rappala style lures and if they continued to work an area could do all right on fish to 12 pounds. Add in some decent Bonito, scattered all along both side of the Cape, and some Sierra along the shore off of El Tulle beach and the fishing was ok, not great but ok.
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: This weeks report was written to the songs of the birds chirping in the trees outside, I hope they are saying the water is warming up! If it continues to warm, and I think it will, we will see much better fishing by mid-week. Now, it's off to the beach with the dog, then give her a bath and brushing, she has her birthday party this afternoon!
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
June 24, 2011
Strange week, the first week of summer felt more like winter or early spring.
Persistent cold winds from the south swept in cooler currents, dropping water
temperatures to 68 to 72 degrees through much of the Southern Baja coastal
stretches. Murky green conditions were spread out to over 20 miles offshore,
though the dirty current did not reach past Los Frailes. The season’s second
Hurricane, Beatriz, developed off Southern Mexico, this system weakened over
land, before encountering cooler waters and dissipating as fast as it had
developed. Beatriz was located several hundred miles south of Cabo San Lucas and
was packing sustained winds up to 90 mph, creating larger swells that did pound
Southern Baja beaches for several days. Now, we patiently wait, It is only
matter of time before the conditions turn back around, but it is hard to say
exactly when this will happen. Over the weekend conditions have stabilized,
winds resided, cool Pacific air relenting to summer heat once again.
As conditions drastically changed, the week started off with a wide spread die
off of fish being reported. Innicially observed north of Punta Gorda, swifting
in the direction of Palmilla and Cabo San Lucas. Masses of mostly smaller sized
snapper species, one pound or less, deeper water specimens, a few larger fish,
no dead pelagic species reported. When talking with local residents they cannot
remember ever witnessing a similar incident of this scale. These fish were found
floundering on the surface, gasping, eyes and bladders burst, barely alive,
before drifting onto the beaches.
Of course many theories have surfaced as to what might have caused this event,
among the speculations, by catch from commercial netting, poison red tide,
natural occurrence, nuclear fallout from Japan, drastic current/temperature
change, air bladder rupture, limited oxygen levels and terrorist poison attack.
Biologists have collected specimens for study, but we have not yet heard any
reports as to a confirmed cause. The die off occurred for the first part of the
week and seems to have abated.
Anyway, we do know that we had an extreme current and temperature change in a
matter of 24 hours, water temperature had been in the 81 to 83 degree range and
when this south westerly current swept in the water temp dropped to a chilly 68
degrees, also turned over to a dirty murky green color. So we are just passing
around many theories, waiting to hear any information from the biologists. Most
logically reason points to something to do with such a drastic change, deep
current lacking sufficient oxygen.
Anglers found extremely difficult fishing this past week, southern winds were
persistent, at times gusting to 30 mph in the afternoon. Finding clean water was
the main problem, high surf conditions stirred up the inshore action even more.
Larger baitfish were available from the commercial fleet, such as jurelito,
mullet and caballito, but finding any hungry fish to hit the bait was the hard
game. A few roosterfish, jack crevalle, snapper or skipjack provided what little
action was found, more numbers of roosters were found north of Vinorama, which
is twenty plus miles from the Puerto Los Cabos Marina. Local panga fleets did
not find any wahoo, dorado or tuna where they had the previous week. Charters
that ventured 20 to 30 miles offshore did report scattered action on some
football sized yellowfin tuna and an occasional dorado or marlin, but with
choppy seas you were wise to be on a larger sized sportfisher to venture that
far out.
Striped marlin were scattered throughout the area, as water cleans we expect
them to be very hungry. On Thursday there was an encouraging report from a
sportfisher that caught and released half dozen stripers from the Gordo Banks
area, they found this action after having retuned from as far as 30 miles
offshore, where they had seen no signs of life.
The combined panga fleets launching from La Playita/Puerto Los Cabos sent out
approximately 51 charters for the week, with anglers reporting a fish count of:
3 striped marlin, 3 dorado, 7 yellowfin tuna, 6 amberjack, 3 yellowtail, 18
pargo, 44 roosterfish, 32 jack crevalle, 17 cabrilla, 22 skipjack and 5 sierra.
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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Jun 25, 2011; 10:33PM - SEA OF CORTEZ, AHHH! JUICY FRUIT!
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Mark Rayor
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DOES NURSE RATCHET KNOW THESE GUYS ARE
LOOSE?
Mark Locken returned to Los Barriles this week to
fish the KIR Fish and Chips tournament with his
crazy band of eight school buddies. Based out of
Palmas de Cortez, last year fishing on the Jen Wren
boats the merry men took 1st prize with a 143
pound tuna. It is also note worthy that they
consumed 22 cases of beer in 3 days fishing. At
that time Jack Wright coined the phrase 'if you
don't start drinking in the morning you can't drink
all day' as he shouted 'DRINK WITH ME BOYS!'
These guys know how to have a good time. This
year they missed the dorado jackpot by 4 ounces.
Even though they were not able to break last years
fishing record, they were able to set a new
consumption record with 24 cases. A great time was
had by all and only one rod and reel was
'involuntarily' released with a tuna on the other
end. May she rest in peace!
Mark Rayor
www.thejenwren.com
www.vistaseasport.com
markrayor.blogspot.com
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