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Aug 7, 2006; 01:16PM - Cabo Bite Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrum
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
Cabo Fish Report
July 31-August 6, 2006
WEATHER: We had partly cloudy skies most of the week with mostly cloudy skies ending the week on Sunday. Thank goodness there were no storms in our area this week. Our daytime highs were an average of 94 degrees with our nighttime lows in the mid 70’s. Most of the week we had at least a slight breeze that kept things from getting too muggy, but when the wind did die down, the humidity really made you sweat.
WATER: Water conditions were great this week with no storms on the horizon. Swells on the Pacific side remained at 3-5 feet and on the Cortez side were averaging 1-2 feet in our area. The Sea of Cortez had the warmer water with most of the areas fished (95 Spot, 1150, Gorda Banks) averaging 85 degrees. On the Pacific side of the Cape there was an area of cold, green water than ran from the Lighthouse out to the San Jaime and the Golden Gate Banks. This water was in the mid 70’s and at the 1,000-fathom line it warmed to 80-82 degrees and really cleared up.
BAIT: There were a couple of days this week when bait was not readily available unless you were one of the first boats out, and it seemed to be mostly Caballito and Mullet when you could get them. The price remained steady at $2 per bait.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: We are still catching the Striped Marlin, Blue Marlin and Black Marlin here in Cabo. The most action seems to be on the Striped Marlin with Blues taking second place. Almost every boat that has gone out has had a shot at a Billfish this week, and a few lucky boats have released multiple fish. Most of the action has taken place along the normal areas on the Cortez side, the 95 Spot, the 1150 and the Gorda Banks and on the Pacific side out around the 1,000-fathom line. That makes sense, as that is where the water is the right color and temperature. Up on the East Cape this week the East Cape Bisbee Tournament was held. I believe there were around 36 teams entered for three days of fishing, but there were only 2 qualifying fish (over #300) weighed in. There were plenty of smaller Billfish offering action though with almost every team releasing Marlin.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: The Yellowfin were once more the fish of the week as almost every boat that went the right direction was able to get into the fish. Once again they were associated with the Porpoise and almost all the action was out around the 1,000-fathom line. Small feathers in dark colors and small hootchies in red were the most productive lures this week. Most of the fish were footballs but a few schools of larger fish to 50 pounds were found as well. I heard reports of some nice fish coming in from the Gorda Banks area but you had to be there early and the better fish were caught on Sardines.
DORADO: The Dorado remained small at an average of 10 pounds but there were enough of the 30-pound fish around to make it interesting. Once again most of the action was closer to shore, within 5 miles of the beach on the Cortez side. The greener water on the Pacific seemed to have pushed the fish back. Hopefully in this next week some floating debris kicked up by last weeks storm swells will come in from the north and bring some fish with it!
WAHOO: I saw a few Wahoo flags this week and discovered that they were all caught very early in the morning by boats running the 50-100 fathom line on the Cortez side of the Cape. A couple of the fish were very nice at 60 pounds while the rest were around 20-30 pounds. Larger lures in dark colors got hit the most. These boats were fishing for Black Marlin and just happened into the Wahoo. After asking, I found that none of the angers reported multiple strikes.
INSHORE: Inshore on the Pacific was still an iffy thing except for boats working right in the rocks for Snapper. Most of the inshore action took place on the Cortez side and there were some decent Roosterfish as well as Pargo and Grouper. The majority of the Pangas were working a bit farther out for Dorado.
NOTES: Patience is the key as things slowly improve. The fishing is getting better week-by-week. The Tuna and Dorado action is not quite up to what we were hoping for, but the Marlin fishing has definitely exceeded expectations. Until next week, Tight Lines!
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Jul 31, 2006; 12:13PM - 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
Cabo Fish Report
July 24-30, 2006
WEATHER: Well, Tropical Storm Emilia did have an effect on us since she passed just 70 miles to the west on her way up the Pacific coast. She brought some large swells with her and some much needed rain. Unfortunately the swells and wind caused the Port Captain to close the port on Tuesday and it did not re-open until after 9 in the morning on Wednesday, by then a lot of the boats had already cancelled their trips. Monday was the big surprise though as the morning started out nice, and everyone knew that there was a storm in the area. Around 10 in the morning the clouds started moving faster and the wind picked up, by noon we had 35-knot winds with a lot of rain blowing around. She lowered the air temperatures but after she passed we went right back to hot and humid. Now at the end of the week we are seeing daytime temperatures in the high 90’s and humidity at 65% and better. Our nighttime lows have been in the low 80’s but with a bit of a breeze that makes it bearable.
WATER: Storm Swells, a major noun this week as Emilia kicked the waters up and brought big seas along with rain to our coastal areas. Late in the week the effects of Emilia could still be seen with the erosion of a lot of the beaches, the off-colored water close to the beach and some scattered debris washed out form the arroyos. Water temperatures at the end of the week had changed from the beginning, as there was a hot spot off of the Gorda banks and a cold spot just around the arch on the Pacific side. The Gorda Banks had water temperatures of 88 degrees, the tail end of a band of warm water running 10 miles offshore down around the East Cape. Just off the lighthouse we had an upwelling of deep, cold water out to a distance of about 8 miles with the coldest areas only showing 74 degrees and green. Out farther on the Pacific the San Jaime and the Golden Gate banks are showing temperatures of 81-83 degrees and with a bit bluer water. At the end of the week the swells from Tropical Storm Emilia had died down and the water was almost like a lake out there.
BAIT: There were some Sardinas available up to the north around the Palmilla area at $20 a scoop and locally there were Caballito and Mullet available every day at the normal $2 per bait. A few trips of the Francesca (the big net boat) resulted in Mackerel being available for about three days. The live bait remained at an average of $2 per bait.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Blue Marlin, Black Marlin, Striped Marlin and a few Sailfish, what more could you want? There are almost as many Blue Marlin being found as Striped Marlin, and there have been some big ones hooked up. It has been almost all lure action as the live baiters are waiting for tournament time before devoting an entire day to soaking a bug Tuna for bait. There have been a few scattered Black Marlin found as well as a few Sailfish. Most of the Black Marlin have been found within the 100 fathom line as expected, most of the larger Blue Marlin have been found off of the ridge and Banks on the Pacific side and around the 1,000 fathom line around the Cape. With the football and slightly larger Yellowfin Tuna showing up, the big girls are starting to get hungry!
YELLOWFIN TUNA: The Yellowfin were the fish of the week this past week. There were no big fish reported that I heard of but there were plenty of fish ranging in size from 8 pounds to 30 pounds with the average somewhere around 20 pounds. Most boats were able to return to port with limits if the angers were willing to stay out and fish, those boats that were not able to get into the Tuna either left late or made the wrong guess about where the fish were (or were just going for a boat ride to begin with!). Most of the fish were found with the Porpoise and the first boats to the fish always did better than the later boats. A good catch was 10 fish of 15-25 pounds along with a shot at a Marlin. The best areas seemed to be directly south along the warm water-cold water boundary formed by the upwelling.
DORADO: There were a lot of Dorado to be found close to shore on both the Pacific and the Cortez side of the Cape. Most of the fish were small at 8-10 pounds but there were the larger groups arriving occasionally, and enough of them to make it interesting. Finding the first fish was the key to Dorado as there was almost always some friend swimming around in the same area. Artificial lures connected up the first fish but live bait and cut bait got most of the fish into the boats.
WAHOO: What Hoo?
INSHORE: The upwelling of cold water along the Pacific side of the Cape really put the inshore fishing off and the few boats that did try and target the traditional species such as Roosterfish and Trevally had a much better time of it when they concentrated on the Cortez side of the Cape. Most of the Pangas were going offshore to try for the Yellow Fin Tuna.
NOTES: The fishing continues to improve on a daily basis. Hopefully the passing of Emilia will break loose some kelp fronds from up north and give us some structure to work. Meanwhile, the East Cape Bisbee tournament will be taking place this coming week. I have a couple of good buddies fishing in it and my fingers are crossed for them. Unfortunately I am not fishing it, I thought that I was going to be fishing all the tournaments this year but things just did not work out that way, sigh. Until next week, Tight Lines!
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Jul 24, 2006; 12:23PM - 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
Cabo Fish Report
July 17-23, 2006
WEATHER: With the passing of Hurricanes Bud and Carlotta we received large swells, and a bit of wind, but for the past week things have come back to normal. Our daytime highs have remained in the high 90’s with an occasional foray into the 102-degree range while at night we have been thankful for cooler temperatures in the low 80’s with a slight breeze. Next week we might see some overcast conditions and possibly a bit of rain as Tropical Storm Emilia may have a bit of an effect on our weather as she is expected to pass us well to the southwest.
WATER: The storm swells we ended with last week died off and there were only seas to 3-4 feet on the Pacific side and less on the Cortez side of the Cape this week. At the end of the week we had very slight seas everywhere with very little wind on the Cortez side and some choppy conditions on the Pacific. Water temperatures were mixed a bit as we had a band of very warm water (84-85 degrees) cross the tip of the Baja at a distance of about 15 miles. On the Pacific side of the Cape the water was 77-80 degrees with the warmer water in a band across the San Jaime Bank. On the Sea of Cortez we had a hot spot of water around the Gorda Banks with temperatures at 86 degrees. We had green water close to shore on the Pacific side and slightly green water on the San Jaime and Golden Gate Banks. The water on the Sea of Cortez was very nice and blue.
BAIT: Mostly Caballito and Mullet with a few Mackerel at the normal $2 per bait.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: On again, off again are the words to use for the Billfish bite this past week. We had a client fish 6 days straight for Marlin with the emphasis being on Blues. Day one was a shut-out, day two resulted in two Striped Marlin, day three was a Striped Marlin and a Dorado, day four was a release of a Blue of about #200 and another the same size jumped off, day five was a Striped Marlin release and a Blue of about #500 jumped off and day six was another shut-out. The action was inconsistent and scattered. Most of the Striped Marlin and the small Blues were found within 2 miles of the shore on the Cortez side while the larger Blue was found at the 95 spot. All these fish fell for one of two 10” lures from Black Bart. The fleet’s catches were about the same with the on-off results, but fewer fish were found on the Pacific side than on the Cortez.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: I heard of one boat getting into Tuna at the San Jaime early in the week but that was the only positive Tuna note I heard. There were scattered blind strikes on fish to #30, but nothing consistent. My fingers are still crossed.
DORADO: Maintaining their status as fish of the week, the Dorado were small and scattered, but still more plentiful than any other species. Most of the fish were found within 2 miles of the beach on both the Cortez and the Pacific side of the Cape with there being a slight increase in the number of fish found on the Pacific side as the week wore on.
WAHOO: What Hoo? I saw one confirmed Wahoo flag this week.
INSHORE: A repeat of last week’s inshore action. Fishing for Roosterfish continues to improve and anglers found the best results either slow trolling mullet just outside the surf break during the day or soaking live bait at night in the 50-60 foot zone. There were fish to #80 caught but the average was 20 pounds. Other than the Roosterfish there is almost no action to report. Almost all the inshore action was from Cabo Falso and up the coast toward San Jose.
NOTES: This weeks water was a bit warmer overall than last weeks, and we are now in Hurricane season so that will have an effect on where the storms head. I am still waiting for the good fishing to start, it’s not bad right now, but as you can see, it’s nothing to write home about, at least compared to what we are used to! This weeks report was written to the music of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young on the 1970 Atlantic release “Deja-Vu”. Until next week, Tight Lines!
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Jul 17, 2006; 11:34AM - 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
Cabo Fish Report
July 10-16, 2006
WEATHER: The big news on the weather front this week was the appearance of the first hurricanes of the season. The closest point of approach was 450 milers to the southwest so we only received a spattering of rain here in Cabo but we definitely noticed the swells these storms produced. Hurricanes Bud and Carlotta are now tropical depressions and no longer have any effect on our region, but the swells produced did have an effect on the fishing. We also had a little rain from the storms, most of it in the mountains and out on the East Cape. Our daytime highs were lowered to the mid 80’s due to the overcast for Thursday, Friday and Saturday, but on Sunday the clouds were gone and at my house the thermometer (in the sun in the driveway) showed 120 degrees. Of course that was direct sun with no wind, in reality it was the low to mid 90’s with a slight breeze in most of the inland areas, and significantly cooler offshore.
WATER: With the overcast produced later in the week from the feeder bands associated with Hurricanes Bud and Carlotta we were not able to receive good sea temperature shots. I was on the water on both the Pacific side and the Sea of Cortez and the following is what I observed. On Friday on the Cortez side of the Cape we had water temperatures in the high 80’s, most of it from 85 to 88 degrees all over the place. From the 95 spot to the 1150 and out to the Cabrillo Seamount the water was a deep blue to purple color and 86-88 degrees. The storm swells were at 8-10 feet but there was no wind on top of them so it was not too bad. On Saturday I fished the Pacific side and the water at the Golden Gate bank was 85 degrees and blue with a tinge of green to it, farther to the south at the San Jaime Bank the temperature dropped to 80 degrees and was a light green in color. Several miles to the inside of the San Jaime the temperature raised to 83 degrees for several miles indicating a band of warm water along the Candelaria Canyon trough, but it was still a greenish color. The green tinged water color extended to 25 miles to the south of the Cape and it did not really clear up until well past the east of the 95 spot. On Sunday the swells had died down to an almost normal 3-6 feet and the water had also started to clean up a bit.
BAIT: Mostly Caballito and Mullet with a few Mackerel at the normal $2 per bait.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: The Striped Marlin bite has continued to drop off with the increase in water temperatures but the Blue and Black Marlin bite has improved. This means that there were fewer Marlin caught, but those that were brought to the boats were larger in size. I heard an unconfirmed report of a Blue Marlin weighed at the Cabo scales on Friday that was supposed to have pushed the needle to between 900 and 1,000 pounds, the fish was reported to have been caught by one of the fleet boats at the 95 spot. Most of the Marlin action was close to shore, between 1 and 5 miles out and it was a mix of Striped Marlin and small (250 pound class) Blue Marlin. The warm waters have also brought Sailfish into our area and the catch of these Billfish was almost equal to the Striped Marlin action. The Marlin action dropped off quite a bit late in the week with the advent of the large storm swells in our area, but this effect was also very pronounced on other species as well. If I had to hazard a guess, it would be that the billfish success ratio this week ran about 40% with most of the fish taken on trolled lures, and most of the action happening on the Cortez side of the Cape.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: We are still waiting for the Tuna to show up in numbers. For two days in the middle of the week there was a good bit on fish in the 30-40 pound class at the San Jaime Banks, but then the storm swells moved in as well as the Purse Seine boats and then there were no more fish to be had. It may be that the reason is not entirely the Seine boats, because the water also cooled a bit and turned greenish, but for whatever the reason, the fish disappeared. I did hear of a boat getting into the Yellowfin amongst the Porpoise on the east side of the San Jaime on Saturday and doing very well, but since I was in the same area and saw no other boats there on the radar I tend to think it was just a bad joke. There were scattered pods of Porpoise found to the south at 30 miles and they did produce Yellowfin on occasion, the largest I heard of and could confirm from that area was #94. Off of the Punta Gorda area there were reports of blind strikes on school fish to 35 pounds. Hopefully the Tuna fishing will get better soon.
DORADO: For the second week in a row Dorado were the fish of the week. This does not mean the bite as wide open by any means; this just means that there were more Dorado caught per trip than any other species. Most of the fish were between 15 and 25 pounds, but there were enough fish over #30 to keep things interesting. The storm swells we had and the weird water conditions combined to keep the numbers down, but they were still the most common fish out there. It is a good possibility that the swells produced by the storms and the rain in the mountains may result in more floating debris during the next week, and with that a better chance to find a concentration of fish, at least we can keep our fingers crossed for that!
WAHOO: What Hoo? Bad moon phase combined with the strange water meant that if there were any Wahoo found it was pure good luck. I did not hear of any fish caught this past week.
INSHORE: Fishing for Roosterfish continues to improve and the best results were found by anglers either slow trolling mullet just outside the surf break during the day or soaking live bait at night in the 50-60 foot zone. There were fish to #80 caught but the average was 20 pounds. The large storm swells had a definite effect on the inshore fishing this week so other than the Roosterfish; there is almost no action to report. Almost all the inshore action was from Cabo Falso and up the coast toward San Jose.
NOTES: Sirius Radio “Elvis Channel” was the music for this weeks report! Once in a while you have to go back to the roots! Until next week, Tight Lines!
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Jul 10, 2006; 02:07PM - 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
Cabo Fish Report
July 3-9, 2006
WEATHER: All week long we had the daytime highs in the high 90’s to right at a top of 102 degrees. The evening temperatures were quite a bit cooler at the low 80’s but no matter how you cut it, most people were looking for air-conditioning in the middle of the day! We did have the daytime temps drop for an afternoon and then into the evening on Friday with the threat of clouds and thunderstorms from the mainland, that cooled thing rapidly! No rain and it looks like thing may remain the same for a while.
WATER: It keeps getting warmer and the water continues to blue right up, I saw water this past couple of days that looked almost purple. On the Cortez side of the Cape we have had surface readings of up to 90 degrees. I have been in a few of those areas the past few days and never did see anything above 88.5 degrees, but that is easily explained by differing equipment. What it comes down to is that on the Cortez side of the Cape the water has been between 89 and 80 degrees with the cooler water being outside the Cabo area toward San Jose a distance out 10-20 miles. Off of the East Cape the water is very warm, averaging 87 degrees on the surface. As far as the Pacific side of the Cape is concerned, the warm water is progressing fairly quickly toward the north. We are already receiving reports of 80-degree water covering the Golden Gate Bank. It is bluing up nicely in that direction as well as the chlorophyll laden green water is pushed north.
BAIT: Mostly Mackerel, Caballito and Mullet at the normal $2 per bait.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: I am now able to say officially that the summer season in Cabo is upon us. I could not say that until I had hooked my first Blue of the season and we did that on the 7th, with a Blue that was well over #350 crashing the short corner plunger and charging the boat. Of course, as always, the guys with the video cameras we asleep and did not get any film of the fish, but it was a classic take and then an epic show, at least until the hook pulled with the fish three hundred yards out. Other guys have been getting into them, but that is my first of the year, so now for me, it is “official”, and the big gear is coming out. Over the radio I heard that there were fish ranging in size from #600 to #200 caught. There were also a few Blacks, but not the number of last week. Surprisingly, there were still a lot of Striped Marlin caught as well, we released two on the 7th and had another one come off after a short run. Most of the billfish action occurred within 10 miles of shore, and the action was not concentrated in any one area, at least close to home. I did hear that there were two days this week when anglers on the East Cape were getting multiple fish per day only two miles off of the beach outside the Cabo Pulmo area. We are hoping that the Number of fish remains high and that the water does not warm up too much, we’d like them to stay around for a while!
YELLOWFIN TUNA: tuna were no the fish of the week, there can be no doubt about that. The fish that were found were 90% footballs, between 6 and 10 pounds in size. Most of the boats were releasing these baby Tuna, but quite a few boats (and fishermen) were loading up just to put meat in the coolers. Offshore were where most of the bigger fish were found, but there were no fish as far as I heard of that weighed more than 60 pounds. ^0 miles due south of the Arch and 50 miles due east of Punta Gorda were reported to have good size porpoise pods that held Tuna, but that was to far for most of the boats to travel. That is not to say there were not any fish found closer to home, it’s just that these fish were blind strikes, and the largest of them were only in the 25-pound class.
DORADO: Once again I have to say the Dorado were the fish of the week. They were found everywhere and almost every boat got some, a few boats did very well with fish counts of five or more, all in the 10-20 pound class with a few fish to 50 pounds. We expect the bite to only get better and the fish to get larger as time moves on. Bright colored lures and slow trolled live bait seemed to work best on these fish, and as long as the water was 80 degrees or better, the fish were there. Wow, that was almost word for word from last week! Must mean that there are fish here! This week however they were not everywhere, you had to search a bit to find them, but there are still large numbers of these quality fish, and the boats that got into them did very well!
WAHOO: I thought that this moon was going to bring on a good Wahoo bite and while I did hear about a few fish, there were not the numbers that I was expecting. A few boats had more than one strike and a few of them got lucky and caught both fish, but most boats were lucky to get one Wahoo strike, even if they were concentration of the fish. The best results seemed to come from the Punta Gorda, La Fortuna area and around the Inman Banks, as live bait slow trolled very early in the morning produced consistent fish every day. Elsewhere the bit was slow and most of the fish were incidental catch found while looking for Marlin or Tuna. Overall the Wahoo averaged 40 pounds, with the smallest I heard of around 12 pounds and the largest right at 80 pounds.
INSHORE: Roosterfish is beginning to get better with more quality fish being found but the key is still having fresh, lively Mullet in the bait tank. With the calm water we had most of the week many, if not most, of the Panga fleet boats were working offshore for Dorado and Marlin. Other than the Roosterfish, inshore fishing consisted of Needlefish and Bonita, and there were plenty of both to be found. Best baits for them were Sardinas.
NOTES: Music for this week’s report was from the Sirius radio “Classic Vinyl” channel. You learn more cuss words playing golf than you do fishing! My best at 118 and getting better every week! Until then, Tight Lines!
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Jul 3, 2006; 10:42AM - 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
Cabo Fish Report
June 26- July 2, 2006
WEATHER: There is no doubt about it; we are defiantly in summer mode here in Cabo! Our daytime highs have been up to 102 here in town and at night our lows have been in the mid to high 70’s. Not only that, it’s starting to get humid. The best way to co9mbat this has been to get out on the water, and that is what Cabo is all about anyway. Unless you get a T-time of 7 am and play a very fast round, of course!
WATER: We had surface temperatures approaching 90 degrees showing up off the East Cape this week, but they never got close to us. The warmest water we saw was 86 degrees out around the Seamount, and that was just for a few days. Near home the water temperature on the Cortez side of the Cape averaged 86 degrees with the water just outside the arch at 82 degrees. On the Pacific side we have seen a steady push of the warmer water up to the north and out to the west. There has been a slight turn-over of the water near shore that happened on Friday afternoon and we had a finger of cool green water, about 74 degrees, flow along the beach on the Pacific and form an eddy that reached the 95 spot. Hopefully this goes away soon.
BAIT: Mostly Mackerel, Caballito and Mullet at the normal $2 per bait.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: The Blue and Black Marlin are starting to show on a regular basis and there are still plenty of Striped Marlin showing up. The key for the Striped Marlin has been to get below the warm surface layer into the cooler depths. On the Cortez side there were a lot of lazy fish seen on the surface within 5 miles of the shore. Keeping an eye on the depth sounder for bait, it paid off to drop a couple of live ones down on top of the bait balls, mostly around 50-60 feet. That was where the fish were hungry. Boats doing this were able of catch three or four fish a day if they concentrated on it. The Blues and the Blacks were caught mostly while trolling lures. The Blues were off shore and most of them were found in the same areas as the football tuna. That makes a lot of sense because the tuna are a primary feed for them. A few boats rigged the tuna and fished them live and got results, not every boat had the technique work, but there was enough action for the lucky ones! The Black Marlin were concentrated closer to shore and while not there in big numbers, there were some quality size fish found. Almost all of these fish were caught on lures but I believe that if someone trolled a couple of live tuna over the edges on the banks and shelves there would be some action for them.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Most of the Yellowfin this week were football fish from 6 to 15 pounds and they were found in the blind just off shore, 5 miles or so on the Pacific side, with a few fish found on the Cortez side. These provided high numbers for a lot of the fleet boats and got a lot of anglers excited, but there were very few quality fish found. Strangely enough bright colored lures worked better than dark colored lures this week, and red/yellow was a favorite. That may have had something to do with the fact that every tuna we caught was stuffed to the gills on red crab and Sardinas! I did talk with a few anglers who said that farther off shore, 30 miles to the south there were Dolphin pods and they were holding some decent fish to 40 pounds, but they were moving fast.
DORADO: I have to say the Dorado were the fish of the week. They were found everywhere and almost every boat got some, a few boats did very well with fish counts of five or more, all in the 10-20 pound class with a few fish to 50 pounds. We expect the bite to only get better and the fish to get larger as time moves on. Bright colored lures and slow trolled live bait seemed to work best on these fish, and as long as the water was 80 degrees or better, the fish were there.
WAHOO: While the moon phase is not quite right for a good bite, the warm water has brought more fish in so that it seems that things are looking up. Just wait for the full moon and the warm water, there will be some nice fish taken. A boat berthed next to us had an #80 fish chew up a lure yesterday, the Captain said they saw it come in and attack.
INSHORE: Roosterfish fishing is improving with quality fish to 50 pounds starting to bite on the Cortez side of the Cape. Slow trolled live mullet, right in the surf line, has produced quite a few fish this week. There are large amounts of finger mullet just off the beach, as well as big schools of Sardinas. With the flat water conditions we had most of the week there was a lot of attention paid by the Pangas to fishing just off the beach, within 5 miles, for Marlin and Dorado as well as the football tuna, so the traditional beach fishing did not receive a lot of attention.
NOTES: The report is done and I’m out of here! I have a full day trip today and we are going to catch fish! This weeks report was written to the various groups that played on the Sirius radio “Margaretville” channel, such a nice thing to have! Until next week, tight lines!
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Jun 26, 2006; 12:31PM - 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
Cabo Fish Report
June 12-25, 2006
WEATHER: Over the past two weeks the weather has run from a high of 101 here at my house to a low of 62 degrees on the Pacific side. Last week there was one day when a large fog bank ran over Cabo from the Pacific side, you could see it coming. For the most part it has been sunny and warm, and the humidity is just starting to kick up a bit.
WATER: When I flew up to California on the 12th the water out in front of Cabo was blue and 82 degrees. While I was gone the California current kicked in strong and cold, green/brown water wrapped around the Cape as far north on the Cortez side as Gorda Banks. I got back on the 20th and while out on the 21st I recorded water at 64 degrees at the arch, and it was almost pea soup green. By the 22nd it had warmed to 76 degrees and on Friday we had 82 degrees and it was getting blue again. As of the end of this week we had a push of warm water onto the San Jaime bank area, I may be able to find out if the water is clearing up in that direction later in the week.
BAIT: Mostly Mackerel, Caballito and Mullet at the normal $2 per bait.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: The week I was gone the fishing went downhill for all species unless you went 40 miles out and it really showed in the fleet Billfish records. This past week thing only got better toward the end of the week with the approach of the warm, blue water again. Boats that went up the Cortez toward Los Frailles the week before last had good luck with Striped Marlin and some decent Blue and Black Marlin as well. The same situation occurred for boats that went past the Cabrillo Seamount, 40 miles to the east. At the end of this week the Striped Marlin had started to show again just three miles off the beach from Gray Rock to Red Hill. There were a lot of tailing fish seen and most boats had a shot on at least one Marlin that was hungry, I did see a few boats flying four Marlin flags.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Over the past two weeks the Tuna situation has not really changed much. They were not to be found in any numbers when I left and that is still the situation most of the time. An occasional boat has gotten lucky and gotten into a school of footballs and limited out, but that is not the norm yet, perhaps later on the Yellowfin fishing will pick up. Most of the fish have been found with Porpoise and there have been some good marks down 60-100 feet, but the fish are just not coming up for the lures, and they have been moving fairly rapidly, making dropping a live bait on them a very tough proposition.
DORADO: The cold green water chased the larger fish away the week I left but they are back now and almost every boat is getting into at lest a few fish. Some of the fish have been in the 50-pound class but the average has been more in the 15 pound range with a few out to 25 pounds. Slow trolled live bait, brightly colored lures pulled at 8 knots and finding diving frigate birds then tossing live bait have all been methods that have worked this week. Most of the fish have been on the Cortez side but as the warm water wraps around toward the Pacific side that might change.
WAHOO: There have been a few fish caught but the cool water and moon phase have made them a bit tough to get right now.
INSHORE: The cold, green water made bottom fishing almost the only game in town while I was gone but things have picked up again over the past few days with more Roosterfish being found on the Cortez side along with some good fishing for Amberjack and of course, bottom fish. Slow trolling live mullet for Roosterfish has been the ticket for most of the Pangas, and the fish have been very tight to shore.
NOTES: Glad I’m back home, the drive down the Baja was great, the road was in good condition, I just wish I had been able to bring a Jeep with me! This report was written to the sounds of Gnarls Barkley on the CD “St. Elsewhere”, a 2006 Downtown Records release. Until next week, tight lines!
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Jun 12, 2006; 11:22AM - 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
Cabo Fish Report
June 5-11, 2006
WEATHER: Highs in the upper 90’s and lows in the low 60’s early in the week, later on toward the weekend the nighttime lows were in the mid 70’s. We had a few scattered clouds and plenty of wind almost all week long. Reports from the Pacific side of the area were of fog banks just off of the beach and strong winds as well.
WATER: Hot water to 86 degrees was seen on the Sea of Cortez this week while just 8 miles up the beach on the Pacific side it was a cold 64 degrees. There has been a fairly well defined break where the temperature has changed from 68 to 78 degrees over a couple of miles. It started out right in front of Cabo and has drifted back and forth all week long. On the Pacific side of the cape the weather has been pretty nasty with the wind and chop so not a lot of boats are working the stuff, but there are fish out there.
BAIT: Most of the bait this week was Mackerel and some Mullet at the normal $2 per bait.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: It’s getting better for the Blues and Blacks as there were some of each hooked up every day this week. A few reported fatties were out there but I don’t have any hard information on them. There were still plenty of Striped Marlin to be found and quite a few boats were able to get more than two a day. They ended the week close to home and just off th4 beach with most of the fish showing up between ˝ and 4 miles offshore between Cabo and San Jose. The same area has produced the Blue and Black marlin as well. The Blues and Blacks have been hooked up on lures while about half of the Striped Marlin have been hooked on live bait, Ľ on dead bait and Ľ on lures.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: A few boats were getting into the Tuna on an almost daily basis, but they were getting a bit beat up doing it. The reports were of moving pods of Porpoise almost 25 miles to the south of us and they were holding plenty of school and football fish. Most of the Tuna were in the 15-20 pound size range with some to 35 pounds. Closer to home there were Tuna found just outside the Cabo Bay area and just off of Red Hill, less than 2 miles off of the beach. These fish were found by blind strikes, there not being any Porpoise with them. The usual feathers in dark colors as well as cedar plugs were the best lures and some of the boats reported doing well on the close fish by jigging or yo-yoing iron after a trolling hook-up.
DORADO: Finally the Dorado have made it to our area and things are picking up. Our boat was out yesterday and brought back a pair of fish, both of them over 60 pounds. Most of the boats were able to get at least a couple of fish in the 15 range and there were a lot of fish larger than that. Slow trolled live bait worked great if you saw Dorado chasing flyers in the area, and dropping back a live bait after hooking one up on the troll also worked well. The Cortez side of the Cape saw the most action because the water was calmer, but fish were due south as well.
WAHOO: Full moon and Wahoo, that seems to be the right mix for now. There were plenty of fish caught, not to the point that everybody was getting hooked up to one, but there was pretty good action for boats that tried to target them. Most of the fish were in the 40-60 pound class and were biting on dark colored lures.
INSHORE: The Roosterfish are getting larger with fish to 40 pounds being found. The warm water has worked it charm and there are plenty of mullet for them to feed on. Right off of the surf break on the Pacific side the bite is still going on for Sierra as well, with quite a few Pangas able to catch limits. Scattered Bonito and Skipjack filled in for when the action slowed a bit and since the Marlin were in so close, a lot of Pangas were getting them while trying for the other fish.
NOTES: This weeks report was written to the music of Alison Krauss & Union Station on the 1999 Rounder Records release, “Forget About It”. Awesome! Until next week, Tight Lines!
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Jun 5, 2006; 10:19AM - 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
Cabo Fish Report
May 29-June 4, 2006
WEATHER: The warm weather continued this week with our daytime highs in the mid to high 90’s while the nights were much cooler with temperatures in the mid to low 70’s. At least that was how it was before this weekend. The wind started to blow and it really cooled off, I had 62 degrees here at home early Monday morning. That’s not to say the nights were not warm, I have still been running the air-conditioner in the evenings (except for last night)! We had mostly sunny skies this week with a little haze out to sea on the Pacific side early on, but the wind kicked in from the WNW and the haze went away. Unfortunately, so did the nice conditions on the Pacific side. We had a few days in the middle of the week where the Pacific was calm, it allowed a window for a lot of the bigger boats to leave and go up to San Diego. After the wind came back, it was victory at sea once again.
WATER: There was not much change this week from last week as far as the water conditions go. The Cortez side of the Cape continued to be a lot warmer than the Pacific side with some of the hot areas reaching temperatures of 84 degrees. The water blues up a lot and on the Pacific side it remained cool with a lot of the areas still in the 60’s and green. There has been a decent break right out in front to 30 miles where there is both color and temperature change and most of the fleet has been working it hard. Unfortunately this is also where the rough water from the Pacific side are meeting the calmer, warmer waters from the Cortez side, and there have been quite a few boats returning early from this area.
BAIT: The usual Mackerel at $2 per bait and there were some Mullet and Caballito as well at the same price. I saw some decent Sardinas at $25 per scoop.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Striped Marlin continued to be the billfish of the week but there have been a few Black and Blues caught as well, undoubtedly due to the warming water on the Cortez side of the Cape. The majority of the Striped Marlin have seemed to be along the 74-75 degree temperature break to the SE of us and a lot of boats are getting two or three fish per trip. The Blues and Blacks have come from farther up the Cortez side with most of them up around the Punta Gorda area. Live and dead bait have worked best for the Striped Marlin and lures have produced the Blues and Blacks.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: The Tuna scattered once again and have been found all over the place. The clue, as normal this time of year has been to find porpoise that are feeding. A lot of time the Porpoise are traveling and you can work them for hours with no results. If you are not marking fish on the depth sounder it does not pay to waste your time on them. If there are fish under them, stay around the area, the fish will come up and feed sooner or later. Most of the fish have been in the 20-pound class with a few larger fish to 60 pounds reported once in a while.
DORADO: I was blown away early in the week when I saw several boats flying outriggers full of yellow (and red) flags when they returned, I thought that it might have been a holiday or something, but it turned out that a piece of net had been found. The first boat to the net found it out along the Cabrillo Seamount and over the next three days it came closer to the cape and more boats got on it. The surface appearance was small, only a couple of yards square, but the net extended deep and was loaded with Dorado. Limits were the norm by boats that found it with most of the fish in the 20-pound class. Elsewhere there were Dorado caught as well with quite a few fish beginning to show up in the better weight classes. Bright colored lures worked well in the open ocean while live and cut bait was the ticket around the net.
WAHOO: I saw more Wahoo flags this week than I have seen combined for the rest of the year so far. While there were a lot of nice fish caught off of the net, there were a lot of fish as well along the temperature break to the SE. Lots of bite-offs were reported due to the use of monofilament leaders, but there were plenty of fish in the 40-60 pound class caught as well. Surprisingly, there were more Wahoo reported from offshore than were reported from the ledges and banks.
INSHORE: Small Roosterfish and a few scattered Sierras have been the majority of inshore fish this week as we are going through the seasonal temperature change. A few Pangas are trying bottom fishing but most of them are going a few miles out and trying to get into Dorado and Tuna.
NOTES: This weeks report was written to the music of “The Amazing Rhythm Aces” on the 1994 Sunshine Marketing release “Ride Again”. Listen and enjoy! Until next week, Tight Lines!
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May 29, 2006; 11:29AM - 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
Cabo Fish Report
May 22-28, 2006
WEATHER: The heat of summer continued at the beginning of the week, we had daytime highs in the high 90’s with a tad over 100 degrees in the sun at my house on Wednesday afternoon. On Thursday afternoon the wind started to blow and Friday morning I woke to 69 degrees! I don’t think we broke 85 degrees for the next two days. On Sunday the winds had died down and out at the golf course (Country Club) I worked up a sweat. Of course that may have been because I was chasing the ball all over hell and back, but I think it was because it became hot with no wind. Don’t even think about asking what I shot, if I told you I’d have to keep out of sight for at least a year!
WATER: The Pacific side of the Cape continued to be cooler than the Cortez side and the water was much rougher and green as well. The difference between the two areas was almost 15 degrees early in the week but late on the warmer water continued to intrude on the Pacific side. At the end of the week we had a cold spot right of 63 degrees in front of Cabo while the water up to the area of the Golden Gate bank was around 71 degrees and on the Cortez side it maintained an 80-degree presence. With the wind later in the week being offshore on the Cortez side was bouncy, on the Pacific side unthinkable for a charter.
BAIT: The usual Mackerel at $2 per bait and there were some Mullet and Caballito as well at the same price. I saw some decent Sardinas at $25 per scoop, a little pricey but if you were after some of the Tuna that were out there they paid off.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Marlin continued to show themselves and continued to frustrate anglers this week. The effort was concentrated on the Sea Of Cortez side of the Cape due to the strong winds, but the fish were there. These Striped Marlin might stay in the area for another few weeks, but as the water temps continue to climb we will be seeing fewer of them and more Blue Marlin. The bite was definitely focused around the tide change, though it was either very early in the morning around the low tide or late afternoon with the high tide. Almost all the boats were finding a couple of dozen fish a day and with luck 20% of them were biting. Live bait was the key, and light leader helped. The action was concentrated within 5 miles of shore on the Cortez side, off of Chileno Beach and the San Jose Bay area.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: It was nice seeing the flags flying for Tuna early in the week; almost every boat that put in any effort was able to get hooked up to fish in the 15-25 pound range. A lot of the fish were open water fish while there were slightly larger ones associated with the Porpoise schools. One friend of mine got lucky in finding a pod of Porpoise that has #60 class Tuna associated with them. That was not the norm however and most of the boats caught the football sizes. The fish were either due south of us (open water 20-30 pound fish), up the pacific side with the porpoise (the larger ones) or on the Cortez side with the porpoise (the footballs and a bit larger). The larger fish were biting on live bait dropped back after an initial hook-up on lures.
DORADO: Surprisingly enough the warmer water and the wind have not brought on a great Dorado bite for us. Perhaps it will take another two or three weeks. The conditions are perfect, but all we are getting are the scattered schools of little chicken fish and only a few of the larger #20 . Those that have been caught have been found with the Striped Marlin so they have been incidental fish. If someone concentrated on them the results might be different.
WAHOO: The new moon resulted in very few Wahoo being seen or caught this week. The few nice fish that were reported came from the Gorda Banks and Punta Gorda area on live bait and Marlin lures in darker colors.
INSHORE: Tournaments are over for a while and I am caught up on boat work! I think we are getting a cement delivery scheduled for Wednesday (new patio) as we have all the curb forms and rebar ready and laid. Everything is leveled and filled with sand and gravel; it’s time to find out what the ready-mix is going to cost! Next is the roof (if my buddy Tom ever gets things together) and then we’re ready for the hurricanes! This weeks report was written to the music of Neal Young on the 1972 Warner Bros. Release “Harvest”. Until next week, Tight Lines!
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