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Jan 17, 2005; 11:21AM - Daily Catch Reports
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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Capt. George Landrum
Fly Hooker Sportfishing
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR JANUARY 13, 2005
Today I had a solo angler on the 50’ boat. Paulo (his real name is impossible for me to spell) is from Italy and has a boat there, but has never fished before. He wanted a nice boat to fish from for his first experience and had the money to spend. He had one more day left of his month long Mexican vacation so decided to give the fishing a chance. As the owner of a fourth generation wine bottle making company he has had and will continue to have a chance to fish all over the world if he likes the experience. Well, he had a great time even though the fishing was slow by our standards. We started the fishing just off the light house on the Pacific side and the lines were not in the water even 5 minutes before a Dorado came slicing through the water at the short rigger lure. Hookup! Paulo got in the chair and started to horse the fish in. I quickly gave him a few pointers on technique and after about 15 minutes he got the #25 Dorado to the side of the boat. One fish in the box and it was a great way to start the day! Things slowed down from there. There were Porpoise out at 16 miles so we worked our way out, hoping to get into some Yellowfin, but there were so many boats working them that the fish had gone down and the Porpoise had scattered. Eventually we found a small piece of Styrofoam floating on the water with about five feet of line attached to it. Our first pass produced a small Yellowfin of about 6 pounds and then we worked it with live bait and jigs. Nada. No other fish were home on the debris so we continued working back toward the shore. We got a call on the cell phone about a concentration of Marlin about 8 miles off of Los Arcos and worked our way to the area. Once we got there we switched over to bait, pulling two live Mackerel from the flat lines, one rigged Ballyhoo from the short rigger and the whisky line and one rigged squid from the long rigger. We saw one other boat hook up and of course everyone was running toward and Frigate the started to dive. Paulo informed me that he had a tennis lesson at 3 PM so we pulled lines and ran in. Paulo was happy with his first experience fishing and said that he would definitely do it again! Thanks Paulo, we hope to see you again one day!
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR JANUARY 15, 2005
Today we had Tom, his wife Dawn and their friend John out fishing. They are friends of a friend and they had a great time. They started off fishing right outside of the light house on the Pacific side and worked their way out to the south side of the Jaime Banks. On the way out they had a Marlin spotted on the surface and were able to get it to eat a live bait. It did not take too long before the fish was brought to the side of the boat for pictures and then released. A little while later they were able to find some Porpoise that were feeding and there were Tuna with them. The bite was not red hot, but the fish were nice size with the average at 30 pounds. They ended up getting six of them in the fish box, and spent quite a while working the last one hooked up. The Captain and crew estimated its weight at between 80 and 100 pounds, but it pulled the hook just before the mate was able to grab the leader. Oh well, that’s fishing! They ended the day with some excellent fillets and great action to remember it by! Good going guys, we hope you get to do it again!
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR JANUARY 16, 2005
Terrance Fails fished with us again today after returning from his long-range diving trip to the Socorro Islands. He fished on the 5th and wanted Marlin but caught 4 nice Dorado. Today he fished on the same boat and they started up on the Pacific side about 8 miles, drifting live bait hoping a Marlin would show up. The area had been producing Marlin on a fairly regular basis but after several hours with no bite, or any signs of fish, they received a call on the radio. A friend of the Captain had found Frigate birds working a group of Marlin about 8 miles farther north so they picked up the lines and went there. Of course, by the time they arrived there were a lot of boats in the area. It’s impossible to keep a radio communication secret down here and everyone close had pulled lines and run to the area. Terrance had one shot at a Marlin as they had one pick up a live bait and run with it. He said the fish was only on for about five seconds and then they lost it. Sigh. It happens a lot with Marlin. Anyway, that was it for the day, but Terrance is trying again tomorrow, we hope he has better luck then! Until next week, Tight Lines!
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Jan 17, 2005; 11:19AM - Cabo Bite Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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Capt. George Landrum
Fly Hooker Sportfishing
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
CABO SAN LUCAS FISH REPORT JANUARY 10-16, 2005
WEATHER: It’s been cold enough in the mornings and evenings that a sweater has been needed, at least by those of us with thin blood. I guess that if it has been -10 degrees where you are at the 60 degrees we have here in the evenings may feel tropical, but not to us! Our night time lows have been down to the mid 50’s and our day time highs in the high 70’s. Partly cloudy most of the wee and on Wednesday we had pretty strong winds from the northwest but they died down on Thursday. No rain this week, but that is no surprise.
WATER: There was no big change in water temperatures this week with the exception of a cold upwelling right at the Cape that worked its way up the coast on the Cortez side. This water was 68-70 degrees and only extended about ˝ mile off shore. The water within 20 miles of the coast on both sides of the Cape was pretty steady at 73-74 degrees this week while farther out the temperature dropped to the 70-71 degree range. There was a fairly sharp edge running across the San Jaime and the Golden Gate banks at the end of the week. There was a circulation of warm water to 76 degrees just past that 20 mile distance on the Cortez side of the Cape. On the Pacific side, the warm water band close to shore ran all the way up to Todo Santos.
BAIT: This week the bait was a mix of Caballito and Mackerel. They have been the normal $2 per bait.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Tuesday was a banner day for Striped Marlin as the fish were packed up and close to home. The area to be was within 8 miles of shore just off the arch to the lighthouse, and they were feeding heavily. Most boats that worked the area were able to get at least several fish hooked up and almost everyone came in flying at least two Marlin flags. The most I heard of on one boat was 8 Striped Marlin released that day, and they were biting anything offered, even dead bait on a drop back. That night the wind kicked up and by the morning the fish had scattered. The bite from Wednesday on was not as good with the fish scattered all over the place, but there were still pockets of fish popping up here and there feeding hard. Watching for the Frigate birds stooping on flying fish was the key to getting on the feeders before they went down, and once the fish were found it was often a race between boats to be the first on to the spot and to toss the bait.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: This week’s action on Yellowfin Tuna is a repeat of last weeks with the exception of the Jaime Banks area. One of the long range boats out of San Diego has been working the area for a while and they have gotten several big Tuna, some of them over #300. A few of the local boats have been lucky to be there at the right time and have hooked up on nice fish as well. One Captain relayed to me a story of hooking up to one he swears would go over #400 and having the hook pull just as the leader was taken in hand. There were fish in the 35-45 pound class found between 30 and 40 miles to the west during the middle of the week, but they were moving around a lot. A few fish were found up around and just to the north of the Golden Gate Banks as well. The best baits for the Tuna this week were feathers in dark colors if you were trolling and Sardinas and Chiwillies if you were live baiting.
DORADO: Dorado action continues to be slow with the cooler water we have now, but there are still a few around. I don’t think I would be targeting any of them from now on, at least not if I wanted to catch one bigger than 10 pounds. There are still small fish found close to shore and a few larger ones off shore, but they have almost all been incidental catch.
WAHOO: A few fish have been turning up every day but they have been incidental catches. The bite that we had last week for a few days died off quickly as the fish passed through. There may still be a decent bit at the banks but I have not heard of it.
INSHORE: The Sierra action continued this week with the fish moving i9n closer to home. Up around the light house and Margarita there was good action just outside the breakers on fish to 6 pounds. A few boats that concentrated on them were able to fill fish boxes with these ceviche favorites. Other near shore fish were scattered and we are waiting for the Yellowtail to show up. Scattered Jacks and Needlefish as well as some Pompano round out the surface action and there have been some decent Snapper and grouper caught in the hours before and after high tide.
NOTES: For this week’s music I went back to the Pink Floyd “Echoes-Best of Pink Floyd” album2001, EMI. I grew up on the music and can’t get enough! Mary bought me golf lessons for Christmas; I had my first one a couple of days ago. Jack Gibson is a terrific teacher and has gotten rid of my slice already, this morning I will have to see if it helps on the course! The Whales are still here and the fishing is good. See you next week! Tight lines!
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Jan 10, 2005; 01:56PM - Cabo Bite Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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Capt. George Landrum
Fly Hooker Sportfishing
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
CABO SAN LUCAS FISH REPORT JANUARY 3-9, 2005
WEATHER: Brr! This has been the coldest week of the year so far. Of course it’s also the first week of the year so there is not a lot of comparison but still, when the early morning thermometer reading outside the kitchen window shows 55 degrees, its cold! Our day time highs have been into the low 80’s and high 70’s so that has been fine, but better have a sweater for the mornings! We had mostly clear days this week with a few light clouds and at the end of the week the wind that had been coming up in the afternoons had disappeared.
WATER: The water within 20 miles of the coast on both sides of the Cape was pretty steady at 72-73 degrees this week and there was a band of warm water to 76 degrees just past that distance on the Cortez side of the Cape. On the Pacific side, once you got up past the Golden Gate Bank the water temperature dropped to 71 and the same thing happened on the Cortez side once you got past Punta Gorda.
BAIT: This week the bait was a mix of Caballito and Mackerel. They have been the normal $2 per bait.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: As the week progressed the Striped Marlin bite continued to drop off, and at the end of the week most boats that were having good luck were flying one or two Marlin flags, with an occasional boat flying three. Quite a few boats came in flying no flags at all, let alone a Marlin flag. The bite happened near to home at the end of the week, with most of the action taking place within 8 miles of the coast. Many boats were just flying past the fish as they tried to get out to the high spots. Live bait dropped back to fish coming into the lures was the way most of the fish were caught; there were not a lot of tailers found. A few Sailfish were caught up around the Gorda Banks but there were not any big concentrations of them.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Yellowfin action at Gorda Banks on fish to 80 pounds happened early in the morning this week, but you had to be there at grey light and have either Sardinas or Chiwillies (Mackerel Scad) to have any luck on these fish. There were fish in the 35-45 pound class found between 30 and 40 miles to the west during the middle of the week, but they were moving around a lot. A few fish were found up around and just to the north of the Golden Gate Banks as well. The best baits for the Tuna this week were feathers in dark colors if you were trolling and Sardinas and Chiwillies if you were live baiting.
DORADO: The Dorado action dropped off as the water continues to cool. Scattered small fish were found near shore, less than 1 mile off the beach on the Pacific side, but these fish were averaging only around 6-8 pounds. Bright lures trolled at 8 knots brought the hungry kids to the pattern. Matching the tackle to the fish gave some good action but on heavy gear it was boring. There were a few larger fish found off shore, up to 30 pounds, but there were no large numbers of them this week, at least that I heard of.
WAHOO: While there were not many, if any Wahoo flags flying from the riggers of the fleet boats, there were private boats that managed to get into decent bites on the speedsters of the ocean. Most of the action was near shore on the Pacific side or on the edge of the Banks on the Pacific side. High speed heavy lures worked right on the 40-50 fathom edge brought as many as four fish per boat into the fish box. Of course not everyone caught; it’s always a matter of the right place at the right time!
INSHORE: The Sierra bite finally turned on, at least for those willing to make a bit of a trip up the coast on the Pacific side. Up around Margarita and farther the fish were concentrated in water between 15 and 25 feet deep, some of the guys were having good luck casting from shore. Hootchies in green or chartreuse were killers. Most of the fish were about 4-5 pounds, no real big ones, but hopefully they will show up soon. There were Pompano and Jacks in the mix as well. Many of the Pangas were mixing the Sierra fishing with Dorado action by working the Sierra early then trolling back a little further off the coast on the way home.
NOTES: The Whales are here and every trip I have been out on we have had great sightseeing for the Gray and Humpbacks. It is an awesome sight to have a big Humpback do a full breach only 100 yards away! The fishing was a bit off this week but as we pass the new moon on the 10th I hope it picks up. Until next week, Tight Lines!
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Jan 3, 2005; 10:50AM - Cabo Bite Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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Capt. George Landrum
Fly Hooker Sportfishing
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
CABO SAN LUCAS FISH REPORT NEW YEARS WEEKEND, 2005
WEATHER: Welcome to the New Year! This weeks report will be brief as there is a lot on my plate at the start of the year. Our weather was a bit unusual for this time of year as we had mostly cloudy skies during the middle of the week with some actual rain falling on Wednesday night. Not a lot, but it was enough to knock the dust off of everything in most parts of Cabo. The rest of the week was partly to mostly cloudy with night time lows in the mid 60’s and day time highs in the low 80’s.
WATER: The water this week seemed to be fairly const6ant throughout our cruising range with temperatures in the 74-75 degree range predominate. There was no defined temperature break but there were a few areas where the water was a degree or two warmer. Surface conditions on the Pacific side got a bit rough in the afternoons when a westerly wind would spring up, sometimes from the northwest and sometimes from the southwest. The Sea of Cortez side of the cape was consistently calm, except when the wind was from the southwest and on Sunday when a strong East-Northeast wind came up. Then we whd some very choppy water on the Cortez side.
BAIT: This week the bait was a mix of Caballito and Mackerel. They have been the normal $2 per bait.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: A friend of mine caught a #500 Blue Marlin this week 33 miles to the south of the cape in 77 degree water! Just goes to show you never know when the big boy (or girl) will show up! Nice fish Dan! The Striped Marlin bite has been sporadic as the fish move first one way then another. There was fairly consistent action out near the San Jaime Banks this week and there were a lot of sleepers found. The fish that were tailing were moving fast and it took concentration to get a bait in front of them. The bite seemed to be mainly on live bait, but some of the fish came to dark colored lures. Dan’s big fish was on a blue/silver lure though, so you never know.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Scattered football fish to 25 pounds under porpoise on the Sea of Cortez side less than 5 miles from shore during the middle of the week ended up in some fish boxes this week, but over all the Yellowfin action was a bit slow. Some fish were reported from almost all areas this week, but there was no steady bite, and no really large fish have been showing up yet.
DORADO: Dorado action moved away from the cape this week with most of the fish being found at lest 15 miles up either coast. On the Pacific side there was a good bite taking place inside the Golden Gate Banks and one day, Friday, there was a chunk of floating wood found 8 miles farther north that held quite a nice load of fish. On the Cortes side, the action was off of the Westin and slowly moved up toward Punta Gorda. Most of the fish were small but there were enough fish over 20 pounds to make a good fight and a decent stock for the house.
WAHOO: Very few Wahoo were caught this week, and those that were found were incidental fish in the 30-40 pound class, close to shore on the Cortez side.
INSHORE: Inshore fishing remained slow this week but there are some Sierra beginning to show up. A few small scattered Roosterfish (and one at 35 pounds) were caught by clients on a Panga fishing the Pacific coast this week. Jack Crevalle, Snapper and Pompano round up the major species caught next to the beach and most of the Pangas have been heading out a bit farther looking for Dorado and Striped Marlin.
NOTES: Happy New Year and may this one be even better than the last! May all the fish you hook be big ones! Until next week, Tight Lines!
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Jan 3, 2005; 10:49AM - Fly Hooker Daily Reports
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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Capt. George Landrum
Fly Hooker Sportfishing
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR JANUARY 2, 2005
Well, Happy New year and welcome to the new edition of the daily fish reports from “Fly Hooker” Sportfishing! I have had some comments in the past month asking why we have had no weekly listing of our daily catch report and the reason has been pretty simple. The “Fly Hooker” has been out of the water having some major work done, too much to list really and I have taken that as a chance to relax a bit on the report writing. Of course, I have still been doing the weekly report, but the daily catch has fallen by the wayside. There is no real excuse though, as our clients have still been fishing. With that in mind, I will attempt, as best that I am able, to keep you updated on what they are hooking into on a daily, blow by blow basis. Today we had two couples from Denver out fishing. They headed north, up the Sea of Cortez and the wind was blowing strong from that direction. It was very cloudy and cold and the conditions did not look good. They got into the Dorado up off the Westin Resort, working that area all morning until the final slide downhill to Cabo. They ended up keeping three Dorado ranging between 10 and 20 pounds and releasing five others that were smaller than 10 pounds. The last fish was caught just outside the Arch on the way in. Good fishing and no one got sick. We also had clients on another boat, but they came in early, being back at the dock by 9 AM. They did not catch as many fish and they did not return due to sea sickness either. One of the group must have eaten or drank something bad yesterday as the whole morning was spent in the bathroom on the boat. They went to the Pacific side of the Cape, about five miles outside the lighthouse and caught a nice Dorado and released a Striped Marlin as well. They are going to try again tomorrow! Good luck! As for the rest of the report, I’ll continue in this fashion next week!
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Dec 27, 2004; 09:54AM - Cabo Bite Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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Capt. George Landrum
Fly Hooker Sportfishing
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
CABO SAN LUCAS FISH REPORT DECEMBER 20-26, 2004
WEATHER: We had mostly sunny skies this week with our high temperatures in the high 70’s to low 80’s and our night time lows in the low 60’s. Cold enough to make you want a sweater and remember why we live where it is warm! No rain this week of course, but it did look like we might have gotten a bit up in the mountains. We had pretty strong afternoon breezes from the south-east on most afternoons later in the week.
WATER: At the beginning of the week the water was warmer than it had been for the past several weeks, but later on it cooled off again. Our highest water temperatures were at the beginning of the week when we saw 78 degree water all along the coast on both the Pacific and the Sea of Cortez. Now, at the end of the week, the highest I could find was 75 degrees, and that was 30 miles to the south. We still have a band of warm water running along the Pacific coast out to a distance of around 20 miles to the west of the Cape and 10 miles farther up the coast. The temperature break seems to have run across the San Jaime and the Golden Gate Bank all week.
BAIT: Once again almost the only bait available was Mackerel. They have been the normal $2 per bait.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: The Striped Marlin bite dropped off a bit from the action we had last week, but that was mostly because the fish have been moving around a lot. Once you found the fish it was an average of three bites per boat, except for the first couple of boats to the action, and some of them were getting multiple hook ups. Early in the week all the action was up the coast on the Pacific side, with most of the boats working the area to the inside of the Golden Gate Banks. Getting there early was the key, as late in the morning the wind started to blow hard. As the week went on the fish moved south and at the end of the week the action was centered about five miles to the south of the 95 Spot, then moved off to the south-west. Most of the bites were on live Mackerel, but rigged Ballyhoo got some attention as well, and lures seemed to fill in third place.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: This weeks section on Yellowfin is a repeat of last weeks with the exception that there was a bit of very early morning action had within 500 meters of the arch on football fish, using both feathers and iron. There were more Yellowfin found this week than there were last week, but the big ones have not shown up yet. Almost all the Yellowfin caught this week were football fish or smaller school fish, the largest fish I saw was around 40 pounds. There were reports of a few large fish found out past the San Jaime Banks, but I never did find out who caught them. The Fish closer to home were found in Porpoise pods and bit fairly well on small feathers. The best action this week seemed to be on the Pacific side about 15 miles out, but there was some good action had as well on the Sea of Cortez up around the Gorda Banks. At the Gorda, Sardinas were the ticket for a good catch and for some reason the fish were just a bit larger up there.
DORADO: Not the fish of the week, but there were still some nice fish being found mixed in with the Striped Marlin. These fish were averaging 20 pounds with a few to the 45 pound mark. Live Mackerel caught their attention, and many anglers hooked up thinking that there was a Striped Marlin at the end of the line. A few fish were found close to shore on both sides of the Cape but the action on them was not as strong as it was last week.
WAHOO: Very few Wahoo were caught this week, and those that were found were incidental fish in the 30-40 pound class, close to shore on the Cortez side.
INSHORE: Inshore fishing remained slow this week but there are some Sierra beginning to show up. A few scattered Roosterfish and Jack Crevalle round up the major species caught next to the beach and most of the Pangas have been heading out a bit farther looking for Dorado and Striped Marlin.
NOTES: Merry Christmas to all of you, and I hope it has been and will continue to be a good holiday experience. I got my wife a double CD, the “Echoes, the Best of Pink Floyd”, 2001, EMI, as one of her Christmas presents and am listening to it as I write this report. Until next year, Tight Lines!
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Dec 20, 2004; 11:10AM - Cabo Bite Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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Capt. George Landrum
Fly Hooker Sportfishing
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
CABO SAN LUCAS FISH REPORT DECEMBER 13-19, 2004
WEATHER: It was partly cloudy for most of the week, or partly sunny for the optimists. At the tail end of the week the clouds moved in and it became very gloomy, but warm since the clouds trapped the heat. No rain arrived with the cloud cover. Our average night time temperature was 67 degrees and our day time highs were in the high 80’s.
WATER: There was a band of warm water in the 74 degree range along the Pacific coast for most of the week, and it extended off shore only a few miles. Once out there, it dropped and was averaging 71 degrees. There was a cold spot outside the Golden Gate Bank that had temperatures in the high 60’s for several days. On the Cortez side of the Cape we were looking at temperatures in the 74 range almost everywhere. At the end of the week the surface temperatures were higher as the cloud cover trapped the heat.
BAIT: Almost all Mackerel this week with a few Sardinas as well. Big baits were $2 each while the Sardinas were $20-25 a scoop.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: The week started out with a bang on the Striped Marlin as they seemed to be almost everywhere. The frustrating thing for a lot of boats was that while they could be seen all over the place, it was not easy finding fish that were hungry. A lot of Captains said there was too much bait out there and it took a while to find a fish that was not already stuffed! It was not uncommon to see 30 fish a trip, sometimes a lot more than that, and if you were lucky you found a few that would bite. The luckier boats caught and released up to 5 fish per day while the average was more like on, maybe two fish hooked out of 25-30 fish that bait was tossed to. These fish are averaging a bit on the small side with most in the 90-120 pound class, but there are a few nice ones in the 140-160 pound range being hooked as well. Live Pacific Green-backed Mackerel has been the bait of choice, tossed in front of moving fish.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: There were more Yellowfin found this week than there were last week, but the big ones have not shown up yet. Almost all the Yellowfin caught this week were football fish or smaller school fish, the largest fish I saw was around 40 pounds. There were reports of a few large fish found out past the San Jaime Banks, but I never did find out who caught them. The Fish closer to home were found in Porpoise pods and bit fairly well on small feathers. The best action this week seemed to be on the Pacific side about 15 miles out, but there was some good action had as well on the Sea of Cortez up around the Gorda Banks. At the Gorda, Sardinas were the ticket for a good catch and for some reason the fish were just a bit larger up there.
DORADO: Find something floating in the water that has been there for a while and you were almost guaranteed to find a Dorado or two around it, but unless you worked very close to shore, that was the only way you could find one. The open ocean, debris associated Dorado seemed to average about 25 pounds and the inshore fish averaged about 12 pounds, but there were twice as many of them inshore! Small feathers trolled at slightly higher than normal speeds accounted for a lot of the inshore fish while live bait did best off shore. There were also a few stray Dorado up to 50 pounds caught by anglers soaking live bait deep for Striped Marlin.
WAHOO: The new moon kicked up the bite on Wahoo this week, but there were no really large fish found. The best action came from near shore on the Sea of Cortez side and was concentrated on the Red Hill area and Gray Rock. Almost all the action took place in less than 50 fathoms of water and some boats were able to get three fish a day, with the average size around 35 pounds. Live bait was the best, but only if they were Mackerel Scad, locally called “Chilwillies (sp?)”
INSHORE: Inshore fishing remained slow this week but there are some Sierra beginning to show up. A few scattered Roosterfish and Jack Crevalle round up the major species caught next to the beach and most of the Pangas have been heading out a bit farther looking for Dorado and Striped Marlin.
NOTES: This week was pretty good all around for fishing, but not everyone lucked out. For those of you who are longtime fishermen, you know that you don’t catch fish all the time, but you always hope that the bad luck will be on some one else! When it does happen to you, hey, it’s the way it goes some times. I can understand someone who has no experience fishing getting a bit upset over not getting a fish, but to have a supposed “experienced” angler ask for money back or future considerations because they did not get a fish really upsets me. Hey, you hooked into a Marlin; the fish jumped and threw the hook. Sorry about that, but it happens. No sour grapes and better luck next time. Sigh. Anyway, this weeks report was written to the jazz-fusion music of the Danny Godinez Band on the “Live in Anchorage II” CD. Self produced; the album is great music that kept me going this morning, tapping my feet as my fingers danced on the keyboard. You can check them out at www.dannyband.com.
Until next week, Tight Lines.
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Dec 13, 2004; 09:32AM - Fly Hooker Daily Reports
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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Capt. George Landrum
Fly Hooker Sportfishing
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
Striped Marlin: 2 @ tagged and released
Dorado: 1@ 20 lb
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR DECEMBER 7, 2004
The Johnson group from South Dakota Is fishing today and tomorrow on the “Fly Hooker” and ideally everyone would be hooking up a Marlin. All three of them. Well, it almost happened today! The water was in good shape and Juan and Manuel headed out to the south side of the San Jaime banks where the fish had been yesterday. They were still in the area and it was not long before they had the first Striped Marlin hooked up. A fight of about 25 minutes resulted in one fish of around #120 being released unintentionally while still about 50 feet from the boat! Guess the hook came out, huh? Anyway, they were in the right area and not very long afterward they hooked up again. This fish was a Dorado of about #20 and came to the boat fairly quickly. Juan gaffed the fish then pulled a back muscle when trying to get it in the boat and Manuel had to come down from the fly bridge to assist. Later on (not very long though) another Striped Marlin hooked up and after a quick 15 minute battle the fish was alongside the boat for a tag placement, an in-the-water- photo and a release. Next up! One more Striped Marlin to the boat, this one around #140 and another tagged and released fish! Not a bad day and the guys are looking forward to tomorrow. We hope Juan’s back is better then!
The Fly Hooker is going into dry dock to have some work done. We will try to keep stories going in the meantime of our friends fishing on other boats.
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Dec 13, 2004; 09:31AM - Cabo Bite Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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Capt. George Landrum
Fly Hooker Sportfishing
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
CABO SAN LUCAS FISH REPORT DECEMBER 6-12, 2004
WEATHER: Once again we had great weather, and of course that is one of the reasons we live here. We had night time lows to 58 degrees and our day time highs reached the high 70’s and may have pushed into the mid 80’s at the end of the week. There were partly to mostly cloudy skies early in the week but it cleared up nicely toward the end.
WATER: The water continued to cool this past week as the Pacific temperatures dropped to an average of 74 degrees and the Cortez side of the Cape averaged at 78 degrees. There was a temperature break, but not a strongly defined one, that ran from the tip of the Cape toward the southwest with the warmer water on the eastern side. Surface conditions were great for the most part, but there were a few mornings when the water was a bit choppy due to the night time winds.
BAIT: Almost all Mackerel this week with a few Sardinas as well. Big baits were $2 each while the Sardinas were $20-25 a scoop.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: This weeks report on Marlin is almost a repeat of last weeks with the exception that I actually heard of a nice Blue of over #600 being caught. The fish died after 4 hours on #50 tackle, but it is a sign that there is still a chance for one of the beasts! For the most part though, it was a Striped Marlin kind of week. As was the case last week, the fish were bunched up with feeders popping up here and there as they followed the bait around. The key once again was to spot the feeding Frigate birds and tossing bait at the spot they were diving on, or slow trolling live bait in the area. The fish were moving around though, and the location of the bait changed from day to day. One day the concentration would be 20 miles out, the next day just 3 miles off shore. I would say that almost every boat that tried had a shot at least a few times a trip to get hooked up to a Marlin, and some of the boats caught and released from 4 to 6 a day.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: It was an off week for Yellowfin as few fish were found and those that were found were small. There were reports from long range boats out of California of great action on big fish farther north from us, so there is hope. As the water cools the fish should get closer and we might be able to get into some of those big toads, the ones over #150!
DORADO: Cooler water means fewer Dorado and the bite continues to taper off. There are still fish out there but most boats are lucky to get one a day, and the size is around 15-20 pounds. Most of them have been found close to shore, less than a mile out and slow trolled live bait or fast trolled feathers have worked well.
WAHOO: As a repeat of last week’s Wahoo report: There were very few Wahoo caught this week here in Cabo, and those that were brought in were all in the 35-40 pound class. There were maybe one or two flags a day for the entire fleet.
INSHORE: With fair water conditions on the Pacific side and the inshore bite not really have taken off yet, most of the Pangas have been working either farther off shore for Marlin or close in for Dorado. There have been reports of some Sierra showing up, a bit more action on them than there was last week, but the Yellowtail are not here yet. Bottom fishing was slow with only a few decent Grouper and Snapper reported.
NOTES: The weather is great, the Marlin bite is going great guns and the water is in good condition. It sure makes me feel good about being here! Now if only those big Tuna would show up things would be perfect! This weeks report was written to the country swing music of the “Red Willow Band” of South Dakota fame on their compilation album “Way Back When”, 1999 on Lost Records. That Chris Gage is just awesome! Well, until next week, ya’ll keep them lines tight!
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Dec 6, 2004; 11:13AM - Fly Hooker Daily Catch Reports
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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Capt. George Landrum
Fly Hooker Sportfishing
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
Striped Marlin: 8 fish released, one fish kept (#80-#140)
Yellowfin Tuna: 5 fish kept (#10-#15)
Dorado: 2 fish kept (#12-#15)
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR DECEMBER 1, 2004
Lonnie Hanson and Doug Shore shared the “Fly Hooker” today and the action was a bit slow for them. They managed to get one Dorado that weighed about 12 pounds to the boat. Doug has never caught a fish bigger than 10 pounds so he really wanted a big fish and Juan and Manuel were able to hook him up to one. A Striped Marlin gave him the action but Lonnie said that Doug was so busy staring at the jumping Marlin that he forgot to reel! Oh well, Doug is going again on Sunday so maybe he will get the “big one” then!
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR DECEMBER 2, 2004
Peggy Bennit, her Dad, Mom and Husband were our anglers on the “Fly Hooker” today, and they are fishing on Friday and Saturday as well. Marlin are the target for this trip and everyone was ready to go first thing in the morning. Today was Juan’s day off though, and the Deckhand that had been arranged for did not show up so we had a last minute fill in. Pancho works on one of the other boats on our dock but is a good fisherman. Manuel went up the Pacific coast toward the Golden Gate banks then out to the San Jaime area. They saw one Marlin that would not eat a bait and they got into the football Yellowfin, ending up with five of them ranging from 10 to 15 pounds, plus four big Skipjack. Hopefully there will be a bit more Marlin action tomorrow!
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR DECEMBER 3, 2004
Juan and Manuel were on the boat today and Manuel decided to work the area off of Los Arcos on the Pacific side of the Cape. The rocky point there has been holding lots of bait and yesterday on the radio his friends said that they had been getting Marlin bites. There were lots of Frigate birds working the area and there ended up being almost 50 boats working about 5 miles of area. There was a lot of bait around and they ended up with three fish hooked up, one at 8 am, one at 9 am and one a few minutes after 10. All the fish were tagged and released. Good action early in the morning but it died off afterward. Let’s hope that there is at least one more fish out there for them tomorrow so everyone gets to fight one!
“FLY HOOKER “FISH REPORT FOR DECEMBER 4, 2004
Peggy Bennit, her Dad, Mom and Husband were out today for the final of three days and the action they had was just unbelievable! Juan and Manuel decided to head just a little farther up the coast and avoid the crowd of boat all jockeying for a spot under a feeding Frigate bird and it really paid off for them. One Dorado ended up in the boat early in the trip and then the action was all Marlin. One fish was hooked up and released at around 8 am, another at 9 am. One more fish came in on the lures and Juan dropped back a bait that got eaten. That fish was fought to the boat for a tag and release. Somewhere in there another fish was hooked up then came off not far from the boat. At about 10 am they hooked one more Striped Marlin on a trolled lure, then another one, then one more and finally the fourth line went off! Four Marlin on at once! Think there was a bit of action in the cockpit? Juan orchestrated the weaving in and out of the lines as Manuel tried to keep the boat in the best position possible for all four fish. One of the fish came off finally but they were able to get the other three to the boat for two tag and releases but the other fish had swallowed the lure and was bleeding pretty heavily so the boated that one. What a day! Six Striped Marlin to the boat with five released and one fish kept. One Dorado for dinner! I noticed that there were not enough flags on the boat for all the fish, but that’s not a bad thing. Everyone had a great time and accused Juan and Manuel of saving the best for last, just teasing them along for the final day of fishing! Thanks guys, we are glad you had such a good time and look forward to your getting a chance to come down again next year!
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