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| As of 2020, there were 34,000 known fish species around world. That’s more than the number of species in all other vertebrates: birds, reptiles, mammals, and amphibians combined. |
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| My brother has 2 German Shepherds named Rolex and Timex. You guessed it they are Watch Dogs. |
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Jul 26, 2004; 11:31AM - Fly Hooker 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
1 Striped Marlin tagged and released (#120)
7 Dorado kept (#10 - #35)
1Yellowfin kept (#10)
1 Hammerhead Shark released (7 feet)
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR JULY 21, 2004
The Hasko group is fishing with us today and they will be fishing again on the 23. Marlin is the target for both days, but of course no fish will be refused! Juan and Manuel went offshore today, straying as far out as 18 miles in search of fish willing to bite. Slightly choppy conditions and some nice swells, combined with a fairly good overcast slowed down the ability to sight Marlin tailing on the surface, and the water was just a bit cooler out there as well. The only action of the day was sighting one fish tailing and that one refused to eat. We sure hope things are better on Friday!
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR JULY 22, 2004
Mark Bailey and his wife Sue are our anglers for the day and Mark sure would like to tangle with a Marlin! They were supposed to fish on another boat today, but the Captain was a no-show and they went with us instead. It was Juan’s day off so Manuel had to get a replacement marinero and came up with Estephan (“Tebby”). Mark was impressed with him and so was Manuel. With those recommendations we were able to hook him up with a full-time job on a friend’s boat. Back to the Bailey’s trip though, Manuel and Tebby went north on the Sea of Cortez and worked the area off of Palmilla. Not getting out until 7:30 was odd, but things worked out all right. There were plenty of Dorado in the area and Mark got two fish in the 20-25 pound class in the boat, had two more around 12-15 pounds and then several “peanuts” of about 6-8 pounds. One small Yellowfin Tuna chewed on a lure and managed to get himself hooked and then Manuel saw a Hammerhead shark. The guys asked Mark if he wanted to try and catch it so he gave it a shot. Not very impressed with the fight of a Hammerhead, Mark said “It was like fighting a bucket”. Maybe if it had been a Mako things would have been different! Anyway, they go the Shark to the side of the boat for a couple of pictures then released it. Mark said they had seen one Marlin all day and it would not eat, but he and Sue had fun. Thanks guys, we are glad things worked out for you!
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR 23 JULY, 2004
This was the Hasko groups second day of fishing and now the pressure was on. All four guys wanted a shot at a Marlin but the bite had been off. This was surprising because on Sunday it had been going off strong! Juan and Manuel talked to a few of the other Captains on the radio and headed offshore again, this time 25 miles to the east, out around the 1150 spot. Juan said there was a lot of Marlin in the area and they had two on at one time, both hooked on live bait. One of the fish was fought to the boat for a successful tag and release. Unfortunately the dog gear on the other TLD 25 stripped and they were not able to get any line on the reel. Juan had to try and hand line the fish and the line ended up breaking. There were other fish in the area but they would not eat. They guys were also able to get one nice Dorado that Juan said would have been around 25 pounds, and lost one other “Big” one that hit a large Marlin lure but did not hook up well. At least the guys were able to get some action on the Billfish today, much better than on Wednesday. And now there is a new TLD 25 on the boat. Until next week, tight lines!
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Jul 19, 2004; 01:46PM - 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
6 Striped Marlin tagged and released (#80, #100, #120, #120, #130, #140)
2 Dorado released (#10, #18)
2 Dorado kept (#25, #35)
1 Wahoo kept (#60)
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR JULY 12, 2004
Mark Theissen, Mitch, Stephanie, Nathan and one more person went fishing today on the “Fly Hooker” with Juan and Manuel. The water was getting a bit choppy with the approach of a tropical depression but they still had a good time. There were plenty of Marlin to throw baits but they were not in the feeding mood. They were able to get a couple of nice Dorado to the boat and took one of them, around #25 home for dinner. A good day on the water and no one got sick!
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR JULY 15, 2004
Gerald Jacobs was supposed to go fishing by himself on the 13th and with his kids today, but the weather had other plans for us! Since we had tomorrow open we postponed the kid’s trip until then and he went out himself today. Juan and Manuel worked the area from the 95 spot and east of there looking for a Marlin. They found lots of Striped Marlin on the surface, but very few of them were hungry. Eventually they did find one that ate the live bait tossed in front of it, but the fish did not hook up! Later on in the day they had a blind strike and Gerald fought a Blue Marlin that Juan estimated at an easy #300 for almost 20 minutes before it shook loose of the hook. That was it for the day, but no Gerald thinks that they just might stay out all day with the kids tomorrow so he can have a better chance at a Marlin! Our fingers are crossed for you Gerald!
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR 16 JULY, 2004
Today is Gerald’s second day with us and he thought that he might be out all day trying to get his Marlin. He took his three oldest kids with him today and they were looking forward to seeing Porpoise and maybe a Turtle or Whale. What they had instead was a copy of “Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride” as the swells from the tropical depression gave them some excitement! None of them got sick, and they were back in at noon. Thank goodness they were all right with watching Dad catch fish. And catch fish he did! The first fish of the day was a very nice Wahoo that Juan estimated at #60, but we will never know for sure because it was filleted before getting a chance to be weighed! As far as Marlin went, well, not just one, but two tagged and released fish for Gerald! Both of them were Striped Marlin and Juan says they were on live bait. I am not real sure of that since I am hearing all this reporting from him on Sunday morning (just got back from CA last night) and sometimes he looses track, but we know for sure that there were two Striped Marlin! Gerald had a blast and has decided that this might be a good thing to do every year. The kids had fun too and the boat was back in the slip at noon. Thanks Gerald, we are glad you had a great time!
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR 17 JULY, 2004
Jeff Jenkins and his buddy Keith came down to Cabo a few days before everyone else in the bachelor party because they wanted to do some fishing before they partied. Well, mom Nature had something else in mind for them and instead of fishing on the 14th they fished today. All the other guys arrived last night and they tried talking some of them into going out with them today, but there as no way that going to work! Hangover city! Jeff and Keith had the boat to themselves and it was just as well. Juan and Manuel worked the same area that they have been working the past few days and were able to put the guys on a Dorado the weighed an estimated #35 that the kept for dinner, and they also were able to hook up to a Striped Marlin. After a good fight they got the Marlin to the side of the boat for pictures, a tag placement and a good release. Good going guys, glad you finally got out to fish!
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR 18 JULY, 2004
Our good friend Tim Magee is back in town and decided to take some friends of his fishing today. Manuel was supposed to work today but never showed or called, so it was up to Juan to try and get a deckhand for the day, and he was lucky to come up with Estaphan (Steven) who normally works on another boat. Tim showed up at the dock at the arranged time of 6:30 and shortly thereafter his guests arrived. Lucy lives here and works at the offices at the Pedregal, her mother Maria and niece Pamela live in Mexico City and are here on vacation. Lucy has fished before but it was the first time for Maria and Pamela. Juan and Estephan set out to find some fish and they had a lot of luck today! Tim brought along a new lure he had bought a few days ago, he had fished it several days ago and had a lot of luck, catching three of four Dorado that came in on it, and the lure attracted the fish again today! I won’t tell you the brand, but it had a fairly steep cut on a tube body and was set with black/silver over purple skirts. Now, this lure did not bring any fish to the boat, but it sure got hit! Tim said that they had a Striped Marlin whack at it; hooked up an estimated #300 Black Marlin for about 5 jumps, a Blue Marlin estimated at #250 for a minute and a few jumps and had a big Dorado come in to it as well. But, like I said, it did not hook anything up for very long. The only thing that got a good hook-set was live bait! Lucy was first up and shortly after starting, and only two or three miles off of Gray Rock, a tailing Striped Marlin was sighted and Estephan tossed a bait in front of it. This fish was hungry and quickly inhaled the live Caballito. After a lot of jumps and 25 minutes of fighting the fish on #40 line, Lucy brought the fish to the side of the boat for a successful release! Not a bad fish at all and it was estimated to be right around #120. Not long after that another tailing fish was sighted, then another, then another………well, there were a lot of them out there! Somewhere on down the line they found another hungry fish and it was Maria’s turn, but she said no, there was no way she was going to fight the fish. Pamela refused as well so Tim got on the rod and brought the fish, estimated at #140, to the boat for a quick picture alongside and a release. One more Striped Marlin? Sure enough, there were one more of them out there that was hungry and this time Pamela said she was willing to give it a go. Lucy gave her a bit of a hand on holding the rod (Pamela is only 8 years old!) but she did all the reeling herself! After about 25 minutes and a lot of coaching she finally go the fish to the side of the boat for a successful release! Pamela, you have my total admiration, I don’t know of many anglers your age that would be able to do what you did! If all that was not enough, they hooked up a small Dorado on the way in and Tim reeled it in and released it. Oh yeah, they were back at the dock at 12:30! A great day on the water with some great fishing to go along with it. Perfect memories for a first time saltwater angler as well, what is she going to do to top that catch? Thanks Tim, I only wish I had been there myself! So folks, until next weeks report, Tight lines and great tunes!
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Jul 19, 2004; 01:40PM - 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 JULY12-18, 2004
WEATHER: It is the start of Hurricane season here in Cabo and we had a little taste of it this week as a tropical depression came on through at the beginning of the week and dropped a bit of rain and brought some wind along with the moisture. Tuesday the feeder bands came through as the main mass passed to the west. The wind kicked up to around 35 knots and we had a few really good downpours out of it as well. At least it knocked all the dust off of everything and watered the plants! My wife said that the wind actually felt good as the temperature lowered and the humidity dropped, but I flew back in Saturday night and the lack of wind and the humidity reminded me that I was not in Newport anymore! As of right now, we have a few clouds in the sky, light winds from the northwest and a temperature of 88 degrees. Mary says that our weekly high was around 92 and our low was right in the 62 degree range.
WATER: Water temperatures first. The warm water this week was on the Sea of Cortez side of the Cape out to around 12 miles. It was blue and in the 83 degree range. A little further out and it dropped a degree or two. On the Pacific side the reverse is true, with the cooler water being within 12 miles of shore and averaging 78 degrees, with the offshore water in the 80 degree range. Also, on the Pacific side, the farther up the coast you get, the greener the water becomes. At the very beginning of the week, and at the end of the week, surface conditions were very good. Of course, when the tropical depression blew through it got a lot rougher and most boats canceled trips on the 13th and 14th, even though the Port Captain did not close the port down.
BAIT: Plenty of Caballito available at the normal $2.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: The water warms up and the big fish move in! For those of you that keep track of such things, you are probably aware of the 1,100 pound Black Marlin caught here about 10 days ago. That was a good sign of things to come and since then there have been plenty of both Blue and Black Marlin being seen in the lure patterns, and some of them have been hungry as well! Most of this action has happened between the 95 spot and Gorda Banks (for the Blues) and just several miles offshore or on the high spots for the Blacks. As well as the big boys, there has been a plethora (look it up) of Striped Marlin being sighted on the surface within two miles of shore, and a lot of them have been hungry. Almost all the action on all the species this week was on the Cortez side, and will probably remain there until the warm water starts moving again. Big lures in blue/silver/pink and purple/silver were the ticket for the Blues and Blacks this week and the Stripes seemed to prefer live bait.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: The weather kept a lot of boats from checking out the Tuna action at the San Jaime and the Golden Gate banks during the middle of the week, but at the tail end of the week we were getting a few reports of decent fish in the 30-50 pound class being found there. Of course, it took a decent size boat and anglers who could handle the chop to get there and fish. Elsewhere, the Porpoise pods put out fish in the football category, most of them from 10-15 pounds with a few larger fish in the mix. Preferred lures were cedar plugs and small feathers in dark colors. The few boats on the Pacific banks reported that live bait dropped deep in areas where Tuna were spotted breaking water worked fairly well, but they really thought they could have done better with some Sardinas.
DORADO: Decent Dorado action was reported this week, and almost every time we get rough water for a while the bite picks up! There were a lot of fish found close to shore that were schoolies and a few boats had a blast catching and releasing a dozen or so of the 8 pound fish. The larger fish were a bit farther out and seemed to average around 18-20 pounds. Most of them were caught on lures as Marlin fever has caught hold of almost everyone and the lures have gotten big! For the guys just looking for meat, the smaller straight runners in about 7-9 inches and bright colors worked well, and of course the normal practice of dropping live bait behind a hooked fish resulted in quite a few more decent fish being caught. As with almost all the other species, the best results this week were on the Cortez side of the Cape. This may well have more to do with the surface conditions than anything else, but I guess we will know a bit more about that as this week progresses.
WAHOO: There were scattered Wahoo reported this week and one of the reasons would (or could) be that there was a good concentration of other species holding in areas that the Wahoo prefer, like the Gorda banks and along the drops in closer to shore. The Wahoo averaged 40 pounds and most of them were caught on dark colored Marlin lures, the larger ones attracting more attention than the smaller one. So, go ahead and put out that $120 piece of jewelry and take your chances!
INSHORE: The Pacific was a non-event for the Pangas this week and it was not until the end of the week that there was any action to report for the inshore species. Roosterfish, Jack Crevalle and a few bottom fish were the norm, and there were plenty of small Dorado to be found within a mile or two of the beach. Most of the guys that went out focused on the Dorado and the Striped Marlin this week and found fair to good action.
NOTES: It’s Sunday morning and I just got back from Southern California last night. All the information I have on this week’s report is based on information from my wife Mary and the Captains and crews I was able to talk to this morning. The trip north was not too bad and only took us 5 days with rough water the first two days and smooth running after that. It was nice to get a little shopping done in BIG stores! I am glad I missed the weather this week; it sure was nice up in the Newport area! This weeks report was written to music by a group that probably none of you have ever heard before. A long time ago (back in the early 70’s) I got my hands on a Plantation Records (a division of the Shelby Singleton Corp. of Nashville, Tenn.) promotional copy of some great surf style guitar music. Simplistic, but great. Now, don’t laugh, but the artists were “Harlow Wilcox & the Oakies” and the album is titled “Groovy Grubworm and Other Golden Guitar Greats”. There is no printing date on the album, but it has to be from the late 60’s or early 70’s. I think I’ll try and do a little research this afternoon and find out. If any of you out there have any information, drop me a line! Until next week, Tight Lines, and keep the music flowing!
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Jul 12, 2004; 10:33AM - Cabo Bite Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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Capt. George Landrum
Fly Hooker Sportfishing
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
CABO SAN LUCAS FISH REPORT JULY 5 to JULY 11, 2004
WEATHER: Highs in the high 90’s with humid air, night time lows in the high 70’s. Thank goodness for air conditioning! There have been light winds during the morning hours while at sea, but almost no breeze in the morning here in town. In the afternoons and early evening it has picked up a bit and cooled things off. Slight cloud cover at the beginning and the end of the week and some good, dense clouds in the middle, and these clouds dropped some rain to the north of us, but none here.
WATER: High water temperature was 85 degrees on the Sea of Cortez and the low was around 74 on the Pacific side. Straight south 15 miles we saw water temperatures in the middle. The surface conditions were good almost all week on the Cortez side of the Cape and on the Pacific they only got rough during the middle of the week when the cloud cover and wind moved in.
BAIT: The usual Caballito at $2 each, some Mullet but not much else.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Ok, the bite is still good but not as red hot as last wee, but the variety is improving. There were trips where both Blue Marlin and Striped Marlin were caught, some where a Striped Marlin and a Sailfish were caught, or a Blue Marlin and a Sailfish, and at least one boat came in flying flags for all three! The bite has moved to the south of the Cape and there seems to be a preference for lures right now, and live bait dropped back in the pattern just gets picked at, not really eaten. Darker colors worked the best but the Bleeding Mackerel still got a lot of strikes.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Not a lot of changes on the Tuna bite, there have been a lot of footballs found as well as fish in the 20-25 pound class, and most of them have been in Porpoise pods. The best area has been to the south of the Cape 20 miles and to the south side of the San Jaime Banks. I did talk with one boat that went and worked the Golden Gate Bank and did well on fish from 20-40 pounds, but there were no other boats around at the time, and they did not find the fish on the next day’s trip to the same area. Small feathers in bright colors did well, as did cedar plugs.
DORADO: The Dorado bite keeps getting better and the bite moved on up into the Pacific this week with great action being found up in the Migranios area and the beach off of Margarite. The fish have not been large, averaging 12 pounds, but there have been plenty of them, and there has been the occasional beast mixed in. The larger fish have been farther offshore, and have been much more scattered. Slow trolled live bait under working Frigate Birds has provided a lot of action as has trolling medium sized bright lures.
WAHOO: A decent Wahoo bite this week with a few boats getting doubles on fish averaging 30 pounds. Most boats of course never had a Wahoo strike but that is the way it often goes with these fish. The favorite lure seemed to be anything in either Bleeding Mackerel or Bleeding Dorado run either very short (second wake) or very long (back on #8 or #9).
INSHORE: Most of the boats were working a bit farther offshore than usual due to the number of Dorado to be found, and those working for the normal; inshore fish were a bit disappointed. There were some Roosterfish caught as well as Jack Crevalle, but not in the numbers to be expected this time of year.
NOTES: Well George finally left on his trip north yesterday and he wrote this report Saturday morning just before he left. So if you are in San Diego, say hi to him when he passes by.
Cheaptickets.com has a deal from LAX this week. $180 roundtrip plus the taxes. Finally!
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Jul 5, 2004; 12:01PM - Fly Hooker Daily Catch 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
WEEKLY FISH COUNT
BLUE MARLIN: ONE FISH TAGGED AND RELEASED (#250)
STRIPED MARLIN: TWO FISH TAGGED AND RELEASED (#75, #80)
DORADO: ONE FISH KEPT (#50)
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR JUNE , 2004
Today was my birthday and since there were no charters booked for the day, it was time to have a little fun! Mary and I, along with our friends Dave McNabb and Ina Yank had Juan and Manuel take us out for a little fishing. It was supposed to be a half day, and hopefully could get a Dorado or Tuna, maybe even a Wahoo, for dinner! Since Mary tends to get seasick, I told Manuel to keep us on the Sea of Cortez and not more than three miles out, the water in close had been like a lake. We did not have any action for the first hour and a half, and it was not until we got up near the Westin that any action happened. Once there, we had a hard strike on the Marauder run close to the boat, and bringing it in to look at afterward you cold see the new Wahoo cuts on the body. Shoot, which would have been great for dinner. A little later Manuel spotted a Striped Marlin come in on the long lure and goosed the boat to keep the lure away and get the fish mad. Juan dropped back a live bait, Manuel slowed the boat and suddenly I was fighting a Striped Marlin! It didn’t take very long and we did get a few jumps out of the fish. I fought the fish standing up and it took about 12 minutes before it was at the side of the boat. I placed a tag and Juan removed the hook from the corner of the mouth. The Marlin was only about #75, but it was a good start! A little later, and about 5 miles off the Palmilla area we spotted an inflatable boat that looked like it might be fighting a fish. Manuel turned in that direction and as he yelled that there were three Marlin up ahead, I saw that someone in the inflatable was waving a red shirt from a paddle. Well, if they were sinking we would have headed over there right away, but they seemed all right for the moment, and by then Dave was hooked up to a Striped Marlin! It took him about 15 minutes to get the fish to the boat, also fighting it stand up style, and the fish jumped very near the inflatable several times. After tagging and releasing his fish (about #5 bigger than mine) we went over to check on the inflatable. It was a dad, his son and daughter and son’s friend. They had an electrical problem with his outboard and couldn’t get it started again. We rigged a bridle, got everyone on the “Fly Hooker” and towed them in to Palmilla. The kids we let us know that seeing the Marlin Dave fought jumping so close to them was really cool. After getting them taken care of at Palmilla we ran out a mile and resumed fishing our way back to Cabo. On the way we had another strike from a Wahoo that did not hook up, and we had one small Dorado try and eat a lure, but the fish just did one back flip when it hooked up, then came off. No fish for dinner, but we had a nice day on the water and were able to do a favor for someone who needed it.
“FLY HOOKER” DAILY FISH REPORT FOR JUNLY 3, 2004
It is the day before the 4th of July holiday and we have an old friend from Guam aboard the boat today, along with his sister, son-in-law and daughter. Wayne Baumunk worked on Guam during the late 70’s and the 80’s as a dive instructor and a few other things, and it was nice to hear from him when he was inquiring about the fishing. Well, we introduced them to Juan and Manuel, and Wayne said he really wanted Tuna or Dorado, so the guys took the boat up to the area between Punta Ballena and Red hill and worked the area offshore from 1 mile to 5 miles really hard. During the morning they saw three Striped Marlin but none of them would eat a live bait, but they had no strikes from any eating fish. It was not until on the way back at 12:45 that they hooked up to a big Dorado. Wayne’s son-in-law just had surgery for carpel tunnel and was not going to be fighting a fish so Wayne was on the rod. It took him about 15 minutes to get the fish close enough for Juan to gaff, and it was right around #50! A very nice Dorado that had beautiful fillets! Manuel turned the boat back and they made another pass in the area and this time a Marlin struck! Too big for the girls so Wayne was back in the chair again. This time the fight took 40 minutes, but at the end Juan was able to tag and release a Blue Marlin that they estimated at #250. Wayne was tired by then! Sometime during the trip they found a Turtle sleeping on the surface and there was a nice Dorado in the shade under it. They made a pass with the lures, tried live bait and then cut bait, but the fish was not interested. Manuel tried to get the boat close enough to free gaff the fish, but the Turtle woke up and went down, taking the Dorado with him. Not a bad end to the day, but all the action happened at the tide change, during high tide. If we could have predicted that it would have been nice. Anyway, congratulations Wayne, you should be receiving your release certificate from the “Billfish Foundation” sometime soon!
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Jul 5, 2004; 11:59AM - 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 JUNE 29 to July 4, 2004
WEATHER: Last week I said that the humidity was starting to get up there, right? Well, it’s here! But we also have this wonderful warmth to go with it as our night time lows have been in the low 70’s and the day time highs in the mid to high 90’s. You get to sweat when you are walking but it makes sitting in the shade with a cool one all the better. Of course, it is a lot more comfortable out fishing! We have had a little bit of cloud cover, no rain and slight winds in the late afternoon.
WATER: Warmer! The coolest water we were finding at the end of the week was out in the area of the San Jaime and Golden Gate Banks where the surface temperature was in the 77-78 degree range. Everywhere else, both to the south and up the Sea of Cortez we had water in the 80 to 85 degree range. Good surface conditions everywhere at the end of the week with slight swells and just a light wind riffle. The water was a great blue color except near home, near shore on the Pacific side where it greened up a little, but it was still not too bad.
BAIT: The usual Caballito at $2 each, some Lisa, a few small Mackerel and no Sardinas
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FISHING:
BILLFISH: And things just keep getting better! I saw most boats that were flying Billfish flags flying at least two, often four to six flags each as they came in. The fish, at least the Striped Marlin, were close to home, it was not necessary to get more than ½ mile offshore to get into the action. The really good action early in the week started up around San Jose and moved our way as the week went along. As of the end of the week, right out in front of Punta Ballena and the 95 spot there were Striped Marlin everywhere. The Blues are starting to show up as well and there were some nice fish reported from the area of the Gorda Banks. Hopefully they will be coming closer as well as the weeks go on. Almost all the action this week was on live bait. There were fish coming into the patterns but they were not very aggressive, live bait dropped back seemed to do the trick though.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: The Yellowfin bite this week picked up as well, and it is a good thing! We still are not having great numbers or really large fish, but a lot of footballs, sometimes enough of them to seem a nuisance if you were running lures that were too small, but quite a few of them were fish in the 20-25 pound range, with fish to 50 pounds showing as well. Most of the bigger fish were a little farther off shore than everything else, and the south side of the San Jaime Banks was a good place to find them, often pin-pointed by the feeding porpoise. Small feathers in dark colors were needed for the footballs if you wanted to catch a lot of them, medium sized lures in almost any color for the bigger fish.
DORADO: It is summertime and that means Dorado time. I have seen a lot of Dorado flags this week and while there have been some small fish in the catch; I have once again seen quite a few fish in that 50 pound range. Of course most of them are around 20 pounds, but that is nothing to sneeze at! Right out in front of town, within a mile of the arch and slow trolling live bait seems to be an almost sure bet for the Dorado, but most of the boats are covering more ground by pulling lures until they hook up, then dropping back live bait.
WAHOO: Once again it was not a red hot Wahoo bite, but there were fish being caught. Enough red flags were flying that we knew there were fish out there, and I did talk to a few people that hooked up to the toothy speedsters. Most of the fish this week were in the 30-40 pound class, and caught close to shore. I went out with a couple of friends on the 30th, just for fun as it was my birthday, and we tagged and released two Striped Marlin and had hard strikes from two Wahoo as well. All this action happened between 9 am and 11 am on the Sea of Cortez side between Punta Ballena and the Westin.
INSHORE: This week was a repeat of last week’s inshore report with the exception that more Roosterfish are showing up. Most of the inshore fishing was on hold this week as the Pelagics showed up so close to the beach that no one wanted to go for Roosterfish and Jacks when there were Dorado, Marlin and Tuna right there! For the few boats that did try, the bite on Roosterfish was on the Pacific up past the lighthouse as the Mullet followed the water change.
NOTES: I don’t know if I am going to be able to supply much of a report for next week, but I will try and get some information out to you. I will be away until Wednesday afternoon on a boat delivery, and Mary is meeting me on Wednesday for a visit to Disneyland! This weeks report was written to that nagging, obnoxious little tune, “It’s A Small, Small World”, that keeps running through my head! Until next week, Tight Lines!
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Jun 28, 2004; 11:43AM - Fly Hooker Daily Catch 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
WEEKLY FISH COUNT
STRIPED MARLIN: ONE FISH TAGGED AND RELEASED (#120), ONE FISH
KEPT (#100, BLEEDING BADLY FROM THE GILLS)
DORADO: ONE FISH KEPT (#12)
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR JUNE 23, 2004
Today was supposed to be another share trip on the “Fly Hooker”, but one side of the share failed to show up this morning. That meant that Jody Dean got the boat to himself for the day! Lucky him, as he had a great time fishing with Juan and Manuel. Lots and lots of Marlin were seen all over the place, and the farthest they got from the Marina was about 10 miles, and most of the fish were closer than that. Jody did very well on the fish and managed to get one to the boat for a successful tag and release, and another fish to the boat that was bleeding badly from the gills. There were five other fish that tried to eat either the bait of the lures, plus all the fish they saw that were not interested. Jody said after the trip that he had better work out before trying this again next year!. I hope you do as well next time you come down, and hope that Juan and Manuel get a chance to show you one more time why this is such a favorite fishing destination! Until then, Tight Lines!
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR 26 JUNE, 2004
We were part of an eight boat arrangement today. A corporate group booked these boats to have a little tournament, they had a golf thing the other day. This is the second year that we have been involved, and the teams of three persons each fish for points, with different species having limits on numbers and each fish being worth so many points. The team on our boat decided that Roosterfish were the highest points per fish and that they should go for them. Well, Juan and Manuel worked the coast between the Chileno area up to La Laguna at Punta Gorda and had not even one strike. Trolling back, running just a little offshore, they were lucky enough to get one Dorado of around 12 pounds. Teams that went for what was out there did much better, and most of the fish were on the Pacific side. Top boat took the winnings with three Marlin, a Sailfish, two Dorado and a Yellowfin. One boat got skunked, the others had varied results but got a few fish each.
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR 27 JUNE, 2004
We had two couples on the “Fly Hooker” today who booked yesterday from their hotel. We were off at 6:45 this morning and Juan headed out and put the lines in the water at 6 miles. We caught three football Yellowfin Tuna before reaching a pod of Porpoise that already had 10 boats on it. Apparently the first two boats there caught fish to #60. We hooked up two that were a little bigger than footballs, around #20, but I managed to farm them both at the back of the boat. We turned in towards the Punta Ballena and about 5 miles out caught another Yellowfin about #10 then spotted a Marlin on the Surface. The Marlin went down right away. An hour later we had a Dorado try and eat an outrigger lure but it came off as soon as the rod was pulled from the rod holder. As we were pulling lines right in front of the arch, not even 100 yards off it, another Yellowfin hit, the biggest of the day and it was about 15 pounds. We ended up with 6 Yellowfin and Me farming two nicer ones, one Dorado coming off and tossing bait at one Marlin. The water was very nice and the weather was great! Now, next trip we will stay close to shore and go for the Dorado and Marlin!
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Jun 28, 2004; 11:42AM - Cabo Bite Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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Capt. George Landrum
Fly Hooker Sportfishing
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
CABO SAN LUCAS FISH REPORT JUNE 21 TO JUNE 27, 2004
WEATHER: Wonderful summertime weather and the days just don’t seem to end. Our night time lows have been in the mid 70’s while the day time highs have been in the high 90’s and the humidity is starting to get up there. Last night we ran the air conditioner in our bedroom for the first time this year, but only for a couple of hours. We had warm, still days and a slight breeze pick up every day in the late afternoon.
WATER: It keeps getting warmer! We were seeing water temperatures in the 85 degree range up around Punta Gorda and the Pacific around the San Jaime and Golden Gate Banks has warmed up to 77-78 degrees. This band of warmer water has wrapped around the Cape and the fish are following it! Our surface conditions this week were great as we had very little daytime wind, for the most part just a bit of swell and chop.
BAIT: Caballito at $2 per bait, some Mullet at $2 per bait and some Sardinas at $20 per bucket. There were small Mackerel available at the bait receiver but they were very small.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: The hot area this week was just outside the Cape, up to 10 miles out but for the most part mostly within 6 miles. There were Striped Marlin everywhere, along with an occasional Sailfish and Blue Marlin. This week almost every boat that came in was flying at least one Marlin flag, and if they weren’t, it was because they were focused on another species. Many boats were returning with multiple flags, the most I saw on one boat this week was six! They were biting well on live bait this week, at least compared to the number of strikes to be had on lures.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: More Tuna this week, and again most of them wee football size fish. Blind strikes were the normal method of finding them, but Ion Sunday I was out when a pod of porpoise were found. Of course we were not the ones to find them but the first two boats in the area hooked up to some nice Yellowfin in the 40-60 pound class. The football fish have been scattered from just off the beach to 15 miles out, so they have been easy to catch.
DORADO: The bite is still on for Dorado this week, and it keeps getting better. One of the signs of a good summer is the number of Flying Fish around, and right now they are everywhere to the south and the Sea of Cortez. Most of the Dorado being caught are around 15 pounds but there have been quite a few both larger and smaller. I saw some fish brought in the weighed an easy 50 pounds. The bite has seemed to be best about 1 ½ to 2 miles off the beach on the Sea of Cortez and the best method was slow trolling live Caballito.
WAHOO: It was not a red hot Wahoo bite this week but I did see some nice fish brought in. Two days in a row a boat on our dock brought in a Wahoo, and one of them was a very easy #100 fish! Another friend of mine got two Wahoo of about 40 pounds each on Sunday, along with three Dorado of #15-20, four football Yellowfin and a Striped Marlin released, all in 6 hours on live bait! All these fish were found close to shore, not out at the banks.
INSHORE: Most of the inshore fishing was on hold this week as the Pelagics showed up so close to the beach that no one wanted to go for Roosterfish and Jacks when there were Dorado, Marlin and Tuna right there! For the few boats that did try, the bite on Roosterfish was on the Pacific up past the lighthouse as the Mullet followed the water change.
NOTES: Kudos to both Marco Ehrenberg and Tony Berkowitz this week for their actions in having a long-liner apprehended in the act of fishing on top of the Outer Gordo Bank. Briefly, one of Marcos boats observed the long-liner in action. Marco called the Navy and was told they did not have a boat available to enforce the law, and had no fuel for a private boat. All Marcos boats were fishing or being worked on. He called Tony who said that he knew of a boat available and ended up getting two. They loaded on the Marines and a guy from the fisheries department went out to Gorda Banks and found the boat pulling in one line, filleting a Striped Marlin on the deck, two more Marlin jumping on the line still in the water and their small boat setting another five mile long-line at the same time. The boat was confiscated and there is legal action ensuing. Thanks to everyone involved. So why is the high speed Navy boat anchored off of Medano beach in front of the beach bars every day? This weeks report was written to the music of Fleetwood Mac on their 1990 Warner release “Behind the Mask”. Until next week, Tight Lines!
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Jun 21, 2004; 11:39AM - Fly Hooker Daily Catch 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
WEEKLY FISH COUNT
STRIPED MARLIN: ONE FISH RELEASED (#120)
DORADO: ONE FISH KEPT (#20)
YELLOWFIN TUNA: TWO FISH KEPT (#12, #15)
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR JUNE 19, 2004
This was our one and only trip for the week and we had half of a group of four guys on our boat. It was a trip from a friend of ours and these guys have been fishing here for several years, always booking two boats and having a bit of competition between themselves. Manual is back from vacation and it has been almost three weeks since he has been out, Juan has not been out in 10 days. Surprisingly, they have not forgotten how to fish! The fish have been concentrated in a band of warm water close to the coast on the Cortez side of the Cape, moving slowly northward every day. Today they found the fish outside the Palmilla area and were rewarded with one out of two Marlin to the boat; the other one just struck and did not get hooked up. One nice Dorado came into the fish box for dinner and both of the Yellowfin were blind strikes on Marlin lures. Apparently there were a lot of Yellowfin caught in the area over the last few days, all blind strikes. The other boat they were fishing with got lucky on the Marlin and had three releases, one Dorado and two Yellowfin as well. Good water and pretty good fishing for the day! Until next week, Tight Lines!
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Jun 21, 2004; 11:37AM - 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 JUNE 14 TO JUNE 20, 2004
WEATHER: This weeks temps remained the same as last week’s with the highs in the low to mid 90’s and at night it dropped as low as the mid 60’s. We had a day of strong wind on Wednesday and again Friday morning, but the rest of the week was calm. No rain of course!
WATER: The water continues to warm right up and the coolest we have on the Pacific side at the end of the week was 71 degrees. On the Sea of Cortez up around the Westin and farther north, and out to 10 miles, the water has been in the low 80’s with a lot of 82 degree water holding fish. Out past the 10 mile band the water drops back to 74 degrees for another 10 miles, then warms back up. Surface conditions were really choppy on the Cortez side and very bad on the Pacific when we had the winds blow, but other than that it was nice water this week.
BAIT: Small Caballito at $2 per bait, some Mullet at $2 per bait and some Sardinas at $20 per bucket.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Lots of Striped Marlin this week! Many of the boats were flying three or four Marlin flags when they returned for the day and the anglers said that they had seen “lots of fish all over the place”. Talking with the Captains, “all over the place” meant up the Cortez side off of the Palmilla and Gorda Banks area out to 10 miles (in that warm water band). The fish were biting well on live bait this week and lures took a second spot to bait. There were fish caught in other places as well, just not in the same numbers. Average size was 120 pounds.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Thank goodness the Yellowfin have been biting this week! There have not been a lot of them and they have not been very large on average, but they have been there. Most of the fish were blind strikes on Marlin lures and the fish were averaging 15 pounds. The warm water where the Striped Marlin were found held most of the fish. A lot of boats have been going out to the San Jaime and south of there looking for larger Tuna, but there have been very few of them found.
DORADO: The Dorado bite continues to pick up as the water warms and most of the boats seemed to be flying yellow flags this week. The fish are averaging 20 pounds and have been hitting almost anything put in front of them. Best bite was close to shore on the Cortez side of the Cape.
WAHOO: Again just a few fish. Hopefully with the warmer water and the moon changing the bite will pick up.
INSHORE: This week the inshore bite was a repeat of last weeks so here is a repeat on last weeks report! The Rooster fish have re-appeared on the Pacific beaches and there have been Jack Crevalle mixed in as well. The Roosters seem to be following the warm water as it creeps north. Most of the fish have been in the 20 pound class with a few larger ones in the mix. There were a couple of days when Pargo were biting off of the Lighthouse in close to the rocks. Of course, live bait was the key on all these fish, Mullet for the Roosterfish and Sardinas for the Pargo.
NOTES: Warmer water, warmer weather, calmer seas, colder beer! It’s time to get down here if you can as the bite starts to heat up. It is still not wide open yet, but hopefully by the time you read this and are able to make your arrangements things will be busting loose. That said, let me add this disclaimer: “Ka-ka pasa” and don’t hold me liable if Mother Nature decides to change things once again! This weeks report was written to the music of ZZ Top on the 1985 Warner release “Afterburner”. Until next week, Tight Lines!
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