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From Jan 01, 1999 To Sep 22, 2025
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Jun 23, 2003; 10:36AM - 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 16- JUNE 22, 2003
WEATHER: Great weather this week with very little wind at the beginning of the week, then on
Wednesday night it began to blow again. It has been blowing every night since then but the wind
has died down around sunrise. Our warm daytime temperatures have reached the high 90’s and
nighttime lows have been in the low 60’s, and once again we received no rain and had very little
cloud cover. (Good Times Bad Times)
WATER: There has not been a big change in the water conditions since last weeks report
except for the fact that the daytime surface temperatures have been about 2 degrees higher all
around. The Pacific side is still rough, due to the continuing northwest winds, and still has cold
water, with most of it in the low 60’s. The Sea of Cortez has had great conditions once you get
past the Chileno area and closer to home it has been only a little choppy, not really rough. We
have been seeing the average temperature in the calm water at around 81-82 degrees with an
occasional marking of 84. (Dazed And Confused)
BAIT: No change from last week, most of the bait this week was Mackerel, and they were the
normal $2 per bait. There was Mullet available as well at the same price but Caballito were
scarce. (Whole Lotta Love)
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Lots of Striped Marlin out in front of the arches, and most of the action has been
less than four miles offshore. The only problem has been that most of the fish have had lock-jaw
and won’t bite. A few boats found the right fish and caught two or three, but most boats only had
one blue flag flying. The bite was 80% live bait and the lures that worked were dark colored.
There was a smaller concentration of fish found up east of the Gordo banks but they were
suffering from the same disease (lock-jaw). Some Blue Marlin are being found, but not with any
regularity yet, and all of them have been reported from the area east of the Gordo Banks.
(Ramble On)
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Find the porpoise, find the Tuna, that was the story for the week on
Yellowfin. Even the large Black Porpoise, not known as a good indicator for Tuna, were found
to be holding large fish this week. Sightings were made of fish in the #100 mixed in with these
big porpoise, and some of them were caught, but they were very boat shy. There were smaller
Tuna to be found with the normal indicator porpoise and they were running to 35 pounds with a
15 pound average. Cedar plugs and small dark colored feathers were the key with the plugs
having a decided advantage. Most of the smaller fish were found out from the arch to the Pacific
side and the larger fish were found past the 95 and 1150 spots. (Immigrant Song)
DORADO: Close to home and all the way up the coast on the Cortez side to Punta Gorda.
Most of the fish have been less than 2 miles off shore and finding the Frigate birds was the key.
Find the birds working and then tossing live bait resulted in some boats doing very well. Of
course, the normal live bait dropback after hooking one up sure got the numbers up there. Some
boats were getting up to a dozen fish, some were only getting one, but the fish were there. Most
of the fish close to shore were less than 25 pounds, but there were bigger fish to be found
offshore, just not in the same numbers. Bright colored lures were the key for those trolling
plastic. (Misty Mountain Hop)
WAHOO: There were still a few Wahoo caught this week but the numbers were down quite a
bit. The fish found were incidental fish and scattered. (Stairway To Heaven)
INSHORE: The inshore action this week was Roosterfish, Jack Crevalle and large Sierra.
Most of the action was just between the arch and Cabo Falso and slow trolled live bait was the
trick. Roosters to 50 pounds, Jack Crevalle to 45 pounds and Sierra to 10 pounds kept rods bent
for those looking for short trips and good action. It sure was easy to run through a lot of bait
though! (Black Dog)
NOTES: A few big Tuna got all of us excited, hopefully it is a sign of things to come. As the
moon gets smaller the Marlin bite should turn on. There is still lots of Tuna off the East Cape, but
they are 35 miles out. The Dorado bite there dropped off as ours started to turn on. With our
fingers crossed, the fishing should continue to improve! This weeks report was written to the
sounds of Led Zeppelin on their 1990 Atlantic release “Remasters”, disc #1. Rock on Robert,
Jimmy and John! This week, just maybe, some of you may be familiar with the music and figured
out the group on the first song. Until next week, tight lines!
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Jun 16, 2003; 10:55AM - 'Fly Hooker Daily Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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“FLY HOOKER” FISH TOTALS FOR THE WEEK:
Striped Marlin: 1 fish died during fight(#120), 1 fish cut off by another boat
Wahoo: 0 fish caught
Dorado: 0 fish caught
Tuna: 0 fish caught
Grouper: 2 fish caught (#35, #15)
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR JUNE 9, 2003
Peter and John were supposed to fish the “Fly Hooker” yesterday but on Saturday evening
Peter became ill so the trip was postponed until today. Peter must have had someone looking
after him and taking pity for being ill, as he was the one with the action today. The water was a
bit rough and choppy outside Red Hill but there were fish in the area. Juan and Edgar were able
to find Marlin tailing on the surface but none of them were hungry. Trying to get something
going, they went inside and worked the beach area off of Chileno, where they finally found a fish,
a nice Roosterfish of about 35 pounds. The fish had it’s picture taken and was released. Peter
was happy as that was the first Roosterfish for him. John had a few strikes but somehow
managed to pull the bait away from the fish every time! All right John, back to the Bass fishing
for you! Thanks guys, we are glad you had a good time and enjoyed the trip and hope you get to
catch a Marlin next time out!
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR JUNE 14, 2003
Today was a multi-boat trip as we shared a group of anglers with four other boats for a
corporate outing set up by another agency. Brad and Roger were the anglers aboard the “Fly
Hooker”, there was supposed to be one other but he was a no show for the trip, the guess among
everyone else was that the had a case of “tequila flu”. Juan and Edgar headed out to the Pacific
side as the wind had calmed down on Tuesday and the warm water break had moved over there.
They found plenty of Marlin tailing on the surface and were finally able to get one of them to bite.
Roger was the lucky angler and got to fight the fish for 20 minutes before another boat managed
to run over the line and cut the fish off. After a total of 5 hours offshore Brad decided that he
wanted some meat in the boat and Juan took them to the area off of Punta Ballena, where they
proceeded to soak some live Mackerel in 60 feet of water. Luck was with them there and they
were able to catch two nice Grouper, one about #35 and the other about #15, and did not lose
them in the rocks! The total group of 24 people had Grouper for dinner and everyone loved the
fish! Thanks for a good time on the water guys, we are glad you enjoyed yourselves and hope to
see you again!
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Jun 16, 2003; 10:52AM - 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 9- JUNE 15, 2003
WEATHER: The winds finally died down Tuesday night and the weather is back to what we
consider normal for this time of year. Winds have been light and from the northwest at 5-15
knots, lower in the morning and increasing a bit in the afternoon. Sunny skies and few if any
scattered clouds. Daytime highs have been in the mid 90’s and nighttime lows in the mid 70’s.
Very good, comfortable weather and no need for the air conditioning yet! (Tradewinds)
WATER: On the Pacific the water continues to be cold but there is an incursion of warmer Sea
of Cortez water working its way out to the West from the Cape. Most of the water on the Pacific
side remains in the 61-68 degree range while the Sea of Cortez side is seeing water in the 78-81
range. San Jaime and Golden Gate banks are showing temperatures in the 66 degree range while
the 1150 spot, 95 spot and Gordo Banks get readings of 77-81 degrees. Where the warm water is
intruding into the Pacific we are seeing a very definitive temperature break and there is starting to
be quite a bit of action there, as well as the area around the 95 spot where another break is
forming. Surface conditions are fair to good on the Pacific side with some swells but no wind
chop in the morning, changing to slightly choppy conditions in the afternoon. The Cortez side has
had great water all week long out to a distance of 12 miles, then the water has gotten a bit choppy
in the afternoons. (Dreamcatcher)
BAIT: Most of the bait this week was Mackerel, and they were the normal $2 per bait. There
was Mullet available as well at the same price but Caballito were scarce. Reportedly there were
Sardinas available off of Palmilla but I did not see any of them myself. (Holding Back The Years)
FISHING:
BILLFISH: The bite on the Striped Marlin picked up, and that was a bit unusual since we are
going throughout the full moon phase right now. The best action was between the 1150 spot and
Gordo banks, and most of the action was on lures. Boats that started to work the temperature
break on the Pacific side were spotting quite a few fish but most of their action was on live bait
tossed to fish found tailing. As usual, the best lures were the old stand-bys, black/green, bleeding
Mackerel. Many of the boats working the Cortez were getting lure strikes and not spotting a lot
of fish on the surface. Some of them were reporting as many as 10 strikes a day. The action on
the Pacific temp break was a bit slower but the hook-up ratio was higher since most of the bites
were on live bait. (Midnight Swim)
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Once again there were Tuna reported from up past the Gordo banks and
they were still the smaller fish. With the wind dying down and the Pacific waters fishable this
week there was more effort focused to the west and there were good fish reported from the San
Jaime banks by boats that soaked live bait deep on the edges. Some of these fish were reported to
be #125 ! (Blue Universe)
DORADO: Good fish are reported on the Cortez side and the water on the Pacific has been too
cold. Fish to 55 pounds are being found scattered around and the reports are that there are more
fish, large concentrations of them, moving down to us from up at the East Cape. Some of the
boats here in Cabo have been able to find small concentrations this week and have picked up as
many as 8 fish per trip. The first fish caught on lures have had followers with them and often the
second fish of the day has been hooked up on live bait dropped back. (Dipsea Trail)
WAHOO: The full moon helped the Wahoo action pick up and we were seeing quite a few
more orange flags at the end of the day than we saw last week. Most of the fish were found off of
the Red Hill area and outside Punta Ballena, both area at a distance of two to three miles off
shore. There was also a good bite reported between the inner and outer Gorda Banks as well as
off the Punta Gorda. Best lures were dark colored. (Oceans Apart)
INSHORE: Roosterfish to 60 pounds and Pargo running to 35 pounds were the fish of the
inshore this week. The action was both on the Pacific side to the lighthouse and on the Cortez
side as far up as you could go. The afternoon bite seemed to be the hot one this week as the
Pargo really turned on in the late afternoon and a few boats were able to come in with double
digit catches. The average Roosterfish were 25 pounds but I know of one boat that caught two
large guys, one over #60 and the other one around #50, both by the sole angler on the boat. The
inshore action was also kicking out Jack Crevalle to 35#, Amberjack in the 15 pound class,
Grouper to 50#, a few Sierra and lots of needlefish. (Indian Spring)
NOTES: The action locally is starting to pick up again and it’s just getting better every day. If
the Tuna bite would just start getting hot again we would be in heaven! Guess I’ll just have to go
and soak bait this week if I want one of those guys though. The last few weeks the action up at
the East Cape has been red hot but as our water continues to warm up the fish are coming here as
well and we should start to see lots of big Dorado and hordes of Yellowfin, as well as the big
Blues! I’m keeping my fingers crossed as we have 5 days booked this coming week and I really
want our anglers to get into the action! This week I put my music back in because I received so
many comments regarding last weeks lack of songs. I didn’t realize that so many of you cared,
thanks! The music this weeks report was written to is by Craig Chaquico on his CD “Once In A
Blue Universe”, a 1997 release by Higher Octave Music (one of my favorite publishers). Until
next week, keep those lines tight!
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Jun 9, 2003; 08:58PM - 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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“FLY HOOKER” FISH TOTALS FOR THE WEEK:
Striped Marlin: 2 fish tagged and released (#110)
Wahoo: 0 fish caught
Dorado: 1 fish caught, 1 fish released
Tuna: 0 fish caught
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR JUNE 1, 2003
Kyle Elliot booked the “Fly Hooker” for a half day today. Last year he had the boat for the whole day and they caught so many fish that they came in early! Well, the fishing has been a bit slower this week and in today’s half day trip they came up with a big fat “zero”. A nice boat ride and no fish hooked up. Perhaps they should have done the half day last year and a full day this year? Juan said there were fish out there, they just would not bite.
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR JUNE 3, 2003
Dwight Nichols fished this same day last year and got skunked, so he was really hoping that this year there would be an improvement in his luck. Guess what....yep, they caught a fish this year. They also hooked up a few more that did not stay on, but at least they came in with dinner! The dinner fish was a Dorado of about 25-30 pounds that they caught at almost the end of the trip. The fish that they lost were three different Marlin. One of them was hooked on live bait and the other two on lures. One of the Marlin really gave them a show, and a workout as well, as they had the fish on for almost twenty minutes before the hook pulled out. During that time it did everything they are supposed to do, vertical jumps, washing machine headshakes, side on jumping runs and greyhounding away. Great action and it kept everyone on their toes! Lots more fish were seen but very few of them bit. Good water and a good time, thanks guys!
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR JUNE 4, 2003
Sean Cunningham was our angler for today and his was a special request “flyfishing” if possible trip. With a flyfishing request I go along, so I got to spend the day with a really great guy. Sean is from Des Moines, Iowa, center of the universe, and gets to do quite a bit of fishing. The wind was blowing pretty good today and we were not sure if it was likely to calm down so he said that anything would do as long as we tried to hook on the fly at least once. The first fish was a Striped Marlin that appeared behind the lure on the bridge rod. We were able to tease it up to about the second wake, then it started bouncing around lure to lure. I pinned on a live bait in order to have it concentrate on one thing and dropped it back. The strong wind did not allow for a roll cast so we allowed the fish to eat the bait, Sean was going to fight the fish on conventional tackle. I set the hook and the fish started off when it passed under the bridge rod lure and got one of the hooks in its back, just by the dorsal fin. Working in tandem, Sean on the Tiagra 50 and me on the TLD-25, we worked the fish to the boat for a tag and release on a very pissed off Marlin! It was a quick fish and was released still full of energy. That was at 8:45. At 11 am we had another Marlin eat the same lure and it did a lot of jumping and took a lot of line. Sean worked the fish for 20 minutes before getting the tired fish to the boat where it was tagged and released. Ok, that was fun, but was not on the fly rod, and neither of the fish we had caught so far went into the fish box for dinner. With the wind still kicking a bit, we trolled one fly for Dorado and downsized several lures for the same reason. An hour later we hooked up a Dorado on a lure. We had spotted several Frigate birds working and after two passes under them, hooked up. Being greedy, I told Sean to stop reeling when the fish got close to the boat and we dropped a live bait back, hoping for a double. After several minutes with no pickup on the live bait, I told him to go ahead and bring the fish in. Edgar had the leader in his hand and was almost ready to gaff the fish when the hook pulled loose! Darn, time to go see if we can hook up again. Sean thought the Dorado was pretty neat, he had never seen one up close like that before, and I was able to get some good pictures of it for him. Back into the water went the lures and the fly. As we were trolling along, Sean saw a Dorado come through the spread, straight for the fly. The fish struck and broke the tippet on the strike. We got to se the Dorado, a nice sized one, doing cartwheels across the water, the fly hanging from the corner of his mouth. That was it for our days action and it was not all that bad, Sean was happy!
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Jun 9, 2003; 08:52PM - Cabo San Lucas Fishing Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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Sorry this is late, folks, phone line down at the house and have been waiting all day for the phone company to show up. Some things are the same where ever you are!!!!
Capt George Landrum
Fly Hooker Sportfishing
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
CABO SAN LUCAS FISH REPORT JUNE 1- JUNE 8, 2003
WEATHER: The wind died down a bit this week and shifted a little more to the northwest. This resulted in slightly warmer weather and as a result we had nighttime lows in the mid 60’s and daytime highs is the low 90’s. We did have a few windy evenings, Thursday sticks out in my mind as very windy and cool. No rain for us this week and that is no surprise, and we had only scattered clouds.
WATER: Water temperatures on the Pacific side of the Cape continued to remain cold, mostly in the mid 60’s to low 70’s while the Sea of Cortez side of the Cape has temperatures ranging up to 83 degrees with very blue water. Surface conditions on the Pacific remained rough this week with very few boats trying the offshore run and the inshore boats working only a little past the lighthouse, if that far. From the Arches out to the south and east the water remained very choppy and did not really start to settle down until outside Punta Ballena. From there up to Punta Gorda the water was warm, blue and calm.
BAIT: Mostly Caballito available this week and the normal $2 per bait prevailed price-wise. A few Mullet were available as well for those wanting to target Roosterfish and the price was the same for them. There were Sardinas to be found from the bait boats up in the Palmilla area at $25 a scoop.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Plenty of Striped Marlin around but most of them were just swimming around with their mouths closed. Boats were seeing as many as thirty fish a day or as few as three, depending on where they went, but there were not very many of them hungry. The best areas for finding the fish were between Punta Ballena and Red Hill out to 4 miles, this is where the warm water was. The fish seemed more concentrated on the western side of the area and as the week progressed the whole area moved slightly to the west as the strong California current died down. Early in the week dark colored lures pulled far back in the pattern worked well and later on in the week live bait seemed to be the key. Farther east, up past the Gorda Banks, there were reports of Blue Marlin appearing and they were biting on lures in blue/pink and black/red. No really large Blues our way yet, but reported large fish in the 600 class have been found scattered at the East Cape.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Very few Yellowfin were found this week and those that were found were up past Gorda Banks. Perhaps one boat in 15 found Tuna this week, and the most flags I saw flying off of any outrigger was three. Slightly larger than footballs, anglers I talked to reported these fish to be mostly 30 pounders and striking best on small feather in dark colors, and most of them were blind strikes with no porpoise around.
DORADO: The Dorado were scattered this week and there were fish in the warm water in the same areas as the Striped Marlin. Medium sized lures in the 8 inch range, in bright colors, seemed to attract the fish.
WAHOO: Again there were a few Wahoo caught, but not in any concentration. Most of them were found in shallow water (relatively speaking) off of the points. Boats working areas where the depth was 300-600 feet were finding a few fish and they were biting on dark colored lures. A couple of boats tried targeting these fish by pulling high speed jet heads but had no more luck than the average boat.
INSHORE: Roosterfish to 30 pounds and lots of Sierra have resulted in their being designated as “Fish of the Week” by me. Action off of the beaches from Solmar to La Laguna has been steady for the Roosterfish with slow trolled live Mullet being the key. The fish have ranged from 6 pounds to 30 pounds with most of them around 15. Boats working the rocky points with small Rapallas or live Sardinas have seen plenty of action on Sierra ranging to 10 pounds, as well as the occasional blitz from a school of Jack Crevalle moving through. Fishing the rocks with surface poppers, swimming plugs as well as live bait has resulted in some very nice Pargo ranging up to 30 pounds. I talked to several anglers who worked iron this week, both off of the Arches and off of the inner Gorda Banks and they reported good action on Amberjack at Gorda and fair action on Yellowtail at the Arch. Scrambled Egg color and Chrome/Blue worked best of them, with the Scrambled Egg for Amberjack and Chrome/Blue for the Yellowtail.
NOTES: The fishing is fair right now offshore, not every boat is finding fish but there have been plenty of chances for most of them. As the water continues to warm the fishing should continue to improve. The inshore fishing is going off really well and that has been the bright spot this week. We have moved into the summer season as far as the number of tourists coming to town, now it seems that most of our visitors are fishermen. Good for us charter operators but not good for the resorts and golf courses. The steady winds and rough water on the Pacific have the large Yachts that have normally already moved north, standing by for a weather window that will allow passage without getting them pounded. Word from them is that it might occur this week with a few boats trying as early as Tuesday. That means that we should see an improvement in water conditions on the Pacific side, and hopefully an increase in the number of fish being caught. Until next week, keep your lines tight!
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Jun 1, 2003; 09:56AM - Fly Hooker Daily Fishing Reports
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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“FLY HOOKER” FISH TOTALS FOR THE WEEK:
Striped Marlin: 2 fish tagged and released (#120)
Wahoo: 0 fish caught
Dorado: 0 fish caught
Tuna: 0 fish caught
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR MAY 26, 2003
Dennis, his wife and another couple were our anglers for today and they were a dock charter,
met Juan at the dock and booked the “Fly Hooker” for today and Thursday. They really wanted
to get a Dorado for eating and hook up to a Marlin so that is what Juan and Manel set out to do.
They headed out to the 95 spot, where there had been lots of Marlin for the past few days. On
the way there they hooked up to a nice Dorado that came unbuttoned about 5 minutes into the
fight. As they approached the 95 spot they began to spot Marlin on the surface. Out of a total of
30 marlin spotted they were abble to place bait in front of twents, and out of the twenty they were
able to get two solid hook-ups. Both fish were in the 120 pound class and tood about 30 minutes
each to bring in. Both fish were tagged and released. On Thursday the wives will stay ashore and
Dennis’s friend will be bringing his son instead.
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR MAY 28, 2003
The wind had started to blow on Tuesday evening and that had a bad effect on the fishing
today. The water was rough and the fish had moved on. The guys were only able to find two
marlin today, and neither one of them were hungry. The son got sick the whole day and I don’t
think Dennis had a lot of fun either. Sigh, we can’t predict the weather nor the movements of the
fish. Better luck next time guys.
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Jun 1, 2003; 09:54AM - Cabo Fishing 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 MAY 26 - MAY 31, 2003
WEATHER: Windy, windy, windy! All week long the wind has been blowing from the
west-northwest and starting on Tuesday night, it did not stop until Thursday early am. Now it has
started every day at noon and blown until around three am. Almost whitecaps in the Marina, and
during the middle of the week our early morning low was 58 degrees. Daytime highs have ranged
from 80 to 90 degrees. Clear skies most of the week with just a slight haze later on. (Grey
Walls)
WATER: The strong winds combined with an increase in strength of the California current
brought cold water into our area again, starting on Tuesday. This strong current forced water as
cold as 67 degrees across the 95 and 1150 spots on Tuesday. As the week wore on the cold
waters started to retreat and on the Cortez side of the Cape the nearshore waters warmed up to
71-72 degrees. As of the end of the week we have water temperature on the Pacific side of the
Cape at 61 degrees. (I Feel So Good)
BAIT: Mackerel was the bait of the week at the normal $2 per bait, and it was difficult to find
at times if you were one of the later boats out of the Marina. (Keep Your Distance)
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Most of the Marlin action this week was on Striped Marlin though there was a
report of a Blue Marlin caught early in the week. Monday and Tuesday were good for Striped
Marlin with fish being found all over the place out at the 95 spot. It was not uncommon for 30
fish to be spotted on the surface during a trip, but bites were few and far between. Sometimes
trying a dead bait instead of a live one worked, or dropping the leader size down helped, but the
average hookup ratio was still one fish for every 10 baited. With the strong winds and cold water
starting on Tuesday afternoon, the fish disappeared although a few were still found close to shore
on the Cortez side. (You Dream Too Much)
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Scattered action on Yellowfin as most of them have moved far out of
the day charter boats range. Private boats were reporting action at a distance of 70 miles to the
southeast. Football size fish were reported outside Red Hill and there were a few caught on
yo-yo’s just off the arch. (1932 Vincent Black Lightning)
DORADO: A few fish were caught at the beginning of the week and the catch rate dropped off
as the cold water moved in. Best results were had on bright colored lures and slow trolled live
bait. (Why Must I Plead)
WAHOO: There was a short, one day bite on Wahoo on Thursday as boats fishing the calmer
water off of Red Hill found a concentration of fish in the 30-40 pound class. Most of the fish
were lost due to monofiliment leaders on the lures, but as they hits were reported many of the
crews changed over to wire leaders and were able to hang on to a fish or two. (God Loves A
Drunk)
INSHORE: Two day of good Roosterfish at the beginning of the week changed as the cold
water moved in and in their place came Sierra and Yellowtail. The Pacific side became unfishable
up past the lighthouse. (Psycho Street)
NOTES: Hopefully the winds and currents will change and warm water will return to our
area. Everyone here is joking that we will be seeing Albacore again! Well, you never know. This
week’s report is going out a day early since we will be going up to the East Cape on Sunday to do
a little surf fishing and to listen to “The Dorado’s”, the World’s Greatest Fishing Band when they
play at the “Let’s Talk Hook-up Tournament” at Rancho Leonero. This week’s report was
written to the music of Richard Thompson on his “Rumors and Sighs” CD, a 1991 Capitol
release. Many thanks to Billy “Be-Bop” Bowman for lending me his CD to listen to!
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May 26, 2003; 11:52AM - Fly Hooker Daily Fishing Reports
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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“FLY HOOKER” FISH TOTALS FOR THE WEEK:
Striped Marlin: 9 fish tagged and released (#140)
Wahoo: 2 fish caught (#70)
Dorado: 2 fish caught (#20)
Tuna: 37 fish caught (#80)
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR MAY 19, 2003
Greg Wlazlowski is our angler for today and he has returned to Cabo with his wife Chris and
will be fishing for three days this week, sort of a busman’s holiday if you will, as he works
part-time as deckhand on a Sportfishing boat back home in New Jersey. Today Juan and Manuel
took Greg 12 miles to the south of the Lighthouse (Pacific) before putting lines in the water.
Most of their time was spent working 18-20 miles south and boy, was Greg happy with the
results! The water was a bit choppy but he fought every one of the fish standing up. Total for the
day was one Striped Marlin, tagged and released, two Dorado in the 20 pound range, two
Wahoo, one of them over 60 pounds on a Marauder and one over 70 pounds on a High-5
Green/Black lure (nice fish!) and around a dozen Tuna, all of them 20 pound fish. Right after the
trip he was fine but when we saw him and Chris in the evening, he was starting to feel the pain in
his arms! Greg is fishing again on Thursday and Friday, lets hope the fishing and the weather
holds!
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR MAY 20, 2003
Richard, his wife and friend went fishing for a 1/2 day the day before yesterday with another
boat and caught nothing. No bueno, so they saw Greg come in yesterday with all the flags flying
and they are friends of friends, so....next thing you know, we get contacted and here they are!
Richard would really like fish to take home but the most important thing, according to him, is that
they don’t leave Cabo “skunked”. Juan and Manuel tried their best. On the way out to the same
area they worked yesterday they got a hit from what Juan said was a very big Wahoo, but it did
not stay on. Once they got to the area, 20 miles out, they started to see lots of porpoise but could
not get hit. Finally they tossed bait to a Striped Marlin and they fought that to the boat, then
tagged it with a “Billfish Foundation” tag and released the fish. A short while later they did the
same thing again (with a different Marlin, of course). A little later on they hooked one more, but
lost if after a very short time. No bites from any Tuna, no meat to take home, but two release
certificates coming at them in a few weeks, and good memories! Thanks folks, every day is
different, perhaps next time there will be “meat” fish for you to catch and return home with!
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR 21 MAY, 2003
Anyone familiar with Cabo knows Brad Pollack, the owner of our favorite hang-out,
“Tanga-Tanga” and the “Fish House Restaurant”. He and our friend Rod L’Anglais, the owner of
“Emil-Lene’s Sirloin House” in Aurora, Colorado were our anglers on the “Fly Hooker” today.
Both of them are very good friends of ours and their request for the day was for Yellowfin Tuna.
Juan and Manuel did their best but were not able to get into the fish until late in the morning and
the fish were 24-26 miles to the south. Once they found them, the action was good with multiple
strikes. Most of the fish were 20 pounders but Rod hooked into one that may have gone 60-70
pounds. Having just finished bringing in two Tuna, we was pretty maxed out after around 15
minutes and handed the rod off to Brad, and he was able to finish the fish off. The fog moved
into the area while they were out there and it got cold! After that action they turned to head in
and picked up a couple more fish, then cruised on back. Juan slipped and twisted his back on the
return trip while washing down the deck so he is out of action for tomorrow. The 160 quart
cooler was full of great fillets at the end of the trip and both Road and Brad were very happy with
the action.
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR 22 MAY, 2003
Today is Greg’s second day of fishing and since he had enough meat to take home from
Monday’s outing, and he can catch all the Yellowfin he wants back in New Jersey, today is a
Marlin outing. Again, the action did not happen until late in the day and I was told that while they
tossed bait to several fish prior to the first hook-up, that was not until 10am. Manuel and Edgar
worked the area of the “95 Spot” and there was plenty of action. The water was off-colored and
cold, down to 71 degrees, but for some reason the fish were concentrated there. From 10am until
1pm Greg wore his arms out fighting, tagging and releasing three Striped Marlin! Other fish were
seen and worked, and no fish that bit got away. The wind started blowing last night around
midnight and did not let up all day so there was quite a bit of wind chop out there along with
some nice sized swells. Greg wants to do a repeat of today’s trip for tomorrow and has requested
that I go along. I have my fingers crossed that the action remains good!
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR 23 MAY, 2003
This is Greg Wlazlowski’s third and final day of fishing on this vacation and he has invited me
to go along. After the great action he had yesterday I figured that the black cloud that sometimes
seems to follow me when I go on the boat and the target is Marlin might just vanish.
Hahaha....around noon we were both starting to wonder if maybe that little thing was still hanging
around my head and affecting the luck of others around me. Juan and Manuel took us out to the
same area where all the fish had been yesterday and we did spot a fish on the surface, but looking
back at it later on we decided that the fish had been sleeping, just barely moving at all. As soon as
Greg tossed the bait near it, the fish went down. That was at 8:15 in the morning and since the
fish had bit late yesterday, we were not too worried about it at the time. Along about 10:30 I
started to get a little concerned but did not say anything to Greg. At 11 Manuel spotted another
fish on the surface and it was moving, not sleeping. Juan tossed the bait this time, and the fish
acted like it wanted to eat, lighting up a bit and scaring the heck out of the Mackerel. I pinned on
another bait as Juan reeled in to change and the Marlin started to chase mine around also, but it
just wouldn’t eat! Juan got another bait out and we now had two live Mackerel swimming
around that the Marlin would not touch. Juan reeled in his one more time and slammed it on the
deck, stunning the bait in the hope that the fish would eat one if it was easier to catch. No dice,
this fish just disappeared on us. At 12:30 Manuel sighted another tail and Juan tossed out the bait
one more time. Just goes to show you, never give up! This fish ate the bait like it was hungry,
just came right in and grabbed it! Greg started to work the fish as we cleared the lines and the
first few minutes the fish was coming right to the boat. I started to think maybe someone else had
just released the Marlin and Greg was saying that the fish did not have a lot of fight to it when all
of a sudden it took off on a good run. Lots of runs later and after quite a few jumps in the 25
minutes it took to get the fish boatside I was able to place the tag as Juan held the leader. As the
fish felt the tag go in it made a surge and the #100 leader parted. No black cloud now and Greg
and I high fived it with Juan and Manuel and we trolled back home with no further action, but not
skunked either! Thanks for the invite Greg, I hope the lures you are taking home with you work
out well. Until we get a chance to see you and Chris again, tight lines!
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR 25 MAY, 2003
Sol and Brenda Watson are from New York and are here for just two days, they flew in last
night and leave tomorrow for the East Cape. Sol is a fly fisherman and would love to get a Marlin
on the fly, Brenda loves to fish but would prefer conventional tackle. They were directed to us
through “Baja On The Fly”, owned by Gary and Yvonne Graham. As the trip was to focus on fly
fishing, I went along. We began at 8 miles out, in the 95 spot area but did not see any fish until
the 12 mile mark, almost due east of the marina. On the way, Sol and I ran through what would
happen (assuming things went the way we wanted) when a fish came in. The first fish we spotted
I tried to toss out the bridled live bait and the dacron line ripped through the attachment area and
the bait flew off. ****, I quickly pinned on another live bait on a rig with a hook and tossed it out
there. The fish came in to the bait and I tried to reel it in and keep it away from the Marlin, then
too late realized that the drag had not been set and there was nothing to work with. The Marlin
grabbed the Mackerel and swam off with it as I got the drag set up and handed the rod to Sol.
With the hook set, it took him 25 minutes to catch, tag and release his first Marlin ever, and the
first one he has ever seen close up in person! His previous big fish were a Sailfish and a Tarpon
of about #140. Knowing there were fish in the area we continued to work it. We baited two
more Marlin with only one showing interest, but it would not take the fly. A little later we found
another fish that we were able to tease right up to the transom, but again, the fish showed no
interest in the fly and we eventually allowed it to eat the bait and we got Brenda on the fish! At
about 30 minutes into the fight we broke the starboard throttle cable so I had to work the throttle
from the engine as we spun the boat back and forth chasing the fish. Brenda had plenty of
coaching from Sol, and a little help from Hector (Manual’s day off) and after 65 minutes and lots
of action, she got to see her fish up close and personal as we placed a tag in it and released the
#140 Marlin. Great job Brenda! We saw several other fish on the way back in but most of them
went down by the time we got to them. All in all, a great day with two released Striped Marlin
and two happy anglers. Don’t worry Sol, you will probably get one on the fly at the East Cape!
Thanks for fishing with us and have a great vacation!
Until next week, Tight Lines from George, Mary, Juan and Manuel, the “Fly Hooker” crew!
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May 26, 2003; 11:49AM - 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
Flyhooker Sportfishing
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
CABO SAN LUCAS FISH REPORT MAY 19 - MAY 25, 2003
WEATHER: Clear skies all week long and our highs were in the mid 90’s with our nighttime
lows ranging from the high 60’s to 80 degrees. Great weather conditions until Tuesday evening
when the wind started to jack it up in volume and speed, and it was coming from the west! That
gave us almost nowhere to hide on the way in and it did not die down overnight as it had been
doing. This gave us very rough conditions on the Pacific side of the Cape for the rest for the
week but the wind slowly shifted to a bit more north and the Cortez side actually shaped up very
well. (Lush)
WATER: The cold water from the Pacific continued it’s incursion in the area through
mid-week but by Friday afternoon it had weakened and the warm water was beginning to come
out of the Cortez once again. On the Pacific side it remained cold with temperatures in the high
60’s and low 70’s through the end of this reporting period, but we were once again seeing 80-82
degree water on the Cortez side. By Saturday afternoon the 95 Spot, 1150 and the outer Gorda
were once again showing readings of 80 degrees and the water was back to a lavender color.
Inshore the water remained warm but was still off-color, out to a distance of about a mile. The
temperature and color have been shifting on a daily basis, ebbing back and forth, but steadily
working warmer and bluer water westward. (Soma)
BAIT: Mackerel were once again the bait of the week at the usual $2 per bait. (Dream)
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Hot spot for the week was the 95 Spot and areas to the east of there from
Wednesday afternoon to the weekend, then the fish shifted inshore and started to show in large
numbers within 3 miles of the Cortez coast with the largest concentrations from Chileno to San
Jose. The down side of having the fish closer was that they were not in as good a mood to bite as
the ones offshore had been. A lot of multiple hook-ups were reported mid-week but by Friday the
bite had fallen off and a lot of boats came in flying no flags at all. On Sunday the action shifted
offshore again and the bite improved. Live bait was the ticket for getting fish to the boat. (Duende
Del Amor)
YELLOWFIN TUNA: The Yellowfin remained off the bite and pretty much out of the area for
most boats this week, and that may have been due to the rough conditions out on the Pacific side
of the Cape. On Saturday there were reports of Large Tuna, the size of “Volkswagens”,
appearing with Porpoise off of the Seamount and outside the outer Gorda, but they were being
extremely picky about eating, and very line shy as well. Cedar plugs were the ticket to getting
any Yellowfin this week. (Black Stone Buleria)
DORADO: Dorado bite was down as the Pacific side roughened up but there were still some
nice fish coming in, just not in the numbers we had been having the last few weeks. Most of the
fish were falling to bright colored lures (what a surprise, huh?) and live bait. Most of the fish
were found as blind strikes with following fish being taken of live bait dropped back. (Santa Fe)
WAHOO: I guess three weeks was pushing it a bit far, but it was a great run while it lasted!
Very few fish were caught as the week neared it’s end, and those that did bite were blind strikes.
(Snake Charmer)
INSHORE: The Pacific side north of the lighthouse was blown out but there was good action
this side of the Cape on Pargo for those using bait in the rocks. Some Roosterfish were found up
in the Sea of Cortez in the San Jose area but the cooler off-green water closer to Cabo put them
off the bite. I did see some very nice Cabrilla come in from a few commercial Pangas working
outside of Cabo, in the Grey Rock area. (Buddha’s Flower)
NOTES: The turn in the winds really did a number on the fishing this week but it appears that
it is just temporary as the warm water is returning. The fish of the week was definitely Marlin,
and as you can tell from the report, the action in the first half of the week was outstanding! I
received a note from one of my music idols and since this was the first (and only) response from
any artist I have ever listed, I would like to express my appreciation by letting all of you know
that Ottmar Liebert is not only an awesome guitarist, he is also an all around nice guy! Thanks
OL, you made my day, and my next purchase of music will be your “Lava” album. Meanwhile,
for those of you who have not had the pleasure of his music, check it out at www.lunanegra.com.
This report was written while listening to his 1995 Sony release “Viva”.
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May 19, 2003; 10:59AM - 'Fly Hooker Daily Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR MAY 15, 2003
Tom, Scott and John were our anglers today. Manuel and Edgar took of to the south this
morning and 10 miles out they got into the fish. It was Tuna, and none of them were particularly
large, but there was steady action. After working the area for a while they ended up with 11 fish
in the boat, the largest of them in the 20 pound class. Most of the action was double strikes and
the cedar plug was one of the hot lures, the other was the dark feather. The rest of the day was
pretty uneventful. They did see more signs of life out there as they worked their way downswell
into the Sea of Cortez, but it was not until Edgar was putting the flags up prepatory to the short
run in that they actually hooked up another fish. The clicker had not been re-set on one of the
reels, I believe it was the short flat line, and with a lot of line out someone finally realized there
was a fish on! Into the boat came a very tired Wahoo in the 30-40 pound class! Good water,
good fishing and a good time, isn’t that what it’s all about? Thanks guys, we hope to see you
again soon!
Until next week, Tight Lines from George, Mary, Juan and Manuel, the “Fly Hooker” crew!
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