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Nov 21, 2011; 11:24AM - Cabo Bite Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrum
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
http://captgeo.wordpress.com/
Cabo Fish Report
November 14-20, 2011
WEATHER: Would you like the evenings to be in the high 60's, the daytime in the mid 80's, mostly clear skies with no rain and light winds? Well, come on down!
WATER: At the end of the week the water in the Sea of Cortez to the east of Punta Gorda was the warmest in our area with a surface temperature of 82-83 degrees. Closer to home, the area inside the 1,000 fathom line in the Sea of Cortez had water that was 80-81 degrees while outside the 1,000 fathom line it cooled to 78-79 degrees. On the Pacific side there was a thin band of cool water along the shore with 78 degree water, then it quickly rose to 80 degrees. Surface conditions were great with 2-4 foot swells and only a light breeze. In close to shore in the afternoons it chopped up a bit but offshore remained smooth.
BAIT: We finally started getting some bait but they have been very small Caballito, and the bait guys are still very proud of them, asking 2-3 dollars each for bait that is 6 inches. There are also green jacks which I think are pretty much a wasted bait, so the Caballito have been the way to go, perfect size for the small Dorado we have been seeing.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: While the Striped Marlin fishing has not gotten red hot yet, hopefully it is a matter of time. Boats going up the beach toward Todo Santos are seeing more and more fish out there, most of them fairly close to the beach. On Captain fishing a few hours Sunday saw 6 on the surface by the lighthouse but they would not bite. Some of the boats have been releasing two or three a day and seeing many more. There are still some Blue Marlin around as well as I can attest to personally. Sunday we were fishing south of the San Jaime Bank and hooked up young Brice (14 years old) to his first Blue Marlin and after 40 minutes released one we estimated at 250 pounds. Other boats reported hook-ups in the same area over the course of the week as well.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Still an off and on fishery, the Yellowfin have been hard to figure out. My deckhand fished another boat at the start of the week and reported a steady bite on fish ranging from 80 to 300 pounds at the Inner Gorda Bank, but on Friday the bite totally shut off. There were reports of large Tuna being found on the Pacific side to the north and inside of the Golden Gate Bank but the fish moved out fast, only a few boats getting into the action. On Sunday we were fishing on the south side of the San Jaime and found a good pod of Spinner Dolphin and managed to catch 17 footballs between 12 and 20 pounds. Like most fishing it was a matter of being in the right place at the right time.
DORADO: Still the bread and butter of the fleet and the Pangas, this has been an off and on bite as well. At the beginning of the week there were plenty of fish showing along the beach on the Pacific side, but it seemed to be mostly a live bait fishery, find one by trolling then working the area with live bait while keeping the first one hooked up behind the boat. Of course it helped to find something floating in the water and that happened to several boats this weed as a tree trunk was found to the north of the Golden Gate and it produced plenty of fish for the first few boats that got there. Closer to home there are still plenty of Dorado but the average size is much smaller. One of the Panga Captains reported 7 Dorado in three hours with only two of the fish larger than 15 pounds while another managed to get 17 of them under his commercial license with all the fish being under 10 pounds. So, they are there, but they are small.
WAHOO: There were some average size Wahoo in the 25-30 pound class reported this week by the boats working the beach areas for Dorado, but most of the fish hooked were lost. One of the larger boats, first on the scene of the tree trunk, reported catching five We-hoo's off of it, lol!
INSHORE: The water continues to cool so hopefully there will be some Sierra and Yellowtail showing in numbers in the weeks to come. Meanwhile, most of the Pangas are going after Dorado since they are close and plentiful (even if they are small on average).
FISH RECIPE: posted on the blog Thursday or Friday. We have been really busy the past several weeks and promise to get a new one up this week!
NOTES: Once again great weather for the week, decent fishing and good water. Perfect combination and it makes me think about our friends the Shorts and Lawrences up in Alaska. Mike Short reported removing 14 inches of snow from his truck last week and yesterday had 3 degree weather. Get back here where it's warm, what do you think you are, Polar Bears? My thanks once again to Mark Bailey for the music selection of the week as I listened once again to the Rodeo Clown Dropouts. Until next week, tight lines!
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Nov 16, 2011; 02:04AM - Northern BC Canada Fishing Report November 14/11
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Category: Canada
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Author Name: Noel Gyger
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Fishing Report from Noel Gyger http: www.noelgyger.ca for Monday November 14, 2011 Smithers, Terrace, Kitimat
Current LIVE Fishing Report can be read anytime 24-7 at: http://www.noelgyger.ca/current-fishing-reports.htm
Skeena River: Water is clean. Some great Steelhead can still be had. Plus some good Trout Fishing. Reg: Coho fishing will end October 31st. Reg: all wild Steelhead everywhere in British Columbia are catch and release.
Kalum River: Both the lower and upper sections are in fishable shape. The lake is still stained with a little colour. It has been cleaning a little bit each day. A good run of Steelhead is in the river now. I have reports of some good catches.
Lakelse River: The water is in good shape and fishing for Steelhead, Trout is fantastic.
Zymoetz (Copper) River: Water really come up and is borderline fishable now. Some would say NOT fishable. Too bad as the Steelhead fishing has been excellent. Facts: Last year we had a record run of Steelhead, let’s hope at least we have another good run this year. The fly rods work extremely well in this river.
Kitimat River: Fishing for Coho closes today October 31, 2011. All that is left to do now is fish for local Trout.
Lakes - Smithers: Lake fishing in the area is still very good. Fishing for rainbow trout and lake trout has been very productive.
Summary for Morice, Bulkley, Kispiox Rivers from Oscars Tackle Shop. Well fishing is not over yet but it does look more and more like Christmas out there. Fishing is still really good if you can deal with the colder weather. The water temperature has dropped a bit. We have reports of really nice fishing being caught on the Kispiox and on the Bulkley. Looking at the weather report we might get a little bit more snow & colder weather. Better go out there a few more times before it is all over for another year!
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Nov 14, 2011; 11:27AM - Cabo Bite Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrum
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
http://captgeo.wordpress.com/
Cabo Fish Report
November 7-13, 2011
WEATHER: Wow, it just keeps getting better every day! Daytime highs in the low 90's and nighttime lows in the low 70's, does it really get any better than this? We had partly cloudy skies for most of the week and toward the end of the week we had some really blustery days, Saturday was a bit windy in the afternoon. No rain here in town but it looked as if there might have been some in the mountains.
WATER: Surface temperatures were 84 degrees close to Cabo from the shore to about 5-8 miles out, then they dropped to 81-82 degrees. The water stayed at 84 degrees up toward San Jose. On the Pacific side it was in the cooler side with most of the water 81 to 82 degrees. Thee was a plume of warm 84 degree water that ran from the tip of the Cape toward the west and across the southern end of the San Jaime Bank for several days. Mid week the water on the Pacific side was a bit on the rough side due to the winds, but it calmed down at the end of the week. Swells on the Pacific side were in the 4-6 foot range and in the 2-3 foot range on the Sea of Cortez.
BAIT: It was still tough to get good bait this week, some of the bait guys were bringing it down from San Jose but by the time it got here after an hour of running full bore and pounding and slapping on the way it was a bit beat up and did not last long in the bait tanks. It's hard to justify spending $30 on live bait just to have it die within 4 hours so a lot of anglers were opting to just buy a few and see if they would be able to catch something else to use later on. Caballito and Mullet were $3 each, or sometimes $4 each depending on the supplier. There were some sardinas, but not many and they were pricy at around $35 a scoop.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Small Blue and Black Marlin as well as a decent showing of Sailfish combined with an increasing number of Striped Marlin kept anglers excited this week. The big news was the increase in the number of Striped Marlin being caught. For the boats that were able to get farther up the coast toward the north side of the Golden Gate Bank there were plenty of Striped Marlin to see, and many of them were hungry. A good day was three releases, a great day was 5 releases but the average was one or two per day. Mackerel are beginning to show up and the water is cooling down so perhaps we are going to have a good season on these billfish. Some of the private boats that have been fishing in the Mag Bay area have reported that the Striped Marlin bite is almost wide open so if the fish continue to move in our direction....well, remember 4 years ago? Look out buddy, better put new line on them reels!!
YELLOWFIN TUNA: What a change! One week the Tuna fishing was world class and then it tanked for five or six days. I don't know the reason but the fleet was getting skunked just three days after one of the best Tuna Tournaments we have had in a long time. At least by the end of the week the fish had started to show up again. This is not to say that there were no Tuna being caught because there were, and they were nice ones, it's just that the school fish we had been seeing in the 25-40 pound class seemed to have disappeared. Boats were still getting some of the larger fish in the 100-200 class. We had one party that caught a 65 and 45 pound tuna and that made everyone happy because it had been slow.
DORADO: The Dorado continue to bite and have become the bread and butter of the charter fleet for the past few weeks. Most of the fish have come on live bait slow trolled in areas where the fish have been found after getting strike on a lure. Averaging 12 pounds, they have not been large but there have been enough of them for most anglers to limit out if they want to. A few larger fish have been caught but anything over 30 pounds has been rare. Almost all the action has been on the Pacific side of the Cape between the lighthouse and the inside of the Golden Gate Bank.
WAHOO: Never a very common fish, the approach and arrival of the full moon helped in the catching of Wahoo this week. My guess is that about 50% of the boats fishing close to shore for Dorado had at least on bite from a Wahoo. The problem of course is the razor sharp teeth these fish have. Slow trolling a live bait on 80 pound monofiliment line is not the ideal way to keep one hooked up! If you use a wire leader you won't catch very many Dorado, so there were quite a few bite offs from Wahoo. Nothing is quite as frustrating as seeing a splash behind your bait and pulling it in just to find that the back half has been surgically removed.
INSHORE: Still no reports of Sierra that I have heard of, but we did have a client that managed to get a 20 pound Yellowtail this week by jigging close to the bottom in 200 feet of water. Most of the Pangas were focused on the Dorado and Marlin because they were close to shore and not far from home.
FISH RECIPE: posted on the blog Thursday or Friday. We have been really busy the past several weeks and promise to get a new one up this week!
NOTES: Let's see. Perfect weather, great fishing, sunshine, the whales are beginning to show up, guess it's time to make travel plans! We hope you manage to take advantage of our present conditions and visit Cabo soon. This weeks report was written to the music of Cory Morrow on his 2010 release “Brand New Me”. You really need to check him out, my heartfelt thanks to Mark Bailey (once again) for introducing me to this album! Until next week, tight lines!
Gordo Banks Pangas
San Jose del Cabo
November 11, 2011
This is now peak Fall Season for the Los Cabos region and tourists are now arriving
in large numbers. The weather is just about perfect now, highs in the low 80s, lows
mid 60s, sunny skies, varying winds, now becoming more predominate from the north.
We are now enjoying very pleasant weather conditions.
Water temperatures averaged in the 80/83 degree range throughout this past week.
Clean blue water, baitfish on the fishing grounds, things looking good, but ever
since the passing of the WON Tuna Event, anglers have found that the fishing action
has slowed and spread out more, anglers were having to patiently search for limited
catches of yellowfin tuna, dorado, wahoo, sailfish and other species. There has been
heavy pressure now for months on baitfish schools and anglers had to search and
often wait to find available sardinas and caballito from the commercial pangeros.
The season’s first northerly winds blew in on Tuesday, gusting to 25 mph through
most of day, on and off several days, though tapering off compared to that first
day. This made for very wet and choppy seas, more powerful towards the north,
anglers could find protected calm waters towards Cabo San Lucas and on the Pacific,
a difference of thirty nautical miles can mean a huge difference in wind patterns in
this area.
Anglers did report yellowfin tuna off of the La Fortuna, Iman and Gordo Banks. These
fish ranged from 20 to 100 pounds, the largest tuna found were the fish schooling on
the Gordo Banks, conditions seem to shut down action, though quality yellowfin are
still on these grounds and with water temperatures still favorable we should see
continued opportunities of finding cow sized tuna. The action was slow this past
week, wind did not help at all, with the breezes residing this will hopefully help
put things back on track. These tuna have been striking various baits, dead, live or
chunk, with lots of chum needed to get them up in the feeding mood anglers reported
success while using lighter and longer fluorocarbon leaders. On La Fortuna and the
Iman Bank, catches included yellowfin tuna, wahoo, rainbow runner, sailfish, pargo
and bonito, no significant numbers, mainly in ones or twos,
Trolling with live chuihil on the Gordo Banks was producing hook ups on yellowfin in
recent days. Only a handful of fish being accounted for now, some of them quality
sized, there are fish in the area and any given day this bite could bust wide open.
Despite these things the majority of people are having a good time.
Dorado were more numerous in the direction of Cabo San Lucas, trolling medium sized
lures to find the schools and then using bait worked well on fish in the 5 to 20
pound size. Wahoo have been slow to become active this season, spotty action for the
past month, this weekend, on Saturday, was the first time these fish really went on
a frenzied bite, for the handful of panga anglers that were trolling the Iman Bank
on this morning, they reported taking as many as a dozen big strikes for wahoo,
landing up as many as 6 fish per boat, sizes up to fifty pounds, some anglers did
not have as high of hook up ratio. Anglers had most of these strikes while trolling
live caballito or chuhuil, some wahoo also hit high speed trolled lures. Very
encouraging news on the wahoo and there were favorable reports also from the Gordo
Banks, as larger sized yellowfin tuna were accounted for the past couple of days.
On November 20, the planned La Playita Wahoo Tournament is scheduled, a one day
event with various jackpot categories, also the keys to a new car will be up for
grabs in a separate raffle. Hopefully the wahoo will wake up in time for this event,
which either way will be a fun event.
The combined panga fleets launching from La Playita/Puerto Los Cabos sent out
approximately 248 charters for the week, with anglers accounted for, 2 blue marlin,
3 striped marlin, 23 sailfish, 68 wahoo, 226 dorado, 118 yellowfin tuna, 9 dogtooth
snapper, 14 yellowtail, 18 rainbow runner, 44 pargo, 30 triggerfish, 35 bonito 6
pompano and 12 hammerhead shark.
Good Fishing, Eric
GORDO BANKS PANGAS
Eric Brictson
Owner/Operator
800 4081199
Los Cabos 1421147
ericgordobanks@yahoo.com
www.gordobanks.com
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Nov 14, 2011; 08:45AM - A BIZZARE FISH TAIL
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: MARK RAYOR
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A bizzare fish tail
Our week started out with strong winds and angry
seas. It was so rocky 'n rolly I didn't pack my cameras,
for fear of damaging them. That didn't stop Brent
Kison and Phil Bidarn from fishing on Jen Wren III for
three days. During that time they released one bill
fish or more each day, caught a fish locker full of
dorado and even a wahoo. On their last day they
added 8 nice 30 pound yellowfin tuna to the tally. All
the action came just a few miles off shore near La
Ribera.
Finally the seas have calmed and yesterday I fished on
Mi Corazon with owner Andrew Hughes and a couple
of his buddies. We fished in shore between Punta
Colorada and the light house and witnessed dorado in
a feeding frenzy. Andrew also landed his first sierra
of this season.
Mark Rayor
[url=http://www.teamjenwren.com]www.teamjenwren
.com[/url]
[url=http://markrayor.blogspot.com]Fishing the East
Cape with Mark Rayor[/url]
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Nov 8, 2011; 12:54AM - Northern BC Canada Fishing Report
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Category: Canada
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Author Name: Noel Gyger
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Fishing Report from Noel Gyger http: www.noelgyger.ca for Monday November 7, 2011 Smithers, Terrace, Kitimat
Current LIVE Fishing Report can be read anytime 24-7 at: http://www.noelgyger.ca/current-fishing-reports.htm
Skeena River: Water is clean. Some great Steelhead can still be had. Plus some good Trout Fishing. Reg: Coho fishing closed October 31st. Reg: all wild Steelhead everywhere in British Columbia are catch and release.
Kalum River: Both the lower and upper sections are in fishable shape. The lake is still stained with a little colour. It has been cleaning a little bit each day. A good run of Steelhead is in the river now. I have reports of some good catches.
Lakelse River: The water is in good shape and fishing for Steelhead, Trout is fantastic.
Zymoetz (Copper) River: Water is in good shape. Steelhead fishing is outstanding. I have many reports of good catches. Facts: Last year we had a record run of Steelhead, let’s hope at least we have another good run this year. The fly rods work extremely well in this river.
Kitimat River: Fishing for Coho closes today October 31, 2011. All that is left to do now is fish for local Trout.
Lakes - Smithers: Lake fishing in the area is still very good. Fishing for rainbow trout and lake trout has been very productive.
Morice River: The Morice river is also dropping and fishing is good.
Bulkley River: The Bulkley River is dropping and the water is clear. Fish are being caught through out the Bulkley. Dress warm!
Kispiox River: The Kispiox is up and down a bit. Fishing is good.
Babine River: Babine is dropping bit by bit. Steelhead are being caught.
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Nov 7, 2011; 01:09PM - KNOWING WHEN TO FOLD EM
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: MARK RAYOR
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Knowing when to fold em
We had not been fishing for a few days when I heard
chatter on the VHF that the fleet was experiencing the
best blue marlin bite of the season. With no charters
on the horizon for a couple more days I decided to go
out and give it a look. Reportedly the best bite was
near the buoys off Pescadero.
It was not hard to find the spot because when we
arrived there was already about a half dozen boats
slow trolling baits around the area. It only took a few
minutes and we hooked a sailfish. The action seemed
slow though and it didn't appear the other boats were
hooking up.
Later in the morning we hooked a marlin. It was about
the same time that word came out on the radio there
was a huge comarilla (feeding frenzy in spanish) of
striped marlin off the high spot of La Ribera. I could
hear the skippers in that area talking and it sounded
like the bite was full speed. One by one the boats in
our area pealed off in the direction of La Ribera until
we were alone. The chatter on the radio continued
and it sound like everybody was hooked up and many
of the boats had already released several fish.
Okay, what to do. The run to the hot spot off La
Ribera was only about a half hour. Should we join the
fleet or wait for the fish to show? With clients we
probably would have left a long time ago and headed
for the sure thing. I liked my cards though. All alone
with no traffic in the area where several blue marlin
were landed the day before. I decided to stand pat
and play the day out where we were. Looking back
maybe we should have folded and made the move.
We never had another bite. That's fishing!
Later in the week one of my best buddies, Spa Buena
Vista home owner Jim Bull fished Jen Wren III. Jim had
much better luck trolling live skippys off La Ribera
and finished the day with 3 sailfish and a couple
small dorado.
The hot bite had been going on for almost a week
when Spa Buena Vista home owner Matt Clifton
arrived with the goal of catching a striped marlin on
the fly. Matt is an accomplished fly fishing guide and
my thoughts were that his timing might just be
perfect. We spent the day slow trolling live baits
without hooks with the idea we could tease the marlin
closer to the boat to give Matt a shot with his fly. As
luck would have it the fish decided to play hard ball
that day. In the course of the day three marlin came
in and kamikazied baits off our lines so fast there was
no time to react. It was frustrating for me to not be
able to give an angler that can handle a fly rod so well
at least a shot. That's fishing!
Mark Rayor
[url]www.teamjenwren.com[/url]
[url]http://markrayor.blogspot.com[/url]
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Nov 7, 2011; 10:38AM - Cabo Bite Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrum
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
http://captgeo.wordpress.com/
Cabo Fish Report
October 31-November 6, 2011
WEATHER: What great weather! Our nighttime lows have been in the low 70's while the daytime highs have pushed the mid 90's on a few days but have been in the low 90's most of the time. No rain, a few clouds and not a lot of wind, just a light breeze. I really don't think it gets any better than that!
WATER: Surface conditions have been great this week with normal swells from the west at 2-4 feet and a light breeze in the afternoon from the northwest at 10 knots. Water on the Pacific side of the Cape has averaged 8 degrees from three miles off the beach and out, in close it has been 82 degrees. On the Sea of Cortez things have averaged just a bit higher with the warm water at 85 degrees from the shore to the 1,000 fathom line, from the 95 spot and to the north. Outside of there it has been 83 degrees.
BAIT: Just like last week, bait, at least good live bait was hard to come by. The tournaments we have just had really stressed the ability of the bait boats, or perhaps they just got a bit lazy the past few weeks, after all, they have to be making a lot of money at the price they charge. There were a few live baits of the larger size, but not much in the way of quality baits. Toward San Jose you could get decent Sardinas at a better price, there was a high demand here because of the tuna tournament and the price was high.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Some decent size fish were caught during the Western Outdoor News Tuna Tournament by boats looking for big Tuna. I heard of one fight with a Blue Marlin estimated at 450 pounds and another with a Black Marlin estimated at right around 500 pounds. There were smaller fish caught as well with a number of Blues in the 150-250 pound class. Not as many Striped Marlin were caught as were seen, they tended to ignore the lures and go for live bait instead, unlike the Sailfish who would jump on anything that came their way. I don't mean it to sound as if there were billfish everywhere, there weren't, but there were enough of them out there that every anglers stood a decent chance of catching one. Most of the fish were found on the Pacific side, but the Black Marlin were all reported from the area around Punta Gorda.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Big fish and plenty of them were the words of the week as we had two days of full on tournament Tuna fishing. Results posted by the Western Outdoor News Tuna Tournament only showed the larger fish, but there were PLENTY of ones in the fish boxes that never reached the scales. With a minimum qualifying weight of 30 pounds 108 boats fishing two days managed to weigh three Tuna over 200 pounds, all caught on the second day. The largest at 213 pounds took home 36K, second place overall took home 158K for their 206 pound cow and third place overall had a fish that weighed 205 pounds and was worth 21K. The second place fish was brought in just minutes before the scale closed and since they were across the board in all the jackpots they took all the money for the second day. There were plenty of fish caught that were over 100 pounds and uncounted numbers in the 40-80 pound class. A 48 pound fish took home 36K since it was the only qualifying fish caught by a boat entered in the 10K jackpot on the first day. Almost all the action happened on the Pacific side this week but there were fish caught at the Gorda Banks and due south of us, but the majority were to the west.
DORADO: Once again it was almost impossible to avoid catching a Dorado, but it appeared difficult for any of the 108 boats in the tournament to get one over 30 pounds since none that size were weighed in. With no really large fish reported there was no shortage of smaller fish out there, most of them in the 10-18 pound class. An average trip resulted in several of these per person, most anglers catching their limit, or at least as many as they wanted. Once again most of the action happened on the Pacific side. Great results were had by pulling lures up the coast until getting a bite, then drifting or slow trolling the area with live bait.
WAHOO: I was truly surprised that the largest Wahoo weighed during the tournament was only 55.5 pounds the first day and under 40 pounds the second day, but they still managed to make 26K for each of their teams. There were many other Wahoo caught by boats entered in the tournament, as well as by daily charter boats, but none that were very big. On average the Wahoo brought in were in the 20-25 pound class. Not every boat caught one, but there were enough out there that you stood a good chance.
INSHORE: Just like last week. The water temperatures are staying warm, so still some nice Roosterfish around, snapper, groupers, almost November, but I haven't seen any sierra yet. The Dorado fishing is also good close to shore.
FISH RECIPE: posted on the blog Thursday or Friday.
NOTES: Most of the focus this week was on Tuna, and for good reason. The water is perfect and the fish are here! Toss in the numbers of Dorado and the Wahoo that are being caught and it is hard to pick a better time to get on down here with an empty cooler to fill with fish. We have seen a few Humpback Whales this week so those giants should start putting on a decent side show soon. If the weather and fishing gets any better I will think I dies and went to heaven! Many thanks from me to Mark Bailey for the re-supply of CD's! This week's report was written to the music of the Rodeo Clown Dropouts, strange but true.
Gordo Banks Pangas
San Jose del Cabo
November 6, 2011
The Los Cabos area is now bustling with tourists, they have been enjoying pristine
weather conditions and this week visitors are being entertained by the main event of
the annual WON Jackpot Tuna Tournament. Scores of sportfishing teams will be in
search of the cow sized yellowfin that could win them a big pay day.
In recent weeks the ocean water temperatures had warmed back up to 85/86 degrees,
but now it is to back down in to the 82/83 degrees. This season the water
temperatures have averaged higher than normal, this created different migration
patterns for baitfish and the gamefish alike. Overall the Fall Season has not been
producing as consistent catches as would normally be expected. We do anticipate as
conditions normalize the action will become steadier. Winds have become more
predominant from the north and should maintain this pattern through winter.
Out of San Jose del Cabo there were bait shortage issues, with anglers having to
travel out of their way and patiently wait in order to purchase very limited
quantities of sardinas. Schools of sardinas were now congregated mainly on the
beaches close to Cabo San Lucas. We should start to see more caballito and then
mackerel before too long.
Yellowfin tuna have been schooling now for a couple of months on the fishing grounds
from the Gordo Banks to Iman Bank, these concentrations of fish have proved to be
exceptionally hook shy this season, perhaps it has to do with warmer waters,
abundance of food sources found at deeper depths, hard to say exactly what the
reason is? One thing for sure, is that the fish are on the grounds, making good
showings on the surface and everyday there have been numbers of tuna landed. The
fish coming from the Iman area are weighing 20 to 40 pounds on an average and the
fish found on the Gordo Banks are mainly starting at about 80 pounds, ranging up to
cow sizes. Slow trolling with various baits, chihuil, bolito, skipjack produced
strikes, as did drift fishing with dead and live sardinas and chunk baits. The key
was consistent chumming, light leaders and being ready when the opportunities were
there, lots of patience needed.
Dorado action was a bit more spread out, but once schools were encountered, anglers
could put several in the box in a hurry. Most of the dorado found recently were
weighing in the 5 to 15 pound range, with a percentage of larger bulls reported.
Wahoo are showings signs of coming to life, as they became more active in recent
days, anglers reported strikes while slow trolling trap hooked baits and on the high
speed troll with various lures, areas from Santa Maria, Red Hill, towards Punta
Gorda and Iman all reported ‘hoo strikes. Wahoo to over fifty pounds were landed, we
do believe we are going to have a great run of late season wahoo, from what we have
seen the fish are larger sized this year.
Billfish opportunities included sailfish, striped, blue and black marlin, typically
this is the end of the big black and blue season and the migration of striped marlin
will be moving back with the cooling currents. At this time, with warmer water
temperatures, you could hook any given species any day. This week there was a 340
pound black marlin caught by Dennis Powell from the Lake Tahoe area while fishing
with local pangero Chame Pino. There was a larger blue marlin lost the next day from
the same area, there were quite a few sailfish reported and some striped marlin
found surprisingly close to shore. A handful of early season whales also reportedly
seen in local waters.
The combined panga fleets launching from La Playita/Puerto Los Cabos sent out
approximately 192 charters for the week, with anglers accounted for: 1 black marlin,
8 striped marlin, 18 sailfish, 17 wahoo, 242 dorado, 94 yellowfin tuna, 9 dogtooth
snapper, 9 amberjack, 16 cabrilla, 8 yellowtail, 8 rainbow runner, 12 hammerhead
shark and 8 pompano
Good Fishing, Eric
GORDO BANKS PANGAS
Eric Brictson
Owner/Operator
800 4081199
Los Cabos 1421147
ericgordobanks@yahoo.com
www.gordobanks.com
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Nov 1, 2011; 05:20PM - North Wind already, blow out October?
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Category: Saltwater Fly Fishing Reports
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Author Name: Gary Graham
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Endless Season Update Wednesday, October
31, 2011
REPORT #1265 'Below the Border'
Saltwater Fly-Fishing reports since 1996
East Cape
After a month of hot water and by all
accounts, slow fishing, the much awaited
cooling of the sea temperatures has
finally begun. Remembering the old
saying about being careful what you ask
for, the cooler water that was hoped
for, was brought about by or closely
followed by, an early dose of north
wind. While that may be good news for
arriving kite boarders, it's a bummer
for fishing.
But not so fast! The wind seems to be
what the doctor ordered. While the tuna
seem to have disappeared, the dorado are
suddenly hanging out around the shark
buoys…I think this is the first time
this season I could say that with
conviction. Plus…drum roll here… the
striped marlin and sailfish are back in
the game. How long will it last? I
wouldn't dare guess, but it is fun-fun-
fun fishing for the moment.
Current East Cape Weather
http://tiny.cc/EastCapeWeather303
Magdalena Bay, Baja Mexico
We received two 'on the spot' reports:
'We fished the ridge last Saturday,
Sunday and Monday. It was very slow.
We heard a few reports of boats getting
a wahoo or two, but we had no 'hoo
hookups. Got three dorado, and a YT on
the dropper, along with some small
grouper. Had a marlin strike that
missed. Saw about eight marlin and may
have had shots at them but we weren't
really interested in that. We talked to
many groups of fishermen, and many
locals. No one spoke of seeing tuna in
quite a while, and the quantities
mentioned did not gel with what I had
been hearing.'
The second report was from George
Landrum who helped bring a boat down
from Ensenada:
'Mid-morning we were at the mid-point on
the Ridge north of Mag Bay and the wind
finally died down, the water calmed and
also started to warm up a bit. We had
left Ensenada with green, 64 degree
water and by the time we reached the
upper Thetis Bank it had turned much
more blue and had warmed up to 72
degrees. With the water warm, clean and
much calmer we proceeded to put four
lures out and made a pass on the Thetis.
This resulted in catching the owner his
largest wahoo to date, estimated at 65
pounds! Several more passes resulted in
no more strikes so we continued on to
the lower Thetis Bank. This area had
plenty of striped marlin and we had a
fish in the pattern constantly. The
owner was fighting one when another one
swam right up to the transom and Carlos
quickly dropped another lure in the
water. With the swivel at the rod tip
and 10 feet of leader, he swung the lure
back and forth a few times and the
second fish bit and hooked up!
Thankfully it only stayed on a few
minutes then jumped off and we were able
to leader and release the fish the owner
had been fighting.
Wanting to arrive in Magdalena Bay
before dark we continued on and spotted
some shark buoys. Making a few passes
with the lures we were able to bring
several dorado on board to join the
wahoo already in the freezer. We then
powered up and ran into the bay,
anchoring up for the night at the Man of
War anchorage. With the underwater
lights on we caught a few live mackerel
for bait the next day and caught some
shut-eye.
Up again early, our plan was to head
straight out to the deep-water ledge and
see if we could find some tuna for
sashimi. As we were exiting Mag Bay we
spotted several areas where the mackerel
were feeding and caught another dozen to
put in the live bait tank.
We spotted a frigate bird and caught a
dorado about 20 minutes out, then under
another frigate 45 minutes later we had
a sailfish come in on a lure and hook
up. A short fight resulted in a release
at the boat. The rest of the day was
uneventful until we spotted more buoys
on the way in and caught three more
dorado, then had a wahoo strike just off
the beach on the way into anchor for the
night.'
Current Magdalena Bay Weather
http://tiny.cc/MagBayWeather150
Zihuatanejo, Mainland Mexico
See report on Baja Bytes report
Current Zihuatanejo Weather
http://tiny.cc/zihuatanejo582
Cabo San Lucas
The billfish have picked up, more
striped marlin are being caught, and the
sailfish numbers are remaining up there
also. They usually feed with the dorado,
but have heard reports of the sailfish
being caught alongside the yellowfin. No
reports of any large blue or black
marlin, but there were some in the 100
to 200 pound range.
Tuna! Tuna! Tuna! I want Sushi! Lots of
tuna around which is a good thing with
the Western Outdoor News Tuna Jackpot
coming up this Thursday and Friday. Most
of the tuna I have seen coming in
however have been in the 30 to 40 pound
range with a few in the 60 to 100 pound
range. There are reports of 200 pound
fish jumping, but couldn't get them to
bite. Tossing ballyhoo, mackerel, cedar
plugs, they just wouldn't bite. Whoever
figures out what they want will make
some money this week if they are in the
tournament!
Lots, and lots of dorado again. If you
are trolling inshore, they are hard to
miss. A lot of small ones; I even saw
someone with a 2 pound fish the other
day. Normally, those are thrown back,
but this one didn't make it. Most of the
fish are in the 8 to 15 pound range with
some hitting the 30 pound mark.
There have been a few wahoo flags
recently…fish in the 30 pound range. Not
usually many this time of year.
The water temperatures are staying warm,
so still some nice roosterfish around,
snapper, groupers; almost November, but
I haven't seen any sierra yet. The
dorado fishing is also good close to
shore…George and Mary Landrum
Current Cabo Weather
http://tiny.cc/cabo191
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Oct 31, 2011; 11:13AM - Cabo Bite Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrum
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
http://captgeo.wordpress.com/
Cabo Fish Report
October 23-30, 2011
WEATHER: My Favorite time of the year, the fish are biting, the hot hot humid days have gone away. Daytime high's in the low 90's, nighttime low 70's. Light breezes in the afternoons. No need for air conditioning. And the fish are biting!
WATER: The best fishing has been on the Pacific side with San Jaime and Golden Gate Banks holding temperatures of 83-84 degrees and the best fishing. Water temps over by Gorda Banks are about 84-87, but they don't seem to be holding much fish there. The Pacific side is the place to be!
BAIT: Bait, at least good live bait was hard to come by this week. Many of the boats were going with frozen Ballyhoo instead, at least you could get those, but they were expensive at $4 each. There were a few live baits of the larger size, but not much in the way of quality baits. Toward San Jose you could get decent Sardinas, and the farther you got from Cabo the more you got for your money.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: The billfish have picked up this week, more striped marlin are being caught, and the sailfish numbers are remaining up there also. They usually feed with the dorado, but have heard reports of the sailfish being caught along side the yellowfin. I did not hear of any large blue or black marlin this, week, but some in the 100-200 lb range. George: We caught Sailfish and Striped Marlin outside Mag Bay on the way down, the water was 81 degrees and there were decent concentrations of Striped Marlin at the south end of the Ridge and on the lower Thetis Bank. More Sailfish again locally at the San Jaime Bank but we did not have a Blue or Black come in on the lures the entire trip.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Tuna Tuna Tuna, I want Sushi! Lots of tuna around which is good thing with the Western Outdoor News Tuna Jackpot coming up this Thursday and Friday. Most of the tuna I have seen coming in have been in the 30-40 lb range with a few 60 -100lb range. Reports of 200 lb fish jumping, but couldn't get them to bite. Tossing ballyhoo, mackerel, cedar plugs, they just wouldn't bite. Whoever figures out what they want will make some money this week if they are in the tournament! George: We were hoping to fish the Finger Bank on the way down and tried to time it so we could, but instead we passed the bank at 4AM. I saw three long range boats out of San Diego anchored up as well as a few private boats, but there was no one on the decks fishing except for a deckhand on each boat keeping the chum going. I heard one private boat captain talking to another on the radio and he reported catching three Yellowfin over 200 pounds while fly-lining live mackerel, but he was there for two days. I saw nice meter marks from big fish on the west side of the Golden Gate Bank but they were deep, 250 to 300 feet. Locally the boats were finding the football and school fish just 6-10 miles off the beach on the Pacific side, but every school had a wad of boats working it.
DORADO: Lots, and lots of dorado this week again. If you are trolling inshore, they are hard to miss. A lot of small ones, I even saw someone with a 2 lb fish the other day. Normally those are thrown back, but this one didn't make it. Most of the fish are in the 8-15 lb, with some hitting the 30lb mark. George: We gave up on Dorado after a while, it was hard to avoid them! You only need so many, after that they were getting in the way!
WAHOO: I have seen a couple wahoo flags this week. Fish in the 30 lb range. Not usually a lot this time of year. George: The owner of the boat I came down on caught his personal best at 65 pounds off of the upper Thetis Bank and we had quite a few other strikes during the trip, all of them in 15 to 30 fathoms of water whenever we neared shore.
INSHORE: The water temperatures are staying warm, so still some nice roosterfish around, snapper, groupers, almost November, but I haven't seen any sierra yet. The Dorado fishing is also good close to shore.
FISH RECIPE: posted on the blog Thursday or Friday.
NOTES: As you have noticed, this fishing report is a little short. Most of you have figured out that I, Mary, am writing the report today. George will be back sometime today and give you a better report. He left Monday to bring a boat down and stopped to fish a few days at Mag Bay. He was hoping to spend a few hours at Finger Banks this morning. All I know for sure is that he caught a couple of 50 lb wahoo. I didn't pay attention to anything else he caught, I was daydreaming about how I am going to eat some of that wahoo! My favorite Sam Choy recipe with the mango salsa! I'll see if I can get him to give you all a trip report for the ride down.
In the meantime Tight Lines and good luck to all of you in the Tuna Tournament!
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Oct 30, 2011; 11:23AM - CHANGES IN LATITUDES CHANGES IN ATTITUDES
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: MARK RAYOR
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Changes in latitudes changes in attitudes
There are large schools of yellowfin tuna 40 plus
miles East of the East Cape resorts. Finding them is
no guarantee they will bite. Many anglers are
returning after a long boat ride with
disappointment. Jen Wren boats have avoided the
frustration and horrendous boat rides by targeting
striped marlin closer to shore.
Getting the marlin to go has been a trick. For
several weeks we have not sighted tailers nor have
the fish had much interest in lures. The key has
been large schools of small bonita that have been
abundant off the La Ribera high spot and also
around the shark buoys off Punta Pescadero.
Catching and slow trolling these bonita have been a
very effective method to attract marlin.
An intersting note that has made photography
challenging is the marlin we have hooked using
small bonita for bait are not jumping during battle.
We went from fishing J hooks to circle hooks with
hopes that hooking the fish in the corner of the
mouth would change their behavior. The marlin just
shake their head as they stick it out of the water.
Also, a large percentage of them are regurgitating
their stomachs.
This week conditions have gone from hot and
humid with calm seas to cooler tempatures and
strong north winds. This is the third day we have
been stuck on the beach due to the winds. Looks
like we may have an early winter. The East Cape
weather is making the expected changes in latitude
which is affecting my attitude!
Mark Rayor
www.teamjenwren.com
markrayor.blogspot.com
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