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| Around 10% of the world's total fish species can be found just within the Great Barrier Reef. |
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| Starfish can re-grow their arms. In fact, a single arm can regenerate a whole body. |
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| Starfish don't have brains. Special cells on their skin gather information about their surroundings |
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| Not all animals with the word fish in their names count as fish. |
| Though their names may suggest otherwise, cuttlefish, starfish, and jellyfish aren’t actually fish. Generally-speaking, fishes must have skulls, gills, and fins. Surprisingly, though, not all fishes have proper spines. |
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| In three decades, the world's oceans will contain more discarded plastic than fish when measured by weight, researchers say. |
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| As of 2020, there were 34,000 known fish species around world. That’s more than the number of species in all other vertebrates: birds, reptiles, mammals, and amphibians combined. |
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| Just how man species of fish are there? |
| As of 2020, there were 34,000 known fish species around world. That’s more than the number of species in all other vertebrates: birds, reptiles, mammals, and amphibians combined. |
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| Even Catfish are finicky |
| Taste Buds ? Catfish have a more refined sense of flavor than humans. Our 10,000 taste buds may seem like a lot, but catfish can have as many as 175,000. This helps them find the exact location of their next meal. |
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| My brother has 2 German Shepherds named Rolex and Timex. You guessed it they are Watch Dogs. |
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Sep 4, 2011; 07:45PM - WHERE'S WALTER?
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: MARK RAYOR
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This week my life long friend Gary Street of Laguna
Hills arrived to participate in the La Paz Gold Cup
black and blue marlin tournament. For the last few
weeks marlin fishing on the East Cape has been
very slow so I was hopeful we would find more
action up north. This tournament is always loads of
fun. It is a two day event with a 200 pound
minimum limit for the blues and blacks. The
coordinators have thrown a nice curve ball into this
event. That is a $50 per pound penalty for bringing
in a short fish. A 10 pound judgement error could
cost a contestant $500.
We headed Jen Wren III up the Golden Sea of Cortez
a couple days early to check out the fishing grounds
of the tournament. Starting at the South end of
Cerralvo we trolled hookless teasers past Las
Cruces around La Reina by Punta Coyote and along
the western side of Espiritu Santo. As the day got
late we anchored for the evening in a beautiful cove
at Isla de Partida. During the day we had raised
sailfish, striped marlin and dorado on our teasers
and were able to land one of each switching them
to live bait. We had also seen loads of nice sized
skip jack almost everywhere we went. What we had
not seen were any blue or black marlin.
The following morning we woke up to a pretty swift
southern breeze and took our time getting under
way. We continued to troll north past Los Islotes
and out to the famous El Bajo. There we also found
loads more skip jack along with stripers sails and
dorado. No big marlin but with all the bait and
beautiful blue water we were still optimistic a big
fish was in our future. We cut the day a little short
and headed to La Paz to fuel, get checked into a slip
and register for the tournament.
It wasn't until the morning we made the decision to
head back out to El Bajo. Upon arrival we were able
to catch four big skippys in about 5 minutes. We
trolled 3 on the surface and one in our down rigger.
With the previous couple days experience it was
obvious the big fish were not interested in marlin
lures. I hoped that trolling live baits would key them
off. At the end of the day we had not raised a fish.
Only two qualifying blue marlin were brought to the
scale for the 79 teams fishing. One fish weighed
260 pounds and the other 202.
Day two our strategy changed. It was obvious
fishing was pathetic and there were not many fish
in the area. With that we could cover much more
area with lures so that is what we went to. We also
changed areas and headed for the southern end of
Cerralvo Island. Again we didn't have a smell all
day. It turned out only one fish was weighed in at
203 pounds.
When tournament control called lines out at 5PM we
were much closer to Buena Vista then La Paz and
just headed for home. After running for 15 minutes
we found a huge school of spotted dolphin with
tuna in a feeding frenzy. It was a sight I dream
about. The fish going ballistic and not another boat
in sight. It didn't take long to land limits of
yellowfin before pointing the boat south and
heading home.
Mark Rayor
www.thejenwren.com
www.vistaseasport.com
markrayor.blogspot.com
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Aug 29, 2011; 10:41AM - 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
August 22-28, 2011
WEATHER: Wow, almost a repeat of last weeks weather, who would have thought that? Strangely enough, it is because of clouds and a bit of rain instead of bright and sunny. Once again we were in mostly cloudy conditions and had a bit of rain at the end of the week. A series of small storms moved over us, coming from the mainland and brought rain to the mountains and a bit of a sprinkle to us. Even without the sun shining brightly it was easy to get sunburned as many people found out! Our nighttime low were in the mid 80's while the daytime highs were approaching 100 degrees.
WATER: One of those small storms that blew in from the mainland brought Tuesday noon misery to some anglers who decided to come in and hunker down. The storm passed in two hours but blew hard, bringing in 5 foot wind swells with gusts to 40 mph. Here and then gone! The rest of the week was fine with swells slowly increasing in size over the week and coming from the south. They were spaced far enough apart that they were comfortable, Water on the Cortez side averaged 88 degrees inshore and 87 degrees offshore. On the Pacific side the inshore water was 83-84 degrees while the water offshore was averaging 82 degrees.
BAIT: Caballito and Mullet were the baits of the week with no Mackerel being found due to the warm waters. Everything was the normal $3 per bait. There were also some decent Sardinas to the north around Palmilla at $25 a scoop.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Striped Marlin were found on the Pacific side this week, but not in any great numbers as would be expected with our water temperatures. Scattered around, some boats were able to release two fish, a lot of boats released one and many, many others had no luck. Small Blue Marlin were scattered in the area of the 1150 and they did not get a lot of pressure since most boats fished the Pacific side of the Cape. I heard of at least one Black Marlin being released this week, caught on down-rigged live Bonita at the Gorda Bank it was estimated at 300 pounds.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: This has been an on and off fishery for the past week. Based on some other reports I went to the Imam Banks twice this week hoping to get into some of the reported 60-100 pound Tuna that were said to be there. Chum hard with Sardines, use 40 pound flouro-carbon leader and they were supposed to bite. Not a working proposition for me, but I did see a few Tuna that averaged 25 pounds caught, as well as a few Dorado and a couple of Marlin. On Friday I was off to the south side of the San Jaime Bank and watched a purse seiner from Mazatlan named the “Aztec 10” brail 40-100 pound tuns from their net after making a set. We did not get any Tuna that day. Saturday things turned around and the Tuna bite took off from the shore to 15 miles out between the arch and the Golden Gate Bank. Many boats managed to limit out on fish that averaged 25 pounds. Of course, I went to the Imam banks instead, oops.
DORADO: Later in the week anglers were getting as many Dorado as they wanted if they worked the the pacific shoreline north of the Golden Gate. Most of them were small but there were quite a few that were in the 15 pound class. Shark buoys to the south of the Golden Gate held some nice fish as well. There were scattered Dorado reported from the area of the 1150 during the middle of the week.
WAHOO: Once again a few fish were reported, and the probable reason was the number of boats fishing inshore on the Pacific side for Dorado. Have enough boats hit the area and chances are one or two of them are going to find a Wahoo.
INSHORE: Just like last week, inshore action this week consisted of Bonita, Skipjack, some nice schools of Roosterfish that averaged 15 pounds with scattered Dorado and Yellowfin. Most of the action early in the week took place on the Pacific side from the lighthouse up to Los Arcos.
FISH RECIPE: My recipe has been taking too much space so if you want to see it, check out my wordpress blog a little later in the week, or subscribe to the blog and you will receive an email as soon as I post it. Sorry about this last weeks no show, but we did not get any fish to cook, everyone took it home!
NOTES: It was nice to see the Dorado and Yellowfin Tuna show themselves again. After a sparse couple of weeks where you could get some nice fish, but no numbers, anglers were having a lot of fun with numbers of fish. Just a quick reminder, most boats carry some ice, but if you are going after Tuna, make sure there is plenty on board, you may have to purchase more just in case!
Until next week, tight lines!
I will be posting more to my blog now, please go to http://captgeo.wordpress.com/ and subscribe, you will be sent a notice every time I post a new article. Please feel free to send suggestions or if you have any ideas for articles. Thanks George
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Aug 27, 2011; 09:49AM - NOTHING LIKE GETTIN EVEN
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: MARK RAYOR
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NOTHING LIKE GETTIN EVEN
For the second week in a row East Cape fishing has
been very spotty with just a handful of billfish and
dorado being landed each day. Yellowfin tuna have
provided most of the action but have been elusive.
The tuna have been found on porpoise schools
from 15 to 50 miles off shore. Getting them to
cooperate has been a trick. Sometimes they will bite
and sometimes they have no interest. A couple days
ago we trolled through a huge school of yellowfin in
a feeding frenzy without a bump on our lures. We
tried everything, I even broke out our kite and
couldn't get them to go.
My long time fishing buddies Hank Forhing and
John 'JD'Davis came for a few days of fishing this
week. Hank and I have been fishing together for
more than 40 years. After a couple tough days of
fishing yesterday, we did a little getting even. The
tuna finally decided to go and we came home early
with limits. We also released 3 sailfish one day but
as luck would have it I forgot my camera.
Mark Rayor
www.thejenwren.com
www.vistaseasport.com
markrayor.blogspot.com
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Aug 22, 2011; 11:52AM - Cabo Bite Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrum
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
http://captgeo.wordpress.com/
Cabo Fish Report
August 15-21, 2011
WEATHER: Well, partly to mostly cloudy for the week here in Cabo. I must say that sometimes that's rather nice. The clouds moved in from the mainland and the did bring some needed rain to the mountains, but all we got here was a bit of spit on the windshields on Thursday. Our daytime highs have been touching 100 degrees and the morning lows have been in the mid 80's.
WATER: The wind kicked up a bit on Friday morning and the water got choppy, still fishable but bouncy on the Pacific side. At the end of the week we had an 80 degree cool spot just off the tip of the Cape. On the Pacific side the water was 83-84 degrees out to the San Jaime banks and then dropped to 82 degrees farther to the west. On the Cortez side we were seeing 86 degrees and the farther north you went the warmer the water became. There were some areas such as Los Frailes and the Cabrillo Seamount where the water was 89-90 degrees. Surface conditions on the Cortez side were better than on the Pacific, but the fish were a lot more scattered.
BAIT: Caballito and Mullet were the baits of the week with no Mackerel being found due to the warm waters. Everything was the normal $3 per bait. There were also some decent Sardinas to the north around Palmilla at $25 a scoop.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: For the anglers this week Marlin were a bit scarce, at least based on what we are used to. This warm water makes it difficult to get many Striped Marlin, and the sizes are very inconsistent. We had one angler this week release a Striped Marlin that weighed about 40 pounds, and we had others release fish estimated at 120 pounds. Most of the larger Marlin have been Blues, and the majority of them have been just under 200 pounds. Add in some nice Pacific Sailfish at 100 pounds average and there is a chance for a Billfish on every trip, but don't expect to rack up great numbers.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: The fishing is still slow on Yellowfin Tuna, at least for the boats working the porpoise schools. You can fish 5 or 6 schools and not get a bite, then hit one with fish on them and rack up a quick 4 or 5 fish. The best results have been had by boats working the inshore pock piles with Sardinas as chum. Some of them have been able to get limits on fish to 40 pounds with an occasional large, over 100 pound, fish in the catch.
DORADO: Every angler that has been coming down has been bringing a cooler with them, hoping to go home with it filled with Dorado Fillets. Sorry to have to tell you, but it just isn't happening very often. For some reason most of the Dorado have moved way up the coast on the Pacific side, almost to Todo Santos, and that is a long run for a lot of these boats with fuel prices the way they are. Closer to home the larger Dorado have been eating slow trolled Bolito and the smaller ones have been caught on lures and on live Caballito. Most of the action has been close to the beach, within 2 or 3 miles.
WAHOO: While the Wahoo were scarce this week, there were a few nice fish caught. Our clients Saturday managed to get one that weighed 66 pounds to the boat and into the fish box! Nice going Ted and Steve! Other boats had a few bites, but there was not a wide open bite by any stretch of the imagination.
INSHORE: Inshore action this week consisted of Bonita, Skipjack, some nice schools of Roosterfish that averaged 15 pounds and scattered Dorado. Most of the action early in the week took place on the Pacific side from the lighthouse up to Los Arcos, and later in the week from Cabo to Cabo Real.
FISH RECIPE: My recipe has been taking too much space so if you want to see it, check out my wordpress blog a little later in the week, or subscribe to the blog and you will receive an email as soon as I post it. Sorry about this last weeks no show, but we did not get any fish to cook, everyone took it home!
NOTES: Hot water, slow fishing, but the fish that are out there are quality fish! I truly expect some large Blue Marlin to show up soon, and I think at least one will be over 700 pounds. The water just looks perfect! This weeks report was written to the music of Maria Muldaur on her new Stony Records release “Steady Love”. If you like the blues, you need to listen up!
Until next week, tight lines!
I will be posting more to my blog now, please go to http://captgeo.wordpress.com/ and subscribe, you will be sent a notice every time I post a new article. Please feel free to send suggestions or if you have any ideas for articles. Thanks George
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Aug 18, 2011; 01:00PM - Blame Game
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Category: Saltwater Fly Fishing Reports
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Author Name: Gary Graham
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Endless Season Update August 18, 2011
REPORT #1262 'Below the Border'
Saltwater Fly-Fishing reports since 1996
[img]http://www.bajafly.com/report/2011.
image/pier.gif[/img]
Mid August and the fish seemed to have
taken a powder. Still some fish around
but they aren't exactly jumping in the
boats. Three out of four reports this
week drug the 'full moon' explanation
off the shelf to explain the poor
fishing. The moon is like Baja if
anything goes wrong it gets the blame.
Have you ever read that fishing was wide
open…must have been the full moon?
How slow was it, Mark Rayor of Jen Wren
Sportfishing, spent more time reporting
on bird than fish? There were a few
highlight fo the lucky ones.
Buenavista Beach Resort boats Liliana
and Dottie B11 managed to capture the
top prizes in dorado and tuna
categories. Last weekend in the La
Ribera tournament that coincided the La
Ribera Days festival that takes place
every August.
John Ireland, Rancho Leonero reported
the inshore produced more quality sized
roosters again this week along with some
large amberjack. Lots of pompano are
still around. A couple of nice pargo in
the 20 to 30 # range taken this week.
Current East Cape Weather
http://tiny.cc/EastCapeWeather303
Magdalena Bay, Baja Mexico
Warm water currents resulted in the best
early showing of marlin in two years
from Tasco to the upper end of the
ridge. Most of the shark buoys holding
dorado and there is a good showing of
yellowfin tuna feeding on baitballs.
Watch for the bird schools.
In the esteros there have been a
smattering of nice sized corvina and
grouper scattered above Lopez Mateos…Bob
Hoyt
Current Magdalena Bay Weather
http://tiny.cc/MagBayWeather150
Zihuatanejo, Mainland Mexico
No report….Ed Kunze
Current Zihuatanejo Weather
http://tiny.cc/zihuatanejo582
Cabo San Lucas
The marlin fishing was similar to
fishing for every else this week, not a
lot of fish but the ones that were
caught were quality fish. With the warm
water has come the blue marlin, and
while not every boat managed to hook
into one, there were a few boats that
managed a release on two per day. Most
of the fish were under 300 pounds. From
just off the beach to beyond the 1,000
fathom line, they were scattered
everywhere. We also saw quite a few
sailfish this week, most of them over
100 pounds. Not appearing in large
packs, still they were getting into the
lure in small groups of two or three
fish at a time and causing quite a
commotion on the deck as the attacked
everything in the water. The striped
marlin bite has died off quite a bit.
There are still a few fish caught every
day, most of them from just off the
beach to the north on the Pacific side.
Tuna slowed still more, the bite has
fallen off quite a bit. Where we were
getting at least a couple of fish every
trip, now it is a fish or two every few
trips. On a good note, these fish have
been real nice ones! As I said earlier,
quality fish, not quantity of fish.
Finding porpoise was still the key, and
being the first to them was something
that you had to have happen. Second
boat or later may as well have just not
moved. With fish to #200, a few boats
were lucky enough to be the first ones
on the porpoise and sometimes ended up
with multiple hook-ups, but were
thankful to get one of them into the
boat. Boats that were able to fly a
kite increased their chances of hooking
up by at least 50%, and if you did not
have a kite, having flouro-carbon leader
sure was better than normal mono-
filament leader for these big tuna.
While there are still plenty of dorado
out there, the number caught is down.
Again, most of the fish were close to
the beach and averaged just 8-10 pounds.
A few larger fish were caught and again
slow trolling live bait seemed to
produce better quality fish than just
trolling lures. Almost all the action
occurred on the Pacific side of the
Cape.
Once again there was a scattering of
wahoo in the smaller size range caught
this week, mostly by boats working off
the beach for the small dorado. I did
not hear of any large ones being caught
and the smaller fish were in the 20-25
pound class. With the full moon just
happening, the bite might turn on for a
couple of days.
Inshore fishing was slow, as was
everything else this week. We had a few
clients on Pangas who did fair on the
dorado, were able to catch plenty of
skip-jack and bonito and had some action
on hammerhead sharks as well.
Roosterfish were not real active and
while a few decent snapper and grouper
were caught, they were not there in the
numbers to make it worth targeting
them..…George and Mary Landrum
Current Cabo Weather
http://tiny.cc/cabo191
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Aug 16, 2011; 05:11PM - SEA OF CORTEZ, BAJA BOOBIES
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Vseasport
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In a word, 'Tough'. Fish did not bite this week like
they have the previous couple weeks. I think it has
to do with the full moon and am hopeful the action
will pick up soon.
Boats targeting billfish are only getting one or two
shots in a day. Ones not lucky enough to convert
the limited opportunities are going without.
Schoolie sized dorado that have been providing
loads of action have disappeared. There are a few
big bulls being landed off shore but it is a matter of
luck finding one.
It has taken a great deal of luck to be in the right
spot at the right time hunting for tuna. There has
been 2 main schools of porpoise. One has been off
Punta Arena Light house and the other outside and
north of Punta Pescadero. Both schools are moving
from 20 to 45 miles off shore. The first couple of
boats to find them have been doing well, but it is
just crumbs for the boats not on them early.
My grandson's were here this week and did manage
to catch some dorado and tuna. They also had a
couple shots at marlin but couldn't get one to stick.
Recently we have had a couple groups of bird
watchers charter our service to sight marine birds.
We did the first tour of this sort last year and I was
very apprehensive. The experience has turned out
to be very educational, rewarding and even exciting.
I had no idea the Sea of Cortez was such a rich
habitat for marine birds.
The first trip inspired me to buy the camera I now
use to capture all the images in my fishing reports.
Recently I learned this area hosts three types of
boobie birds. We have the brown boobie, the red
footed boobie and the blue footed boobie.
Boobie birds got their name based on the Spanish
slang term bubie, meaning 'dunce', as these tame
birds had a habit of landing on board sailing ships,
where they were easily captured and eaten. Owing
to this, boobies are often mentioned as having been
caught and eaten by shipwrecked sailors. As
appetizing as it sounds I have limited my shooting
to the camera.
This morning I noticed some tracks on the beach in
front of our place where a sea turtle had come up
looking for a place to lay her eggs. There was
evidence of one false hole she dug and more tracks
back to the water. This place is so alive with
different types of sea life it is incredible.
Mark Rayor
]www.thejenwren.com
markrayor.blogspot.com
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Aug 15, 2011; 11:19AM - Cabo Bite Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrum
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
http://captgeo.wordpress.com/
Cabo Fish Report
August 8-14, 2011
WEATHER: We started the week with a cloud deck and a little bit of rain here on the ocean. With thunder and lightning in the mountains we kept expecting more, but it was a change of pace anyway. About the middle of the week things started to clear up and we became mostly sunny the rest of the week. Our daytime highs were in the high 90's to right at 100 degrees a few days and our nighttime lows never seemed to drop under 83 degrees.
WATER: Everything out on the ocean remained the same this week, no change at all from what we had last week. Still warm, almost everywhere you wanted to go on the Cortez side of the Cape it was 88 degrees with small swells. On the Pacific side there was a slow change in the water temps as you went offshore but no sharp breaks. Out at the San Jaime the warm water continued at 86-87 degrees, for another 6 miles to the west it dropped to 84 degrees and then down to 80 degrees, a slow and gradual change. On the Pacific side the swells were slightly larger at 3-6 feet and we did have a couple of days late in the week when the breeze picked up around noon and got things a bit choppy.
BAIT: Caballito and Mullet were the baits of the week with no Mackerel being found due to the warm waters. Everything was the normal $3 per bait. There were also some small Sardinas to the north around Palmilla at $25 a scoop.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: The Marlin fishing was similar to fishing for every else this week, not a lot of fish but the ones that were caught were quality fish. With the warm water has come the Blue Marlin, and while not every boat managed to hook into one, there were a few boats that managed a release on two per day. Most of the fish were under 300 pounds, hard fighters! From just off the beach to out past the 1,000 fathom line, they were scattered everywhere. One of the favorite areas for finding them was the ridge between the San Jaime Bank and the Golden Gate Bank and the area around the lighthouse ledge. We also saw quite a few Sailfish this week, most of them over 100 pounds. Not appearing in large packs, still they were getting into the lure in small groups of two or three fish at a time and causing quite a commotion on the deck as the attacked everything in the water. The bite for Striped Marlin has died off quite a bit. There are still a few fish caught every day, most of them from just off the beach to the north on the Pacific side.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Slowing still more, the bite has fallen off quite a bit. Where last week we were getting at least a couple of fish every trip, now it is a fish or two every few trips. On a good note, these fish have been real nice ones! As I said earlier, quality fish, not quantity of fish. Finding porpoise was still the key, and being the first to them was something that you had to have happen. Second boat or later may as well have just not moved. With fish to #200, a few boats were lucky enough to be the first ones on the porpoise and sometimes ended up with multiple hook-ups, but were thankful to get one of them into the boat. Boats that were able to fly a kite increased their chances of hooking up by at least 50%, and if you did not have a kite, having flouro-carbon leader sure was better than normal mono-filament leader for these big tuna.
DORADO: While there are still plenty of Dorado out there, the number caught is down from lats weeks reports. Again, most of the fish were close to the beach and averaged just 8-10 pounds. A few larger fish were caught and again slow trolling live bait seemed to produce better quality fish than just trolling lures. Almost all the action occurred on the Pacific side of the Cape.
WAHOO: Once again there was a scattering of Wahoo in the smaller size range caught this week, mostly by boats working off the beach for the small Dorado. I did not hear of any large Wahoo being caught and the smaller fish were in the 20-25 pound class. With the full moon just happening, the bite might turn on for a couple of days. If the indicators from the other fisheries follow for these fish, we just might see a few Wahoo over 100 pounds caught in the next few days.
INSHORE: Inshore fishing was slow, as was everything else this week. We had a few clients on Pangas who did fair on the Dorado, were able to catch plenty of Skip-jack and Bonito and had some action on Hammerhead Sharks as well. Roosterfish were not real active and while a few decent Snapper and Grouper were caught, they were not there in the numbers to make it worth targeting them.
FISH RECIPE: My recipe has been taking too much space so if you want to see it, check out my wordpress blog a little later in the week, or subscribe to the blog and you will receive an email as soon as I post it. Sorry about this last weeks no show, I got busy and forgot!
NOTES: Back to Jack Johnson this week for my tunes, nice and mellow. Yesterday morning the moon was setting and was gigantic and very, very orange. I tried to take a picture with my phone, and of course you can't even tell. Sort of like trying to tie your shoes while wearing a catchers mitt, you can do it, but it isn't pretty! Pre-season football is interesting, the PGA Championship is weird, Little League World Series is on and I am sweating as I am typing this at 7 AM.
Until next week, tight lines!
I will be posting more to my blog now, please go to http://captgeo.wordpress.com/ and subscribe, you will be sent a notice every time I post a new article. Please feel free to send suggestions or if you have any ideas for articles. Thanks George
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Aug 8, 2011; 12:10PM - 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
August 1 - 7, 2011
WEATHER: Hot, humid with occasional afternoon breezes. Wow, that says it, right? We have been around 84-86 degrees in the coolest part of the early morning and just pushing the 100 degree mark in the late afternoon. Join that with a bit of scattered cloud cover late in the week, with just a bit of a breeze and it is livable, but not really comfortable. The best place to be is on the water since the air temperature is about 10 degrees less out there.
WATER: Still warm, almost everywhere you wanted to go on the Cortez side of the Cape it was 88 degrees with small swells. On the Pacific side there was a slow change in the water temps as you went offshore but no sharp breaks. Out at the San Jaime the warm water continued at 86-87 degrees, for another 6 miles to the west it dropped to 84 degrees and then down to 80 degrees, a slow and gradual change. On the Pacific side the swells were slightly larger at 3-6 feet and we did have a couple of days late in the week when the breeze picked up around noon and got things a bit choppy.
BAIT: Caballito and Mullet were the baits of the week with no Mackerel being found due to the warm waters. Everything was the normal $3 per bait. There were also some decent Sardinas to the north around Palmilla at $25 a scoop.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: With the warm water come the Blue and Black Marlin, except this year the Black Marlin seem a bit slow to show up. By this time last year there were plenty of them out there, this year so far it has been almost only Blue Marlin when it comes to the big fish. We had a client on a Panga the other day who fought an estimated #450 fish for 4 hours before having the line break when the fish was 6 feet below the boat. Heck, they were going to release it anyway, but what a fight that must have been. I keep hearing of a few large fish every week, and I know that a few have been brought in, yes, some people still kill the big ones even though it is not a tournament, sigh. There are still some Striped Marlin being caught as well, but no as many as a few weeks ago. As the water warms up these fish tend to move on or start staying deeper in the water column. A billfish that has replaced the Striped Marlin is the Pacific Sailfish! Quite a few of these have been caught this week, they love the warm water! These have been nice sized Sailfish as well with an average size of 80#. One client caught one just over 100 pounds, as well as a small wahoo during his Panga trip this week. See, you don't have to have a large boat to catch a large fish, but if you like a bit more comfortable ride and a bathroom the larger boats are sure nice! All the billfish have been scattered, when the water is the same temperature everywhere you start looking for structure and current lines instead of temp breaks.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: The bite for Yellowfin slowed down a bit from last week as instead of getting limits, boats were only getting 3 to 6 fish per trip, that is is they were looking for Tuna. The good news is there were some real quality fish out there, as in fish over 150#'s!. Not every day of course, for every boat, but at least one boat every day was getting one of these big tuna. The average size was just 25-30 pounds, and if you kept working the school there was a fair chance of hanging one that weighed in the 100 pound class. We had three clients this week who got into a school like that and ended up with two fish between 80-100 pounds and five at around 30 pounds. For a lot of the boats the larger fish have come as a result of fishing from kites or on live bait drop-backs after hooking up one of the smaller fish. Most of the action has come from either directly south or on the Pacific side. The schools move around a lot so finding porpoise has been the key to finding the fish.
DORADO: There have been plenty of Dorado this week, but most of them have been small, a good indicator of things to come since they grow so fast, but that is dependent on the little guys being released! Most of these smaller fish have been found close to the beach, and you really have to week through the Skip-jack to get them, and then you have to weed through the Dorado to fins ones larger enough to have some meat on them. As an example, out of four Dorado kept that weighed 10-12 pounds, there were 10 fish released that were 5-6 pounds and about 30 Skip-jack released. There were larger fish found offshore though not in as large numbers. The fish offshore were averaging 20 pounds with an occasional 50 pound example in there. For the larger fish finding a working Frigate bird and slow trolling a live bait in the area worked well.
WAHOO: There was a scattering of Wahoo in the smaller size range caught this week, mostly by boats working off the beach for the small Dorado. I did not hear of any large Wahoo being caught and the smaller fish were in the 20-25 pound class.
INSHORE: The inshore fishing has been pretty good this week, but not for the normal species. Usually when you are speaking about inshore you are talking Roosterfish, Snapper, Grouper, Sierra, Yellowtail, etc. This week we did have some Roosterfish but they were not large ones averaging just 15 pounds with a few to 35 pounds. And of course with the warm water we are not seeing any Sierra or Yellowtail. With the swells we were getting mid-week from the passing of Hurricane Eugene to the southwest the water close to the beach was churned up and green so most of the Pangas worked out in depths 250 feet and more, concentrating on the Dorado and Skip-jack. This meant plenty of Dorado, some Wahoo and quite a few Blue Marlin that were in feeding on the Skip-jack. Toss in the occasional pod of porpoise passing close to the beach that had Yellowfin with them and it was actually a nice selection of what are normally offshore fish being caught by the Pangas.
FISH RECIPE: My recipe has been taking too much space so if you want to see it, check out my wordpress blog a little later in the week, or subscribe to the blog and you will receive an email as soon as I post it. Sorry about this last weeks no show, I got busy and forgot!
NOTES: Four days to FOOTBALL! Hit the beach for a walk and swim this morning, came home and washed the dog, fixed the best Bloody Mary's in the world, Mary is fixing bacon and eggs for our brunch, NASCAR at Pocono is on, golf is later and homemade Chile Verde to work on in the afternoon for dinner. What a life! Oh, new music for this week as well! This report was written to the soulful blues of Duke Robillard on his soon to be released new album (don't ask me how I got to hear it) “Low Down and Tore Up” via Stony Plains Records in September. If you want an idea of his sounds, check out the 2006 release “Guitar Grove-A-Rama” and 2009's “Stomp! The blues tonight”, both Grammy Award winners! Blues on!
Until next week, tight lines!
I will be posting more to my blog now, please go to http://captgeo.wordpress.com/ and subscribe, you will be sent a notice every time I post a new article. Please feel free to send suggestions or if you have any ideas for articles. Thanks George
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Aug 2, 2011; 09:32AM - ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Mark Rayor
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No matter how you slice it the fishing during this
years East Cape Bisbee was dismal. 62 boats fishing
3 long days and only managed to bring one
qualifying blue marlin over 300 pounds to the
scales. Until after lines out on the third day not
even one short fish was weighed. That tells me not
another fish even close to 300 pounds was brought
to leader.
Dorado and tuna fishing was also poor. The largest
dorado weighed was 47 pounds. On the second day
a 33 pound dorado won the daily jack pot. I'm
reading all the hoop da la about what a great
tournement it was and scratching my head. Yes, I
enjoy all the excitement of fishing a big tournament
as much as the next guy. Part of that excitment was
deflated by the lack of action. All that can be said
is, that's fishing. The East Cape is a phenomenal
fishery and hopefully will show more of what it has
to offer at next years tournament.
On a bright note Buena Vista Beach Resort and the
Valdez brothers were excellent hosts and did an
outstanding job accomodating tournament
participants and spectators.
I do want to make one more observation about the
tournament before moving to other fishing action
this week. It seems to me that there's an elephant in
the room that no one wants to talk about. At last
years tourney it was made clear that the use of
circle hooks with bait would be mandatory this year.
I'm not a fan of the circles and was reluctant. I do
like the thrill of the competition so decided to enter
the contest. As the rules of the tournament were
explained at the captains meeting it was not clear
what Wayne Bisbee was saying about the
deployment of circle hooks. After a bunch of double
talk I finally asked the question. 'If we bring a
dorado to the scale with a J hook hanging out of it's
mouth will it be disqualified?' Waynes answer was,
'No, you can catch tuna and dorado with a J hook
and they will not be disqualified.' Now I am more
confused than ever. The Bisbees Off Shore
Tournaments are kill tournaments. You don't win if
you don't kill the biggest fish. Now it is mandatory
to use a circle hook when baiting a marlin but not
when baiting other game fish? I just don't get it.....
What are they thinking?
This week, George Gavallos showed up with some
of his family and friends. When George fishes with
us they always bite. This guy has good Karma and
this year was no exception. First day out his request
was some fish for the cooler and they bagged 14
yellowfin to 40 pounds and released a sailfish.
Second day they filled our fish box with tuna again
and came in early. Today was planned to be a lady
and kids day. Before 8AM the kids had all the action
they could handle including several roosterfish.
While they retired to our air conditioned parlor
George couldn't stand it so we went out and
smacked the tuna one more time.
Mark Rayor
[url]www.thejenwren.com[/url]
[url]www.vistaseasport.com[/url]
markrayor.blogspot.com
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Aug 1, 2011; 12:00PM - 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
July 25-31, 2011
WEATHER: I got up this morning to 84 degrees and 80% humidity, whew, good thing the fan was on! Our nights have been warm like that this week, and the days even warmer. With a few days of partly cloudy skies, the best place to be was out on the water, at least there was a little breeze outside on the Pacific! We have a tropical depression forming to the south of us, five-E, that is projected to stay well south but form into a hurricane on Wednesday. We will probably get some surf again, but like the last one, no rain.
WATER: Warm water has come our way! With an average of 87 degrees on the Cortez side of the Cape, it actually rose above 91 degrees up at the East Cape in a few areas. On the Pacific side here we have warm water wrapping around the Cape and working it's way to the north. 83 degree water is inside of the San Jaime Bank and across the Golden Gate Bank, and the water outside of there drops down to a cool 80 degrees, and to the south of us if you get outside of 25 miles it drops as low as 75 degrees.
BAIT: Caballito and Mullet were the baits of the week with a few Mackerel in the mix. Everything was the normal $3 per bait. There were also some decent Sardinas to the north around Palmilla at $25 a scoop.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: There were plenty of Striped Marlin and quite a few small Blue Marlin and Sailfish showing up this week, but they were not always hungry. The larger fish were scarce this week, and the results of the Bisbee East Cape Tournament bear that out. With 62 teams fishing three days only one fish over 300 pounds was caught. That's 186 fishing days for a Blue Marlin that was just over 500 pounds. Locally there was a small concentration of Striped Marlin just off of Gray Rock between ½ mile and 2 miles. That group of fish was there mid-week but apparently moved off on Saturday. On an interesting note, the Marlin bite seems to have been better in the afternoon this week.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Still around and biting! Not every trip resulted in lots of fish, but the boats that were able to get to the dolphin first really had a good chance at fish to 80 pounds this week. Of course most of the fish were smaller than that with an average of 20 pounds, but still, there were some really nice fish being brought in. Most of the action was along the temperature break to the south of us as well as around the San Jaime Bank. Small feathers worked great for the average fish but deep dropped live bait, dropped ahead of slow traveling schools of fish, as well as run under kites seemed to get the larger ones interested.
DORADO: Once again fish of the week, and we are really happy about that! Most of the action took place on the Pacific side close to the beach and the fish were a decent average of 12 pounds with a few lager showing up. The larger fish were 45-50 pounds and about every third boat managed to get one that size. Best action came on slow trolled live bait, but bright colored medium size lures run at 10 knots managed to get some action and worked well to find the concentrations of fish. My guess is that the boats were averaging 6 fish per trip with the better catches being limits and very few boats not getting any Dorado at all.
WAHOO: I did not hear of any Wahoo being caught this week.
INSHORE: Most of the Pangas were focusing on Dorado this week but those that tried for the normal inshore species like Roosterfish, Grouper and Snapper found that the bite was better in the afternoon. Good action was on the Pacific side of the Cape but there was some decent Roosterfish action off of Cabo Real as well. Most of the Roosterfish were smaller ones at 15 pounds but there were a couple of times when schools of 50 pound fish moved in and caused some excitement.
FISH RECIPE: My recipe has been taking too much space so if you want to see it, check out my wordpress blog a little later in the week, or subscribe to the blog and you will receive an email as soon as I post it. Sorry about this last weeks no show, I got busy and forgot!
NOTES: Hot, humid weather, so it's time for a walk on the beach with the puppy, then a swim! Come back home for a good breakfast, a nap, then watch some golf. It's too hot to play after 10 am so sitting in front of the fan watching the last day of the Senior Open sounds pretty good to me!
Until next week, tight lines!
I will be posting more to my blog now, please go to http://captgeo.wordpress.com/ and subscribe, you will be sent a notice every time I post a new article. Please feel free to send suggestions or if you have any ideas for articles. Thanks George
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