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| Not all animals with the word fish in their names count as fish. |
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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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| 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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From Jan 01, 1999 To Sep 22, 2025
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Mar 6, 2006; 11:30AM - 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
Cabo Fish Report
Feb. 27-March 5, 2006
WEATHER: I am still having a great time this week getting a lot of work done outside the house. With the daytime temps around the mid 80’s and the nighttime around the high 60’s it has been excellent. We had very little wind this week and had several days during the middle of the week where heavy fog moved in from the Pacific side. No rain and except for the fog, no really cloudy days.
WATER: We had great water conditions this week on both sides of the Cape. The large swells that occurred the week before died down and with no wind there were a few days when it was like glass out there. The surface temperatures are still at 73-74 degrees on the Cortez side of the Cape with a band of the warmer water across the Gorda, 1150 and at the Cabrillo Seamount at the end of the week. The California current has a very strong influence on the near-shore water temperature on the Pacific side of the Cape as the water out to just past the San Jaime and 20 miles to the west of the Golden Gate banks remains around 66 degrees. Go another 10 miles west of the San Jaime and you suddenly meet 71-degree water again.
BAIT: This week there were mostly Caballito available at the normal $2 per bait.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Once again we had an on-off week for Striped Marlin. One day an area would be red hot and the next day there would be nothing there. The fish are moving around fast on the Cortez side of the Cape and when you are in the right spot it was possible to have a six fish day. In the wrong spot or the right spot at the wrong time and you flew the skunk flag on the way in. Areas that were temporarily holding fish (I guess they weren’t really holding since the fish were passing through), or where the bite happened were several miles to the west of the Outer Gorda Bank, inside the 1150 toward shore, just to the south-west of the 95 spot and due south of the arch 12 miles. If your timing was right there were fish all over the place and they were hungry, if it was wrong you might not even see a fish! Both lures and live bait were working fine if the fish were biting.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: I only heard of a few Yellowfin Tuna this week and what I did hear was spoken of by people passing by, I never had a chance to find out any details. I did hear of a fish of 80 pounds but again, no details. There were very few white flags flying that were put up for Yellowfin, most of them were for Skipjack.
DORADO: There were a lot more Dorado caught this week than we have had for several months; the warm water that moved in on the Cortez side had a lot to do with it. It seemed that most of the action was up around the Gorda Banks and Punta Gorda on fish from 10 to 20 pounds, but they were catching a few out at the 1000 fathom line as well.
WAHOO: I did hear of a few Wahoo caught this week, mostly from up around the Punta Gorda area, but they were few and far between. Average weight was reported at 35 pounds and the bite was incidental on Marlin lures.
INSHORE: There was a pretty decent Sierra bite, mostly in the afternoons but occasionally early in the morning. Large groups of Jacks in the 25-35 pound class were spotted close to the beach but they were not very hungry, possibly spawning concentrations. A fair to good bite from bottom species such as red Snapper and Grouper in 100-150 feet of water off almost all the points started at the end of the week and there were some decent Yellowtail to 25 pounds caught in the same area by anglers using live bait fished just off the bottom.
NOTES: It appears that the fishing is slowly improving; now we need the Yellowfin to show up. Still plenty of Whales around so even if the fishing is slow there is something to watch. This weeks report was written to the sounds of Mark Knopfler off of his first solo CD, “Golden Heart”, released in 1996 by Vertigo Records. Until next week, tight lines!
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Feb 27, 2006; 10:37AM - Cabo Bite Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrum
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
Cabo Fish Report
Feb. 20-26, 2006
WEATHER: We are still stuck with great weather! Our daytime highs have been in the mid 80’s and our nighttime lows have been in the low 60’s, really hard to live with, huh? I feel sorry for all of you who are dealing with freezing cold! We had no rain this week and only a little cloud cover during the middle of the week, mostly sunny skies the rest of the time.
WATER: On the Pacific side of the Cape we have had some fairly large swells with a bit of wind chop on top, not enough to keep anyone from fishing, but enough to make it occasionally uncomfortable. The water near shore has been 68-70 degrees and cooled to 67 degrees at the San Jaime bank. Farther to the west the water warmed right up and at 20 miles farther it warmed right back up to 74 degrees. Immediately south of the Cape we still have a plume of green water but it is a bit warmer than last week at 71-72 degrees. On the Cortez side the water has been fairly consistent at 71-73 degrees but that band of warm water we had approach last week has dissipated and slowly worked it’s way back to the east. If you get out to past the 1150 and the Cabrillo Seamount you can get back into the 74 degree water for a little while. The only problem fishing out there has been the surface conditions. We have a fairly strong current running from the northeast along with big swells wrapping around the East Cape and they are meeting the swells coming from the Pacific side making for some bouncy water.
BAIT: There were Mackerel and some Caballito available this week at the normal $2 per bait. I heard that there were some Sardinas at Palmilla but have no idea if they were readily available or how much they were.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Striped Marlin were the fish of the week this week, but it was not because the fishing was red hot or there were amazing numbers of them being released. Rather it was because there was not a lot else going on! The bite was an on-off happening with one day being great and boats releasing between one and six fish each and the next day the best catch being two fish released while the average was only one Marlin for every four boats. Hard to predict when the bite was going to turn on, you just had to put in the time on the water. The bite was fairly predictable in it’s location, however. The band of warm water that ran from the Punta Gorda and southwest across the outer Gorda Bank and across the 1150 seemed to be consistent in holding the fish. Working the near break from the Estelladera area to just west of the 1150 resulted in action on lures in Petrelero and blue-black colors while live bait dropped back had about 25% of the fish hooked.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Once again it was a slow week for Yellowfin Tuna for the charter fleet. There were scattered Porpoise but most of them had no fish. A few of the private boats willing to make the 40-50 mile trip out past the San Jaime on the Pacific side had some fair luck on fish to 80 pounds when they were able to find the porpoise but since there was no structure to hold the bait or the fish, they were there one day and gone the next. That made for a long run on a crapshoot, but a few of them found floating debris as well and got into the Dorado.
DORADO: There were a few fish found in the 12-20 pound class along the edge of the warm water band on the Sea o Cortez side, but they were scattered fish, not concentrated into schools. My guess would be that there was about a 10% success rate on Dorado this week. As I stated above, there were a few decent catches from boats working the warm water 40 miles west, but the water was bumpy out there and it was not a good trip for anything smaller than 35 feet.
WAHOO: Once again no Wahoo this week. The flags flying were for Sierra.
INSHORE: This is a repeat of last week’s inshore report. Short and not so sweet. The Pargo bite came back on for the Pacific side of the Cape right after the full moon; they are hammering this spawning group pretty hard. On the Cortez side there has been a decent Sierra bite outside the El Tulle area.
NOTES: Hmm, not a lot to say about the fishing this week other than if you were looking for a Marlin you might have had some fair luck. This weeks report was written to the music of Bob Dylan off of the 1964 Columbia release, “Another Side of Bob Dylan”, re-released by CBS on CD in 1989.
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Feb 21, 2006; 03:27AM - IXTAPA/ZIHUATANEJO SPORTFISHING REPORT 2/9/06 - 2/16/06
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Stan Lushinsky
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Abel Cortez representative for Ixtapa Sportfishing Charters reports the full moon had little affect on the offshore/inshore fishing last week in Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo. Offshore the Sailfish bite remained good with each boat reporting several shots per day at SAILFISH with a few DORADO, and MARLIN, adding to the mix. Capt. Chio aboard the Bloody Hook posted 6 SAILFISH and 2 MARLIN in 6 days of fishing. Returning New Hampshire angler Tom Davis fishing four days with Capt. Adolofo aboard the Dos Hermanos 1 landed 15 SAILFISH, 1 DORADO, and 10 JACKS. Mike Tinker of Mattawan, MI fishing with Capt. Adolofo reported 4 SAILFISH, 1 DORADO for two offshore fishing days. Inshore Mike also landed a 50lb ROOSTERFISH and friend Mike Torian landed the second ROOSTER at 40lbs. European angler, Mr. Vin, fishing six days with Capt. Candelerio landed 5 SAILS, 1 DORADO, 4 JACKS, 1 ROOSTERFISH, 1 BONITO and 1 SPANISH MACKERELl. Russian angler, Gelen Peterson, fished with Capt.Luis aboard the Gran Jefe for one day landed 2 SAILS, 1 DORADO, and 5 BONITOS. Also fishing with Capt. Luis was Heather Scheel of Madison, WI landed 2 SAILS and 2 BONITO. Mike Haley of Las Vegas, NV fishing aboard the La Bamba with Capt. Jose Vargas and the Super Panga, Angler, landed 2 DORADO, 2 SAILS, 2 SPANISH MACKEREL and 1 JACK Steve Corinogis of Warren, MI also fishing aboard the La Bamba landed 2 SAILS and 2 DORADO. Inshore Mr. Corinogis also landed 3 JACKS, 3 GROUPER, and 2 BONITO aboard the Janeth. Fly Fisherman, Bob Yagnich of Denver, CO, fishing aboard the La Hawaiiana landed 2 SAILS on a fly for two fishing days.
Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo Weather: Sunny with temps in the high 80’s
Sea Conditions: Calm
Bait Supply: Good
Stan Lushinsky
Ixtapa Sportfishing Charters
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Feb 20, 2006; 01:39PM - 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
Cabo Fish Report
Feb. 13-19, 2006
WEATHER: Well, at least I am able to tell you that the weather is still great here in Cabo, even if the fishing is off. We had an average daytime temperature of 79 degrees with our evenings dropping down to the mid 60’s, really nice conditions. A few clouds moved into the area over the weekend but not enough of them to put a damper on any activities.
WATER: The Pacific side stayed just as it had last week and the only thing that changed at all was the Cortez side of the Cape. The warmer water this week was on the Pacific side but the mass had moved back off shore. At the end of the previous week the water was 73 degrees all the way to the beach on the Pacific. As the week moved on this warm water started to move back to the west, and at the end of the week it had cooled a bit to 72 degrees and moved out to the west of the San Jaime Bank. To our immediate south the water was a very cool 65 degrees and pea soup green as well. This is a plume of water about 20 miles wide starting 8 miles off the arch and extending 30 miles to the south. On the Cortez side of the cape the water started to clear up a bit with water to 74 degrees running in a band from the Gorda Banks to the south-southwest.
BAIT: Same as last week, bait was a little scarce this week and unless you were one of the first boats out, you might have had a bit of trouble getting any. Most of what was available was Caballito at the usual $2 per bait. A lot of boats tried to make their own bait on the grounds, but where there had been good concentrations of Mackerel at the Golden Gate, the bait had disappeared.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: At the end of last week it had appeared that a concentration of Striped Marlin had moved in on top of the 95 spot but that bite only lasted two days. There are still Marlin being seen in that direction but they are hard to fool into biting. The marlin bite is off, I would guess that only 10% of the boats are returning flying the blue flags. A few boats are lucky and getting multiple shots, but the most flags I saw from any one outrigger this week was two. The best bet for Striped Marlin has been along the eastern boundary of the warm water on the Pacific side of the Cape and along the new warm water band on the Cortez side.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: There were plenty of Porpoise out there and there were a few Yellowfin mixed in with them, but the bite was very sporadic. Most of the fish were found in the same areas as the Striped Marlin and while a few fish did break the 50-pound mark, most of them were footballs. As far as the flags flying in the marina, most of the white tuna flags were for Skipjack and Bonita.
DORADO: Very few Dorado this week, a few of the boats were flying two flags, but very few had any at all. Floating debris resulted in one boat loading up, but no one else got into the action.
WAHOO: No Wahoo this week. The flags flying were for Sierra.
INSHORE: The Pargo bite came back on for the Pacific side of the Cape right after the full moon; they are hammering this spawning group pretty hard. On the Cortez side there has been a decent Sierra bite outside the El Tulle area.
NOTES: Hmm, seems like a good time to take a vacation and go snow ski! My boat is in dry dock until the end of the week and it is not bothering me at all. We can only keep our fingers crossed that the Marlin and Yellowfin start biting, they are our main catch this time of year. This week report was written to the blues music of Joe Cocker on the 1996 Sony release “Organic”. Until next week, tight lines!
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Feb 13, 2006; 11:12AM - 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
Cabo Fish Report
Feb. 6-12, 2006
WEATHER: Once again we had a great week of good weather. Our daytime highs were around 80 degrees all week while our nighttime lows were right at 60 degrees. Clear skies and sunny conditions made it a great week to be here.
WATER: The warmer water this week was on the Pacific side but the mass had moved back off shore. At the end of the previous week the water was 73 degrees all the way to the beach on the Pacific. As the week moved on this warm water started to move back to the west, and at the end of the week it had cooled a bit to 72 degrees and moved out to the west of the San Jaime Bank. To our immediate south the water was a very cool 65 degrees and pea soup green as well. This is a plume of water about 20 miles wide starting 8 miles off the arch and extending 30 miles to the south. On the Cortez side of the cape the water started to clear up a bit with water to 68 degrees moving in to the Cabrillo Seamount, Gordo Banks, the 1150 Spot and the 95 Spot.
BAIT: Bait was a little scarce this week and unless you were one of the first boats out, you might have had a bit of trouble getting any. Most of what was available was Caballito at the usual $2 per bait. A lot of boats tried to make their own bait on the grounds, but where there had been good concentrations of Mackerel at the Golden Gate, the bait had disappeared.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: It was a frustrating week for anglers targeting Billfish, as there were few to be found until the end of the week. The concentrations of Striped Marlin that had been at the Golden Gate Banks totally disappeared and there were only a few fish found scattered across the banks on the Pacific side. As the water blued up on the Cortez side the Striped Marlin started to show at the 95 Spot at the end of the week. One to three fish per boat seemed to be the average and the best luck was had on live bait thrown to tailing fish. While there were fish every day, the bite seemed to be on-off with every day producing different results.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Not the fish of the week. There were footballs in the 10 pound class outside of the San Jaime banks and 30 miles to the south of the Cape. These fish were associated with Porpoise and they moved right on through, not staying long enough to be able to find them the next day. That was just about the extent of the Tuna action for us this week, though there were some nice fish seen popping occasionally at the San Jaime Bank. A few guys are going to try and sit on the hook and chunk for them this week, I’ll let you know the results next week.
DORADO: This week is a repeat of last week. There were a few Dorado found this week and it was floating debris that helped the boats find fish. I saw one boat come in with one rigger loaded with Tuna flags and the other rigger loaded with Dorado flags and found out from the anglers that they had found a piece of wood 26 miles to the southwest loaded with Dorado to 20 pounds and football Yellowfin. Another boat found a plastic bucket that was loaded with nice Dorado and a couple of Wahoo. Everyone was keeping their eyes open for anything floating in the water!
WAHOO: There were only a few Wahoo reported this week and they were associated with the floating debris mentioned above.
INSHORE: Large swells on the Pacific side made it difficult to get in close to the rocks to fish for the Pargo concentrations and while frustrating for most fishermen, it is probable a good thing for the fish. These springtime concentrations are spawning groups and it makes me worry for our local population in future years when so many fish are taken. There was still a fair bite for Sierra and on the Cortez side there was some luck with Yellowtail and scattered rockfish for guys using live bait on the bottom.
NOTES: Another slow week overall, but it looks as if things might begin to improve soon on the billfish front. Everything else is a crapshoot right now. This weeks report was written to the music of Mark Knopfler on his 2004 Universal/Mercury release “Shangri-La”
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Feb 6, 2006; 12:42PM - 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
Cabo Fish Report
Jan 30-Feb. 5, 2006
WEATHER: Daytime highs in the low 80’s and nighttime lows right around 60 degrees had us smiling this week. The wind was light so even with the lows at 60, you often didn’t need a light jacket. We had just a scattering of clouds overhead and no large mass move through so we really had a wonderful week weather wise.
WATER: There was basically no change in the water conditions this week from what we experienced last week. The only thing that differed was the slow approach of the warm 73-degree water from the west, at the end of the week it had pushed up against the shore on the Pacific side. We still have cold green water on the Cortez side of the Cape with the water from Gorda Bank and to the south at 67-68 degrees. South of us and out to 60 miles on the Pacific side it warms to 73 degrees and is a little off-color but mostly blue. You know the water is good when there are plenty of flying fish to be seen, and that is the case once you get about 25 miles out to the southwest.
BAIT: Most of the bait available this week was Caballito but there were some mackerel if you were early to the bait boats. The price was the normal $2 per bait.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Striped Marlin continued to be the only billfish available and the bite definitely dropped off this week for most of the fleet. Golden Gate Bank still produced a few fish for boats dropping bait deep, but it appeared that the fishermen trolling lures might have had the better luck. Reports were that lures in blue/black were bringing fish into the patterns and that about 60% of the fish brought up were striking the lures. About 20% were opting for live bait dropped back to them. A good day brought a Marlin to the boat and a few boats had exceptional fishing considering the slow bite with up to five releases a day.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: The Tuna bite that we thought might start at the San Jaime last week got the ka-bosh put on it by the Purse Seiners. Several super Seiners were observed wrapping dolphin and tuna with one seiner including a 70’ sport fisherman in the wrap. The captain says he has some good pictures of the seiner and the mangling of the porpoise as they worked the wrap. I hope to get a chance to see it soon. With that happening at the San Jaime, many boats cruised farther offshore in search of fish and a few boats got lucky 50 miles out with fish in the 50-60 pound class. The fish were moving right along though, and were not there the next day. There were reports of some very nice fish in the 100 class popping up occasionally on the Golden Gate but they were hard to fool into biting. One boat reported getting a fish that weighed #190 on a cedar plug; they had the hook almost straighten out on them during the fight.
DORADO: There were a few Dorado found this week and it was floating debris that helped the boats find fish. I saw one boat come in with one rigger loaded with Tuna flags and the other rigger loaded with Dorado flags and found out from the anglers that they had found a piece of wood 26 miles to the southwest loaded with Dorado to 20 pounds and football Yellowfin.
WAHOO: I did not hear work of any Wahoo this week.
INSHORE: Inshore is a repeat of last week with the exception of the number of boats working the concentrations of fish. At some of the rocky points it looked like a parking lot! The Sierra and Pargo bite was still on and the Pangas were having a great time with Sierra to 10 pounds and Pargo to 30 pounds just off the beach. Live bait for both species worked best but there was also good action for the Pargo by using large, deep diving Rapallas. Best action was seen from the lighthouse on the Pacific side and to the north of there. The best Sierra bite was a little farther off the beach than last week with most of the action taking place in 50’ of water.
NOTES: In brief, slow offshore action but some great inshore fishing this week. I guess we will just have to wait for next year for the Seahawks to win the Super bowl. This weeks report was written to the sounds of the Dave Matthews Band on their 2005 RCA release “American Baby”.
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Jan 30, 2006; 12:26PM - 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
Cabo Fish Report
Jan 23-29, 2006
WEATHER: All the way through Wednesday we had great weather here with sunny skies and temperatures in the low 80’s during the daytime and in the mid 60’s at night. Wednesday evening the clouds started moving in and early Thursday morning the wind started to blow as a front moved through the area. At right around 5 AM the rain started and we had a good downpour for an hour, then it just drizzled all the way through Saturday morning. The rain was just right, not so heavy that it washed things out and long enough that everything got a good soaking. I imagine that the desert will be extremely colorful in about two weeks! At the end of the week we have partly cloudy skies with daytime highs in the high 70’s and nighttime lows around 60 degrees.
WATER: We still have cold green water on the Cortez side of the Cape with the water from Gorda Bank and to the south at 67-68 degrees. South of us and out to 30 miles on the Pacific side it warms to 73 degrees and is still pretty blue. You know the water is good when there are plenty of flying fish to be seen, and that is the case once you get about 25 miles out to the southwest. We did have choppy conditions Thursday morning when the wind blew through, but it calmed right down on Friday with just a medium swell from the Northwest. Not many boats fished the Cortez side offshore due to the cold green water but out to 15 miles offshore the conditions were pretty good, farther than that and you started to run into a bit of northeast swell and effects from the East Cape area.
BAIT: There was a mix of Mackerel and Caballito available this week at the normal $2 per bait.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Fishing for Striped Marlin had it’s effort concentrated at the Golden Gate Bank this week, with up to 60 boats working the drift on Tuesday and Wednesday. With bait packed everywhere around the bank it was the best shot available, but as the week wore on the bite dropped off. On Saturday there were only about 40 boats working the drift and few of them were able to get bit. There was a fair showing of tailing Marlin in closer to shore directly to the east and 3 miles off the beach, but it was still not close to wide open. At the end of the week it appeared that there was about a 30% success ratio for boats targeting the Striped Marlin, not great numbers but almost everyone was seeing fish, even though they were difficult to hook.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: There was a brief two day flurry of decent Tuna in the 50-90 pound class on Thursday and Friday 28 miles to the southwest, and they were associated with several different porpoise pods in the area. Only about 6 boats got into the action as the fish were moving about quite rapidly, on Saturday they were nowhere to be found. There were few fish found elsewhere later in the week, but in the first few days a few nice fish to 200 pounds were caught on the southern edge of the San Jaime Bank. Best bets were soaking live bait at the edge of the bank or dropping bait back at least 150 yards from the boat in front of the rapidly moving pods of porpoise.
DORADO:
Once again there were few Dorado flags to be seen and the cooling water may be a good part of the reason. Of course, if we see some kelp paddies or something floating that may change in an instant so everyone is constantly scanning the surface. While there were few Dorado caught, the ones that were boated were nice fish to 50 pounds, and they were found by watching the Frigate birds, running to the birds when they dove and slow trolling a live Mackerel through the area.
WAHOO: There were a few fish to 50 pounds found just off the beach on the Pacific side this week, but once again there were no large numbers of heavy concentration of them.
INSHORE: The Sierra and Pargo bite was on this week and the Pangas were having a great time with Sierra to 10 pounds and Pargo to 30 pounds just off the beach. Live bait for both species worked best but there was also good action for the Pargo by using large, deep diving Rapallas. Best action was seen from the lighthouse on the Pacific side and to the north of there.
NOTES: In brief, slow offshore action but some great inshore fishing this week. This weeks report written to the music of Dave Roberts on the 1982 WEA Japan release “All Dressed Up”. Love Lukathers Guitar work! Until next week, GO SEAHAWKS!!!
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Jan 23, 2006; 11:44AM - 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
Cabo Fish Report
Jan 16-22, 2006
WEATHER: Once again we have had great weather here in Cabo with our daytime temperatures in the low 80’s to high 70’s and our cool evenings in the mid 50’s. We had very little clouds this week so of course there was no rain but we did have plenty of sunshine!
WATER: While the first two days of the week were choppy on the Pacific side, the rest of the week gave us great surface conditions on both sides of the Cape. There were some large swells on the Pacific side but after Wednesday there was no wind chop on them, at least once you got out farther than two miles as we did have afternoon near-shore wind effect showing up with a bit of a push from the wind in the east. At the end of the week our warm water looks like a thumbprint with the tip of the thumb up against the cape and the water to the immediate south being the warmest at mostly 73 degrees. Once you get a few miles up the coast in either direction the water cools off. On the Pacific side this is a band of cool water about 15 miles wide and running to the southwest from the shore and across the Golden Gate and San Jaime Banks. This water is 66-68 degrees and farther to the north it warms back up to 69-71 degrees. On the Cortez side of the Cape the warm-cold water break runs almost due east from Cabo to just south of the 1150 spot, then when it hits the 1,000-fathom line it takes a sharp southern turn. On the cool side it is 67-68 degrees. This cool water on the Cortez side is very green and off color.
BAIT: There was a mix of Mackerel and Caballito available this week at the normal $2 per bait.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Cooling water has brought down the number of large Marlin reported this past week, but there were still a few found. I had reports of several Blue Marlin appearing in lure spreads around the south end of the San Jaime Bank with one of these fish hooked up for a short time. With the paucity of Blues around the concentrated effort this week was on Striped Marlin. If you liked to fish in a parking lot, the Golden Gate Bank was the place to be as there was a very heavy concentration of bait on top of the Bank and with it, a very strong concentration of Striped Marlin between 70 and 120 pounds in size. There were several methods employed to catch the fish with the most common being setting a live bait or two deep at 100-150 feet and one or two others near the surface while drifting across the bank. This normally resulted in at least several good bites and sometimes more, with most boats able to release at least one Marlin, and I did see boats with up to five fish released. The other method was to gun the boat toward diving Frigate birds and tossing out a live bait, the first boat there often getting bit. Not my kind of fishing, either way, but hey, if all you want to do is catch a Marlin, join the fleet. Elsewhere, the Marlin bite was not red hot, and a lot of boats saw no fish whatsoever. An occasional tailer or feeder resulted in a hook-up or two close to shore, but there was no concentration of fish other than at the Golden Gate.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: I don’t know what happened to the Tuna, but they were very scarce this week. A few fish were found to the south of the Lighthouse at 25 miles, and they were between 15 and 25 pounds, but there were no large numbers of fish caught. There were plenty of Dolphin seen and good fish marked under them, but they were very boat shy, perhaps from being worked hard by Seiners. I did get a chance to go out on Thursday and we saw fish in the #150-#200 class crash the surface several times on the south edge of the San Jaime, but none of the four of us working the area got bit.
DORADO: I saw very few Dorado flags this week, but I am sure that if someone had found something floating out there the results would have been different. The few fish I did hear of were in the 10-20 pound class and found due south in the warm water, but they were reported as being blind strikes.
WAHOO: A few fish were caught this week, the best areas reported as the San Jaime bank and just off the shore at the lighthouse on the Pacific. Few and far between, there was no concentration of fish with the ones being caught being incidental catches.
INSHORE: I got in a little personal inshore action this week with an 18-boat Sierra tournament from 4-6 pm Saturday. We fished just south of the San Cristobal point and caught fish from 2 pounds to 8 pounds with the average being right around 7 pounds. The bigger fish were all caught on live bait, mostly small Mackerel rigged with light wire leaders and a trailing hook. The smaller fish were on hootchies and Rapallas. I was amazed that all the live bait we used were hit within 2 minutes of being put in the water, but the lures rarely received any action. My partner and I caught 6 Sierra and tied for the smallest fish at 1.8 pounds. The largest fish of the tournament was 10.8 pounds and was caught by the boat that we tied with for smallest fish. Also caught in the same area were Pargo to 20 pounds and grouper to 12 pounds. According to our Panga Captain, this has been average for the week.
NOTES: In brief, warm water to the south, great weather and water, some fair Marlin action on drifted baits, great inshore action, everything else very quiet. This weeks report was written to the music of Pink Floyd on the 2001 EMI 2-CD release “ECHOES – The best of Pink Floyd”. Until next week, Tight Lines! Happy Chris? GO SEAHAWKS!!!
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Jan 16, 2006; 01:13PM - 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
Cabo Fish Report
Jan 9-15, 2006
WEATHER: After a sunny start we ended the week under a cloud layer, as a fairly large system is moving across us. Our highs have been in the low 80’s to high 70’s while the nighttime lows have been in the low 60’s to high 50’s. The winds have been light but it looks as if the beginning of this week we might have a couple of days of heavy winds in the 25-35 mile per hour range.
WATER: With the cloud cover this week it was difficult to get any good satellite shots so most of what I have in the way of temperatures is reports from other captains and just an occasional glimpse of different areas via satellite. The basics from last week have not changes with the area immediately to the south and directly to the east and west being warm, mostly in the 76-78 degree range. On the Cortez side to the north of Punta Gorda the temperature drops off rapidly and the water becomes very green. On the Pacific side the warm water has crept up the coast so we are getting the 74-75 degree water out past the Golden Gate Bank. This week the surface conditions were good everywhere, it may turn a bit choppy and rough at the beginning of this coming week.
BAIT: There was a mix of Mackerel and Caballito available this week at the normal $2 per bait. Sometimes Sardinas were available from Pangas up at Palmilla at the normal $20 per scoop.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: A few boats reported very hard strikes from giant fish this week and by most signifiers there are some very large Marlin still out there. One guy got spooled on a fully filled Penn #80 set at #27 of strike. Very few large fish were reported landed; most of them were lost during the fight. I was told of several releases of Blue Marlin in the #500-#600 range. Most of the Billfish action this week took place on the Pacific side from the lighthouse to the Golden Gate area. The Golden Gate is again holding large amounts of bait and there are plenty of Striped Marlin there with most boats able to release two or three per day. The same situation was happening off of the Los Arcos area and at the lighthouse, just not quite the numbers of fish. There were scattered Stripers found up the Cortez side, but not much action reported north of the Punta Gorda area.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: I thought that the Tuna bite was going to continue all month but it took a bit of a drop this past week. I wonder if all the Purse Seiners we have seen out there have anything to do with it? Most of the fish caught have been footballs to 20 pounds with an occasional 35-pound fish in the mix. I did not hear of any larger fish being taken but I am sure there were a few. Most of the Tuna action took place between the 95 Spot and the San Jaime Bank. Best lures were feathers in dark colors and natural cedar plugs.
DORADO: The warm water to the south of us has held some nice Dorado and almost every boat that went out this week was able to hook into one or two. On Thursday a few boats did even better as a dead whale was found about 10 miles from port at 120 degrees. The first boat to find the whale reported a total of 42 Dorado ranging from 20 to 35 pounds. Another boat found a plastic 5 gallon bucket and picked over 30 fish before other boats spotted him and moved in. While these were abnormalities, there were plenty of scattered Dorado to 45 pounds found from just off the beach to 10 miles out. Live bait was the best bet, slow trolled along current lines or along drop-offs. Second best was trolling 6”-9” lures in bright colors at 8-9 knots in the same area until a fish hit, then dropping back a live bait.
WAHOO: Right at the full moon (the 14th) there was some good Wahoo action reported from the inner Gorda Bank, the Grey Rock drop-off, the 95 Spot and the lighthouse. Most of the fish were in the 35-45 pound class and the best lure was a Yo-Zuri Bonita or Braid Marauder in black or purple. Strikes were had on other lures but most often they were rigged with mono leaders, and that meant lots of lost lures and fish.
INSHORE: Sierra action has continued with most of the fish being in the 4-6 pound class and an occasional fish to 10 pounds. Surprisingly there was some fair Roosterfish to be found on the Pacific side up around the Los Arcos area as well. While most of the Roosters were in that small 5-8 pound category, there were fish caught that ran to 45 pounds, with quite a few in the 25-35 pound class as well. Boats working the rocky points at first light were able to score on some Yellowtail with the fish ranging from 12 pounds to 32 pounds. The bigger fish were fooled with live bait and the rest fell for slow trolled (5 knots) Rapallas or for iron being yo-yoed with the best colors for iron being scrambled egg.
NOTES: The year started off well for me with a new job as the Captain on a 58’ Viking. As soon as we get out of the yard I hope to see how it fishes! My wife Mary chose this week’s music so the report was written to the sound of the Beach Boys on the 1999 CEMA release ”The Beach Boys All Time Greatest Hits”. Until next week, Tight Lines!
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Jan 9, 2006; 12:48PM - 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
Cabo Fish Report
Jan 1-8, 2006
WEATHER: First I would like to wish every one a happy new year! We have had a fine start with our weather warming up a bit and the wind disappearing. Our year has started with daytime highs in the mid 80’s and our nights in the low 60’s, just about as perfect as you can get. No rain of course and very few clouds, so things are off to a sunny start.
WATER: From Punta Gorda and north on the Cortez side the water is 70 degrees. On the Pacific side we have water at 73-74 degrees out as far as the west side of the Golden Gate and San Jaime Banks. Past there it cools to 71-72 degrees. South of us from the 1150, the 95 spot and across to about 10 miles south of the San Jaime we have had a big warm water eddy move in with temperatures in the 76-78 degree range, and fin a few spots early in the week the water was a bit warmer than that. The surface conditions on both sides of the Cape have been great with large rolling swells but no wind chop, just about as perfect as you could ask for.
BAIT: There was a mix of Mackerel and Caballito available this week at the normal $2 per bait. Sardinas were available from Pangas up at Palmilla at the normal $20 per scoop.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: We knew that it could not last forever but we are very happy that id lasted as long as it did. The Striped Marlin bite at the Finger Bank has dropped way off with a lot of boats making the trip with no results to show for it. We have had a few folks manage to get two to four fish and an occasional 6 fish day up there, but you can do that closer to home with a bit of luck. There has been a fair concentration of fish off of the Light house on the Pacific side and it seems that almost every day half the fleet is there soaking bait with the results being between one and three fish a day. It gets a bit crowded and if the bait ball comes up a lot of boats charge to the spot where the Frigates are diving making for heavy traffic and lots of bounce for boat staying in one spot. The warm water that appeared early in the week did result is several Blue Marlin being caught wit the largest I heard of being right in the #700 range, as well as a few small Black Marlin. With these fish being caught to the east and south, the Striped Marlin close to home, just about the only thing missing would be Swordfish, and my friend Chuck Baker took his new purchase, the 35 Cabo named Knot-2-Worry out to the Finger Bank and ended up making the first fish for the boat a small Swordfish that they spotted while under way! Yep, a little bit of everything to start off the New Year!
YELLOWFIN TUNA: It looks as if the Yellowfin are going to be the fish of the week, and maybe of the month since they have been the most predictable catch. Mostly footballs to 15 pounds, they are being found under Dolphin. The main areas have been between the 95 spot and the San Jaime banks out to a distance of 35 miles. Of course most of the fish were closer than that, but there were some large fish out farther. Slow trolling live Caballito in front of the Dolphin resulted in multiple fish in the 50-70 pound class for quite a few boats, and there were reports of fish to #150 as well.
DORADO: The warm water incursion we have had has resulted in an improved Dorado bite with most of the action taking place right on the edge of the warm and cold water. This means that the bite has been good just three miles form shore. The best lures have been small plastics of around 8 inches in length in bright colors, with heads producing a lot of surface action. Dropping back a live bait after the first fish has been brought near the boat often resulted in multiple hook-ups. There are fish close to the beach as well as just off the arch, but the seals and sea lions can be a problem there!
WAHOO: I heard of some Wahoo being caught this week but there were not many of them and the sizes were not large. Most of the reports were from the Cortez side up around the Gorda Banks and the Iman Bank area.
INSHORE: The inshore fishing is starting to improve with Sierra being the main catch. If the schools are found most of the boats have been catching 12 to 20 fish per trip, but if the concentration is not there things are quite a bit slower. Some days the catch has been only one or two fish. A Captain reported to me that on one of his days this week they caught one Sierra, three Dorado, several small Yellowfin and one #150 Mako shark along with a large number of Bonita. The fish are there; you just have to search a bit.
NOTES: A 1997 KRB release of Jerry Lee Lewis’s “Great Balls of Fire” compilation was playing while I wrote this report and I just love his rendition of “You Win Again”. This year is off to a great start for most of us, but not for everyone. I would like to offer my condolences to the family of Dennis Cam, the owner of one of the boats I take care of. Dennis passed away due to a massive heart attack at 11:30 New Years eve, and he will be missed very much. Tight Lines Dennis. Well folks, until next week, may you all have smooth seas and tight lines!
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