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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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| 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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Oct 28, 2006; 09:38AM - East Central Florida Report
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Category: Florida
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Author Name: Capt. Chris Myers
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The first significant cold front of the season arrived this week dropping water temperatures in the Mosquito Lagoon into the lower 60's. The change has signaled the redfish to begin schooling and sent the big trout into the shallows.
This week began with a nearshore trip with Capt. Ron Presley on board his Pathfinder 22 as we searched along the beached south of Port Canaveral hoping to find a tarpon feeding frenzy. We covered over 20 miles of beach and saw little to no activity. We spotted a few rolling tarpon near Satellite Beach and tossed out a few baits. Capt. Ron hooked a tarpon in excess of one hundred pounds that quickly came off. A few minutes later he landed a large spanish mackerel which would be our only catch of the day.
The cold front arrived Monday and high winds forced me to reschedule my Tuesday charter. By Wednesday, the winds had calmed and the skies were clear. Paul Huffman and I took a trip to the Mosquito Lagoon. We saw schooling reds, tailing reds, and big trout throughout the day. Again, the gold DOA Baitbuster accounted for eight redfish and one big seatrout.
Thursday, I returned to Mosquito Lagoon with the intention of fly fishing. Just as I arrived, the clouds rolled in and the wind picked up. I caught one red on a green and white bendback before going back to the spinning rod. I landed four more reds to 35” and another nice trout using the Baitbuster, a Capt. Joe's Shredder, and a DOA Crab.
If you are looking for east central Florida's ultimate sight fishing challenge, trophy seatrout will provide multiple opportunities throughout the winter months. Although they are often caught making long blind casts, sight fishing for big trout requires stealth, good eyes, and a quick accurate cast. These masters of camouflage are ambush feeders and lie motionless waiting for a passing meal. When you spot them, you often have only a few seconds to make your cast before they discover your presence. I encourage you to practice catch and release with these big fish as they are the breeding stock that keep out fishery healthy.
Capt. Chris Myers
http://www.floridafishinglessons.com
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Oct 23, 2006; 10:20AM - 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
Oct. 16-22, 2006
WEATHER: I know why everyone likes to start coming to Cabo in October, it is because of the weather! We have had daytime highs in the high 80’s and nighttime lows in the low 70’s all week. It was actually cool enough on Saturday morning that my deckhand and myself wore long-sleeve shirts. We have had partly cloudy skies with a slight breeze in the mornings and almost no wind in the afternoons, then a slight breeze in the evening. Just what the doctor ordered. Of course it looks like this pattern may not continue for long as there is the possibility that tropical storm Paul could pass our way Tuesday, the day before the beginning of the Bisbee Black and Blue tournament. It might be a hurricane by then and forecasts call for it to be 200 miles to the southwest on Tuesday morning, continuing in our direction. All our fingers are crossed!
WATER: Warm water on the Cortez side, up to a solid 86 degrees were the norm with great surface conditions, a slight swell and an offshore wind only early in the morning. On the Pacific side the swells were a bit larger and there was a little more wind but nothing major. Water temperatures were 85 degrees up to 35 miles offshore and up towards the finger banks, then just a bit farther they dropped a degree or two.
BAIT: Caballito were available at the usual $2 per bait and there were Sardinas at $20 a bucket, both at the mouth of the harbor and up off of Palmilla and La Playita.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Probably the best way to clue you in on the marlin bite is by the results of a couple of tournaments. We had the Los Cabos Billfish Tournament this week and there were over100 boats participating. There were three qualifying Marlin caught (over #300) and they were all caught on the first day. The largest fish was over #430 and was caught aboard a 31’ Bertram. This weekend is the Bisbee/Lapicolla Offshore tournament with 64 boats entered and on the first day only one almost qualifying fish at #295 was brought to the scales. During both tournaments there were plenty of Striped Marlin, smaller Blues and a few Blacks and Sailfish caught, but no real beast fish reported. There was a lot of effort on the Pacific side out at the Banks and as a result most of the fish were from those areas.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: We had great fishing for school Yellowfin this week up in the San Jose area off of La Playita to La Laguna. The fish were close to shore and at one time I saw 60 boats working several spots. The average catch was five or six fish between 15 and 30 pounds with a few larger ones in the mix. Light line or floura-carbon leaders with small hooks and a split shot on every other line brought the fish to the boat. It’s exciting to see the fish boil on the chum right where your bait is at then hearing the reels start to scream. There was on monster caught on the first day of the Los Cabos Billfish tournament as a Yellowfin Tuna that topped the scales at #315 was brought in by John Bulla on the “Go Deep” before noon.
DORADO: There were still plenty of Dorado around this week and most of the action was still on the Pacific side of the Cape. It seemed that most of the cruisers were going up the coast 15 miles and starting to work the water inside the Golden Gate area. I had a friend on a Panga who fished just three miles of the lighthouse on the Pacific side and he got 7 Dorado in five hours but several of them were little dinks of #8 and #10, the others were nice ones of #20 . Live bait slow trolled after catching one fish worked, as did trolling dark colored pushing plugs.
WAHOO: I heard quite a few Wahoo being called in on the radio during the tournaments and almost all of them came from the San Jaime Banks area. The fish averaged 30 pounds. The largest caught during the Los Cabos tournament weighed in at 79.8 pounds.
INSHORE: Just as last week, there were still a few Roosterfish being reported this week but with there being so many Dorado and Tuna close in it was hard to get the Captains of the Pangas to target anything else.
NOTES: Bisbee Black and Blue is coming up, keep your fingers crossed the Hurricane Paul does not grow up to be a big boy and ruin our fun! Until next week, Tight Lines!
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Oct 22, 2006; 02:35PM - Gordo Banks Pangas San Jose Del Cabo
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Eric
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Gordo Banks Pangas
San Jose del Cabo
October 22, 2006
Anglers –
Visiting anglers are now arriving in swarms to the Los Cabos area and sportfishing
fleets are operating at near capacity levels. The annual tournaments are under way
and the typical fall excitement can be felt in the air. With everything set to go
off just as planned there could be some changes in schedules as there is now a late
season tropical storm that has developed off the west side of the peninsula, it is
named John and at this time is less than 500 miles from Cabo San Lucas and though
its projected path is not certain, officials are predicting that it will turn back
towards the northeast and follow a direct course skimming the southern Baja and then
heading towards the mainland Mexico. We thought the tropical storm season was over,
but with the water temperatures remaining warmer than normal, now averaging 84 to 86
degrees, there was always that chance of a hurricane still developing. We will hope
for the best, that this storm causes no significant damage and passes
by quickly, though a little more rain would be welcome, as the landscape that had
been so brilliantly tropical green has been fading recently.
The fishing action has been spread out from the Pacific and into the Sea of Cortez.
There has been more dorado action found on the Pacific, with fish to over 30 pounds
being found, though numbers were not huge, most charters were landing anywhere from
2 to 6 dorado per outing. Yellowfin tuna was the most common species found, with the
largest schools of 10 to 20 pound fish being located off the San Jose del Cabo area
and north to Punta Gorda, the action has tapered off compared to the past couple of
weeks, but still this has been the most consistent bite and boats continue to come
from as far away as Buena Vista to get in on the activity, which has been within one
mile of shore. Average catches per boat ranged from 5 to 15 tuna per morning, with
the action being best earlier in the morning before nearly one hundred boats of all
types swarmed onto the area.
There was some encouraging and exciting news reported from the Outer Gordo Banks, as
early in the week there were two monster gorilla sized yellowfin tuna accounted for,
one weighed in at 310 pounds and the other weighed a whopping 350 pounds, both of
these fish were caught from cruisers based out of Cabo San Lucas and while trolling
with live skipjack for bait. We had first hand reports because these fish were
hooked into while fishing right along pangas based off of La Playita. Perhaps this
will be the area that produces the big tuna for the upcoming WON Tuna Tournament,
though at this time very few of these larger tuna are actually being hooked into.
The billfish bite has continued to be slow, though there is a chance of variety, as
there were blue, black and striped marlin, as well as sailfish in the region. There
was one 500 pound class black marlin lost from a Gordo Banks Panga on Monday, this
was after a three hour battle and having the fish right alongside the boat and
actually getting a gaff partially into the fish’s head, only to have it take off and
break through the leader. Another heartbreak occurred on Saturday off of a Palmilla
based cruiser, after a battle lasting over five hours they had a black marlin that
was estimated to be as large as 800 pounds break through 400 pound leader material
that was attached to the petrolero pattern lure, this fish struck the lure in the
vicinity of the Outer Gordo Banks.
Wahoo action was very slim pickings, only a few scattered fish being accounted for,
still not in any significant numbers and not practical to exclusively target. We are
hoping that they become more active soon, because this is the season when they
typically are more abundant.
Bottomfishing did not produce much to speak of either, only a handful of smaller
pargo species, triggerfish and cabrilla. On Friday there was a 35-pound class
roosterfish taken from a panga while chunk bait fishing on the Iman Bank, this was
definitely a fluke and it is not the normal method or area where roosters are found.
The combined panga fleets launching from La Playita beach sent out 205 charters for
the week and anglers accounted for a fish count of: 3 striped marlin, 9 sailfish, 6
wahoo, 3 roosterfish, 15 sierra, 155 various pargo, 18 cabrilla, 1,440 yellowfin
tuna, 760 various species of skipjack and 74 dorado.
Good fishing, Eric
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Oct 21, 2006; 08:39PM - East Central Florida Report
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Category: Florida
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Author Name: Capt. Chris Myers
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The mullet run is in full swing both in the Lagoons and along the beach. On the inside, redfish, trout, and
ladyfish are gorging themselves on finger mullet. The key has been finding the small mullet. Find these, and
there will be fish nearby. Topwater plugs and DOA Baitbusters have been bringing fish to the boat. Along the
beach, there are plenty of bluefish, some snook, tarpon, redfish, spanish mackerel, jacks, flounder, ladyfish,
and sharks. The mullet along the beach come in waves. Some days may be much more productive than
others. Again, find the bait and there should be fish nearby. If there is no bait around, chances are the fish are
not there either. The cold front which will arrive early next week should bring a big push of mullet south along
the beach. Now for the catching reports.
Darrin Heim from Washington state and Mike, a local angler, joined me for an afternoon of fishing the
Mosquito Lagoon. We arrived to find whitecaps and clouds, not the best sight fishing conditions. We gave it a
try and saw a few fish but we had no luck hooking up. Near the end of the day, we decided to anchor up and
put out some cut ladyfish as a last resort. In 30 minutes, three nice reds came to the boat.
A few days later, Dave Haddock joined me for what we hoped would be a morning of catching tarpon in the
Indian River. The big tarpon were not around but we did find plenty of small poons. We spent several hours
casting a variety of lures at them. I managed to put one fish in the air on a DOA Tiny Terroreyz but that was our
only action. We left the tarpon and Dave was able to fool a nice snook on a DOA shrimp along with a couple
trout. I used the gold Baitbuster to catch a trout and a red but could not fool the snook.
Last Friday, I fished with John and Mark from Colorado and their friend Mike. The morning began with some
thick fog. We stayed close to the ramp until it lifted and the guys caught a few trout on the DOA Deadly
Combo. When the sun came out, we moved over to Mosquito Lagoon to look for some reds. Our first three
stops proved uneventful. After much searching, we finally found some fish and they were able to land eight reds
to 34'.
This Tuesday, Mike Pollock invited me to fish on board his new skiff, a 16' Hells Bay. We spent a few minutes
casting to some uncooperative snook and then took off to explore some back country areas of the Mosquito
Lagoon. Heavy clouds limited our sight fishing abilities but we did manage to catch a few fish and see some
big trout. Mike's girlfriend Jackie sight cast to this red with a black and silver jerkbait.
Thursday, I fished outside Port Canaveral with Capt. Tom Van Horn. Using live mullet we netted inside the
Port, we landed seven flounder and lost at least that many. We ran down the beach a bit but the mullet schools
were not around.
Friday, Capt. Ron Presley and I went looking for big tarpon in the Indian River. After searching a few spots
without seeing one fish, we changed gears to redfish and trout. We found some nice schools of small mullet
and Ron used the gold Baitbuster and sight cast to a big trout and two nice reds before we headed in.
For Saturday's charter with Bo and Luke from Ft. Pierce, I returned to the same area and they began the day
using topwater plugs for 8 trout. As the sun came up we moved closer to shore and Bo was able to land a
decent snook, broke off another and fool a red for an Indian River slam. Bo used a white shad tail to fool the
fish.
Capt. Chris Myers
http://www.floridafishinglessons.com
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Oct 17, 2006; 12:24PM - Butler Chain
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Category: Florida
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Author Name: Capt Tim Fey
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Today we spent doing some scouting on Butler Chain. Started out working different areas up in Lake Chase, catching a few good bass on a mixture of lures. Spinner baits, rattle traps and senkos. Did manage one good bass on a toad early on, but the was the only top water action I was able to muster up. From there I moved into Lake Blanche, working flooded timber and grass beds, picking up 3 more descent bass, had one that would have been close to 5 pounds, but 5 feet from the boat, I noticed she had locked down on the blades of my spinner bait, giving her some slack in hopes she would turn into the hook did not work.
Made a move into Lake Isleworth to end the days action, picking up 2 more bass for a total of 11 for the day. Water temps were holding steady at 77 degrees and waters were looking very good. All bass today came in water from extremely shallow to 6 foot.
Talked with a few others at the ramp, and they had said they spent their time down by Lake Down area, working spinner baits and rattle trap to catch their fish. Sounds like a consistent pattern throughout the chain right now. Two other gentlemen hit up he specks, drifting Lakes Tibet and Chase catching 14 of hat they called medium sized specks, but a good day. With the waters finally in the 70’s, the bite should really start to pick up, key to today was working the breezy side of the lakes, winds have been fairly consistent the last few days and bait fish were starting to stack up.
Till my next report, tight lines and great fishing!
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Oct 16, 2006; 11:43AM - 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
Oct. 9-15, 2006
WEATHER: There was very little change in the weather at the beginning of this week compared to last week in temperatures as our daytime highs were in the low 90’s and our nighttime lows were in the low 70’s, the change was in the feel. It seemed that the humidity dropped a bit, but of course we felt it because we live here. Most of our visitors said that it was very humid. Oh well, I guess it’s all in what you are used to! We had some cloud cover the last half of the wee and that, combined with just a bit of wind kept things feeling cool (comparatively speaking). At the end of the week we had some stronger winds from the northwest and they brought our temperatures down as on Sunday night we had a low of 67 degrees here at the house. No need for the air conditioner now! The humidity dropped as well and it is starting to feel like fall.
WATER: Surface conditions on both sides of the Cape were great this week with the Pacific side being a bit bumpier, much as it was last week. With the wind out of the northwest that is to be expected, but it was not so rough that people were getting sick and coming in early. At the end of the week things changed a bit as the wind blew stronger starting Saturday afternoon. On the Cortez side it was almost like a lake most of the time. Our water temperatures on the Cortez side were an almost steady 85-86 degrees everywhere with no temperature breaks. On the Pacific side this warm water wrapped around across the San Jaime and the Golden Gate banks. Outside of these banks the temperature dropped a degree but there was no real defining edge anywhere.
BAIT: There were Caballito ($2 each) available most days if you were early, with the full moon just past us it was a bit easier to get bait than last week. I also saw a few Mackerel floating in the marina but I don’t know if they were from here or were tossed out of the bait wells of boats coming down from up north for the season. There were plenty of Sardinas available up at Palmilla and La Playita at the normal $20 a bucket.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: There were a lot more Blue Marlin reported hooked up this week than there were last week but that may have been an effect of more boats searching for them. With the tournaments coming up teams are getting in the practice mode and actively working for the big mamas. There have been a lot of fish reported in the #200-#350 range as well as a few in the #500-#600 area, but it could all be just story as well. I know of one angler I trust who reported hooking into a fish at around #1,000 on a lure and had it hooked up for just a minute or so. There seems to be a lot of effort spent on the Cortez side for the Blues but with that many boats working out there I was surprised to not hear of more Blacks being hooked up. There were still quite a few Striped Marlin around and again, that is a bit of a surprise for me as the water temperatures are much higher than these fish normally like. They were more prevalent on the Pacific side of the Cape. Almost all the action on the Blues came on trolled lures while the Striped Marlin bite was a pretty even mix of lure fish and live bait thrown at fish on the surface.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: It was nice to find Yellowfin closer to home this week and you did not need to cover 50 miles of water looking for Porpoise. The fish that were up at Punta Gorda a few weeks have moved closer to us with quite a bit of action happening within a mile of the beach from La Playita to just outside the Chileno area. Sardines were the ticket, as well as light line. Chumming with the live Sardines then fly-lining baits or putting ones out with a split-shot on the line worked well on these fish that ran from 15-40 pounds on the average. There were fish reported hooked that were much larger, but very few of them were brought in, I think the largest I heard of being landed was right at #80. Using small circle hooks on very light leader was extremely successful, but also resulted in quite a few lost fish. Most boats had better luck with “J” hooks on floura-carbon leader in the #30 class.
DORADO: Lots of Dorado were being caught this week and almost all the heavy action was on the Pacific side of the Cape, up to and past the Margarita beach area. There was also good action from Gray Rock on the Cortez side to the Arch. Most of the fish were averaging #15 with a few fish being caught in the 30-pound class. I did see one fish weighed at #56, nice Bull Dorado caught on a live Caballito. Most boats that worked for Dorado were able to limit out easily. Best bait was either strip baits cut from Bonita, live Sardinas or Caballito. Lure action was also fairly steady with dark colored plugs from 6-9 inches working best.
WAHOO: I didn’t hear of any Wahoo caught locally but there were quite a few brought in by boats arriving from up north.
INSHORE: Once again there were still a few Roosterfish being reported this week but with there being so many Dorado and Tuna close in it was hard to get the Captains of the Pangas to target anything else.
NOTES: This weeks report was written to the classic Mexican music of Monica Rojas on her 1999 Armonia Productiones Musicales release “La Feria”. I got a chance to hear her sing this week at Miguel Locos, what a great voice! Also, congratulations to Greg W. on the addition of two future anglers to the population! I hope Thomas and Nicholas grow up to enjoy the salt water! Until next week, Tight Lines!
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Oct 15, 2006; 12:41PM - Gordo Banks Pangas San Jose Del Cabo
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Eric
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Anglers traveling to Los Cabos are being greeted with ideal weather conditions,
clear sunny skies, tropical, with high temperatures in the upper 80s and early
mornings have just begun to have a slight fall chill to them. Ocean conditions were
calm, no swell to speak of at all, water temperatures are still above normal,
averaging from 86 to 88 degrees. It feels like there might be an El Nino current on
the horizon for this winter. Sardinas have remained the bait of choice and are being
found in abundant supplies off of La Playita, being netted each morning by the
commercial panguero fleet. Sportfishing charters are working in all directions, from
the Pacific to the Sea of Cortez, the most common catch was yellowfin tuna, with
also a scattering of billfish, dorado, wahoo and various bottom species.
This entire week there has been unbelievable wide-open action for yellowfin tuna,
the center of the activity was about one mile offshore, directly in front of the new
Puerto Los Cabos marina project, which is now nearing completion in the area of La
Playita. Scores of pangas, cruisers and yachts are coming from as far away as Los
Barriles and Buena Vista to get into this bite. The tuna have been averaging 20
pounds, some a little smaller and some a bit larger, anglers have been returning
regularly by 10 a.m. back to the beach with full limits and more of tuna. Also mixed
in the same area were a few sailfish, striped marlin and roaming schools of medium
sized dorado, but all these species found it very difficult to compete with the
aggressive feeding frenzy of the yellowfin.
Schooling tuna were found throughout the area, but none were in the numbers as in
the area off of La Playita, this has been an unprecedented bite for such close
proximity of the panga launching area. The Jaime Banks area has been holding larger
tuna to over one hundred pounds, though this spot is primarily suited for larger
boats. The Outer Gordo Banks produced a handful of larger yellowfin in recent days
as well, anglers trolling baits such as bolito and smaller skipjack landed tuna
close to 100 pounds.
Several pangas from La Playita got into the fall season’s first wahoo action this
week, nothing spectacular and not consistent from day to day, but at least these
elusive speedsters are started to show signs of waking up and becoming more active.
So far most of the wahoo landed have been from the area of the Inner Gordo Banks
and on trolled lures, particularly the Yo-Zuri Hydro Mag in Purple or Orange. The
wahoo that were caught weighed in the 25 to 40 pound class. We are waiting for the
water temperatures to drop down into the 80-degree range, this will usually help
entice the wahoo into striking more aggressively. Chihuil baitfish have been able
to be jigged up on the same banks and a couple of wahoo were also taken while slow
trolling these candy baits, we look forward to better baitfish action later in the
fall season, last year for some reason the Chihuil never wanted to come up.
The more consistent billfish action has been found off of Cabo San Lucas, a mix of
sailfish, striped, blue and black marlin. There was at least one nice black marlin
accounted for by a cruiser from Palmilla on Friday, it hit on a trolled skipjack
near the Gordo Banks and weighed approximately 400 pounds.
The combined panga fleets out of La Playita sent out approximately 96 charters for
the week with anglers accounted for a fish count of: 14 sailfish, 5 striped marlin,
98 dorado, 1,425 yellowfin tuna, 9 wahoo, 6 amberjack, 22 miscellaneous pargo, 15
sierra and 14 cabrilla.
Good Fishing, Eric
GORDO BANKS PANGAS
Eric Brictson
Owner/Operator
800 4081199
Los Cabos 1421147
ericgordobanks@yahoo.com
www.gordobanks.com
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Oct 12, 2006; 08:06PM - Butler Chain
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Category: Florida
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Author Name: Capt Tim Fey
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The last few days we have had runs out on Butler Chain, although we have had cooler nights and the waters have cooled down nicely, starting the day out with a surface temperature in the upper 70’s, the bass have not turned on just yet. We have come across a lot of good sized schools running in 12 to 18 foot of water, but very little if any schooling action has been seen on the lakes we have been hitting. Little Lake Down and Lake Down have seen the deeper water schooling with us picking up a few here and there. Today we started the day on Lake Pocket, working shoreline and lily pads we had several serious blowups on a Gitem Toad but hook up were missed. From there Lake Blanche, which has been producing as of late yielded a few descent sized bass this week.
Lake Chase was the lake to be fishing, working spinner baits and toads, this lake has woken up with some good action. Fishing wind blown side of the lake is the key. Working grass beds and the edges and working slowly, areas close to drop offs, even a slight drop off has held some bait.
Lake Louise has been doing good with Carolina rigged lizards, working slowly thru the eel grass in 6 to 9 foot of water. Bait fish pods have been getting pounded a lot as of late with the diving birds so keep your eyes open.
Till my next report, tight lines and great fishing!
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Oct 9, 2006; 01:21PM - Fall Season Begins ...Everywhere!
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Category: Saltwater Fly Fishing Reports
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Author Name: Gary Graham
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Fall Season Begins…Everywhere!
REPORT #1031 “Below the Border” Saltwater Fly-Fishing reports since 1996
Endless Season Update 10/07/06
East Cape
With the baggage requirements changing more often that the price of bait in Baja we thought a link to TSA’s latest update might be helpful.
http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/prohibited/permitted-prohibited-items.shtm#1
No storms on the horizon and great weather for the week! Dorado and tuna continued to be the crowd pleasers, though the tuna were a lot more picky than last week.
While plenty of billfish were seen, getting them to bite was a different story. We did hear of one billfish that was hooked on the fly by a woman fishing in the middle of the tuna bite outside of Punta Arena. She hooked it while her husband was getting beat up by a tuna..go figure.
Our guide, Lance Peterson returned this week and of course headed straight for the beach. He reported that he had found good conditions and some smaller roosters and jacks to play with. Also, a decent ladyfish bite filled in the gaps in the action.
Water temperature 74-89
Air temperature 72-94
Humidity 94%
Wind: WSW at 3 kph
Conditions: Partly Cloudy
Visibility 9 miles
Sunrise 7:13 a.m. MDT
Sunset 7:00 p.m. MDT
Magdalena Bay, Baja Mexico
Beginning just a few miles off the beach, the dorado were thick this week. And plenty of yellowfin were found just outside Boca de Soledad - five miles. Most of the marlin action reported was down below the Entrada near the pinnacle. Chip on the “Old Reliable” reported good marlin action on the fly with double digit follows every day.
Estero action continued to be on the slow side with very little pressure. Up at Lopez Mateos one angler reported a few small yellows, some fair sized grouper and a few pargo to round out his day.
Water temperature 64 - 78
Air temperature 74-87
Humidity 95%
Wind: NE 8 mph
Conditions: Scattered Clouds
Visibility 6 miles
Sunrise 7:21 a.m. MDT
Sunset 7:07 p.m. MDT
Zihuatanejo, Mainland Mexico
Boats freshly painted, reels cleaned and oiled, fish arriving, everything is ready…all we need is clients!
The 85° blue water is only a short 7 mile ride out of the harbor. The full moon is hurting the fishing for the sailfish a bit, but overall the sailfish have been decent. The average has been two to three per boat, per day.
With the rain season essentially over, and the inshore waters clearing up, the roosterfish are still the main action. The boats are averaging 4 to 5 roosters a day each.
Ed Kunze
Water temperature 78 - 87
Air temperature 76 - 99
Humidity 100%
Wind E 5 kph
Conditions: Cloudy
Visibility 7 miles
Sunrise 7:37 a.m. CDT
Sunset 7:29 p.m. CDT
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Oct 9, 2006; 12:53PM - Guatemala Sailfishing
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Category: Guatemala Sport Fishing
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Author Name: The Great Sailfishing Company
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This fishing report is for the week ending 10-08-06 and is prepared by The Great Sailfishing Company which
operates out of the new Pez Vela Marina, Guatemala.The fishing grounds for this past week came in from
averaging 30 miles to as far as 45 miles over the past month to 20 to 30 miles. Seas this week have continued
to stay calm ranging between 1 to 2ft with sunny skies and light to no wind.
This week saw good results with boats
reporting raises in the teens to mid twenties,with releases also in the high single digits to high teens
with most boats releasing between 8 to 15 sails on conventional tackle. There were even reports of marlin in the spreads. On Saturday our boat the Joint Venture released 10 Pacific Sailfish and a Blue Marlin in the
200 lb. Class. There was a local inshore fishing tournament this past Saturday and we have been told
for those that ventured out they were rewarded well with jacks,mackerel,pargo and more.
Once again for those anglers planning to come down to Guatemala and fish with us, please make your reservations soon as our calendar is filling up fast. We are happy to announce the addition to our fleet of the Island Time (38ft.wide-body Bertram)and the Reel Diver (35ft.Bertram with a full tuna tower and tuna door).Both of these vessels will be arriving in early
November.
To register for our weekly fishing report and other information please click here :
http://www.greatsailfishing.com/en/register.html or contact us at greatsailfishing@yahoo.com
Best regards,
Les,Carlos,Kevin and Jim
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