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May 14, 2012; 01:08PM - 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
May 7-13, 2012
WEATHER: It's summertime! We have had clear skies and warm weather all week long, and the water is warming up as well. With the daytime temperature getting into the mid to high 90's and the nights only dropping to the high 70's we know it's not too long before going to the beach will become an almost daily ritual. It's about the only way to beat the heat without running the AC all day long. Put the sweaters and long pants away and buy new tubes of sunscreen.
WATER: At the end of the week it was clear that warm water has been pushing our way from the east. The surface temperatures on the Sea of Cortez inside the 1,000 fathom line east of the 95 spot is a steady 75-76 degrees. Outside the 1,000 fathom line and from the beach on out north of the 95 spot to the lighthouse on the Pacific side the water is 69-70 degrees. From the lighthouse on the Pacific side an 8 mile wide band of 67 degree water extends from the northeast to the southwest. On the northern side of this line, for about 3 miles, there is a band of cold water at 60 degrees that runs right across the top of the San Jaime Banks. North of this band the water warms a degree or so to 63-64 degrees. Surface conditions throughout the area have been great with small swells and mostly light afternoon winds.
BAIT: Caballito have been the prevailing bait this week with very few Mackerel and a decent supply of Mullet, all at the normal $3 per bait. For boats willing to go the distance and needing Sardines, we were finally seeing some decent size ones from San Jose, but you had to be there early, and they were going for $20-$25 a scoop if you could get them.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: With the moon in it's waning phase we are seeing more Striped Marlin on the surface and they seem more willing to take a bait than they were last week. The favorite area is still between the 1150 and the San Jose Canyon, but there are fish showing up on the 95 spot, probably as the warm water keeps moving to the west the fish will follow. A few boats were finding Marlin very close to the beach, less than two miles out. They were not there in the numbers being found offshore, but they were willing to bite and many boats managed to close out a half day trip by catching one right outside Cabo. In more good news, the warming water may also be bringing in more of the larger Marlin as several boats this week reported catching Blue Marlin. I did not see any of the fish but they were reported to me as being less than 200 pounds and were caught on lures pulled for Striped Marlin. Never forget that there are other billfish out there as well! A private boat went out this week to run some checks on their electrical systems, checking the radar, sonar, FLIR and such and of course they put a couple of lines in the water. Crossing the 95 spot they hooked up a Swordfish that weighed just under 300 pounds, on a lure, at night! You never know what is going to show up!
YELLOWFIN TUNA: I did hear of a few boats in the area that lucked into #100 fish while working Dolphin but there were no numbers reported to me, just that a few had been caught. Must be nice to luck into these fish! For the rest of us, Yellowfin were pretty much a hit-or-miss situation. Find the right porpoise pod and you might get a few fish averaging 15 pounds, but there were not many of them out there. Boats fishing inshore trolling Rapallas for Yellowtail caught a few Yellowfin, but once again there were no number of them, just the occasional fish here and there. These were not fish that I would have gone out and targeted this past week, but instead would have been happy to get as a by-catch.
DORADO: I think the Dorado may just be a month away as we are slowly seeing the bite improve. Once the water hits 80 degrees we might see it bust loose, but for now an occasional 30 pound fish with a few smaller ones in the 10 pound class are what we are seeing every day, and that is not per boat, but an average of about 10 boats. They are there, but the numbers are not here yet.
WAHOO: Wahoo were scattered this week with most of the fish reported coming from the warmer water up around the Gorda Banks and Punta Gorda. More were being seen than were being caught, but there were some nice fish reported with weights ranging from 25 to 70 pounds. Sure would be nice to get a couple of Wahoo fillets, I have some ingredients just waiting to use on them for a great meal! The fish that have been caught have mostly been on live bait but a few have been reported caught on lures, and almost all the fish have come from shallow water, less than 350 feet.
INSHORE: Sierra continue to be the inshore fish of the week in our area, but I have heard reports from a few of our boats that have ventured up to the Punta Gorda area that there was a decent bite on Pompano that lasted for a few days. These great eating fish were found close to the beach, averaged 6 pounds and were biting on Sardinas. There are still some Yellowtail being found on the Pacific side of the Cape, but not in the numbers we were seeing several weeks ago, nor in the same size range. Boats are averaging two to three fish per trip and the size has dropped to an average of 12 pounds. Also being found inshore are good numbers of Roosterfish to 20 pounds. Great action on spinning and fly tackle, when you mix in an occasional Jack Crevalle you better be ready!
FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this weeks recipe!
NOTES: Tawny is snoring at my feet, waiting for the Sunday beach walk, that was my music for this report! Can't keep her waiting, and of course a great Sunday breakfast when we get back, a call to Mom for mothers day and then off to watch the final round of golf at TPC Sawgrass! Have a great week everyone, and Happy Mothers Day! Until next week, tight lines!
Gordo Banks Pangas
San Jose del Cabo
May 13, 2012
Anglers –
Springtime weather in Southern Baja is starting to feel more like summer,
as high temperatures were reaching 90 degrees, though early in the morning
there was still a slight chill inthe air, in reality the climate now is
ideal, with variable breezes later in the day helping to keep conditions
comfortable. Ocean currents are now coolest on the Pacific side of Cabo San
Lucas, where it is averaging 68 to 69 degrees, in the direction of the
Gordo Banks anglers are finding warmer water of 74 to 76 degrees. Early in
the week there was a day when we felt serious thunder with lightning
strikes throughout the area, only scattered reports of actually rainfall,
but where it did rain, the drops were large, very tropical and unusual for
this time of year. The majority of the sportfishing fleets were fishing on
the grounds off of Chileno to the 1150 spot, the Gordo Banks and north
towards Iman, Desteladera and San Luis Banks.
Live bait options remained plentiful for caballito and after becoming
scarce for a couple of weeks, nice sized sardinas were once again
available, pangeros found schools of these baitfish inshore near San Luis,
with calmer surf conditions, this gave the netters opportunities to reach
the baitfish. There was also the option of purchasing bags of fresh dead
sardinas from the dock area and they were being used mainly for chumming
over shallow rocky areas for catching a mix of bottom species. Larger
concentrations of bolito are now schooling on the fishing grounds, being
caught early in the day for use as trolling baits on the same grounds.
The red hot striped marlin action encountered last week off of San Jose del
Cabo tapered off for several days during the recent moon period. In the
past day or so the action seems to be rebounding, many stripers were seen
tailing on the surface, a percentage of these were striking lures or bait,
while many showed no interest. The area from the Gordo Banks to the 1150
spot seemed to have the larger concentration of billfish. There were fewer
dorado encounters this past week, only a scattering of mostly single fish
found. There were reports of schooling dorado found near shark buoys north
of Gordo, but these do-dos apparently had lock jaw and would not hit on
anything.
Yellowfin tuna were not found with any consistency, some days anglers did
find larger sized yellowfin of 100 pounds plus, breezing in the same area
with porpoise, these fish would come up and feed on chummed sardinas, but
just would not strike any baits with hooks with them, strange to see tuna
act in this manner, but it is not all that uncommon, with the abundance of
natural food source on the banks these fish can become obsessed with
feeding on a particular resource on their own schedule. There were a
handful of medium sized tuna hooked into while trolling Rapalas near the
Iman to San Luis area, but still hit or miss.
More reports now heard of seeing free swimming wahoo and occasional hook
ups, despite limited numbers, still very encouraging to see these pelagic
becoming more active, it seems that they always prefer water temperature in
the mid to upper 70s. The wahoo being hooked now have ranged from 10 to 70
pounds, the larger specimens were landed on the marlin grounds on trolled
bolito, though more numbers of the ‘hoo were encountered closer to shore,
north of Punta Gorda, striking sardinas, yo-yo’s and Rapalas.
With offshore fishing action still producing limited options, many panga
charter charters are fishing closer to shore over the rocky structure for a
quality mix of great eating species, most of these fish are striking on
caballito or sardinas, with some mixed success had on yo-yo jigs as well.
Amberjack up to 60 pounds were accounted for, with a few yellowtail of 10
to 30 pounds in the mix, yellow snapper, barred pargo, huachinango, leopard
grouper and pompano rounded out the action. In the past couple of days
anglers enjoyed the seasons first consistent action for quality and
quantity of pompano, these jacks were averaging ten pounds, striking on
live bait close to shore two miles north of Puerto Los Cabos, off of La
Salinas. These are some of the finest eating fish found in local waters and
that includes a smorgasbord list of others.
Trolling the beach stretches has produced sierra, jack crevalle and
roosterfish. There were reports of dogtooth snapper starting to show up as
well, time to break out the stout tackle for these brutes.
The combined panga fleets launching out of La Playita/Puerto Los Cabos
Marina sent out approximately 62 charters this past week, with anglers
accounting for a fish count of: 21 striped marlin, 7 wahoo, 14 dorado, 8
yellowfin tuna, 34 barred pargo, 65 yellow snapper, 18 sierra, 27
amberjack, 8 yellowtail, 27 cabrilla, 28 roosterfish, 98 pompano, 8 mako
shark and 16 hammerhead sharks.
Good Fishing, Eric
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
Eric Brictson / Operator
619 488-1859
Los Cabos (624) 142-1147
e-mail:gordobanks@yahoo.com
WWW.GORDOBANKS.COM
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May 7, 2012; 11:33AM - 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
April 30 – May 6, 2012
WEATHER: This was a very strange, yet very great week for weather in Cabo as we received our first rain in almost a year! It was sunny and warm all week with the temperatures at 6 AM in the mid 70's while in the evenings it stayed warm, at 9 PM on Saturday it was still 85 degrees. Our first rain in almost a year arrived unexpectedly on Friday, which for some reason was also the best sea surface temperature shots of the week, amazing with the cloud cover we had. The front moved in from the southwest with heavy cloud combined with plenty of lightning and thunder. The animals were hiding under the bed with all the booms and rolling vibrations! The rain was not a large amount, just enough to get the cars good and dirty with runnels of water coursing down the dust, but it did manage to give the trees and plants a mush needed cleaning, and knocked the dust down for a while. The early part of the week saw mostly cloudy skies and after Friday the skies cleared up and we had sun and fun!
WATER: The water has started to change on us with warm water moving in from the east. Off of the Gorda Banks area we are seeing blue water at 78 degrees, changing to 74 degrees between San Jose and Cabo while in front of Cabo it is 72 degrees. On the Pacific side of the Cape we have 70 degrees below the San Jaime Banks and 67 degrees above it. That colder water above the San Jaime is green and just off the beach inside the Golden Gate Bank not only is it cold,but it is a very dirty red/green color. On the surface the Pacific side has had some swells to 8 feet with most of them averaging 4-6 feet. On the Cortez side of the Cape it has been smaller at 3-5 feet and spaced fairly far apart. The only real bad day on the water this week was on Friday when the front moved through, I would not have wanted to be out there after 1 PM!
BAIT: The usual Caballito and Mackerel with a few Mullet at the normal $3 per bait along with a few Sardines, but they are becoming more and more scarce recently. A few of the bait boats have been carrying frozen Ballyhoo, but you have to be careful as some of them have been frozen, thawed and re-frozen when they don't sell the first day. That kind of bait falls apart very quickly.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Fishing for Striped Marlin was mostly concentrated in the area between the 1150 and the Gorda Banks as that is where the bait was. It was common early in the week to see dozens of fish either sleeping or tailing on the surface and you could actually find a few that were hungry. A good trip early in the week resulted in 4 to 6 releases while an average trip might have one or two. As the week went on and the moon became larger the bite dropped off as did the number of fish seen. I went on Wednesday and we saw 13 fish, resulting in 8 strikes with four of these released. I heard of a Blue Marlin being caught early in the week but do not know the size or where it was supposed to have been caught.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: It is a waiting game for the Yellowfin still, and while there are a few small fish being caught there are no numbers. The only fish I heard of this week were caught 7 miles to the southwest of the arch in the blind, striking on cedar plugs. One boat brought in tree out of five fish and another boated one out of three strikes. The fish were footballs of about 8-10 pounds. I did not hear of any other Yellowfin caught within our normal operating range. By the way, the boat that caught the three Yellowfin also caught and released a Marlin on that cedar plug!
DORADO: Once again there were a few Dorado caught in the warm water in the Sea of Cortez. Small fish were found close to the beach while there were a few larger nice sized fish found offshore by boats fishing for Marlin. No real numbers were reported by any of the boats, but it seems to be a sign of good things to come!
WAHOO: The full moon resulted in a few Wahoo but no large numbers. There were more strikes resulting in cut off lures and baits than there were fish caught! Maybe 15% of the boats had a Wahoo strike and half of those managed to get one to the boat. Average size on the speedsters was 25 pounds.
INSHORE: The Yellowtail bite has dropped off and the Sierra have taken over the position of the fish of the week for the anglers fishing inshore. Not that the Yellowtail aren't out there, it's just that the numbers have dropped off. Toss in an occasional Amberjack, Grouper and a few Snapper and fishing the beach has been the best way to insure having something to eat for dinner! The best areas have been from the lighthouse on the Pacific side to the arch, and on the Sea of Cortes from Chileano Bay to Palmilla Point.
FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this weeks recipe!
NOTES: This weeks report was written to the music of Jack Johnson on the CD “On and On”, still one of my favorites from him. We hope you have a great week and check us out next week for an updated fishing report from Cabo San Lucas. Until then, tight lines!
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Apr 30, 2012; 12:47PM - 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
April 23-29 2012
WEATHER: Well, it looks as if I brought some weather back with me on my return from San Diego. While I was gone we had warm mornings where it was 77 degrees at 6am and the days warmed to the high 90's. Now, at the end of the week our morning high was 61 degrees and the daytime highs look to be in the high 70's. Not only that, but it has been cloudy for most of the week and this weekend the wind really started to blow with heavy gusts on Saturday afternoon, strong winds Sunday morning with the wind laying down a bit by noon.
WATER: With the cloud cover we had no decent sea surface temperature readings from the satellites, any readings we had were made from being on the water. From what we were able to ascertain, the surface temperatures on the Pacific side were in the mid to high 60's, depending on where you were with the cooler water occurring closer to the beach, and the surface conditions while great early in the week, became almost un-fishable by the weekend due to the winds. On the Cortez side things were quite a bit better with the water between 72 and 75 degrees early in the week and dropping an average of one degree for the weekend. Surface conditions were much better than on the Pacific, the winds did not generate a large swell on the Cortez side, just some choppy conditions around the 95 spot and a general choppy aspect in the afternoons.
BAIT: Caballito and Mackerel as well as a few Mullet could be had for $3 per bait. A few of the bait boats had “frozen” ballyhoo for between $3-4, each, but you never know how many times they had been “frozen”.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Still just “OK”, not wide open by any means, and the fish are still showing well from the 95 spot on up the coast on the Cortez side, across the 1150 and the San Jose Canyon. This warmer, very blue water has been showing us a lot of fish, but they have not been very hungry. A decent trip results in a release, a good trip in two releases and one of the best trips I heard of had 4 releases out of 12 bites. The fish have been there in good numbers but have been stuffed on all the squid that is out there. One of the secrets (but not any more!) has to been taking a 13 inch hollow plastic squid shell and stuffing it with some squid from the market, then slow trolling four or five of these so that they just slide on the surface. Match the hatch, right size and right taste, they are used to eating them and they are easier to catch than live Mackerel or Caballito. You just have to let the Marlin chew a bit longer, give them three or four more seconds before letting the line come tight so the circle hook sets in the jaw.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: We are still waiting for a decent showing on Yellowfin, and I hope that it happens soon. There were a few footballs caught this week by boats fishing approximately 25 miles to the south, but these were blind strikes with no signs of the fish being there other than a reel suddenly singing out. No porpoise, no birds, and the fish appeared to be moving fairly fast as a quick pass back over the same area seldom produce repeat hook-ups.
DORADO: There were some decent numbers of small fish caught this week, all on the Cortez side of the Cape in the warmer waters. Most of the fish were caught fairly close to the beach, but these were also the smaller fish. Once again the larger fish, though few in number, were caught offshore by boats fishing for Marlin. Everything likes to eat Squid!
WAHOO: Once again there were a few Wahoo caught, and they were found in the warm water around the 1150 area. While not large they were decent size, between 20 and 30 pounds. Farther up the coast on the Pacific side there were small Wahoo caught, small as in Min-hoo, with a large fish going 7 pounds. Wow, almost like a larger Sierra! The East Cape was seeing a few of these little guys.
INSHORE: Still fish of the week, Yellowtail have been the meat and potatoes for the fleet once again. While a few of the Captains are saying the Yellowtail are not biting, everyone we have had out has managed to catch at least three of four of them, and some of them have been as large as 40 pounds! Live bait fished just off the bottom was the key for success, yo-yo'ing iron was not as productive, and slow trolling large lipped, deep diving artificials did not do very well at all. The Sierra bite was on as well with decent numbers of fish being caught, and some of them were very nice sized for the species, coming in at 7-9 pounds, but of course the average was 5-6 pounds. Add in a scattering of Jacks and Grouper and the inshore action was pretty good this week!
FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this weeks recipe!
NOTES: I am back after a pretty uneventful delivery to San Diego. 9 days, traveling during the day with wonderful weather and only minor problems along the way. Sure is good to be back! This weeks report was written to the music of Adele, a decent mix from the albums 19 and 21. Friday night we had a chance to listen to the Brian Flynn band at the Cabo Lounge and our friend Daniel Touchman stopped by and played a few songs on Brian's guitar. His girlfriend (and my old editor from “Discover” magazine) stepped up to the microphone and wowed us with a fantastic cover of “Me and Bobby McGee”. What a great evening we had. Friends stopped at Zippers in San Jose on the way to the airport yesterday to drop off the kids and grandchild and watched at least three whales playing just off the beach. Nice to know that these are still around.
Until next week, Tight Lines!
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Apr 30, 2012; 07:41AM - EAST CAPE-LOOP DE LOO
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: MARK RAYOR
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Fishing has been a real roller coaster. Early in the
week striped marlin were in a feeding frenzy and
giving anglers lots of action. Then the marlin slowed
but big dorado showed. Just as the bite was getting
into high gear a low pressure system hit and it shut
off. The weather brought strong winds and we had a
couple of pretty ugly days. Now the wind is gone and
a huge volume of marlin have showed just a few miles
off Punta Colorada. It has been easy to spot fish but
they are finicky biters.
It has pretty much been the same roller coaster in
shore. Roosterfish, pompano and jacks are on the
rampage one day and just flat shut off the next.
Next week I will be off guiding SCUBA tours on a
private yacht. We will be diving from Ceralvo Island
to Gordo Banks and everywhere in between. My 19
years experience as a PADI SCUBA instructor and
thousands of dives guiding underwater tours in the
Sea of Cortez landed this adventure for me. With this
I may not be able to post up a fishing report.
For frequent East Cape updates 'Like' the Jen Wren
Sportfishing Facebook page.
Mark Rayor
teamjenwren.com
markrayor.blogspot.com
www.facebook.com/JenWrenSportfishing
US cell 310 308 5841
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Apr 23, 2012; 12:39PM - 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
http://captgeo.wordpress.com/
Cabo Fish Report
April 16-22, 2012
WEATHER: This has been a beautiful week. The winds have been blowing at night, and settling down as the sun comes up. Early in the week the afternoon high's were staying steady in the mid to hi 80's. Friday the heat index moved up over 90! When I was the marina around 3, it was 96 degrees! Summer is moving in on us.
WATER: The water on the Pacific side has settled down some, but not warm enough to hold the fish. San Jaime and Golden Gate have temps 68-69, which is warmer than the 65 it was last week. While on the Sea of Cortez side, those 70-72 degree waters are moving in closer to Cabo. The seas have been rough in the morning due to winds at night. As the sun comes up the ocean settles down to 1-3 ft seas.
BAIT: Caballito and Mackerel as well as a few Mullet could be had for $3 per bait. A few of the bait boats had “frozen” ballyhoo for between $3-4, each, but you never know how many times they had been “frozen”.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: The marlin bite has been just OK. They are there, but not interested in eating much. Although one guy picked up a double bringing lines in the other day. With the warmer waters moving closer to Cabo, the marlin should be getting closer. I didn't see as many shark flags this week. Some of the guys are out catching Bonita to use for live bait on the marlin You just have to find the marlin after finding the tuna! If you want to find them, you still need to head up to the 95-1150 areas. They should be moving closer to Cabo as the waters warm up. There was a couple of swordfish caught this week on the Pacific side. One of them caught with a speargun. LOL, 2 and half hour fight for a 200 lb swordie! As the waters warm up, the swordfish will disappear, they like the cooler waters.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: I am not sure when the Yellowfin will make an appearance, but I hope it is soon! Normally at this time we have schools of footballs all over the place but they have not shown up yet. It could be at any time though and our fingers are crossed. Meanwhile what we do have is an occasional school of footballs moving through the area very fast, giving the boats only a quick shot at them. If you are in the right place at the right time you might get a few. Some of the boats are still traveling up to the Inman Banks area and chumming for the larger fish, but they are not having a lot of luck at it. Not touching what George wrote last week, same this week. There are a few Bonita out there, not good to eat, but some guys are using them for love bait for the striped marlin.
DORADO: The Dorado are definitely around early this year. Not hot and heavy yet though. They like those warmer waters, and of course if the water is a little rough, they love to come out and play. With the calmer afternoon seas, there just hasn't been as many caught this week. A few small ones and a couple of the larger scouts. Don't be fooled by the flags flying. There are boats that are flying “yellow” flags for their yellowtail.
WAHOO: I know there was a couple wahoo caught this week, I saw pictures of it being marinated on Facebook.
INSHORE:Once again the Yellowtail are the food fish of the week. I have had most of my boats, stop and fish for a couple for dinner, then head offshore for the marlin. Everyone has been extremely happy. The best bet for fly fishing, guys have been hitting on the sierra and jacks. I haven't seen much else from inshore, mostly because the yellowtail bite is so awesome.
FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this weeks recipe!
NOTES: This weeks fishing report was written by Mary, if you couldn't already tell. George will have stories of his adventures North a little later in the week. I am writing this Saturday afternoon, with Tawny snoring at my feet. We'll still get beach time in the morning. I'm listening to local internet radio station HTTP://www.live365.com/index.live
Watch for Happy Hour, 2 hours of songs about Cabo! Run by a couple of local business women. Jennifer from Cape Marine, Jane from Amiga's del Mar and Carol from Cabo Realty Pro's. Great music all the time! Keeps me working!
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Apr 22, 2012; 04:31PM - MARLIN BITE, LINES GO TIGHT
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: MARK RAYOR
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Marlin bite, lines go tight!
The week started out with breezy weather and a
tough bite. Working hard we were still able to scratch
out a fish or two everyday and managed to get a few
of the folks that fished with us the experience of
catching their first marlin.
As the week progressed weather calmed and game
fish went on the rampage. From Punta Pescadero to
Punta Arena boats are sighting marlin jumping,
tailing and feeding on baitfish in a frenzy. Mixed with
the marlin are a few quality dorado and sailfish.
Schools of bait that was just puddling early in the
week is now balled up tight and being pushed around
by gamefish.
In shore is going off as well with Roosterfish on the
feed.
It seems the Sea of Cortez has come alive. Not only
are anglers experiencing excellent fishing they are
sighting a parade of interesting sea life. Sea turtles,
porpoise and whales are putting on a show.
For frequent East Cape updates 'Like' the Jen Wren
Sportfishing Facebook page.
Mark Rayor
teamjenwren.com
markrayor.blogspot.com
[url]www.facebook.com/JenWrenSportfishing[/url]
US cell 310 308 5841
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Apr 17, 2012; 04:00AM - Northern BC Canada Fishing Report April 17, 2012
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Category: Canada
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Author Name: Noel Gyger
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Fishing Report from Noel Gyger http:// www.noelgyger.ca for Monday, April 16, 2012 Terrace and Kitimat
Current LIVE Fishing Report can be read anytime 24-7 at: http://www.noelgyger.ca/current-fishing-reports.htm
Commentary: Good runs of Steelhead are noted...plus good local Trout and Dolly Varden Char fishing. Early run of Chinook Salmon has started, mostly bound for the Kalum River. The earliest we ever caught one was April 5th.
Skeena River: Water is dirty from the Copper River. It is clear above the Zymoetz (Copper) River. The spring run Steelhead are in the river now. Plus Trout and Dolly Varden Char. Early Chinook (King) Salmon are coming in now. Catching Steelhead and Chinook on the same day is possible. Reg: all wild Steelhead everywhere in British Columbia are catch and release
Kalum River: Water in good shape. A good run of Steelhead are in the river now. Guiding started March 15th. I have reports of some good catches. The lower and upper end are in good shape. The water is coming up slowly. This is the condition we like. Fresh spring run Steelhead are in the river now mixed in with the fall and summer-runs from last year. Chinook (King) Salmon are coming in now. We have caught them in early April. Anytime now we should be able to catch Steelhead and Chinook in the same day. Wow is this fun or what!!
Lakelse River: The water is in good shape and fishing for Steelhead, and Trout is fair.
Zymoetz (Copper) River: Water is dirty from the snow melt off. The weather is fantastic! Facts: Last year we had a record run of Steelhead, lets hope at least we have another good run this year. The fly rods work extremely well in this river.
Kitimat River: Steelhead are coming in now. More and more anglers are hitting the river. Trout fishing is excellent!
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Apr 16, 2012; 11:28AM - 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
April 9-15, 2012
WEATHER: It has been a windy week if you were fishing on the Pacific side of the Cape as the northwesterly winds blew hard from the start, but appears as if we may get a slight reprieve for a few days. With our highs in the low 90's and the nighttime lows in the low 60's it has not been bad at all, very comfortable to be out and about. No clouds and the wind on the Cortez side of the Cape has been light.
WATER: Surface conditions on the Pacific side were pretty miserable this week with the swells at 4-6 feet and the constant wind blowing. Looking past the arch you could see whitecaps and rollers everywhere, it looked like a sheep farm out there. Look to the east and you would think you were in a different body of water, and in fact you were. The Sea of Cortez, at least in our area, was flat and had only light winds if you were inside the 1,000 fathom line, outside of there you got some of the effects of the wind. Water on the Pacific side was cool to cold at 60-64 degrees, and a bit green as well. On the Cortez side it was warmer at 70 degrees and blue.
BAIT: Caballito and Mackerel as well as a few Mullet could be had for $3 per bait. A few of the bait boats had “frozen” ballyhoo for between $3-4, each, but you never know how many times they had been “frozen”.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Boats were finding the Marlin in the area around the 1150 and to the northeast of there, but the fish were not real aggressive. You might throw a bait at five or six fish before you found one that was interested and willing to bit. Trolled lures would raise fish, but they would not chase for very long. My guess is that approximately 20% of the boats trying for them released Marlin. There were a few boats that managed multiple releases but it was not common. Once again there were plenty of sharks in the area as well with Blue Sharks, Thresher Sharks and small Mako Sharks being caught as often as the Marlin were.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: I am not sure when the Yellowfin will make an appearance, but I hope it is soon! Normally at this time we have schools of footballs all over the place but they have not shown up yet. It could be at any time though and our fingers are crossed. Meanwhile what we do have is an occasional school of footballs moving through the area very fast, giving the boats only a quick shot at them. If you are in the right place at the right time you might get a few. Some of the boats are still traveling up to the Inman Banks area and chumming for the larger fish, but they are not having a lot of luck at it.
DORADO: We are still seeing some small ones coming from the warm water on the shoreline on the Cortez side and some larger fish to 40 pounds from the offshore area there. The larger fish are striking lures pulled for Marlin while the smaller fish are coming into the chum lines of boats fishing for Sierra and Yellowfin just off the beach.
WAHOO: I did not hear of any Wahoo being caught this week.
INSHORE: Inshore was the way to go if you wanted to get anything other than Marlin or shark and plenty of boats went this route. With the water very bouncy on the Pacific side the action shifted to the Cortez side of the Cape. Sierra were the most common catch and they bit well on drifted Sardinas and not quite as well on pink and chartreuse hootchis and small Rapallas. The Yellowtail bite was off and on with one day a spot producing a dozen fish for a boat and the next day there only being one caught. It was a matter of looking at the depth finder and moving around. Live bait dropped down to them was the best method once they were found, but yo-yo'ing worked for a few boats. Small Grouper to 6 pounds were common and made quite a few anglers happy and once in a while a 25 pound fish was hooked. There were scattered Snapper as well and all of this action occurred in water 80 to 120 feet deep.
FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this weeks recipe!
NOTES: This weeks report was written to the music of Dr. John from a mix CD a friend loaned to me. Great blues and one of the songs was about fishing! Well, time for the Sunday beach walk with Mary and the puppy, then home for breakfast, off to golf, then home for a grilled dinner with relatives. I hope all of you have just as an enjoyable day, and until next time, have a great week, catch lots of fish, and get those reservations for Cabo made!
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Apr 9, 2012; 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
http://captgeo.wordpress.com/
Cabo Fish Report
April 2 - 8, 2012
WEATHER: As summer slowly approaches our weather starts to warm up and we had our indications this week that summer will be here soon. We had a high of 94 degrees on Thursday along with a low of 72 degrees in the morning, our highest levels all week. Our average was 64 degrees in the morning and 86 during the day. We had no cloud cover, it was sunny all week long with only light winds for the most part here in Cabo, but with a good afternoon breeze on the Pacific side.
WATER: While we experienced a “feel” of summer weather on land we also received a slight “feel” of summer water out on the fishing grounds as the water off of the San Jose area warmed to as much as 74 degrees this week. Combine that with the small swells and it was almost like fishing in August! Of course the water was not as warm as it will be then and there are no big Blue and Black Marlin around yet, but there were lots of fish in the area. On the Pacific side of the Cape the swells were a bit smaller than those we had last week but the water remained cool and slightly off color. With an average of 64 degrees and an occasional cold spot of 61 degrees from close to the beach to outside of the San Jaime and the Golden Gate Banks, you did not encounter clean water until 40 miles offshore. Directly south of Cabo and to the west to a line directly south of San Jose the water warmed a bit to 66 degrees but remained slightly green. East of the line directly south of San Jose the water warmed to 73-74 degrees and was blue. All this was of the end of the week, as the warm water stared much closer to Cabo at the beginning of the week and slowly moved to the east over the 7 days.
BAIT: Caballito and Mackerel as well as a few Mullet could be had for $3 per bait. A few of the bait boats had “frozen” ballyhoo for between $3-4, each, but you never know how many times they had been “frozen”.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: The marlin we were seeing last week between the 1150 and Punta Gorda were still there this week, but they were not as hungry as they were last week. The full moon has a strong effect on the feeding patterns and once the moon starts to wane these fish should start to feed again. Meanwhile, it was frustrating to toss bait in front of these fish just to see them ignore it, but once in a while one of the Marlin took an interest and bit. In the same area we were seeing plenty of Thresher sharks, and occasionally one of them would bite. Mix them in with an occasional Mako shark and there was a decent chance to catch something offshore this week.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Still not showing up with any numbers, there were a few football fish to be found mixed in with porpoise, but you really had to check out a large number of porpoise pods before finding Tuna. Once in a while someone would hook into a decent fish over 60 pounds, but they were few and far between. A few boats were making the run from Cabo up to the Inman Banks area and catching Tuna to 60 pounds on drifted Sardines, but it was a real scratch to get one hooked, and there were plenty of times it was a wasted trip, but for those who only wanted to target Yellowfin, it was just about the only game in town.
DORADO: The warm water off of San Jose produced the few Dorado we saw this week with the smaller and more common fish being in the 10 pound class and found close to the beach. I did see several larger Dorado, the biggest being 42 pounds, that were caught offshore by boats fishing for Marlin. There were no numbers on these fish as they were all singles, but as the water warms up there should be more of them around.
WAHOO: Still none that I heard of this week, and I was surprised since Easter is the full moon. Perhaps as with the Marlin, the bite will happen on the waning moon.
INSHORE: Inshore action continued strong this week with Yellowtail to 35 pounds, Sierra that averaged 4 pounds, small Roosterfish of less than 10 pounds and some decent Jack Crevalle to 20 pounds. Almost all the Yellowtail action took place on the Pacific side in water between 80 and 120 feet deep. Finding the fish and then going back over the spot again and again produced numbers, but having a good fish finder on the boat really helped as this week the fish were constantly on the move. Often you had to spend 10 or 15 minutes finding the school after catching one or two fish. As far as the Sierra are concerned, the favorite areas were just off the beach in front of the Diamante Golf Course on the Pacific side and in front of Cabo Real Golf Course on the Cortez side. Small hootchies in ping and chartreuse as well as Sardines worked well. The Roosterfish were small but aggressive, trying to eat any live bait that was slow trolled on the surface, but the best results came from continual casting of plugs into the surf from the boat, and retrieving it in a walk-the-dog style. With an occasional Jack Crevalle crashing the party you never knew what was going to bite!
FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this weeks recipe! It's a really great one.
NOTES: This weeks report was written to the music of Mason Proffit on their album “Come and Gone” released by Flaming Arrow Records with some of the music having been recorded as early as 1976. The Talbot brothers were great musicians and a big influence on a lot of us. It's Easter day, time to get cooking!
Have a great week, catch lots of fish, and get those reservations for Cabo made!
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Apr 8, 2012; 11:24AM - MY HEAR ALMOST STOPPED
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Mark Rayor
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My heart almost stopped
East Cape weather has just been spectacular. All week
we have enjoyed calm seas and warm days. In shore
the water has become crystal clear and off shore is
warming and turning a beautiful blue.
Biz was slow and I wanted to go fishing so I made a
deal with 11 year old Roberto to charter Jen Wren III
for the day. When we departed I had broadbill on my
mind. First thing in the morning we made the candy
bait for our target when a small skipjack ate our
hoochie.
Arriving at my favorite swordie location we started
trolling. We could see some bait breaking on the
surface and everything looked right. Suddenly
catching something out of the corner of my eye my
heart almost stopped. The instant thought in my head
was IT'S A SWORDIE! Turning my head for a better
look and confirmation the two fins rose higher above
the water. Crap! Just a mako.
All the charter boat skippers know I'm obsessed with
catching another broadbill and always call us on the
VHF to tease me if they spot one. It is OK because we
are getting good dope and I'll take it.
We did have a great day. Roberto landed a nice
dorado and we saw loads of sea life.
For frequent East Cape fishing updates check out Jen
Wren Facebook page.
Mark Rayor
teamjenwren.com
markrayor.blogspot.com
[url]www.facebook.com/JenWrenSportfishing[/url]
US cell 310 308 5841
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