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Apr 2, 2012; 12:56PM - 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
March 19-25, 2012
WEATHER: We had another great week on the weather front, if you like it 65 degrees in the morning and 85 degrees during the day, with plenty of sun and mostly light winds. If you don't like that kind of weather, then there is something wrong with you! No rain of course, but we did have some wind kick up on Sunday morning.
WATER: At the end of the week surface conditions on the Sea of Cortez side were great with swells at 2-4 feet and no wind chop close to shore, and only a bit in the afternoons farther out than 10 miles. On the Pacific side the swells were 3-6 feet most of the time with some chop on the water the farther north you went. Water temperaturs on the Cortez side were ranging between 70-75 degrees with the warmer water being more to the north or farther out, the cooler water just to the east of a line running along the beach on the Pacific side and extending out over the water from northwest to southeast. On the Pacific side the water was pretty much 66-67 degrees everywhere and a bit on the green side.
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: We finally had an up-tick in the catch ratios on Striped Marlin this week. With an increase in numbers seen in the area from the 1150 to outside Punta Gorda came an increase in the number of Marlin that were hungary. This combination provided action that resulted in almost every boat that went looking for a Marlin having success. A few boats did better than others, I know of a few that were releasing up to 5 per day, but most boats were getting one or two releases per trip. The fish were there in pretty good number but were not really hot and heavy in the lures, most of them were caught dropping back live bait to fish that were just checking out the lures. A few were caught by throwing a bait ahead of them while they were tailing downswell. A number of boats started to chase what they thought were marlin feeding, but it ended up that there were a large number of Thresher Sharks in the area feeding as well.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Once again there were not a large number of Yellowfin Tuna found this week, and it was suprising since there were so many pods of white bellied porpoise to be found. A few boats got into some very small fish, and a few others got lucky and caught one or two fish in the 25 pound class, but there were no large numbers of large sizes reported to me.
DORADO: The warm water on the Cortez side of the Cape did produce some large fish this week, but not very many of them, and there were only a few boats that found them at all. I did see one fish that might have gone 50 pounds and several others that would have been in the 30 pound range, but there were no boats that I heard of that came inwith more than two Dorado, and to be real, most of the fish were smaller ones. Live bait dropped back where a Marlin came up resulted in most of the larger fsh, and boats fishing the shallow reefs and chumming caught most of the smaller fish.
WAHOO: None that I heard of this week, but perhaps the warming water and full moon of spring that is coming up will change these stats.
INSHORE: While the inshore fishing was the best way to go for the past several months due to the large numbers of Sierra and Yellowtail, this week the action dropped off a bit. The better captains were still able to put their anglers on good numbers of fish but overall success rates were down a bit. On the positive note, there was less pressure on these fish since the cruisers were going offshore for Marlin once again. The bite was still fair, with most anglers getting at least one or two nice Yellowtail to 30 pounds, but the better boats were still managing 4 to 6 per trip. Sierra numbers were down a bit as well with only a few boats managing to limit out, but anyone trying was able to get some for dinner. Sea Lions were a problem for boats fishing to the east of the lighthouse on the Pacific side, managing to find and gang up on any fish hooked up. There were decent numbers of small Roosterfish to be found in the surf, and anglers fishing off the beach did fair on Sierra and small Roosterfish early in the week, later in the week large swells caused some issues for the beach fishermen.
FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this weeks recipe! It's a really great one.
NOTES: It is approaching the end of Spring break and the beginning of Easter Week so things will continue to be a bit rowdy at the beaches for a while. This morning we went on Daylight Saving Time, it was a bit strange and will take a while to get used to. Our friend Brian Flynn (think Santana, Beck, Loverboy, Molly Hatchet, Guess Who) has been busy playing six days a week since he got back from assisting our friend Mike Hill with the recording of his new album “No Bad Days”. They formed a group called Cabo Cowboys with Roger Gillespie on drums, Oliver C. Brown on percussion, Hal Ratliff on keyboards, Brian Flynn on guitar, Ernie Nunez on electric bass, Brian Brazil on harmonica, Miguel Hill on vocals and Rick Dale with backing vocals. You can check it out at cabocowboysmusic.com and see if you like it!
Have a great week, catch lots of fish, and get those reservations for Cabo made!
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Apr 1, 2012; 03:07PM - COVER OF THE ROLLING STONE
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Mark Rayor
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Cover of the Rolling Stone not!
After a winter of continuous boat maintenance this
week we launched Jen Wren III for the season.
Yesterday was our shake down trip and it appears all
of our hard work has paid off.
Eight to ten miles off of the lighthouse schools of bait
are starting to puddle up in the blueish 70 degree
water. This is a sure sign of good things to come. We
sighted jumping marlin, tailing sailfish, and milling
dorado and wahoo. Early in the day I sighted a wahoo
following the bruja (ballyhoo) we were trolling. It took
some coaxing to get the fish to finally bite. As luck
would have it, the bite was short and the wahoo took
the back half of the Ballyhoo slicing it in two.
With that experience we quickly deployed a couple
wahoo jigs. My favorite is a Halco GT jig and the
Rapala X-rap. After trolling the area where the first
fish bit we had a double hook up on the hoo's.
All week the weather has been about as good as it
gets. Also there are a lot of fish in the area but they
are just not quite ready to go. It is good enough that
everyone is bringing home fish but they are not
turned on enough to take limits.
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Mar 25, 2012; 08:40PM - FROM GO TO SLOW
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Mark Rayor
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From go to slow
Early in the week we experienced an incredible bite of
quality yellowtail off the high spot at La Ribera. Lots
of boats were there and everyone was bent. Several
came away with limits. That same afternoon billfish
were very aggressive from the light house to Los
Frailes charging at lures and baits presented to them.
The wind blew for a couple of days and everything
changed. Today we could see yellowtail in our fish
finder in the same location where the action was early
in the week but now only a few boats were able to get
them to go. Off shore we sighted marlin, wahoo and
sailfish but they were more finicky than Morris the
cat.
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Mark Rayor
teamjenwren.com
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Mar 19, 2012; 12:34PM - 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
March 12-18, 2012
WEATHER: The week started out great with clear skies, light winds and the perfect temperatures with the nighttime lows in the low 60's and the daytime highs in the low 80's. As the week progressed we had cloud cover move in, the breeze from the northwest pick up a bit and the temperatures raise a few degrees, along with the humidity moving up a few points. At the end of the week we were beginning to feel the approaching low pressure system as the winds started to blow on Saturday. Hopefully this will pass in a day or two, but it would be nice if there was a bit of rain in it for us!
WATER: As the clouds moved in the last clear water temp shot we received was on Wednesday and it showed 70-71 degrees across our local Sea of Cortez area with a spot of 68 degree water from the beach to 5 miles offshore between Cabo and San Jose. This water was also a bit green. On the Pacific side of the Cape the 71 degree water extended from the beach out to the San Jaime Banks and up to the Golden Gate Banks. From there out to a distance of 45 miles it dropped a bit to 87 degrees and outside of the 45 mile area it dropped again to 65 degrees but became blue again. Surface conditions on the Sea of Cortez were almost glassy most of the week with very little wind and small swells. On the Pacific side the swells were a bit larger at 3-5 feet and some light winds early in the week, growing to strong breezes at the end of the week with significant white caps.
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: Well, it's still not great but it is getting better as more boats are coming in with Marlin flags flying. A few are reporting getting shots at up to six fish a day and releasing one to three, and a few boats going farther offshore are reporting finding fairly large schools of Striped Marlin but they are not biting well yet. The better area seemed to be off the Vinorama area up the Sea of Cortez, around the 1150 area and 30 miles to the west on the Pacific side. On a really positive note, there were at least two Swordfish taken this week, with several others seen. One of the Swordfish was in the mid #200 range and the other was reported to be at least twice as large.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Tuna fishing was still slow for most of the boats early in the week with the fleet boats finding football fish in the normal areas such as south of the San Jaime and out past the 1,000 fathom line due south. Later in the week the reports became better with larger fish caught due west at the temperature change and due south at 40 miles. Several fish were caught that went over 100 pounds and there were decent fish to 60 pounds as well. Daisy chains and spreader bars brought good bites as did deep trolled plugs.
DORADO: For a couple of days at least Dorado were kings as a dead whale was found and the massive numbers of small Dorado provided fast action on the acrobats. Most of these small fish were released but there were a few boats that could not control themselves and kept everything they hooked, sigh. Elsewhere there were few Dorado to be found this week, but that may change if the water continues to warm up.
WAHOO: ? There may have been a few caught this week but I did not hear of them.
INSHORE: This week was pretty much a repeat of last weeks inshore action as there was a decent, but not hot bite on Yellowtail. The Sierra action was good on larger fish to 8 pounds, found on both sides of the Cape, and there were a few nice Snapper and Grouper caught as well. Most of the action was on the Pacific side from the lighthouse up to Migraino.
FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this weeks recipe!
NOTES: Good weather except for the end of the week combined with better fishing than we have seen in a few weeks made a lot of anglers happy. The beach is crowded as are the bars and nightspots in town as we experience Spring Break once again. This weeks report was written to the music of Craig Chaquiso on his 2000 release “Panorama”, basicaly a “best of” album of his music up to that time.
Have a great week, catch lots of fish, and get those reservations for Cabo made!
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Mar 18, 2012; 02:33PM - SEA OF CORTEZ-EAST CAPE ROCKS!
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Mark Rayor
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EAST CAPE ROCKS!
The bite is sick! East Cape is having the best
yellowtail action I have ever seen with fish that look
like they are on steroids plus striped marlin have
shown up with a big appetite.
I love providing the catching experience for first
timers. Gary and Cindy Green of Chico CA stopped by
with their daughter and granddaughter to set up a
fishing trip on Jen Wren. Cindy was very reluctant
stating she never had any luck and wanted the rest of
the family to go without her. I explained that there
was a good chance of sighting whales, porpoise,
turtles, sea lions and other sea life and that a great
time could be had without catching fish.
Yesterday Cindy elected to join the family and what a
time it turned out to be. 15 year old granddaughter
Shai-Anne and Gary both landed nice yellowtail in the
morning. Then we headed a little further off shore
where Gary caught and released his first marlin ever.
Shortly after that we spotted 4 tailers in a group and
hung 2 of them. Gary and Cindy battled both fish to
leader and we released them.
At the end of the day Cindy had not only seen all the
sea life hoped for she had also released the largest
fish.
For a lot more great photos check out my blog.
Mark Rayor
teamjenwren.com
markrayor.blogspot.com
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Mar 15, 2012; 03:44AM - Northern BC Canada Fishing Report March 14, 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, March 12, 2012 Terrace and Kitimat
Current LIVE Fishing Report can be read anytime 24-7 at: http://www.noelgyger.ca/current-fishing-reports.htm
Commentary: The extreme cold weather is gone. Spring Steelheading is here plus some excellent Trout fishing.
Skeena River: Water is fishable with some fair Steelhead and Trout fishing with both spin and fly rod. The spring run Steelhead should be in the river soon. Reg: all wild Steelhead everywhere in British Columbia are catch and release.
Kalum River: Both the lower and upper sections are in good shape. A good run of Steelhead is in the river now. I have reports of many fish caught.
Lakelse River: The water is in good shape and fishing for Steelhead, and Trout is fair.
Zymoetz (Copper) River: Water is low and in good shape. Fishing for Steelhead is fair. Upper end is closed for fishing...to protect the wintering over Steelhead. Facts: Last year we had a record run of summer-run Steelhead, let’s hope at least we have another good run this year. The fly rods work extremely well in this river.
Kitimat River: Trout fishing is fair. Steelheading starts around beginning of April.
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Mar 14, 2012; 08:06PM - LET THE GAMES BEGIN
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Mark Rayor
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LET THE GAMES BEGIN
I just returned to the East Cape after 10 days in the
Los Angeles area. Visiting family and exhibiting at the
Long Beach Fred Hall fishing show was the main
purpose of the trip.
Exhibiting at Fred Hall was work but it was also loads
of fun seeing old friends and making new ones.
During the time I was gone this place has gone from
windy winter conditions to warm beautiful spring
weather. More boats are being put in the water
everyday and everybody is buzzing about how good
the bite is. A big volume of yellowtail has moved in
on most of the high spots up and down the coast.
Many quality fish south of 40 pounds are being
landed daily. Striped marlin have also become more
active and showing in bigger numbers. The most
exciting news to me is the sighting of a couple of
broadbill swordfish. That news gives me goose
bumps.
Mark Rayor
teamjenwren.com
markrayor.blogspot.com
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Mar 12, 2012; 01:29PM - 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
March 5-11, 2012
WEATHER: Great weather once again with our nighttime lows in the mid 60's and the daytime highs in the mid to high 80's and just a bit of cloud cover during the middle of the week. The winds were variable in direction and strength depending on your location. On Thursday it was blowing hard in San Jose but calm in Cabo, the reverse the next day. We were on the Pacific Thursday and Friday and it was calm with just a slight breeze from the southwest.
WATER: On the Pacific side the water was 71 degrees within four miles of the beach and 73 degrees from there to 8 miles east of the San Jaime and the Golden Gate Banks. Due south at 12 to 15 miles we had 77 degree water and to the east past the 115o and the Gorda Banks we saw 70 degree water. Surface conditions were good with swells at three to five feet on the Pacific and one to three feet on the Cortez side.
BAIT: Mackerel and Caballito were the baits available at the normal $3 each but there appeared to be few Sardinas available this week. Many of the bait boats would sell only five live baits and try to talk you into buying large frozen ballyhoo as well, but the fishery right now doesn't really need these large ballyhoo.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Still an on and off fishery, the beginning of the week saw quite a few Striped Marlin showing themselves from the arch to San Cristobal on the Pacific side and a few of them were willing to eat. A few boats managed to release as many as three fish while drifting live baits deep but then the fish moved on and the bite stopped. On Thursday we saw a few fish on the south side of the Golden Gate and managed to release one, but on Friday we baited two fish at the San Jaime and east of there with no action at all. Other boats were reporting the same results from all over. Perhaps the full moon on the 8th had something to do with this?
YELLOWFIN TUNA: The area known as the “herradura”, south of the San Jaime held porpoise that were with football Yellowfin early in the week then they moved on. At the end of the week there were reports of the same size fish being found in the warm water 12 to 15 miles to the south of the Cape. No great numbers were caught by any boat, but getting four or five was the average while the fish were there, plus you had shots at a Marlin or two.
DORADO: A repeat of last week as there were scattered Dorado found offshore in the warm 74 degree water. These fish were nice sized, but there sure were not many of them. A few boats caught fish to 30 pounds but they were not there thick enough to focus on, instead they were incidental catches for boats focusing on Marlin and Yellowfin. There were scattered smaller fish to 10 pounds caught near shore by boats fishing for Sierra and Yellowtail, but once again not enough of them for any focused effort.
WAHOO: I was surprised that I heard of no Wahoo caught this week considering the full moon is normally a good time to catch them, and the warmer water we have seen is perfect. Oh well, like last week, what hoo?
INSHORE: I said it best in last weeks report when I made the comment “Things sure can change from week to week”. True words as the great Yellowtail fishing we had been having took a turn toward the down side. Boats were still fishing for them but instead of getting five or six per trip on average, the results were quite a bit worse with many boats not getting any at all. A lucky few were able to catch one or two of them, but that was the exception. There was a better bite on Sierra though, and some of the fish were decent size, up to 8 pounds. Toss in some good Pargo and Grouper fishing and there was action to be had inshore.
FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this weeks recipe!
NOTES: Great weather, decent fishing and smooth seas, what more do you want? Yeah, I know, great fishing would be better, but you don't always get what you want, sometimes you get what you need. Guess what music I listened to this week for the report?
Have a great week, catch lots of fish, and get those reservations for Cabo made!
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Mar 5, 2012; 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
http://captgeo.wordpress.com/
Cabo Fish Report
February 27 – March 4, 2012
WEATHER: We once again started the week with gusty days and partly cloudy skies, but by the end of the week we had great weather. With lows in the mid 60's and highs in the high 80's you could not ask for more perfect weather! As the week worked it's way toward the end, the winds started to die off a bit and when they did start each day, it was later and later. As I said, at the end of the week it was as god as you can get!
WATER: At the end of the week the water along the Pacific side from the shore out to the San Jaime and the Golden Gate Banks showed a pretty even 71 degrees as far north as Todo Santos. On the Cortez side of the Cape the water remained the same 71 degrees but extended much farther offshore, out to the 1,000 fathom line, and then it warmed up to 74 degrees just to our south.
BAIT: Mackerel and Caballito were the baits available at the normal $3 each and there were actually some decent numbers of Sardines to be found at the normal $25 a scoop.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: One day the bite is on, the next day it is off, no consistency in anything except in the area the fish were found. Most of the fish were in the area between the 95 Spot and the 1150. Catches varied between 0 and 3 fish per boat and more fish were seen than were caught. The best bait appeared to be Mackerel, but at times they would ignore the mackerel and only eat a Caballito, other times they would not eat anything. There are some decent schools of Mackerel showing up on the Pacific side but for some reason not a lot of Marlin are in the same areas.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: These fish were pretty much non-existent for much of the week, at least until Saturday. All of a sudden, less than 6 miles off the arch several schools showed up and the boats that were there managed to limit out on fish to 25 pounds. Cedar plugs and small feathers were the key to multiple hook-ups. Elsewhere Yellowfin were scarce to absent.
DORADO: There were scattered Dorado found offshore in the warm 74 degree water, and these fish were nice sized, but there sure were not many of them. A few boats managed to catch fish to 30 pounds but they were not there thick enough to focus on, instead they were incidental catches for boats focusing on Marlin. There were scattered smaller fish to 10 pounds caught near shore by boats fishing for Sierra and Yellowtail, but once again not enough of them for any focused effort.
WAHOO: What Hoo? No reports this week, at least from anyone I heard from.
INSHORE: Well, things sure can change from week to week. This week Yellowtail re-gained the title of fish of the week, but you had to go to the Pacific side to have a decent shot at them. On the Cortez side of the Cape things inshore pretty much were concentrated on Sierra, Snapper and Grouper. Up in the San Jose area the water was calm, there were few Yellowfin or Yellowtail and it seems that the effort was mainly in the area of the San Louis Bank. On the Pacific side the yellowtail were fairly thick, and with a good depth sounder a boat could get on the fish time after time. Spread out between the arch and Marguerite, fishing in water between 120 and 200 feet in depth brought in consistent catches of fish between 15 and 30 pounds, often limits for anglers. A mix of live bait, yo-yo's and diamond jigs did well. There were Sierra in the area as well for anglers whose arms grew too tired to reel in another Yellowtail!
FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this weeks recipe!
NOTES: Perfect weather at the end of the week as well as some absolutely great inshore fishing. Now if only the Striped Marlin would show up in force and the Tuna arrive and stay it would be perfect fishing as well, but we will take what we can get, and that is not at all bad right now! Full moon is in four days so if the warm water stays we might see a decent showing of Wahoo, we will just have to wait and see.
Have a great week, catch lots of fish, and get those reservations for Cabo made!
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Mar 3, 2012; 10:35AM - JAIL BAIT
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Mark Rayor
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JAIL BAIT
Last week I opened my mouth too soon saying we are
getting as many calm days as windy ones. This week
has brought nothing but strong winds and small craft
advisories. I should know better. Every year at this
time we are teased with a few nice days and smacked
right back up on the porch with hard weather.
Fishing before this blow we had a very difficult time
finding mackerel for bait. One day there are loads and
the next day they are gone. Can't blame it on a full
moon but there are other contributing factors.
Recently a pod of bottlenosed dolphin have been
hanging out near the drop off where bait is generally
easy to catch. There has also been a pod of common
dolphin cruising up and down the coast near shore. I
can't imagine how many tons of fish a whole pod of
dolphin consume in a day but it has to be a bunch.
Until they move on I believe the bait situation will
remain grim. The mackerel also disappear when the
humbolt squid move in. I'm certain the squid play
havoc with bait fish.
Bait is key so we have learned to adjust when the live
stuff can't be had. Rigged properly a frozen ballyhoo
will swim like a live bait and can be just as deadly and
work even better sometimes. Trolling what the locals
call a 'bruja' (ballyhoo with a small skirt on the nose)
on a stinger or whisky line can be magic. Unlike
artificials the bruja should be trolled with as little
pressure on the drag as possible without the line free
spooling. Accurate Boss reels are the bomb for this
because they can be left in free spool and enough
pressure can be applied with the cast control. Unlike
an artificial lure the ballyhoo has the right texture and
flavor so the game fish will suck it down.
Properly curing the ballyhoo before freezing makes
much better bait. There are many secret recipes for
curing. I have found brining them for a couple of days
in a mixture of rock salt and baking soda with
crushed ice works best. When they are ready we
vacuum package them in seal-a-meal bags and they
will stay good in the freezer until we need them.
On many occasions we are able to catch live bait off
shore and always keep a Sabiki rigged for when the
opportunity arises. A sabiki is a ganion of small
hooks garnished with a little dried fish skin or colored
yarn. Sometimes a spot of bait can be seen on the
surface and several can be caught at a time by
pitching the sabiki at them. Other times bait can be
found with our depth sounder. Last year the shark
buoys off shore was loaded for months. There was a
smorgasbord of bait there and we caught horalijtos,
caballitos, bullet tuna, scad and camiseta. All are
excellent for marlin, tuna and dorado.
The camiseta is an interesting little fish. It is really a
pilot fish but the local fishermen call them 'camiseta'
because it's strips look like a jail uniform.
It is off to Gringolandia for me. If you find yourself in
Long Beach Ca between the 7th and 11th stop by and
see us at the Fred Hall show.
Mark Rayor
teamjenwren.com
markrayor.blogspot.com
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