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| Starfish can re-grow their arms. In fact, a single arm can regenerate a whole body. |
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| Not all animals with the word fish in their names count as fish. |
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Jul 25, 2011; 11:04PM - AND I THOUGH IT WAS TOUGH
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Mark Rayor
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We are officially in our hurricane season. When
there are reports of a storm heading this way it
adds stress to our otherwise stress free lifestyle.
Hurricane Dora with reported winds of 155 MPH did
just that. We were spared as she moved to the West
but not without causing a big swell and rough boat
rides for a couple of days.
In my mind I thought fishing was tough this week
until downloading the images we captured. Between
the bumps marlin, sailfish and dorado provided
plenty of action.
One highlight for Jim Durky was bagging his first
sailfish after 12 years of trying. One frustration was
finding only marlin in the Dorado Shoot Out only to
have them show up later in the week.
Mark Rayor
www.thejenwren.com
www.vistaseasport.com
markrayor.blogspot.com
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Jul 25, 2011; 01:23PM - Cabo Bite Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrum
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
http://captgeo.wordpress.com/
Cabo Fish Report
July 18-24, 2011
WEATHER: Once again we had an interesting week with the threat of Hurricane Dora. Thankfully it became a non-event with the exception of some very large swells on Thursday and Friday. We were hoping for some decent rain but that did not happen, we got a bit of cloud cover on Saturday. Our days have been staying in the high 90's to just over 100 and the nights have had slightly lower temperatures at 82-85 degrees.
WATER: Hurricane Dora brought in large swells and the Port was closed Saturday morning because of them and the threat of very gusty winds. We did have the gusty winds for a few hours in the morning and then they settled down. With the swells spaced far apart the water was comfortable. At the end of the week we had a defined temperature break on the Pacific side with water to the inside of the San Jaime Bank and just outside the Golden Gate Bank being a warm 84 degrees while the water to the outside was a cooler 77-80 degrees and the change was a very sharp edge. On the Cortez side the water in front of Cabo and San Jose was a very even 84 degrees and as you got toward the East Cape it warmed to 88 degrees.
BAIT: Caballito and Mullet were the baits of the week with a few Mackerel in the mix. Everything was the normal $3 per bait.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: The bite was decent for Striped Marlin on the Pacific side early in the week, not great, but all right. A few boats were able to release tow or three but most boats did well for one release a trip. Blue Marlin have begun to show more often as the water keeps warming up and that has the anglers and crews excited. A few of the fish caught have been over 400 pounds but most have been in the 200-250 pound class. With no real concentration of them, it was exciting to know that once could appear in the pattern at any moment.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: It was exciting to start the week with some great fishing for Tuna in the 20-40 pound class, then disappointing to see all the purse seiners show up. Perhaps the threat of Hurricane Dora chased them away, but most of them were very low in the water when they did leave. For whatever reason, they were not out there on Thursday, and with the large rolling swells, no wind and no seiners around, the boats had a great time on fish that ranged in size from 20 pounds to 80 pounds. There were quite a few 50-60 pound fish caught, very nice to see them in the fish box! Most of the action was taking place to the south and west, but there were also reports of some real large fish being taken in the area of the East Cape. In our immediate area almost any boat that wanted was able to put between 6 and 12 of these quality fish in the box.
DORADO: I think I have to say that Dorado were the fish of the week for us, and probably will be this coming week as well. We the Tuna were mostly offshore a way, the Dorado bite really turned on off the beach on the Pacific side. With boats catching between four and 12 a trip and with the fish ranging in size from 10 to 50 pounds it was a good direction to go! There were a lot of happy anglers at the end of the day.
WAHOO: I saw a few wahoo flags this week but did not have a chance to talk to the anglers or crew to find any particulars.
INSHORE: Early in the week the inshore fishing was good with large Roosterfish to 50 pounds (most of them smaller at 15 pounds), some decent Amberjack and Grouper. The Swells really affected the inshore fishing as it was dangerous to get too close when the started and then at the end of the week the water was too green as a result of the heavy pounding.
FISH RECIPE: My recipe has been taking too much space so if you want to see it, check out my wordpress blog a little later in the week, or subscribe to the blog and you will receive an email as soon as I post it. Sorry about this last weeks no show, I got busy and forgot!
NOTES: As usual, this is written on Sunday morning so being the first full day of fishing since Hurricane Dora I will not have any updated information until late this afternoon. I will try to get an update out either tonight or tomorrow morning.
Until next week, tight lines!
I will be posting more to my blog now, please go to http://captgeo.wordpress.com/ and subscribe, you will be sent a notice every time I post a new article. Please feel free to send suggestions or if you have any ideas for articles. Thanks George
Gordo Banks Pangas
San Jose del Cabo
July 24, 2011
Just like across most of the United States, we are also dealing with high
temperatures and humidity here in Southern Baja. The main interest this week has
been following the development of Hurricane Dora and closely watching its projected
path. Dora had become an extremely powerful category 5 storm before encountered
cooler water temperatures and upper sheer that has caused it to no rapidly weaken.
It is just over 200 miles from Cabo San Lucas now, Cabo San Lucas Marina was closed
Friday, but a handful of charters did launch from La Playita/Puerto Los Cabos Marina
on Friday, though for Saturday both Ports are slated to be closed. Dangerous surf
conditions of 12 feet or more are pounding local beaches, but there has not been any
rain or wind to speak of yet. It looks like we have escaped another close call,
though some rainfall as the system dissipates would be welcome.
Schooling dorado moved in throughout the region this past week, the majority of the
fish were juveniles under ten pounds, but there were larger fish mixed in, so
remember to release the young fish and fill your limit with larger specimens. The
dorado were striking on a combination of lures and bait. There were mullet,
caballito and jurelito available for bait, as well as some small sized sardinas that
have showed up in the last few days, these sardinas need to grow some, at this size
they plug the filters on the bait tanks.
The yellowfin tuna bite was hit or miss, some tuna were found further offshore
traveling with porpoise, but this was no guarantee and often over 20 miles out.
Yellowfin tuna were only found in limited numbers near Iman and San Luis Bank, early
in the week there was one tuna caught from a local panga that was in the 170 pound
class, a handful of other yellowfin in the 20 to 50 pound range were accounted for,
but anglers were lucky to catch one of them.
Water temperatures were above 80 degrees in most areas, strong currents caused water
clarity to change from day to day. Southern swells made for choppy conditions much
of the week. Schools of bolito and some smaller yellowfin are now found on the
offshore fishing grounds and this has attracted some larger sized black and blue
marlin. Several black marlin were hooked into this week, problem was that the
majority were on lighter tackle and were lost after extended battles, at least a
couple of medium sized blacks were landed out of the Puerto Los Cabos Marina. There
are a few sailfish and striped marlin to round out the billfish action, several of
the stripers were of impressive size.
Inshore action for roosterfish and dogtooth snapper is tapering off, in fact just
like last week, there were several large roosterfish landed while trolling bolito on
the offshore banks. The few dogtooth snapper that were accounted for also came from
deeper rock piles. Cabrilla, grouper, snapper and amberjack were being hooked into,
no big numbers, but some quality fish, striking on yo-yo jigs and various baitfish.
The local panga fleets launching out of La Playita/Puerto Los Cabos Marina sent out
approximately 48 charters for the week, with anglers reporting a fish count of, 1
black marlin, 13 striped marlin, 4 sailfish, 19 yellowfin tuna, 260 dorado, 58
various pargo, 9 dogtooth snapper, 18 cabrilla, 15 grouper, 17 amberjack, 16
roosterfish and 22 jack crevalle.
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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Jul 22, 2011; 08:23AM - Dora looms
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Category: Saltwater Fly Fishing Reports
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Author Name: Gary Graham
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Endless Season Update July 21, 2011
REPORT #1261 'Below the Border'
Saltwater Fly-Fishing reports since 1996
[img]http://www.bajafly.com/report/2011.
image/FLYVICTOR.gif[/img]
While Dora pounds its way north, most
locals are cautiously looking over their
shoulders.
[url]http://www.allaboutbaja.com/webcams
.html[/url] East Cape webcam for current
live view
Summer action continues, however, with
billfish dominating the catches as more
and more anglers attention turns to the
upcoming East Cape Offshore that begins
next week. Hopefully it will not be a
repeat of last week's Dorado Shootout
when the target fish became scarce.
Speaking of scarce, the cow-sized tuna
are scattered in Las Palmas Bay with
little or no concentration. Mark Rayor
did manage to corral a couple, but he
was the exception to the rule. Most of
the
fleet had to be content with the smaller
football variety.
Inshore, the roosters and jacks are in
the house…smaller versions only; the
larger versions are not.
Current East Cape Weather
http://tiny.cc/EastCapeWeather303
[B]Magdalena Bay, Baja Mexico[/B]
Rumblings out of Magdalena indicate that
there is a decent yellowtail bite on the
ridge while locals are reporting dorado
and striped marlin outside of Cabo
Lazaro. This seems backwards to the way
it should be in a normal year.
In the Esteros the action remains
consistent for the usual suspects but
since many locals are currently
clamming, it is difficult to figure out
how bad or how
good it is.
Current Magdalena Bay Weather
http://tiny.cc/MagBayWeather150
[B]Zihuatanejo, Mainland Mexico[/B]
We are enjoying a great month!
Francisco, on the super panga Huntress,
fished three days in the nearby blue
water and caught seven sailfish, dorado,
lots of
ocianicos (skipjack), and even yellowfin
tuna. Plus, his clients from Denmark,
Niels Theirs and his daughter, also
fished the inshore for several days,
catching
numerous roosters and jack crevalle.
The roosterfish action is still blazing
hot for us here in Ixtapa /Zihuatanejo.
Early in the week, I had already been
booked in advance by David Yoder of
Seattle to fly fish for roosters when
Henry Huskins of Houston, Texas called
me the night before wanting to
conventional gear fish for roosters. I
called Adolfo and we put Henry with
Cheva on the panga Dos Hermanos
(Adolfo’s boat), and because Cheva’s
boat, the Dos Hermanos II is more fly-
fishing-friendly, David and I went
with Adolfo on Cheva’s boat.
The action was incredible. We fished the
clean water south of Valentin and on
down past the antennas. With Adolfo, we
brought at least 12 roosters to the
boat, and David caught and released one
along with a medium-sized jack crevalle.
This was David’s first experience for
roosters on the fly and he soon learned
12 roosters teased to the boat with a
hookless teaser e 12 caught fish when
you have hooks in the surface popper and
a live bait to back it up. But that one
fish on the fly is so much more
rewarding when you do hook up,
especially when using a fly you had tied
yourself. Meanwhile, Henry was with
Cheva and had not handicapped himself
with the fly rod. He released eight nice
roosters.
Plus, when David went back with Adolfo
the next day, with memories of those 50
pound and Fly Fishing World Record 70
pound class fish that had followed his
fly, but did not eat it, he quickly got
over his learning curve. On the first
day the cast was sometimes a bit early,
but usually a bit too late. By the
second day he was able to get the timing
down of having the fly hit the water
just in front of the hookless surface
teaser popper, and about 50 feet out.
Did he do well? He
got SIX roosters on the fly! I would say
he is a veteran now….Ed Kunze
Current Zihuatanejo Weather
http://tiny.cc/zihuatanejo582
[B]Cabo San Lucas[/B]
Though there are still some to be found,
the striped marlin bite has fallen off
as we expect when the water gets over 80
degrees. I have not seen very many
boats flying multiple flags, two at the
most, and my guess is there is a success
rate of about 35%. In addition, the
fish have been scattered. Best results
have been from the area of cool water on
the Pacific side close to the beach.
There have been more frequent attacks on
lures from the larger marlin! Reports of
blues up to 500 pounds taking yellowfin
tuna as they are being reeled in gives
you a reason to get out there, but they
haven't arrived in any numbers…just an
occasional fish or so. Smaller blue
marlin and possibly a few black marlin
have been reported attacking lures
pulled around the tuna schools. Maybe
it’s time to down-rig a few tuna on the
banks?
A bright star this week was the
yellowfin tuna action. As is normal with
these fish, first boats to the action
had the best luck, and finding the fish
for the most part consisted of finding
porpoise. The yellowfin averaged 15
pounds and once in a while jumped over
the 40 pound mark. I did hear reports of
a few larger fish
coming from the area outside of Punta
Gorda, fish that went over the 100 pound
mark. Almost anyone that wanted tuna
this week were able to get a few, with
some anglers limiting out. On a worry
note: the purse seiners nave started to
show up, but that means that there are
more fish on the way, just hope they
don’t get them all before we have a
chance at some!
Another bright spot this week was the
number of dorado we have been seeing…an
average of 12 pounds. There have been a
few really small ones that bode
well for the next few months as they get
larger, and of course the 40 pound fish
that get everyone all excited. The
majority of the larger dorado are being
found on the Cortez side in the warmer
water and the smaller fish are being
found close to the beach.
Inshore fishing was a repeat of last
week with the inclusion of a few more
dorado showing up… roosterfish to 60
pounds, amberjack, jack crevalle,
bonito,
grouper, snapper; all the inshore fish
are showing in the reports this week.
Slow trolling live bait is the key to
getting most of the fish except the
bottom species, and those were biting on
butterfly jigs.…George and Mary Landrum
Current Cabo Weather
http://tiny.cc/cabo191
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Jul 20, 2011; 11:36AM - SEA OF CORTEZ, FAT CHICKS AND FLAT FEET
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Mark Rayor
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Marlin and sailfish have taken center stage on the
East Cape this week. Less dorado then previous
weeks and smaller tuna are also providing action.
There are still a few cow tuna in the area for those
lucky enough to be in the right spot at the right
time.
Walter Russo was one of the lucky ones and landed
a 200 pound tuna on Jen Wren III. Fishing about 5
miles off Punta Pescadero we sighted a pod of
bottlenosed dolphin. They were moving very slow
and just milling in the area. Our first pass trolling
marlin lures through them showed huge marks on
our fish finder. I suspected the marks were tuna but
we couldn't get them to go. We changed to cedar
plugs and smaller lures then started chumming live
sardines. Every pass over the dolphin huge marks
appeared in the fish finder at about 20 feet but
there was no surface action. I decided to stop the
boat and pitch out a live mackerel. As the boat slid
to a stop our short teaser rod went off.
Before we could get the other lines cleared the top
shot and more than half a spool of 80 spectra had
been ripped off the Accurate BX2-30 reel Walter
was holding. I was just getting ready to back down
on the fish when the spool finally came to a stop.
The fish stayed out toward the horizon and I was
beginning to wonder if in fact it was a tuna. My
thought was maybe a blue marlin or even that we
had hooked a dolphin. Walter kept the pressure on
but there was no sign of a tail beat. We didn't know
what to think. Finally the fish came to color and we
were all very pleased to see a cow tuna.
Some guys have all the luck. The following day we
fished the bouys off Punta Perico and hung another
tuna about 90 pounds.
Mark Rayor
[url]www.thejenwren.com[/url]
[url]www.vistaseasport.com[/url]
markrayor.blogspot.com
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Jul 18, 2011; 12:07PM - Cabo Bite Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrum
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
http://captgeo.wordpress.com/
Cabo Fish Report
July 11-17, 2011
WEATHER: This was a pretty nice week, even though it was warm. Our daytime highs were in the high 90's and the nighttime lows in the high 70's, but it was still cooler than in a lot of the states. Quite a heatwave you have going on up there, come to Cabo and cool down! We had partly to mostly cloudy skies at the end of the week but plenty of sun during the middle of the week and the week started off with a light sprinkle on Monday, just enough to spot up the cars.
WATER: We had an early week upwelling of cool water along the beach on the Pacific side where the water went from 80 degrees down to 73 degrees and it has been slow to get back up there. This cool water wrapped around the Cape for a few days, cooking the water in the bay, but then the warm water from the Sea of Cortez took over and replaced the cool bay water. The Pacific near-shore water remains a bit cooler than we have on the Cortez side, staying in the high 70's. On the Cortez side of the Cape we have been seeing water temperatures ranging from 80 to 85 degrees with the warmer water coming from farther to the east mid week. Surface conditions on both side of the Cape were good this week with light winds in the afternoon bringing some small whitecaps on the Pacific side. The swells got smaller as the week progressed and at the end of the week we were seeing swells of 1-3 feet on the Cortez side and 3-5 feet on the Pacific.
BAIT: Caballito and Mullet were the baits of the week with a few Mackerel in the mix. Everything was the normal $3 per bait.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: The Striped Marlin bite has fallen off as we expect when the water gets over 80 degrees, but there are still some to be found. My guess, based on what I have been seeing is a success rate of about 35%. I have not seen very many boats flying multiple flags, two at the most, and the fish have been scattered. Best results on the Striped Marlin have been from the area of cool water on the Pacific side close to the beach. There have been more frequent attacks on lure from the larger Marlin as well! Reports of Blue Marlin up to 500 pounds taking Yellowfin Tuna as they are being reeled in gives you a reason to get out there, but they have not yet arrived in any numbers, just an occasional fish or so. Smaller Blue Marlin and possibly a few Black Marlin have been reported attacking lures pulled around the Tuna schools, maybe it's time to down-rig a few Tuna on the banks?
YELLOWFIN TUNA: A bright star for our fishing this week was the Yellowfin Tuna action. As is normal with these fish, first boats to the action had the best luck, and finding the action for the most part consisted of finding Porpoise. Find those mammals and you stood a fair chance of getting into Yellowfin that averaged 15 pounds and once in a while jumped over the 40 pound mark. I did hear reports of a few larger fish coming from the area outside of Punta Gorda, fish that went over the 100 pound mark. Almost anyone that wanted Tuna this week were able to get a few, and some anglers limited out. On a worry note, the purse seiners nave started to show up, but that means that there are more fish on the way, just hope they don't get them all before we have a chance at some!
DORADO: Another bright spot this week was the number of Dorado we have been seeing, and pretty nice fish for the most part at an average of 12 pounds. There have been a few really small ones that bode well for the next few months as they get larger, and of course the 40 pound fish that get everyone all excited. The majority of the larger Dorado are being found on the Cortez side in the warmer water and the smaller fish are being found close to the beach.
WAHOO: Full moon this week did bring out reports of some Wahoo being caught out there. As far as I could determine there was no concentrated effort for them, most of the fish were incidental catches made while fishing for other species.
INSHORE: Inshore fishing was a repeat of last week with the inclusion of a few more Dorado showing up. Roosterfish to 60 pounds, Amberjack, Jack Crevalle, Bonito, Grouper, Snapper, all the inshore fish are showing in the reports this week. The ones not there are the cooler water fish such as Yellowtail and Sierra. Slow trolling live bait is the key to getting most of the fish except the bottom species, and those were biting on butterfly jigs.
FISH RECIPE: My recipe has been taking too much space so if you want to see it, check out my wordpress blog a little later in the week, or subscribe to the blog and you will receive an email as soon as I post it. Sorry about this last weeks no show, I got busy and forgot!
NOTES: I have the birds singing in the background for my report music, and can just hear my dog snoring in the next room, life is good! Time to get her and Mary to the beach for our weekly walk, come home for a Sunday breakfast and watch the finish of the British Open and the ladies World Cup!
Until next week, tight lines!
I will be posting more to my blog now, please go to http://captgeo.wordpress.com/ and subscribe, you will be sent a notice every time I post a new article. Please feel free to send suggestions or if you have any ideas for articles. Thanks George
Gordo Banks Pangas
San Jose del Cabo
July 17, 2011
No new tropical storm systems at this time, we did have a day
earlier in the week with a few scattered showers and for much of the past week
we have seen more tropical cloud cover. With the little moisture that did fall,
the parched local landscape does seem a bit greener and humidity has noticeably
increased. Southern swells have been steady, as have winds from the south,
fluctuating currents, but overall the ocean conditions seem to be improved in
recent days, water temperatures averaging 80 to 84 degrees.
Mullet, caballito, jurelito and moonfish have been available for
bait and schooling bolito are being found on the fishing grounds. Anglers have
been waiting patiently for this summer season’s action to take off, everything
seems to be happening late this season.
The fishing has still not been consistent from day to day and the
fish counts have been below Cabo standards. With the way the water clarity and
temperatures are looking now, we do expect the action to break open at any
time. We have seen encouraging signs in recent days, lots of bolito on the
fishing grounds is always a favorable, just a matter of more numbers of
gamefish showing up.
Local fleets have concentrated most of their efforts from the
Gordo Banks to Iman and San Luis. The Gordo Banks produced dorado and marlin
action on the surface, trolling with larger live baits resulted in strikes from
dorado up to 40 pounds, though the majority were fish of 5 to 20 pounds. Quite
a few striped marlin also hitting in this same area, a couple of stripers were
landed that weighed close to 200 pounds. There was at least one blue marlin and
one black marlin reportedly landed, as well as a few sailfish, this billfish
action should remain steady the rest of the summer. Off the bottom on these
same banks there were some quality species accounted for, dogtooth snapper,
yellowtail, amberjack and grouper. These fish hit on yo-yo jigs and drifted
baits, many fish were lost, as they could not be turned before reaching the
rocks and cutting the line. No huge numbers here, but definitely a chance at hooking
into a big fish, it is another matter to actually land them.
Near Iman and San Luis anglers were using a combination of
jigging, soaking baits off the bottom or slow trolling larger baits on the
surface. Bolito has been the most productive bait for this, but jurelito were
also working, patience was needed and making sure to capitalize on the few
strikes taken. This is the spot where a handful of the larger grade yellowfin
tuna were encountered, the tuna ranged from 30 to 200 pounds, no significant
numbers at this time, but on any given day this bite could break wide open. One
local La Playita panga hooked into a 70 pound class roosterfish while trolling
a bolito on the surface over the Iman Banks, close to four miles offshore, this
is not your normal everyday occurrence for roosterfish, as they prefer to
patrol the inshore beach stretches for mullet or ladyfish.
It seems that the inshore bite for roosterfish and dogtooth
snapper has tapered off and is now switching back to the offshore rock piles.
The inshore season for dogtooth snapper never really happened much this year,
now we are starting to see more of these larger sized snapper on the rock
piles, this is the normal pattern, as they move from inshore out to the deeper
banks.
We do expect to see increasing activity for dorado, the same type
of action that has been found off of the East Cape region should shift in a
southern direction in the coming weeks. There has not been consistent dorado
action yet, but this week we did see increased numbers, so that is encouraging.
No wahoo have been reported, a few cut off baits here and there, so there is
always a chance.
Surf fishing activity has been hit of miss, a few snook being
reported by the group of local anglers who put in their time near the San Jose
Estuary, also a few reports of roosters, jack crevalle and snapper as well.
The combined panga fleets
launching from the La Playita/Puerto Los Cabos Marina sent out approximately 62
charters for the week, with anglers reporting a total fish count of: 6
sailfish, 17 striped marlin, 1 blue marlin, 28 yellowfin tuna, 58 dorado, 28 amberjack,
8 dogtooth snapper,18 huachinango (red snapper), 22 yellowtail pargo, 20 jack
crevalle, 13 yellowtail, 21 cabrilla and 26 roosterfish.
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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Jul 13, 2011; 10:55AM - LIGHT LOADS AND LOTS OF TOADS
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Mark Rayor
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Traffic on the East Cape has been very light most of
this season. Each resort in the area is far from full
occupancy and only sending out a hand full of
fishing boats each day. With this the boats that are
fishing are enjoying a lot of real estate to them
selves and are not being swarmed by other boats
when schooling dorado or tuna are found.
The Dorado Shoot out is this coming weekend
which will certainly increase traffic. Huge dorado in
the 50 to 60 pound class have been brought to the
docks every day which is adding to the excitement
of this up coming event.
The East Cape Bisbee starts in two weeks and blue
marlin are showing on the seen in bigger numbers
everyday. This should be a good one!
After a great fishing trip in May Tom Shellenberger
and Colin Fryer of Moab Utah returned to fish Jen
Wren III and hunt the cow tuna they had been
reading about in our fish reports. It turned out to
be a case of 'you should have been here yesterday'.
Upon arriving at the 88 spot where the big tuna had
been, we found that the water had dropped 5
degrees from the previous day and turned green.
With the change in conditions the toads were
nowhere to be found. The boys did manage to catch
a nice mixed bag of dorado, tuna, marlin and
sailfish.
Mark Rayor
www.thejenwren.com
www.vistaseasport.com
markrayor.blogspot.com
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Jul 11, 2011; 12:27PM - Cabo Bite Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrum
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
http://captgeo.wordpress.com/
Cabo Fish Report
July 4-10, 2011
WEATHER: Warm. Need more information, well all right. Our morning lows have been in the low 80's and the daytime highs in the high 90's. We had very little wind this week but did have quite a bit of cloud cover early in the week with sunny skies from Thursday on to the end of the week. We had a pretty good shower on Monday and that was the end of the rain.
WATER: The water was 82-84 degrees almost everywhere you could go, on the Pacific side that was everything in range inside the 1,000 fathom line and on the Cortez side it was all the water out to a distance of 30 miles south of Cabo and 50 miles south of Punta Gorda and eastward as far as you could travel. Once you got past five miles off the beach on the Cortez side the water was blue, inside it was just slightly tinged with green. The swells were decent size at 3-6 feet but there was very little wind on top of them and they were spaced well apart.
BAIT: Mackerel and Mullet were easy to get this week at the normal $3 per bait, there were no Sardinas and only a few Mackerel to be had.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Well, thing are constantly changing on the ocean and as the warm water moved into our area the Billfishing changed a bit as well. We are still seeing Striped Marlin close to home, as a matter of fact one of the boats hooked two Striped Marlin within 100 meters of Lands End on Wednesday. Most of the Striped Marlin have been very close to home, but there are not the numbers we were seeing last week, and they are not as hungry. What we are seeing more of is Blue Marlin. A boat caught one over 600 pounds this week and quite a few smaller ones between 200 and 300 pounds were released. Not that they were caught by every boat out there, no it's not that easy! But there were Blues to be had if you were in the right place using the right stuff. Most of the action on these Blue Marlin occurred between 5 and 25 miles out, around the Tuna. Naturally they were following their bait!
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Not much of a change from last week as far as the Yellowfin are concerned. Between 5 and 25 miles to the south and southwest, find the porpoise and you were getting bit. The porpoise were all over the p[lace, finding the right pod to work was the key. The white bellied porpoise were moving fast and it was hard to get bit in them, but the spotted porpoise were easier to work and the fish were a bit more co-operative. Smaller lure in dark colors worked great on these fish that averaged 15 pounds, with large ones reaching 30 pounds. There were a few big ones caught as well, fish that reached over the 100 pound mark, but they were not in among the small ones.
DORADO: Dorado continue to come into our area and there are some nice ones out there! We had a young client who caught his first one the other day, it was Saturday, and the fish weighed just over 60 pounds! Now he is spoiled for life and probably expects every one he catches to be that large! Not every boat is bringing home Dorado, but the ones that are getting them are catching nice ones. Most of the action has been out past the 5 mile area, and on the Cortez side of the Cape.
WAHOO: Once again I did not hear of any Wahoo being caught this week.
INSHORE: Roosterfish to 60 pounds, Amberjack, Jack Crevalle, Bonito, Grouper, Snapper, all the inshore fish are showing in the reports this week. The ones not there are the cooler water fish such as Yellowtail and Sierra. Slow trolling live bait is the key to getting most of the fish except the bottom species, and those were biting on butterfly jigs.
FISH RECIPE: My recipe has been taking too much space so if you want to see it, check out my wordpress blog a little later in the week, or subscribe to the blog and you will receive an email as soon as I post it. Sorry about this last weeks no show, I got busy and forgot!
NOTES: Early morning, the birds chirping, just finished watering the garden after returning from the marina. The sun is just coming up and it is 83 degrees and humid! Reminds me of Guam! My music choice this week was a mix of classics with some Humble Pie, Jethro Tull, 10 Years After and Grand Funk Railroad, wow, really takes me back!
Until next week, tight lines!
I will be posting more to my blog now, please go to http://captgeo.wordpress.com/ and subscribe, you will be sent a notice every time I post a new article. Please feel free to send suggestions or if you have any ideas for articles. Thanks George
Gordo Banks Pangas
San Jose del Cabo
July 10, 2011
Summer time is definitely here, temperatures are reaching 90 degrees, scattered tropical cloud cover with high humidity.. At this time there is the season’s third storm system brewing off of Manzanillo, named TS Calvin. It appears that Calvin will not become too strong and will not have any impact with land, higher swells and humidity is about all we expect.
Conditions are stabilizing with the warming days, but there were times when winds picking up from the south. Inshore waters are still off colored, clear blue water was found further offshore. Ocean currents have been swift with moderate swells, expecting to increase in coming days. Water temperatures are now averaging 80 to 85 degrees throughout most of the Southern Baja. Most abundant inshore baitfish were mullet, jurelito and caballito, sardinas were found north towards the East Cape and La Paz. This week there were immense schools of bolito moving onto the fishing grounds, at times they proved very finicky to catch, but they were choice trolling baits for larger sized gamefish.
Fleets were reported mixed success 15 to 30 miles offshore looking for yellowfin tuna, most of the time associated with porpoise, fish averaged 20 to 40 pounds, a few larger tuna encountered as well. This bite was hit or miss, one day the concentration of porpoise and yellowfin would be in one area and the very next day they were nowhere to be found. Once the tuna were located, multiple strikes were the rule. A scattering of billfish are being accoutered for, sailfish, striped and blue marlin. These fish were striking on trolled lures and various baits. There were reports of blue marlin over 500 pounds caught off of the East Cape in recent days, so we expect these fish will be in our local waters soon.
Panga fleets found steady action for various snappers and amberjack off the bottom structure, San Luis Bank was one of the more productive areas. The bite was best first part of the week and then tapered off towards the weekend. Jigging with yo-yo jigs was the technique used. The larger grade of yellowfin tuna are congregated on the same grounds, from Iman, San Luis to Vinorama. They are not being seen much on the surface, but anglers are taking blind strikes while slow trolling larger sized baits, with the preferred offering being bolito. At times they would only strike these baits, shying away from mullet or small jacks. The fleet hooked into these tuna every day, with combined counts ranging from several fish, up to fifteen in one day, all of these yellowfin were in the 30 to 150 pound range. There was such an abundance of food source on the grounds now that the fish do not appear that enticed to bite baited hooks. No great numbers yet, but encouraging to see this quality and there is a good chance that you can hook into a couple of these yellowfin per morning. The key is having the right bait and plenty of patience and then hoping that the fish takes the bait deep enough for a solid hook up. With such quantity of bolito now on the local banks, we do anticipate that these quality yellowfin will continue to provide action for the rest of the summer.
On Friday there was 194 lb. yellowfin tuna landed by Frank Harbin of Chico, Ca. Frank hooked into the monster on the Iman Bank while drift fishing with a jurelito. Aboard a 22 ft. panga and using a lighter and lengthy flexible rod, he battled this fish for some six hours, with help from the crew, was finally able to bring it to gaff, but on the first attempt the fish took the gaff out of the mates hands and headed back towards the bottom, close to an hour later on their second gaff attempt they had success.
We have not been finding schools of dorado, only small groups, a few bulls to 40 pounds in the mix. No particular hot spot with big numbers, but most all fish are of quality size. Roosterfish and jack crevalle dominated the gamefish action close to shore, it is peak season now for these species, with many specimens over 40 pounds being landed.
Surf fishing activity is now in full swing, mid week there was a 40 pound class snook caught off the beach near the San Jose Estuary, there were reports of roosters and snapper as well, watch the high swells though.
The combined panga fleets launching from the La Playita/Puerto Los Cabos Marina sent out approximately 67charters for the week, with anglers reporting a total fish count of: 9 sailfish, 13 striped marlin, 1 wahoo, 69 yellowfin tuna, 64 dorado, 49 amberjack, 3 dogtooth snapper, 115 huachinango (red snapper), 13 yellowtail pargo, 45 jack crevalle, 22 cabrilla and 64 roosterfish.
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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Jul 7, 2011; 12:31AM - Fantastic Chinook Fishing
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Category: Canada
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Author Name: Noel Gyger
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Website : http://www.noelgyger.ca
Full Report : http://www.noelgyger.ca/weekly-fishing-reports/june-26-july-3_2011.pdf
Weekly Fishing Reports (Smithers, Terrace, Kitimat, Prince Rupert and Meziadin North)
Noel Gyger
June 26, to July 3, 2011
Dear Fishing Friends:
SUMMARY: Most rivers are now fishable, some only borderline.
The Skeena River has been dropping since June 25 and is now fishable. There should be good numbers of Chinook (King) Salmon migrating up river to spawn in their native waters. Sockeye http://www.noelgyger.ca/H2O/Non-Tidal/TyeeTestFishery/Charts/SkeenaSockeyeDays.pdf fishing has started. Anglers are fishing at Ferry Island.
The Kalum River is high but in good shape. The boat ramps are starting to fill.
The Zymoetz (Copper) River is high but fishable, Chinook should be coming in.
Kitimat River: Fishing for Chinook has been slow for some. The fishing guides have been doing well. The water is coming down and the fish are in.
Douglas Channel: I have reports of Chinook landed “out front” in the bay but it has been slow.
Prince Rupert: I have reports of good Chinook fishing. Bottom fish and Crab have been good also. Check the full report for details fishing the Chatham Sound area near Prince Rupert.
Meziadin: Marvin Reid reports the fishing at Meziadin has been awesome. There has been some excellent Dolly Varden being landed, along with a few Rainbows.
Smithers area: Most lakes, although higher than normal, are producing nice Char, Dollies and Rainbows. Rainbow Alley is still high and fishing is a bit slow. There are a few mayfly hatches happening at times. Minnow pattern is almost over now. Cranberry River is fishing well.
Bulkley River is high and dirty but starting to clean.
Kispiox River is fishing well.
This week reports came from Almudena Miles, Andreas Handl, Dustin Kovacvich, Andrew Rushton, Tracey Hittel, Marvin Reid and Steve Hidber. Thank you to the fishing guides and others who sent reports and photos. It is very much appreciated!
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River Reports
Skeena River has been dropping since June 25 and is now fishable. There should be good numbers of Chinook (King) Salmon migrating up river to spawn in their native waters. I took a drive around town and saw a lot of boats on trailers. Sockeye http://www.noelgyger.ca/H2O/Non-Tidal/TyeeTestFishery/Charts/SkeenaSockeyeDays.pdf fishing has started and I saw a few anglers at Ferry Island. All the fish will be bright silver so get out there and try your luck. More and more people are coming to our area to enjoy this fishery. News: The Sockeye run on the Skeena is predicted to be low this year. The first of the run is in the river now http://www.noelgyger.ca/H2O/Non-Tidal/TyeeTestFishery/Charts/SkeenaSockeyeDays.pdf. Reg: Sockeye limit: 2 per day. 0 per day from a boundary sign on the north bank of the Skeena River 100m upstream of the confluence with the Kitwanga River downstream to Mill Creek.
Check out the Skeena Tyee Test Fishery Chart for Chinook here:
http://www.noelgyger.ca/H2O/Non-Tidal/TyeeTestFishery/Charts/SkeenaChinookDays.pdf
Kalum River is high but in good shape. A few anglers are heading out to try their luck fishing for Chinook (King) Salmon. A few Chinook are being caught in the lower section only. Reg: After July 1 a person may retain one big Chinook per day below the lower canyon. Limit is actually 4 per day, only 1 over 65 cm. The record 85-pound (if my memory is correct) Chinook was landed by Gordy McDonald of Terrace, BC. It was landed in circa May 1985. Caution: Jet boaters please be careful, there are new channels and lots of trees have fallen into the river. How to: This is a good river to float fish a Pink Worm or Gooey Bob. I suggest the fishing rod be a GLoomis STR 1265c/10’6” MED-HEAVY Moderate Action (GL 2 8-17lb – 3/8 to 1 oz.). Reel Shimano Calcutta (400B) filled with 20lb test Maxima mono. Gibbs makes some great floats. Be sure to use a Gamakatsu hook.
Lakelse River is in good shape. Chinook will be coming into the lower end. Where: The bridge on the lower end is a popular spot to fish for Chinook. Camping: There is a rough forestry campsite close to the bridge. Tip: Fishing off of the bridge with a marabou jig is the most popular method, so is a Hot-shot or Kwikfish plug. Reg: Fly fishing only between Lakelse Lake and CNR bridge, Mar 1-May 31. I have reports that fly fishing for Cutthroat, Dolly and Rainbows in the upper end is very good right now. Steelhead should not be targeted.
Zymoetz (Copper) River is high but fishable. Chinook should be coming in. Regs: Fishing for Chinook is allowed until July 23. Fly fishing suggestion: Kamloops Dragon fly rod, 10’ Kamloops fly reel, AFTMA #8line. Backing Dragon Fly “Bright Orange” 30lb, 150 yard spool. Fly line SA Sharkskin Steelhead WF-8-F.
Kitimat River Fishing for Chinook has been slow for some. The fishing guides have been doing well. The water is coming down and the fish are in. The drift boaters love to “pull plugs”. The most popular plugs are the Hot-Shot and Kwikfish made by Luhr Jensen. Reminder: Bait ban, May 15 - August 31.
Kitimat Estuary Andreas Handl reports the fishing in the lower tidal section is excellent right now.
Chinook Salmon are running in strong numbers. For more detail and photos see Andreas’ full report below…
Kasiks River is closed for Chinook (King) Salmon above the highway 16 bridge. Tip: Below the highway bridge can be a good spot to fish for Chinook when conditions are right. That is when the Kasiks River is cleaner than the mainstem Skeena. This is the time of year when the Chinook start migrating up the Skeena River. This is the first river to go out of shape from rain but is the first river to come back into shape once the rain stops. Sometimes, when the rain stops you can see the river cleaning right in front of you.
Exchamsiks River is closed for Chinook (King) Salmon above the highway 16 bridge. Tip: Below the highway bridge can be a good spot to fish for Chinook when conditions are right. That is when the Exchamsiks River is cleaner than the mainstem Skeena. This is the time of year when the Chinook start migrating up the Skeena River.
Cranberry River The river is in decent shape and reports of some nice fish being caught.
Kispiox River Out of all our 'local' rivers the Kispiox is probably the go to river at the moment. The water is still high for this time of year. Reports of nice Chinook catches there also.
Bulkley River is still high and dirty and difficult to fish. Reports of the Morice River starting to clear up - which would really help clean up the Bulkley. Some fish being caught in the Houston area. Wading with quality Simms waders and accessories is the way to go.
Douglas Channel I have reports of a few Chinook being landed “out front” in the bay. The Chinook are on their way into the Kitimat River. Boaters will soon be able to limit out for both Halibut and Chinook consistently. Crab and Prawns are being landed on a regular basis. Suggestion: To make it very easy to pull your Crab or Prawn traps use an Ace Line Hauler.
Prince Rupert I have reports of some good Chinook fishing. Fishing for all bottom fish including Halibut is doing well. Tip: When trolling for Chinook try a SplitKing Lure. Jeff Carlson of BC Style Fishing Charters reports good success with this lure. I have reports of limits of Dungeness Crab and Prawns. Tip: Use the Ace Line Hauler to pull your traps. Reg: When travelling with Crab you must leave the shell on. Bottom fish and Crab remain very good, as usual.
Chatham Sound area OceanWild Nature Expeditions reports Halibut is good especially in Work and Steamer Channel. Springs are moderate to good (45lbs) in area known as Chicken Flats. Some days better than others but no complaints. See the report below….
Lakes – Smithers Most lakes, although higher than normal, are producing nice char, dollies and rainbow.
Report from Steve Hidber and the staff at Oscar’s Source for Adventure in Smithers.
Rainbow Alley The Alley is still high and fishing is a bit slow. There are a few mayfly hatches happening at times. Minnow pattern is almost over now. Report from Steve Hidber and the staff at Oscar’s Source for Adventure in Smithers.
Lakes - Meziadin The fishing at Meziadin has been awesome. There has been some excellent Dolly Varden being landed, along with a few Rainbows. For more detail and directions how to get to some of these beautiful wilderness Lakes check out Marvin Reid’s full report and photos below…
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Fishing Guide and Tackle Shop Reports
Summary for Skeena and Tributaries
Fishing This Week
GOOD
Type of Fish Caught
River: Chinook, Steelhead, Cutthroat Trout and Dolly Varden Char.
Ocean: All five species of Salmon, Halibut, Bottom Fish and Dungeness and King Crab for ocean.
Largest Fish of the Week
River: 35-pound Chinook – Kitimat River Ocean: 75-pound Halibut – Rupert
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Guest Reports and Photos
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Contact information
GOOD LUCK and GOOD FISHING!
Yours sincerely, Noel F. Gyger
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Jul 4, 2011; 05:25PM - Baja sizzles while So. Cal. chills
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Category: Saltwater Fly Fishing Reports
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Author Name: Gary Graham
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Endless Season Update July 4, 2011
REPORT #1260 'Below the Border'
Saltwater Fly-Fishing reports since 1996
While the hotel owners worried about the
lack of guests and more importantly, the
lack of anglers to cash in on the
action, tuna ate and ate on the 88 again
this week! and the size was anywhere
from 'teeners' to 'cows' exceeding
200 pounds.
Not every boat and not every angler,
but enough that cocktail hour was
dominated with fish stories and sashimi.
Shark buoys strung out across the Sea
held bait beneath them that attracted
dorado, tuna and billfish, from blue to
sail variety.
While back inshore the roosters are on
the prowl with enough jacks to entertain
both conventional and fly anglers from
boat and beach.
Current East Cape Weather
http://tiny.cc/EastCapeWeather303
Magdalena Bay, Baja Mexico
Slow…slow…slow offshore and inshore
according to locals and Lance Peterson
who recently returned from a scouting
trip to the area.
Current Magdalena Bay Weather
http://tiny.cc/MagBayWeather150
Zihuatanejo, Mainland Mexico
The 84° blue water is still holding
close to the beach, but this may change
as the rains are still coming. It
started this morning (Friday) about 2:30
and did not let up until about noon. We
expect more tonight.
The fishing has been excellent. The
average per boat sailfish action is two
to three fish per day. Martin, on the
cruiser Gaviota, released six earlier in
the week. It should also be noted Martin
was the No. 1 Tag and Release Captain
for the entire West Coast of Mexico for
last year’s NOAA tags. No results are
available yet for the Billfish
Foundation tags.
Offshore also has skipjack tuna,
yellowfin tuna, and a few blue marlin.
Here is a report emailed to me by Kevin
Seelick: On Sun 6/26, I called Adolfo
Sr. and he was booked for the week.
'Give me 5 minutos, I'll find you a
captain.' He put me on an offshore boat
with captain Martin (Chico on the panga
Llamarda is the owner) and deckhand
Tyson aka 'Mike Tyson', on the Rosa
Nautica. My daughter and I caught 37
oceanicos (skipjack tuna) and one good
size yellowfin tuna. I was the lucky one
with catching a highly acrobatic
fighting sailfish.
Day 2: Adolfo Sr. put me onto Cheva's
boat 'Dos Hermanos II' with Adolfo Jr.
Trolling live bait and casting 3.oz
blue/white Roberts Lure's top water
poppers. We hooked 14 smaller roosters
and numerous jacks and one awesome
roosterfish. We named him 'Sancho' and
released him to be caught another day.
Muchos Gracias to Adolfo Sr, Jr., Cheva,
Martin, and Chico aka 'Mike Tyson'…Ed
Kunze
Current Zihuatanejo Weather
http://tiny.cc/zihuatanejo582
Cabo San Lucas
The marlin were found right outside the
bay, most of them between ½ and 5 miles
out, and they were hungry! Not a wide
open bite by any stretch, but much
better than we had seen earlier in the
week.
We had two boats out Sunday, and both
came back with between 13 and 15
yellowfin each, ranging between 12 and
40 pounds. We were not the only ones;
almost all the fleet that went the
correct direction got into fish. The
correct direction appeared to be between
150 and 200 degrees, and the distance to
travel between 3 and 20 miles. That area
between shore and the 1,000 fathom line
had fish both associated and non-
associated with porpoise.
As the water warmed up so did the dorado
bite. Not really a hot bite right now,
there were boats coming in with between
one and three dorado between 15 and 25
pounds each.
Most of the inshore fishing this week
was done on the Cortez side early in the
week and a little was done close to the
beach as far up the Pacific side and Los
Arcos. At the end of the week the water
had calmed down on the Pacific side and
boats were able to venture farther
north. Inshore action consisted of
sierra, yellowtail, amberjack,
roosterfish, bonito, lady-fish and
needle-fish. There were some decent
snapper and grouper caught off the
bottom as well…George and Mary Landrum
Current Cabo Weather
http://tiny.cc/cabo191
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Jul 2, 2011; 01:25PM - AND THE BEAT GOES ON
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Mark Rayor
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The East Cape continues to enjoy an unprecedented
big tuna season. In years past the Jen Wren team
have always managed to land a handful of tuna over
a hundred pounds but it really wasn't all that
common. This year the big boys showed up in May
and have been giving anglers all they want ever
since. It is always exciting watching rod tips thump
from the tail beat of big tuna.
In May we were finding the big dogs with bottle
nosed dolphin and then the spotted and spinner
dolphin showed and joined the party. Now it seems
the dolphin have left the building and large schools
of the bruisers are camping out on the 88 fathom
spot.
The best bite has been in the afternoon when most
of the boat traffic leaves. Several days we have
witnessed the fish pop up as soon as the traffic
thins outs. This has made long days for us but has
also been very rewarding watching anglers have an
experience of a life time with these trophy sized
fish.
Right on cue blue marlin have shown on the scene.
This is exciting news with the East Cape Bisbee in
just over 3 weeks. Yesterday Mahatini brought in a
blue that scaled out at 503 pounds. Just a bit
further off shore and also near the shark buoys
quality sized dorado and smaller tuna have been
cooperating with anglers.
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