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Jun 27, 2011; 12:51PM - 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
June 20-16, 2011
WEATHER: Last weeks weather continued on into this week as we started with lows in the high 60's and highs in the low 80's along with a lot of wind. On Thursday it started to change, at least the temperatures did! The wind continued until finally dying down on Sunday. At the end of the week our lows were in the mid to upper 70's and the daytime highs had returned to the mid 90's. Still no rain but we did have several days of cloud cover.
WATER: Our seas have slowly returned, or are slowly returning to haw they were a couple of weeks ago. At the beginning of the week the water had dropped about 12 degrees along both sides of the Cape, with a severe drop along the Cortez coastline. Finally, at the end of the week it started to warm up, and the trend continued offshore as well. Starting the week with 69 degrees in the bay, we ended the week with a slightly more reasonable 73 degrees, but the water remained very green and off color. On the Pacific side at the end of the week we had water as cold as 65 degrees but it did not intrude into the Sea of Cortez. The green water remained inside the 1,000 fathom line for the most part, and the water started to warm up eastward of a line due south of San Jose. Surface conditions were not all that great this week as the swells from the remnants of Hurricane Beatrice pounded the beach, making the surfers happy but when combined with the steady wind made fishing uncomfortable for most anglers. At the end of the week the swells started dying down as did the wind.
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: Almost the only area that held Striped Marlin this week was outside the 1,000 fathom line on the Cortez side of the Cape. The water was choppy but a bit clearer and just a bit warmer there. For that matter, almost all the fish that were caught this week came from that area. A couple of “maybe” small Blue Marlin were reported from there as well, but that may have been wishful thinking considering the water temperature. For the most part boats were seeing three or four fish a day and managing to hook up and release between one and three per day. A few boats managed to really kick some butt and released up to five fish. A couple of fish were reported from the green water closer to shore, but this was a very scattered event, not normal during the course of the week.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Fish of the week as far as I am concerned! Yellowfin between 12 and 30 pounds were the lifeblood of the offshore anglers this week as they could be found along the color break at the 1,000 fathom line. Not associated with porpoise, it took a while to find them, but once they were found the action was decent. Most boats were catching between three and 10 fish per trip. Dark colored lures were the key, bright colors just did not work.
DORADO: Maintaining the trend started last week with the influx of cold water, the bite on Dorado continued on a downhill slide. The fish were smaller as well with a lot of fish in the 5-6 pound class being released, and they were almost the only ones being caught. Like all the other fish, they were found around the 1,000 fathom line, or up off the Punta Gorda area.
WAHOO: Cold water and the last quarter of the moon phase put the brakes on the Wahoo fishing this week. I did not hear of any being brought in.
INSHORE: Inshore fishing was a pain this week with the cold, green water and the large storm swells. Some anglers were able to get hooked up to Yellowtail on the Pacific side by trolling Rappala style lures and if they continued to work an area could do all right on fish to 12 pounds. Add in some decent Bonito, scattered all along both side of the Cape, and some Sierra along the shore off of El Tulle beach and the fishing was ok, not great but ok.
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.
NOTES: This weeks report was written to the songs of the birds chirping in the trees outside, I hope they are saying the water is warming up! If it continues to warm, and I think it will, we will see much better fishing by mid-week. Now, it's off to the beach with the dog, then give her a bath and brushing, she has her birthday party this afternoon!
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
June 24, 2011
Strange week, the first week of summer felt more like winter or early spring.
Persistent cold winds from the south swept in cooler currents, dropping water
temperatures to 68 to 72 degrees through much of the Southern Baja coastal
stretches. Murky green conditions were spread out to over 20 miles offshore,
though the dirty current did not reach past Los Frailes. The season’s second
Hurricane, Beatriz, developed off Southern Mexico, this system weakened over
land, before encountering cooler waters and dissipating as fast as it had
developed. Beatriz was located several hundred miles south of Cabo San Lucas and
was packing sustained winds up to 90 mph, creating larger swells that did pound
Southern Baja beaches for several days. Now, we patiently wait, It is only
matter of time before the conditions turn back around, but it is hard to say
exactly when this will happen. Over the weekend conditions have stabilized,
winds resided, cool Pacific air relenting to summer heat once again.
As conditions drastically changed, the week started off with a wide spread die
off of fish being reported. Innicially observed north of Punta Gorda, swifting
in the direction of Palmilla and Cabo San Lucas. Masses of mostly smaller sized
snapper species, one pound or less, deeper water specimens, a few larger fish,
no dead pelagic species reported. When talking with local residents they cannot
remember ever witnessing a similar incident of this scale. These fish were found
floundering on the surface, gasping, eyes and bladders burst, barely alive,
before drifting onto the beaches.
Of course many theories have surfaced as to what might have caused this event,
among the speculations, by catch from commercial netting, poison red tide,
natural occurrence, nuclear fallout from Japan, drastic current/temperature
change, air bladder rupture, limited oxygen levels and terrorist poison attack.
Biologists have collected specimens for study, but we have not yet heard any
reports as to a confirmed cause. The die off occurred for the first part of the
week and seems to have abated.
Anyway, we do know that we had an extreme current and temperature change in a
matter of 24 hours, water temperature had been in the 81 to 83 degree range and
when this south westerly current swept in the water temp dropped to a chilly 68
degrees, also turned over to a dirty murky green color. So we are just passing
around many theories, waiting to hear any information from the biologists. Most
logically reason points to something to do with such a drastic change, deep
current lacking sufficient oxygen.
Anglers found extremely difficult fishing this past week, southern winds were
persistent, at times gusting to 30 mph in the afternoon. Finding clean water was
the main problem, high surf conditions stirred up the inshore action even more.
Larger baitfish were available from the commercial fleet, such as jurelito,
mullet and caballito, but finding any hungry fish to hit the bait was the hard
game. A few roosterfish, jack crevalle, snapper or skipjack provided what little
action was found, more numbers of roosters were found north of Vinorama, which
is twenty plus miles from the Puerto Los Cabos Marina. Local panga fleets did
not find any wahoo, dorado or tuna where they had the previous week. Charters
that ventured 20 to 30 miles offshore did report scattered action on some
football sized yellowfin tuna and an occasional dorado or marlin, but with
choppy seas you were wise to be on a larger sized sportfisher to venture that
far out.
Striped marlin were scattered throughout the area, as water cleans we expect
them to be very hungry. On Thursday there was an encouraging report from a
sportfisher that caught and released half dozen stripers from the Gordo Banks
area, they found this action after having retuned from as far as 30 miles
offshore, where they had seen no signs of life.
The combined panga fleets launching from La Playita/Puerto Los Cabos sent out
approximately 51 charters for the week, with anglers reporting a fish count of:
3 striped marlin, 3 dorado, 7 yellowfin tuna, 6 amberjack, 3 yellowtail, 18
pargo, 44 roosterfish, 32 jack crevalle, 17 cabrilla, 22 skipjack and 5 sierra.
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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Jun 25, 2011; 10:33PM - SEA OF CORTEZ, AHHH! JUICY FRUIT!
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Mark Rayor
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DOES NURSE RATCHET KNOW THESE GUYS ARE
LOOSE?
Mark Locken returned to Los Barriles this week to
fish the KIR Fish and Chips tournament with his
crazy band of eight school buddies. Based out of
Palmas de Cortez, last year fishing on the Jen Wren
boats the merry men took 1st prize with a 143
pound tuna. It is also note worthy that they
consumed 22 cases of beer in 3 days fishing. At
that time Jack Wright coined the phrase 'if you
don't start drinking in the morning you can't drink
all day' as he shouted 'DRINK WITH ME BOYS!'
These guys know how to have a good time. This
year they missed the dorado jackpot by 4 ounces.
Even though they were not able to break last years
fishing record, they were able to set a new
consumption record with 24 cases. A great time was
had by all and only one rod and reel was
'involuntarily' released with a tuna on the other
end. May she rest in peace!
Mark Rayor
www.thejenwren.com
www.vistaseasport.com
markrayor.blogspot.com
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Jun 23, 2011; 07:11PM - Canada-Vancouver and Fraser river fishing report
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Category: [other]
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Author Name: Silversides Fishing Adventures
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The fishing on local rivers and lakes has been good this past month and will continue good to excellent as we head into summer.
The Fraser river is producing well for Sturgeon to 200 lbs and the odd 300 lb.
Interior lakes are fishing very well for Rainbow trout using flies.
Salmon fishing on the Fraser river will open July 16 for Chinooks. August is good for Chinook and Sockeye salmon and huge Sturgeon. September is HOT fishing for 30 million Pink salmon and big aggresive Sturgeon. October is great for Chum and Coho salmon and Sturgeon. November is good for Sturgeon and Chum and Coho salmon.
Call us at 1-604-864-5445 or visit our website at www.silversidesfishing.ca
tight lines!!
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Jun 23, 2011; 08:42AM - Sporadic to steady to sporadic
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Category: Saltwater Fly Fishing Reports
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Author Name: Gary Graham
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Endless Season Update June 20, 2011
REPORT #1259 'Below the Border'
Saltwater Fly-Fishing reports since 1996
From sporadic to steady back to
sporadic, a second hurricane has come
and gone and has certainly messed with
the fishing. For the moment, however, it
seems to be in the steady mode. Too bad,
there are not many folks except locals
to enjoy it.
There are still some midday easterly
winds, and an unusual current cooled sea
temps down to as low as 70 degrees from
the Light House south. However, just
five miles offshore the water warms up
to 84 degrees.
Most of the billfishing has been striped
marlin with a few sails and even fewer
blues released.
Last week's grande tuna action was
basically driven down by boat traffic
and now it is back to playing football
with the small-grade tuna, the most
common, down below Las Frailes. There is
an occasional 100-plus caught but they
mostly fall in the 'more lucky than
good' category.
Most of the dorado are caught while
trolling for marlin and while there are
some quality bulls they are few and far
between.
Inshore the cooler water messed up the
fishing but seems to be warming back up.
Small roosters and jacks are the norm
from both boat and shore. Also there
were some nice-sized pompano landed in
front of a couple of the hotels. If you
aren't fond of crowds…come on down.
Current East Cape Weather
http://tiny.cc/EastCapeWeather303
Magdalena Bay, Baja Mexico
Firecracker yellowtail mixed with sierra
and bonito at the Entrada. Farther
offshore, nearly twenty miles west, the
shark buoys are beginning to show some
promise with a some small dorado
gathering beneath a few them
Current Magdalena Bay Weather
http://tiny.cc/MagBayWeather150
Zihuatanejo, Mainland Mexico
The 85 degree water is still just a mile
off the beach. The sailfish average per
boat is only about one fish a day, but
this is mostly because the boats are all
chasing yellowfin tuna. The 20 to 40
pound tuna are being taken from four
miles to 20 miles off the beach. This is
happening all up and down the coast,
including 40 miles south at Puerto
Vicente Guerrero.
There are also a lot of large hard-
fighting skipjack tuna, called oceanicos
in Spanish. The few boats which are
traveling a bit farther out, fishing the
20 to 30 mile areas, are also getting
several 30 to 45 pound dorado.
And, the inshore action is still blazing
hot for the roosterfish. Sitting at your
desk, in your wildest day dreams, can
you imagine seven roosters a day with
fish averaging 30 pounds? That is what
our averages are right now. It all
depends on the stamina of the client. If
they can pull on more fish, they will
get at least 10, but most clients pull
the plug after five or six. The fish are
there, we just need the people to catch
‘em, and then release them again.
Ed Kunze
Current Zihuatanejo Weather
http://tiny.cc/zihuatanejo582
Cabo San Lucas
Windy and cooler most days with
whitecaps several days. Water temps as
cold as the upper 60's close to Cabo and
up to 81 degrees at the Cabrillo Sea
Mount.
Marlin catches were surprisingly quite
good this week even with a full moon and
a drop in water temperature. After some
heat last week, it’s like the season
slipped backwards and those on the
Pacific side are again sleeping under
quilts. There were a few more anglers in
town this week and catches were good to
fair for marlin and a few sailfish.
Yellowfin tuna in the 15 to 35 pound
class and dorado -- very seldom more
than a single fish -- continued to be
sporadic with about as many good days as
slow. A few wahoo were also caught
throughout the fleet.
Inshore there were a few roosterfish,
amberjack, skipjack and even a few stray
yellowtail.
Current Cabo Weather
http://tiny.cc/cabo191
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Jun 20, 2011; 10:58AM - Cabo Bite Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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Cabo Fish Report
Posted on June 19, 2011 by captgeo
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrum
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
http://captgeo.wordpress.com/
Cabo Fish Report
June 13-19, 2011
WEATHER: A bit of change was in the works for us this week. On Thursday the wind started to blow from the northwest pretty hard but it was dying off around sunrise, then picking up again in the afternoon. It brought cooler temperatures with it as well. While we started the week with lows in the high 70′s, by weekend we had morning highs of 68 degrees two days in a row. Our daytime highs started the week in the mid 90′s and as of the weekend we had highs in the high 70′s. Mid week delivered a bit of cloud cover as well, but no rain.
WATER: Either wind wind pushed it around or the current along the Pacific side became much stronger, but whatever the reason the cool water from the Pacific side wrapped itself around the Cape and intruded as far up the Sea of Cortez as the East Cape. While the water on the Cortez side of the Cape began the week being in the low 80′s, it ended the week in the mid 60′s, a significant change. Along with the cool water came a color change and with a green tinge to it the water was not quite a good as we had been seeing. Couple that with the wind in the afternoons and the associated choppy conditions it is understandable that many charters came in around noon or 1pm. The mornings were fine but once noon came around it was time to head back. We had some good sized swells early in the week but they tapered off at the end of the week and were averaging just 3-5 feet instead of 5-7 feet.
BAIT: Water conditions were not favorable for Sardinas this week so it didn’t matter where you went, there were none to be found. Most of the bait boats had plenty of Mullet for sale as well as some decent Caballito, and a few of them had Mackerel, all available at the normal $3 per bait. Ballyhoo, thawed out, were also available at $3 or $4 each, depending on who you bought them from.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Striped Marlin were scarce for most of the boats this week but a few were able to do well on them. A private boat I know of caught four in one day, as well as two small Blue Marlin, and a charter boat we use released three Striped Marlin one day as well. You really had to be in the right place at the right time. The private boat reported catching his Striped Marlin in the vicinity of the 1150 while the charter boat found his close to Palmilla point. Other boats working the same areas reported seeing fish but could not get them to bite. Like I said, right place at the right time! I heard of a few other Blue Marlin being caught early in the week but as the water on the Cortez side cooled down they disappeared.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Still very on-off fishing, those that got into a decent school and worked it hard were rewarded with limits on Tuna that averaged 25 pounds in the area between just outside the 1150 and withing 6 miles of the arch. There one day, gone the next, as often happens with these fish. The better catches were had by boats that lucked into schools associated with porpoise, but blind strikes were also significant. With a blind strike, and specially with a double or triple, working the area in a grid often resulted in many more hook-ups, at least until the school was lost. There were reports of some nicer fish from up in the Punta Gorda area, offshore, but beating it back home against the wind made that a trip only for the experienced, and those willing to take a gamble. There one day, gone the next!
DORADO: With the cool water moving in the bite for those nice Dorado we had been seeing dropped off quite a bit. There were still fish being found, but they had followed the warmer water so most of them were from the Gorda Banks area and farther up the Sea of Cortez. With an average weight of 25 pounds, these were a nice fish to have! Early in the week we were seeing quite a few larger fish, most of them in the 35-50 pound class, a good indicator of things to come once the water warms back up.
WAHOO: This being a full moon week the Wahoo were accommodating and many boats were returning flying an orange Wahoo flag. Most of the fish were between 35-45 pounds, but there were both smaller and larger fish reported. The largest I heard of was 78 pounds. Palmilla point and Punta Gorda as well as the associated small banks in the area kicked out most of the fish, but there were quite a few open water fish as well. I would guess that on average, about 15 percent of the charters caught Wahoo this week.
INSHORE: We had some decent Roosterfish in the surf this week, nothing big but averaging 15 pounds. There were a few larger 30 pound fish, but not many. The best method for these fish was slow trolling live Mullet. Also, since the water cooled off later in the week, some Yellowtail have returned to our area. Pangas were finding them around the Palmilla area as well as scattered around rocky points. Working yo-yo’s and slabs in 120 to 200 feet of water off the points brought some nice fish to 30 pounds, but averaging 12 pounds. A few boats were able to get Grouper to 80 pounds off of underwater rock piles using live Caballito.
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.
NOTES: Sure hope the water warms back up. As it is, the cool water once again has resulted in the inshore fishing getting a bit better for eating quality fish, but offshore it has depressed the bite a bit. This weeks report was written to some great music by Jean-Luc Ponty off of his 1978 Atlantic Records recording “Cosmic Messenger”. 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
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Jun 20, 2011; 10:51AM - SEA OF CORTEZ, AWAY FROM IT ALL
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Mark Rayor
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AWAY FROM IT ALL
John Lowther has come to Rancho Buena Vista with
family and friends for the last 18 years. The last
several of those years he has chartered our Jen
Wren boats for fishing. Time after time he has
inquired about doing a multi-day trip where we
could have more time to explore the Sea of Cortez.
Now that his resort of choice is no longer in full
operation, he decided the time was right so we set
up a 5 day 4 night fishing/diving charter. John
planned on coming with his wife Mary Ann and
youngest son Max. He expressed to me that he has
always wondered how fishing would be in the late
afternoon/early evening if they didn't have to return
to the resort.
Upon requesting the families expectations of this
trip to help me with planning and provisions, John
sent me this short list.
Max has a bucket list.
He is the only one in the family without a Marlin.
He wants to shoot a fish with a sling or a gun
Max told me to have you bring your best snapper
recipe.
Mary Ann said any Vodka and OJ will keep her fine.
Max said a few cold beer and he can drink what
ever.
John wishes for great weather and a good time. A
nice lobster on the back of the boat would not be
bad either.
Day one we departed Buena Vista at 8AM and ran to
Pescadero. Chuy and I figured we could knock
Max's marlin off the bucket list right out of the
gate. We trolled to Cerralvo without a bite and
stopped at the southern point of the island for a
scuba dive. Thankfully the diving was much better
then the fishing had been. Then we headed north
for Las Cruces where we anchored up for the night.
Snorkeling in front of the crosses was excellent and
catching a large leopard grouper was a bonus. For
dinner we had barbecued spare ribs and corn on
the cob after a conch sashimi appetizer.
Day two we left Las Cruces after sun rise and
cruised to La Reina. Upon arrival we could see loads
of sea life, marlin jumping, birds feeding and big
spots of bait in our sounder. Max landed a dorado,
then a white Bonita before finally bagging his
bucket list marlin. La Reina is an excellent dive
sight, but the current appeared to be ripping so we
decided to forego the diving. We moved on to El
Bajo, then passed Los Islotes and spent the night
tucked in a cove at Isla Partida where the sunset
was spectacular. For dinner we enjoyed poached
grouper and beans and rice with a fresh dorado
ceviche for appetizer.
Day three we headed off to dive Las Animas.
Conditions were excellent and the diving
phenomenal. This sight is always a treat as the fish
look like they are on steroids! After the dive we
fished our way up to Agua Verde. In the bay
snorkeling was fun before a fruitful night dive. After
appetizers and cocktails, dinner was barbecued
ribeye steak and baked potatoes.
Day four we worked our way back south. Max
finally cried uncle so John took the rod and landed
a small striper. The highlight of the day was our
visit to Isla Coyote where John almost bought a
time share! From there we cruised past Isla San
Franciscito, Los Islotes and moored up in a different
cove at Isla Partida. After another fun dive and fresh
sashimi appetizer, dinner consisted of fresh lobster,
chicken cordon bleu and potato salad.
Day five we ran back to La Reina where the fishing
action was good. Mary Ann asked if there was a
place we could stop and have a traditional Mexican
lunch. I knew just the place. We picked up the lures
and ran to the Bay of Dreams. At the Baja Beach
Club the Lowther's dined on chili rellenos and
downed a couple pina coladas before our return to
Buena Vista.
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Author Name: me
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Jun 13, 2011; 11:00AM - 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
June 6-12, 2011
WEATHER: While we had great weather for most of the week we did end on a blustery note. Friday night a little breeze started, nothing much at all and it was still nice on Saturday morning. Then all of a sudden on Saturday about mid-day the wind started to blow hard from the south. It did not take long for the whitecaps to come up. We had a little bump of a swell that made the surfers happy, a result of the short lived hurricane “Adrian” far to the south. Our nighttime lows for the week were mostly in the mid 70's while the daytime highs were in the mid to high 90's and the humidity ranged from 60% to 40%.
WATER: At the end of the week we had 80-81 degree water from the beach out to the 1,000 fathom line on the Cortez side of the Cape and around across the top of the San Jaime Bank on the Pacific side. Outside this warm water it dropped 3 or 4 degrees except on the Pacific side where the water to the north dropped to 72 degrees just off of the Bank. 40 miles to the west was another large temperature change where the water went from 72 to 64 degrees. Surface conditions were fair with small swells at the start of the week slowly growing larger and then the hard wind on Saturday really chopped things up in the afternoon.
BAIT: There was a decent availability on Caballito this week at the normal $3 per bait, some Sardinas were found in the Palmilla area at $25 a scoop and of course you could get frozen ballyhoo at $3 each.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: The concentrations of Striped Marlin that we had been finding up around the Destillidera area have moved once again and appear to have come a bit closer to us. During the middle of the week the move started and as often happens it coincided with their not eating once again. At the end of the week they became hungry again and if you found the fish (between the 1150 and the 95) and were pulling lures at the right speed (8.5 knots) then you got bit, but only on lures, very few fish were hooked on live bait. The color did not seem to matter, it was size (10-12 inches) and speed that got them going. Good catches at the end of the week were four or five releases per boat but the average was just two. There have been more reports of Blue Marlin but I have not heard of any Black Marlin yet.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: On again, off again fishing for Yellowfin Tuna was the way it worked this week. The open water fish we had been finding last week seemed to have moved on and we have been finding fish at the end of the week only with Porpoise. Well, not entirely true, there are still a few unassociated fish out there, but not the numbers we were seeing last week. Reports I have heard have been that the Los Frailles and north in the East Cape area have been fishy, with Tuna to slightly over 100 pounds among the porpoise there. Hopefully the fish move our way soon! I did see two purse seiners moving past us heading up on the Pacific side on Friday.
DORADO: As the water warms up the fishing gets better! Almost every trip is producing a few Dorado and just like last week the larger ones have been found offshore. Fish to 40 pounds have been biting lures meant for Striped Marlin and there have been plenty of smaller fish closer to the beach, that is plenty of them if you find the schools, otherwise there sure is a lot of water out there! Finding Frigate birds working was the key to getting the school fish as they could be seen swooping down on the flying fish being chased by the Dorado.
WAHOO: I heard of a few fish being caught but not as many as last week. The warm water helps but we are between moon phases right now. If the water stays warm we should be seeing more Wahoo in about 10 days.
INSHORE: The Roosterfish have not been right on the beach, at least not mid-week, but instead have been found in 80-100 feet of water. Slow trolling live mullet was the key to getting bit on a regular basis, and for those with plenty of Sardinas to chum with, tossing out a live one after chumming around the rocks in the shallows worked on the smaller fish. There were Amberjack and some Snapper (Snapper early in the week before the swells picked up) as well as some grouper found by the fishermen working the bottom or the rocks.
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.
NOTES: The whales are gone, but the fish are showing up, yea!! This weeks report was written to the music of Jeff Beck on his early album “Blow by Blow”. Sure brings back memories! Until next week, tight lines!
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Gordo Banks Pangas
San Jose del Cabo
June 12, 2011
Tropical storm season is now officially on track, before summer has even started. Some 500 miles south of Cabo San Lucas Hurricane Adrian quickly developed over warm waters and strengthening to a category four storm, the system was following a more northwesterly course, keeping it distant from land. It does not appear that Southern Baja will receive any much needed rainfall from Adrian, most likely all that will be felt, is increased humidity and larger ocean swells through the weekend.
Weather conditions for late spring were ideal, very few clouds in the sky, high temperatures close to 90 degrees, variable breezes from the Pacific were keeping things comfortable. A marine layer has been hanging over coastal stretches, spots of occasional fog. Strong ocean currents were sweeping in murky water closer to shore, though clear blue water has been found within five miles of shore. Ocean temperatures are mostly in the 78 to 80 degrees range. More flying fish spotted offshore, as well as schools of skipjack and bolito. The annual migration of schooling mullet has been late to arrive this season, but in recent days there has been an increase in activity. Anglers have hooked into roosterfish to forty pounds in recent days, though roosters in the 10 to 15 pound range have been more common. We expect to see the peak run of larger sized roosterfish to appear within the next few weeks, should be exciting. It is also the time when dogtooth snapper and amberjack follow bait schools close to shore.
Anglers can find a variety of options now, offshore looking for striped marlin, dorado and yellowfin tuna, to trolling over the ledges for the elusive wahoo, taking a look off the rock piles for snapper, amberjack or grouper, then there is the option of slow trolling live baits over the inshore rocky outcroppings for a chance battle with a bruiser of a dogtooth. In recent days there has been a great variety of fish encountered, though none of these species, with the exception of huachinango (red snapper) were found in great number.
The grounds near La Fortuna to Iman Bank were attracting schools of red snapper (huachinango), perhaps the small jelly fish bloom in the same region has brought these fish here. At times the ocean surface would turn red as the snapper came up to feed. Anglers were landing easy limits of five fish per person, for snapper that ranged 5 to 10 pounds, they were readily striking on yo-yo style jigs throughout the water column. A handful of yellowtail to 30 pounds were also landed, there were increasing numbers now for amberjack, including quality sized specimens of fish to 60 or 80 pounds. These fish were hitting on both yo-yo jigs and drifted baits.
Last weekend we saw more dorado in the counts, fish up to 40 pounds, throughout the week, variable currents have scattered the dorado, only an occasional fish or two being found, as conditions settle we expect to see more of these fish. Same deal for wahoo, everyday there are reports of a few fish landed and others lost, wahoo to 68 pounds were weighed in this past week, many others up to fifty. Encouraging to see such quality this early in the season.
Striped marlin action, which has been off the map for almost a month now, has tapered off this past week. Further offshore once again in cleaner waters, charters reported as many as five releases, others had one or two. The stripers were hitting trolled lures and dropped back live baits, mullet, caballito or jurelito, some larger stripers to 160 pounds were landed.
Yellowfin tuna are in the area, but have been difficult to entice on a daily basis and in any quantity. Though the quality was there, as at least several yellowfin over 100 pounds were brought into the La Playita panga docking facility in recent days. These tuna were found moving with small pods of larger sized dark porpoise, on the areas north of Punta Gorda to San Luis. There had been action for anglers on schooling sized tuna up to 20 pounds off of the Chileno area, but this action came to a standstill as the water became off colored in that area.
The combined panga fleets launching from La Playita/Puerto Los Cabos sent out approximately 104 charters for the week, with anglers reporting a fish count of: 5 sailfish, 29 striped marlin, 42 dorado, 20 yellowfin tuna, 46 amberjack, 9 yellowtail, 6 dogtooth snapper,
566 red snapper, 15 wahoo, 62 roosterfish, 24 jack crevalle, 16 cabrilla, 7 pompano, 28 bointo and 8 sierra.
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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Jun 9, 2011; 03:30PM - Sea of Cortez, Coming to the East Cape? Eat your Wheaties!
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: vseasport
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EAT YOUR WHEATIES!
There is nothing like the tail beat of a tuna. The
thump of their tail resonates up the line and can be
seen in the tip of an anglers bent rod. A small fish
goes thump..thump..thump.. A larger fish goes
thump....thump.... thump.... The bigger the fish the
slower the thump. Large or small there is not much
doubt that it is a tuna.
Fishing buddies Ralph and Lyle came for a visit this
week and fished on Jen Wren III. Their request was
to catch some tuna. One of my neighbors had done
pretty well the day before on the 88 spot so we
made the 33 mile run out there. Shortly after arrival
we could see huge tuna crashing and feeding.
Getting them to go was a different story. After more
than an hour Ralph finally hung what I know was a
monster. The fish ripped off more than a hundred
yards of 100 pound test line from Ralph's reel in a
short moment and never stopped before coming
unbuttoned. It was sickening to watch the line go
slack. He had the right fish on the right gear but I
guess it just wasn't the right time.
We gave the spot about another hour without a bite
and decided to move on. A school of bottle nosed
dolphin had been spotted about 10 miles from us
and the boats there were getting a few nice tuna.
Shortly after running to the dolphin Ralph got
hooked up and by the end of the day both anglers
had bagged a 100 pound class tuna.
Lyle toped it off with a wahoo.
I was really bothered that the big tuna we had
hooked on the 88 spot came unbuttoned. Yesterday
I had a day off and decided to go back out there and
look around. Fishing with a bullet tuna for bait it
didn't take long and I was on.
I don't think this fish was as big as the one we lost
but I have to say, it kicked my butt
After a 55 minute battle Jen Wren deck hand Diego
Romero sunk the gaff and ended the fight.
The yellowfin tuna taped out at 190 lbs.
Now I'm taking today off to recuperate from my day
off yesterday.
Mark Rayor
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Jun 6, 2011; 11:22AM - 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 30- June 5, 2011
WEATHER: Sure am glad I am here and not there! With nighttime lows in the low 70's and daytime highs in the mid 90's, humidity most day around 35% it just doesn't get much better than this. We had sunny skies all week long and at the start of the week we had a steady, but not too strong wind from the northwest. Today is going to be the hottest of the week though, as it is 77 degrees and not even 7 am yet!
WATER: On the Cortez side of the Cape, almost in a line running due east of us, the water to the north was 80 degrees until you got off of the Los Frailles area offshore. There it warmed to 84 degrees at the end of the week. South of that line it dropped to 74 degrees except for an intrusion from the Pacific side that ran right along the 1,000 fathom line where it dropped to 70 degrees. On the Pacific side of the Cape it was 66-70 degrees everywhere. Early in the week the Pacific side was a bit rough with large swells and some steady wind, but the swells died down late in the week as did the wind. On the Cortez side of the Cape the wind had little effect later in the week but at the beginning it made for a few days of rough riding back to Cabo if you went east to fish.
BAIT: There was a decent availability on Caballito this week at the normal $3 per bait, some Sardinas were found in the Palmilla area at $25 a scoop and of course you could get frozen ballyhoo at $3 each.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: I did not hear of any Swordfish being caught this week but there may have been a few. Most of the boats were concentrating on the Striped marlin that were being found up to the east in the Destillidera area. The best catches were in double digits but most boats were getting between 3 and 5 releases per day, with a lot of fish just giving quick strikes and not hooking up. Most of the action for the fleet boats was on lures and the fish were averaging a little bit larger at 130 pounds instead of the normal 110 pounds. The action fluctuated a bit day to day and the fish moved around a bit as well. While the concentrations were in the Destillidera area, there were fish found closer to home also. Scattered Striped marlin were found all over the place and it seemed that most of them were willing to hit a lure or bait, but the concentrations were not there for large numbers to be caught. For the boats not making the long trek to the concentrations, a release average of 1 per boat was the norm. There were still Sailfish being caught in the San Jose area as well, mainly closer to the beach and the structure with small pods of three or four fish coming in to attack lures. Not a lot of them but enough that any trip had the chance of catching one.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: We finally had some decent numbers of Yellowfin show up. To the east of us there have been occasional breezers, schools of fish that are traveling just under the surface, pushing the water so that it looks like a gust of wind is traveling through. If you see one of them, the chances of hooking up fish are good, just throw a live bait in the water in front of the school. Boats that were finding them and doing that were getting fish averaging 45 pounds with an occasional jumbo over 100 pounds. Most of the boats are catching smaller fish close to home. The area from 2 to 6 miles off the beach between the arch and Chileano Bay produced plenty of blind strikes on fish that averaged 18 pounds, a few smaller than that but nice fish anyway. Almost anything worked, lures big and small, live bait, rigged dead bait, it was just a matter of getting a strike and then working the area. A good catch was a dozen fish, a big catch was limits for everyone.
DORADO: Every week the numbers increase, and this week the size increased as well. There were quite a few fish in the 40-50 pound class caught, and a lot of fish in the 12-20 pound class. The warm water on the Cortez side of the Cape was producing almost all the fish with the larger ones found offshore and the smaller ones closer to the beach.
WAHOO: It sounded as if the Wahoo bite was decent this week if you were fishing out at Punta Gorda. Boats that concentrated their effort on the 50 fathom line and worked it hard with swimming plugs and lead head lures were getting between two and five fish per day, most of them in the 30 pound class with an occasional fish to 60 pounds. There were a few others caught offshore but there were no concentrations out there, just incidental catches.
INSHORE: Roosterfish were the stars of the week for the inshore fishermen as some of the larger fish arrived with the warmer water. In the white water you could see fish to 40 pounds cruising for something to eat and getting a live bait in there usually resulted in a hook-up. Almost all of the sandy beaches were producing the Roosterfish, but the average size was 15 pounds, the larger ones were not as common. There were also some nice snapper caught in the rocks if you were able to get a bait in there, but the large swells early in the week made that a bit difficult. Many of the Pangas were fishing for Yellowfin Tuna since they were so close and biting so well.
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.
NOTES: Reports on the weather stations say that we might reach 100 degrees today! I think it is time to head to the beach before the sand get too hot to walk on, Tawny does not like that hot sand on her paws! The weather is heating up and so is the fishing, I am planning on a meat trip tomorrow, going out for a half day to get some fresh Tuna. This means that my recipe mid-week will be something to do with Tuna, you betcha! This weeks report was written to the music of Mark Knopfler on my favorite album of his, the soundtrack for “Sailing to Philadelphia”. Until next week, tight lines!
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