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Cabo San Lucas - July 7th, 2008
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED: 
90 °
FISHING: Good
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportJune 30-July 6, 2008 WEATHER Definitely in summer mode here as we have had our first touch of storm season. We had the cloud cover and some scattered rain from the passing of several systems well to the south of us late in the week, and it was enough for the Port Captain to close the port on Friday. He opened us up later on in the morning after it became apparent that there were no dangerous swells with the wind and rain, but it was enough to really mess up the fishing operations for the day. Our highs during the days have been in the mid to high 90’s with fairly heavy humidity, the evenings have been a bit cooler with a bit of a light breeze, bringing the temperatures down to the low 80’s.WATER: The passing of storms to the south, along with the southeasterly winds that came with them resulted in confused seas offshore to the south. Our normal southern current flow met with the wind swells from the storm systems and the result was pretty choppy, but not dangerous, surface conditions. Water on the Sea of Cortez side of the Cape was between 79-82 degrees while on the Pacific side it dropped to 75-79 degrees. The water at the San Jaime Banks and to the north of there was off color and green, there was a plume of green tinged water flowing along the shore and to the south of the Cape, extending out about 30 miles. Due south of the San Jaime the water was a good blue color and on the Cortez side the triangle formed between the 1150, 95 Spot and the Cabrilla Seamount was blue as well. The water up to 5 miles offshore on the Cortez side was green tinged.BAIT: Caballito were readily available early in the week at the new price of $3 per bait, later in the week they were difficult to get due to the weather conditions. I did not hear of any Mackerel or Sardinas being sold.FISHING: BILLFISH: It was a spotty week for Striped Marlin, a few boats were able to get releases on one or two fish each, but many boats had trouble finding fish that were willing to eat. The best results were had along the color change to the south of us, and artificial lures seemed to do a bit better than the live Caballito did. There were reports of a few Blue Marlin being seen in the patterns up toward the Punta Gorda area, but I did not hear of any being caught by our boats in Cabo.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: There were Yellowfin found this week but I am not telling anyone where. A few fish were up to 150 pounds and most of them were in the 30-40 pound class and they were not too far away, but last time I wrote about where they were we had a visit from tuna seiners. Maybe its just bad luck, but it is enough that there are some being caught again. Not all boats were able to get into the fish, but those that were in the right place at the right time did pretty well.
DORADO The warm water on the Cortez side and south of the San Jaime Banks has brought the Dorado bite back on. I think that the storms to the south of us may have pushed up some of these fish along with the warmer water. My fingers are crossed that these nice Dorado continue our way, it is a nice change of pace!
WAHOO: There were a few Wahoo in the 40-50 pound class reported being caught, but I had no luck with them myself. The warm water offshore on the Cortez side of the Cape delivered a few scattered incidental fish for lucky anglers. INSHORE: The Sierra and Yellowtail bite fell off the charts with the influx of warmer water, but there were still a few being found. The good news is that the Grouper are starting to bite and decent fish in the 10-20 pound class are being found over rock piles in 200-250 feet of water. Cut bait and live Caballito have been working well, and a few hardy souls willing to do the work of yo-yoing at that depth have done well also.
NOTES: Best fishing this week was from Pangas for the Grouper, but there were good Tuna caught by those anglers lucky to be in the right place at the right time. I hope that this week sees a continuation of the good fishing inshore and an increase in the offshore Dorado catch as well as the appearance of more Blue Marlin in our area. Until next week, keep your lines tight and check out “Cowboy Boots and Bathing Suits” by Jerry Jeff Walker!
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Cabo San Lucas - June 30th, 2008
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED: 
95 °
FISHING: Good
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportJune 23-29, 2008 WEATHER We are now back into summer mode. Our daytime highs have been in the mid to high 90’s and the nighttime lows have been a warm 80 degrees. Thank goodness the humidity has not gotten high yet, wait another two week for that. We had clear skies this week, for the most part, and the winds we were dealing with all day long every day last week were only blowing later in the afternoon this week.WATER: The ebb and flow has this week gone in the direction of the Pacific. The warm water from the Sea of Cortez has pushed back the cooler Pacific water and we have now had almost a full week of water in the 78-80 degree range o the Cortez side of the Cape. This warm water has worked its way down so that the edge is almost due south of us and extends that direction for 30 miles. On the Pacific side the water remains in the 70-76 degree range with the cooler water being between the arch and the south side of the Golden Gate Bank, extending across the San Jaime Bank as well. This cooler water is green and at times there are streaks of almost brown in it.BAIT: Just about the only thing I was able to find this week was Caballito for bait, but a few of the boats reported getting some Mackerel, but not many. The new price of $3 per bait is still holding, and for a few of the boats the price was even higher as they were only able to get 7 or 8 baits instead of the normal 10 baits, but were still getting charged the $30 price. I did not hear if there were Sardinas available or not.FISHING: BILLFISH: Once again the week started slow for Billfish, as well as everything else. At the beginning of the week boats were lucky to see a few Marlin, let alone catch one or two. That all changed on Friday as a concentration of fish showed up, and showed up hungry, at the temperature break on the 95 spot. The fish were in small groups of twos and threes on the surface, and live bait was the best producer. Most boats were able to get at least one release and a few scored as many as five or six fish released. Farther to the north in the Cortez the Striped Marlin were spotty as the water was a bit warmer than the normally like, but there were a few Blue Marlin bites reported. It is still a bit cool for them, but look for more action from the girls in the blue suites as the water warms to a steady 82 degrees and the skipjack tuna start to show up in numbers.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Once again Friday seemed to be the day the fish shoed up as there were confirmed reports of fish in the 30-40 pound class found under porpoise between the 1150 and the Cabrilla Seamount. On Friday there were just a few boats in the fish but on Saturday the numbers increased. The fish were in the smaller Black Porpoise pods, which confused a lot of people, as that is not a normal occurrence. There were several fish reported in the #200 class as well. On Saturday this scene was repeated with one boat reported catching the largest Yellowfin of its history, and several other boats leaving the fish because they had enough. Who knows if these fish will stay in the area for any amount of time, but it is nice to see that there are still some out there. Live bait dropped down in among the porpoise worked best.
DORADO Once again there were just a few scattered Dorado reported, but look for the numbers and size of fish to increase as the water continues to warm.
WAHOO: There were a few Wahoo in the 40-50 pound class reported being caught, but I had no luck with them myself. The warm water offshore on the Cortez side of the Cape delivered a few scattered incidental fish for lucky anglers. INSHORE: There were still plenty of Sierra available for anglers looking for consistent action on Pangas, as well as a fair number of small Roosterfish. Most of the action took place between Chileno and San Jose. On the Pacific side of the Cape the beach area was rough and green with only scattered schools of Sierra and small Yellowtails being found between the Arch and the lighthouse.
NOTES: Thank goodness the water is warming up! I have my fingers crossed that the Yellowfin will remain in our area and the Dorado will show up and start to bite! I know that it is a bit early in the season for there to be any large numbers of Dorado, but I can hope, right? Until next week, tight lines!
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Cabo San Lucas - June 23rd, 2008
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED: 
87 °
FISHING: Good
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportJune 16-22, 2008 WEATHER Things have changed just a bit on the weather front, as of the middle of the week the wind quit blowing 24 hours a day and has just started blowing around 1 pm every day. That has made the afternoon temps comfortable and the early morning very nice, at least on shore. Our daytime highs have been in the mid 80’s and the nighttime lows in the high 60’s. No rain this week and we had mostly sunny skied.WATER: Back and forth, back and forth, that is what the water temperatures have been doing to us as the California current brings cold water our way and then weakens and the Cortez warm water pushes our way. As of the end of the week instead of the 61 degree water we were having right here in the bay of Cabo at the beginning of the week, the water warmed up to 69 degrees out front, 62 degrees on the Pacific side of the Cape and 77 degrees from Gray Rock and north to the Punta Gorda area. Off shore, to the south and the Pacific side the water is green, it does not really clear up until you get to the north of the Gorda Banks. Surface conditions on the Pacific side have been pretty rough this week with the strong winds, later in the week the mornings have been all right until the wind starts to kick in, then it becomes choppy. The swells on the Pacific side are 4-6 feet with an occasional swell at 8+ feet, mostly due to the constant wind. On the Cortez side of the Cape the mornings have been great, and the water up past the Santa Maria area has been good most of the day. Coming home from that area has been rough in the afternoon as the wind starts to come more from the west later in the day.BAIT: Mackerel and a few Caballito were available at the new price of $3 per bait, and there were nice sized Sardinas at the Palmilla area at $25 a scoop.FISHING: BILLFISH: There was no change from last week for the Marlin report. The Marlin bite at the beginning of the week was not bad but as soon as the cold water started to wrap around the Cape the fish moved up the sea of Cortez and the ones that stayed around here stopped biting. At the end of the week you were lucky to get a chance to throw bait at a fish.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: The white flags I saw this week were for Bonita that were caught close to the beach, I did not hear of anyone getting into any numbers of Yellowfin, but there were a few scattered football size fish caught.
DORADO There were a few scattered Dorado found up around the Punta Gorda area, but that was about it. They were caught by boats drifting with live bait for the most part, but a few were caught on trolled lures.
WAHOO: The full moon should have resulted in some Wahoo, but the water was too cold. INSHORE: If you wanted to catch fish this week, a Panga fishing inshore was the way to go. The anglers were doing well on Sierra to 8 pounds, lots of Yellowtail to 10 pounds as well as a scattering of Bonito and Amberjack as well as Jack Crevalle. The Roosterfish that we had seen several weeks ago have been absent, probably due to the cooler waters. Most of the action on these fish took place between the arch and the lighthouse on the Pacific side and outside the Cabo del Sol-Palmilla area on the Cortez side.
NOTES: Checking on my reports form this time last year, it looks like a repeat so far. In 2006 we were catching Blue and Black Marlin already and the water was nice and warm. Hopefully we will see the warm water soon and the fishing will turn around. Until then, keep your fingers crossed! Until next week, tight lines!
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Cabo San Lucas - June 12th, 2008
supplied by: Baja Anglers
RECORDED:
94 °
FISHING: Excellent
Hi Folks,
I got some fun news! My good friend Lynn Boyd of Houston, Texas was fishing with me today, and we had some great action on smaller roosterfish, but Lynn decided at the start of the day that he wanted to fish only for big roosterfish (he had caught smaller ones the day before), so he passed up at least 200 shots at the smaller 10 lb. fish. It looked like he was going to have a skunked day. During the day, we kept chanting- our patience is going to pay off. It did, late in the day, when all looked bleak, a small school of giant roosterfish jumped on my teaser. It was nuts-crazy action. Thirty roosterfish and the smallest looked to be around 50#. Lynn made a cast and the fly landed long, and lined 5 huge roosterfish, but the 6th fish was in back (the smallest of course) and he ate the fly with Gusto! Fish on- I grabbed the second rod for a double, but quickly put the rod down- Lynn insists that I fish with him, but this was Lynn’s biggest roosterfish ever! He fought the fish for over 45 minutes and was having a hard time of it (he suffered a heart attach a few years ago), so he decided to take it easy and I finished the fish off. Wow, what a fish, He took at least 30 screaming runs during the fight. I finally brought him to boat and Alex netted him. The fish was at least 65#, just a monster! We quickly took some photos and released him unharmed. The fish swam away really strong. The fish was caught on a G. LOOMIS Crosscurrent 11wt, with an ABEL 4 reel. The fly Line was RIO Deep Sea 400 grains, and he was using a RIO 20# tippet, The cast and hook-up was IGFA, but when we switched the fighter, it became a non-IGFA catch. The fly was a “Charlie’s Angel”. Way to go Lynn!!! Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy!!!
Check out the action at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j32qtrwl_w
The fishing has been good for this last week, although there has been a good wind out of the south. The chop has made it a bit harder to fish, but the fish don’t seem to care.
Plenty of roosterfish to catch, and most of them are under 15 lbs. Great fun on fly and light tackle. The big ones are starting to show, and it’s about time! I expect Lynn to catch another HOG tomorrow!
The sierra are still here and they are mostly on the Pacific side- They are too much fun on fly rods, and top water poppers on light spinning rods.
Some Cubera and Colorado snappers around, we had shots at them today, but Lynn decided not to cast to them.
The offshore fishing continues to be good for Marlin. The marlin have been biting pretty good on baits and lures. The average catch is two fish to the boat. This has been an awesome striped marlin year, hope it lasts. I am getting spoiled!
Tuna and Dorado are mostly by-catch while marlin fishing. The offshore fishing will improve this month as the warm water moves in.
Tight Lines,
Grant
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Cabo San Lucas - June 9th, 2008
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
91 °
FISHING: Good
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportJune 2-8, 2008 WEATHER: Everything is in flux this time of year. Just as we thought that summer had arrived, it cooled off and now feels once again like winter. The wind picked up at the beginning of the week, a lot of the larger yachts that move north this time of year sat in the harbor waiting for good weather for the ride north. At the end of the week a few of them left, but a few waited it out, and it may have been a good thing. The wind really picked up and the water got pretty miserable on the Pacific side of the coast as the winds blew at 20-25 knots from the west-northwest, bringing the swells up and the chop into play. Our nights have been as cool as 63 degrees while the daytime highs have been in the low 80’s. With the winds came partly cloudy skies as the remnants of a tropical depression from the Yucatan came over us.WATER: The Pacific side of the Cape was fishable early in the week but when the winds picked up it became miserable. Swells were at 4-6 feet with an occasional 8-foot in the mix and the winds were blowing hard from the west-northwest. The current along the Pacific side was helped by the wind and the cool water from the Pacific punched its way into the Sea of Cortez. Like I said above, things are in flux. This cool water is at around 71 degrees and has extended itself from the beach at the arch out across the 1150 and almost to the outer Gorda Bank. Inside this band, along the shore, the water remained around 79 degrees, and up past the Gorda Banks it stayed warm as well. Along with the cooler water brought in, the clarity dropped as well, with green becoming the prevailing color.BAIT: Mackerel and a few Caballito were available at the new price of $3 per bait, and there were nice sized Sardinas at the Palmilla area at $25 a scoop.FISHING: BILLFISH: Very little changed this week on the Marlin front with most of the fish being found along the shore off of Palmilla and San Jose. They had moved toward us early in the week but the influx of cooler water from the Pacific side pushed them back toward the north. They are still not biting very well and it seems as if lures are working better than live bait for the most part. Pulling lures at slightly higher than normal speeds seems to get the fish active, they may be striking out of aggression rather than hunger as the moon gets larger. A decent trip is one or two releases per boat, a good trip this week would have been three or more releases, but we saw very few boats with more than three. YELLOWFIN TUNA: I sure saw a lot of tuna flags on some of the boats, but upon checking with the anglers found that the flags were being flown for Bonita that averaged 12 pounds in size, with a few reaching 18 pounds. A decent fight to be sure, but not Yellowfin by any stretch of the imagination.
DORADO: The Dorado bite dropped off as the cool water moved back in, but there were reports heard of some kelp patties being found offshore up in the East Cape area that were holding Dorado. In our area there were about 10 % of the boats coming in with Dorado flags at the end of the week, and they were found along with the Striped Marlin.
WAHOO: The Wahoo went somewhere else this past week. INSHORE: Action inshore consisted of small Roosterfish to 10 pounds with an occasional fish to 30 pounds, a few holdover Sierra to 8 pounds, a decent spot of Grouper and Snapper averaging 8 pounds along the rocky points and those nice 12-18 pound Bonita just a few miles off the beach. All the action took place on the Cortez side of the Cape.
NOTES: Word is out that the Marines have been stopping boats from fishing within three miles of the beach from Gray Rock and to the north on the Sea of Cortez. Any boats found fishing within this area have been escorted outside the three-mile limit. We have been told that this is because about 30 years ago this area of the Sea of Cortez was designated some kind of reserve, and this is the only way of keeping the commercial boats like the purse Seiners we had such a problem with last month, out of our area. If they have to stay out, then we have to stay out as well. I guess I understand that a little bit, but we are not commercial fishermen, so there has to be reconciliation here somewhere. Anyway, until next week, tight lines!
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Cabo San Lucas - June 8th, 2008
supplied by: The Patient Angler
RECORDED: 
94 °
FISHING: Great
Hola Pescadors Paciente,
I couldn’t wait to get back and give you a report on my trip to the warm waters of Mexico in search of the prized Roosterfish. This is an annual trip to Cabo san Lucas during late May and early June, to fish for my favorite fish in the ocean. The weather was great with temps in the 90’s and lots of sun. We had a nice breeze that blew all day, so it wasn’t too hot and in the middle of the day, you could always find a cold drink and a palapa to sit under to cool you off.
I had a great group of people with me on this trip, and the fishing was just as good. Robin & Patty B., Jim E., Tom B., my girlfriend Thu and I, had a grand time catching inshore game fish on the fly. We caught a lot of Roosterfish (which was what we went for), along with action from other fish like Jacks Crevalle, Amber Jacks, Sierra, Giant Needle Fish, Yellow Tail, Snapper and even caught a couple beautiful Leopard Groupers.
We fished from 26’ Glacier Bay Cats with the boys from Baja Anglers, A guide operation in Cabo that specializes in Fly Fishing & Light Tackle. If you want to have your best opportunity to catch saltwater fish on the fly, Baja Anglers are the folks to call.
We had good fishing all week with a few times mixed in where the fishing was almost as good as it gets. One of those times was also the highlight of the trip. Thu, Jim & I were on the boat in the afternoon on day 5, when we found beach up on the East Cape full of Roosterfish, Sierra and Jacks. The action was so hot that at one point we had a triple hook-up. All three of us hooked a Roosterfish right after each other on three casts in a row and fought and landed them at the same time (I should have the pictures on my site patientangler.com in a few days). After we celebrated our triple and thinking the day couldn’t get any better, we got back to fishing and we did it again! But this time it was a quadruple hook-up. I hooked one first Rooster with Thu & Jim hooking up right after me, and I landed mine first but the rooster was bleeding a little so I didn’t want to take a chance with him and let him go right away. I quickly stripped off line and made another cast to the still aggressive Roosters behind the boat, immediately hooking up and we still landed our second triple of the day. We had some shots at bigger Roosters in the 15 lb – 25 lb range, but most of what we landed was in the 5 lb – 12 lb range. Believe me, that’s still more fun that you should be able to have on a fly rod. We caught fish on 2/0 Saltwater Poppers, 2/0 & 4/0 Deceiver patterns in Green/White, and my custom 4/0 Bait Fish pattern in Grey/White. We used 300grn Tropic Express lines on Sage Xi2 & Winston B11X 10wt fly rods, with 20lb leaders.
Everyone had a great trip, and wishing they were still there fishing the clear blue waters along the endless beaches found on the tip of Baja.
The Patient Angler patientangler.com
Peter Bowers
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Cabo San Lucas - June 4th, 2008
supplied by: Baja Anglers
RECORDED:
94 °
FISHING: Good
Hi folks,
A few days ago, I fished Don Anderson and his girlfriend Lauren Streckrus from Baltimore, Maryland. We had a fun morning catching roosterfish, jacks, and sierra on the fly, but after a while, the action slacked off a little, so we decided to head out for a shot at a marlin. It was only a short 15 minute ride to the marlin grounds, and right off the bat, we hooked a double, two marlin on light tackle-(one on 30# spinning and one on 30# conventional). Luckily both fish turned into each other and were swimming in the same general direction (a good thing with light tackle). After about 25 minutes we landed Dons fish, and we did something completely new, we both jumped in the water and swam with the marlin until he regained his strength, then we released it. It was so cool. So here we are, swimming out in the ocean releasing Don’s fish, while in the boat they are fighting Lauren’s fish and the boat is slowly powering away from us. Don and I have to swim a ways back to the boat. Don being a water polo champ was swimming like a porpoise, but this old fat bald out of shape surfer had to take his time. The guys on the boat were giving me a hard time! No respect (looks like it’s a good idea to lose a few pounds and get back in shape). Now, here we are back on the boat and its Lauren’s turn to land her fish, so in the water we go- Again. This time Don grabbed the bill by himself, and I was swimming like heck trying to keep up with Don and his fish, I also had the camera in hand( good excuse). We swam with the marlin until he got some strength back and we then released the fish. It was so cool, a whole new prospective. I had a cheap underwater point and shoot camera with video capability, so the water shots were not what I wanted. After I got back to the house, I ordered an underwater case for my good camera, so I will be getting some new views of the fish while we are fighting and releasing the fish. Also a good pair of swim fins and mask might be a good idea.
Check out the video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zql_mX64cp4
Fishing this last week has been good, but not great (good is 6 to 12 roosterfish a day on the fly, great is 20 plus roosterfish a day). The roosterfish we are catching are up to 15 lbs, and it’s been a lot of fun with good constant action. I do have to say though that the really big boys are keeping their mouths shut. Any day now, I expect them to turn on.
We did have one really slow inshore day last week. We saw lots of fish, and even teased in a fish well over 40 lbs, but the fish just wouldn’t eat the fly. We caught some ladyfish and jacks.
We are also catching nice jacks, some sierras, and lots of ladyfish. The snapper fishing has died down this last week, but expect it to get good again. June is prime time for snappers (Colorado and Cubera). These fish are great fun and it’s a hoot to see them on the surface chasing your fly to the boat.
The striped marlin fishing continues to be good, Lots and lots of fish around. The fish have quite a bit too much food available to them, so they can be picky at times. Dead baits trolled, with the smaller ballyhoo and finger mullets working best!
The dorado are around, and some nice fish over 40 # have been caught, but again- lots of bait and they are being a bit picky.
A few tuna here and there, but nothing special to write home about-yet.
Pictured below is left to right Capt. Alex, Don Anderson, Lauren Streckrus, and Grant Hartman. We were fishing in front of Punta Gorda on our Glacier Bay catamaran Flying Fish Three.
Tight Lines,
Grant
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Cabo San Lucas - June 2nd, 2008
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
93 °
FISHING: Good
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportMay 26 – June 1, 2008 WEATHER: Things have warmed back up and now we are feeling once again as if we have summer on the way. Our nighttime lows have been in the low 70’s and our daytime highs have been in the mid 90’s, once reaching 99 degrees here at my house. We had scattered clouds in the mornings most days, but things cleared up rapidly.WATER: We experienced a rapid improvement in water conditions this week as a major push of warm water from the north took place. This warm water displaced much of the cold green water that we had wrapping around the Cape from the Pacific side last week, and has come on strong enough that the entire area to the south of the Cape is now around 76-78 degrees and blue. This warm water has traveled up the Pacific coast past Todo Santos and extends from the beach to about two miles offshore. Farther out it is 72 degrees and still green, in places like pea soup. On the Cortez side of the Cape things have definitely improved with water temperatures within our reach being as high as 84 degrees, and up in the East Cape reaching 86 degrees. This warm water is also clear water and brings with it fish of all kinds. Surface conditions on the Pacific consisted of swells to 6 feet with afternoon winds from the northwest to 14 knots. On the Cortez side the swells were in the 1-3 foot range with slight afternoon winds from the west causing occasional choppy conditions.BAIT: Mackerel and a few Caballito were available at the new price of $3 per bait, and there were nice sized Sardinas at the Palmilla area at $25 a scoop.FISHING: BILLFISH: The Striped Marlin have shown back up and the fishing has improved for them as well. The only problem is that the fish are still a considerable distance from us on the Cortez side of the Cape, up around the Punta Gorda area and farther north, in the Vinorama area. This is an easy 30-mile trek, and takes time, but when the tide change happens things have been going off like gangbusters, especially the last half of this week. There is plenty of bait in the area and the preferred method has been to slow troll live mackerel at 2 ½ knots in the area of heaviest concentration. The fish have been feeding on the surface, but the action is so quick that running and throwing bait has not been effective. The slow troll seems to do better. Those boats that have been using just lures have been getting fish as well, but not as many. With the push of warm water into our area it should not be long before the big girls start to show up! I am really looking forward to some Blue and Black Marlin action this summer! YELLOWFIN TUNA: We are still not seeing any numbers of Yellowfin Tuna, the actions of the Purse Seiners from several week ago seem to have had a very strong effect on this fish’s availability. We can only hope that a new batch of Yellowfin appear soon. Quite a few boats have been looking specifically for them, but the results have been very poor.
DORADO: There has been very good Dorado action in the same area as the Striped Marlin, but closer in toward the beach. Within the 300-foot depths around the Vinorama area the bite has been good on fish to 45 pounds, with most of the fish in the 20-25 pound class. Fast moving lures in bright colors have done well when fished back in the pattern, and as happens most of the time, a live bait dropped back once the lure-caught fish is close to the boat has often resulted in multiple fish hooked up.
WAHOO: Wahoo were the big surprise this week as they have followed the warm water and are now to be found off the Vinorama area, just like the Dorado and Striped Marlin. The best results have been had by the Pangas out of La Playita in San Jose as they have been leaving the marina early and have been catching Chilwilie at the inner Gorda Bank at first light, then running to the Iman Bank area and slow trolling these mackerel scad. Many of the Pangas were catching multiple fish in the 30-40 pound class every morning. For the boats coming into the area from Cabo Sa Lucas, the best results were to be had by trolling Magnum Rapallas and Marauders close to the boat at higher than normal trolling speeds, around 9-10 knots, and having a small, heavy lure off of the outriggers. The best catch I heard of by a cruiser from our area was 6 fish in the 30-50 pound class in one trip. I did see a larger fish come in, one that was reasonably in the 80-pound class. INSHORE: The inshore action continued to be good on the Cortez side of the Cape for white Bonita and Roosterfish, with some boats doing well on some leftover Sierra as well. These are surprising, as the water has warmed up well past the normal temperature for them. Fishing bait off the bottom has had good results for anglers targeting Grouper and Amberjack, with many of the Grouper being in the 30-pound class. The best areas for the bottom fishing has been off the rock piles at the points, one of the most fished has been right off of Palmilla. Roosterfish action has been going off very well on the sandy beaches at La Playita and to the north of there in the La Laguna area. Best results for them has been by using live mullet slow trolled behind the boat, or some of the large Sardinas that can be bought up there.
NOTES: We are experiencing a definite improvement in our fishing, and things are looking good. On a slightly different note, rumor has it that the marines have stopped several charter boats from fishing closer than three miles from the beach on the Pacific side this week, forcing them to return to the Marina, or moving farther out. I am going to do a little checking this week and find out what is going on. I also heard that they stopped a 28 foot cruiser that was fishing 25 miles offshore while looking for tuna and told him to move in closer as he was not allowed to be that far out. Hmm, guess that is another thing to check on, but at least that one makes sense to me. No music for me this week as I am writing this very early in the morning prior to a fishing trip and my wife is still sleeping in the next room! Until next week, tight lines!
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Cabo San Lucas - May 29th, 2008
supplied by: Baja Anglers
RECORDED:
94 °
FISHING: Great
Hi Folks,
A funny thing happened on the way to…….. Anyway- It was a few days before a TV shoot, actually the second in this month, and I couldn’t get my hands on any small dead bait (the marlin were not taking any the larger baits available or any lures). I was for sure the smaller baits were going to be the ticket and I wanted them for the show.
So I grabbed Gisel and the cast net, and off we went looking for small ballyhoo. I stopped at one of my favorite spots on the East Cape, and as soon as I got out of the car I spotted a nice school of finger mullet. So I grab the cast net, set up the cast, as I have always done since I was a boy on the Texas coast (You split the net in your hands, grab a short piece in your mouth and then swing forward releasing the net at once- perfect cast every time) Except this cast- The net had wrapped itself around my front tooth, and when I cast the net, it snapped my tooth off at the base of my mouth. I just stood there in agony and whispered Gisel. She took one look at me and started laughing. That’s what happens when you are married for a long time, no sympathy there. She fed me a good half dozen Advil down my throat and after a few minutes I settled down. I finally looked at the net in the water and it was full of ballyhoo- and next to the net, was my tooth. I started laughing so hard Gisel thought I had lost it.
So I have this tooth snapped clean with the raw nerve at the base of my gums- Ouch it hurt like heck!!!
So, what do you do when things go south, you make a video and then go fishing- I cast that net for another three hours or so and stocked up full of choice ballyhoo and finger mullet. Great day getting bait!
I got home late in the afternoon and took a shower, then its off to the dentists for a emergency root canal and to get the tooth caped. The end of a very painful and funny day.
It’s the first day of the show( Fishing Adventurer with Cyril Chauguet) and I have my smile back, a sore mouth, but alls okay. The smaller bait was the ticket and we ended up hooking up 8 striped marlin on spinning rods that day. What a day, and everyone around us was trolling big dead & live baits and they were lucky to get one strike. The bait adventure was well worth the extra effort, but you wont see me putting the net in my mouth anymore. I will have to learn a new method to throw the net-
Check out the video at- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JrnvWKyjmw
Hope it makes you laugh as much as it did Gisel.
FISHING:
A cold front blew through last week and with it came a strong west wind, actually the port closed for one day with winds over 50 miles an hour. The rest of the days were windy but fishable.
I was for sure the fishing would back off with the blow, but it turned out that the marlin fishing was great, the fish had moved over past San Jose towards Punta Gorda, and they were tailing everywhere. They were being picky eaters, so small dead baits were the ticket.
Some dorado around, but mostly as a by-catch while marlin fishing.
The inshore fishing did go south for a few days, but it is making a heck of a recovery in a hurry. Plenty of roosterfish under 15 lbs. to catch on the fly and light spin tackle. We are seeing the big ones over 40 lbs, but they are still closed mouth and wont take the fly very well. Any day now, and the big fish will start to bite. Then its pure heaven, its what we all dream about.
There is a variety of inshore fish in Cabo right now, and the fishing is good for- Sierra mackerel, Jack Cravelle, Roosterfish, Yellowtail and Cubera & Colorado snappers.
Pictured below is Glenn Kaplan from Larkspur, Colorado with a nice Colorado snapper on the fly. His Captain was Nazario on our catamaran-flying fish two.
Tight Lines,
Grant
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Cabo San Lucas - May 26th, 2008
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
87 °
FISHING: Fair
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportMay 19-25, 2008 WEATHER: This week brought us cooler weather than we have had for a while. Our nights were down in the low 60’s; I saw our thermometer read 61 degrees here at the house one morning. Our daytime highs were in the high 80’s. On Wednesday the wind started to blow, and blow hard, from the northwest, occasionally shifting more from the west. That lasted until Friday morning, and then it became nice again.WATER: Ugly is the term I have to use for our water conditions this past week, I sure hope things improve quickly. On the Pacific side of the Cape we have had the warmest water at 72 degrees, and that has been in a big circulation just to the south of the San Jaime Bank. It got as cold as 58 degrees right next to the beach just above the lighthouse mid-week. With the cold water comes color, and for the most part the water was very green. The current from the Pacific side must have been extra strong this week; the full moon may have had a lot to do with that. Anyway, the cold water from the Pacific started to push up into the Sea of Cortez, causing green/blue banding out as far as 50 miles and up the coast until the Vinorama area off of Punta Gorda. The warm water up there was 72 to 74 degrees. The farther up the coastline you went, the better things became. The wind that kicked in on Wednesday made offshore conditions miserable as well. On Wednesday you could not fish on the Pacific side if you wanted to, and things were not much better on Thursday, to the point that the Port Captain closed the Port until 11 am Thursday.BAIT: Mackerel and Caballito were available at the new price of $3 per bait, and there were Sardinas at the Palmilla area at $25 a scoop.FISHING: BILLFISH: Before the winds and currents moved the fish, the WCBRT, held on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, had the top team release 57 Striped Marlin over the three days. The second place team released 34 and the third place team released 27 fish. These were professional teams fishing on the same boat every day. In comparison, last year the top two boats tied at 33 releases each. During the tournament the fish seemed to be holding just to the east and north of the 1150 spot. When the wind and currents started, the fish moved way up to the north. There were almost no Marlin caught after Tuesday, and at the end of the week boats had to travel 2 ½ hours up the coast to find any fish. The bright spot is that it seems the warm water is moving back in our direction and the fish that are being found are starting to feed again. Hopefully next week things will be better. YELLOWFIN TUNA: Once again the bite on Yellowfin was slow; I saw very few white flags flying from the outriggers this week. The few Tuna flags I did see were for Bonita. I discovered this while looking at the fish carts coming off the docks with fish from the boats flying these flags. I heard of no Yellowfin being found in our area this week.
DORADO: The cold green water moved the Dorado out as well; this week was a bust for them. A couple of fish were caught, but they were found a long distance away, up in the warmer water off of Punta Gorda.
WAHOO: The cold water moved the Wahoo out as well, even up at Punta Gorda the bite was not happening, and normally the full moon and structure there provide decent action. INSHORE: This was the only bright spot at the end of the week for us. On the Pacific side, if you went past the lighthouse you were out of luck, but off of the Pedregal and the arch there were schools (small) of Pargo and groups of Yellowtail For any other inshore action you needed to make the trip up the coast of the Sea of Cortez, and even then, during the middle of the week, it was a long trip home against the swell sand the wind. If you did get up there, the fishing for Roosterfish to 30 pounds, Sierra to 8 pounds, the occasional Amberjack, lots of Jack Crevalle and a few Pacific Barracuda made the trip worthwhile.
NOTES: This was one of the worst fishing weeks I can remember having had in quite a while. Maybe that is the reason for listening to Stevie Ray Vaughn while writing this report; a little blues goes a long way! The bright spot is that it appears that the warm water is moving back our way! Until next week, tight lines!
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