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Cabo San Lucas - March 27th, 2008
supplied by: Baja Anglers
RECORDED: 
80 °
FISHING: Excellent
Hi Folks,
You can’t beat the weather in Cabo right now, it’s perfect!
Sunny, and around 80 degrees, with little wind at all. The seas are calm and water temperatures are in the high 60s in the Pacific and low 70s on the Sea of Cortez side.
Offshore;
It’s nice to see a return of the marlin. Plenty of fish all along the corridor, 5 to 15 miles out. They are hitting lures as well as live baits.
Ask Joe Barrta from Santa Rosa, Ca. He was fishing with our Capt. Arturo yesterday and landed and released a nice striped marlin on the fly.
The yellowfin tuna are 20 to 30 miles offshore, most of the fish are footballs under 20#, but there are a few really nice fish over 100# out there. Find the porpoise and you will find the tuna. Louie Bevlaqua from Long Island, New York landed a nice 120# yellowfin tuna on light tackle. They were fishing with Arturo and catching footballs, when Arturo decided to drop bait down deep. The rest is history. Go going Arturo!
A few Dorado out with the tuna, but not much to write home about.
We have had an invasion of giant Humboldt squid. The squid are located close to shore (no more than ½ mile out). Dropping Yo-Yo’s is the trick! This is right out of National Geographic. These squid are 5 to 6 feet long! Hook one and the school follows it to the top. The beaks look like big parrot beaks and could easily take your finger right off. Some of you must have seen the program a few years ago, where the giant Humboldt’s were taking divers at night in the Sea of Cortez. We’ll in the show, this one fellow puts on ceramic football gear and helmet and jumps over the side. The squid came up from the deep and were attacking him. Proved without a doubt, that we are part of their diet, and its dangerous to swim at night in the Sea of Cortez. You never know what lurking underneath you. Very cool!
Well we won this time. We had Solomon’s landing deep fry the squid and pan fry the yellowtail and boy were they delicious.
The inshore action has been a lot of fun this last week. We are catching yellow tail, roosterfish, sierra mackerel, and jacks on both fly and light spinning gear.
One high note was Mark Ormiston’s day. Mark was fishing with his buddy David Cole They had a grat day on the water and caught 9 roosterfish on the fly. What a day!
A few days ago, I fished Mike Granbois with his two sons Ted and Luke. Mike is from York, Pennsylvania and has fished with me for the last 4 years.
We had a lot of fun fishing with his boys and they landed over 10 yellowtail on light spinning rods. Then they caught a few giant squid. After some tough battles we headed inshore to catch roosterfish and sierra mackerel. A great day on the water! Those boys will remember that day for the rest of their lives.
Pictured below are Mike, Ted and Luke with Capt. Nazario on flying fish 2. That’s a big Humboldt squid. We were fishing right out in front of the lighthouse.
Tight Lines,
Grant
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Cabo San Lucas - March 24th, 2008
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
86 °
FISHING: Great
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportMarch 17-23, 2008 WEATHER: The weather has been going back and forth from cool to warm and it seems to change about every 5 days or so. This past week it was cool at the beginning and warm toward the end. At the end of the week our nighttime lows were in the mid 60’s and our daytime highs reached 91. Earlier in the week everything was 10 degrees cooler and there was wind and partly cloudy skies. Thankfully, the wind died down to nothing on Thursday and there were just light breezes over the Easter weekend.WATER: Water conditions remained less than perfect on the Pacific side at the beginning of the week with strong winds from the northwest pushing up swells to 6 feet with lots of whitecaps on top. Also during that time frame the Cortez side was rougher than is normal with winds from the North not really pushing up swells but bringing on a lot of chop. At the end of the week things had really settled down, the wind quit blowing on Thursday and the swells relented on the Pacific side, becoming 2-3 feet with no chop, and conditions almost glassy on the Cortez side. On Sunday afternoon the wind again started to pick up from the Northwest and the Pacific side started to kick up a bit. Water temperatures were much warmer due south of the Cape much of the week with a band of warm water out past the 25 mile line, wandering between there and 30 miles out. This water was in the 70-70.5 degree range and was pretty clean and blue. I made a run out to the southern side of San Jaime on Friday and while I read mostly 68 degrees to the south, as soon as I approached within 5 miles the water dropped to 64 degrees and turned very green. I overheard other Captains mention that the water out past the 95 spot was also cool, but a bit cleaner, but with no fish to be found.BAIT: Mackerel was easily available at the usual $2 per bait and there were also Caballito at the same price. FISHING: BILLFISH: There were very few Marlin caught this week and the ones that were caught were found due south, in the warmer water among the Dolphin, I think the hook-up ratio was probably in the 10% range once again. Just as happened the week before, there were a few Swordfish sighted and fished for, but I did not hear of any coming in to the dock. YELLOWFIN TUNA: Once again the football size fish were found anywhere from 170 degrees to 220 degrees off of the cape. The distance varied from 32 miles to 38 miles, but very few fish were found any closer than that. All of the fish were associated with the white-bellied Dolphin; if you found a pod of them the chances were good that there were fish with them. The average size was 12 pounds with a few fish going to 20 pounds and a few in the 8-pound range. Best lures were cedar plugs and dark colored feathers. Multiple hook-ups were not uncommon and most boats later in the week were able to catch as many as they wanted. I heard of one boat that got into fish just a little bit bigger at a reported 25-pound average while fishing a bit farther east, just to the south of the Cabrilla Seamount, but there was no confirmation on that. The full moon we are going through right now may be helping our tuna catch.
DORADO: Once again there were a few Dorado caught, but most of them were very small. A few boats reported finding patches of kelp while looking for Tuna, and some to these patches held Dorado and small Yellowfin as well as a few Yellowtail.
WAHOO: Wahoo are in the same category this week as Dorado, with the red flags seen flying but I believe they were all for Sierra! INSHORE: The bite on small Yellowtail continued this week with many more of them being taken off of the lighthouse on the Pacific side. A surprise for most anglers was the chance to get bit by large Humboldt squid. The squid were concentrated off of the arch, right in front of town, and on Friday they had moved even closer, with boats fishing for them within 200 yards of the Marina entrance. Sierra continue to provide action for those fishing just outside the breakers on both sides of the Cape, but the action seemed better on the Pacific side.
NOTES: It’s a long run out to the Tuna, and they are not big fish, but at least there is action in that area, plus the chance to come across a Marlin or Swordfish as well as a patch of kelp. The Tuna have been keeping anglers happy and with the Humboldt squid right in front there is no reason for anyone to have gone home empty handed later in the week. The Whales are slowly moving back to the north, we saw only three of them on Friday. If the water warms up a bit things should start to take off, our fingers are crossed for better action in the future. My golf game is better; I am consistently scoring below 100 now with no mulligans. Maybe by the time I’m 90 I will break 90! Until next week, Tight Lines!
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Cabo San Lucas - March 18th, 2008
supplied by: Baja Anglers
RECORDED:
80 °
FISHING: Excellent
Hi Folks,
I had a few hours and put out a few videos.
The first is Mark Madoff. Mark is the new owner of Abel reels. we had a lot of fun catching sierra on the fly. Check it out at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9C4Guf4m48&feature=related
The first is with Robert Tomes. Robert caught a really nice Colorado snapper on the fly. Everyone thinks that we dredge the fly for the snapper, but actually it's a sight fishery, and a lot of fun. You can watch it at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gl5Jt1wIqk
The second is with John and Gina Hass. It's titled " This isnt Sea World" Both Gisel and I joined them on their trip and we had a lot of fun. All of us fed the Sea Lion by mouth and Gina had gun feeding the Pelicans. I had left my video camera at home, so we took it with a Olympus digital camera that has a video mode. This film is a lot of fun! watch it at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJNaNaqudhU&feature=related
Hope you enjoy them, they were a lot of fun!
Tight Lines,
Grant
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Cabo San Lucas - March 17th, 2008
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED: 
84 °
FISHING: Good
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportMarch 10-16, 2008 WEATHER: While the week started off great, with the daytime highs to the low 90’s and nighttime lows in the mid 60’s, at the end of the week the clouds moved in and the wind picked up. As of the weekend we were having winds from the northwest to 18-20 mph with partly cloudy skies and the average temperatures had dropped by 8-10 degrees. No rain came with the front system, but it definitely cooled things off.WATER: As a result of the winds later in the week, what had been smooth 2-4 foot swells with light breezes on the Pacific side turned into sheep farming by Friday. Everywhere you looked there were whitecaps and swells that had kicked up to 4-6 feet with a few larger ones. Boats that fished south of the Cape early in the week started reporting the wind and swell increase on Tuesday and by Thursday the effects were right off the Cape. On the Cortez side, things were a bit nicer, especially in the morning before the wind really got to cranking it up. Outside of 10 miles though the effects came into play and you had to deal with the choppy conditions. As a result of the wind and the strong California current there was a band of very cool water, down as low as 59 degrees right at the lighthouse. Almost made me expect Albacore Tuna! On the Pacific side the water remained cool, between 59 and 65 degrees outside the 1,000-fathom line. This cool water extended south a distance of 30 miles while on the eastern side of the Cape it only went north as far as a line east of Cabo out to the 1150 area. Farther north it warmed a bit to the 68-degree range and out to the south of the Seamount there was a warm spot that had been drifting around all week that had water as warm as 71 degrees.BAIT: Mackerel was easily available at the usual $2 per bait and there were also Caballito at the same price. FISHING: BILLFISH: Striped Marlin this week were found either close to shore, within 10 miles on the Pacific side or far out, past 30 miles to the south. While there were fish spotted, there were not many of them that were hungry. Looking at the flags flying as boats returned for the day and talking to the guys who were out there this week, the fish were either going to eat right away or disappear before you could get a bait to them. My guess is that only 10% of the boats had a decent shot at a Striped Marlin this week and about half of them hooked up, with some of these fish lost. From that I guess you can tell that the percentages were pretty low. I did hear rumors of a large Marlin, either Blue or Black, being landed early in the week. This fish was reported to be in the #400 range but I never heard anything more on it. With water this cold it would be surprising to me to have one out there, but you never know. There were a few more Swordfish hooked this past week in the cool, green water to the southwest with the largest reported at #250. These fish were reported to have eaten live Mackerel. YELLOWFIN TUNA: Once again it was mostly football Yellowfin this week. The majority of the fish were found south at 30+ miles early in the week before the wind picked up. Later in the week the fish may have been there still, but it was too rough for most of the boats to get there. As a result of the wind more boats fished on the Cortez side of the Cape and around the warm water sot south of the Seamount there were reports of fish averaging 25 pounds with a few to 50 pounds mixed in with the white bellied dolphin. There were massive pods of these dolphin reported off of the Pacific side in the area of the San Jaime Banks, but with the pods reported to be 3 or 4 miles wide and long, it was difficult to find any fish with them.
DORADO: I did see several Dorado flags early in the week but nothing over this weekend.
WAHOO: Wahoo are in the same category this week as Dorado, with the red flags seen flying but I believe they were all for Sierra! INSHORE: There was a giant school of small Yellowtail found on the Pacific side up at Los Arcos early in the week. Thank goodness the wind kicked up, as there may be some of them that escaped to reproduce. A lot of the Pangas were going out and loading up on them, and these were small fish in the 5-pound range. I hated to see this as for many of the guys there was no reasoning with them, it was a “load up while you can, the hell with the stock’ mentality. There were a lot of the Captains however that limited their clients to only a couple of these for dinner, then took off to look for larger fish. My hat is off to these guys; they care about the future of the fishery here. Also inshore there were scattered Pargo up in the rocks as well as a few larger Yellowtail to 40 pounds just off the bottom in 120 feet of water.
NOTES: I hope the winds die down, but it looks as if it may continue to blow for the next four of five days. Normally this type of wind only lasts three days then we get three days of good weather. It remains to be seen if we will have the same pattern this season. There are still whales around but they are getting ready to return to the north. No music this week, I wrote this report to the sounds of the wind blowing, my dog snoring and one of the cats crying for treats. Until next week, tight lines!
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Cabo San Lucas - March 13th, 2008
supplied by: Baja Anglers
RECORDED:
80 °
FISHING: Excellent
Hi Folks,
The weather in Cabo is perfect with beautiful 80 degree sunny days. I know I am being redundant, stating that every week, it's just that I am reminded on a daily basis when I meet my guests first thing in the morning and they tell me they left 12" of snow, and it's been a long winter.
One guest from Jackson Hole, Wyoming says that Jackson has had 500 inches of snow this year, and cant wait to take off his shoes, walk in the sand and cast a fly.
The fishing has been really good inshore. Just a lot of sierra mackerel, with some roosterfish, jacks, yellowtail, amber-jacks and snappers thrown in. That's mostly on the fly, but a few folks chose to go light spinning and did really well.
Rick Wall from Houston, Texas wanted to try fly fishing. It was Ricks first time ever to hold a fly rod in his hand, and a 10-wt to boot. We went out of the marina and I taught Rick how to cast, strip and fight the fish. Rick was a heck of a fast learner and we had a fantastic day on the water. He ended up catching a ton of sierra mackerel on the fly. Rick is hooked for sure now!
My good friend Dan Driscol from New York took his son Tim out fishing with me the other day. it was Tim's first time out with the fly and he also ended up having a great day with the sierra mackerel. Tim stated- We were catching fish every few minutes or so on the fly, but all the boats in our area were catching nothing. We out fished them 10 to 1.
The offshore fishing continues to be slow. Some football sized fish way offshore and a few marlin around, you would be lucky if you caught one marlin in a days outing. with the slow offshore fishing, most marlin boats are heading inshore to tackle the sierra mackerel with their marlin rods and fighting chairs.
Pictured is Rick Walls first fish on a fly. A t feisty sierra mackerel.
Rick was fishing with me as his guide on one of our Ocean Catamarans "Flying fish 4". Out of Cabo San Lucas.
Tight Lines,
Grant
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Cabo San Lucas - March 10th, 2008
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
85 °
FISHING: Great
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportMarch 3-9, 2008 WEATHER: It was just another great week here in Cabo! I love living here when the weather is like this, the daytime highs in the mid 80’s and the nighttime lows in the high 50’s, it makes me feel good to get up in the morning to a slight chill, and cooking on the grill in the evening is so nice! We had mostly sunny skies this week with no rain seen or felt.WATER: The water on the Pacific side of the Cape has cooled considerably with the near-shore water 64-65 degrees while farther offshore it warms to a toasty 69 degrees. The near shore cooler water is slightly green while offshore there is a nice blue color. On the Cortez side the water across the 95 spot, the 1150 and Gorda Bank has remained at 66 degrees and green. Off shore at a distance of 30-50 miles the water warms up to 72 degrees and is just slightly tinged with green. Our good deep blue water is to the southwest. Everything appears to be moving slowly to the east with a clockwise rotation. The water has remained nice on the surface on both sides of the Cape with swells of 2-3 feet and light winds.BAIT: Mackerel was easily available at the usual $2 per bait and there were also Caballito at the same price. There were Sardinas up around Chileno Bay at $25 a scoop.FISHING: BILLFISH: The Striped Marlin catch remained slow this week for most of the boats but there were fish found. Most of these were tailing or sleeping fish, and only a few were hungry and bit. These fish were in the cooler water close to shore, most of them found off of the points and drops along the Pacific side of the Cape, but there were also a few fish found just outside the Gorda Bank area. There were a few more Swordfish sighted this week but I did not hear of any boated. YELLOWFIN TUNA: This past week was almost a repeat of last week as there were plenty of the football size fish to be found offshore. On the Cortez side, out toward and on the edge of the warm water at 30-50 miles the fish were slightly larger at 15-30 pounds with a few fish pushing 40 pounds. To the south of the Cape and to the south of the San Jaime Bank the fish were footballs for the most part with an occasional fish pushing the 25-pound mark. The best action was had with smaller feathers with squid colors as these fish are just stuffed with 4-5 inch squid. Having all the rods go off at the same time was not unusual, but it did take time to get out there and back.
DORADO: There have been a few fish found this week, but no large numbers like a few boats had the week prior. Most of these fish have been found in the warm water to the south and west and have averaged 15 pounds.
WAHOO: I did not hear of any Wahoo this week but I did see several flags flying along with Tuna and Dorado flags so I assume there were some of them caught offshore.INSHORE: The inshore fishing remained hot this week with large numbers of Sierra and smaller Yellowtail providing plenty of action on both sides of the Cape. Smaller swimming plugs pulled just outside the breaking waves provided lots of action on Sierra to 8 pounds and Yellowtail to 10 pounds. Fishing slow trolled live Mackerel down close to the bottom in 50 feet of water caught fewer, but much larger fish, up to 10 pounds on the Sierra and 35 pounds on the Yellowtail. A few very nice Grouper and Snapper fell to these same methods. Just off the rocky points there was great action on the Bonita to 20 pounds and they bit well on blue-silver irons fished yo-yo style. An occasional big Yellowtail was an added bonus for many anglers. NOTES: Things continue to improve and I am optimistic it will continue. Now, if only my golf game would hit the next level! This weeks report was written to the music of Alison Krauss + Union Station on the 2002 Rounder records release “Live”.
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Cabo San Lucas - March 10th, 2008
supplied by: Baja Anglers
RECORDED:
80 °
FISHING: Excellent
Hi Folks,
You just cant beat Cabo for the weather, it's absolutely perfect with long sunny days and daytime highs around 80 degrees.
The offshore fishing has been really slow for striped marlin and dorado. Count yourself lucky if you get one striped marlin a day with conventional gear. The yellow-fin tuna are 30 miles out. The fish are football sized and can be found under the porpoise.
The inshore fly and spin fishing continues to be really good for sierra mackerel, jack cravelle, roosterfish, and cubera snappers.
Ask Peter Bowers. Peter owner of the Patient angler fly shop in Bend, Oregon caught 15 roosterfish on the fly, plus tons of sierra mackerel on the fly. Peter said it was a awesome day on the water!
Fly fishing writer Robert Tomes from Chicago, Illinois. had another great day on the water, he caught sierra mackerels and then we came across a school of Cubera snappers on top. He made the perfect cast and the snapper took my brown rat fly.
He is pictured below with Capt. Nazario,
Tight Lines,
Grant
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Cabo San Lucas - March 10th, 2008
supplied by: The Patient Angler
RECORDED:
83 °
FISHING: Great
Hey Patient Anglers,
Sorry about not posting any reports lately, but I’ve been down in sunny Cabo San Lucas chasing inshore game fish on the fly and working on my tan.
I went down with a small group from Bend to fish for Roosterfish, Jack Crevalle, Sierra, Yellowtail and any other inshore fish we could find. We had great weather while we were there, with temps in the 80’s, lots of sun and not a lot of wind. Reed Teuscher, who works for me in the shop, came down for the first week to get some experience and training in the art of saltwater fly fishing, as well to take in some of the sights, sounds and sun of the tip of Baja.
We fished with Grant Hartman from Baja Anglers and water conditions were pretty good for us with warm inshore waters, which makes catching fish on the fly more productive. Saltwater fish are more aggressive to teasers and flies when the water temps are up.
On the Pacific side of Baja we found bigger swells and rougher water conditions (which in normal for this time of year), but the fishing was good with large schools of good size Sierra that aggressively came to the fly. We had shots at small schools of Yellowtail, some Jacks and a few Pompano, but the Sierra made up the bulk of our catch on the Pacific side.
We venture over to the East Cape side of Baja in search of the elusive Roosterfish, since we couldn’t find any on the Pacific side. After fishing for an hour or two with no action, and about the time we started to second-guess our decision to fish the East Cape, we found the Roosterfish. They were small in size for the most part, but they were Roosterfish and they were aggressive. Reed & Thu were on the boat that day and both first timers to the Chinese fire drill of catching Roosterfish on the fly. We had a ball taking turns casting to Roosterfish that would chase the teaser to the boat like a pack of dogs chasing the rabbit at a dog track. The action continued all afternoon for us until we were tired from casting, hooking, fighting and landing Roosters on the fly. The growing hunger for fresh Sierra Ceviche and a cold beer helped a little too.
We fished the beach a few days, once on the Pacific side and another day on the East Cape. We did manage to hook a few Sierras from the beach overcoming some larger than normal wave conditions, but still a great way to spend a day…Or A Couple Weeks!
I'll be posting some pictures of the trip over the next couple of days.
Peter Bowers
The Patient Angler patientangler.com
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Cabo San Lucas - March 3rd, 2008
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED: 
85 °
FISHING: Great
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportFeb 25-March 2, 2008 WEATHER: It warmed up a bit this past week with several days where our highs were in the mid to high 80’s. On the cooler days we were in the high 70’s, still just about right. In the evening it cooled off quite a bit and on the cold nights we were seeing temperatures in the mid 60’s with a bit of an evening breeze working that made it feel even cooler. There were partly cloudy skies for the first part of the week but it cleared later on. There was no rain, of course.WATER: I fished both sides of the cape this week, on the Cortez side on Wednesday and the Pacific on Friday and they were surprisingly similar as far as surface conditions went. On the Cortez side the water was cool and green out as far as the 95 spot and the 1150, past that point and out to the Cabrilla Seamount things warmed up to 73.4 degrees and were nice and blue. The only problem we had was the fact that we could not find any fish! The surface was almost glassy with current rips easily seen and the swells slight at 1-2 feet but all we ended up with was seeing some common Pacific Dolphin, a few Humpback Whales and two Striped Marlin on the surface. Oh, we did release on 3-pound Dorado. On the Pacific side on Friday the water within three miles of the coast was a bit bumpy and there was a strong cloud line out 15 miles. We went 31 miles out looking for Tuna and other than the first three miles, the swells were slight at 2-4 feet and the water was glassy, almost summer time like. The water was a slight bit cooler at 71 degrees but we did find football-size Tuna to 25 pounds.BAIT: Mackerel was easily available at the usual $2 per bait and there were also Caballito at the same price. There were Sardinas up around Chileno Bay at $25 a scoop.FISHING: BILLFISH: There was a bit of Striped Marlin action almost every morning for boats the fished the area off of Los Arcos on the Pacific side, but it revolved around the tide change and did not last long on any one day. The lucky boats were getting two releases a day while most others were lucky to get a strike. The nice part of the billfish situation is that the Swordfish are starting to be seen on the surface on a fairly regular basis, and by that I mean regular when compared to normal! Probably one in 15 boats have sighted a Swordfish this week and one boat I know saw three different fish on Tuesday and managed to find one of them hungry, proceeding to catch a Swordfish in the 150-pound class after a fight of 90 minutes. YELLOWFIN TUNA: There are finally Tuna showing up on a regular basis even if they are football size fish. From a distance of 30 to 45 miles at between 150 and 240 degrees from the Arch there have been fish found every day. A few small groups have been found closer but they have not been biting well. On my Friday trip we went 31 miles at 230 degrees to find two separate pods of Dolphin. Both of them held fish with the first pod having fish averaging 20 pounds and the second pod averaging 10 pounds. A triple strike, then the fish in the first pod went down. At the second pod we were covered up with all five lines going off, then a double, then singles for a total of 16 Tuna at the end of the trip with the larges at 25 pounds. A friend of mine found fish at 170 degrees and 45 miles on Wednesday that averaged 25 pounds and picked 16 of them in about an hour before having to return to port
DORADO: The warm water on the Cortez side produced a few Dorado this week but other than one day, Tuesday when a pair of boats found a dead seal and loaded up on 15-pound fish, they have been scarce with just a few fish showing up.
WAHOO: I did hear of one nice Wahoo being caught this week about 35 miles to the south by a boat looking for Tuna. The fish was reported to weigh around 90 pounds. I am sure there were a few others caught, and on Wednesday we had one make a pass at one of our lures, but I had no other confirmed reports of them.INSHORE: The inshore fishing has remained good for Sierra and Yellowtail. Most of the Yellowtail have been caught by boats fishing swimming plugs for Sierra and these fish have been small, but boats willing to do the work and drift live baits deep off of the rocky points or use iron jigs to “yo-yo” have been getting a few nice fish of up to 30 pounds. The Grouper have started to bite a little better and there are still a few snapper being found in the rocks. NOTES: Things are starting to look up on the fishing front here in Cabo as we are starting to see some Tuna showing up and the inshore fishing remains good. Our fingers are crossed that things continue to remain on a positive track. My golf game is improving as well; I am now consistently getting under 100 strokes! This weeks report has been written to the music of the Gypsy Kings on the 1995 Nonsuch Records release “The Best Of The Gypsy Kings”.
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Cabo San Lucas - February 25th, 2008
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
84 °
FISHING: Good
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportFeb 18-24, 2008 WEATHER: We had a few clouds in the sky this week, but not enough to call it cloudy, just enough to make things cool. Our daytime highs were in the low 80’s and the nighttime lows were in the high 50’s. Light winds on shore kept things nice and comfortable while at sea on the Pacific side things were a little bumpy as the winds were from the northwest and kicked up a light chop.WATER: The wind died down this week so surface conditions were much better on both the Pacific and the Cortez sides of the Cape. On the Pacific swells were 3-5 feet with a light chop while the Cortez had swells at 1-3 feet with almost no chop in the morning and offshore chop in the afternoons. Water temperatures on the Pacific side were warmer, almost averaging 68 degrees up to 10 miles offshore and out a bit farther it dropped to 67 degrees. The water close to shore, in the warmer area, was very green, almost brown in some areas. On the Cortez side of the Cape the water was 64-65 degrees out to 4 miles from the shore and farther than that, across the Gorda Bank and the 1150 spot the water warmed up to 69 degrees. There is a plume of cool, off-colored water running south from the Cape, but the water out 5 miles to the south side of the 1,000-fathom line warmed to 71 degrees. While the warm water was on both sides of the Cape, the only really blue water was on the Pacific side out past the San Jaime Bank.BAIT: Mackerel was easily available at the usual $2 per bait and there were also Caballito at the same price. There were Sardinas up around Chileno Bay at $25 a scoop.FISHING: BILLFISH: About the only thing I have to say for the past weeks bill fishing is that it was almost non-existent. Not that there weren’t people out trying, it’s just that the few fish that were found were not interested in eating. The full moon may have had something to do with it perhaps, it’s been know to have an effect, but it’s not really an explanation of why the fish have mostly disappeared. Perhaps the much cooler than normal water has something to do with it as well? One bright spot is that the green, cool water has brought about more sightings of Swordfish, but I have not heard of anyone actually hooking one up in a legal sort of way, but a few guys did hook fish by snagging them, then proceeded to loose them after several hours of fighting time. These Swordfish have been seen in the cool water plume running directly south from the Cape. YELLOWFIN TUNA: No change this week from last week on the Tuna situation. There are still only football fish being found out there, and most of them have been between 18 to 30 miles to the south. Boats working westward past the banks were not doing well with only an occasional pod of porpoise showing, and few of them holding fish. Once again red hootchies were the best bet for these fish as most of the stomach contents were found to be red crab.
DORADO: I did not hear of any Dorado being caught this week, and saw no new yellow flags flying. I am sure there were a few, but no reports were heard by me.
WAHOO: Once again I didn’t hear of any Wahoo this week. The flags you see flying are for “Mexican Wahoo”, or better known as sierra.INSHORE: Just like last week, with the exception of more small Yellowtail being caught by guys pulling small swimming plugs for Sierra. Mexican Wahoo, also known as Sierra, have been the mainstay of the Panga fleet this week with most boats able to get at least a half-dozen or more. Yellowtail action dropped off again, it seems to be a “good one week, slow the next” type of fishery. Snapper fishing has again improved and there are a few more grouper being found by those targeting bottom fish. The usual smaller Roosterfish to 5 pounds, some small barracuda and Bonita have rounded out the catches inshore. NOTES: Well, the nice weather continued for this past week as we had hoped, but the fishing has been very “off”, compared to the usual activity we get this time of year. The best bet has been fishing inshore; a lot of trips have been saved by targeting Sierra after six hours of looking for Marlin and Tuna. Fishing inshore also gets you up close to the whales, and that is always a lot of fun. This weeks report was written to the music of Boz Scaggs on his 1994 Virgin Records release, “Some Changes”. Until next week, Tight Lines!
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