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Cabo San Lucas - November 10th, 2007
supplied by: Baja Anglers
RECORDED: 
90 °
FISHING: Excellent
Hi Folks, I am going to keep this weekly report short, I have been on the water daily, and to be truthful, I am worn out a bit. One thing for sure, I am not too pooped to fish, especially with all the great marlin action we have.
If you want to check out the video action this week, go to: The Colorado Boys http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOWJhoYDT1w And my Sea Lion friend is back, and we took a small video of me feeding him by mouth. Go to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94STBfU9C9E
Offshore:
Lots of marlin, actually it’s as good as it gets. The fish are still at the golden gate banks.
Bait fishing is too easy right now, it’s not unusual to catch over 10 marlin in a day’s using heavy gear fishing.
It’s much more fun with the fly and spin gear, you wont catch as many fish, but the action is right behind the boat, with a great visual take and hook-set. Our tackle is the right size gear for the fish, most boats use blue marlin tackle, they are basically just hauling in the fish in a fighting chair.
The Dorado fishing has slowed down some, still plenty around, but most of our days are spent chasing marlin right now, if a Dorado shows up, were game.
Smaller fun football-sized Yellowfin tuna at the Gordo Banks and more off the light house point under the porpoise. Bigger fish way offshore outside of Jamie banks.
The Black Skipjack (false albacore) are a lot of fun right now, you can catch a ton using clousers and chumming sardines off the Gordo banks.
Inshore:
Smaller Jacks and Roosterfish cruising the Pacific beaches chasing bait. On some days, the action is pretty good, on others, it’s just okay.
Expect the inshore fishing to pick up any days now, late fall and early winter is prime inshore fishing for jack Cravelle’s, small to medium roosterfish, cubera snappers and sierra mackerel.
Tight Lines,
Grant
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Cabo San Lucas - November 5th, 2007
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
90 °
FISHING: Excellent
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportOctober 29-Nov. 4, 2007 WEATHER: Our weather remained beautiful this past week as the daytime highs were in the low 90’s and high 80’s while the nighttime lows were in the low 70’s. At the end of the week we had some wind that made the weather perfect, but chopped up the Pacific side as the wind was from the northwest.WATER: Water temperatures were from 80-83 degrees pretty much anywhere you went at the end of the week. On the Pacific side this meant out to the San Jaime and on the Cortez side it meant up to the Inman Bank area and out to the Seamount. On the Cortez side this warm water was slightly off-color but better color was found on the Pacific. As the week came to a close the wind picked up from the northwest and the Pacific side became pretty choppy with conditions that were uncomfortable for a lot of folks, seas at 4-6 feet with 15 knots of wind.BAIT: Larger baits were a pretty even mix of Caballito and Mackerel at the normal $2 per bait and there were plenty of Sardinas available as well both in Cabo and up in San Jose at $20 a scoop. If you wanted to catch your own bait there were plenty of Mackerel to be found just in front of the lighthouse on the Pacific side in 100 feet of water.FISHING: BILLFISH: There were still Blue Marlin to be had this past week but the big news was the continued Striped Marlin bite. The Golden Gate bank turned back on as the Mackerel moved back on top and boats concentrating their efforts were rewarded with 5-8 releases a day. Drifting or slow trolling live Mackerel worked, as did soaking live bait deep with 8 ounce torpedo sinkers. With the bait pushed up to the surface, running in on the Frigate birds as the suddenly swooped down resulted in a large number of hook-ups as well, but brought some tempers flaring as the speeding boats cut through the crowds drifting. While the action was good there, the beginning of the week brought us reports of wide-open action from the Finger Banks. There were reports of 30-50 fish days but unfortunately (for the fishermen) the winds kicked in and few boats were making the trip due to rough conditions at the end of the week. I hope to get a chance to try it out this coming week as I will be fishing every day, and will head up there if the conditions permit. YELLOWFIN TUNA: There were no reports of large Tuna that I heard of this week, but the action on football fish was wide open at the inner Gorda and the Inman Banks during the middle of the week. Chumming with Sardinas and then fly lining live Sardinas on light line had fish coolers being filled during the middle of the week. I was a day late getting in on the bite and when I did get there on Friday it was almost all Green Jacks and Skipjack. That was still fun on light tackle but not what we were looking for. On the way back home we came across a large pod of porpoise that held a lot of fish and ended up getting a dozen of the footballs for the anglers. There were reports of school-sized fish to 35 pounds along the western edge of the San Jaime banks, but the water conditions resulted in few boats trying for them.
DORADO: Early in the week the Dorado bite was wide open on the Pacific side, close to the beach in less than 200 feet on water, past the Golden Gate bank. A dozen or more fish per trip was easy and early in the week the water was great. As things became rough fewer boats were making it up there and closer to home the bite was not quite as good. Boats were still able to get Dorado but it was more on the 2-5 fish per boat level. There were some nice Dorado in the 40-pound class found on the Cortez side of the cape out 4-6 miles off the beach and they seemed to prefer bright colored lures in slightly larger sizes than normal.
WAHOO: My deckhand and I farmed a Wahoo this week, one about 25 pounds and we heard of quite a few other boats getting fish of the same size up in the area where the Dorado were found. Of course there were a lot of bite-offs as well but it did seem that about 10% of the boats managed to hang onto one. As usual, dark colored lures seemed to work better.INSHORE: The football size Yellowfin Tuna were the target of most of the Pangas this week, but there were still plenty of Roosterfish to be found on both sides of the Cape. At the end of the week most of the Pangas were fishing on the Cortez side due to the wind. Notes: I am going to be busy fishing this coming week so will have more first-hand experiences for next weeks report. Until then, tight lines!
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Cabo San Lucas - November 4th, 2007
supplied by: Baja Anglers
RECORDED:
92 °
FISHING: Excellent
Hi Folks,
What a fun week we have had here in Cabo! The weather is perfect, the ocean has been flat, and is the fishing has been great. Who says you can’t have it all.
Offshore:
The striped marlin fishing has been really good, I mean really good. The fish are located at Golden Gate banks. The best way to catch them is to drop a live mackerel down about 100’ and wait for the bite, for me that’s okay, but I prefer to catch a few less fish, and fish the fun way, by trolling the fish up, then teasing them in to the boat. We then use drop backs, weather they are dead baits or teasers for fly fishing, it’s a lot more fun that way. It was not unusual for the bait boys fishing deep to catch 5 or more marlin in a day.
The Finger banks are starting to crank up again. It’s got a good wahoo, marlin and Dorado bite. The place is just good fishing in the fall, too bad it’s such a long haul out there. Most charters will take you out to the fingers, but will charge you a surcharge for the extra gas and wear and tear on the boat and motors.
The Dorado fishing slacked off a little this week, we are still catching plenty of fish, but not in the crazy numbers we were just a few weeks ago. The size has dropped also, but there are still some really nice sized bulls out there. Most fish are running form 7lbs. to 20 lbs.
Inshore:
Now, let’s get excited! Jean Moustirats caught a 50# roosterfish on a bass sized bass spinning rod and reel using 12 # test line. He was fishing with our Capt. Nazario.
It’s a great unexpected fall catch. These big roosterfish are common in May and June, but to catch a big one in November is something to remember.
The good news is we have some schools of fun sized roosterfish on the Pacific side. There are plenty of roosterfish under 10 lbs. and even a few of the fish going over15 lbs. We targeted them one day last week, and we had shots all day. It is a treat to see the roosterfish this early! Jack Cravelle are running our beaches again and we have caught them over 20 lbs. on the fly, they are also mixed in with the roosterfish.
Ladyfish are just about anywhere you cast the fly, one of the best bets is shore fishing in front of the Villas del Palmar hotel in Cabo. Be there at daybreak with chartreuse clousers. It’s a lot of fun!
I made another fun short video of Christophe and his brother in law Lance catching dorado on the fly. It was Lance’s first time saltwater fly fishing. Check out the fun at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CjajchBqpI
Tight Lines,
Grant
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Cabo San Lucas - October 29th, 2007
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
90 °
FISHING: Excellent
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportOctober 22-28, 2007 WEATHER: This morning when I got up to go to the golf course it was 72 degrees here at the house and 69 degrees at the course. When I got in the truck to leave the course at 11 am it was 98 degrees. I guess that can give you an idea of the weather this week, huh? No rain, clear skies and at the end of the week there was almost no wind.WATER: The Sea of Cortez was showing a pretty even 85 degrees anywhere within range of a day trip and the surface conditions were excellent at the end of the week. At the beginning of the week the wind was from the north and it was pretty choppy on the outside. The wind and a 2-knot current brought green water to the inside through the middle of the week, conditions improved at the end of the week. On the Pacific side the warm water had pushed well past the San Jaime Bank and across the Golden Gate bank. From the inside of the Golden Gate and up the coast out a distance of about three miles the water remained in the 84-degree range. The only true bleu water I saw this week was outside the 1150 on the Cortez side, elsewhere it was a slightly off color blue.BAIT: You could get Caballito this week for $2 per bait but by far the quickest selling bait was Sardinas. They were bringing a premium price as all the boats wanted several scoops to use for catching tuna, in turn using the tuna as bait for Marlin during the Bisbee Black and Blue tournament. Because of this, locally the Sardinas were going for about the equivalent of $50 per big scoop, compared to $25 per decent scoop. Boats willing to make the 30-minute run toward San Jose got a better price and better-conditioned bait, a good scoop for $25.FISHING: BILLFISH: Results form the Bisbee Black and Blue tournament told the true tale this week. With 167 boats fishing for three days there were 6 fish over #300 weighed, the largest of them was #620 and was reported to have been caught out toward the Cabrillo Seamount on the Cortez side of the Cape. Most of the reports called in over the radio were of fish caught either in front of the Cape or over on the Pacific side. I believe that the green colored water close to shore on the Cortez side had a lot of boats fishing the Pacific instead. On the first day all the qualifying fish were reported to have been caught on the Pacific side close to shore. There were plenty of Striped Marlin on the Golden Gate bank for the first two days of the tournament and then the fish closed their mouths and moved on. YELLOWFIN TUNA: With most of the boats this week focusing on Marlin there were only a few looking for Yellowfin Tuna offshore. There were plenty of small fish, football size caught by boats making bait up on the Pacific side close to shore inside the Golden Gate Bank. The last day of the tournament had a couple of boats reporting hook-up on unidentified fish that ended up being large Yellowfin. These fish were either blind strikes or found with a few black porpoise and were found around the 95 spot, just 8 miles from Cabo.
DORADO: Once again almost all the Dorado action was found on the Pacific side, and the farther north you went the better the bite was. Charters working the inside were getting four to 14 fish per trip and the size averaged 15 pounds with a few fish in the 40+ range being caught as well. Boats working live bait deep found a few nice fish as well on the Cortez side up around the Punta Gorda area, but it was very scattered and there was no consistency to the catch in that area.
WAHOO: I was surprised that there was not more Wahoo reported this week as we just went through the full moon phase, but I only heard a few calls on the radio. With so many boats working close to shore on the Pacific side it just goes to show that there were not that many of these tasty fish around.INSHORE: A repeat of last week. The inshore Roosterfish bite started up again with most of the fish in the small range at 5-10 pounds but almost everyone that targeted the Roosters were able to release at least one or two in the 30 pound class. Dorado were plentiful just a bit farther off the beach and an average catch consisted of four or five per Panga. Plenty of Bonita and Skipjack with a few football Yellowfin rounded out the inshore fishery. Notes: The tournaments are over for the month and there is only one more to go. The Tuna tournament is the most fun of the bunch and is in November so we get a short rest. With a couple of weeks with no practice my golf game is really bad. My wife won a free ride at the ”Baja Wide Open” and gave them to my buddy and I. This is an off-road course where you drive a “Baja Buggy”, doing jumps and taking some great s-turns and hairpin turns on a sand track, over hills and down arroyos. It was such a blast! But now my back hurts a bit and that is my excuse for the bad golf game today! If you are interested in the results of the Bisbee Black and Blue tournament go to www.bisbees.com. Until next week, tight lines!
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Cabo San Lucas - October 27th, 2007
supplied by: Baja Anglers
RECORDED:
95 °
FISHING: Excellent
Hi Folks,
What a great week in Cabo, the weather has been perfect, with sunny days and cool Pacific breezes, and the fishing continues to be very good, actually this is the most consistent fishing I have seen it in years!
Just ask Scott Grazka and Mike Barton from Springfield, Mass.
Scott and Mike had a fun day chasing Dorado. Both caught their first Dorado on the fly and ended the day with over 15 Dorado’s landed on the fly. You can check out their day at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGbnyv8uzgA
Offshore:
The offshore fishing has been really good over the last week.
Decent Blue and Black Marlin bite right now. Most of the fish are being taken on live tunas over the banks. Some boats have done well on Lures with Petrolero and Gacamaya colors doing best. Most fish are under 250 lbs, but there have been some nice fish over 600 lbs. being taken on the tournaments.
Great Dorado bite going on and it’s been a lot of fun. The fish are mostly up on the Pacific side. The Dorado are running anywhere from 10lbs. to 40 lbs. Just find some debris, and you will find the fish.
The striped marlin fishing is still good, but the fish are holding deep off the Golden gate banks. They aren’t too difficult to catch, just drop a mackerel down a 100’ or so is the ticket. The striped marlin on the fly is good one day, can’t find a fish the next day.
The YF Tuna fishing is good on light tackle, but kinda slow on the fly. The fish are running anywhere from 10 lb. footballs to 50lbs. or more. Live sardines are the best bet, but you can catch a few by throwing a cedar plug into your marlin spread.
Not too many wahoo around, just a few as by-catch while fishing for Dorado or marlin.
Inshore:
Not too much happening yet, but we do have decent bite of smaller roosterfish and jack cravelle. Some schools of lady fish have been fun on light rods.
Tight Lines,
Grant
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Cabo San Lucas - October 22nd, 2007
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
90 °
FISHING: Excellent
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportOctober 15-21, 2007 WEATHER: Our weather this past week was just what we were expecting for this time of year. It seems that on the 15th of October every year (or really close to that date) Mother Nature throws the switch that cools up down. Our daytime highs averaged 86 degrees while the nighttime lows were in the low 70’s. I think that is about as good as you can get. We had sunny days with a light overcast in the middle of the week. Winds were from the north and the northwest at an average of 10 knots. Up the coast on the Cortez side past Punta Gorda it was a bit brisker at about 20 knots from the north. We are keeping our eye on Tropical Storm Kiko, hoping it is downgraded and turns to the west.WATER: We were in great shape for most of the week on the Cortez side with small swells and light breezes until you got past Punta Gorda. Up there the wind kicked in and it got a little choppy. On the Pacific side the wind was not too bad early in the week, it was a bit bouncy up until Wednesday, and then everything mellowed out. There were still some good size chopped swells as a result of shore reflection along the points, but farther offshore and to the north things were very nice. On the Cortez side of the Cape the temperature was a very even 85 degrees on the surface. On the Pacific side at the end of the week that warm water had finally extended out to the San Jaime Bank. For 10 miles or so to the west of the San Jaime, extending up the coastline across the Golden Gate Bank and approximately 5 miles off the beach all the way up past Todo Santos there was a band of water in the 82-85 degree range.BAIT: As far as buying from the bait boats the most common bait was Caballito. A few boats had Mackerel but they were easier to catch yourself than buy if you were in the right place. The big baits were averaging $2 per bait. There were also Sardinas around, both here in Cabo and up to the north outside San Joes. They were priced at $25 per scoop.FISHING: BILLFISH: With the Los Cabos Billfish Tournament held this week it was easy to find what was happening on the billfish front, and on all the rest of the species as well. There was a #560 Blue Marlin and others of #400, #360 and #330 weighed in and a Striped Marlin of #202. The first day of the tournament had 36 released billfish, the second had 42 releases and I am not sure how many were released the third day, but it was more. The top three release boats were all in the double-digit range. Most of the Blue Marlin action was found around the 95 spot and farther up the Sea of Cortez but there were a few found on the Pacific side close to shore in that warm water band. The majority of the Striped Marlin reported were on the Pacific side with Golden Gate Bank being the hot spot. YELLOWFIN TUNA: Once again there was spotty action on Yellowfin Tuna of any size. Football fish were found close to shore by tournament boats making live bait just off of Gray Rock as well as up off of the Inman Bank. These fish were chummed up using Sardinas. A few slightly larger fish were found among Porpoise on the Pacific side of the Cape and the tournament had the two largest Tuna weighed in at just under #100 for the largest and #70 for second largest. I am not sure if these fish were found with Porpoise or were caught while soaking live bait.
DORADO: The best Dorado action was on the Pacific side along the current-temperature break. There were some pieces of wood found that held fish and a few boats really enjoyed great action off of them. I passed up one such spot because there were already 15 boats working it, but returning later in the day we were still able to get 6 nice fish there. Even without the wood, fishing for Dorado within 4 miles of the coast was good, at least up until the end of the week, then things dropped off a bit. Largest fish of the Tournament at the end of day two was just under #40.
WAHOO: Quite a few Wahoo were caught this week and the average size was about 25 pounds. Close to shore along the current line on the Pacific and on the flats edge up at Punta Gorda were the best spots. Dark lures and of course the usual Marauders and Rapallas worked great on these speedsters. Largest fish of the Tournament was just under #60.INSHORE: A repeat of last week. The inshore Roosterfish bite started up again with most of the fish in the small range at 5-10 pounds but almost everyone that targeted the Roosters were able to release at least one or two in the 30 pound class. Dorado were plentiful just a bit farther off the beach and an average catch consisted of four or five per Panga. Plenty of Bonita and Skipjack with a few football Yellowfin rounded out the inshore fishery. Notes: Tournament time again and I am busy. Bisbee’s Black and Blue is this coming week. I’ll let you know how much we won next week! Until then, tight lines!
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Cabo San Lucas - October 21st, 2007
supplied by: Baja Anglers
RECORDED:
91 °
FISHING: Excellent
Hi Folks,
You can feel a change in the temperature this week, as Cabo has cooled off 5 to10 degrees. The fall fishing season has just started and if the fishing continues to rock, it looks like it’s going to be a banger time.
This is my first year in 12 years that I am not fishing the Bisbee’s and the other major marlin tournaments.
I wanted to skip this year, a sabbatical of sorts. In past years, when the tournament season comes, I pre fished the events for two weeks, everyday for at least 12 hours a day, plus another 3 to 4 hours of rigging and cleaning every night. Then I would fish the two weeks of tournaments, back to back. My wife and kids wouldn’t see me much, and my guests wouldn’t see me at all. After the Tournaments, I would be fishing my guests again, but would be a bit exhausted for the next week or so. Also at 45 years old, I am not as spry as I was just a few years ago. I am compensated nicely for my time at $400 day plus 25% of the winnings without any funds on my part. It’s a sweet deal and I have fished with the same fisherman for over 10 years. I used to look forward to the daily wages and the chance to hit it big, but now that I am in Real Estate, it’s not such a big deal anymore.
The Los Cabos billfish tournament has come and gone, and my friends all fished it. I heard it was a lot of fun with a nice 500 pound plus Blue marlin brought into the docks. I didn’t seem to miss the action that much. I am sure I will miss the competition a little, for those that know me, know that I like to win on the water. Well there is always next year.
I know I am being a bit redundant, when I say week after week, “Wow! I can’t believe how good the fishing has been!” This last week was very good fishing for striped marlin, Dorado, yellowfin tuna, black skipjack, and both blue and black marlin. Just ask Ray Searles and Roger Flattum from Newark, Delaware. Both Ray and Roger landed their first dorado on the fly on their first day fly fishing in the ocean, then on day two, they caught a nice roosterfish about 12 lbs. and some football YFT on light spinning. At the end of the day Ray caught a nice 120# striped marlin on Medium spinning tackle. They had a lot of fun; I made a small film, check it out at You Tube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6XdYaL4dE0 Just a note: We did have one slow day this week, which kind of threw me off balance, but the next day the fishing picked back up and it was go-go go all over again.
Offshore:
The striped marlin fishing is still very good, with plenty of fish around, especially in the Los Arcos area. The fish are boiling on green Sardines. It’s a lot of fun to see marlin crashing baits on the surface. We are starting to see tailing marlin again, which is really nice as we haven’t seen the fish tailing on top in months. The fish are running anywhere from 90 lbs to 140 lbs.
The blue and black marlin fishing is just offshore of Cabo. Some fish are less than a mile out. We had a 500 pound fish come and take our skirts off one of our teasers only a few miles offshore. Live football sized tunas are the best bet, but lures are also taking some nice fish.
The Dorado are still out on the Pacific side of the Cape and they have been a lot of fun on both fly and spinning tackle. The fish have been mostly under 20 pounds but a few have gone over 40 pounds.
Lots of YF Tuna. Live sardines are the best bet. Fish are located anywhere from Cabo to the Iman bank off San Jose. Mostly footballs, but there are some really big fish over 100 pounds being taken. You can also catch them as a by-catch on lures while trolling for marlin.
Some Wahoo have moved into the area, if you are a savvy angler, you can target them with live Chili-Willies before light at the Gordo banks, otherwise you might pick one up by chance while trolling for marlin and Dorado.
Inshore:
We are starting to see some action on roosterfish. The season has just started and there aren’t too many fish around yet, but everyday will get a little better. Around Mid November is when we start to see the roosterfish action really pick up.
Not too much happening, other than a few jacks and sierra around.
Tight Lines,
Grant
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Cabo San Lucas - October 15th, 2007
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
90 °
FISHING: Excellent
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportOctober 8-14, 2007 WEATHER: Nights have been a very comfortable mid 70’s for most of the week with a few evenings seeing a drop of a few degrees more. Our daytime highs have been in the mid to high 80’s. Winds have been out of the northwest for most of the week with a one day shift on Saturday when the came from the east. Wind speeds have been in the 10-knot range in the mid afternoon. No rain for the week, and if things hold as true as some folks say, tomorrow we should see the annual October 15 temperature drop. Long time residents say that every October 15 the average daytime temperature drops 5 degrees, almost like clockwork. Hmm…WATER: Surface conditions on the Pacific side of the Cape were choppy early in the week and later on they quieted down a bit. Early in the mornings the water was rough up to the Cristobal area and then it smoothed out, later in the day the winds picked up a bit and it became choppy all the way up the line. As the week drew to a close things smoothed out and while there were still whitecaps, they were farther apart and pretty much confined to the current lines. Speaking of current lines, we had a fairly well defined break this week, all week long. It ran on both side of the Cape from five miles offshore from San Jose to Cabo on the Cortez side of the Cape and from just to the north of the Golden Gate to Cabo on the Pacific side. Inside the five-mile area and extending in a swath 10 miles wide from the tip of the Cape to at least 60 miles to the southwest the water was a very even 85 degrees. Outside this swath on the Pacific side the temperature dropped to 81-82 degrees and was quite a bit bluer and on the Cortez side it dropped to 83 degrees with about the same clarity.BAIT: There was some Mackerel available this week but they were not lasting long in the bait tanks. Most of the boats were getting Caballito and both baits were the normal $2 per bait. There were Sardinas available as well at the normal $20 per scoop.FISHING: BILLFISH: This week was a total repeat of last weeks report; things did not change at all on the billfish front. Late in the week there was a good bite on Blue and Striped Marlin at the Gorda Banks, there were tailing Stripers to be found on the 95 Spot and there were Sailfish 6 miles off of the Arch. Billfish were scattered all over the place but the bottom structure seemed to be the place to find them this week. While I did not go there myself, I heard reports of a very good Striped Marlin bite up at the Finger Bank early in the week with many boats getting double digit numbers of fish released. Our best lure color this week was Bleeding Mackerel for the Sailfish and Striped Marlin and Purple-Blue-Silver for the Blue and Black Marlin. YELLOWFIN TUNA: There were no large Tuna reported this week but there were schools of footballs scattered from the Cabrilla Seamount on the Cortez side to the area just to the north of the Golden Gate Bank on the Pacific side. All these fish were associated with porpoise and were averaging 15 pounds. A few larger fish in the 50-pound class were caught but there were not many of them.
DORADO: Once again there were Dorado scattered just about everywhere but the best concentrations were on the Pacific side 3 miles off the beach inside the Golden Gate Bank and north of there. In the middle of the week there was a log and an uprooted tree found to the inside of the Bank, and they were about five miles from each other, right on the current-color-temp break. It was a bonanza on Dorado for the first few boats there every day and even with 15 boats working the debris fish were caught by everyone. Not until the area became a parking lot with over 30 boats in a half-mile area did the bite drop off, but it renewed every day. The fish ran in size from small 5 pounders (please let the babies go!) to nice fish in the 15-18 pound class. Almost everyone was able to get a few fish in the box but a few greedy boats reported keeping 30-40 fish each. With only four anglers on the boat and two crew, these guys were killing 5-6 times the legal limit. Live bait was the key to getting these fish to bite early ion the day and later on live bait fished off of downriggers or dropped on 6 ounces of lead hooked anglers up to the by then hook-shy fish.
WAHOO: We did not have a full moon this week so the bite on Wahoo was a bit off compared to what it had been, but still, boats that worked the 100 fathom and shallower areas just off the beach on the Pacific side, and the Gorda Banks area on the Cortez side were able to report some action on these speedsters. The best lures were swimming plugs such as Marauders and big Rapalla countdowns run close to the boat, mostly within the first three wakes. A few boats reported two fish out of three or four strikes and the fish averaged 25 pounds.INSHORE: The inshore Roosterfish bite started up again with most of the fish in the small range at 5-10 pounds but almost everyone that targeted the Roosters were able to release at least one or two in the 30 pound class. Dorado were plentiful just a bit farther off the beach and an average catch consisted of four or five per Panga. Plenty of Bonita and Skipjack with a few football Yellowfin rounded out the inshore fishery.Notes: I am getting older and the last few days have taken their toll on me. With tournament time coming up it’s not going to get any better. I have been watching the baseball playoffs every night and staying up until midnight really hurts, and I get up before 5 am every morning. Sigh, to be young again! For those who have not done so yet, please check out the web site linked below, it is for a good cause, our continued ability to call ourselves the “Marlin Capitol of the World”.
To take the survey, please click: http://www.southwickassociates.com/surveys/cabo_survey/Default.aspx?sicd=AJJMEI-73. The Billfish Foundation has hired Southwick Associates to administer the surveys. We sincerely appreciate your help in protecting Cabos unique fishery, and hope to see you fishing again in Los Cabos.
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Cabo San Lucas - October 12th, 2007
supplied by: Baja Anglers
RECORDED:
95 °
FISHING: Excellent
Hi Folks,
Wow! Again another great fishing week, you just couldn’t ask for better fishing. We have had a lot of fun chasing Striped Marlin and Dorado with the fly rods and light spinning tackle.
Just ask Joe Lehosky from Oil City, Pennsylvania. This was Joe’s first time to Baja and his first time fishing for Dorado and Striped Marlin. In two days fishing, Joe ended up landing 8 Dorado and one Striped Marlin on the fly. Not bad for his first time Salt Water fly fishing. Joe wrote: It was a pleasure to fish with Capt. Alex. Both days we were quickly into fish and he did a great job coaching me on my first salt water experience.
Levi Pike from Littleton Co wrote: AMAZING !!! 16 landed Dorado on the fly. Had a marlin come in, it was unreal. Arturo was a great guide. We will all be back as soon as possible.
Last week the striped marlin fishing had slowed down considerably, but the fish are back now and the marlin fishing is going off at the Golden Gate banks. Live baits and lure are both working well.
Some black and blue marlin are being taken out at 95 spot to 1150 spot. Most fish are smaller under 300 lbs, but a few were caught that went 500 plus. Quite a few fish are being caught with live baits out at Gordo banks.
The Dorado fishing continues to be very good. Plenty of debris if you know where to look for it. Once you find the trash line, the rest is easy. The Dorado are running from 10 to 40 + pounds.
The YF tuna fishing has been pretty good over at Iman and Destiladeras banks. The fish are going up to 60 lbs.
Live sardines are the ticket. Plenty of False Albacore to play with when the tuna bite slows down.
Some smaller roosterfish and jacks are cruising the Pacific beaches feeding on mullet.
The weather has been very nice, Sunny and around 95 degrees.
Tight Lines,
Grant
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Cabo San Lucas - October 8th, 2007
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
92 °
FISHING: Excellent
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportOctober 1-7, 2007 WEATHER: Our temperatures continue to cool a bit as we start into October, normally we notice the first cool day on the 15th, but we don’t mind it starting a bit early. We have been very fortunate this year to experience a fairly cool summer. This week our daytime highs were in the high 80’s, occasionally touching the low 90’s and our nighttime lows were in the mid 70’s. A few cloudy days occurred during the middle of the week that threatened us with rain, but they dropped their water over the Sea of Cortez instead of on us.WATER: As the weather has cooled off the water has warmed up. On the Cortez side of the Cape we have had temperatures as high as 90 degrees in some spots, but for the most part it has averaged 85-86 degrees and has been a deep blue color. On the Pacific side it has been cooler with most of the water in range of the fleets between 80-83 degrees with the cooler water farther north. Surface conditions at the end of the week were not great though as we had winds from the west-northwest develop Friday morning and it was like a sheep farm out there Friday and Saturday. The wind settled on Sunday but it was still choppy.BAIT: There was some Mackerel available this week but they were not lasting long in the bait tanks. Most of the boats were getting Caballito and both baits were the normal $2 per bait. There were Sardinas available as well at the normal $20 per scoop.FISHING: BILLFISH: Late in the week there was a good bite on Blue and Striped Marlin at the Gorda Banks, there were tailing Stripers to be found on the 95 Spot and there were Sailfish 6 miles off of the Arch. Billfish were scattered all over the place but the bottom structure seemed to be the place to find them this week. While I did not go there myself, I heard reports of a very good Striped Marlin bite up at the Finger Bank early in the week with many boats getting double digit numbers of fish released. Our best lure color this week was Bleeding Mackerel for the Sailfish and Striped Marlin and Purple-Blue-Silver for the Blue and Black Marlin. YELLOWFIN TUNA: At the end of the week there was a decent school of Yellowfin found at the Golden Gat Bank but you really took a pounding to get to them. Reports were the fish were averaging 20 pounds and most boats were able to get a dozen or more. Yellowfin were also found to the north side of the Cabrilla Seamount among porpoise and again, they averaged 20 pounds with a few larger fish to 50 pounds in the mix. For boats that were able to do multi-day trips up the Pacific side, the Ridge and Morgan Banks reportedly had fish in the 80 pound class holding deep, small Skipjack run on downriggers were the ticket for a few of the private boats that ventured that way and worked the fish.
DORADO: There were Dorado scattered just about everywhere but the best concentrations were on the Pacific side 3 miles off the beach inside the Golden Gate Bank and north of there. As was usual, bright colored lures trolled at 9 knots and better brought in the first fish and live bait dropped behind the first fish caught managed to get quite a few anglers hooked into doubles or triples. Also as normal, anything found floating on the surface was worth working and at the end of the week there were a couple of logs found just to the outside of the 95 Spot that supplied a lot of action on fish averaging 25 pounds. On Wednesday there was a school of fish found just one mile off of the Arch and that kept boats busy for the day working fish in the 15-pound class.
WAHOO: We did not have a full moon this week so the bite on Wahoo was a bit off compared to what it had been, but still, boats that worked the 100 fathom and shallower areas just off the beach on the Pacific side, and the Gorda Banks area on the Cortez side were able to report some action on these speedsters. The best lures were swimming plugs such as Marauders and big Rapalla countdowns run close to the boat, mostly within the first three wakes.INSHORE: Inshore action remained slow for most of the week, at least for the traditional fish. There was a good bite for Dorado just off the beach, at least until Thursday morning, and then the wind really started to kick in. The remainder of the week the action shifted to the Cortez side and things became really slow with the exception of a good bite on Skipjack and a few Bonita. Notes: I love baseball during the playoffs; it is fun watching the best of the best. My golf game is getting better but this is the time of year when I get busy on the water so I know that the golf is going to suffer. Oh well, the paycheck is worth it! I know that I have been running the following for the past three weeks, but if you have not yet had a chance, or have been reluctant to go to the attached web site, please take the time this week to fill in the survey, it’s important for our fisheries here. Thanks for your support, and until next week, tight lines!
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