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Cabo San Lucas - August 13th, 2007
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED: 
98 °
FISHING: Excellent
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish Report August 6-12, 2007 WEATHER: Summertime is definitely here as we had daytime highs in the mid to high 90’s and nighttime lows averaging in the mid to low 80’s. We did record a nighttime low of 74 degrees here at the house on Wednesday morning, but I attribute that to the fact that we had a storm come and cross over us from the mainland and it lowered temperatures across the board for at least one day. It also brought easterly winds on Wednesday and Thursday that mad for some fairly rough and choppy conditions out in front of town. There was quite a bit of rain in the mountains as a result of the storm but we did not receive anything more that a slight splatter here in town as a result.WATER: Let’s start with surface conditions first. On the Pacific side we had swells from the northwest and winds at 10-15 knots up until Tuesday night. When the storm from the East moved through the swells remained the same but there was no chop on top of them. You had to be up the Pacific side past San Cristobal before you realized the difference, but it was definitely there. On the Cortez side of the cape we had very choppy and rough conditions starting on Wednesday, getting very rough on Thursday and tapering off in Friday, and back to normal by Saturday. Sea temperatures were averaging 82-86 degrees on the Cortez side of the Cape and between 77 and 81 degrees on the Pacific side of the Cape.BAIT: There was no problem getting bait this week with plenty of Mackerel, Caballito, Mullet and Sardinas. The bigger baits were the normal $2 per bait while the Sardinas were $25 per scoop.FISHING: BILLFISH: Striped Marlin action continued to be pretty much wide open for the boats this week and it has me confused. Normally when the water get this warm the Stripers have all but disappeared and we are lucky to get into a decent Blue Marlin bite this early in the season, but it appears that everything is still a little bit late. Most of the Striped Marlin have been in the 90-110 pound class but there has been an occasional fish to 180 pounds. These fish have been close to shore on the Cortez side of the Cape and there was no problem at all getting their interest before the storm moved in even if you were trolling plastic lures. After the storm came thought, the fish seemed to spread out a bit and live bait worked better then plastics died. Most of the fish that came to boatside coughed up squid in the 8-12 inch range so lures in the red color range worked a lot better than other colors for almost every species targeted this week. There were also a few small Blue Marlin caught and released, we had out third of the season on my boat, a small fish of about 120 pounds. There were fish reported between 180 and 500 pounds though and the reports were scattered as to location. YELLOWFIN TUNA: If you wanted football Yellowfin Tuna, this was the week to be here. Fish in the 6-12 pound class were found almost everywhere on the Cortez side early in the week and they were not associated with any porpoise schools, instead they were associated with structure. If you concentrated on the 300-foot curve along the Cortez side you were guaranteed to get bit on theses fish. The vest results were to be had on feathers in dark colors and trolled in the 7-knot range. Some boats reported catches in the 20-30 fish numbers. An occasional fish went 15 pounds but these were the exception. As the week went on the bite moves across the Cape and at the end of the week most of the action occurred between the arch and the lighthouse.
DORADO: The Dorado action continued to improve as the water warmed and the fish have been a bit larger on average as well. We caught a couple of fish this week that were over #40 and it seemed that every other boat returning to the marina had at least one yellow flag flying.
WAHOO: Just rumors again, I think it is a moon phase thing.INSHORE: Good to excellent Roosterfish were available on the Pacific side between the arch and the lighthouse on fish between 5 and 25 pounds. The baitfish moved in close to the beach and brought the Roosters with them. Other inshore action was spotty as most of the Pangas were concentration on the “close to shore” pelagic fish.NOTES: For the third time in 8 years I got to see Orcas here in Cabo. On Wednesday morning we left the Marina and spotted a small pod of 8 Orcas just inside off of Lovers Beach. We followed them for 30 minutes as the crossed in front of the arch and continued to the west on the Pacific side. I managed to get one good picture of the big male in the group, there was also a female it a calf. Needless to say, that made out trip! On everything else related to fishing, the reports above tell the story. Go Seahawks!
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Cabo San Lucas - August 12th, 2007
supplied by: Baja Anglers
RECORDED: 
95 °
FISHING: Good
Hi Folks,
Offshore,
The striped marlin fishing is pretty good right now. The stripers which have been located in the cooler waters of the Pacific have now moved into the Sea of Cortez side. We are finding them as close as 500 meters from the shore at Palmilla and Cabo Del Sol, and as far out as the 95 spot and 1150 spot.
Decent YFT and skipjack bite going on for both the fly and light tackle enthusiast. The bite is at the Palmilla and Cabo del Sol banks. Live sardines fly lined is the best bet for light tackle anglers, and for fly fisherman, use a sinking line with a tan or olive clousers.
The Dorado bite is okay, mostly a by-catch while fishing for striped marlin. We are catching some decent Dorado with some fish going over 30#s.
Some-what of a blue marlin bite off of Destillederas, but it’s not much yet. Usually early August is prime time for blues and blacks. With the water warming up on a daily basis, looks like the bite will be in mid to late August and September.
Inshore:
There is some pretty good inshore fishing, but it is a hit or miss thing. The roosterfish are moving around quite a bit and can be difficult to find. If you find them, chances are they will be big fish over 30 lbs. Just ask Jon Honorz. Jon caught this big roosterfish on the fly with Capt. Nazario. Way to go Jon!
Some snappers around, but you really have to target them and even then, a “can of good luck” really helps.
Water temperatures are all over the place. From mid to high 70s in the Pacific to mid 80s in the Sea of Cortez side.
The weather had been really nice, we had a few mildly cloudy days, but on the most part, sunny and not too hot, around 95 with a nice ocean breeze.
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Cabo San Lucas - August 6th, 2007
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
98 °
FISHING: Excellent
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish Report July 30-August 5, 2007 WEATHER: Up until August 2nd we were enjoying some very non-seasonal weather here in Cabo, it was more like spring with our nighttime lows in the mid 70’s and daytime highs in the mid 80’s, along with some slight breezes. Of course it had to change and now we have the normal situation with daytime highs reaching 99 degrees and on the 4th at 6 am we had 86 degrees here at the house. The humidity has kicked in as well and this morning we have a fairly good amount of cloud cover, the result of a small storm system moving across the Sea of Cortez from the mainland and crossing the Baja north of us.WATER: The warm water we have been waiting for has finally arrived! On the Sea of Cortez we have had water in the 80-86 degree range while on the Pacific side it has been 78 degrees at the San Jaime Bank. Of course we have also had great surface conditions to go with this and it has made for some very good fishing trips! Swells have been moderate at 2-5 feet with just a light afternoon chop at the end of the week. Earlier in the week there were a couple of days when things got ugly when you returned to Cabo as the winds did pick up strong from the southwest, but it was only late in the day and did not affect many people. BAIT: There was no problem getting bait this week with plenty of Mackerel, Caballito, Mullet and Sardinas. The bigger baits were the normal $2 per bait while the Sardinas were $25 per scoop.FISHING: BILLFISH: I mentioned on the last report that I would be doing a fair amount of fishing this past week and I did get out for three days. I was amazed at the number of Striped Marlin still being caught! On Monday we released two small ones and had a few others in the pattern, Wednesday we released one nice fish out of about a dozen hook-ups (they did not want the live bait that day, just toying with it, and we are using single hook rigs on the plastic lures) and on Friday we released two Striped Marlin (a double strike, one on a lure and the other on a drop-back bait) out of 6 bites, one big Sailfish of over #100 out of three bites (all at the same time) and on the way home stopped just outside the bay when we say a free jumping Striped Marlin, trolled a few minutes and hooked, fought and released a small Blue Marlin! Now that was a good day! All this action has been within 5 miles of the coast on the Sea of Cortez between Palmilla and home, so there was no real need for a long run, all the action was within 12 miles. Of course that made it pretty crowded as well so a few of us just kicked it in gear and went farther to the north to escape the crowds and still found good fishing. It seemed that except for Wednesday when we had a run of fish that would not eat the bait, the action was evenly divided between artificial lures and live bait. YELLOWFIN TUNA: These fish are still not here in any real numbers of large sizes yet, but I hope that will change any day now. The few fish that have been found close to home are still in the “football” category but there have been reports for the last two days of some decent fish in the 20-30 pound class outside of the San Jaime. The Bisbee East Cape Tournament had no qualifying fish (over #40) in the Tuna category for the first two days but on the third day a boat fought a fish of #160 for an hour before bringing it to the scale, so there is hope!
DORADO: The Dorado action continued to improve as the water warmed and the fish have been a bit larger on average as well. We caught a couple of fish this week that were over #40 and it seemed that every other boat returning to the marina had at least one yellow flag flying.
WAHOO: Just a few fish were reported this week but I have no information on them, sorry about that, just the rumors.INSHORE: The reports were that the inshore action has been pretty much limited to either Roosterfish or bottom fishing. Most of the Pangas have been working on the large number of Striped Marlin, Sailfish and Dorado just off the beach.NOTES: The fishing has improved and that has everybody here happy! Now, if the Tuna just make an appearance it will be that much better. On a musical note, my friend Daniel Tuchmann has returned from 6 months in Ireland, visiting all the stone circles possible, meeting other musicians and trying to get a little Irish influence into his music. It only took him a couple of days to settle back in and now he is playing every Thursday, Friday and Saturday at Hemmingway’s, just behind Cabo Wabo. An excellent guitarist, he plays covers with his own influence as well as some of his original work. Please check out the Billfish Foundation web-page concerning the recently passed shark fishing law in Mexico. http://www.billfish.org/new/NewsArticle.asp?ArticleID=60
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Cabo San Lucas - August 5th, 2007
supplied by: Baja Anglers
RECORDED:
95 °
FISHING: Great
Hi Folks,
It’s been a while since the last report, so I will just quickly go over the month of July.
The fishing this July was very inconsistent, one day on and you’re catching all the fish you want, and the next day, you can’t find the fish to save your life. It was a tough month to be a guide.
Well that’s all changed now; the fishing is starting to turn on with a good offshore bite for striped marlin. The marlin are spread out, with the best bite being in the Pacific. Actually there is a decent marlin bite just a half mile from the shore in Cabo.
There has been a decent bite for YFT in the Sea of Cortez, that is if you can find the porpoise. Once you get on to the porpoise the best bet is to drop a livie deep in front of the school. Most fish are under 50# but a few are being taken 100# plus.
The Dorado are scattered about, one to 4 shots a day is the norm right now. The fish are running form 10# to 20#.
Inshore: Hey, there are some really big roosterfish migrating into our area. There is not a ton of fish, but if you can find the school, you can catch a fish of a lifetime. We are catching fun sized roosterfish up to 10#s.
Some snappers are being taken on both the Pacific and Sea of Cortez side.
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Cabo San Lucas - July 30th, 2007
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
92 °
FISHING: Good
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish Report July 23-29, 2007 WEATHER: I love it when we have daytime temps in the mid 90’s, we get to sweat and clean out our systems. When we add a light breeze in the evenings as the temperature drops to the mid and low 80’s it means that things are just about perfect here in Cabo. I know that these temperatures a too hot for a lot of people, and we did have the humidity raise up a bit this week, but it sure beats 112 degrees, and I don’t care it that is a “dry” heat or not, that is just too damn hot for me. I guess what I am trying to say is that things were just about perfect this week considering that we are in a summer weather pattern. We did have Tropical Storm Delilah pass to the southwest mid-week and she brought a scattering of rain to us on Wednesday along with some winds that decreased the temperatures but for the most part she was a “non-event”, but a warning of what might happen during the next several months.WATER: As far as the basics are concerned we had storm swells at the middle and end of the week from Tropical Storm Delilah, large enough that there were high surf warnings out at all the hotels and resorts on both sides of the Cape. The wind combined with the swells were enough to convince the Port Captains office to close the Marina to departures after 7:30 AM on Wednesday, a lot of boats returned very early due to seasick clients. The storm came up from the south and pushed warm water with it. Early in the week prior to the storms arrival we were seeing offshore temperatures in the low 70’s, on Thursday we has a steady 79 and over across the board. At the end of the week the California current re-asserted itself and we had temperatures in the mid 70’s along the Pacific coast and as far up the Sea Of Cortez as Punta Gorda, and extending up to 10 miles off the beach on the Pacific side and 3 miles on the Cortez side.BAIT: There were plenty of Mackerel and Caballito available this week as well as Mullet and Sardinas. The Mullet and Sardinas were difficult to get at the beginning for the week and of course on Wednesday there was no bait available, at least fresh caught bait, the water was just too rough for the guys to catch bat. At the end of the week there were bait balls all over the place, both up close to the beach and far offshore. Prices were the normal $2 per large baits and $25 per scoop of Sardinas.FISHING: BILLFISH: Striped Marlin action was close to the beach on the Cortez side for moat of the week with most of the action happening place in the cool water within three miles of the coast. There were groups of fish tailing on the surface, occasionally as many as 7 or 8 fish together, and there were also lots of sleepers on the surface. Farther offshore the water was warmer and there were not the numbers of fish to be found. There were a few Blue Marlin reported and this was expected as the offshore water warmed up. Hopefully we will start seeing some good numbers of these fish as the warming continues and spreads. Also, there were Sailfish reported. These are not as common in our area as they are in many parts of Mexico, but here they are also an indication of warming water and a precursor to good Dorado fishing! YELLOWFIN TUNA: I keep hoping for the Tuna fishing to improve and this week there were a few days when almost every boat that went out returned with Tuna flags flying. Unfortunately most of these fish were only footballs in the 6-12 pound class, very few larger fish were found. Most of the action occurred wither 5 miles off of Chileno beach early in the week, 12 to 18 miles south of the Cape during mid week or at the San Jaime bank at the end of the week. Sounds like they are traveling, yes? As is often the case with the football fish, the best results were had with small re hootchies or dark colored feathers, slow trolled while being “jigged” among the porpoise.
DORADO: A few boats really did well on Dorado this week but most of the guys were lucky to get a fish or two. The clue was to find something floating on the surface or slow troll live bait in the area where Frigate birds were seen to be working. Most of the fish were in the 12-20 pound class with a few stretching the springs on the scales to 45 pounds. The best action was prior to the storm, early in the week, on the Cortez side of the Cape, but I believe that things will pick up really fast now that there is more warm water in the area.
WAHOO: We are just coming up on the full moon on the 29th and I am surprised that I have not heard of more Wahoo being caught. There were a few fish reported, but not in any numbers or from one particular area.INSHORE: Inshore action was good for Roosterfish early in the week but the rough conditions as a result of Tropical Storm Delilah really had the inshore bite drop off. While it has been a few days since the storm passed, it nor until just now that the swells have died down enough to make the fishing comfortable close to the beach again.NOTES: I am going to be very busy the next few weeks so I will have more “hands-on” report information in the next couple of reports. I really like that, it makes for better first hand information and also allows me to do an informal check on the “b.s.” factor of information I receive. Until next week, please take a few minutes to check out the following link, especially if you like fishing here!http://www.billfish.org/new/NewsArticle.asp?ArticleID=60
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Cabo San Lucas - July 23rd, 2007
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
92 °
FISHING: Good
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish Report July 16-22, 2007 WEATHER: I just got back from a trip to southern Orange County, California on the 17th as was gone for a week so bear in mind that I missed most of the daily information usually contained in my report. Almost everything in this weeks report is relayed second hand. While I was gone it appears I missed the summertime weather we normally get this time of year. It was reported to me that the temperatures actually got above 100 degrees with 80% humidity for three days. The day I returned (the 17th), things cooled off with breezes from the northwest returning and dropping the daytime temperatures back into the mid 80’s. There was no rain while I was gone and of course there were only a couple of partly cloudy days. Since I have been back we have not had to use the air-conditioner in the evenings in order to sleep, our nights have been in the mid 70’s, very comfortable!WATER: Surface conditions were reported as being very good all week long with the only problem being some fairly large swells coming from the southwest due to storms in that direction. With winds locally mostly light and variable, there was no chop on the water on either side of the Cape. The water temperatures have changed almost daily however as the California current continues to have a great effect on the water temperatures. At the beginning of the week the Pacific side was very cool and the Cortez side of the Cape had water in the high 70’s and occasionally into the low 80’s all the way to the beach. The California current brought cool water close to shore and it wrapped around the Cape so that water within 20 miles of the coast line on the Pacific side and as far up the Sea of Cortez as Punta Gorda was in the low 70’s and slightly off color. At the end of the week we had an intrusion of warm water from the south and the southeast, water on Saturday at the Cabrillo Seamount was 85 degrees! Basically anything outside the 1,000-fathom curve on the Cortez side and immediately south was warm, everything else was cool.BAIT: Caballito with some Mullet in the mix were the larger baits available this week, a few boats were able to score on Mackerel but they were not available in large numbers. The normal $2 per bait prevailed. I don’t know if there were any Sardinas available or not.FISHING: BILLFISH: At the end of the week there were Striped Marlin to be found in the cool green water close to the beach on the Sea of Cortez side between the Chileno beach area and the Palmilla area. Most of these fish were between 4 and 6 miles of the beach. A few boats did well with release counts of up to five fish per boat, most boats were happy to get one or two hook-ups per trip. The water was still too cool for there to be many Blue Marlin, but on Thursday there was one of #350 caught at the Cabrilla Seamount in the warmer water. YELLOWFIN TUNA: Once again there were scattered schools of football fish to 15 pounds found in with the white-bellied dolphin on the Cortez side of the Cape. I heard word of better quality fish being found 15 miles off the coast up at the East Cape and hopefully these fish will make their way down to us soon. The negative on this is that I have also seen a lot of purse Seiners, including several super-Seiners (with helicopters on the deck) crossing the Cape heading up in that direction.
DORADO: As the water warms up the Dorado catch continues to improve. This is one of the basics we can count on in sport fishing, warm water equals Dorado. I was out on Thursday and while fishing the Seamount we caught on bull that weighed between 50 and 60 pounds and also a cow that was about 25 pounds. It seemed that that was about par for most boats that were able to get into the Dorado, two or three fish per boat. There were also fish found in the cooler water closer to shore, but they were smaller on average, with fish in the 12-pound class being the norm. Best baits for these fish were feathers in bright colors; the larger fish fell for live bait.
WAHOO: I did hear of a few decent Wahoo being caught while I was gone but other than that I have absolutely no information.INSHORE: The cool water inshore continues to produce a few Sierra, but not in any great numbers. The talk of the week was nice sized Roosterfish to 50 pounds being found in fair numbers up in the San Jose-Punta Gorda area. The best bait there was slow trolled live mullet with most of the action coming in less than 25 feet of water.NOTES: It’s nice to be back home, and also nice to know that my timing was right to miss the three hot days. It appears that our water is late in warming up this year and that has its positive side as well as the negative. On the minus side, everything we expect to appear this time of year is late; the water is not warm enough for the Blues and Blacks to appear in any numbers. On the positive side, the cooler water keeps any storms from coming out way! Speaking of witch, there is one developing well to the southeast of us but it is projected to pass well to the southwest so the only effects we might receive would be a slight chance of feeder band cloud cover and some larger swells. I have my Jeep here finally and if you are interested I will post a picture of it next week, or maybe not, we’ll see. Until then, tight lines!http://www.billfish.org/new/NewsArticle.asp?ArticleID=60
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Cabo San Lucas - July 2nd, 2007
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
90 °
FISHING: Good
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish Report June 25-July 1, 2007 WEATHER: It was a very confusing week this past week with the beginning being so nice. We had great weather to start the week and then it all turned around, the swells kicked up due to some small circulations to the south, we got overcast skies at the end of the week due to the same conditions and then the winds changed. At the end of the week we had winds coming in from the south and the swells from the south along with cloudy skies, not the best conditions for fishing for sure.WATER: The Pacific side was much warmer than the Cortez side close to home with water temperatures in the high 70’s and this was nice at the start of the week. As the days wore on though the wind shifted and at the end of the week you did not want to go on the Pacific side of the Cape if you had any little hint of seasickness. Swells from the south at 4-6 feet and winds that seemed to reach an occasional 20 knots really kicked things up on both sides of the Cape. On the Cortez side at the beginning of the week the water was a lot cooler and a lot greener, and it was not until you were 25 miles off the beach that it started to clean up. At the end of the week the green water extended out 40 miles and the cool temperatures stretched up past the Punta Gorda area. With the wind switching to the south at the end of the week, there was really no place to hide and get out of the choppy conditions. Thankfully it was not due south, the was a lot of west in it and that allowed conditions close to the beach here in the Los Cabos are to be decent enough to run home in.BAIT: There was a good mix of Pacific Greenback Mackerel and Caballito this week at the normal $2per bait. Up towards San Jose there were plenty of good qualities of Sardinas available at the usual $20 per bucket.FISHING: BILLFISH: The bite on billfish really dropped off this week with very few Striped Marlin being caught. There was the occasional hot spot and a few boats were able to get in three or four releases a day, but they were by far the exception, and defiantly not consistent o a day-to-day basis. The water turned over when the wind shifted and once again the bite really suffered. There were Striped Marlin found along the 1,000 fathom curve between the Doughnut and due south early in the week but that bite disappeared, there were a few fish found out past the Cabrillo Seamount but these fish were pushed to the south with the change in water conditions as well. A few Swordfish were sighted this week but no one brought a Swordfish in that I am aware of. The Blue bite dropped off a lot as the water changed as well. I seems as if the Striped Marlin are on the way north and the conditions have not improved enough for the Blues and Blacks to really take their place yet. YELLOWFIN TUNA: I sure wish we had some consistent Yellowfin action to concentrate on. Instead we have scattered pods of porpoise that only occasionally kick out football size fish and an occasional school that a boat will get on that allows a #80 fish to be hooked up in. I think that there is a strong chance that the number of Purse Seiners working the water near here is having a strong influence on the catch as well. Several boats sighted Purse Seiners setting on schools of fish on the Pacific side in the vicinity of the Golden Gate and the San Jaime Banks this week. I got into a great pod of Dolphin on Tuesday but there were no fish under them. This pod numbered close to a thousand Dolphins but you could not get the boat close to them, they had already be set on by a Seiner and were scared. I found another large pod close to shore, within 1 mile of the beach on the Pacific side and they were working a big school of Sardinas. We stayed with these animals for over an hour and managed only one small 6-pound tuna from them.
.DORADO: There were a lot more Dorado flags flying this week than in past weeks and that is definitely due to the warming water. In the middle of the week a boat found a floating patch of kelp that produced fish for every boat visiting it, all fish in the 20-30 pound class, and a lot of boats were able to get three to five fish each off of the paddy. The first few boats to get there loaded up and caught fish far in the excess of the legal limit, but like they said, if we don’t catch them, the long liners will. Boats that visited the kelp patch the second day were rewarded with fish as well, but after being hit by 20 or so boats the fish left the area. Close to the beach there was fairly consistent action on smaller Dorado in the 3-8 pound range but no large fish. There were scattered fish caught by boats trolling for Marlin and the largest I heard of was in the low 50-pound class.
WAHOO: The patch of kelp that produced all the Dorado also delivered a few Wahoo in the 20-25 pound class to the first few boats to get there. Other than that the Wahoo action was a bit on the slow side with only an occasional fish reported by the fleets.INSHORE: Inshore fishing was very inconsistent this week with most of the action moving far up the coast toward the East Cape and warmer water. The water on the Pacific side had been producing Roosterfish and Amberjack as well as some nice grouper, but the shift in the wind and change in water conditions really moved things around. There were Ladyfish in plenty though, and at least there was something to put a bend in the rod.NOTES: It was a much better week to be golfing (if you know how to play the game, and my results this week show I need some big-time lessons) than to be out fishing. Hopefully water conditions will change again and the fishing will improve. Until then, have another beer and watch the fishing channels on T.V Saturday mornings! Oh, by the way, the government captured and confiscated two commercial fishing boats this week, one of the reported to be using gill nets to capture Marlin and another running a long line within the 15-mile limit (see the link below). When the crews left the boats at the dock after being brought in, they turned off all the freezers and the fish turned rotten. That’s a win-lose situation.http://www.billfish.org/new/NewsArticle.asp?ArticleID=60 Until next week, Tight lines!
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Cabo San Lucas - June 25th, 2007
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
90 °
FISHING: Good
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish Report June 18-25, 2007 WEATHER: It was so nice this week, no hot weather, just daytime highs in the mid 80’s and nighttime lows in the low to mid 70’s. We had the wind start to blow from the west during the middle of the week and that cooled things off a bit as well. We had mostly sunny skies with an overcast morning now and then, burning off mid-day.WATER: On the Cortez side of the Cape the water cooled off a lot between the Cape and San Jose. Cold water, as low as 63 degrees on the satellite shots but registering 62 on my boat ran from right in front of the marina and up the Cortex and across the Gorda Banks extending out past the 1150 spot. The water was green and did not get blue until you got outside of the 1,000-fathom line. On the Pacific side things warmed up quite a bit with water temps on the San Jaime and the Golden Gate banks in the 73-75 range with just a tinge of green to it.BAIT: Almost all the bait this week was Pacific greenback mackerel at the normal $2 per bait.FISHING: BILLFISH: The most consistent are this week was at the doughnut, 20 miles to the east at the 1,000-fathom curve. That is where they were concentrated and a few boats did as well as two or three fish a day with one boat reporting releasing five fish. There was a nice size Swordfish reported caught this week as well by one of the fleet boats, supposedly in the #350 range. I released one small Blue, estimated at #110 on Thursday as well as a couple of Stripers at the doughnut area and released one more on Saturday. The water was choppy with the westerly winds and northwesterly swells but even with that there were very few Striped Marlin reported up and tailing down swell.YELLOWFIN TUNA: I have almost given up on the Yellowfin this year. I keep going out and looking for them but have not had a lot of success. I keep hearing of a boat now and then getting lucky with a fish or two in the 50-100 pound class in among the black porpoise, and a few boats getting into fish in the 20 pound class among the white-belly porpoise, but I have not been able to find any of these fish myself. No sashimi for me this week!DORADO: There were a few fish to 50 pounds caught this week and a few boat reported on the radio of catching three or four in the 10-20 pound class. Most of them were found at the temp-color break along the 1,000-fathom curve and a few were reported from up north along the Inman Bank area.WAHOO: I heard of one small Wahoo caught this week form a source I trust along with a few radio reports of scattered fish at the 1,000-fathom line.INSHORE: There were nice Pargo found in the rocks along the points on the Pacific side as well as up in the Punts Gorda-Los Frailles area. The Yellowtail bite dropped off when the water turned, as did the Roosterfish bite.NOTES: Humboldt Squid to 50 pounds were found due south of the Cape mid week and I baited a Swordfish estimated at #300 in the same area, along the 1,000-fathom line. We spotted this fish jumping. Overall the fishing has been slow this past week, I went out five days and was skunked on two of them catching three Humbolts on one trip, two Stripers and a small Blue on another and one Striper on the fifth trip. With the fishing slow, my golf game got a workout and with a very hazy brain today I managed to turn out a very non-respectable 103 (lots of margaritas lass ninth, don’t-cha-know!).http://www.billfish.org/new/NewsArticle.asp?ArticleID=60 Until next week, Tight lines!
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Cabo San Lucas - June 19th, 2007
supplied by: The Patient Angler
RECORDED:
94 °
FISHING: Great
Hello, fellow Patient Anglers. If you haven’t been in the shop lately, we’ve been very busy. I’m finally getting a chance to sit down and write a report about a great trip with some customers to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. We went down to fly fish for inshore game fish along the Baja coast. We fished with my good friends Grant & Gisel Hartman who owns Baja Anglers, a fly-fishing and light tackle outfitter located on the marina in Cabo San Lucas. Their Captains and mates did a great job for us and worked hard to keep us in fish.
The weather was good for us all week with a nice breeze every day to help keep the temperature down. The water was in good shape with blue water in close to shore and with temperatures ranging from 74-79 degrees.
We fished the Pacific side of Baja a few days, but spent most of our time on the East Cape around the San Jose area. The East Cape was loaded with small to medium size aggressive Roosterfish eager to take a fly. We did see a few bigger Roosterfish pushing 30lbs, but the vast majority, were small to medium fish. On one day during our trip, 3 boats landed 45 Roosterfish on the fly. The fishing was so good, that on our last day we had three of us fishing on one boat and our goal for the day was to get a triple hook-up. We had a number of chances at a triple with two fish on and fish behind the boat, but we just couldn’t get that 3rd fish hooked-up. It was still a great day anyway with over 15 Roosters landed in 4 hours of fishing. When fishing the Baja inshore, you run into many other species that inhabit the same waters. We had opportunities each day, with some pretty good action on Sierra Mackerel, Jack Crevalle and Big Snappers. Not knowing what you might run into while on the water is a big part of the allure of saltwater fishing. I’ve had the pleasure of catching 10 or11 different species of fish on the fly in just a couple of days on the water.
James Riordan a customer and friend who joined us on the trip developed a new technique for keeping the line from tangling on your feet during the chaos of casting for Roosterfish. It’s kind of looks like a cross between the River Dance and the Funky Chicken, and after perfecting the dance we decided we had to give it a name, and the Rooster Dance was born.
The Patient Angler
Peter Bowers patientangler.com
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Cabo San Lucas - June 18th, 2007
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
90 °
FISHING: Good
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish Report June 11-17, 2007 WEATHER: We had a quick and thankfully short reminder of what to expect later in the year early in the week. Waking up to early morning temperatures in the mid 80’s and muggy air let us appreciate the rest for the week. Monday and Tuesday were a bit on the mid-summer side of hot but the rest of the week was great with nighttime lows in the low to mid 70’s and the daytime highs in the mid 80’s. There was a light wind from the northwest early in the week and on Sunday we had a switch to winds from the East. All in all it was a great week on the weather front.WATER: The Cortez side of the Cape continued to be the warmer side with water up off of the East Cape around the 80-degree mark. Closer to home and between the 95 spot and the Punta Gorda area the water was cooler with most of it being in the high 70’s early in the week. During the middle of the week a combination of extreme tides and shifting wind dropped the water temperatures across the area by an easy 5 or more degrees and put the fish into shock mode. Surface conditions remained good but the water cooled off and became very green in most of the areas that we had been getting good fish. At the end of the week the cleanest water was from the 1150 area on the Sea of Cortez and out to the Cabrilla Seamount and outside the 1,000-fathom line on the Cortez side. On the Pacific the water remained cold and green almost everywhere, with water temperatures in the sub-70’s to as low as 65 degrees.BAIT: As is normal for this time of year there was a good mix of Caballito and Mackerel available from the bait boats at the normal $2 per bait. Sardinas were available as well and they were quality baits, most in the 3-4 inch size. In the San Jose area you could get them for $20 a bucket but here in Cabo they averaged $25 per scoop.FISHING: BILLFISH: Ouch, the water turned over and the fish moved offshore to the Cabrilla Seamount area. You could go out there and find fish but they were in temperature shock (sounds as good a reason as any) and getting them to bite was very difficult. That was just about the only area there were Marlin in any numbers. The area around the Vinorama Canyon produced some fish as did the area within 3 miles of the beach on the Cortez side, but the bite in these locations was early in the week. Also early in the week and continuing slightly into the end of the week was the sighting of Swordfish on the surface. A few of them were hooked up and a couple of them brought in. My friend Martin (Kiwi) caught a #200 fish on Wednesday.YELLOWFIN TUNA: We did finally have some Yellowfin show up this week but they were all small football fish, and not in any great numbers. On Saturday there were some enormous bait balls of Sardinas in the vicinity of the 95 spot and the small Yellowfin and Skipjack Tuna were harassing them all day long. Farther offshore in the 15 mile range there were small scattered pods of Dolphin holding the small Tuna under them as well. No one scored high numbers but there were fish caught by boats that put in the time and effort. Considering how slow the fishing was for everything else, getting a few Yellowfin was nice.DORADO: The sudden change in water temperature and clarity had the Dolphin on the run but a few boats were able to get three of four fish on Saturday by finding the Frigate bids working the Sardinas. Using very small lures in Green-silver to imitate the Sardinas they were able to get small skipjack hooked up and slow trolling them in the same area brought in the Dorado.WAHOO: I had no reports of Wahoo this week.INSHORE: The inshore fishing had been great but when the currents changed and the clarity and temperature dropped the fishing did as well. There were still a few Sierra caught on the Pacific side but the green water made fishing for the Yellowtail difficult at best and Roosterfish were almost non-existent.NOTES: June has always been a difficult month to figure out as things are in constant flux. This year is no different and we can only hope things settle down soon. Until next week, tight lines and give Ottmar Liebert a listen to. One of my favorite guitarists and hopefully to become one of yours. http://www.billfish.org/new/NewsArticle.asp?ArticleID=60 Until next week, Tight lines!
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