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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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Cabo San Lucas - June 17th, 2007
supplied by: Baja Anglers
RECORDED:
92 °
FISHING: Great
Hi Folks,
Happy fathers day!
The fishing has been on and off, but the good news is we have some fun news to report.
Just ask Matt Goff from San Jose, CA and the famous “The fly shop” guide Ernie Denison from Redding, CA.
Matt and Ernie (two great guys) fished with me and my Captain Nazario for three days. On their first day, the fishing was really slow, they saw quite a few monster roosterfish, but the bite was off and they got skunked. Matt really wanted big roosterfish as last year at this time frame he lost quite a few huge roosterfish over 40 lbs on the fly, and even had a monster roosterfish over 50# eat his 8 lb yellowtail boat-side as he was landing it. That big roosterfish wouldn’t let go of the yellowtail! He fought it hard and almost landed both fish, but the leader finally gave out. On that trip his friend Dennis Wong, ended up landing a few monster roosterfish over 50#. Now Matt has roosterfish fever for life!
On the next day, we decided to go up the Pacific to see what we could find. After a few hours of slow fishing, we finally found a school of hungry Colorado snappers. The action was hot, but the hooking was slow at first. These big Colorado snappers have hard mouths and you can’t give them an inch of light pressure or they will throw the hook. Ernie an old hand at Karate, gave out a screaming KI yell on his next hook-set that would make a tarpon fisherman proud. Now the game was on, next keeping them out of the rocks was the hard part. Colorado’s are fierce fighters and love to run for the rocks when hooked “#20 hard mono leaders are a must”. After some hard lessons, the guys ended up landing 7 Colorado snappers on the fly and losing twice as many. That was too much fun! They also had some great shots at yellowtails, but the suckers wouldn’t take the fly. They had one of the monster snapper cooked up at Solomon’s Landing and both thought the fish was to die for!
The last day we went after roosterfish again. The action was hot for roosterfish and jacks. Both Ernie and Matt got their first roosterfish and plenty of jack cravelle. Once the fishing slowed down, we decided to back to our honey hole to see if we could catch a few more monster snappers. In about two hours the guys had landed 4 great fish.
Another great fishing day was had by Nick Owens and Todd Tucker from Michigan. They were fly-fishing with our Capt. Alex, Both new to salt water fly-fishing, but caught on quick, they had incredible action all day, the fishing was hot! Both Nick and Owen were stoked that they caught over 34 roosterfish on the fly!
Inshore: I am not going to say every day has been perfect, that’s just not the case. There has been some very slow fishing days, mixed in with some very incredible days. The good news is that every day the fishing seems to get better and better.
Plenty of roosterfish around, some huge schools of 10# fish are providing us with lots of fun action. The big boys over 40# are here, but getting them to bite or even get interested in a live teaser is a chore. Like I said earlier, we are getting more shots every day, when it turns on, watch out these big boys eat everything in their path!, they go nuts.
There are plenty of sierra mackerel around on most days with mixed sizes being caught, anywhere form 3 pounds to 12 pounds.
Lots of jacks pounding our flies, that’s normal this time of year. These guys really hit hard and they put up a great fight.
OFFSHORE:
This is one of the prime times for marlin, and they are here, but they don’t want to eat very well. If you are lucky, on some days, you can pick up a few marlin on bait. My bet is they are getting fat on squid. I sure hope the marlin fishing improves, as I am starting to get withdrawals.
The dorado have started to show up, but in small numbers, expect them to really make a push into our area stating in July. The same goes for YFT. They will start to show up next month.
The summer months are nice in Cabo, it’s a bit warm, but not as hot as the rest of Baja. We get a nice Pacific breeze which keeps it comfortable. The fishing is usually very good for marlin, sailfish, dorado and tuna offshore and the big roosterfish and other inshore fish usually hang around until mid to late August.
Again, we have a summer special. Fish two or more days with uis and we will put you up in the Mar de Cortez hotel for free.
Tight Lines,
Grant, with help from my 6 year old daughter, Louise
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Cabo San Lucas - June 11th, 2007
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
92 °
FISHING: Great
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish Report June 3-10, 2007 WEATHER: Once again we had a beautiful week go by with our daytime temperatures in the high 80’s to low 90’s and the nighttime lows averaging 70 degrees. We had one mid-week day with high winds but for the most part the wind was a minor consideration either blowing itself out by 6 am or not picking up until 1 pm. No rain of course and only a scattering of clouds this week.WATER: The Cortez side of the Cape remained much warmer than the Pacific side with the average temperature being 76 degrees up to 15 miles offshore. The 95 and 1150 spots were the outer boundaries where the temperature dropped to 70 degrees or less and the warm water continued up into the East Cape region well offshore. On the Pacific side the water was much cooler with a finger of cold water from the beach inside the Golden Gate bank down to Cabo extending out to the southwest across the San Jaime Bank. This water was in the mid to low 60’s and very green. Surface conditions were good on the Cortez side of the Cape with small 2-4 foot swells most of the week with no wind o top of them. We did have one say of 4-6 foot swells (made the surfers happy) but with no wind they were not very noticeable. On the Pacific side the afternoon or early morning winds made things very interesting and most of the boats avoided working the cold green water.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: On a good note, the Striped Marlin have shown up close to home. I fished on Tuesday for Marlin and it was great, we never went farther than 5 miles for the marina and released one Striped Marin estimated at 120 pounds and one small Blue Marlin estimated at 170 pounds as well as seeing a lot of fish free jumping and sleeping on the surface. The one day mid-week when the wind blew like a banshee resulted in very few fish but for most of the days this week the Marlin were there, and in numbers. Best bets were slow trolling live baits or throwing live bait to tailing or sleeping fish. As well as Marlin, there were still quite a few Swordfish being seen, and a few caught and brought to the dock. They were also being seen close to home and a few of the boats have made plans for overnight Swordfish trips for the coming week. I’ll let you know if things work out for them.YELLOWFIN TUNA: Yellowfin Tuna were just about the only slow fishery this week. There were a few fish found but they were small fish in the 10-15 pound range. Most of them were caught on the Pacific side in the rough water and there were no great numbers found, for the most part it was a picky catch. There were good fish reported from boats fishing the East Cape region 30 miles off the beach, but that is too much of a run for our local boats. Hopefully these fish will move into our area soon.DORADO: The Dorado bite has continued to pick up and the numbers are increasing every week as the water warms. For the most part the fish are small with a large number of fish less than 6 pounds reported (please release these month old fish, they will be eating size soon) but there were still good numbers of fish in the 20-35 pound range being found. The Cortez side of the Cape in the warmer water was where most of the larger fish were found but waters close to home had larger numbers albeit the smaller fish. Small lures in bright colors trolled between 7 ½ and 9 knots did well on the Dorado as well as slow trolled live baits.WAHOO: There were still Wahoo reported this week but they were still small ones, in the 20-30 pound class for the most part. Once the water warms up a bit there should be more action. The fish that were found and caught were from the Punta Gorda area as well as on the temperature break at the 95 and 1150 areas.INSHORE: Inshore fishing has been hot this week with good numbers of Sierra continuing to hold angers attention on both the Pacific and the Sea of Cortez side of the Cape. The majority of the cooler water fish, Sierra and Yellowtail have been found between the Pedregal and the Lighthouse between 50 and 200 meters from the shore. Large schools of Sierra have given anglers all they can handle on live bait and hootchies as well as small jointed Rapallas. Slow trolled Mackerel have resulted in nice Yellowtail to 35 pounds, but a lot of Sierra bite-offs have occurred due to the use of light Mono leaders needed to get the Yellowtail to bite. In close to eh beach, the rocks have produced consistent action on Dogtooth Snapper to 20 pounds as well as Red Snapper to 8 pounds.NOTES: The fishing continues to pick up as the water warms up offshore and meanwhile the inshore action is just great, everyone is having fun! If things continue this way there can be smiles on everyone’s face. I have hope for the Tuna showing up soon as that is the only thing we are really lacking at the moment. So far this year I have released two Blue Marlin and that is a sign that the water is warming and things are getting better! Fingers crossed for tight lines for everyone out there. Until next week!http://www.billfish.org/new/NewsArticle.asp?ArticleID=60 Until next week, Tight lines!
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Cabo San Lucas - June 9th, 2007
supplied by: Baja Anglers
RECORDED:
90 °
FISHING: Excellent
Hi Folks,
The fun news this week is all about Tony “The Tank” Satoris. Tony is a great guy from San Jose, Ca. and he had some wild fishing this week with me. On his first day, he caught and released 41 roosterfish and one jack cravelle on the fly using his new 9 wt. Sage Xi2. Tony had it together on the day that it counted and put some hurt on some roosterfish lips! The fish were all fun fish around 10 lbs. The fish were caught using a variation of the “Charlie’s angel fly”. On day two, Tony decided he wanted some fish for the BBQ grill, so he went out and caught a few nice yellowtails and a ton of sierra on the fly. The next day, he wanted billfish, and set out and caught his first sailfish on the fly, a beautiful fish that went over 120#. On day four, it was roosterfish again, with as many sierras as you wanted and toped off the day with two nice Cubera snappers on the fly. On the last day, he stuck to the plentiful sierras and decided to keep hooked up all day long. Tony’s new motto is “ask and you shall receive”.
The inshore fly fishing has been really good, with plenty of action on fun sized roosterfish, sierra mackerel; jack Cravelle’s and cubera snappers.
The roosterfish are located anywhere from San Jose to the Pacific and are plentiful and eager to hit the fly. The big fish (over 30#) have yet to move into our area, oh, there are a few big ones here, but the big migrating schools are due any time now. The jack cravelle are mixed in with the roosterfish and are running from 8 to 15 lbs.
The sierra mackerel are thick! So thick that it’s almost too easy to catch them! I was fishing with Ted Lund and his girlfriend Julie today. Of course, Ted caught plenty of fish, but it was Julie’s turn at fly fishing and she had a ton of fun catching roosterfish and sierras on the fly. Not a bad start, for your first day ever fly fishing.
The cubera snapper are around, but skittish. Catch it right and its one fish after another; on the other hand, it can be a long day if the sea lions are hungry and pushing the snapper around.
Offshore: Plenty of striped marlin around, but finding the right day the fish are hungry is the key. The fish are tight lipped one day and the next day they are out and about chomping at the baits. Tossing live baits at feeders and tailers has been the best bet.
The dorado and tuna fishing has been slow. Expect that to change as we move into our summer months.
We have a summer special going from July 12th through September 30th. Fish three or more days with us and Baja Anglers picks up your lodging at the Mar de Cortez hotel.
Tight Lines,
Grant
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Cabo San Lucas - June 4th, 2007
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
95 °
FISHING: Great
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish Report May 28-June 2, 2007 WEATHER: After the warming trend last week I was expecting things to get really hot this week. The arrival of that high-pressure system was a good intro to the temperatures to expect later in the year, and without the humidity. At the beginning of this week the warmest morning I recorded was 84 degrees before the sun came up, and 98 degrees during the middle of the day. At the end of the week the high-pressure system had moved on and we were back to having our morning lows in the low 60’s and our daytime highs around the mid 80’s. Of course we had no rain.WATER: There was absolutely no doubt that the water was warmer on the Cortez side this week, and clearer also. We were seeing temperatures in the 78-79 degree range from the beach on out to the Cabrillo Seamount. The cleaner water was a band running from the Vinorama Canyon across the Outer Gorda Banks to the 1150 spot, elsewhere it was slightly tinged with green. The Pacific side started out with a push of warm water up the coast but as the week went on that push tapered off a bit and the water temperatures dropped a bit as well. Right now there is a significant temperature break off of the lighthouse and extending to the southwest. On the south side the water is showing a warm 72 degrees. 2 miles farther north it drops to 62 degrees and becomes very green. Surface conditions on both sides of the Cape were great with little surface chop and very light winds, with the exception of Thursday as the edge of the high-pressure system came across us.BAIT: I really thought that bait would be harder to come by this week since it is the week after the IGFA Offshore Championship and the week of the World Championship Billfish Release Tournament but there was no problem getting all you needed. Of course there were not many Caballito yet, mostly it was Mackerel with a few Mullet at the normal $2 per bait. Up toward San Jose there were some really nice Sardinas in the 3-4 inch size at $25 per bucket, closer to home here at the marina the price was a bit higher with ¾ bucket costing the same.FISHING: BILLFISH: Probably the best was to describe the fishing for Billfish this week was, in the right place at the right time. Having the full moon this week helped and the bite was definitely tide related with the best bite happening close to the tide change on most days. The Billfish most folks found were the Striped Marlin and while they were out there in good numbers, they were pretty concentrated as well. During the three days of the World Championship Tournament 23 boats were successful in releasing a total of 325 billfish for an average of 5 fish per day per boat, the large majority of which were Striped Marlin. There were a few Sailfish mixed in as well as two reported small Blue Marlin. Most of the action was concentrated up to the north on the Cortez side around the Vinorama Canyon area, the Gorda Banks and the 1150. I had fair luck Monday finding fish on the Pacific side to the south of the lighthouse but the water changed and the fish moved away. Almost all the fish reported released were hooked up on live bait. Light leader seemed to be the way to go, as the fish were a bit leader shy. There has been an abundance of squid in our area and the Marlin have been too full to chase artificials (on average). There were quite a few Swordfish sighted as well (comparatively speaking) and at least once was caught. There were several hookups reported to last between 2 to 6 hours where the fish were lost.YELLOWFIN TUNA: Just as I reported last week, there were some fish found offshore up around the Vinorama area mixed in with Porpoise. They were decent fish in the 35-pound class. Other than that there was not much found in the way of Tuna. A few boats reported finding fish in the greenish water south of the San Jaime area early in the week but those fish did not stick around.DORADO: The Dorado bite has started to pick up a bit with a few more fish showing up in the catch’s every week. We had two on Wednesday while fishing up to the north in the Sea of Cortez in 79-degree water using live bait. They are not large fish yet with the biggest I heard of in the 35-pound class, but it is a definite improvement and hopefully a sign of things to come.WAHOO: I was amazed that I did not hear of more Wahoo being caught during this Championship Billfish Tournament. Most of the boats were fishing in areas that traditionally hold Wahoo this time of year. A few were caught but they were not large fish, mostly in the 30-pound class, and on artificial lures.INSHORE: Inshore has still been good for Sierra to 8 pounds with a lot of boats getting double digit numbers of fish on the Pacific side of the Cape. The Roosterfish have begun to show as well with some Pangas reporting up to 10 releases in a days fishing, and the fish have been a decent 10-20 pounds. At the end of the week there was a reported bit on Dogtooth Snapper (Pargo) on the Pacific side up in the rocks at the points.NOTES: There have been many protests locally this week about the Shark Norma 029. Several winning teams in the World Championship Billfish Release Tournament donated part of their winnings to the Billfish Foundation to help fight this law. For more information on the shark longline fishing law, you can go to this website for updates. http://www.billfish.org/new/NewsArticle.asp?ArticleID=60 Until next week, Tight lines!
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