Weather: We had a great weather week except Wednesday. Tuesday night the wind started picking up. It howled all night and all day Wednesday. Most people stayed inshore and or came in early. Thursday we were back to sunny skies with just the regular trade winds. Little cloudy Sunday and Monday, then clear skies ahead.
Water:It looks as thought cooler waters are moving in closer with 70 degree water pushing into 95 and 1150, while the out by the Sea Mounts it's staying in the 73-74 degree range. Out around the San Jaime Banks it showing a cool 68 degrees.
Bait: There were Pacific Green-backed Mackerel and Caballito at the normal $3 per bait and up in the Palmilla area a few boats were selling small Sardinas for $25 a scoop.
FISHING
Billfish: Marlin fishing has remained slow, again this week. Still a few more boats were able to find the fish this week, but it was still nothing to write home about, at least for those of us who go out all the time. The fish seemed to be concentrated closer to shore than normal, most of the fish were found within three miles of the beach, and on both sides of the Cape.
Yellowfin Tuna: Just like last week, most of the Tuna that were found were quite a long way from home, necessitating a two hour or more cruise to get to where you might find some. Bigger schools had small fish, smaller schools have bigger fish reported out by the Seamounts. Not pretty water getting there though. Of course my friend that made it out there said he was the only boat there. There are always exceptions though and on Saturday there was a pod of Dolphin found three miles off of Chileno Beach that had loads of football tuna, 5 to 20 pound fish, and the first dozen boats to get there had a blast.
Dorado: Just a few yellow flags were flying this week, Wednesday with the heavy winds and rough seas always bring the Dorado out to play. The fish were found offshore on the Cortez side by boats searching for Tuna and there were a few very small ones in close to the beach, also on the Cortez side of the Cape.
Wahoo: Just like last week, what Hoo?? I saw lots of orange flags flying this week, but they were all for Sierra.
Inshore: For the fourth week in a row, inshore fishing was the way to go. The Sierra bite busted wide open on the Pacific side late in the week. Same again this week, still seeing some boats come in with 30 or 40 fish. Also reports of the snapper bite picking up.
Notes: Well so much for those trips to the desert. You are going have to put up with me writing the fish reports for a while. All happened kind of fast this past week. George is on a new assignment in the Galapagos Islands. He will be a teaching Captain aboard the “Coyote II” working for www.artmarina.com He left Cabo on Saturday and arrived in San Cristobal Sunday morning. Once he has a chance to check his internet capabilities, he will be giving me updates to let you all know how it's going. Not sure if he will have internet at the house he will be living at, that will determine how often we get updates. We'll keep you posted. You are all invited to head down and fish with him. They have offered a discount to any of George's clients, so let me know if you want to go and I'll fill you in. They have Marlin University going on the end of this month if anyone is interested in that also.
Zihuatanejo - April 19th, 2009
supplied by: The Patient Angler RECORDED:84 °FISHING: Good
Just got back from a trip to sunny LaManzanilla Mexico, where the weather was great with daily temperatures in the eighties.
This is not the best time of year for fishing the inshore waters because of the cooler ocean temperature, but every day we still gave it the old college try. We fished the inshore waters from the beach and boats, but with limited success. The fishing from the beach was as predicted, pretty slow with occasional action from small Jacks and a few Sierra. One day from the boat we covered miles of coastline trying to tease up some fish, and the only beach we found fish on was the beach in front of Boca De Iguanas where we were staying. We did have some exciting action on some small Jacks, landing a half dozen of them before we had to call it a day and head back to the marina. I was glad to finally get into some fish because our captain, who understood our concept of baiting fish in with a hookless lure and switching them on to a fly, was not convinced that the bait & switch technique would work. But after the third or fourth fish we teased in, hooked and landed on a fly, our captain shook his head with a smile and said “ It Works”.
The fishing highlight of our trip was the exploration of a large mangrove lagoon that a local told us about. He told us about how he would go into the mangroves at night with a headlamp on and spear big Snook and Pargo while they were sleeping. The next day we had our local friend meet us at the lagoon to show us where to go and rent us his little boat to get around the lagoon and fish from. He was really happy when we gave him 200 pesos (about $16.00 US) for his efforts and the use of his boat. This of course happened before we actually saw the boat. The boat was about ten feet long and looked like a wide canoe that was cut in half. The oars for the boat looked like 2 X 6’s with the sides cut out to make them look like paddles. The important thing is that the boat floated and I was glad I had brought along a couple kayak paddles to use. We made our way out into the lagoon and started working the mangrove edges, coves and open water to see what we could catch. We worked top water baits with spinning rods, deceivers and clousers on sink-tip lines and poppers with floating lines, but no takers to anything we had to offer. As soon as the sun got low in the sky and shadows started to fall across the water, things started to pick up. Pargo and all snapper species prefer to feed in low light conditions, so we concentrated on fishing shaded water. I got my first explosive take on a top water bait and landed a nice Pargo. I quickly switched to my fly rod and a popper and started working the edges of the mangroves. It was like someone flipped a switch once the sun was off the water and every couple of casts a fish or school of fish would attack my popper. The fish that I caught were between one and four pounds, but where you find little fish, you usually will find big fish. Every once in a while you would hear a big splashy explosion from a bigger fish somewhere in the lagoon.
The unfortunate part is that we found this lagoon on our last day. So I’ll have to wait until the next trip to check it out again. I wish I had checked it out earlier; I would have been out there every night!
East Cape - November 3rd, 2007
supplied by: Baja on the Fly RECORDED:85 °FISHING: Greatmaps
Thanks to all of you who emailed me last week to remind me that the time changes this week in the U.S. However, this is a “Below the Border” report and the time changed in Baja last Sunday morning. Sam and Janet Farish, Atlanta, GA, enjoyed a week of great weather and fishing this week with double-digit roosters, sierra and ladyfish inshore. Offshore it was dorado and yellowfin tuna rounding off a great week of East Cape fishing. Then they headed up to Lopez Mateos in Magdalena Bay to sample the even hotter offshore action. Water temperature
Magdalena Bay - November 3rd, 2007
supplied by: Baja on the Fly RECORDED:88 °FISHING: Excellent Early November and the fishing is easy…offshore. Sam and Janet Farish on their first day headed out on the “Mar Gato” with Captain Sergio and our guide Lance Peterson.
Their day started quick! In the first ten minutes they were both tight to fifty pound wahoo. Today they headed out for hopefully more of the same action on the Thetis before sliding down to the anchorage at Santa Maria Bay to spend the night. Billfish action from the Entrada to below Pta. Tosca could only be classified as “wide-open”. Bird school after bird school in every direction you looked but even as you slid on the spot you could never be sure what might be there. Marlin, tuna, dorado or wahoo? As one angler put it, “They were biting everything; probably would have bitten an old tennis shoe!” If you are heading this way, bring plenty of tackle. Double digit fishing goes through the tackle fast!!! Water temperature72 - 82Air temperature 67 -88Humidity 76% Wind:W 8 to 11 knotsConditions:SunnyVisibility7 milesSunrise7:36 a.m. MSTSunset6:45 p.m. MST
Banderas Bay - March 22nd, 2007
supplied by: Fish in PV Sportfishing RECORDED:85 °FISHING: Excellent
Puerto Vallarta fishing report, well its the season for mah mahi , roosterfish, sailfish, and small tuna, and we have been catching one or the other everyday. Puerto vallarta is mostly known for its huge game fish 300 lb yellow fin tuna and the 1000 lb marlin. but you can also catch small game fish as well and that is the season we are in riht now. the mahi mahi and the dorado have been running between corbetena and the point off of punta de mita. Sailfish is a great bill fish but mahi mahi and Wahoo are some of the best tasting fish out there!! The mahi mahi have been ranging from 15-60 lbs and have been feeding where the mercy water hits the deeper ocean water. and have been biting everything we through at them. Sailfish have been traveling in schools of 3 all week we have been spotting them and casting 2-3 lines of live bait and catching and releasing like crazy!! We caught 5 last Tuesday on a 6hr trip I mean they were literally jumping in the boat. The Wahoo have been a little trickier to catch now when your fishing for wahoo you have to troll at a faster speed then when your targeting billfish, wahoo is one of the fastest fish out there and has razor sharp teeth so if you not trolling at a fast enough speed say good buy to your $100 lure corbetena was the hot spot for wahoo last week ranging from 25-55 lbs we have not seen anything bigger than that so far this month.
Mazatlan - September 8th, 2006
supplied by: ifishmexico.com RECORDED:89 °FISHING: Good
Aug. 15 - 31, 2006.
Mazatlan Inshore & Offshore Fishing Report.
Hurricane "John" brought heavy rain, wind and rough seas during the last days of the month, fortunately "john" is gone now and we are back on fishing.
Before "John" these were the numbers:
Offshore: Dorado (Mahi-Mahi) remain plentiful and the Mazatlan fishing boats are averaging 15 dorado per boat day fished mostly from the buoys with 6-15 lb. ranges. The ifish! fleet reported for 13 fishing days that reflected 17 sailfish, (8 released) and 97 dorado for the period. Ifish! super pangas also have been continuously action on dorado for several weeks now.
Inshore: The super pangas reported 14 roosterfish, 90 red snapper & 140 cochis for a genuine inshore fishing action.
Mazatlan Climate: Ranged from 80 at night to daytime high's of 89, cloudy and rainy ... due to hurricane "John"...
Sea Conditions: calm most of the month, until the last few days of the period when we had hurricane "John" nearby.
<>Best Mazatlan Fishing Area: 12-35 miles to the southwest of the Marina Mazatlan for the unlimited quantities of 6-15 lb. dorado.
Best Lure/Bait: Rigged baits (mullet and ballyhoo), also the lures known as "petrolero" & "guacamaya" best for the sailfish.
Dorado pretty eager on ballyhoo, live bait, squid & shrimp.
Mazatlan fishing reports by Job Othoniel / http://www.ifishmexico.com
Lake El Salto - September 8th, 2006
supplied by: ifishmexico.com RECORDED:94 °FISHING: Good
Lake El Salto Bass Fishing Report
For August 15st – 31st , 2006 Air Temp: 83°-94°F (Early Morning and late evenings) 93°-99°F (Siesta time) Water Temp: 79°-83°F Average number of bass per boat per day: 60-90 Largest bass caught: 11.2 pounds
Popular lures used this week: 1. Storm WildEye 4” Swim Shads in mullet, golden mullet, white & white with chartreuse back. 2. Yamamoto Senkos, Yum Dingers or Bass Pro Shops 5, 6 & 7-inch Stinkos in watermelon, watermelon red flake, black with blue flake, red shad and white & chartreuse. 3. Rat-L-Traps in ½ & ¾-ounce in silver with blue back and silver with black back. 4. Eight inch Zoom or Yum Lizards and 10-inch Berkley Powerworms in black with blue tail, watermelon, watermelon red flake and junebug. 5. Buzzbaits in ½ & 5/8-ounce in black, black with blue and white. 6. Bomber Fat Free Shad & Rapala DT10, DT14 &DT16 Crankbaits in citrus shad, fire tiger, white. (Important key is an orange belly) 7. Spinnerbaits in ½ to 1-ounce in white, white & chartreuse, chartreuse and shad. Both silver and gold willow blades have been successful. 8. Zara Spook in chrome with black top.
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Ascension Bay - November 23rd, 2005
supplied by: Pesca Maya RECORDED:0 °FISHING: Excellent
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