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Cabo San Lucas - May 8th, 2008
supplied by: Baja Anglers
RECORDED: 
92 °
FISHING: Excellent
Hi Folks,
I just love the late spring in Cabo, you will be hard pressed to find a better fishery anywhere in the world! I don’t get much rest or sleep in May and June, all’s I can think about is fishing, and then when I get off the water, all my thoughts turn to the next days outing. It’s crazy, I have been doing this my entire life and it still drives me nuts. What a great life!
Wow, the inshore fishing continues to be really good. This spring is shaping up to be one of the best I have seen in Cabo.
Lots of fun exciting action on flies as well as spinning gear for roosterfish, jacks, sierra mackerel, yellowtail, and cubera snappers.
On top of that we are starting to catch some really big roosterfish, just ask Doug and Jamie Semlerd from Alexandria, Virginia. Doug caught roosterfish, sierra mackerel and cubera snappers and ended their day with a 50 pound plus roosterfish on light spinning tackle.
Lou Bevelaqua from Long Island New York had another great day with us, he caught a large variety of fish and also got a nice roosterfish over 40 lbs. This has to be at least his 12th giant roosterfish fishing with us over the years.
The offshore fishing has slowed down a bit. We are catching striped marlin, expect one to three fish on a days outing. Tossing live baits to tailers is the best bet.
The YF tuna have mostly left or either caught by the commercial fishing boats. You can catch 6 to 10 fish a day, but its not the crazy action we had a few weeks ago.
The dorado are mostly by catch while fishing for striped marlin and on the small side with most fish under 20 lbs.
Expect the striped marlin fishing to improve in the next few days, as mid May is prime time for the stripers.
Pictured below is Doug with his big roosterfish.
Tight Lines,
Grant
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Cabo San Lucas - May 5th, 2008
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
90 °
FISHING: Great
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportApril 28-May 4, 2008 WEATHER: We had just another week in paradise with our daytime highs varying between 90-95 early in the week and 85-90 later in the week. Our nighttime lows varied as well with 75 early in the week and 65 later in the week. That nighttime low of 75 on Monday and Tuesday night forced us to turn on the air conditioner! We had partly cloudy skies all week long with winds at 10-15 knots from the northwest with occasional higher gusts.WATER: There was little change in the surface conditions from last week. The Pacific side of the Cape had swells at 3-5 feet and the Cortez side had 1-3 foot swells. The water temperature on the Cortez side was a pretty even 74-76 degrees from the shore out to around 12 miles, then it became 67-69 degrees for another 12-20miles, then there was a pretty strong break where it warmed right back up. On the Pacific side the temperature remained around 66-69 degrees. On the Pacific side from the Golden Gate and across the San Jaime Bank and toward the beach the water was a fairly dirty green, the closer to shore you got the dirtier it got. This plume of cool, green water extended to the south of the Cape keeping the water outside the 1,000-fathom line that dirty green.BAIT: There was plenty of bait this week as the larger boat brought in plenty of Mackerel to sell to the Panga bait boats. With the small moon the bait boats were able to catch plenty of Caballito as well. This week the bait was the usual $2 per bait. When we purchased bait on Saturday, our supplier informed us that as of this coming Wednesday all the boats were raising their prices to $3 per bait. Keep in mind there has not been a raise in the bait price for almost 8 years, so this is not unexpected.FISHING: BILLFISH: Once again the billfish were very easy to find this week, all you had to do was get out on the water. From just off of the lighthouse on the Pacific side around the Cape to the Punta Gorda area they were everywhere. Early in the week they were on the surface sleeping and tailing. Unfortunately, they were also full! They may have been stuffing themselves on squid once again, but for whatever the reason, you could throw baits to 25-30 fish and be lucky to find one or two that were hungry. A few boats resorted to drifting live baits deep, and this technique did work a little better than trolling lures while casting bait to fish on the surface. As the week went on the fish seemed to move up the Cortez coast just a bit and then back to in front of the arch. At the end of the week the ratio of fish baited and fish hooked improved a bit and most boats that tried to work Marlin were able to catch between two and four per trip, definitely an improvement over earlier in the week. Mackerel was the bait of choice; Caballito just didn’t seem to get the fish interested. The Striped Marlin averaged around 120 pounds. YELLOWFIN TUNA: At the beginning of this week all the purse seiners we had out front last week had gone north, leaving us with just “scales drifting down” where before we had great fishing. Of course the fish were not around, they had all moved out or had been scooped up in the nets! Well, on the positive side, on Saturday this week the fish re-appeared just two miles out off the arch and lighthouse. These fish were also a bit larger with most of them between 20-30 pounds with a few pushing 40 pounds. One hour in the fish resulted in 16 Yellowfin for one of our groups of anglers. Almost anything worked, as these fish were very hungry. I went up on the Cortez side on Saturday and we got into a very larges group of dolphin with birds everywhere and large schools of bait showing up on the depth sounder. No Yellowfin though, and I could see two super seiners just on the horizon to the north, off of Los Frailles. I wonder if they had already gotten all the fish?
DORADO: The warmer water out front brought more dorado into our area and most boats were able to get at least one or two fish per trip. One of my friends was fishing up off the Punta Gorda area earlier in the week and found a dead whale that had been around long enough to attract quite a collection of life under it and was able to limit out on fish averaging 15 pounds. There were a few fish in the 30- pound range there as well. Everywhere else the bite was just all right with bright colored lures and live bait fished for Marlin getting the most fish.
WAHOO: The moon phase might be wrong for Wahoo this last week as I did not hear of any of them being caught. INSHORE: Our anglers tat fished off of Pangas this week continued to do well with a varied catch including Roosterfish to 15 pounds, Sierra to 8 pounds, Yellowtail to 15 pounds and an assortment of bottom fish such as snapper and grouper to 10 pounds. The majority of the fish were found just off the beach on the Pacific side but when the late afternoon winds kicked in the afternoon trips worked off of Gray Rock and Cabo del Sol for the same type of fish. On Saturday, when the Yellowfin showed up so close to the arch, almost every Panga out there was in the mix, and they all did well. Quite a few of the Pangas were working just off the beach for Marlin as well throughout the week, and were averaging just about the same as the cruisers.
NOTES: The Seiners left, that’s good news, there are Tuna out front again, that’s good news! Live bait is going up in price on Wednesday, that’s bad news! I’m done with this week’s report, that’s good news! Until next week, tight lines! Give a listen to the music of an old Fender Stratocaster player, Dick Dale on his album “Spatial Disorientation”, that’s weird news!
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Cabo San Lucas - May 1st, 2008
supplied by: Baja Anglers
RECORDED:
92 °
FISHING: Excellent
Hi Folks,
Wow, what a great fishing week. It’s been too much fun chasing the inshore species.
We have had great action and variety. One moment you have sierra mackerel chasing your fly, then next cast is a school of roosterfish, and then the next cast it’s a 30 lb cubera snapper. It just can’t get any better than this.
Ask Dan Dreyer from Payson, Az; Dan was out fly fishing the other day and caught 18 roosterfish, multiple jacks and sierra mackerel, and 4 cubera snappers, one pig was well over 30 lbs. Dan said, the action was non stop all day, and the big cubera made it the best day ever!
The offshore fishing has been mixed results, we had a few great days of yellowfin fishing, but the tuna boats decided that Cabo was its next fishing grounds, so for a week straight they were fishing within sight of the marina. Talk about being pissed, the whole fishing community was up in arms, but the Mexican Government considers Tuna to be a commercial fish, that means that the tuna boats can fish where they please.
The striped marlin fishing has been pretty consistent, with one to three fish a day on light tackle. The fish are pretty spread out all over the place, but we have been finding some big 150# plus fish close to shore, sometimes only ½ mile offshore.
The dorado are here and there and expect to catch a few small fish while trolling for marlin.
Camping trips- I will be adding camping trips up the Pacific. These are places I have fished over the last fifteen years, that get only a small amount of pressure from a few local fisherman. We will be going “outback”, with little or no contact with the outside world. Expect to catch snook, corbina’s, sea bass, snappers, and other fun inshore fish on the fly and spinning gear. I will also have some Kayaks for fooling around in the estuary’s. The trips will be 3 to 6 fishing days in length. The trips will be from September through the end of October. I will also be doing at least one Mag bay trip with guests. If you have any interest, please email me.
Most of you know that Gisel and I got into the Real Estate business a few years ago. We have been doing well with the strong market down here, and it’s been a lot of fun. If you have any interest in buying Real Estate in Los Cabos, the East Cape or Todos Santos area, please email me at info@baja-anglers.com
Pictured below id Dan Dreyer with a nice fat Cubera snapper on the fly.
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Cabo San Lucas - April 28th, 2008
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED: 
90 °
FISHING: Great
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportApril 21-27, 2008 WEATHER: I guess that I probably don’t say this enough, but I have to let you know that this is just about my favorite time of the year for the weather. We have had morning lows in the mid to high 60’s and our daytime highs have just reached the low 90’s. The week began with mostly cloudy skies on Monday and on Tuesday afternoon they started to break up. The wind was kicking in a bit early in the week as well. The clouds brought no rain and after they were gone the winds were very light, just enough to put a light chop on the water in the afternoon. The week ended on a very nice note with clear and sunny skies and light winds.WATER: The Pacific side of the Cape had swells at 3-5 feet but spaced well apart. On the Cortez side south of the Punta Gorda area things were nice with swells at 1-3 feet. On the Pacific early in the week and up past Punta Gorda the winds kicked it up a notch and the water was choppy. On the Pacific side the water temperatures were lower than on the Cortez side with 69-71 degree water almost everywhere. The temperature break was a straight line north to south off of the lighthouse on the Pacific side. East of the break the water warmed to 75 degrees and out at the Cabrillo Seamount late in the week we had some water as warm as 82 degrees for a day or so.BAIT: This was a tough week to get bait; the bait boats were working hard at snagging Caballito right at the mouth of the marina and were not having a lot of luck. I heard of quite a few instances of bait boats charging as much as $5 per bait. That is high, but not bad if it is the right bait, but the fish definitely preferred Mackerel, and the Caballito are not in very good shape after being snagged. In other words, bait was scarce this week, and expensive.FISHING: BILLFISH: Once again there were plenty of Marlin out there but the bite was still off. There were plenty of squid in the area and the Marlin were stuffed. A few boats were doing all right on Mackerel (a scarce bait this week) and a few fish were caught on Caballito, but the majority of fish were hooked on artificial lures. The Striped Marlin were all over the place from a mile off the arch to 5 miles off of Gray Rock, you had no problem finding fish, but they were not very hungry. On the Billfish side of things, I heard that several weeks ago there were three or four large Blue Marlin, one in the #800 and a couple on the 500-600 pound class caught right out front when these small football Yellowfin first showed up. I didn’t hear of them at the time, but was told of them yesterday by a very reputable Captain. YELLOWFIN TUNA: Yellowfin Tuna were the fish of the week, at least at the beginning of the week, and are also the “rant” fish of the week. At the start of the week, under the cloudy skies, hordes of football size fish, from 8 to 20 pounds showed up jut off the beach from 2-5 miles from the arch. All the tuna you wanted were available and everyone limited out on fish. On Wednesday the Purse Seiners started to show up. On Wednesday there were 6 boats out there, on Thursday there were 9 boats, on Friday and Saturday there were 13 boats, at least 8 of which were super Seiners over 200 feet long and with spotting helicopters n the decks. They were fishing these tuna just 2 miles off the beach. The marines went out and stopped two of the boats and chased them away, but said that the others all had permits to fish there. These fish have hold that can carry 1,500 TONS of fish. Needless to say, at the end of the week a good day on the water resulted in a dozen or fewer tuna for the sport fleet. There were the occasional nice fish; the largest I heard of was a double on fish in the #70 class.
DORADO: The warm water has resulted in an increase in the numbers of Dorado being caught. Most boats are getting a fish or two a day; on Saturday we caught four Dorado between 12-18 pounds. They are in the same area as the tuna and marlin, right in among the Seiners. A live Caballito dropped back after a hook-up resulted in at least one of our fish, the others bit on bright colored lures.
WAHOO: There were a few Wahoo caught, again in the warm water out front, but not many of them. Average size was reported at 25 pounds. INSHORE: The warmer water resulted in fewer Yellowtail being caught this week, but an increase in the numbers of Roosterfish. The Roosterfish are still on the small side with an average weight of around 5 pounds. Live bait was tough to come by so while the Caballito were large, there were not many of them and the ones anglers used were getting pounded hard by the Roosters. Most of the hook-ups were a result of luck, as the baits were much too large for the fish. The Sierra bite has dropped off as a result of the warmer water but the Pargo and grouper bite has become better. With the Tuna so close to shore, many of the Pangas were targeting them, and they had good luck.
NOTES: The Tuna Seiners had everyone up in arms, especially late in the afternoons when they started to set nets around the few sports fishermen that stayed out. I had thought that they were not allowed by law to fish any closer than 20 miles form the beach, and not at all within the Sea of Cortez, but I must have misunderstood the rules. Anyway, I overheard more than one local crew complain and talk about doing something, but since the Marines are letting them fish, it must be legal (right?). If we saw these numbers between one and 6 miles off of the beach, imagine how many more are just beyond the horizon. If these boats continue to fish right in front of Cabo, look for the numbers of all species caught by the local sport fishing fleet to drop off quickly. I remember what just 2 of these boats did to the fishery on top of the Gorda Banks six years ago; it took four years for the fishery there to recover. The Pangas and fishermen out of San Jose ended up ganging together and throwing rebar anchors into the middle of the Seiners nets while they were fishing and powering out, ripping their nets up. Until next week, keep your fingers crossed!
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Cabo San Lucas - April 24th, 2008
supplied by: Baja Anglers
RECORDED:
90 °
FISHING: Excellent
Hi Folks,
The weather is just perfect as we move into our spring season. It’s been sunny with daytime highs around 90 degree’s with a light cool breeze off the ocean to keep things nice. The water is warming up on the Sea of Cortez side with mid to low 70’s and on the Pacific it’s kinda on the cool side in the high 60s.
The inshore fishing really cant get any better, just ask Greg Williamson from Redmond, Oregon. Greg, his wife Kim, and their two daughters, Brianna and Hailey fished with me yesterday. Went headed into the Sea of Cortez side for the calmer fishing water. Right off the bat, Bri and Hailey started catching fun sized jacks, then they caught a ton of roosterfish, around noon we headed to a yellowtail hole and caught three nice yellowtail on spinning rods for lunch. On the way back we stopped and caught really big sierra mackerel, some over 12 lbs. we kept a few for ceviche. It’s a lot of fun when the fishing is this good and you see kids catching a ton of fish, their laughter is the medicine that cures anything that ails you.
Correy Schieder and Frank Zoch from San Antonio, Texas wrote; Awesome time- Definitely worth going with Grant. 17 roosterfish, 12 sierras 1 bonita and 1 yellowtail. On all fly.
The roosterfish action is picking up! We are catching a ton of smaller roosterfish, and we are starting to see some nice fish over 20 lbs. More big fish will be coming into our area in the next month, they will stay in the here until late June/ mid July. If you want to fish with us during our prime roosterfish season in May and June, you want to start booking now before we are booked solid.
The sierras action is really good right now. Lots of nice big sierra’s around, we have been catching many fish over 12 lbs, which are world records on a fly.
Everyone knows that Sierra’s are the favored fish for ceviche, but not many folks know that they are an absolutely delicious fish that can be cooked in many ways. My favorite is breaded fish sticks, or try them blackened. They also make fine Sushimi.
The Yellowtail are still around in numbers, and they have been great fun on the fly and on light spinning gear. I actually got spooled the other day when I hooked a really big yellowtail on a spinning rod, 300 yards of 50 spectra was off the reel in seconds, I didn’t even get a chance to follow the fish, the drag was smokin.
Big jacks up to 30 lbs; hook into one of those and your arms will be sore for days. These fish are tons of fun, and will really bend a rod.
Some snappers around, but we have yet to see the large schools. They usually show up in May and June. These fish are fun to catch. We see the schools on the surface and spinning gear or flies at them. Sometimes you get into a school of fish and they are just too big to land, which happened a few years ago. We were hooking the 25 # to 60 # snappers on the fly and we couldn’t do much with them. Even though we were 200 yards down the beach from the point, the big fish would run straight for the rocks and there was nothing we could do but follow with the boat, all but a few of the really big ones cut us off.
The striped marlin fishing is pretty good on most days. It’s not unusual to see 5 to 20 fish tailing on the surface in a days outing and to catch 2 to 4 of them.
But marlin being the fish that they are, when they get closed mouth, when that happens, it’s almost impossible to feed a fish that isn’t hungry. You can cast a livie 5 feet in front of him and he will turn around and swim away form the bait.
The YF tuna are close to Cabo. Plenty of fish 10# to 25# just south of the cape. Day before yesterday, the fleet was catching them just 2 miles offshore. Canb anyone say “fresh Sushi”?
A few dorado around, but most are just a by-catch while marlin fishing, expect the dorado fishing to improve starting July with the peak in August, September and October.
If you want good offshore fishing, plan on coming down to Cabo in the summer months. There are many advantages to coming to Cabo in the summer months.
First off is that we will run our Summer Special again from July 15th-September 25th. Fish for two days or more and we will cover your hotel at the Mar de Cortez. Note- This is for direct bookings only.
Second; airfares usually are much lower in the summer months, and the fishing is so good!!!! We catch blue marlin, black marlin, striped marllin, sailfish, YF tuna, dorado, wahoo, black skipjack, and bonitas on the fly and light tackle. If you are interested in fishing with us on our summer trips, please email me.
Camping trips- I will be adding camping trips up the Pacific. These are places I have fished over the last fifteen years, that get only a small amount of pressure from a few local fisherman. We will be going “outback”, with little or no contact with the outside world. Expect to catch snook, corbina’s, sea bass, snappers, and other fun inshore fish on the fly and spinning gear. I will also have some Kayaks for fooling around in the estuary’s. The trips will be 3 to 6 fishing days in length. The trips will be from September through the end of October. I will also be doing at least one Mag bay trip with guests. If you have any interest, please email me.
Most of you know that Gisel and I got into the Real Estate business a few years ago. We have been doing well with the strong market down here, and it’s been a lot of fun. If you have any interest in buying Real Estate in Los Cabos, the East Cape or Todos Santos area, please email me at info@baja-anglers.com
Pictured below is Bri and Hailey Williamson of Redmond OR.
They were fishing with me on Flying fish 3 out of Cabo San Lucas.
They caught that fish on a G. Loomis Green water spinning rod and
Tight Lines,
Grant
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Cabo San Lucas - April 21st, 2008
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
90 °
FISHING: Great
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportApril 14-20, 2008 WEATHER: Once again we have had a week of sun and fun here in Cabo. This time of year the spring break crowd is gone, the number of cruise ships calling at our port is down and the temperature has started to climb. Not too high, just into the low 90’s during the day and the low 70’s at night, but that’s just perfect for me! With this kind of weather a lot of our friends have returned from the cold north while many of the winter residents have gone home to prepare for spring back there. Just a very nice time of the year!WATER: We have had light afternoon breezes for the first part of the week changing into light morning breezes later in the week, but nothing heavy enough to cause problems out on the water. A prevailing northwesterly direction has meant that the water on the Sea of Cortez has been very nice with only slight swells and wind chop while the Pacific side of the Cape has had slight swells and mostly slightly choppy conditions. Water temperature on the Pacific side has remained cooler than on the Cortez side with that wrap around the Cape from the east I mentioned last week still happening. Offshore on the Pacific side it has been 67-69 degrees while closer to the beach, say 4-5 miles off the beach and 10 miles to the north the warmer 74-degree water has prevailed. Of course the cooler water has meant green conditions and on the Golden Gate Bank reports were of very green conditions. On the Sea of Cortez we have had consistent 74-75 degree water across all the areas with just a slight tinge to it.BAIT: There were many more Caballito available this past week than there were Mackerel, and they were both the normal $2 per bait. I did not hear anything about Sardinas.FISHING: BILLFISH: You didn’t have to go far this week to find Striped Marlin, but you had to have the right bait and a good amount of luck to catch one! Early in the week the bite was good up at the Punta Gorda area later in the afternoon and there were not many fish in our area, but on Wednesday the suddenly showed up in large numbers. It was not uncommon to spot pods of three to fifteen fish less than four miles form the arch, and often within a mile or less. The problem was that the fish were not very interested in Caballito, and that was the bait most common from the bait boats. Mackerel was preferred by the Marlin that were hungry. Being off the feed was probably due to them feeding all night during the full moon phase (tonight is the full moon). What they have been feeding on also had an effect! There were balls of 12-inch squid everywhere, and almost every species of fish caught this week was stuffed with them. Captains and anglers who were on top of their game and lucky enough to get a fish to the boat were ready with a bait net to catch any fresh squid spilled from the Marlins mouth, and some of them were lucky enough to be on top of one of the squid balls when the marlin forced them to the surface, managing to net a few live ones to toss out. Guaranteed catch if that happened! But, alas, for the most part boats were lucky to catch one marlin after throwing bait to dozens of lazing fish. YELLOWFIN TUNA: The tuna bite in our area dropped off again although a few boats were able to get into small pods of porpoise that were holding then. The tuna that were caught were not large ones; most of them were in the 10-15 pound range. A good catch this past week would have been four or five tuna. Most of them were found to the south at a distance of 10 miles and more, a few more were found around the 1150 area. Red and orange colored lures in the smaller sizes sort of imitated the squid they were feeding on.
DORADO: Once again the numbers of Dorado slowly increased over the numbers caught last week. It seemed that about 20% of the boats were flying a yellow flag or two when they returned this week. Most of the fish were found in the same areas as the Striped Marlin and they were also stuffed on squid. One nice thing is that the average size has been fair, not a lot of the little slipper size (5-8 pounds) were caught, most of the fish were around 12-15 pounds.
WAHOO: What Hoo once again, and I was surprised since we are in a full moon phase. Maybe the water just has to warm up a bit more? INSHORE: There were reports from the anglers and Captains of large numbers of small Roosterfish once again just off the beach on the Pacific side between the arch and the lighthouse. These fish have been pounding small Caballito and the boats often had to return for more bait. The size was small with an average of 5 pounds, but a few larger ones, to about 15 pounds, were caught in the same area every day. I had an angler tie into a very large Sierra on Tuesday in this area. He fought the fish on line around 15 pounds in strength and said the Sierra would have weighed about 20 pounds (this is an experienced angler and Captain saying this). Of course when I told them that it might have been a possible line class world record they were mad they had filleted the fish! There have been some nice Pargo in the 20-30 pound class start to show off of the rocky points and live bait slow trolled deep has been the key for the larger ones. Adding to the excitement of fishing this way is the possibility of hooking up to some of the 30-40 pound Yellowtail that are still around. There are still many of the smaller ones, but as I said last week, not in the numbers we had been seeing. Even with the inshore action being good, many of the Pangas are targeting Marlin since they are so close right now.
NOTES: My golf game continues to improve; I am now consistently breaking 100. Don’t laugh, that is quite an improvement for me! I am looking forward to fishing this coming week; I just hope things keep popping out there! This weeks report was written to the sound of my dog snoring in the background, she had a hard day at the beach this morning! Until next week, tight lines!
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Cabo San Lucas - April 14th, 2008
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
91 °
FISHING: Great
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportApril 7-13, 2008 WEATHER: The weather continues to slowly warm up as our nighttime lows have been in the high 60’s and our daytime highs have been in the high 80’s. There have been very few clouds in the skies this past week, just scattered around here and there for the most part. No rain has been seen to fall anywhere near us. Sun block of at least SPF-35 has been a necessity.WATER: It appears that the California current has become weaker as the warm water on the Cortez side of the Cape has started to come across into the Pacific side over the week. The cooler water in the current has been forced offshore, outside the San Jaime Bank it is a cool 68-69 degrees while on the bank and up to the shoreline it is a warmer 73-74 degrees. On the Cortez side of the Cape we have mostly warm water in the 74-75 degree range. Surface conditions have been great this past week with small swells and very little wind.BAIT: Mackerel was easily available at the usual $2 per bait and there were also Caballito at the same price. FISHING: BILLFISH: The Striped Marlin are re-appearing in large numbers now as the water has warmed up to their preferred 74 degree range, but they are not biting all that well. That is not to say there are no fish being caught; it just means that as far as the percentage of fish caught to fish seen, well, that is a low number. The positive side of this is that there are large numbers of fish being seen on the surface, small groups of three or four and larger groups that number up to fifteen fish. Most boats have been releasing two or three Marlin per trip, but throwing bait to forty or so fish in order to get those numbers. The area around the 95 spot has been holding large numbers of Striped Marlin, as has the area around the 1150. YELLOWFIN TUNA: We had a wide-open bite on the football size fish this week as a large school moved to within 4 miles of the bay early in the week. Boats were getting 20-30 fish each before tiring and going on to fish for Marlin. These fish were averaging 8-10 pounds each with a few in the 20-pound class. They were biting anything you put in the water, but the larger fish were eating live bait dropped in front of the moving schools. Any boats that went out at 150 degrees ran into these fish on Monday and Tuesday, as the week went on the fish moved to the west. There were other scattered schools found, but with the bite so good close to home not many boats went much farther to look for larger ones.
DORADO: There continued to be a few fish caught this week and as the water warms up more we should expect to be seeing more Dorado. I had a report of a boat up at Los Barillas catching 27 Dorado after finding a dead seal and that is the type of thing that may begin to happen here. Not that we kill seals, but this time of year we begin to find kelp fronds and trash in the water that hold large numbers of Dorado.
WAHOO: What Hoo once again. INSHORE: The numbers of small Yellowtail being caught has lowered this week, weather because they have moved on to water more in keeping with their preferred temperature or because they became fished out, I don’t know. But instead of filling coolers with these small 5-8 pound fish, boats are getting just three or four per trip. What has a lot of anglers excited is the number of Roosterfish that have been showing up just outside of the arch. There have been mornings when 20 fish have been caught and released by one boat, but the fish have been small with an average size of 5 pounds. Little guys, but when you use light tackle they are a blast to catch! The Sierra bite has fallen off a bit as well and with the smooth water conditions and the Yellowfin Tuna being close, a lot of the Panga fishermen have been going out for the Tuna.
NOTES: Maybe I’ll try this thing I’ve been trying to get to use next year, it does not look like I will get to use this technique anytime soon, sigh. Anyway, we had great fishing this week and I hope it continues, with the numbers of Striped Marlin we are seeing if they start biting it will be awesome. This weeks report was written to the music of John Lee Hooker on the 2006 Virgin Records release “Best Of Friends”. Until next week, tight lines!
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Cabo San Lucas - April 10th, 2008
supplied by: Baja Anglers
RECORDED:
85 °
FISHING: Excellent
Hi Folks,
Some fun news first;
We are now posting photos of our guests and their catch along with our daily fishing log on a regular basis. Our goal is two or three times a week. You can check it out on our web site. Go to baja-anglers.com
Also, you can check out the new video on our web site. It’s lots of fun with Mike, Teddy and Luke Granbois catching a variety of inshore species, and there is even some underwater footage of the giant Humbolt squid.
Inshore;
The fishing continues to be really good. We are catching lots of roosterfish on the fly and light tackle. It’s not uncommon to catch 12 or more roosterfish on the fly in a days outing.
There’s just a great variety of inshore fish to be caught right now. You never know what fish you are going to catch next, one moment it’s a rooster, and the next it’s a yellowtail or another of our great inshore fish. It’s just too much fun!
Ask Steve Baldikoski from Los Angeles, Ca. Steve was fishing with me the other day and caught over 12 roosterfish, some barracuda and sierra mackerel. All on the fly. Steve wrote: My first time fly fishing in Saltwater. Had the time of my life. Grant is incredible, professional, charming, and most importantly patient. I only wish I had more days in Cabo to go out again.
John and Rob Whitaker from Los Angeles wrote: Nazario was Great! 10 Sierras, 10 roosterfish, and 3 pompano. Fabulous time ever!
Chuck and Sara Berra from St. Louis wrote: We had a great time. The service and teaching were fabulous. You delivered what you promised. Thanks! Lots of roosterfish, 3 yellowtail and one sierra mackerel.
The fishing is only going to be getting better as we move into our spring fishery. Already our May and June dates are filling quickly. If you want to fish the peak roosterfish season with us, start making plans now.
Offshore;
The striped marlin fishing is really starting to pick up again. Lots of fish 10 to 20 miles offshore. They can still have a bit of closed mouth, but you should be able to pick up a couple of fish on a daily basis.
The yellowfin are out 18 miles offshore, blind strikes are the norm and if you find a few porpoise, watch out, the bite can be really hot.
A few Dorado are being caught here and there. They are mostly a by-catch while trolling for striped marlin and YF tuna.
The photo is Bill Schoger and a nice fly caught roosterfish. He was fishing with our Captain Arturo on Flying fish 3. Out of Cabo San Lucas.
Tight Lines,Grant
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Cabo San Lucas - March 31st, 2008
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
87 °
FISHING: Great
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportMarch 24-30, 2008 WEATHER: Wow, did we ever have great weather this week! I was telling my wife yesterday as we were driving out of town that I wish it was like this every day, then she reminded me that if it was, there would be too many people living here! Guess that’s right, I mean it was 11 am and it was a beautiful 77 degrees out there, and only 67 when we got up in the morning. We had lightly scattered clouds all week and this wonderful weather. Sure am glad I was here this week!WATER: The winds from the northwest were on again, off again this week as they kicked up for three days during the middle of the week. This resulted in rough conditions on the Pacific side of the Cape and in the Sea of Cortez offshore. Along with the wind came a strong push from the California current, bringing water along the Pacific coast as cold as 61 degrees. On the charts it looks like a finger cupped around the Cape, pointing toward the east. The warmer water, in the 71-degree range at the end of the week, was outside the 1,000-fathom line again. Earlier in the week it warmed up to 75 degrees in a warm eddy that spun across from the west to the east, then went beyond our immediate area. The water between Cabo and the 1150 and north of that line has been a consistent 71-72 degrees while the water on the Pacific side offshore has been a much cooler 67 degrees.BAIT: Mackerel was easily available at the usual $2 per bait and there were also Caballito at the same price. FISHING: BILLFISH: The Striped Marlin bite picked up this week, not red hot by any means but much better than it has been. Most of the fish were found outside the 1,000-fathom line and in the warmer water on the Cortez side. Most of these fish were on the surface and caught on live bait, but a few were attracted by lures and bit on drop-back live bait or were hungry enough to eat the lures. My guess is that the average was a fish for every other boat, with a few boats managing to hook up and release two or three per day. One nice thing I heard early in the week was of a Black Marlin reported to be in the 400 –pound range being caught by one of the fleet boats while they were fishing for football Tuna outside the 1,000-fathom line. That was reported as happening on Tuesday. A few more Swordfish were sighted as well, but there were none reported hooked up that I heard about. YELLOWFIN TUNA: Football Yellowfin in the 6-15 pound class continued to be the fish of the week as almost everyone willing to get out 30 miles was able to get limits, some more than limits. It usually did not take long as the fish were very hungry and multiple hook-ups were the norm, as three or four lines would get hit at the same time. Boats with just one client aboard went to pulling only one or two lines. The fish slowly moved to the east over the course of the week and the best bite was between 180 and 210 degrees during the start of the week and between 170 and 140 degrees at the end of the week. A few boats were able to get into slightly larger fish averaging 30 pounds at the end of the week, but rough offshore conditions made keeping sight of the Dolphin pods hard to do.
DORADO: There were a few more Dorado caught this week than last week, probably due to the eddy of warm water that passed our way. Most of the Dorado were caught in the warm water as boats fished for Tuna. Average size was around 15 pounds but a few boats caught doubles on fish in the 30-pound class.
WAHOO: What Hoo? INSHORE: The rough water on the Pacific side combined with cold green conditions that started early in the week meant the inshore fishing was not very good this past week. That is not to say there were not fish caught, but the numbers were down from what we had been experiencing. The Sierra bite was spotty; a good trip resulted in a half-dozen or so to 10 pounds with the average size around 6 pounds. There were Pargo found in the rocks at the points and still a few decent Yellowtail were found.
NOTES: I don’t know if the warming of the water is a trend that is going to continue, but I sure hope it does. It seems that the water getting warmer means better fishing for us. I am going to get out this week and give a few things I have been working on a try; I’ll let you know next week if they work out. Until then, try and keep a smile on your face, things could always be worse. This weeks report was written to the music of my dog snoring in the background after a long morning at the beach! Tight Lines!
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Cabo San Lucas - March 27th, 2008
supplied by: Baja Anglers
RECORDED:
80 °
FISHING: Excellent
Hi Folks,
You can’t beat the weather in Cabo right now, it’s perfect!
Sunny, and around 80 degrees, with little wind at all. The seas are calm and water temperatures are in the high 60s in the Pacific and low 70s on the Sea of Cortez side.
Offshore;
It’s nice to see a return of the marlin. Plenty of fish all along the corridor, 5 to 15 miles out. They are hitting lures as well as live baits.
Ask Joe Barrta from Santa Rosa, Ca. He was fishing with our Capt. Arturo yesterday and landed and released a nice striped marlin on the fly.
The yellowfin tuna are 20 to 30 miles offshore, most of the fish are footballs under 20#, but there are a few really nice fish over 100# out there. Find the porpoise and you will find the tuna. Louie Bevlaqua from Long Island, New York landed a nice 120# yellowfin tuna on light tackle. They were fishing with Arturo and catching footballs, when Arturo decided to drop bait down deep. The rest is history. Go going Arturo!
A few Dorado out with the tuna, but not much to write home about.
We have had an invasion of giant Humboldt squid. The squid are located close to shore (no more than ½ mile out). Dropping Yo-Yo’s is the trick! This is right out of National Geographic. These squid are 5 to 6 feet long! Hook one and the school follows it to the top. The beaks look like big parrot beaks and could easily take your finger right off. Some of you must have seen the program a few years ago, where the giant Humboldt’s were taking divers at night in the Sea of Cortez. We’ll in the show, this one fellow puts on ceramic football gear and helmet and jumps over the side. The squid came up from the deep and were attacking him. Proved without a doubt, that we are part of their diet, and its dangerous to swim at night in the Sea of Cortez. You never know what lurking underneath you. Very cool!
Well we won this time. We had Solomon’s landing deep fry the squid and pan fry the yellowtail and boy were they delicious.
The inshore action has been a lot of fun this last week. We are catching yellow tail, roosterfish, sierra mackerel, and jacks on both fly and light spinning gear.
One high note was Mark Ormiston’s day. Mark was fishing with his buddy David Cole They had a grat day on the water and caught 9 roosterfish on the fly. What a day!
A few days ago, I fished Mike Granbois with his two sons Ted and Luke. Mike is from York, Pennsylvania and has fished with me for the last 4 years.
We had a lot of fun fishing with his boys and they landed over 10 yellowtail on light spinning rods. Then they caught a few giant squid. After some tough battles we headed inshore to catch roosterfish and sierra mackerel. A great day on the water! Those boys will remember that day for the rest of their lives.
Pictured below are Mike, Ted and Luke with Capt. Nazario on flying fish 2. That’s a big Humboldt squid. We were fishing right out in front of the lighthouse.
Tight Lines,
Grant
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