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Cabo San Lucas - March 17th, 2007
supplied by: Baja Anglers
RECORDED: 
85 °
FISHING: Great
Hi Folks,
The Jimmy Buffet weather has been absolutely perfect. Get the margaritas out! Cabo has been sporting beautiful warm sunny days in the mid to high 80s with calm winds. Good news! Along with the warmer weather, the fishing has shown a big improvement.
Inshore we are starting to catch Cubera snappers in the surf. These fish are fun to catch, they are a hard hitting fish with a stubborn strong fight, and to make things even better, they make a great dinner! The best bet to catching them is using a livie cast into the beach and rocks, but we are also catching a few on the fly. The snapper fishing will only get better, as April, May and June are the prime months for snappers. Cabo has quite a variety of snappers that migrate into the area in the spring. That’s when we catch Cubera, Mangrove, Mutton, and Colorado snappers.
We are catching smaller roosterfish on flies and spin gear. The roosterfish are spread out all over the place. They are taking both live bait and flies well. The fish are mostly less than 15 lbs. The roosterfish season is coming. I can hear Gisel behind me going “not again”. Man, do I love the roosterfish season. In May and June I go a bit nuts and it’s hard to get me off the water. Many times I will guide a guest until 3 pm or so, get off the boat, pack my fly rod in the car and beach fish until dark, then I get home after dark, eat dinner, take a shower and hit the sack, and by 9pm I’m out, just to do it all over the next day. What a way to make a living, this is way too much fun!
The sierra mackerel are still going strong, with both light spinning gear using top water poppers, and on the fly. The fish are mostly around 4 to 6 pounds, but we have found some schools of 10 to 12 lb. fish. After 10 pounds, these fish are like mini wahoo’s. They are great fun to catch and have a hard strike, lightning first run, and they are the best fish to make ceviche. Add cold beers at the end of the day, and it doesn’t get any better.
We are also catching jack cravelle. We have caught some really big jacks lately. Tim Driscol caught an estimated 30 pound jack on light tackle. The fish was just a monster and easily went over 30 lbs.
We are also catching some nice sized Yellowtail, African pompano and ladyfish.
The striped marlin fishing has been unpredictable. Some days, the fish are biting really well, and on others, we aren’t seeing any. On the most part the marlin fishing has been pretty good.
Water temperatures are averaging around 70 degrees.
Tight Lines,
Grant
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Cabo San Lucas - March 12th, 2007
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
85 °
FISHING: Good
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportMarch 5-11, 2007 WEATHER: We had mostly sunny skies this week with just a few overcast days, and they were just overcast in the mornings. Our daytime highs were in the mid 80’s while the nighttime lows were in the mid 60’s. No rain of course and the winds were mixed with the prevailing winds from the northwest at 10-15 knots, but just in the mid day, they died off in the evenings.WATER: On the Pacific side of the Cape we had water at 72 degrees from the shore to five miles out, then there was a band of cool water at 68 degrees with a strong hint of green pushing toward the south in a band that was approximately 10 miles wide. To the west of that cool band the water warmed up again to 73-74 degrees. On the Cortez side of the Cape the water was almost uniformly 71-72 degrees from the shoreline to out past the Cabrillo seamount and it had just the slightest tinge of green to it. The strong temperature and color break that we had last week just off of the Punta Gorda area has spread apart a bit and drifted or been pushed to the north and is now in the East Cape area.BAIT: This week the bait was 90% Mackerel with 10% Caballito and they were the normal $2 per bait.FISHING: BILLFISH: The week started just the same as last week ended, spotty Marlin fishing everywhere. Thankfully things picked up as we ended the week with the fish fairly close to home and starting to bite again. On Saturday we had three boats out and they all hooked up to Marlin with one boat in by 10am having released two Marlin, one client fighting a Striper on the fly for 45 minutes before breaking him off and the other boat releasing one fish. They are fairly close to shore with all these fish within that warm water band on the Pacific side close to shore. I heard tales of a Blue Marlin being caught this week, it was reported to have been in the 450-pound range but I did not see the fish myself. At least things are happening again!YELLOWFIN TUNA: The Tuna were still scarce this week for most of the boats going offshore, but there was a decent bite on smaller fish between 10-20 pounds on the Cortez side up between Chileno and San Jose. They were biting on Sardines and were close to the shore, for the most part no any farther than 3 miles out. The key was to have plenty of the Sardines to chum with then to drift with line ones pinned to the hook. The Gorda Banks, specially the Inner Gorda, were also delivering a few fish with the same methods.DORADO: The Dorado bite is still off since the water is cool, but there are a few being found out there. Once again they are being caught in the warm water band close to the beach on the Pacific side far more often than elsewhere.WAHOO: There was a little bit of Wahoo action this week reported from the Gorda Banks area but that was all that I heard about.INSHORE: Inshore was definitely the way to go earlier in the week, as the offshore fishing was so spotty. Anglers scored well on Sierra and on Pargo to 15 pounds around the rocks. African and Gaff-top-sail Pompano were bonuses and the use of chum definitely increased the odds of hooking up to them. A few Dorado were caught inshore and anglers fishing cut bait on the bottom did fairly well on smaller Grouper to 10 pounds. NOTES: Thank goodness the offshore fishing improved this weekend. Now if only the Yellowfin start to show again things will be fine. The Gray whales have almost disappeared but there are still some Humpbacks offshore. Until next week, tight lines!
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Cabo San Lucas - March 5th, 2007
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
82 °
FISHING: Good
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportFebruary 26-March 4, 2007 WEATHER: The skies finally cleared up this week and the weather is getting warmer every day. Our daytime highs have reached into the low to mid 80’s and the nighttime lows have been in the mid 60’s for the most part. The winds have been shifting almost every day wit the majority of the time form the northwest but now and then coming from the southeast as well.WATER: We had some great shots of the water temperatures at the end of the week and they changed a lot from what we were observing during the early part of the week. Up past Los Frailles on the Cortez side of the cape the water has been a cool 68 to 69 degrees and green, but as soon as you moved to the south, just to the north of the Gorda Banks, the water became blue and the temperature raised to 73 degrees. At the end of the week this warm water extended down the cape and across to the Pacific side but only ran up the Pacific coast in a band five miles from the beach for 40 miles. West of the warm water band the water dropped to 70 degrees and was slightly green.BAIT: This week the bait was 90% Mackerel with 10% Caballito and they were the normal $2 per bait.FISHING: BILLFISH: Marlin fishing was really spotty this week. At the end of the week the high boats were coming in with two flags flying but most of the boats were bare on the outriggers. Out of 8 boats arriving back at the marina yesterday I saw three with Marlin flags but only one had two flags, the rest of the boats had been skunked. What action did occur happened just outside the Lighthouse on the Pacific side. A few fish were caught on lures and a few more on bait, but the fish were not really interested most of the time. Perhaps the full moon on Friday night had an effect on their feeding.YELLOWFIN TUNA: This was another scarce species this week. A few fish were caught among scattered Porpoise well to the south. They averaged 15 pounds. There were also a few fish caught up at Gorda Banks about the same size, but I did hear rumors of one decent fish at 112 pounds coming off of chunks.DORADO: One Dorado flag was flown for every 15 boats coming in yesterday; I guess that tells the tale.WAHOO: I thought that the full moon would have brought in a few fish but perhaps the water is still too cool for them. Anyway, there were a few Wahoo strikes I heard of but I saw no fish landed.INSHORE: A repeat of last week, and it looks like this was the way to fish for the past week, as almost all the action was inshore. Sierra, African Pompano, Yellowtail, Bonito, Skipjack, Jack Crevalle and an occasional Amberjack were the fish that were most commonly caught by anglers fishing from Pangas this week. Sierra were the inshore fish of the week as everyone was able to get good action from them using small hootchies in bright colors (green, a very bright green, was a favorite) as well as small Rapallas. Diamond jigs and iron slabs worked for the Yellowfin while cut bait was the ticket for good Pompano action. The Bonita, Skipjack and Jack Crevalle were all over dark colored hootchies trolled in water just a little farther off the beach. NOTES: It was slow fishing this week here in Cabo, everyone was scratching hard to find fish. I hope it changes this coming week as I have quite a few trips on the books and I hate going for a boat ride. I realize that it happens, but it is always supposed to happen to someone else! With fingers crossed for the coming week, tight lines until the next posting.
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Cabo San Lucas - March 4th, 2007
supplied by: Baja Anglers
RECORDED:
80 °
FISHING: Good
Baja Anglers fishing report March 4th 2007
Hi folks,
The fun news this report is about a father and son fishing day we had this last week. They are Al and Steve Baldwin from San Diego, CA. The game was roosterfish on the fly, and the day started out kinda slow, and there was not much action at all. We kept the faith and in the later in the morning Steve caught his first roosterfish on the fly, it was a beautiful roosterfish about 5 lbs. The fish came in strong and ate my 5” mullet pattern with gusto. Next was Al’s turn. The action was picking up and we had some nice shots, but the fish were refusing Al’s fly. We stayed as long as we could, and as I said reel em up, we are leaving, the fish surprisingly showed up on my teaser. Six hungry roosterfish charged the boat, and Al made a perfect cast and hooked and landed his nice 6 lb roosterfish, again on my mullet pattern. What a way to end a perfect sunny day in Baja.
March is our transition month and generally kind of an unpredictable fishing month, but that’s not the case this year. The inshore fishing has been pretty dependable with plenty of action for sierra mackerel, jack cravelle and roosterfish. The only exception was one day when a front blew through and the fishing slowed down quite a bit, but the fishing picked up the next day and was back to normal.
The offshore fishing has been good for striped marlin. The best bet is to use light tackle, but we are getting some stripers on the fly also. The marlin are taking livies on the surface best, but trolling lures(called jigs) can be productive also. The full moon has slowed it down some, but we are still catching fish, it should pick up as the moon wanes.
The weather has been incredible! 80 degree’s and beautiful sunny days.
The water temperatures are anywhere from 68 in the Pacific to 72 in the Sea of Cortez. Tight Lines,
Grant Hartman
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Cabo San Lucas - February 26th, 2007
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED: 
82 °
FISHING: Great
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportFebruary 19-25, 2007 WEATHER: Once again we had a partly cloudy week, but the skies did clear at the end. Our daytime highs were in the high 70’s and the nighttime lows in the low 60’s. No rain this week but it sure looked like it was going to on Tuesday!WATER: Once the clouds cleared away at the end of the week we got a decent picture of the water temperatures. The Sea of Cortez stayed a pretty uniform 71 degrees all the way out past the Cabrillo Seamount and up past Punta Gorda. On the Pacific side there was warmer water, to 73 degrees, from the San Jaime bank and to the south. The Golden Gate Bank was at 71 degrees and close to shore on the Pacific and extending to the south-southeast of the Cape for at lest 40 miles was a five to ten mile wide band of green water at 68-70 degrees.BAIT: Locally the only bait that I saw being sold was Mackerel and they were the usual $2 per bait. There were some Sardinas available up toward San Jose at the usual $20 per scoop.FISHING: BILLFISH: For most of the week the Marlin action remained in the vicinity of the 95 Spot and the 1150 with most boats getting bit on live bait thrown to Marlin spotted on the surface. There were a couple of days early in the week when a concentration of feeding fish was found up close to the beach on the Pacific side but these fish moved out rapidly. Close to home there have been scattered tailing fish found but no heavy concentrations. The bite seemed to be early, if you got out a bit late there was nothing going on.YELLOWFIN TUNA: I had a couple of productive trips early in the week for Yellowfin and got into lots of porpoise that held Tuna on top of the San Jaime Banks and 10 miles to the west, at 32 miles out. Most of the fish were in the 25-pound class but we did get a couple of small 15 pound fish and a couple that went 45-50 pounds. The only lure that was consistent on them was the cedar plug, at least when the fish were marking deep on the depth sounder. When the fish popped up and started to boil they would hit anything. Later in the week a friend went and worked the same area and the fish had moved on. He said that the water was 73 degrees and blue but barren of life signs. Some boats were catching school tuna and footballs up around the Gorda Banks but that appeared to be a hit or miss thing as there were quite a few reports of boats only catching Bonita while using Sardinas for bait. A few boats caught a lot of these and then chunked them and were able to get a few of the Yellowfin to 40 pounds.DORADO: There was no change this week in the Dorado report. Dorado continued to decline in numbers for almost everyone. There is always a lucky boat or two that manages to get onto a decent bite around floating debris and that happened to a couple of boats this week, but on the average it looked as if there were about two Dorado for every three boats. The action (what there was of it) was on the Cortez side of the Cape out around the 1150 WAHOO: A couple of boats reported getting bit off n trolling lures by Wahoo but I did not hear of anyone bringing any in.INSHORE: Sierra, African Pompano, Yellowtail, Bonito, Skipjack, Jack Crevalle and an occasional Amberjack were the fish that were most commonly caught by anglers fishing from Pangas this week. Sierra were the inshore fish of the week as everyone was able to get good action from them using small hootchies in bright colors (green, a very bright green, was a favorite) as well as small Rapallas. Diamond jigs and iron slabs worked for the Yellowfin while cut bait was the ticket for good Pompano action. The Bonita, Skipjack and Jack Crevalle were all over dark colored hootchies trolled in water just a little farther off the beach. NOTES: It appears that we are getting into that time of the year when the water becomes inconsistent in color and temperature. Normally that means that there will be Swordfish found on the surface so we are all hoping to start seeing a few of them soon. We were seeing large amounts of Humboldt Squid to 60 pounds feeding on red crab on the surface 10 miles offshore on the Pacific early in the week and caught a few. Great Calamari! Until next week, tight lines!
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Cabo San Lucas - February 19th, 2007
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
83 °
FISHING: Great
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportFebruary 12-18, 2007 WEATHER: It was partly cloudy all week and we actually had just a bit of what some people might call rain on Saturday afternoon. If you are from the Pacific Northwest you would call it slight precipitation, but it was enough to spot windshields and get the docks wet. Our daytime highs were in the low 80’s and the nighttime lows in the 60-degree range.WATER: The cloud cover did not allow any decent water temperature images this week but at the end of the week the water was calm everywhere. At the beginning of the week the winds were blowing heavily from either the northwest or the southeast and you could always get away from the choppy conditions. On the Pacific side there were large swells early in the week but they had disappeared by the weekend. Water temperatures appeared to be much cooler from the beach to 15 miles out on the Pacific side with 64 degrees seen in the middle of the week in this area. Farther offshore the water warmed up to 74 degrees for a day or so and this was the warm water area we had been watching last report. It continued to advance toward us but as it swung past the Cape it cooled to 72 degrees and remained offshore. At 30 miles the water warmed to 74 degrees, and that was directly south of us. On the Cortez side of the Cape the water had temperatures around 70 degrees.BAIT: Just like last week, there were Mackerel at $2 per bait and there were occasional Sardinas available up at San Jose if you were there early and they were the normal $20 per scoop. There were a few Caballito in with the mackerel but there were no large numbers of them.FISHING: BILLFISH: The Billfish action this week moved to the Cortez side of the Cape as is normal this time of year. With the water a little bit better color than on the Pacific side the fish seemed to be holding in the area bounded by the 95 spot, the 1150 and San Jose. Most of the fleet boats worked this area all week with mixed results. At least 40-50 boats were getting hit on trolled lures and occasionally the feeders would pop up and a few lucky boats were able to get in on the action. There appeared to be quite a few squid still in the area and as a result the lure strikes were still not very aggressive, a lot of the fish were coming unbuttoned. Tossing live baits at feeders resulted in better hook-up ratios and a few tailing fish were found as well.YELLOWFIN TUNA: I only heard of three areas this week that held Yellowfin Tuna. One of them was the area of the San Jaime Banks early in the week. A few brave boats were able to punch through the 25-mile wide area of nasty water and get to the warmer, calmer water in that area and they found plenty of school Tuna in the area. Best results were had on cedar plugs and since there were only a few boats working them the fish stayed up and the boats did well. A friend of mine found Porpoise off of the Lighthouse ledge early in the week and managed to load up on football fish using hootchies. At the end of the week the warmer water 30 miles to the south produced Yellowfin in the 15-20 pound range for boats that got to them early.DORADO: Dorado continued to decline in numbers for almost everyone. There is always a lucky boat or two that manages to get onto a decent bite around floating debris and that happened to a couple of boats this week, but on the average it looked as if there were about two Dorado for every three boats. The action (what there was of it) was on the Cortez side of the Cape out around the 1150 WAHOO: Once again none were caught this week that I am aware of although I am sure there were a few. The new moon on the 17th may have had something to do with this.INSHORE: The Sierra bit started to sizzle this week with a lot of the Pangas coming in with limits of five fish each (or in some cases, more) for their anglers. Along with the Sierra came a mixed bag of inshore species including an occasional small Roosterfish. A few amberjack mad a showing as well and a decent Pargo bite was had in the rocks close to home. Yellowtail finally made a decent showing; all it took was for the water temperature to get right. Catches of 2-10 fish in the 8-25 pound class were made on jigs worked yo-yo fashion and live bait dropped down to 50 or 60 feet. The rocky points produced best on these fish for boats working water between 100-200 feet deep. NOTES: Last week the Whales were everywhere, this week they seemed to have almost disappeared. Not really, as there are still plenty of them to be found, but the heavy concentration we saw last week seemed to have moved on up the Pacific side heading north. I have five days of fishing this coming week so hopefully I will be able to provide some more, good, updated information in the next report. Until then, listen to some classical guitar on the CD “Celebration”, a 2000 release by Kimberly Productions with Miguel De Hoyos on the guitar. Until next week, tight lines!
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Cabo San Lucas - February 17th, 2007
supplied by: Baja Anglers
RECORDED:
75 °
FISHING: Good
Hi Folks,
The fishing over the last weeks has changed quite a bit. Our striped marlin have moved into the Sea of Cortez. At the start of the week the fish were mostly at the 95 spot, but now they have moved into the Gordo banks and 1150 spot. Most boats are getting one to four striped marlin a day on bait. The fish are mostly around 100# and are readily taking the fly. One to three shots on the fly is the average day.
Our Dorado fishing has almost vanished, which is normal for Late February and March, expect to start to see more Dorado back in the Cabo area starting in June.
The yellowfin tuna fishing has been really good on some days and just so-so on others. The Gordo bank is the place and live bait is the best bet. The fish are running anywhere from smaller footballs 15lbs to nice fish close to 100#. Using Fluorocarbon leaders has been a real advantage. Fly fishing for them is slow.
Our Inshore fishery is looking up with the arrivals of some nice roosterfish schools. The fish are running anywhere form 5 lbs. to 15lbs. and taking the fly with some consistency. My 6” mullet pattern has been the fly.
The sierra mackerel continue to be the honey hole fish. There are schools up in the Sea of Cortez side, but the majority of fish are still up on the Pacific. We caught some really nice fish this week with some over 8 lbs. Be sure to bring wire as these fish have really sharp teeth and can cut through mono easily. My Baja special and clouser minnows are the best bet.
The jacks are still schooling up on the Pacific. If you hit the right day, the action is good. These fish are mostly over 15 lbs with some up to 20lbs.
The water temperatures are anywhere from 68 in the Pacific to 73 in the Sea of Cortez.
The days have been sunny and warm with daytime highs in the mid 70s.
Tight Lines,
Grant Hartman
Baja Anglers
Cabo San Lucas,
Mexico
(619) 270 1124
info@baja-anglers.com
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Cabo San Lucas - February 12th, 2007
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
78 °
FISHING: Good
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportFebruary 5-11, 2007 WEATHER: Our Daytime highs were from the low to mid 80’s this week with the warmer temps earlier in the week. Nights were a bit warmer as well with our lows in the mid 70’s. Later in the week, especially this weekend, it seemed lower due to strong winds from the southwest. We did not receive any rain this week but did have partly cloudy skies most o the time. It made for some beautiful sunsets on Thursday and Friday. The skies were much clearer on Monday and Tuesday, enough so that on Monday at sunset, 6 of the 8 people aboard the boat I captain (including me) saw the “green flash” as the sun disappeared over the horizon. Pretty cool! WATER: On the Pacific side of the Cape we had warm water approach all week long from the southwest. The charts show a beautiful 74-degree wall pushing 70 degrees and moving steadily our direction. As of Sunday it was running east-west from the south side of the San Jaime to 8 miles south of the arch and 6 miles to the west of the 95 Spot. With the winds kicking in over the weekend it was too bouncy for most of the boats to go check it out, but if it continues to stay in the area I will be checking it out myself. The Chlorophyll charts show it to bee very clean. On the Cortez side of the Cape the water was cooler with everything inside the 1,000-fathom line between 69 and 71 degrees. The water within two miles of the beach was very green while farther out it was slightly green, definitely off-color. BAIT: Just like last week, there were Mackerel at $2 per bait and there were occasional Sardinas available up at San Jose if you were there early and they were the normal $20 per scoop. There were a few Caballito in with the mackerel but there were no large numbers of them.FISHING: BILLFISH: The Striped Marlin bite moved from the Pacific side to the Cortez side this week. Most of the action was taking place between the Arches and the 95 spot, with the concentration at the 95 spot at the end of the week. A good day was three fish but most boats were averaging one release per trip. Dropping down a live bait after releasing a fish resulted in most of the multiple fish catches as where there was one Marlin there were sure to be more, but this method didn’t work later in the week with the strong winds. When the wind kicked the swells up a lot more fish were found tailing on the surface and that became the way the majority of fish were found this weekend. There were quite a few fish striking lures, but it was half-hearted for the most part and the hook-up ratio was pretty poor. Almost every fish caught was stuffed with foot-long squid so that is the reason for the poor lure catches I am sure.YELLOWFIN TUNA: There were some fish found later in the week on the Cortez side out toward the Cabrilla Seamount, but it was sure a long way to go on the hope that they were in the area. The fish were associated with Dolphin but were just a bit bigger than footballs, mostly in the 20-pound class. The bite that had been going on at the inner Gorda Banks fell apart on Sunday when the strong wind didn’t allow for a slow, controlled drift, a necessity when fishing chunks for the larger Tuna. The fish that were caught earlier in the week were in the 40-80 pound class. Live Sardinas worked in the same area accounted for an average of three Yellowfin per boat; these fish were in the 15-20 pound class.DORADO: The Dorado catch continued its decline this week with the cool waters on the Cortez side. A few boats worked the Pacific side offshore and were able to get decent results in the warmer water but it was too rough for them to do much more than troll down swell and pick up an occasional fish. I managed to get one yesterday between the 95 and 1150 spots but the water was a bit too green and it seemed cool at 71 degrees.WAHOO: None were caught this week that I am aware of although I am sure there were a few.INSHORE: The Sierra bite continues to slowly improve, but it’s still not red-hot. Most boats are getting a dozen or so per trip, a few get about twice that. For the most part the big inshore fighters have been the Jacks, averaging 20 pounds. A lot of the Pangas were going out for Marlin this week, as they were fairly close, at least they were until the wind picked up this weekend! NOTES: Whales are everywhere! I can’t believe how many we are seeing every trip this past week. Yesterday (Sunday) there were Humpbacks doing full breech leaps and popping up all over the place, we must have counted several dozen out in the deep water. We saw at least three-dozen Gray whales up along the beaches and one of them did a series of full breech leaps in just 45 feet of water! This weeks report was written to the classical guitar music of Miguel De Hoyos. I had a chance to listen to him this week while we were out to dinner and I was blown away to hear him play Flight Of The Bumble-Bee and Memories Of La Alhambra. His finger-work is just amazing and I ended up buying a couple of his CD’s. His album “Sevilla Suite” has both of those on it and was self produced in 1997 at Pacific Beach Studios in San Diego. Until next week, tight lines!
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Cabo San Lucas - February 5th, 2007
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
78 °
FISHING: Great
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportJanuary 29-Febuary 4, 2007 WEATHER: We had a couple of days of cloudy skies early in the week but everything cleared up nicely later on. February 3rd brought a brief one-day change in the wind as it blew up from the east instead of the normal northwest direction and that caused a few complications but it was only a one-day blow. Our daytime highs were in the high 70’s and the nighttime lows in the mid to low 50’s.WATER: Surface conditions were great almost everywhere and all week long with the exception of choppy water on the Cortez side on Saturday when the wind switched and far out on the Pacific for the rest of the week with the normal northwesterly wind. Even then, it was not bad, just a bit bouncy. On Saturday the water off of Solmar beach and to the lighthouse was mixed up, the normal current down the Pacific coast was countered by the easterly wind and that made things bouncy in there as well. At the end of the week the water on the Pacific side ranged from 67 to 70 degrees while on the Cortez side there was a band of warm water running across the Gorda Banks and to the south across the 1150 area. This water was 72 degrees and fairly blue while right in front of town and up around the inside of the Golden Gate Bank on the Pacific the water was a very ugly green.BAIT: Just like last week, there were Mackerel at $2 per bait and there were occasional Sardinas available up at San Jose if you were there early and they were the normal $20 per scoop. There were a few Caballito in with the mackerel but there were no large numbers of them.FISHING: BILLFISH: There were still some Marlin being found on the Golden Gate bank but not in the numbers of the past weeks. The green water moved the bait out and the fish scattered a bit. There were still Striped Marlin being caught off of the lighthouse but it seems that most of them have moved over into the Sea of Cortez. This time of year they start to spend quite a bit of time on the surface and that is beginning now. It has been much easier to spot them as they tail along down swell but sometimes it can be very frustrating to toss live bait after live bait at them and have them refuse every offering. Top boats are coming in with three or four Marlin flags this past week instead of the 6 or 8 we became used to a few weeks ago, but the fishing style is changing as well.YELLOWFIN TUNA: There were occasional schools of Yellowfin found offshore on both sides of the Cape this past week as well as directly south, but they have been a long way out there, 20+ miles. Closer to home there has been a steady if not hot bite on fish averaging 25 pounds at the Gorda Banks. Anglers using live Sardinas had the best and most consistent results on these fish, but bigger fish are there as well. Using chunk baits on flouro-carbon leader anglers got into an occasional fish to 120 pounds.DORADO: Dorado remained the number two fish this week as the cooler water continued to move in. Finding blue water was the key this past week and that meant going a bit farther offshore on the Pacific side. A few boats were able to score well on fish averaging 15 pounds when they found floating debris such as tree limbs and chunks of wood, but on average boats were scoring one or two fish between 8 and 20 pounds while trolling lures.WAHOO: The full moon resulted in a few Wahoo being caught and a few boats actually caught more than one. I saw four flags on one boat and it was reported to me that when the anglers were asked if the flags were for Wahoo or for Sierra they assured the questioner that the were for Wahoo. On the radio I overheard a few conversations about hooks being bitten off and lures being trashed. It seems that most of the fish were being found on the Cortez side of the Cape and mostly close to shore and around the Gorda Banks and Punta Gorda.INSHORE: The Sierra are beginning to show up in large numbers as the water continues to cool. They were in the blue water, not the green, and they were very close to the beach, almost up in the surf line for the most part. The average size is only 4-5 pounds, but that will increase over time. There were a few areas in the rocks that produced Pargo this week. NOTES: Larry Carlton on his self-produced album “Sleepwalk” was my choice in music for writing this report to. I have had it for a long time and had forgotten just how much I enjoy his guitar style. It’s Super Bowl Sunday and I have a trip from 9-3 today. I guess that the boat will just have to wait until tomorrow to get cleaned well inside! I don’t really care who wins this game as long as it is a close one and our numbers come up on the board. We are starting plans to re-do the kitchen at home, bring down my Jeep and perhaps take a week vacation sometime this summer. Busy, busy, busy! Until next week, tight lines!
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Cabo San Lucas - February 4th, 2007
supplied by: Baja Anglers
RECORDED:
75 °
FISHING: Good
Hi Folks,
The big news this report is all about 68 year Donn Roberts from Seattle, Washington who fished with me last week. The day was filled with action when we caught 3 Dorado on the fly, but we couldn’t seem to get a striped marlin to the teasers. In the last half hour of his trip a beautiful 120# striped marlin crashed the teasers, Donn cast his fly, and the moment it hit the water the fish exploded on it. Donn, who has missed a few hook sets in the past, didn’t make that mistake this time. He did everything right. Let the fish eat, let it turn, and then hit it hard. The fish went ballistic! What a show, this was a strong fish that took Donn an hour and forty five minutes to land. After a few photos, we released the fish unharmed. Donn, emailed when he got back home saying: Grant- I'm still on a high after the wonderful day we spent together last week. The whales are in town; well actually they have been here for the last few weeks. Both Gray and Humpback whales migrate to Cabo to give birth to their young. The migration starts in late December and lasts until the end of March.
Many of our guests bring their wives on board and the girls get a real treat when the whales are all around the boat, although truth be told, when the bite is on, the guys are generally only concerned about the fishing..
Also, many folks decide to fly up to Magdalena bay to watch the whales for the day. The whales go to the bay to give birth to their calves. Many times you can actually touch the whales and their young. This is a must see adventure.
FISHING:
Off shore: The offshore fishing for striped marlin has been good this report, but the wide open bites of the last month have slowed down some. The Dorado fishing has been steady; we are catching anywhere from 1 to 4 Dorado a day on the fly or light tackle. There is a yellowfin tuna bite going off on Gordo banks. The tuna are mostly footballs and you can catch a few nice a day on live sardines.
Inshore:
Sierra mackerel are our honey-hole fish right now. That’s what we are catching the most of on the fly. The sierras are nice sized about 4 to 8 lbs and are great fighters. Sierra mackerel are aggressive eaters and can make explosive takes that take you into your backing in seconds. An added bonus is that they are also the best fish to make ceviche out of at the end of the day. Add cold beers, some chevice, and a Cabo sunset, and it doesn’t get any better.
The Roosterfish are here and we are catching them. Sunny days are best, but roosterfish are generally tough to catch on the fly. That’s what makes them so much fun to catch. Most fo the fish are under 15 lbs.
The Jack Cravelle's are schooling on the Pacific beaches. These fish are all nice sized anywhere form 15 to 25 lbs. Jacks are some of the hardest fighting fish available. After you catch a few, you will be begging for a back brace.
The water temperatures are anywhere from 68 in the Pacific to 73 in the Sea of Cortez.
The days have been sunny and warm with daytime highs in the mid 70s.
Tight Lines,
Grant Hartman
Baja Anglers
Cabo San Lucas,
Mexico
(619) 270 1124
info@baja-anglers.com
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