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Cabo San Lucas - April 8th, 2007
supplied by: Baja Anglers
RECORDED: 
89 °
FISHING: Great
Hi Folks,
The fun news for this week is that I made a new friend. Actually, I have been at war with this species for years, as they are the biggest fish pirates on the planet. Sea Lions have plagued sports fisherman for years and I for one hated them. The thing is, as soon as you would hook up, they would come up out of the depths and steals your fish, every time! It impossible to keep them away, they would eat your catch before you could get them in the boat, and not leave until they are satisfied. I hated to have them around the boats. I would get so angry. I always wished for a weapon of some sorts to keep them away and stop them from robbing our hard earned fish. Then life, takes another sneaky turn. It sent me an ambassador that has changed me and opened my eyes a little.
I really don’t know what to call him. I met him a few days ago. He looks to be older and has a clouded eye. He is huge! I mean big, but moves with the grace of a ballet dancer.
It happened like this. After a days fishing, my guys were filleting some sierra mackerels and dropping the carcasses overboard for a Sea Lion to eat. I thought this was the coolest thing, but I hadn’t seen anything yet. Alex (one of my Captains) hand feeds him a large sierra mackerel. I thought I would take a try and just give the big guy a mackerel. He came up and took the fish out of my hands and ate it in three gulps. I had some cabillitos (which are about an 8” bait fish) in the live well. I thought what the heck; I would give it a try. I held the bait steady about a foot off the water and the sea lion came up calmly and took the bait out of my hand, wow, this big fella was gentile. I then grabbed a big dead sardine and again he softly came up and took the bait out of my hand. This went on for about an hour. He would let me touch his whiskers and softly glide my hand over the top of his head. It was then that I knew I had made a new friend. I decided to trust him and took a dead 3” sardine out of the bait-well and put the tail in my mouth and leaned over the dock. He came up so slowly closed his eyes and took the bait delicately right out of my mouth. He had even softly brushed his lips and whiskers up against my face and lips.
This wild marine mammal that I had cursed so many times in my life touched me in a way that I could never really explain it in words. This gentle soul found a way to break my hard exterior, and make me look at him in a new way.
I will never look at Sea Lions the same again. Every fish they take from my line will be a gift of sharing from me.
I do hope that he stays around, and I will continue to be his friend. A gentile touch, a few fish from my catch, is the least I can do for a friend.
FISHING:
The inshore fishing has been really good for sierra mackerel, jack cravelle, and smaller roosterfish under 15lbs. We have seen a few bigger roosterfish in the surf over the last few days. Expect to see more as we move into our roosterfish season. Traditionally, May and June are our best months to catch roosterfish over 30 lbs. It’s when the big fish migrate into Cabo area. Do note, that if you want to fish our prime roosterfish months, make your reservations as soon as possible, as the dates are filling quickly!
The striped marlin fishing has been surprisingly good. Lots of fish around. They are spread out all over the place, but the best bets are Golden Gate banks, Jamie banks in the Pacific and the Destilladeres banks in the Sea of Cortez side. They are taking live baits, trolled dead baits and lures well.
A few Dorado are being taken as a by-catch while trolling for striped marlin.
Not too many YFT around, but we usually start to see some schooling fish in April with the action getting better as we move into the summer months.
Tight Lines,
Grant
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Cabo San Lucas - April 2nd, 2007
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
88 °
FISHING: Good
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportMarch 26 to April 1, 2007 WEATHER: This weeks weather was a great prelude to summer as the winds were light, the sun was out and our daytime temperatures were in the mid 80’s. Of course things are going to warm up, but what a great introduction! Nighttime lows were in the high 60’s and the light winds we had were mostly from the east and northeast, a bit unusual but welcome as it made water conditions on the Pacific very nice.WATER: The Pacific side had a bit of a swell at the beginning of the week with some sets reaching 6 feet, but they were spread apart so it was not too bad. I was able to run to the San Jaime bank in the 58’ at 20 knots without pounding and after you got outside the current line it mellowed out. The Pacific side was 69-71 degrees with a band of warm water running from the coast out to the San Jaime Bank and it looked like a hook running from there to the south, tapering smaller as it bent to the southeast. To the west of this warm band the water averaged 68 degrees. On the Cortez side of the Cape things were warmer as the water from the Cape and up to the Punta Gorda area, and out to a distance of 30 miles was a fairly consistent 71 degrees. To the southeast of the Cape there was an area of cooler, greener water from the 95 Spot and extending south 30 miles and east-west 15 miles.BAIT: We had a good mix of live bait available this week with Mullet, Caballito and Mackerel all readily available at the normal $2 per bait. There were very few Sardinas and they were $25 a scoop from a few boats up at San Jose.FISHING: BILLFISH: There was no change in the location of the Striped Marlin from last week as they were still holding on the San Jaime Bank on the Pacific side and around the Punta Gorda and Gorda Banks area on the Cortez side. Most of the boats were fishing the San Jaime Bank as it was a shorter run to the fish and there were massive amounts of bait in the area. Trolling lures and drifting live baits both accounted for fish and often there were multiple hook-ups. Boats were averaging two to three Marlin per trip and some of them were decent size fish. I had one release this week on a Striped Marlin of about #180. It was surprising considering how much bait was in the area, but the fish were fairly aggressive when attacking the lures. There were a few Blue Marlin reported from the Punta Gorda area and I did hear of one Blue caught just on the inside of the San Jaime this week. There should be more Blues as well as a few Blacks showing up as the water warms.YELLOWFIN TUNA: Tuna fishing was slow this week but at least we were seeing some of them. At the San Jaime Bank fish from 50 to 80 pounds would pop up every now and then causing a lot of commotion, but no one as far as I heard had any luck getting them to bite. Guys were trying drifting live baits at 300 feet, chunking for them and yo-yoing as well with no luck. In the San Jose area there were smaller fish to 25 pounds reported but the only guys having any luck on them were the ones using Sardinas on #20 flouro-carbon leaders.DORADO: No change from last week as the lucky boats were catching one fish a day but they were good size, in the 30-40 pound class. There was no concentration of fish and they were scattered.WAHOO: I did not hear of any Wahoo this week.INSHORE: Even the inshore fishing was spotty this week. There was some Sierra, a few Yellowtail and a scattering of bottom fish, but no great catches to be had. NOTES: This makes three weeks in a row with very little change in the fishing. Hopefully things pick up soon! The bright spot for the week was having the Striped Marlin bite turn on and the water being in great condition at the same time. Until next week, tight lines!
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Cabo San Lucas - April 1st, 2007
supplied by: Baja Anglers
RECORDED:
89 °
FISHING: Great
Baja Anglers Fishing report, April 1, 2007
Hi Folks,
It’s hard to imagine more perfect place than Cabo right now! The weather has been absolutely beautiful. It has been sunny and warm with the temperatures in the high 80s.
The fishing has been really good over the last few weeks, especially the inshore fishing for smaller game fish.
We have been hammering the sierra mackerel! The sierra mackerel are spread out all over the place and can be located in the Pacific to the Sea of Cortez. The sierra action has been hot with hungry feeding fish pounding flies and top water poppers with gusto. The fish are averaging 6 to 8 lbs. Not only are they are great light tackle fish, but they make the best ceviche ever! Fresh ceviche and cold beers after a fun day on the water, this is what completes the Cabo experience.
The roosterfish have been around in decent numbers, and again, they are spread out all over the place. Most of the roosterfish we are catching are from 6 to 15lbs. Roosterfish on the fly are never easy, but that’s why we love them so much. Lately they have been taking the fly fairly well; again, my 5 inch brown mullet pattern is the best bet.
Some really big jacks around, I mean some monsters over 30 lbs. They have been a bit spooky, and you have to catch the right day, but if you get into these big fish, expect some sore arms.
There has been some good action on other species like yellowtail, bluefin trevlle, ladyfish, snappers, and everyone’s favorite houndfish.
Baja Anglers founder Dan Dreyer heard that the fishing has been good, and decided to come down and experience some of the fun fishing action. He is pictured below with a nice 35 pound plus yellowtail he caught using a live big eyed scad using 15lb. test line and a light spinning rod. He fished with Baja Anglers Capt. Arturo Ozuna on Glacier Bay catamaran Flying fish 4.
Offshore fishing for striped marlin has been good on most days, but being at the right place at the right time is everything. The fish are really moving around quite a bit and they can be at Punta Gorda one day, Cabo the next and Golden Gate banks the next day. If you are in the action, expect to catch one to four striped marlin a day on lures and baits.
The dorado and YFT action has been slow, a few stray dorado are being caught while trolling for striped marlin.
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Cabo San Lucas - March 26th, 2007
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
88 °
FISHING: Good
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportMarch 19-25, 2007 WEATHER: Last week was hot but this week was a bit more normal for the time of year with our daytime highs averaging the mid 80’s instead of the mid 90’s and the nighttime lows were in the low 70’s. Part of the reason was the frontal system that moved into the area on Wednesday evening, the winds kept the temperature down a bit. No rain arrived with the system but it did bring in a few clouds so we had partly cloudy skies in the middle of the week. We ended on a warm note as the winds died down and things warmed back up.WATER: The strong winds brought with them cooler water from the north so we saw a decrease in the water temperature on the Pacific side of the Cape. Just on the tip of the Cape we had water temperatures that dropped as low as 62 degrees on Friday while the Pacific for the most part stayed at a fairly decent 67-68 degrees from the coast and to the west side of the San Jaime and Golden Gate Banks. On the Cortez side we had warmer water at a 71-72 degree range from the Gorda Banks and southwest to the 1150 area and it extended eastward from there. The water immediately to the south of the Cape were in the 64-67 degree range and very green. Blue water was warm water and that was the key to the fishing this week. Find the warmer water and you found the fish.BAIT: This week the bait was 90% Mackerel with 10% Caballito and they were the normal $2 per bait.FISHING: BILLFISH: There were two area that produced billfish this week and they were both in choppy water areas. On the Pacific side of the Cape the San Jaime produced consistently with some boats able to release up to 4 fish per day. There were also small 20-40 pound Mako sharks in the area. On the Cortez side, the Punta Gorda area up around the Los Frailles produced Striped Marlin as well as a few reported Blue Marlin. In both areas the water was choppy due to the wind, but the fish were there.YELLOWFIN TUNA: Boy, this week was a repeat of last week as far as the Tuna were concerned. There were reports of fish found on both the Cortez and the Pacific side out around 25 to 40 miles. Quite a few boats went looking for the Tuna but only a lucky few got into them. I heard of a lot of 40+ mile trips that did not see any fish or found Porpoise but couldn’t get bit. The lucky boats found fish that were small, most of them were footballs in the 10-pound class, but there were a few fish that pushed the 25-pound mark. Little tuna, yes, but at least there were some found. Hopefully there will be some bigger ones in the area soon. Cedar plugs were once again the key to getting bit, feathers were not doing very well and I did hear of one boat that broke out the Rapallas and did well on the jointed lures.DORADO: No change from last week as the lucky boats were catching one fish a day but they were good size, in the 30-40 pound class. There was no concentration of fish and they were scattered.WAHOO: I did not hear of any Wahoo this week.INSHORE: Even the inshore fishing was spotty this week. There was some Sierra, a few Yellowtail and a scattering of bottom fish, but no great catches to be had. NOTES: There was almost no change in this weeks fishing from the results we were having last week. The only difference was that the water conditions were a bit on the choppy side during the middle of the week, still fishable and as a matter of fact the boats that did go out on Wednesday and Thursday seemed to have better luck than the boats that went out in less windy conditions. Until next week, keep your fingers crossed that things improve!
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Cabo San Lucas - March 19th, 2007
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
92 °
FISHING: Good
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportMarch 12-18, 2007 WEATHER: It seems like summer already since the daytime temperatures have been in the mid 90’s! Our evenings have been a bit cooler with early morning readings of 65 degrees but the warm air in the daytime has been nice, especially since we have had very low humidity. The week has been a good one with partly cloudy skies and no rain, just enough wind in the afternoons to keep things from getting too warm and almost no wind at all in the mornings.WATER: The warmer water this week was mostly on the Cortez side of the cape at an average temperature of 73 degrees while the Pacific side was averaging 70 degrees. There is a plume of cooler water running from the tip of the Cape out about 10 miles but other than that there has been no pronounced water changes. Surface conditions have been good with light chop and swells on the Pacific side and winds from the west-northwest, the Cortez side has been fairly flat with wind from the north once you get up around the Punta Gorda area. On Sunday there was a heavy fog bank to the east, it is unusual to get fog this heavy here in March so who knows what is going on, other than the water is a bit warmer and the air temps a bit higher than normal for this time of year, maybe an El Nino year?BAIT: This week the bait was 90% Mackerel with 10% Caballito and they were the normal $2 per bait.FISHING: BILLFISH: Marlin fishing has remained slow for almost everyone but at least there are fish out there. Striped Marlin have been found this past week at the San Jaime and the Golden Gate Banks as well as inside the banks 4 miles off the beach. The high spots are concentrating the bait and the closer fish have been holding on the temperature break. While there are a lot of fish out there the bite is still slow, probably due to the massive amounts of squid in the area. Almost every fish that has been caught has spit up lots of squid. The water is starting to warm up and there was a report of a Blue Marlin being hooked up at the San Jaime bank this week, 7 jumps and then a spit hook on a fish estimated at 300 pounds. YELLOWFIN TUNA: Tuna were scarce once again but there were reports of fish found on both the Cortez and the Pacific side out around 25 to 40 miles. Quite a few boats went looking for the Tuna but only a lucky few got into them. I heard of a lot of 40+ mile trips that did not see any fish or found Porpoise but couldn’t get bit. The lucky boats found fish that were small, most of them were footballs in the 10-pound class, but there were a few fish that pushed the 25-pound mark. Little tuna, yes, but at least there were some found. Hopefully there will be some bigger ones in the area soon. Cedar plugs were once again the key to getting bit, feathers were not doing very well and I did hear of one boat that broke out the Rapallas and did well on the jointed lures.DORADO: Lucky boats were catching one fish a day but they were good size, in the 30-40 pound class. There was no concentration of fish and they were scattered.WAHOO: I did not hear of any Wahoo this week.INSHORE: Even the inshore fishing was spotty this week. There was some Sierra, a few Yellowtail and a scattering of bottom fish, but no great catches to be had. NOTES: One item of note about this past week was the number of Mako sharks that have been caught on the Pacific side. There appears to be a concentration of them on the San Jaime Bank, but they are small fish in the 20-40 pound range. Unfortunately they are very good eating so the boats hooking them up have kept almost all of these small fish. Until next week, keep you fingers crossed that we will have tight lines!
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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
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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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