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Cabo San Lucas - January 8th, 2007
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED: 
83 °
FISHING: Great
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportJanuary 1-7, 2007 WEATHER: The New Year started out a little bit cool with a fairly stiff northwest breeze pushing around the high 50’s nighttime temperatures. During the daytime we had warmer weather, most days reaching the low 80’s. At the end of the week we had some strong cloud cover move in and on Friday night the wind that brought it in our area really blew.WATER: The Pacific side of the Cape remained warmer than the Cortez side for the second straight week with the Pacific being in the mid 70’s almost everywhere and the Cortez in the low 70’s. The Pacific side was choppy on Friday and the area in front of the arch had some very confused water on Saturday as winds up at the East Cape pushed up some swells from the northeast.BAIT: Bait this week was 75% Mackerel, as the water continues to cool off there will be a change to almost all Mackerel. There were Sardinas available off of Palmilla at the usual $20 per scoop.FISHING: BILLFISH: There was a little bit of slack in the bite at the start of the year on the Striped Marlin, but by the 7th it had reverted to what we were experiencing at Christmas. The Striped Marlin have been concentrated off of the Cabo Falso ledge and this has resulted in the majority of the fleet boats working within sight of the Arch. A few of the fish have come while bottom fishing live bait on the drift and quite a few more have come while slow trolling live or dead baits. The most exciting fishing has been the action under the Frigate piles. Suddenly the Frigates dive on the feeding Marlin as they chase the bait to the surface and the boats run to the spot and throw out live bait. When there are a lot of boats out, like in the middle of the day, this can be a tough way to get a fish and the traffic is pretty dense, but in the afternoons when things clear out a bit it can be a real blast! The fishing has been good enough on the Marlin that many of the boats have been releasing double digit numbers right here close to home. During the middle of the week the bite here died off a bit and the 95 spot went off, but that bite was short lived as the fish moved back to the lighthouse.YELLOWFIN TUNA: Strangely enough, the Yellowfin Bite has still not really taken off like it usually does this time of year. I went out on Wednesday and found a couple of pods of white bellied dolphin at 26 and 32 miles to the west and managed to get a couple of football fish out of them. With the dolphin sleeping and the bite a slow pick, we reeled the line in and continued cruising to the west. At a distance of 41 miles from Cabo we found a big pod of spinner dolphin and then had a blast on Yellowfin between 15 and 45 pounds. Being the only boat there helped as we could use lighter line and not worry about it. With a few frigates and lots of gannets on the fish it was no problem getting back to them after landing one. Other boats stayed with the first group we found and continued the slow pick. I heard that the same thing had happened with the 30-mile fish over the past several days and there had been nothing large found. A few decent fish are continuing to be caught at the inner Gorda, but the action there is very slow.DORADO: The bite picked up for the New Year with most boats finding fish just off the beach on the Pacific side where the warmer water is. Best results were had by slow trolling live bait. Jeff DeBrown, a professional fly fishing guide from the “Reel Baja” on the East Cape had four Dorado on the fly yesterday for his clients and our buddy Lance from “Baja Anglers” put his client on a 40 pound fish the day before. The boat next to us found a pallet floating about 30 miles up the Pacific yesterday and caught limits of fish in the #30 range as well as some Yellowfin while fishing live baits and dropping jigs deep into the water.WAHOO: The full moon we have just had resulted in more Wahoo than we have seen in quite a while, but none of them were very large. The average size was 30 pounds with some as small as 10 pounds. The banks and ledges on the Pacific side were where the fish were found.INSHORE: My friend Jeff was able to pit his clients on 6 different species of fish the other day. Sierra, Dorado, Pompano, Skipjack, Ladyfish and Jacks all came to the fly for them. Normal tackle produced the same results for others and there were a few snapper and grouper as well as small roosterfish in the mix. Most of the action, if not all of it, happened on the Pacific side of the Cape. NOTES: This weeks report was written to the music of CCR on a three CD set titled “36 All-Time Greatest Hits” from Fantasy Music, 2000. Thanks for the great Christmas present sis! To everyone, I hope missing one week was all right; I had a lot of things happening at the end of the year! Until next week, tight lines and “Go Seahawks”!
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Cabo San Lucas - December 28th, 2006
supplied by: Baja Anglers
RECORDED: 
80 °
FISHING: Excellent
BAJA ANGLERS FISHING REPORT DEC. 28th, 2006
Hi Folks, I want to wish you all Happy Holidays and Festive New Year
There has been some exceptional catches, but the big “Wow story” is from Peter Lowes and his 13 year old son Dylan. Peter and Dylan are from Bend, Oregon and Peter had fished with me in the past. Peter thought it would be fun to have a father and son day on the water. I took both Peter and Dylan up to the finger banks and we had an outstanding fishing day. After the long ride, we spotted some bird and fish action up on surface. The water was calm and there was a slight breeze. Perfect conditions! Dylan was up first and caught a nice Dorado on the fly, around 20lbs. His first saltwater fish, and his first time saltwater fly fishing! Then Peter took his shot and landed another nice Dorado on the fly. We then spotted some busting marlin and pulled the boat up next to the action. I cast the teaser into the melee and drew out a nice striped marlin out about 100 lbs. Dylan cast the 11wt Sage fly rod (loaded with a Tibor riptide reel), and set my brown mullet fly perfectly in front of the feeding marlin. The fish ate the fly with gusto, but was soon off. Dylan set the hook a bit too early hooking it in the bill instead of the mouth. We pulled back into the busting marlin and Dylan sent another nice cast in front of a feeding marlin. This time we let the fly sink a bit, and the marlin ate it 20’ under the surface. Dylan waited until the fish turned and set the hook perfectly. The striped marlin charged at the boat and jumped only 20 ‘ away, breaching his whole body out of the water, and almost splashing all of us in the process. We pulled the boat forward to tighten up the line, and the fish was off grey-hounding and jumping on the surface. After about 10 minutes the fish settled down, and the fight went deep. After about an hour, the 100 lb Dylan started to get a little muscle fatigue. He was thinking about passing the rod off to his father, but after a little encouragement on my part, he stuck with his fish. The 110 lb. striped marlin came to the boat after a two hour battle of wills. We quickly billed it, took some pictures and released it unharmed, it swam away healthy and strong. Dylan had fished under the IGFA fly fishing rules.
The boat was standing still when he cast and hooked his marlin, used 20 lb. tippet, he stripped the fly and set his own fish, and he fought it on his own without any help. A heck on an accomplishment for anyone, let alone a 13 year old boy from Bend, Oregon.
The day didn’t stop there, Peter quickly grabbed a 12wt fly rod and we went back to the same area and found the fish feeding again. On his first cast he hooked up a nice 120 lb. striped marlin and after a 30 minute fight, got it to the boat. Again we billed it, took some pictures and released it unharmed. An incredible rights of passage into manhood for Dylan and what a great father and son experience!
First, It’s been a while since the last report, so I’ll do a quick review over the last period. This fall fishing in Cabo has been an incredible on most days. Many days, it was not uncommon to catch over 6 to 8 striped marlin on conventional tackle and 5 to 6 on light 20lb test spinning. The fish were doing their normal fall thing up on the Pacific banks. They were mostly staying deep, chasing bait-balls of green mackerel. When the fish chased the bait-balls to the surface, an explosive melee began with marlin crashing bait all around the boat.
The tuna bite as been on and off, both in the Pacific and Sea of Cortez. On some days, we would have tuna over 100 lbs all around the boat, and others we would be hard pressed to find skipjack or smaller yellowfin footballs. Finding Sardinas for chum have been a problem in San Jose and on some days you could get only a handful for 20 dollars and other, you get two nice scoops for the same money.Finding the tuna on the pacific side meant finding the porpoise. A live mackerel dropped in front of the school of porpoise was usually the best bet on the bigger fish while trolling through the school with cedar plugs and jigs was the technique for the smaller 20 to 40 lb fish.
The Dorado have been a on and off thing. On some days, we would catch 8 to 10 Dorado, and on others, they would be hard to find. We did have some spectacular days up on the finger banks in early December with schools of big Dorado everywhere under the boat. It was a fish a cast and some fish went up 40 to 50 lbs. Most guys really didn’t want the Dorado and were targeting the striped marlin chasing the bait-balls.
Water Temperatures are in the high 70s in the Pacific side and the low 70s on the Sea of Cortez side.
Weather: The weather has been fabulous on most days, sunny and the low 80s. The only exception is when a front passed dropping the temperatures in the mid 70s and bringing some wind and clouds for a day, then the next day, it would be perfect weather again and we would be in shorts and sandals again.
INSHORE The inshore fishing has been fairly consistent with sierra mackerel smaller roosterfish and jacks. We are catching fish on a consistent basis, but it hasn’t really taken off yet, which is unusual. Normally late fall is crazy fishing. The water temps have been a bit on the warmer side, I think the inshore-fishing will pick up as soon the water temperatures drops a few degrees as most of our fish in Cabo are migratory.
OFFSHORE Over the most part, striped marlin fishing this year has been phenomenal with good consistent action. Again, it’s fishing, and we did have some slow days, but on the most part, it’s been great. Striped marlin have been caught anywhere from Golden gate banks to a quarter mile off the arch. Most of the action has been at the Light house and Golden Gate banks. The charter boats have been catching their fish using live mackerel on J-Hooks and 6 to 8 oz. weights and going down 80 to 150’ deep. I personally don’t like to fish this way, and I am critical of anyone who uses J-hooks on any billfish (J-Hooks kill billfish, lots of them, especially when using live bait). When the marlin just refused to come to the surface, you could see us dropping live baits down deep on 20 to 30lb. test light spinning and conventional tackle, but we would use a in-line circle hooks, so we can release the fish unharmed. Most of the time we would use dead baits and lures to tease the marlin within casting distance for the fly or spinning rod.
The Dorado have been on and off. We have has some fabulous fishing, but it could turn on or off like a light switch. The fish are mostly singles and are located up the Pacific only a few miles offshore. Most fish were under 20 lbs., but many we caught were in the30 to 40 lb. range.
On Christmas eve, Fly fisherman, Randy Gibbs from Houston Texas caught 3 big Dorado and lost a striped marlin just a few miles outside the arch. The Dorado weighed from 25 lbs. top 40 lbs. Randy released all three fish.
Yellowfin tuna, Humm. If you can find enough live chum and you can get some at Gordo banks. Mixed sizes from 15 to 130 lbs. In the Pacific, find the porpoise and drop live baits for the big boys. Not great, but if you are lucky, you can have a fun day.
BEACH, The beach fishing has been off so far. There are some okay days, but definitely not as good as previous years. The East Cape had been really windy. Some small roosterfish, jacks and ladyfish.
SPECIES OVERVIEW Quality Rating Scale: (10) Drop your socks, sell your stocks and fly to Cabo immediately; (9) Fabulous fishing; (excellent; (7) good to very good; (6) Better than average to good; (5) average; (4) less than average or OK; (3) fair; (2) poor to fair; (1) desperation time; (0) zilch. Obviously, fishing can turn from good to bad or bad to good in a day Or less due to weather conditions or other factors, but these are Our best judgments at the time we write this weekly report.
DORADO (5-8) Up on the Pacific. Mostly singles. 10 to 50 lbs. 1 to 8 fish a day.
WAHOO (2-3) Some wahoo around, but you really need to target them. I had a 60 lb. wahoo eat both dead teasers yesterday on Golden gate banks, He teased up to the boat and then refused the fly at the last moment.
JACK CRAVELLE (3-4) These fish are just bad, really bad! They are one of the hardest pulling fish in the ocean and they never give up. Our Baja baitfish is the best fly of all time for these guys!
TUNA (4-5) Gordo banks with sardinas and up the Pacific with live baits and jigs.These fish are great fighters on fly and light tackle and theSmaller fish are always better on the grill than the big ones.
MARLIN (Blues & Blacks) (1-2) A few big fish are being caught, but they will soon go away as water temperatures continue top drop. STRIPED MARLIN (8-10) Plenty of stripers around. A few slow days, but on most days, it’s too much fun.
ROOSTERFISH (3-4) They are here, but on the smaller side less than 15 pounds. Hard to find, and bite is short lived. I expect the inshore fishing to improve in the next few weeks. We don't share any Information with anyone else in town about roosterfish as most of theOther fleets kill the roosterfish, many times only for a hero picture or maybe a mount.
SIERRA MACKEREL (6) Some really nice fish up the Pacific, smaller ones on the sea of Cortez side. Expect this fisher to take off soon. The sierras migrate into our area in the fall. This year the main migrations a bit late. Be sure to use wire shock tippet as these guys have very sharp teeth. SHARKS (4) All you have to do is target them.
SKIPJACK & BONITO (4) Known as false albacore on the east coast, These fish are perfect fly rod fish and lots of fun to catch. A timeless reminder Baja Anglers proudly supports a catch & release policy on all billfish and all roosterfish, with the exception of world record potentials
Baja Anglers Address: Marina 8-6 Darsena Cabo San Lucas, Web site: http://baja-anglers.com/
Email: info@baja-anglers.com
Telephone: (619) 270-1124 or 011-52-624-143-4995
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Cabo San Lucas - December 18th, 2006
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
84 °
FISHING: Excellent
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportDec.11-17, 2006 WEATHER: We had sunny skies at the beginning of the week with very little wind. Our daytime highs were in the low 80’s while our nighttime lows averaged 63 degrees. At the end of the week we had a front move through and on Sunday the wind picked up from the northwest at 15-20 knots and the swells kicked up as well, but the skies were clear. That changed this morning as I woke up to mostly cloudy skies with little wind. The weather charts show this cloudy condition to remain for a few days at least.WATER: There was very little change in the sea temperatures this week, almost exactly the same as last week with the exception of a push of warm water from the south has extended the warm water up to the Punta Gorda area on the Cortez side and past the Finger Banks on the Pacific. Our average temperature on the Cortez side of the Cape has been about 76 degrees inside the 1,000-fathom line. Just off of the beach it has been much cooler, as low as 73 degrees in some spots. On the Pacific side of the Cape it has been a bit warmer with the average temperature being 78 degrees with a band of slightly cooler water just off of the beach. Over all our water temperatures seemed to have dropped several degrees this week, but they can change at any time. BAIT: Bait this week was 75% Mackerel, as the water continues to cool off there will be a change to almost all Mackerel. I did not hear of any Sardines being available locally.FISHING: BILLFISH: I said last week that the Striped Marlin bite at the Golden Gate had fallen off a bit, but a few boats were there at the right time early in the week when it really went off. The bite was early in the morning at the beginning of the week and started later each day. The best result I heard of from an individual boat was 30 releases in one day; most of the boats there at the same time scored double digits. There was no reason to go that far later in the week as the bait and fish continue to pile up off of Cabo Falso. That was a good thing on Sunday as the weather picked up and almost no one was able to make the trip to the Golden Gate. I found a few fish between the Gate and the San Jaime Bank but the water was pretty bouncy. The fish at the Cabo Falso ledge were being caught while drifting bait deep early in the day, by trolling live and dead bait during the middle of the day and by running to feeders popping up with Frigate birds diving on the later in the afternoon. That was nice fishing as we were out of the wind and rough water and later in the day there were fewer boats around.YELLOWFIN TUNA: There were reports of good fish being caught in the last seven days, but none of the big ones were for me! There were fish found at all the banks and between them as well, but they were all associated with Porpoise, nothing was reported as being blind strikes. One boat fishing the San Jaime with hand lines (think Panga here) did well with one fish of #160 and many others around #35-#40 while boats working 13 miles due south around the 1,000-fathom line got into fish averaging #40 for a few days. I did not hear any reports of fish at the Gorda Banks, but I am sure there were some there as well.DORADO: I think that the Dorado’s designation as “fish of the week” has finally changed because of the great Striped Marlin showing. There were still Dorado being caught, and they were good-sized fish, but the numbers we had been seeing for the past month were just not there. Most of the fish were taken between the beach and 6 miles off shore or on the banks, a few groups were found out at the 1,000-fathom line as well. The key this week to finding the Dorado was to look for working Frigate birds. Tossing live bait into the water under the birds or slow trolling in the area seemed to work most of the time.WAHOO: I had no reports of Wahoo this week.INSHORE: Sierra are taking over as the inshore fish now, and the bite has been better where the water has been a little cooler. Of course this means that most of the time you have to get a little distance away from town, but the bite was decent up at the lighthouse for a few boats. I had a report from one fisherman of a 25 fish morning while fishing on a Panga with live bait and hootchies. The annual Sierra tournament is this coming Saturday, the 23rd. No boats larger than 24 feet allowed, $150 entry fee for a team of up to three anglers, lines in at 4 pm and out at 6 pm and you must be in line to weigh you fish no later than 6:20. %60 of the entry fees go to the largest Sierra, %20 to the smallest, %10 for food and drinks and %10 to the organizers. I was lucky and caught the smallest one last year on a last minute entry; the tournament was a lot of fun! NOTES: Happy Holidays! I will try to get a report out next week, but as Monday is Christmas morning, It might be a day or two later than normal. Until then, Tight lines!
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Cabo San Lucas - December 11th, 2006
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
85 °
FISHING: Excellent
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportDec. 04-10, 2006 WEATHER: I just love this time of the year! In the morning it is almost cool enough to need a light jacket or sweater since it has been 60 degrees the past few mornings. In the day it never seems to get much above 80 degrees in the direct sun and there is just a slight breeze in the afternoons and evenings. We have had only partly cloudy skies this week and of course, no rain. I don’t believe I have seen conditions much better than this for a long time!WATER: The water is cooling down the farther we get into the winter season and of course things change quickly. Our average temperature on the Cortez side of the Cape has been about 76 degrees inside the 1,000 fathom line, outside of there, past the Cabrillo Seamount, it is a few degrees warmer. Just off of the beach it has been much cooler, as low as 73 degrees in some spots. On the Pacific side of the Cape it has been a bit warmer with the average temperature being 78 degrees with a band of slightly cooler water just off of the beach. Over all our water temperatures seemed to have dropped several degrees this week, but they can change at any time. Surface conditions were excellent with just a slight swell and little if any wind chop.BAIT: A fairly even mix of Mackerel and Caballito were available at the normal $2 per bait. I did not hear of any Sardinas in the area.FISHING: BILLFISH: The Striped Marlin bite that was happening for boats fishing the Golden Gate Bank has fallen off a bit more than last week, there are still some fish there but you are really scratching to get them. Fortunately for us, the mass of fish seems to have moved closer to home and there are now fish being caught daily off of the light-house ledge using the same technique of deep dropping live bait and drifting across the holding area. The size of the fish has varied between 60 pounds to 130 pounds with a few of the fish way on the other side of both ends of that range. I heard of one Striped Marlin of #30 being released and one of #220 being released. As far as other billfish are concerned, I have not heard of any Blue or Black Marlin in the past week, but there have been some Sailfish appearing in the area, I had a good Panga captain report that he had released one that he thought would have been an easy #200, the size of a large Striped Marlin!YELLOWFIN TUNA: We finally had some Yellowfin show up this week! On Thursday a few boats found the fish 13 miles to the west-southwest mixed in with a few porpoise. There were birds working the area and the fish were feeding hard on Mackerel and Flying Fish. With only a few boats there the first day the fishing was good. The fish were so thick and aggressive that boats were able to scoop bait from the water as they were taking shelter under the boats! The fish varied in size from 25 pounds to 60 pounds with a few fish on either size of that range. Friday the fish were still there but only the first couple of boats had any bites, on Saturday it was a repeat. We had a client that was the fist to the fish and he managed to score 8 fish between 25 and 70 pounds, the second boat there caught two fish and the other 15-20 boats that showed up caught maybe 5 fish between them.DORADO: Even thought the Yellowfin finally showed up, Dorado remained the fish of the week due to the consistency of the catch. Most boats were able to get at lest one or two Dorado in the box, a few did quite a bit better than that. The bite has remained on the Pacific side and has appeared better closer to the beach, up around 15-25 miles to the north of Cabo. The fish are hitting bright colored lures and slow trolled live bait and have been averaging 20 pounds.WAHOO: I saw the smallest Wahoo I have seen in a long time this week when the same client who got into the Tuna caught a 4-½ pound fish on Tuesday. With 5 days of fishing Lance was able to get at least one of every species available, nice job Lance! Other than that, there were not very many Wahoo reported from our area. I had heard that there was a halfway decent bite up at the Inman Banks, but had no confirmed reports of those fish.INSHORE: There are Sierra showing up, and starting to show in decent numbers, but the target for most of the boats fishing inshore this week has been Snapper and Grouper. None of these have been large fish and not in huge numbers either, but at least they are great eating. NOTES: Our Striped Marlin and Yellowfin Tuna fishing continues to improve every week, my fingers are crossed that it continues. Meanwhile the holidays are coming up and with my mother coming to visit for Christmas, a lot of my time between fishing and working on the boat will be taken up with getting the house ready for the visit! Until next week, Tight Lines!
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Cabo San Lucas - December 4th, 2006
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED: 
88 °
FISHING: Excellent
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportNov. 27-Dec. 03, 2006 WEATHER: We had very nice weather this past week with our daytime highs hitting the mid 80’s and our lows at night in the low 60’s. At the end of the week we were mostly cloudy but with no rain. Early in the week we were expecting a couple of days of very strong winds, but it appeared that a push from the south kept the northerly winds (20-30 knots) away from us, all we got was one day of perhaps 20 knot winds from the north.WATER: There is not much to say about the water conditions, there are no strong temperature breaks or color breaks within our area. The surface temperature has remained an almost constant 80-81 degrees within 40 miles of Cabo. We did have some fairly choppy conditions during the middle of the week when northerly gusts blew in for the day, but other than that things have been just great out there.BAIT: A fairly even mix of Mackerel and Caballito were available at the normal $2 per bait. I did not hear of any Sardinas in the area.FISHING: BILLFISH: Just about the only billfish I heard of this week were Striped Marlin and a couple of Sailfish, I am not sure if there are still any Blue Marlin in the area as the water is getting colder every week. The Striped Marlin have been spread out. While there are still many of the fleet boats working the Golden Gate Bank hard with drifting live bait, the bite has not made it worthwhile for many boats. In an effort to find more fish they have been searching off of the ledges on the Pacific side just off the beach and have come up with a few fish on the drift and on the troll. A few boats have gone up the Sea of Cortez around Punta Gorda and have done fairly well and there was a halfway decent bite for two days off of the Red Hill area. Most of the fish have been small Striped Marlin; just as last weeks fish were fairly small, I mean that the average has been less than #100. I have heard that boats working the area outside of Magdalena Bay (far out of reach for a 1 day trip) have been doing exceptionally well on the Stripers, we can only hope that just as happened last year, these fish make it down to our area. Perhaps as the water cools down and the bait supply starts concentrating in our area things will pick up.YELLOWFIN TUNA: Yellowfin Tuna were hard to find this week, a few fish were found up on the Sea of Cortez and a few were found to the north of the Golden Gate and around the Finger Bank, but the fish we were finding on the south side of the San Jaime have moved on. Boats have been going to the south as far as 40 miles without any luck this week.DORADO: There is no doubt that Dorado are still the fish of the week, and they may end up being the fish of the month if the Yellowfin Tuna and Marlin don’t start biting. There are still fair numbers of fish being found on the Pacific side of the Cape from inside the Golden Gate Bank to the Finger Bank, and there have been a few boats reporting great action a bit farther north. That is out of range for most of us but it is nice to know that those fish should eventually move south toward us. The Dorado have mostly been fairly good-sized fish with an average of 18-20 pounds.WAHOO: Wahoo fishing improved this week with quite a few of fish between 45-60 pounds being caught. There were no large concentrations of them, but the ones that were caught were found in areas that typically hold these speed demons. Water between 250 and 350 feet in depth just off of the major points and on the banks gave up fish. Dark colored lures trolled between 8 and 10 knots brought savage strikes and a few boats that targeted Wahoo caught fish, but at that speed, not much else!INSHORE: Inshore fishing is still slow with most of the Pangas trying for Dorado. A few bottom fish have been caught as well as a scattering of Sierra and early season Yellowtail off of the rocky points, but there just has not been any consistent inshore action. Red Snapper in 250 feet of water has been the basic fish close to the beach, but there had been a couple of days with decent Pompano action just off the beach’s on the Pacific side, noting large but at least good eating fish! NOTES: The weather is perfect, I wish the fishing was. It is not bad, but there are boats coming in with nothing to show for a full day on the water. Then again, there have been boats coming in from a day out that have been flying an honest three Marlin, three Tuna and two Dorado flags almost every day. Once in a while things just break your way! I hope it does for you next time you visit us! Until then, Tight Lines!
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Cabo San Lucas - November 27th, 2006
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
89 °
FISHING: Excellent
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportNov. 20-26, 2006 WEATHER: Once again we have had perfect weather here in Cabo. Our daytime highs have been in the low 80’s and our lows in the evenings and early mornings have been in the mid 60’s. We have had only occasional clouds this week and the winds have been very light for the most part. We did have one day, the 21st, when the remnants of Tropical Depression Sergio brought strong southeastern winds and seas of 5-7 feet. On the 22nd the wind was gone and the seas had settled down.WATER: Our water has remained blue and warm this past week and it looks like it may continue through this next week as well. Everywhere you might have gone within a 30-mile radius the water was a consistent 81-83 degrees. Once you got more than 40 miles to the north on the Pacific side it dropped a bit, down to the 78.5-degree range, but it remained blue. On both sides of the cape swells early in the week were between 3-7 feet as a result of Sergio, but as of the end of the week the swells had dropped to 2-4 feet. On Saturday the wind started to pick up again and by Sunday it was pretty bumpy on the Pacific side, also there was a cool water eddy that was about 78 degrees that moved into the area from the southeast on the Cortez side and lay about 15 miles offshore.BAIT: Once again there was a pretty even mix of Caballito and Mackerel available at the usual $2 per bait. A lot of boats set out without buying any bait and instead, if they were headed to the Golden Gate Banks they caught their own Mackerel and Mackerel Scad there. I did not hear if there were ay Sardinas available this week.FISHING: BILLFISH: While the water temperature and color has remained great for Blue Marlin, there were very few of them caught this week. The billfish of the week was Striped Marlin, and they were there in good numbers if you were in the right place at the right time. The main concentration of Striped Marlin seemed to be at the Golden Gate Bank, probably there because of the large amount of bait in the area. Best results came from dropping live bait down to 100-150 feet, just above the massed Mackerel schools. Most boats were able to get two or three fish released a day while a few boats were able to get into double digits. By the weekend the bite had dropped off a bit, on Saturday there were 45 boats on the bank with the results being a bit disappointing, on Sunday there were only 15 boats and only one hookup in the morning, the bite did improve a bit later in the day with the best result being four fish for one of the boats sticking with it. Elsewhere, there were fish found off of the ledge at the lighthouse and while they were coming up and striking on lures, they were not being real aggressive. There were more Striped Marlin to be found within 2 miles of the coastline on the Pacific side and a few boats were catching and releasing between 2 and 6 fish a day up at the Finger Banks. I received four strikes Sunday at the San Jaime Bank for two releases but they were both small fish, one about 75 pounds and the other maybe 50 pounds. Most of the Striped Marlin caught this week were smaller than 100 pounds, but there were a few exceptions.YELLOWFIN TUNA: The Yellowfin bite that had been happening at the Gorda Banks tapered off this week. There were still nice fish being caught, but not in the numbers or in the size categories that had been happening the past few weeks. Scattered pods of dolphin to the south of the Cape had produced fish in the 20-35 pound class for those boats willing to go 30 miles, and there were also the same size fish found to the south of the San Jaime Banks, again among the dolphin. Spreader bars and daisy chains produced the best results while a live mackerel dropped back after the first fish hooked up produced the larger fish, some to 50 pounds.DORADO: Still the fish of the week! Best results came from the Pacific side with most of the action occurring 25 miles up the coast. Slow trolling live bait or trolling bright colored lures at 8 knots were the best way to induce these fish to strike and watching for following fish to drop a live bait to resulted in many double hook-ups. Most of these fish were in the 15-25 pound class. Farther to the north, the Finger Banks continued to produce good numbers of Dorado in the 30+ pound class to boats slow trolling live bait, as well as getting some action on Striped Marlin. A good day on the Finger was between 4-12 fish.WAHOO: I only saw a few Wahoo flags this week and heard of a few fish caught over the radio. There was no concentration of fish and those that were caught were incidental fish.INSHORE: There was only scattered inshore action this week with a few early season Sierra, a decent Red Snapper bite and a few Grouper and Amberjack. Most of the Pangas were working off the beach for Dorado and a few of them had really outstanding trips! It’s nice when you can go out and catch a half-dozen Dorado, a few Red Snapper and have a Striped Marlin as well and be back in by noon! NOTES: Great weather and good fishing, it doesn’t get much better than this! If things change the slow way they have been, we should see the fishing continue to improve for Striped Marlin and Tuna over the coming month with a chance of continued Dorado action. Until next week, Tight Lines!
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Cabo San Lucas - November 20th, 2006
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
90 °
FISHING: Excellent
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportNov. 13-19, 2006 WEATHER: With our daytime highs in the mid 80’s and the lows in the mid to low 60’s just about all I can say is that it is the perfect time of year! We have had only slight breezes this week and only two days with partly cloudy skies. We ended the week with no wind on Sunday, the morning temperature at 64 degrees and no clouds in the sky.WATER: Tropical Storm Sergio brought some southern storm swells our way but they were not big ones, mostly 3-6 foot stuff. With a slight swell from the northwest and no wind on the water to speak of things were very nice on the surface regardless of where you went. On Sunday morning the water was like a mirror since there was no wind at all. Surface temperatures were an almost uniform 83-84 degrees within 40 miles of Cabo at the beginning of the week but they dropped by a degree or two at the end of the week. The water was a great blue color everywhere with very little green showing, where it did occur was close to the beach on the Pacific side.BAIT: There was a pretty even mix of Caballito and Mackerel available this week at the usual $2 per bait. The Sardinas made themselves scarce and here in Cabo were very difficult to find. Up in San Jose they could be had for $20 a scoop instead of $20 a bucket, but there were a lot of boats that were happy just to get a handful.FISHING: BILLFISH: There are still some Blue Marlin around, but as the water starts cooling down they are becoming a bit scarcer. I had reports of fish to #450 being caught and released (congratulations Lin!) as well as a number of fish in the #200 pound class, but no really large fish this week. Instead, there has been a resurgence of Striped Marlin. One of the best bets early in the week was the area of the Golden Gate Banks where boats were releasing one to five fish a day while drifting with live bait, some deep and some on the surface. There were also a few fish taken with this technique off of the ledge at the lighthouse. The Finger Bank area is beginning to take off, I reported last week that there was a decent bite in that area and it has improved a bit. The bite is still mainly in the afternoon and the fish are a bit scattered since there are not a lot of bait balls in the area, but slow trolling with either live or dead Mackerel has been a great technique. A lot of boats were stopping at the Golden Gate Bank on the way to the Finger Bank in order to make bait.YELLOWFIN TUNA: The Inner and the Outer Gorda Banks continued to produce large Yellowfin Tuna to #150 this week, but the average size was #80. It was basically an early bite and either dropping a live Sardine, slow trolling a bridled Skipjack or catching and slow trolling a Chilwilie worked. A few boats were able to get two fish but most of the boats were good for either one big bite or one fish in the boat. The key was to downsize the leader and go with flouro-carbon. There was a fair bite on fish averaging #40 at 35 miles to the south of Cabo at the beginning of the week and these fish were found under Porpoise. I got into some fish in the 30-40 pound range south of the San Jaime on Friday and Saturday after being invited to the party by a friend of mine. He had spotted a couple of the long-range boats out of San Diego in the area; the Shogun was one of them. I did have one pass on a group of fish that resulted in one reel getting spooled and all the other lines going off but loosing all the fish. Must have been some decent fish out there but we were not able to get any of them to the boat. I heard of some good fish being found up at the Finger Banks while slow trolling live Skipjack, but apparently there was a problem keeping the Dorado away form the baits so few of them were caught.DORADO: The focus for great Dorado action continued to be up the Pacific side at least 20 miles. There were decent fish found closer to home but the numbers and size of fish to the north were worth the run for most anglers. For those willing to pay the fuel premium to get to the Finger Bank area, the results from slow trolling live or dead bait was worth the expense. Of course there were a few boats that were not in the right place at the right time, but most of them were able to get between 6 to 20 fish a trip. What was nice was these fish were averaging between 30-40 pounds! Close to the beach at the 20-mile mark the action continued to be good with fish in the 15-30 pound class providing consistent action. Trolling lures at fairly high speeds got the first fish to hook up, and then dropping back a live bait fooled a few more into biting.WAHOO: I only saw a few Wahoo flags this week and heard of a few fish caught over the radio. There was no concentration of fish and those that were caught were incidental fish.INSHORE: There was a good Red Snapper bit inshore for a couple of days early in the week but then the fish moved on. Most of the Pangas have been moving a bit more offshore since we have had very good sea conditions this week. Their concentration has been on Dorado. For those that have been working just off of the beach there has been steady, but not fast, action on Skipjack, Bonita and a few scattered Sierra and small Roosterfish. The best action has been on live Sardinas when they could be found; otherwise hootchies in red were the way to go. NOTES: The bite continues to improve as well as the weather. If everything keeps up at this pace then we will all be very happy in a few weeks! Happy Thanksgiving wherever you may be and have a safe and enjoyable time with your friend and family! Until next week, Tight Lines!
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Cabo San Lucas - November 13th, 2006
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
90 °
FISHING: Excellent
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportNov. 6-12, 2006 WEATHER: once again we had paradise type of weather with our night time lows in the high 60’s and our day time highs in the high 80’s to low 90’s with a fairly low humidity level. Almost every day was sunny with a few scattered clouds and light winds.WATER: The Pacific side saw just a slight chop on water that ranged between 80 and 83 degrees. There was no really strongly defined temperature break, instead there was gradual variations with a plume of the cooler water coming in off of the west toward shore just to the north of the Golden Gate Bank. On the Cortez side of the Cape we had 81.5 to 83 degree water with no defined breaks as well. On both sides of Los Cabos there were slight swells at the beginning of the week and swells at 4-6 feet at the end of the week, most likely a result of a few areas of disturbed weather well to the southeast of us.BAIT: Caballito and Mackerel were available at the usual $2 per bait and there were Sardinas at $20 a bucket, both at the mouth of the harbor and up off of Palmilla and La Playita.FISHING: BILLFISH: I didn’t hear of any really large fish being caught this week, but the Striped Marlin bite has started to pick up a bit. As far as the Blue and Black Marlin are concerned there are still fish out there, but most of them were averaging between 200 and 250 pounds, with an occasional fish in the low 400’s. As I said, the Striped Marlin bite has picked up a bit with a lot of boats finding fish off of the Golden Gate Bank while deep dropping live Caballito and Mackerel. An average of one to two fish per boat for the boats willing to stick it out all day was the norm, but there were boats that tried for hours with no positive results. Many of these boats were able to get a billfish after leaving the area and putting lures in the water. As with most fishing, tide change seemed to make a major difference. A few boats have begun to make runs to the Finger Banks on a regular basis, hoping to be at the spot when the Striped Marlin move into the area in force. So far the bite has been good, but not as spectacular as we saw last year. The bite in the middle of the week was in the afternoon after the tide change and the half-dozen boats at the bank reported releasing between four and 10 fish in an afternoon as well as being attacked by large schools of Dorado.YELLOWFIN TUNA: There were still some school and football fish to be found in the San Jose area, ion the Inman Banks and just off the beach at La Playita, to be specific. These fish were biting on Sardinas after being chummed to the boat. In other areas the key was to find the porpoise and hope you marked Tuna under them on the depth sounder. There was a nice pod of Porpoise off the arch about two miles in the middle of the week and a few boats were able to get hooked up to fish in the #100 range by dropping live Mackerel down to 100 feet in front of the moving school. Most of the boats coming into the Porpoise were just pulling lures or trying to drop bait back behind the boat on the surface, but the deep baits produced while the shallow ones did not.DORADO: The Dorado continue to provide action for boats fishing the Pacific side of the Cape with most of the action continuing to be 20+ miles up the coast. Smaller lure in bright colors as well as slow trolled live and dead bait worked well with many boats coming in with limits of two nice fish per client. A few boats were able to score extremely nice fish in the 30-40 pound class when they came across floating debris such and pieces of lumber and strands of Kelp, but most of the fish were associated with current lines. The bite has gotten better at the Finger Banks as schools of baitfish have started to move into the area. Most of these fish are in the 20-30 pound class. The Dorado bite on the Cortez side of the Cape has been sporadic with most of the fish found being close to the shore.WAHOO: There were a couple of days at the beginning of the week when the Wahoo started to make a showing up in the San Jose area, but that bite shut off just as quickly as it started. Elsewhere, there have only been a few Wahoo found, and they have been incidental catches.INSHORE: Once again we have seen a scattering of Sierra showing up inshore and the Red Snapper bite has started to pickup as well. There are a few Roosterfish still around but I have not heard of any large ones lately. Most of the Pangas that have been working inshore have done best while using live Sardinas as bait and have had very mixed bags with Sierra, Red Snapper, Triggerfish, an occasional Grouper and a few Amberjack being in the cooler at the end of the day. NOTES: Things are looking up as the water cools and the weather gets better. We are hoping that the bite continues to improve and finally go wide open on the Striped Marlin and that the Tuna start to show up in force. It’s hard to predict what is going to happen so I just report on what has been. This weeks report was written to the music of the Stray Cats on their 1982 self-titled album from Arista Records. Until next week, Tight Lines!
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Cabo San Lucas - November 6th, 2006
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
90 °
FISHING: Excellent
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportOct. 30-Nov. 5, 2006 WEATHER: We had beautiful fall weather this week with our nighttime lows in the low 70’s and daytime highs in the mid 80’s with just a few light winds. No rainfall and only scattered clouds made for some excellent days. This was also the week of the full moon and this morning the moon was setting as the sun was rising.WATER: Water on the Pacific side of the Cape was almost uniformly 81-83 degrees while on the Cortez side we saw mostly 83 degrees. There has been a fairly consistent temperature break on the Pacific side at 220 degrees out by the 1,000-fathom edge going from 82 degrees shore-side to 80 degrees to the west. Surface conditions have been very good with only slight swells and almost no chop.BAIT: Caballito and Mackerel were available at the usual $2 per bait and there were Sardinas at $20 a bucket, both at the mouth of the harbor and up off of Palmilla and La Playita.FISHING: BILLFISH: There were a few large fish, both Blue and Black Marlin found this week but I did not hear of any real big ones with the exception of a reported 1,000 pound Blue at the beginning of the week. This fish was reported to have been hung and weighed at the main dock but I have not seen a picture or heard any more information on that fish. Most of the Blues and Blacks that have been caught have been in the #200-#300 class. There was a decent bite on Striped Marlin at the end of the week at the Gorda Banks by boats soaking live bait while hoping for a large Tuna and there were scattered fish found off the edges of the banks and just within two miles of the shore on the Pacific side. A fair concentration of Mackerel on the Golden Gate Bank resulted in a large number of fleet boats soaking bait on the shallow spot with mixed results. A few boats came in with three of four flags flying and a few boats caught nothing.YELLOWFIN TUNA: The Tuna tournament resulted in one fish of #318 pounds, one of #204 and two fish over #100 along with several fish between #46 and #100. There were not the numbers of fish found that we have had in recent years. There were quite a few nice fish in the 20-30 pound range found among Porpoise pods offshore along with a few of the larger #60-90 pound fish but all the larger ones came on live bait at the Gorda Bank.DORADO: I thought the bite on Dorado was wide open up at the Finger Bank based on an incomplete mid-week but found out via radio conversations after making the run up that the bite had been in the area of the Bank around a dead Pilot Whale. You always have to check out anything floating if you are looking for Dorado and the boat that found the whale ended up with 15 fish in the 20-30 pound range and lost twice as many more. Other than floating debris for a few lucky boats, it was a matter of one or two fish per boat. At least close to home that is. Quite a few boats were making 30 mile runs up the Pacific side and while working just off the shoreline they were able to get into decent action on fish from 10-20 pounds with a few boats making catches of 10 or more fish.WAHOO: Very surprisingly there were very few Wahoo caught even though this is a fall full moon and we expect there to be some nice fish out there. No Wahoo over #40 was weighed in during the Tuna tournament and I heard of very few being caught at all. Last minute update, talked to a friend last night and they started biting up around Gordo Banks yesterday. INSHORE: Exactly the same as last week as far as inshore fishing is concerned. Slow fishing inshore with a few Dorado, Skipjack and Yellowfin, some early season Sierra and a scattering of misc. bottom species. The better inshore fishing has been reported up toward San Jose. NOTES: There has been a good variety of fish but not any numbers of a particular species except for a few boats lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time. As the water cools over the next few weeks we should start seeing more Tuna, Striped Marlin and inshore should start producing more Sierra. Our fingers are crossed that it doesn’t take too long! Until next week, Tight Lines!
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Cabo San Lucas - October 31st, 2006
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
95 °
FISHING: Excellent
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportOct. 23-29, 2006 WEATHER: As we had expected, Hurricane Paul did have an effect on us last week. It slowed down quickly and fell apart, bringing us only some rain, winds to 45 knots and big swells, but the port was closed from Tuesday morning until Wednesday at 2 pm. Both the winds and the seas diminished quickly and things were back to Normal Thursday morning. Our daytime highs were in the low 80’s and the nighttime lows were in the low to mid 70’s.WATER: The beginning of the week had us with warm water across the entire cape with most of it in the 85-86 degree range and with small swells. The effects of Paul were to cool off the water several degrees and bring in some swells at 4-6 feet with an occasional 6-9 set. These were storm swells and spaced some distance apart so it was not really rough, just lumpy. The water within reach of most of the fleet at the end of the week was in the 82-83 degree range and almost all of it outside ½ mile from shore was blue.BAIT: Caballito were available at the usual $2 per bait and there were Sardinas at $20 a bucket, both at the mouth of the harbor and up off of Palmilla and La Playita.FISHING: BILLFISH: Probably the best way to give you an idea of the bill fishing this past week is to post results of the Bisbee Black and Blue Tournament. The normal three days of fishing were cut to two days due to the port closure on Wednesday so the 183 teams only fished for two days total. That is 366 fishing days total. There were 152 billfish caught, a reported 64 Blue Marlin, 6 Black Marlin, 61 Striped Marlin and 21 sailfish. This is .4 billfish per team per day. Not great fishing, that’s for sure. There were three marlin over #300 weighed and one of them barely made it at #301. That gives you an idea of how the Marlin fishing was this past week.YELLOWFIN TUNA: The Yellowfin action off of La Playita continued on an erratic basis with most of the fish biting around the tide change. They were school fish in the 20-30 pound class. There were larger fish found out at the Inner and Outer Gorda Banks as well as at the Inman, but you had to have the right bait for the cows that went up to #250. There were several of these nice fish caught this past week. In other areas, Porpoise pods 30 miles to the south had fish in them that averaged 35 pounds and gave quite a few people a lot of fun. Boats dropping live Mackerel deep on the Golden Gate Banks for Striped Marlin also came up with a few nice Yellowfin to #80.DORADO: There were still plenty of Dorado to be found but you had to farther up the Pacific side to get into them. I tried the area inside the Golden Gate Bank on Saturday with poor results only to find that the action had moved another 10 miles up the coast. The fish are averaging 15 pounds with some of them in the #40 class, but 30 miles is a way to run. There were scattered fish closer to home but not in any numbers.WAHOO: There were still scattered Wahoo around as we caught one that was about #65 on the second day of the Bisbee. No concentrations yet, maybe on the November moon?INSHORE: Slow fishing inshore with a few Dorado, Skipjack and Yellowfin, some early season Sierra and a scattering of misc. bottom species. The better inshore fishing has been reported up toward San Jose. NOTES: Sorry the report is late; a two-day case of some virus had me laid out since Sunday morning. Until next week, Tight Lines
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