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Cabo San Lucas - October 30th, 2006
supplied by: Baja Anglers
RECORDED: 
90 °
FISHING: Good
A week too early!
The Big news this week is the Bisbee’s tournament. This years winners ”Bad Company” took home an incredible $3.5 million dollars with a 367# blue on day one and a #420 blue on day two. Amazing!
Most of you know that I am hired out as team captain and bait rigger for the tournaments. This year our team lost the winning fish in the Los Cabo’s billfish tournament. She was easily a 500# blue marlin. Unfortunately, the fish threw the hook after a spectacular five minute battle.
On the second day of Bisbee’s tournament, fisherman Michael Contreras caught a monster 280# yellowfin tuna on standup 130# tackle. The fight lasted around 45 minutes. When we pulled into the dock, I asked Wayne Bisbee if he minded if we weighed it on the tournament scale, even though it wasn’t a tournament marlin. Unfortunately, at weighing time, Mike had gone to gas the boat in preparation for the next tournament day, so he lost out on the picture taking. Go figure, a nice catch like that, and it was a week too early, as the WON tuna tournament starts next week.
Mike is a very good fisherman and one heck of a fish fighter! Four years ago, on one of my boats he hooked and released an estimated 1000# black marlin in less than an hour’s time, using his #130 stand up tackle.
FISHING:
The fishing has been good over the last week, we tough we had a few down days due to tropical storm Paul. TS Paul came kinda close to Cabo and most were worried it might hit us, but all that happened was it dropped a few inches of rain and had port closed for a few days. Good time to drink a few margaritas and munch on fresh Dorado ceviche.
The striped marlin fishing has really picked up, the trick to catching them has been to drop live bait down a 100’ or so off the golden gates bank, and hold on. On most days, you can catch 2 to 4 marlin a day. Fly fishing for them is not hot yet, but will pick up in the next few weeks. Mid November through late December is one of the prime times to catch striped marlin on the fly!
The Dorado fishing has picked back up and the bite has moved up to golden gates bank. Most of the fish are still on the small to medium size with the larger fish weighing in around 25 to 30 lbs.
The red hot yellowfin tuna bite we had going on, has slowed down some. We are still catchen em, but not as many. The good news is that this is the start of our famous yellowfin tuna fishing, and the bite historically has been very good fishing from November through the first few weeks of January.
There is a good skipjack (false albacore) bite off the San Jose and Gordo banks. Pound for pound, these fish are some of the best fighters around. Fly or light tackle, take your pick, too much fun.
We are starting to catch roosterfish, jacks and even a few snappers. The bite is sometimes inconsistent, but it’s kind of nice to see them arrive a few weeks early.
That’s all for this week.
Tight Lines,
Grant
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Cabo San Lucas - October 23rd, 2006
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
95 °
FISHING: Excellent
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHINGCaptain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportOct. 16-22, 2006 WEATHER: I know why everyone likes to start coming to Cabo in October, it is because of the weather! We have had daytime highs in the high 80’s and nighttime lows in the low 70’s all week. It was actually cool enough on Saturday morning that my deckhand and myself wore long-sleeve shirts. We have had partly cloudy skies with a slight breeze in the mornings and almost no wind in the afternoons, then a slight breeze in the evening. Just what the doctor ordered. Of course it looks like this pattern may not continue for long as there is the possibility that tropical storm Paul could pass our way Tuesday, the day before the beginning of the Bisbee Black and Blue tournament. It might be a hurricane by then and forecasts call for it to be 200 miles to the southwest on Tuesday morning, continuing in our direction. All our fingers are crossed!WATER: Warm water on the Cortez side, up to a solid 86 degrees were the norm with great surface conditions, a slight swell and an offshore wind only early in the morning. On the Pacific side the swells were a bit larger and there was a little more wind but nothing major. Water temperatures were 85 degrees up to 35 miles offshore and up towards the finger banks, then just a bit farther they dropped a degree or two.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 clue you in on the marlin bite is by the results of a couple of tournaments. We had the Los Cabos Billfish Tournament this week and there were over100 boats participating. There were three qualifying Marlin caught (over #300) and they were all caught on the first day. The largest fish was over #430 and was caught aboard a 31’ Bertram. This weekend is the Bisbee/Lapicolla Offshore tournament with 64 boats entered and on the first day only one almost qualifying fish at #295 was brought to the scales. During both tournaments there were plenty of Striped Marlin, smaller Blues and a few Blacks and Sailfish caught, but no real beast fish reported. There was a lot of effort on the Pacific side out at the Banks and as a result most of the fish were from those areas.YELLOWFIN TUNA: We had great fishing for school Yellowfin this week up in the San Jose area off of La Playita to La Laguna. The fish were close to shore and at one time I saw 60 boats working several spots. The average catch was five or six fish between 15 and 30 pounds with a few larger ones in the mix. Light line or floura-carbon leaders with small hooks and a split shot on every other line brought the fish to the boat. It’s exciting to see the fish boil on the chum right where your bait is at then hearing the reels start to scream. There was on monster caught on the first day of the Los Cabos Billfish tournament as a Yellowfin Tuna that topped the scales at #315 was brought in by John Bulla on the “Go Deep” before noon.DORADO: There were still plenty of Dorado around this week and most of the action was still on the Pacific side of the Cape. It seemed that most of the cruisers were going up the coast 15 miles and starting to work the water inside the Golden Gate area. I had a friend on a Panga who fished just three miles of the lighthouse on the Pacific side and he got 7 Dorado in five hours but several of them were little dinks of #8 and #10, the others were nice ones of #20+. Live bait slow trolled after catching one fish worked, as did trolling dark colored pushing plugs.WAHOO: I heard quite a few Wahoo being called in on the radio during the tournaments and almost all of them came from the San Jaime Banks area. The fish averaged 30 pounds. The largest caught during the Los Cabos tournament weighed in at 79.8 pounds.INSHORE: Just as last week, there were still a few Roosterfish being reported this week but with there being so many Dorado and Tuna close in it was hard to get the Captains of the Pangas to target anything else.NOTES: Bisbee Black and Blue is coming up, keep your fingers crossed the Hurricane Paul does not grow up to be a big boy and ruin our fun! Until next week, Tight Lines!
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Cabo San Lucas - October 16th, 2006
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
90 °
FISHING: Excellent
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportOct. 9-15, 2006 WEATHER: There was very little change in the weather at the beginning of this week compared to last week in temperatures as our daytime highs were in the low 90’s and our nighttime lows were in the low 70’s, the change was in the feel. It seemed that the humidity dropped a bit, but of course we felt it because we live here. Most of our visitors said that it was very humid. Oh well, I guess it’s all in what you are used to! We had some cloud cover the last half of the wee and that, combined with just a bit of wind kept things feeling cool (comparatively speaking). At the end of the week we had some stronger winds from the northwest and they brought our temperatures down as on Sunday night we had a low of 67 degrees here at the house. No need for the air conditioner now! The humidity dropped as well and it is starting to feel like fall.WATER: Surface conditions on both sides of the Cape were great this week with the Pacific side being a bit bumpier, much as it was last week. With the wind out of the northwest that is to be expected, but it was not so rough that people were getting sick and coming in early. At the end of the week things changed a bit as the wind blew stronger starting Saturday afternoon. On the Cortez side it was almost like a lake most of the time. Our water temperatures on the Cortez side were an almost steady 85-86 degrees everywhere with no temperature breaks. On the Pacific side this warm water wrapped around across the San Jaime and the Golden Gate banks. Outside of these banks the temperature dropped a degree but there was no real defining edge anywhere.BAIT: There were Caballito ($2 each) available most days if you were early, with the full moon just past us it was a bit easier to get bait than last week. I also saw a few Mackerel floating in the marina but I don’t know if they were from here or were tossed out of the bait wells of boats coming down from up north for the season. There were plenty of Sardinas available up at Palmilla and La Playita at the normal $20 a bucket.FISHING: BILLFISH: There were a lot more Blue Marlin reported hooked up this week than there were last week but that may have been an effect of more boats searching for them. With the tournaments coming up teams are getting in the practice mode and actively working for the big mamas. There have been a lot of fish reported in the #200-#350 range as well as a few in the #500-#600 area, but it could all be just story as well. I know of one angler I trust who reported hooking into a fish at around #1,000 on a lure and had it hooked up for just a minute or so. There seems to be a lot of effort spent on the Cortez side for the Blues but with that many boats working out there I was surprised to not hear of more Blacks being hooked up. There were still quite a few Striped Marlin around and again, that is a bit of a surprise for me as the water temperatures are much higher than these fish normally like. They were more prevalent on the Pacific side of the Cape. Almost all the action on the Blues came on trolled lures while the Striped Marlin bite was a pretty even mix of lure fish and live bait thrown at fish on the surface.YELLOWFIN TUNA: It was nice to find Yellowfin closer to home this week and you did not need to cover 50 miles of water looking for Porpoise. The fish that were up at Punta Gorda a few weeks have moved closer to us with quite a bit of action happening within a mile of the beach from La Playita to just outside the Chileno area. Sardines were the ticket, as well as light line. Chumming with the live Sardines then fly-lining baits or putting ones out with a split-shot on the line worked well on these fish that ran from 15-40 pounds on the average. There were fish reported hooked that were much larger, but very few of them were brought in, I think the largest I heard of being landed was right at #80. Using small circle hooks on very light leader was extremely successful, but also resulted in quite a few lost fish. Most boats had better luck with “J” hooks on floura-carbon leader in the #30 class.DORADO: Lots of Dorado were being caught this week and almost all the heavy action was on the Pacific side of the Cape, up to and past the Margarita beach area. There was also good action from Gray Rock on the Cortez side to the Arch. Most of the fish were averaging #15 with a few fish being caught in the 30-pound class. I did see one fish weighed at #56, nice Bull Dorado caught on a live Caballito. Most boats that worked for Dorado were able to limit out easily. Best bait was either strip baits cut from Bonita, live Sardinas or Caballito. Lure action was also fairly steady with dark colored plugs from 6-9 inches working best.WAHOO: I didn’t hear of any Wahoo caught locally but there were quite a few brought in by boats arriving from up north.INSHORE: Once again there were still a few Roosterfish being reported this week but with there being so many Dorado and Tuna close in it was hard to get the Captains of the Pangas to target anything else. NOTES: This weeks report was written to the classic Mexican music of Monica Rojas on her 1999 Armonia Productiones Musicales release “La Feria”. I got a chance to hear her sing this week at Miguel Locos, what a great voice! Also, congratulations to Greg W. on the addition of two future anglers to the population! I hope Thomas and Nicholas grow up to enjoy the salt water! Until next week, Tight Lines!
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Cabo San Lucas - October 16th, 2006
supplied by: Baja Anglers
RECORDED:
94 °
FISHING: Great
BAJA ANGLERS FISHING REPORT Oct.16, 2006
Hi Folks,
You can describe the last few weeks in Cabo’s as Fun, Fun, Fun! That is if you like catching Dorado and Yellowfin Tuna on the fly and light spin gear, and also having some fun with the night life.
As well as the great fishing, we had Sammy Hager do his annual birthday bash concert at the Cabo Wabo. Gisel and I couldn’t make it, but I heard from good friends that it was too much fun.
The dorado action is located up on the Pacific side. We are catching anywhere from 3 to 30 schooling dorado up to 15lbs a day’s outing, with a few really nice loners up to 30-40lbs.
Last week Mike and Kathy Donnley had a great day of fishing when they caught 30 dorado on the fly and light spin gear. They also caught over 12 black skipjacks(false albacore) on light spin tackle. The yellowfin tuna bite has just started this last week and it’s off with a bang! Plenty of nicer fish in the 20 to 40# range chasing the chum (sardines) right up next to the boat.
Crosby Beane, Owner of Breckenridge outfitters in Breckenridge, Colorado had another great day on the water. We went out and caught at least a dozen good tuna up to 30# on the fly along with a few dorado before 11am. After we had some fresh sushi on board, we then decided we would try to tease up a billfish for a grand slam(billfish, tuna, dorado), but the billfish weren’t active that day, and we could get none to rise to the teasers. The next day we had a decent billfish bite, Go Figure.
The billfish are on and off right now. There are some big blues and blacks around, but they are spread out all over the place. Lot’s of bait (tuna and dorado) near shore, so you bet there will be some really big ones working close this year. The Striped marlin and sailfish bite has been mostly close to shore and off the old light house. Lures have been working best and a small to medium Gucamaya (green, orange, and yellow) plungers have been the best bet.
INSHORE FISHING: Good News! We are starting to catch some roosterfish and jacks inshore. They are running fun sized with the biggest being around 15#. One day, we had them all around, and we must have teased at least 20 to the boat.
BEACH FISHING: The beach fishing has been okay for smaller jacks, ladyfish and even smaller roosterfish. The snook are still here, so try a early morning or late afternoon fish at the boca en La Playita. The snook are fairly hard to fool around here, but an all white flashtail clouser is a good bet. It’s worth a try, as my last big snook on a fly went easily over 50 lbs. I was really bummed as I lost him shortly after the hook up. On the same day, my buddy got a snook over 60 lbs. on spin gear.
Water Temperatures are in the low 80s in the Pacific side and the mid to high 80s on the Sea of Cortez side.
BAJA ANGLERS NEWS: We have changed our email address to info@baja-anglers.com In the past, we have had poor service with our email servers in Mexico. Many times emails would get bounced or lost along the way, so this should fix that problem. I do get a ton of spam mail, so please put “Fishing” or something similar in the Subject header.
CATCHES OF NOTE: Do note that we don’t change a word. Our clients write down their experiences in our daily log.
Mike Donnley from Bend Oregon wrote: Kathy and I had a great day. We had hand over fist action, landed over 30 dorado. Capt. and mate great! Cant wait to go again!
Geoffe Stevenson from Tuscon, AZ wrote: Alex is a great fisherman and helped us catch 11 dorado, 1 tuna, and 1 sailfish. Great day. Dorado are fun on a fly rod!
Dennis Fico from Atlanta, GA wrote: Went out with Capt. Omar fly fishing. Caught 10 skipjack, 2 dorado and 1 sailfish. Omar did an outstanding job!
Shawn Murphy from Seattle, Wash. Wrote: Fished with Capt. Arturo. Fly fished from sunrise until around 2:30pm. Pompano, tuna on flies in am, temped jacks near shore, 1 dorado on fly. Steady action all day long. Top Professionals, hard working, first class boats, great service and experience, strongest recommendation.
Donald Wilson wrote: Great tuna bite first 3 hours! Landed 10 fish(3 on the fly), all 20 lb.+ class. Excellent guide service! Ate Sashimi tuna on boat. Cant wait to book again with Baja Anglers!
Mark Baily wrote: Fishing hard today. One 10 lb dorado, nothing on the fly. Crews worked hard and taught me a lot about saltwater fly fishing. Better luck next time.
Shawn Murphy had a second day with us and wrote: Out by 6:45 into tuna by 7:30. Caught as many as we wanted. Went tease trolling for dorado, when they attacked the bait, we pulled the baits in and threw the fly. Very-exciting. Dorado hook-ups for 1 ½ hours. Schools of them. Excellent fishing, Hasta Pronto
Charles and Melisa Johnson wrote: 5 yellowfin, 2 dorado, great time. Greg and Betty Wheeler wrote: 2 tuna (one on the fly-excellent) 1 dorado, and 2 marlin. Fantastic time.
Heather and Michael Vranich wrote: We had a great time. Good crew and equipment. We would definitely recommend to our friends. Michael Hogue from Columbia, S. Carolina wrote : Fishing was good. Weather was difficult. High winds with 6 to 10 foot seas. We caught an 80 pound marlin and a 40 lb. dorado. Boat and guide were excellent.
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 (7-8) Wow, on most days, it’s just good fishing!
WAHOO (2-3) Some wahoo around, but you really need to target them.
JACK CRAVELLE (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 (7-8) Plent of yellowfin tuna around. Just throw some chum, and hold on. These fish are great fighters on fly and light tackle and the smaller fish are always better on the grill than the big ones.
MARLIN (Blues & Blacks) (4-5) Some pigs are being caught both close to shore and out at the 1000 fathom line.
STRIPED MARLIN (4) Some stripers around, expect the real good striper fishing to start once the water temperatures drop a little, to around 76 to 78 degrees. That usually happens around the second week of November.
ROOSTERFISH (4) Starting to show thems, the next month aught to be something special. 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 (0) None around right now, they will come back once the water temperature begin to drop. Be sure to use wire shock tippet as these guys have very sharp teeth.
SHARKS (5) They are here, chumming in a good current line is the best bet.
SKIPJACK & BONITO (6-8) They are everywhere, lots of skippies in all their known spots. Black skipjacks are 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 - October 9th, 2006
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED: 
95 °
FISHING: Excellent
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportOct. 2-8, 2006 WEATHER: Our daytime highs were in the mid to low 90’s this week while the nighttime lows were in the mid 70’s. Combine that with a slight lowering in the humidity and it was pretty comfortable for us that live here. Of course if you are used to a lot lower temperatures and lower humidity you knew that you were in the tropics and had to carry a sweat rag with you when you walked around town. It was mostly sunny this week and we had the full moon as well.WATER: I don’t think the water conditions can get much better than we have had for the last few weeks considering the time of year. Both the Pacific side and the Sea of Cortez side of the cape have had smooth conditions on the surface with swells slight at 2-3 feet and very little wind chop. Water temperatures have been between 83 and 86 degrees with an occasional spot hitting lows of 82 degrees and highs of 89 degrees. The only consistent temperature break has been to the southwest at a distance of 15 miles where the warm water is closer to shore and the cooler water just outside. There was only a one-degree change, but that was the extent of any break in the area.BAIT: Caballito in the larger sizes were readily available this week at the normal $2 per bait, and for boats that went up the Cortez side there were Sardinas available off of La Playita at $20 a bucket.FISHING: BILLFISH: With all the tournaments upcoming in the next few weeks I will put a bit more focus on the billfish action in this report. There were plenty of Blue Marlin and Striped Marlin to be found and I did see quite a few small Black Marlin as well. Most of the blacks were found close to the beach along the points and the Blues were coming off of the current lines or within a mile or two of the banks. Lures were taking most of the blue marlin hook-ups and the favorite colors seemed to be Petrelero and blue/pink/silver. During the tournaments there will likely be a lot more boats working slow trolled live baits around the banks, but no one is really doing that yet. The Cabrillo seamount, the 1150 area as well as the San Jaime and the Golden Gate area have all produced decent Blue Marlin this week. For some reason the 95 Spot has not been quite as productive. The Striped Marlin have been found close to shore and they have been mixed in with the Dorado and a few Sailfish. Striped Marlin have been averaging #120-#130 while the average Blue has been in the #200-#250 class with a few fish in the “qualifying” area of over #300. Keep in mind that even if you are trolling lures to bring one of the mamas up, it pays off to have a bridles Bonita or Yellowfin Tuna in the tubes just in case the big girl decides she is window shopping! Sometimes the free meal is irresistible. Get a load of Sardines first thing in the morning and put a couple of the big baits in the tubes, if you don’t get a chance to use them on a big Blue, they still make for a great “Charlie” while fishing for Dorado.YELLOWFIN TUNA: Find the porpoise and you find the Tuna. This is the time of year when it is true every trip, but not all the porpoise will hold fish. If you get lucky as some people did 25 miles to the south this week, you will get a chance to fight fish to #180, with a lot of them around #70-#80. Closer to home on the Pacific side there were lots of school fish in the 25-40 pound ranges, but once again you had to find the porpoise that held fish. These school fish were between the San Jaime and Golden Gate Banks and the coastline. Best lures were Cedar plugs and dark colored feathers for the smaller fish and live bait for the larger ones.DORADO: The fish of the week with every boat getting at least a couple of fish and a lot of boats limiting out on these great eating fish. There was a concentration of fish off of the ledge at the lighthouse and a decent concentration of fish spread out across the current line up at Los Arcos. WAHOO: There were a few Wahoo this week and they were mostly caught close to the beach on the Pacific side by anglers targeting Dorado. The smallest I heard of (and got a piece of) was 45 pounds but there were reports of fish to 75 pounds.INSHORE: There were still a few Roosterfish being reported this week but with there being so many Dorado close in it was hard to get the Captains of the Pangas to target anything else. NOTES: My friend Dan broke the cherry on his new 63’ Bertram “Sporty Game” yesterday with the release of an estimated #350 Blue. I will be fishing this boat for the Bisbee so it’s nice to know that it can raise fish. Now all I need to do is bring a few C/W CD’s! Until next week, tight lines!
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Cabo San Lucas - October 2nd, 2006
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
97 °
FISHING: Excellent
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHINGCaptain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportSept.25-Oct. 1, 2006 WEATHER: What a nice change this week! We had mostly sunny skies with our daytime temperatures in the mid to high 90’s and the night time lows in the low 80’s to mid 70’s, just about as perfect as you could get. The only downside was that with the slight lowering in temps was an increase in the humidity. This was not unexpected, just unwanted as every little exertion resulted in some sweat.WATER: Both sides of the Cape had wonderful water conditions this week with surface conditions smooth and comfortable. On the Pacific side we did have late afternoon winds that resulted in occasional choppy conditions, but with the swells at only 2-3 feet there were no safety problems, just an occasional case of seasickness. On the Cortez side of the Cape it was almost glassy for most of the week. On the Cortez side we had a band of very warm water come in and during the middle of the week we saw water temperatures to 90 degrees in a band that ran across the outer Gorda Bank coming from the East and running from there to within 5 miles of the coast toward the Cape. On the Pacific side the water was 85-86 degrees out just past the San Jaime and Golden Gate Banks and a few degrees cooler out past both of those. There was 83-degree water 15 miles to the southwest of the cape and there was a defined temperature break, but no color change in the area.BAIT: Caballito in the larger sizes were readily available this week at the normal $2 per bait, and for boats that went up the Cortez side there were Sardinas available off of La Playita at $20 a bucket.FISHING: BILLFISH: I heard from a few boats that there was a wide open bite on Striped Marlin happening up toward the Mag Bay area this week, but that is unconfirmed by anyone locally, it has all been reported over the radio. Closer to home the bite on Striped Marlin has been good close in to shore on the Pacific side; most of the action has been between the lighthouse and the Pescadaro area within 3 miles of the beach. Farther offshore there has been Blue Marlin and an occasional Black Marlin popping up in the spreads. I had a chance to fish all day on Saturday and we released an estimated #350 Blue several miles to the northwest of the Golden Gate Bank and an estimated #200 Blue just outside of the Margaretville area while working some Porpoise.YELLOWFIN TUNA: It appears that the Yellowfin Tuna that were hanging around the Punta Gorda area have moved on because while boats were still going to the area in hope of great catch’s the bite dropped dramatically. Fish were still caught but the numbers were down by a major amount. There was an occasional good bite amongst the Porpoise on the Pacific side with one notable spot happening just to the east of the San Jaime on Wednesday of this week. Most of the fish were in the 35-pound range but there were fish to 95 pounds caught on the troll. The area between the San Jaime and the Golden Gate had occasional pods of porpoise showing but they only occasional had Tuna with them.DORADO: Once again Dorado were the fish of the week as almost every boat that went to look for them got into some action. Not all of the fish were large and I did see a lot of “dinks” brought in, some as small as 4 pounds, almost enough to make me cry. Fortunately there were plenty of fish in the 12-30 pound range to keep people happy. Most of this action was taking place just off the beach in less than 200 feet of water on the Pacific side of the Cape. The area off of the ledge at the lighthouse was exceptional last week with the best results being posted by boats drifting with cut bait and smaller live baits. Please try and remember that there is a five fish per person limit per day, and that only two of these fish may be Dorado. Catching and keeping 24 Dorado for two anglers is a violation of the fishing regulations and could result in a hefty fine for the boat owners and the crew on board.WAHOO: There were a few Wahoo this week and they were mostly caught close to the beach on the Pacific side by anglers targeting Dorado. The smallest I heard of (and got a piece of) was 45 pounds but there were reports of fish to 75 pounds.INSHORE: There were still a few Roosterfish being reported this week but with there being so many Dorado close in it was hard to get the Captains of the Pangas to target anything else. NOTES: Tied my own best record on the golf course today and didn’t have to pay for the beer, caught and release two Blue Marlin yesterday and also had a great time at a friends birthday party last night. Yes, it’s been a nice week. With that in mind I just downloaded Carlos Santana on the album “Superstition to my i-pod this morning, I had forgotten how well he rocks on most of the cuts! Until next week, tight lines!
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Cabo San Lucas - September 25th, 2006
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
97 °
FISHING: Excellent
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHINGCaptain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportSept.18-24, 2006 WEATHER: After all the worry for the past three weeks over if we were going to get hit by a hurricane or not, it was nice to have a stretch of time where the only worry was “How hot is it going to be tomorrow?.” As we have hit the official fall season the temperatures have not dropped much, maybe about 3-5 degrees, but the humidity has fallen and it feels a lot cooler. This week our high was 94 degrees and our nighttime low was 78 degrees, a very comfortable range with the humidity down. There was no rain and partly cloudy skies.WATER: The water on the Pacific side was choppy since the winds returned to the normal Northwesterly but since the swells were small it was not uncomfortable. The water on the Pacific side was mostly 83-84 degrees with a bit of cooler water showing just to the north of the lighthouse close to shore. That cooler water was a bit off color as well. On the Cortez side of the Cape things were a bit warmer as well as a bit calmer. The swells that came from the south last week have almost died out and the NW wind can’t reach this side so there was very little chop. Unfortunately there was not good current or temperature break associated with the calmer water this week. At the end of the week we had a band of hot water show up from outside of Los Frailles to across the Gorda Banks and a bit toward us, this water was in the 86-87 degree range surrounded by water several degrees cooler. Surface conditions were excellent in the morning with slight chop developing later in the afternoons.BAIT: Caballito in the larger sizes were readily available this week at the normal $2 per bait, and for boats that went up the Cortez side there were Sardinas available off of La Playita at $20 a bucket.FISHING: BILLFISH: The Billfish bite this week seemed to be evenly mixed between Striped Marlin and Blue Marlin with almost the entire action taking place to the south or just a bit into the Pacific side of the Cape. Not to say there were no Marlin to be found elsewhere, au contraire, but the majority of the fish were found in these areas. This may be because most of the effort for all species combined was concentrated there, but be that as it may, there was a fairly good showing of Blue Marlin to #250 and Stripes to #150 in the areas between the 95 Spot and the San Jaime Bank and inshore from those locations. On the Sea of Cortez the area to the north of Punta Gorda continued to supply a few Striped Marlin as well as a scattering of Sailfish. Off shore there were some Blue Marlin showing at the 1,000 fathom break and along the 100 fathom break.YELLOWFIN TUNA: I managed to get in a day of fishing this week and we tried for the Yellowfin that I reported being on the flats up past Punta Gorda. We got out of the marina early and picked up Sardinas at La Playita, arriving at the Estellidera area about 8 AM. By the time things had settled down and the fish had been found there must have been 35 boats in the immediate area. We picked at fish between 15 and 25 pounds for several hours and the boats spread out as the bite was not as hot as had been reported from the previous day. At about 11 AM we had a nice bite on a fish we guessed at well over #100, but we were using #30 line and #30 floura-carbon leader. After a fight of well over an hour and the fish within 100 feet of the boat, something large, probably a shark came by and spooked the Tuna. We were almost spooled with only 10 yards left when we thumbed the spool and broke the fish off. By then we were away from the bite and by the time we got back to the high spot we were the only boat left. We continued to work the Sardinas as chum and ended up with a dozen fish between 15 and 50 pounds. There was action in other area as well, the “Fly Hooker” had a blind strike on a #112 fish out toward the San Jaime as well as a Blue and Black released and a few Dorado over two days of fishing. A few boats reported decent action on blind strikes with fish averaging #25 within 2 miles of the beach on the Pacific side, from the lighthouse to 20 miles up the beach. Sardinas were the bait of choice on the Punta Gorda area while the big fish from the “Fly Hooker” was caught on a Pink/White Hi-5 swimming lure.DORADO: Dorado action continued to be good on the Pacific side of the Cape with the best bite happening early in the morning until 10 AM. Lures trolled fast (10 knots) resulted in hookups and then bait dropped back caught the followers. That was the course of action for most of the cruisers, but the Pangas have their own methods. Talking with several of the better Panga captains I discovered that they have been slow trolling cut bait with a hootchies skirt over the bait to keep it from getting washed out, or drifting live bait while chumming with Bollito chunks of dead Sardinas. Most boats trying for Dorado were able to get at least a couple of fish in the boat and there were a few that really loaded up with limits for all the anglers aboard. There was a bit of debris in the water on the Pacific side, possibly remains from the storms we have just had, and that debris was occasionally holding fish as well.WAHOO: I saw no Wahoo flags this week nor heard of any being caught. Maybe the new moon had something to do with that.INSHORE: A few decent Dorado and Roosterfish have been caught by the Pangas, but for the most part inshore action has consisted mainly of school sized Dorado. The Pangas have been doing very well on them though, nothing to sneeze at with an average of 5 fish per boat. Pangas going up the beach on the Cortez side have had a little better luck with the Roosterfish than boats working the Pacific side. NOTES: Tournament season is almost upon us and the Marina is starting to fill up with all the large boats. It’s nice to see the professional Captains and crew and get a chance to talk with them at the end of the day. There is an enormous amount of diverse talent and experience out there and of course, we are always learning something new! This weeks report was written to the favorite music of “Sporty Game”, a little country in the form of Brad Paisley on the 2001 Arista release “Part 2”. Play it Dan! Until next week, tight lines!
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Cabo San Lucas - September 18th, 2006
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RECORDED: 
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FISHING: Great
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHINGCaptain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportSept.11-17, 2006 WEATHER: The words I heard most often this week were “We dodged another bullet” when it came to discussing the weather. Less than two weeks after Hurricane John took a turn to the east and hit the East Cape (when we were forecast for a direct hit) Hurricane Lane developed and appeared as if she was going to run over the top of us. Hurricane Lane was a category three, just as John was, but was much more massive in coverage and held a lot more rain. Much to our surprise (and appreciation) she took a turn to the east, a hard turn, and hit the mainland coast of Mexico just to the north of Mazatlan, up in the Los Mochis area and dumped up to 24” of rain. I feel sorry for them but once again we came through all right. Everyone here was surprised as well when we received no rain in Cabo (other then a quick sprinkle on Friday night that dotted windshields). As a result we had very overcast skies starting on Wednesday and lasting through Saturday with only partly cloudy skies on Sunday. Daytime highs were between the low 80’s and high to mid 90’s while the nighttime lows were around the high to mid 70’s. Winds were from the NW during the middle of the week as feeder bands led into the storm and there was just a light breeze on Sunday.WATER: Southerly swells brought in by Hurricane Lane made things confused on the Pacific side as they interacted with the NW winds feeding into the bands. This condition only lasted for three days but was a big influence on many of the trips. On the Cortez side of the Cape the swells were the only influence as there was almost no wind until you got more than 25 miles off shore. Temperatures on the Cortez side were in the 84-degree range to the north of the Gorda Banks and between 80-82 degrees between Cabo and the Banks. On the Pacific side the San Jaime Banks was at 83 degrees while the Golden Gate was in the high 70’s. These temperatures were from the middle of the week, the last good shot we had. From the boats out since then we have figured out that everything is about one degree less now. Conditions were good with blue water almost everywhere except for very close to the beach.BAIT: There was not much change in the bait situation from last week. A combination of slightly larger seas and the moon conditions once again caused a significant lack of live bait with almost everyone being limited to 6 or 7 Caballito. There were Sardines available at both Palmilla and La Playita, but you had to be one of the first boats in the area to get the best bait, and it was at the normal $20 per scoop.FISHING: BILLFISH: We had a good showing of Sailfish in close to the beach on the Pacific side this week and they were hitting smaller feathers and plugs meant for Dorado. Average size was #80 and a lot of the boats were hooking up or having strikes from four of five fish a day. Just a mile farther out and out tot eh San Jaime and Golden Gate Banks there were a few Striped Marlin. They were hitting lures but not hooking up well, most of the hookups were the result of slow trolling live bait or tossing the bait to fish appearing in the pattern. This is a good time of year as almost all the Billfish species we normally catch are around, as an example we had clients the week who caught Sailfish one day and Striped and Blue Marlin the next, then two days later had clients who hooked and released a Blue Marlin first thing in the morning and then a Black Marlin the last fish of the day, filling the space between with Dorado. Sailfish and Striped Marlin seemed to be more prevalent on the Pacific side while the Blues and Blacks were almost anywhere.YELLOWFIN TUNA: The flats up around Punta Gorda and the Estellidera area have continued to supply plenty of Yellowfin Tuna for boats that have picked up Sardinas for bait and use them for both chum and bait. On some days they have had to weed through a lot of Bonita and Skipjack, but there were days when things were just wide open. These fish have ranged between #15 and #40. Later in the week there were fish found with porpoise out around the 95 Spot and dark colored feathers and cedar plugs worked their magic with limits on fish to 35 pounds for the boats that got into them. There were reports of a few fish over #100 pounds being found but I never was able to get any confirming information on them.DORADO: I think that Dorado may well be the fish of the month since almost every boat that went out was able to get at least three or four of these good eating fish. Most of the action was on the Pacific side of the Cape and close to shore. Or at least there were more fish close to shore, there were larger fish offshore around the Banks, but the numbers were within a mile of the beach. Most of these fish were in the 8-12 pound range while the offshore fish were in the 20-30 pound range. Strip baits, drifted live bait and slow trolled Ballyhoo accounted for most of the fish, plastic jigs and feather brought in the rest.WAHOO: There were a few Wahoo reported from up at the Punta Gorda area and a couple from the Pacific banks, but there were no numbers of fish; they were incidental catch for boats working for other species.INSHORE: Still some nice Roosterfish around but not in great numbers. Most of the Pangas have been fishing for Dorado and having great success. NOTES: My buddy Chris Golden came back from a trip for Tuna up at the flats off of Punta Gorda and still had some Sardinas in the bait tank. While cleaning the boat after the trip they were fly-lining the leftover bait in the Marina and were having fun catching and releasing some 4-5 pound jacks. One of the Jacks became lunch for a small Hammerhead that they were able to release! This weeks report was written to the music of Bobby McFerrin on the 1988 EMI release “Simple Pleasures”, a step back in time with a song that brings a lot of memories “Don’t worry, be happy”. Until next week, tight lines!
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Cabo San Lucas - September 11th, 2006
supplied by: Fly Hooker Sportfishing
RECORDED:
97 °
FISHING: Great
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHINGCaptain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportSept.4-10, 2006 WEATHER: It’s fairly simple to describe the weather for the past week, cloudy and rainy! Early in the week we had rain every day, the crab grass in my front yard (normally just dirt) got so bad (2 ½ feet) from the past two weeks that I had to go and buy a weed-eater (as you get older those gadgets come in handy, sure saves your back!). Almost every day we had a solid cloud cover except at the end of the week where Saturday and Sunday had some sun peeking through, actually on Sunday it was mostly sunny. Our daytime highs were in the mid 90’s while our nighttime lows were in the mid 70’s.WATER: Hurricane John really cooled things off and turned the water over. Inshore on both the Cortez and Pacific side the water was green and had cooled off to 80 degrees. There were some good size swells as a result of the passing of the hurricane on the Cortez side but the water on the Pacific side was really nice. As the week progressed the Cortez side smoothed out but there was quite a bit of debris in the water the farther north you went. At the end of the week the water on the Cortez side was 83-84 degrees and the Pacific was mostly in the 81-82 degree range.BAIT: Bait was a bit tough to get this week with the inshore water being all green. Most of the boats were lucky to get 7 or 8, a mix of Caballito and Mullet at the normal $2 per bait. If you got out real early there was some Sardinas available up at Palmilla and San Jose at $20 a scoop, but they sold out real early.FISHING: BILLFISH: There were still Striped Marlin getting hooked up this week but there were more Blue Marlin than Striped Marlin on the Cortez side of the Cape. All the Blues that I hear of came on lures around the Porpoise schools and around the banks while the Striped Marlin were closer to shore and came on live bait dropped back to fish appearing in the spread or to tailing fish. Most of the Blues were in the 150-200 pound range but there were enough of the 400-500 pound fish to keep everyone on their toes.YELLOWFIN TUNA: This is almost a repeat of last weeks report. I and almost everyone else thought that Hurricane John would have chased the Yellowfin away from the Inman and Gorda Banks but it appears that the off colored water was all right with them. Scattered football fish were caught on the Pacific side amongst Porpoise and there was a good bite on Yellowfin to 40 pounds on those two banks, but the bite happened very early in the day based on the reports that I received. Sardines were the bait of choice for the early boats but others did all right on chunk baits and a few boats hooked up decent fish on lures. The fish found on the Pacific side were almost all associated with porpoise but you really had to hunt to find a pod that held the tuna, sometimes going through three or four pods of fish.DORADO: Repeat of last week once again. Slow trolling strip baits was the way to go if you wanted Dorado this week. A good trip could result in 45 to 50 pounds of fillets. Most of the fish were between 12 and 20 pounds and they were found close to shore with the most effort being expended on the Pacific side. These fish like the rougher water and with the swells churning up the beach there were a lot of rip currents and debris lines to attract their attention. Lures also garnered a few fish but best results were had with the first fish kept behind the boat and chunks or strip baits drifted behind the first caught fish.WAHOO: NadaINSHORE: There were a few nice sized Roosterfish found this week but the discolored water made it a real search. Most of the inshore fishing was for Grouper and Amberjack. Almost all the Pangas that I heard about were going for the Dorado since they were so numerous and so close to shore. NOTES: One more month to tournament time, start getting all the gear in order! If you are planning to come to Cabo during the month of October and want to fish, you may be too late for booking, get on the inter-net or on the phone and go to work, or change to golf! This weeks report was written to the music of that Texan guy, Jerry Jeff Walker as he sang about living in the tropics on the 1997 Tried and True Music release “Cowboy Boots & Bathing Suites”. Until next week, tight lines!
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Cabo San Lucas - September 4th, 2006
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RECORDED:
96 °
FISHING: Great
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHINGCaptain George Landrumgmlandrum@hotmail.comwww.flyhooker.comCabo Fish ReportAugust 28-Sept.3, 2006 WEATHER: Talk of the week was of Hurricane John. At the start of the week it was just a tropical depression to the southeast of Acapulco and almost everyone, including me, thought that it would follow the normal track to the west-northwest if it developed into anything. Thinking that was what was going to happen I booked tickets to California to get a car to drive back. To my dismay John developed into a tropical storm then a hurricane and came right at us. Kristen, out to the west, kept John from moving to the west. Uh-oh, I quickly booked tickets back on the first flight out on Thursday and arrived about 2 pm Thursday afternoon. No rain yet, just a few dark cloud bands. When the attendants went through the plane before we left Phoenix Airport and explained the Cabo was expected to get a direct hit from a hurricane, we were an hour late leaving as the manifest had to be radically changed and a lot of luggage unloaded! We came in with only about 20 people on the plane, but there had to be about 300 waiting to leave! Thank goodness we were not trying to get out. After going directly to the marina to secure the boat it was time to head for home and take care of the heavy stuff my wife could not do. I have to say that after having been through at leas 3 category 5 hurricanes, I am always happy when we only get a little rain and wind. Hurricane John kept moving off to the east and we only received the weak side, with winds to 35 knots and maybe 2” of rain over Saturday and Sunday. The East Cape took a direct hit and I lost contact with a few friends up there and I hope they are all right. Our cell phone system is busy and as of Sunday morning we cannot get on line or phone anyone, probably because a relay tower or two in the northern part of the state has been damaged. WATER: It was decent water early in the week with swells on the Pacific side at 2-4 feet and the water was blue and warm at 84 degrees. On the Sea of Cortez side there were almost no swells and only light winds with blue water at 86 degrees. The clouds started moving in on Wednesday, not thick, but enough to give us partly cloudy skies and they kept the surface temperatures down a bit. Thursday the swells started to pick up and of course the port was closed on Friday and Saturday. The port re-opened on Sunday and a few boats that still had clients went out. A few of them returned with seasick passengers but most of them stayed out, the swells were up a bit but there was no chop on top of them.BAIT: Caballito early in the week with the usual price of $2 per bait, some Sardinas up at Palmilla at $20 a scoop. At the end of the week on Sunday there were two bait boats out there selling bait, they were Caballito held over in their tanks through the storm, but they weren’t trying to gouge, only asking the usual $2 per bait.FISHING: BILLFISH: This whole section is going to be a bit difficult for me as I was only here for Monday and Sunday. There were Striped Marlin reported every day as well as some Blue Marlin, but the numbers of both had dropped off a bit. The Striped Marlin were reported close to shore near home and the Blue Marlin were reported to be out past the 95 Spot, just like last week.YELLOWFIN TUNA: Scattered football fish were caught on the Pacific side amongst Porpoise and there was a good bite on Yellowfin to 25 pounds with an occasional larger fish to 100 pounds reported early in the week a the Gorda Banks. I am writing the report on Sunday and will upgrade it if I find that anyone has found fish today. Almost all the above action at the Gorda was on Sardines and chunk bait.DORADO: Exactly the same as last week. Slow trolling strip baits was the way to go if you wanted Dorado this week. A good trip could result in 45 to 50 pounds of fillets. Most of the fish were between 12 and 20 pounds and they were found close to shore with the most effort being expended on the Pacific side. These fish like the rougher water and with the swells churning up the beach there were a lot of rip currents and debris lines to attract their attention. Lures also garnered a few fish but best results were had with the first fish kept behind the boat and chunks or strip baits drifted behind the first caught fish.WAHOO: NadaINSHORE: Like they say in jersey, fagitaboutit! Storm swells made inshore fishing almost impossible on the Pacific and there were enough Dorado just offshore that the Pangas focused their attention there. NOTES: As I said above, I am writing this on Sunday and am not sure if we will get internet back or not before Monday. If the boats that went out today did any good I will try and update this report before it is posted. Cabo got off lucky with Hurricane John, a bit of wind and rain but little damage. I am keeping my fingers crossed that we are as lucky the rest of the month!
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