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Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Capt. George Landrum
January 1, 2001
Cabo San Lucas - Saltwater Fishing Report
Fly Hooker Fish Report for Dec 25-31
“FLYHOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR DEC 24, 2000
Today’s anglers are Mitch Salmon, his girlfriend Lois and his friend Tom. Mitch has a lot of experience, but Tom has none and Lois has some saltwater fishing exposure. Mitch would really like to target big Yellowfin and has booked two days with the “Fly Hooker” hoping to get into them. Since the Yellowfin being found lately have been the 20 lb size. He has his fingers crossed! They are out of the Marina and on the hunt at 7 AM. Now Mitch wants tuna, but he also wants Lois and Tom to have fun and a chance to catch fish also, so they start out looking for the football size fish and Marlin right offshore. Tom quickly decides he is not a seagoing type of guy, Lois is able to get photos of Tom chumming for the fish. (She has plenty of opportunities!!!) No football size tuna are found, but they do find the Marlin! During the course of the day, the have 6 chances at Marlin, 5 of them on lures. Lois gets to fight 2 that are tagged and released after about 20-25 minutes of fight time. Mitch gets 2 also and on the last fish, he puts the Shimano Tiagra into low gear and cranks the fish to the boat in 10 minutes. The fish is tagged and released and they head back to the Marina. Maybe they will find the Yellowfin the day after Christmas. Merry Christmas and Tight Lines from Mary, George and the “Fly Hooker Crew”.
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR DEC 25, 2000
No fishing today. A well deserved day off for the Fly Hooker crew to spend Christmas with the Family. Merry Christmas to all!!!
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR DEC 26, 2000
Back to work for the Fly Hooker with Mitch and Lois. Tom has decided it would be a cold day in ….. Well you know where before he goes out on the ocean again! Lois says she is going to show the photos from the last trip around the office when they get back. Obviously no sympathy there!!! Mitch and Lois have decided they have caught enough Marlin on the 24th and today they want to target the Yellowfin Tuna. Manuel heads the Fly Hooker out of the Marina in search of the porpoise. 28 Miles out they finally find the porpoise and start fishing. Most of the fish they find are still the football size fish 15-25 lbs. They hook up 10 times and get 9 of the fish in the boat before they eventually hook up the fish Mitch has been looking for! One of the Tiagra 50’s starts to scream off line and Mitch gets on the fish right away. The water is a bit choppy and it is difficult to fight the fish standing up. Mitch said the tuna ran off line for about 5 minutes before he was able to start gaining on the fish. After 30 minutes the fish is brought along side the boat and Juan gaffs the fish with the stick gaff. Apparently, he did not have a good grip and looses the gaff as the fish made a sudden surge. Another 30 minutes and the fish is boat-side again. This time Juan uses the flying gaff and the fish is theirs. A nice Yellowfin tuna estimated at 120 lbs served up some beautiful steaks after being filleted. Congratulations Mitch. That was enough fish and enough fight for the day and the “Fly Hooker” headed home. Thanks Mitch, we hope you fish with us again. Until then, Tight Lines from Mary, George, Juan & Manuel, the “Fly Hooker” Crew
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT DEC 27, 2000
Rick Parsons and his girlfriend Jessica have booked the “Fly Hooker” for today and next Wednesday. The water was a bit rough and choppy as a front has moved through and Jessica gets queasy the moment they get out. That doesn’t stop her from being a good vidiographer however and she manages to capture the action as Rick fights, tags and releases a Striped Marlin caught on a lure. Later they find a Marlin tailing and Juan tosses a Caballito to the fish. The bait is inhaled and the Marlin proceeds to head for the horizon and the 40 lb test line screams off the TLD25. Juan quickly clears the other lures and Manuel backs the boat down. Just in time also because they quickly get to the point where the only thing connecting Rick to the Marlin is the knot on the spool arbor! Rick manages to gain line and after an hour and 10 minutes the Marlin is brought in the boat. Normally the fish would have been released, but it had died during the fight. The Marlin is estimated at 150 lbs, so it is not a surprise since they fought it so hard! Later they find a pod of porpoise and caught a dozen Yellowfin Tuna. Rick finally took pity on Jessica and OK’d the early return to the Harbor. They were back at the slip at 11 AM after catching 2 Marlin and 12 tuna!!! What a trip they had! We hope the weather is a bit better next week and the fishing is just as good. Until Then Tight Lines from George, Mary, Juan & Manuel the “Fly Hooker Crew”
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR DEC 28, 2000
Frank Scelzi and his girlfriend Jennifer booked the “Fly Hooker” for today and tomorrow with the understanding they would be going for more than a boat ride. As Franks explained to us, he is a fisherman and wants to go fishing, not cruising. He knows how important it is to book with someone who works at finding fish the client wants rather than cruising and hoping you find fish. Jennifer is not feeling her best and when they left home she was coming down with a cold or the flu. I guess she must really care about their relationship, because she told Frank that never mind about her, he wanted to go fishing, so they would go!!! Sound to me like Frank better hang on to her! Well, Frank and Jennifer arrived in Cabo on the 26th and wanted to go fishing right away, so yesterday they went on a Panga and caught Frank’s first Striped Marlin and a Dorado. This has only whetted his appetite. Today Franks wants more big fish!
Manuel and Juan head out towards the Pacific side since there have been quite a few Marlins there in the last few days. About three miles out they come across a Tuna school mixed with the porpoise and they put out some tuna lures. Bang! Bang! Immediate hook-ups and a pair of football size fish are in the box. On the next pass, the fish are a bit bigger and Jennifer gets to fight one about 40 lbs. What a fight she had too, as the fish was bound and determined to stay away from the boat! After 20 minutes Juan was able to gaff the fish and they headed back towards the school. The water was getting a little bit rough and choppy, so it was a good thing that the last pass on the school resulted in another big Tuna, this time it is Franks, turn as he battled a nice Yellowfin for 30 minutes. Eventually he landed the biggest fish of the day a Yellowfin Tuna, estimated to be in excess of 80 lbs. The water had gotten pretty rough by then and in order to keep Jennifer from getting sick they turned down swell and went looking for marlin. Around the Cape and up into the Sea of Cortez fro the next 4 hours, but with no success. Not even one spotted tailing the entire time. They came into the Marina with the fillets from 9 Yellowfin Tuna, one over 80 lbs, 3 over 30 lbs and 4 football size fish. Franks too one larger Zip-lock of fillets for dinner. The Giggling Marlin cooked it up for them and Franks said they must have fed the entire restaurant with all the fish dishes that were brought out to of the kitchen. Well no Marlin today, but we are hoping the water is a bit better tomorrow and the fish are there! Until then, Tight Lines, from Mary, George, Manuel & Juan, the “Fly Hooker” Crew.
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR DEC 29, 2000
Today is the second day of fishing on the “Fly Hooker” for Frank Scelzi and his girlfriend Jennifer. The wind died down a bit last night and the water should be in better condition than it was yesterday. Jennifer is feeling a lot better also. Juan and Manuel get bait and everyone heads out in search of Marlin. At 10 miles south of the Cape they come across a pod of porpoise and get sidetracked from the Marlin for a while. 14 football size tuna later, (6 released) they continue the search. They would have stayed with the porpoise if there had been some larger fish in with them, but they never did get a strike form anything really large. Jennifer caught the largest tuna, estimated at 25 lbs. They sighted and tossed bait at 3 Marlin during the search, but none of the fish were interested. They found a large palm trunk floating in the water about 3 miles off the point and quickly hooked up a very nice size Dorado. Manuel estimated the size at 60 lbs and after a long fight it managed to break through the leader at boat-side. Another nice fish was lost after breaking the leader while being gaffed. Frank was able to get a nice Female Dorado 54 inches long in the boat adn2 others also. Some nice fillets for dinner, enough to feed the whole restaurant again! That was it for the day, 14 tuna, and 3 Dorado. Sorry none of the Marlin wanted to bite for Frank, but maybe next time! Thanks, we loved having you both fishing on the “Fly Hooker”. Until then, Tight Lines, Mary, George, Juan & Manuel, the “Fly Hooker” Crew
Cabo San Lucas Fish Report
Cabo San Lucas Fishing Report for Dec 25- 31, 2000
Captain George Landrum
“Fly Hooker” Sportfishing
[email protected]
WEATHER: what an interesting week we have had weather wise! Christmas day was bright and sunny, but on Tuesday we had a front start to move in from the Southwest. Wednesday and Thursday were cloudy and on Thursday the wind blew hard. On Friday the front had passed and the wind shifted to come form the southeast. Today we had more cloud cover move in, but no rain all week from either system. Temperatures have ranged from the low 80’s to mid 50’s.
WATER: The swells have remained small in front of Cabo, but moving out to the Pacific side results in some larger, rougher conditions due to the front that moved through. The shifting wind caused choppy conditions from Wednesday on though Saturday. The warmer water has been from Todos Santos on the Pacific side out about 10 miles and extending South of the Cape 40 –50 miles. This water is ranging from 73-77 degrees. Outside this is cooler water, down to 66 degrees in the Sea of Cortez. The Southwest winds pushed this cooler water towards us over the week.
BAIT: Both Mackerel and Caballito have been readily available all week at the usual price of $2.00 each. Sardinas are available at $20-25 a scoop here in Cabo and for a bait tank full in San Jose.
FISHING
BILLFISH: Outrageous is the word for the Striped Marlin fishing this past week. Almost every boat that ha concentrated on Marlin has been able to catch between one and six a day. Even the pangas are getting into the action. Schools of tailing Stripers are being found and there are plenty of single fish scattered throughout the area. The bite has been pretty evenly split between lures and live bait and the fish have averaged about 120 lbs. Lots of boats working the schools, so quite a few fish lost to other boats cutting lines!
YELLOWFIN TUNA: many football size fish were found this week close to shore and even more were found with the porpoise. The best bite on the porpoise associated fish was on the cedar plugs and 6” lures. There was some 40-80 pound fish mixed in with these schools and even a few in the 100 lb range were caught. It was not uncommon for boats to come in limited out on the tuna and having released even more than that.
DORADO: Wow!!!! This was an unexpected bonus for this week. Almost everywhere you look there were boats flying the yellow Dorado flags. Most of these fish were found associated with the inshore tuna schools, but the larger fish were found around pieces of floating debris. The Tuna associated Dorado were running between 8 and 30 lbs and the fish being caught around debris running between 30-50 lbs. Live bait was the best choice for both area and some of the boats were able to catch up to 6 or 8 Dorado!
WAHOO: believe it or not, there were a few boats that were able to find concentrations of Wahoo, but they would not tell anyone where they were. We were told that fast trolling with plugs were the ticket to high numbers of these speedsters. There was also the occasional fish caught by those targeting tuna using live bait, but naturally more of these were lost due to bite offs than were caught. The Wahoo have averaged 20-25 lbs with only a few fish larger than 40 lbs.
INSHORE: Small Roosterfish, some Sierra, a little bit of Bottomfish and the presence of Yellowfin, Dorado and Striped Marlin have kept the Panga fishermen happy. Everyone has been able to catch fish this past week and that’s a fact!
NOTES: I believe the catch ratio to have been 100% this past week. All the boats I talk with caught fish, no one was skunked. Outrageous!!!! What a way to end the 20th Century. Till next week and the new Millenium
Tight Lines and Feliz Aņo Nuevo!
Captain George Landrum
“Fly Hooker” Sportfishing
[email protected]
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