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Fishing Report for San Jose del Cabo, Baja

Capt. Eric Brictson
March 25, 2001
San Jose del Cabo - Saltwater Fishing Report

Anglers - March 25, 2001

Springtime has now officially arrived and along with the large crowds of spring break vacationers there was ideal windless, warm weather. Water temperature ranged from 68 to 71 and was on a clearing trend, still mostly off colored greenish blue. The sportfishing fleets out of San Jose were keeping especially busy since this is where anglers were finding the best all around action to be in all of Southern Baja. The panga charters were concentrating around the Gordo Banks, La Fortuna, Iman and San Luis. Supplies of sardinas were plentiful and of good size, there was also good news about schools of mackerel moving into local waters, as over the weekend they were seen breezing the surface. The most common daily catches were yellowfin tuna, bonita, pargo ( red snapper ), amberjack, grouper, sierra and roosterfish. Action would vary from day to day, with it being mostly tuna biting one morning and then the next it would be more pargo and bonita. A couple of days were particularly hot, when boats were returning by 10:30 a.m. with full limits of yellowfin tuna in the 20 to 30 pound class.

Live sardinas were the bait of choice and matched with light to medium tackle made for great sport on the variety of fish now available. With larger yellowfin tuna to 70 pounds now schooling on the Banks, anglers targeting these brutes preferred to use medium gear of 40 to 50 pound. The majority of tuna weighed from 18 to 25 pounds, though everyday some fish over 50 pounds were brought to the scales. The schools of mackerel that were found had the tuna following closely behind, and these were larger tuna, with fish over 100 pounds reportedly seen feeding, though the ones actually landed in these frenzies were in the 40 to 55 pound range. Red Crabs continued to be thick on local fishing grounds and this has made the tuna fishing somewhat unpredictable, but on the days when the yellowfin action slowed, the pargo bite made up for any slack. At times the surface actually turned red with them, they averaged 5 to 10 pounds and provided bonus action along with some quality sized amberjack and grouper that hit on iron jigs retrieved off the rocky bottom. Another abundant species is bonita, averaging 4 to 6 pounds and once located made for some fast action on the retrieved jigs.

Trolling live bait along the shoreline from La Playita to Punta Gorda was producing increased activity for sierra and roosterfish. Larger sierra of 4 to 10 pounds were taken consistently and a few bigger rossterfish were starting to show as well, several in the twenty pound class were released, most were under 10 pounds. Mullet have migrated in early this year and are schooling off of La Playita beach, this should start attracting more gamefish. Signs are pointing towards a great spring season as bait is abundant and weather is rapidly warming. With mackerel now moving onto the local fishing grounds, it most certainly will stir the striped marlin bite in the right direction.

Good Fishing, Eric

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10087 Shadow Rd.
La Mesa, CA 91941
Phone: 800 4081199
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