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Fishing Report for San Jose del Cabo, Baja
Capt. Eric Brictson
June 17, 2001
San Jose del Cabo - Saltwater Fishing Report
Anglers - June 17, 2001
While most people have not been complaining about the cooler than usual June weather, it has been yet another set back for anglers waiting for the fishing action to get back on its normal track. Just as is it appears that the conditions have settled down and the expected calm and warm days are here to stay, once again strange patterns develop. This past week it was cool northeast winds, the same ones that usual prevail from January through March, this did not help the water to either warm up or become clear and blue. Water temperatures have been averaging from 70 to 73 degrees and the clarity has been constantly changing, one day the fleet would report that it was mostly blue from two miles on out while in the same area the next day it would be a cloudy green color. The best fishing action has been found north of Punta Gorda, where the conditions were both warmer and clearer. Many species of fish were being caught but no particular species was abundant. Supplies of baitfish were plentiful and included sardinas, mullet and mackerel. Seas were a bit choppy from the wind but the swells have resided to the where they were before the passing of Hurricane Adolph.
The panga fleets were concentrating most of their efforts around the area of Iman and out to Desteladera. This is where they found the most consistent overall action. Yellowfin tuna were being caught at a rate of one to six fish per boat, smaller football sized fish were hitting on trolled lures such as feathers, cedar plugs and rapalas, while larger tuna up to eighty pounds were landed on trolled baits. The same areas produced a handful of dorado, on both bait and lures, the average size was down from last week, with most of the dorado being in the eight to fifteen pound range, though there were exceptions of bulls up to thirty-five pounds being taken.
A couple of nice wahoo were taken on Marauders, they weighed in the thirty to forty pound class, this was a good sign, early in the week there had been reports of free jumping wahoo seen on the Iman Bank and once the conditions finally do stabilize these high speed gamefish should go on the bite. Off the bottom there were some amberjack, pargo, bonita and grouper being hooked up on the yo-yo style jigs but they were not numerous and more anglers were opting to fish the surface.
Sailfish were being caught this past week, despite the cooler water temperatures. They were hitting on live mackerel or mullet and weighed from forty to eighty pounds. One in five boats reported that they did have hook ups on these acrobatic billfish. Striped marlin were seen in good numbers offshore, from four to fifteen miles out, though they were not always in the feeding mood, if anglers were persistent they could catch a couple of the stripers per day, striking on lures but more so on the live bait. Most of the stripers seen this past week were a bit smaller, averaging sixty to one hundred and twenty pounds.
Along the shoreline the hot action for roosterfish tapered off, as did the huge schools of mullet. The clarity of the water was a definite factor, as at times the inshore water looked more like a dirty river than an ocean. There were some roosterfish, sierra and jack crevalle taken, with the majority of the roosters weighing less than fifteen pounds.
Good Fishing, Eric
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