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Fishing Report for San Jose del Cabo, Baja
Capt. Eric Brictson
September 23, 2001
San Jose del Cabo - Saltwater Fishing Report
Anglers -
September 23, 2001
This week flights resumed into the Los Cabos Airport, but as could be expected there were only a handful of passengers on these planes. It is never very crowded during the month of September, but as a result of the horrific events in the United States the entire tourism industry is
being directly affected. Airlines were offering only limited daily flights and even so many people just were not feeling right about flying, or spending much of their hard earned savings, since the future of the economy remained uncertain. There were very few tourists now in Los Cabos and everyone is feeling the effects, perhaps as many as 50 % fewer people in town than normal. There has been a rash of cancellations for travelers who had pre-booked trips for coming months and far less new reservations are now being made. Everyone that is in tourist related businesses are very nervous about the future and are following all news updates closely. Locals are realizing the hard way just how important the visitors are to keeping the economy flowing and the few tourists that have made the trip down have had plenty of inquisitive persons ready to help and offer their services. Maybe once the situation improves and crowds return to normal the foreigner will be appreciated more and perhaps this will persuade restaurants and hotels to considering lowering their rates, just to give people an added incentive to plan a trip to Los Cabos.
The weather this past week was warm and humid with a scattering of clouds. Conditions were on the Sea of Cortez side saw only moderate swells and minimal wind, but on the Pacific there were reports of strong cool winds and high swells. Water temperatures have averaged about 85 degrees and the clarity is improved, blue within a couple miles of shore. No rain reported this past week but as of now we are all watching closely the development of Tropical Storm Juliette to the south of Acapulco, this storm is intensifying and is forecast to be tracking in the direction of Southern Baja.
Sportfishing fleets were trolling the waters from Cabo San Lucas to Vinorama, finding mixed success, a couple of the more consistent areas recently were off of Red Hill and north of Punta Gorda, at La Fortuna and the Iman Bank. They were catching yellowfin tuna, dorado, sailfish, wahoo, skipjack, striped marlin and a few black and blue marlin. Live sardinas were being netted near Palmilla and this was the most productive bait for the medium sized gamefish that were available. Last week dorado were found in large schools throughout the area, most of the fish were in the 5 to10 pound range, some big bulls to over forty pounds were accounted for, though not numerous, in recent days dorado proved harder to locate and it was the football sized (10 to 15 pound ) yellowfin tuna that dominated the action. In some location anglers reported larger yellowfin tuna of 40 to 60 pounds. Pangas were recording an average of ten tuna and several dorado per boat. The fish were hitting on a variety of medium sized trolling lures and once found could be chummed up with the sardinas. A few wahoo were taken off of trolled lures in the areas of Red Hill and Iman, but it was just one here and there, they ranged up to 45 pounds. The sailfish were found scattered on the offshore fishing grounds and weighed from 50 to 90 pounds. A handful of blue and black marlin, along with striped marlin were accounted for out of La Playita this past week, the largest fish reported was a 383 pound black marlin, caught off the Gordo Banks by local panga anglers Carlos and Titi on Saturday, Saturday, the 22 nd.
Good Fishing , Eric
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