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Fishing Report for San Jose del Cabo, Baja
Capt. Eric Brictson
October 26, 2003
San Jose del Cabo - Saltwater Fishing Report
Anglers -
October 26, 2003
With the major fishing tournaments now dominating events in Los Cabos, merchants, fleet operators and everyone else has been joyfully busy, nice to witness people having fun and enjoying the beautiful fall climate, after enduring such a storm-ridden summer.
In fact this past week there was late season Hurricane Patricia that developed to the south of Acapulco and was headed on a track towards Baja before changing its course more to the west and dissipating over cooler waters. With scattered cloud cover, plenty of sunshine, high temperatures of around 90 degrees and lows of 70 degrees, anglers are enjoying ideal conditions for offshore fishing. There were moderate winds prevailing in the afternoon, blowing from the northeast and this will be the normal pattern for the coming months. There were adequate supplies of live sardinas available,
though with higher surf conditions and extreme tides this past week, the bait was more difficult to net for the local pangueros.
Sportfishing fleets were fishing in all directions, deep on the Pacific to Vinorama on the Sea of Cortez side. Many different areas produced catches of yellowfin tuna, dorado, wahoo, sailfish and marlin. Tuna were the most common, good numbers of yellowfin were found from the Gordo Banks to Vinorama, drifting with live sardinas was the most productive technique and the majority of the fish ranged in sizes from 8 to 25
pounds. Larger tuna were hooked on Gordo Banks by anglers using chunk bait, one tuna over 300 pounds was landed from a cruiser out of San Lucas, it hit a trolled bolito on the Outer Gordo. This bite was not consistent due to the heavy boat pressure associated with the tournaments, maybe this week will show more action as the boats will not be so concentrated. Dorado were somewhat scarce, found spread out in small schools, sometimes located near floating debris, but often in the same vicinity as were the tuna, average fish 10 to 20 pounds. Wahoo action was limited, but fish weighing 20 to 40 pounds were being reported everyday, numbers of them could be seen free-swimming on the fishing grounds, but would only sporadically go on the bite, striking the normal wahoo style lures. Sailfish up to 100 pounds also provided some acrobatic action for anglers trolling baits around the perimeters of the banks.
Despite the big marlin action not comparing to years past, there were several trophy-sized blue and black marlin accounted for this week. Perhaps the more impressive catch was caught off of the 28 ft. Leona from Palmilla, angler Mathew Geraerths, from England landed a monster 640 pound black marlin that hit on a live tuna on the Outer Gordo Bank. The only bummer was that he had not been entered in the million dollar Bisbee’s. Mathew had been fishing for four days before he hooked into the big black.
Along the shoreline there was not much going on, a few reports of early season sierra and very small roosterfish. Off the rocky bottom anglers found pargo, cabrilla, amberjack, but the most numerous species was the voracious triggerfish, several of which topped the
5-pound mark.
Good Fishing, Eric
gordobanks.com
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