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Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Capt. George Landrum
June 11, 2001
Cabo San Lucas - Saltwater Fishing Report

"Fly Hooker" Daily Catch Report

“FLY HOOKER” DAILY CABO SAN LUCAS FISH REPORT FOR 4 JUNE 2001

Ken Blaustein has been looking forward to doing some fishing while in Cabo for a little while and Mary and I met him at the boat this morning to introduce him to Juan and his brother Juan. (Manuel is on vacation until the 11th) Ken had decided that on this trip he would leave all his personal equipment at home, after all he was on vacation! Ken get a chance to do a lot of fishing and told us that 8 or 9 times a year he gets to go out on overnight or longer trips off of the California coast for Albacore and Bluefin Tuna, Yellowtail and such. This trip he was not interested in catching any Marlin but preferred a chance at Dorado, Yellowfin or Wahoo. The pickings have been pretty slim lately for any of those but Dorado but we wished him luck on the trip. Juan headed the “Fly Hooker” up the Sea of Cortez and went to the north and east of the Gordo Bank area. Unfortunately the water was very off color and green, plus it was still quite cool up until they arrived just short of Gordo itself. They only managed to see 2 Marlin on the trip, one of which struck a lure and then came off. No other fish were sighted on the trip. We sure hope the fact that the wind has laid down will improve the fishing soon! Until then, Ken, Mary and myself wish you tight lines!

“FLY HOOKER” DAILY CABO SAN LUCAS FISH REPORT FOR 8 JUNE 2001

Corey Werner is back in Cabo again with his friends Scott and Rusty and they have brought along a friend named Greg. I don’t know if any of you remember Corey and his pals from previous fishing trips, but they are from Colorado and normally fish for at least a couple of days while they are here. Last visit they managed to go home with a good experience, having caught both large Dorado and a nice Striped Marlin. This time Corey said that they would like to go for the Striped Marlin and they would keep their fingers crossed for anything else that came along! They are fishing tomorrow also so there is a good chance of them getting at least one Marlin this trip. Juan headed up north again, towards the area just to the east of Gordo Banks. About 7 miles outside Chileno they placed the lures in the water and shortly had a Striped marlin hooked up. As they were clearing the lines another Marlin appeared to come in to investigate the lures but he did not bite. Rust was the angler on this first fish and he was able to bring it to the boat in fairly short order, about 20 minutes complete fighting time. The healthy fish was tagged and released and they continued the search. Juan went back over the area several times hoping that the other Marlin was still around and would show interest, but to no avail. They continued the search to the east and started to see marlin but could not get any of them interested in eating. They did get one nice Bull Dorado come in and hit a lure, but it did not get firmly attached. Later they counted the Marlin they had seen and arrived at a figure of at least 10 sighted on the surface, and every one of them just swam around and disappeared when the bait was tossed to them! Well, perhaps tomorrow will be a bit different, we can only hope! At least the water is blue and warm now and the wind has died down to almost nothing!

“FLY HOOKER’ DAILY CABO SAN LUCAS FISH REPORT FOR 9 JUNE 2001

This is Corey and gangs second day and we are hoping that the fishing will be a bit better than yesterdays! Since the blue water is so much closer to home they can start fishing a lot sooner and it seems to have paid off, as we hear from Juan on the phone about 10 minutes before they return. Like yesterday, they spotted fish all day long. There was a pretty heavy fog bank just offshore on the Pacific side all morning and that kept the light levels low and the temperature cool, a great help when fighting fish! Scott and Greg each tagged and released a Striped Marlin during today’s trip and the largest fish of the trip managed to come across the line during a jump and break it, thus Corey’s fish managed to escape. Since Rusty had gotten his fish yesterday he was not allowed to be in the fishing rotation today. Another Marlin was hooked up but pulled hook fairly quickly. Many more fish were seen but none of them were interested in either the lures or the live Caballito tossed to them. The wind started to blow in from the pacific about noon and the water began to get quite choppy as the “Fly Hooker” returned to port. Thanks Corey, we always enjoy having you guys out on the boat, and we look forward to seeing you again next time you get the urge to do Cabo! Until then, Tight Lines from the “Fly Hooker” crew!

“FLY HOOKER” DAILY CABO SAN LUCAS FISH REPORT FOR 10 JUNE 2001

Todd Beard and friends have booked the “Fly Hooker” for today and are hoping for better luck than they had yesterday. They had wanted to fish the boat for three days straight, yesterday, today and tomorrow, but we were booked except for today. They saw lots of Marlin yesterday but got no strikes and the fact that we had managed to tag and release tow fish really had their hops up. Unfortunately…well, they are fishermen and understood what happened last night. The wind never did stop blowing and the cool, green Pacific water moved back into the area. Juan searched to outside up to the Gordo Banks area without finding the warmer blue water and they only spotted one Marlin on the surface, and he was not interested in anything. It was not long before they reached the decision to try inshore for Roosterfish. They hoped that the conditions were not as severe in close. Nada there either. They were disappointed but they still have tomorrow to fish and things could change back just as quickly! We sure hope so! Thanks Todd, we wish you luck tomorrow and Tight Lines!

Cabo San Lucas Fish Report for June 4-10

CABO SAN LUCAS FISH REPORT FOR JUNE 4-10, 2001

Capt. George Landrum

“Fly Hooker” Sportfishing

[email protected] www.flyhooker.com

WEATHER: I sure wish the wind would make up its mind and settle down. Then again maybe it has and what we have experiencing is going to be a pattern all summer! God, I sure hope not! We have been having several good, calm days followed by twice as many days with strong winds from the west. On Friday this started again. There was a heavy fog bank that moved in and by noon the wind had started to howl. This followed three days of calm weather that had given the water a chance to clear up and warm up. Oh well, we will have to keep our fingers crossed. Daytime temperatures reached up into the high 90’s at times and the lows in the evenings got down to the low 70’s to a reported 66-degree period on Thursday evening. No rain all week that could be measured although we did get enough of a sprinkle on Thursday afternoon to stipple the dust on windshields. We could see the cloud this came from dropping what looked to be a fair quantity of water up towards Todos Santos.

WATER: The beginning of the week saw cool green water almost all the way up the Sea of Cortez to Punta Gordo, blue water was not found until you were almost to Los Frailles or out 45 to 50 miles to the southeast. When the wind died down the warm water began to move in and it warmed up quite a bit. Instead of the high 60’s and low 70’s in front of the Cape, we were managing to get readings in the high 70’s with reports of water up to 82 degrees. The surface conditions on the Pacific were fair midweek but very choppy the rest of the week and were good all week on the Sea of Cortez.

BAIT: Caballito and Mackerel were available all week and there are now Mullet available for those wanting to target Roosterfish. These larger baits are the usual $2 each. I have had no reports on the availability of Sardinas during the past week.

FISHING:

BILLFISH: Good news was that there were lots of Striped Marlin available this week. The bad news was that both early and late in the week it was a run of almost 50 miles each way to get to them. Luckily the mid-week fishing was a lot closer, right in front of home as a matter of fact. The heavy winds early and late in the week had a very negative effect on the Marlin, as the wind pushed in cool green water from the Pacific. Another negative was the full moon we had on the 6th, the fish were feeding all night and were stuffed during the day. The large majority of fish found had no interest in any live bait early in the week and it was not until three days past the full moon that the situation appeared to change.

YELLOWFIN TUNA: This has been a non existent fish for us the week. I have heard of very few being caught since the Purse-Seiners cleaned up a couple weeks ago.

WAHOO: Nada, probably due to the green water from the winds.

INSHORE: The Roosterfishing is beginning to warm up, the fish are getting a bit larger and more spread out. Live Mullet are the ticket for these fighters. Some large 5-10 lb Sierra are still being found along with a few nice size Amberjack. Mid week the Striped Marlin were close enough in that quite a few were caught by the Pangas. And don’t forget the Dorado!

Until Next week, Tight lines,

George Landrum

“Fly Hooker” Sportfishing

[email protected] www.flyhooker.com

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