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Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Capt. George Landrum
December 16, 2002
Cabo San Lucas - Saltwater Fishing Report

Cabo San Lucas Fishing Report for Dec 9-15 2002

CAPT. GEORGE LANDRUM

“FLY HOOKER” SPORTFISHING

[email protected]

www.flyhooker.com

CABO SAN LUCAS FISH REPORT DECEMBER 9-15, 2002

WEATHER: Keeping cool in Cabo! I check my outside thermometer every morning and on

Saturday it showed 55 degrees! Sweater, long pants and socks were my dress for the morning!

Our daytime highs have been a comfortable 85-88 degrees with a slight breeze. The desert is now

blooming from all the rain we received during the Thanksgiving weekend so a drive out there is a

nice thing to do. We have not had any rain since then but we did have quite a bit of cloud cover

in the early part of the week. (Deck The Halls)

WATER: The surface temperatures continue to drop as we go through the transition from

summer water to winter water. This week the highest I found was around 79 degrees. Most of

the water around the Cape has been in the low 70’s but there has been a bit warmer water from

25-30 miles to the south. The surface conditions have been great with small swells at the

beginning of the week, getting larger as the week ended but with plenty of space between them

and no wind chop on top of it. (1st Nowell)

BAIT: Almost the only thing you could find this week was Mackerel in the 8-10” range, a bit

small but they worked well. There were only a few Caballito and I have no idea if there were any

Sardinas or not. The bait was the normal $2 each. (Shepherd’s Night Watch)

FISHING:

BILLFISH: The only species around right now is Striped Marlin as the water has become too

cool to be comfortable for Blue Marlin. There were not a lot of fish found this week but a few

lucky boats were able to hook one or two and get them to the boat. Most boats were lucky if

they were able to get one to toss bait to, the fish were scattered out and not staying on the surface

very long. Most of the fish that were caught were found while deep dropping live bait off of

Punta San Cristobal and Golden Gate Banks or while slow trolling live baits in the same areas.

They have been averaging about 110 pounds with a few fish reaching the #140 class. (Festival of

7 Lights)

YELLOWFIN TUNA: I did not see nor did I hear of any boats finding Yellowfin Tuna this week,

but I did see a few boats flying Tuna flags. I checked with the anglers from one of them and

found that they had caught Skipjack Tuna that the crew had flown flags for because they wanted

to be able to fly something. The others may have found Yellowfin, you never know, but I heard

no word. (O X’mas Tree)

DORADO: Even the Dorado bite was a bit slow this week as most boats were very lucky to get

three or four fish, and most came in with just one or two. Slow trolling live bait or pulling

brightly colored lures in the 9” range were what seemed to work. Most of the action took place

on the Pacific side of the point and in the same areas as the Striped Marlin were found. The

basics worked well, find the bait and work the area. Hook up one Dorado then toss a live bait out

behind it as it comes in, there might just be another one or two following it. (Away in a

Manger/Island X’mas)

WAHOO: A few Wahoo were caught this week and they seemed to prefer dark colored lures.

Most of them were in the 30-40 pound range and there was no concentration to them, the catches

were reported from a wide area. (Morning Glory)

INSHORE: Most of the inshore action took place on the Pacific side between the lighthouse and

Punta San Cristobal. This area is where a school of Sierra has been working the beach and the

best action was in water between 15 and 60 feet deep. The fish were biting on small hootchies

and Rapalas in bright colors, the favorite being orange/red and the fish ranged from 3 to 7 pounds.

The average catch was two to 6 fish before the bite stopped, around 9 am. A bit farther out, in

water from 60-150 feet, there were a few schools of Dorado found and a few boats found some

Amberjack and Snapper on the bottom around the rocks. (We Three Kings/Santa Fe X’mas)

NOTES: We are in the transition from warm summer waters to cooler winter water and the

fishing has shown it. The action has not been hot and heavy but most days there was some fish to

be found. Checking my log book for last year the same thing was going on. We can look

forward to some continued Dorado action and the Striped Marlin should become more numerous

and the football and school Tuna should show up very soon. This weeks report was written to

the sound of music for the holidays by one of my favorite artists, Ottmar Liebert. The CD is

“Poets & Angels”, a 1990 Higher Octave release.

"Fly Hooker" Daily Catch Report for Dec 9-15

FLY HOOKER FISH REPORT FOR DECEMBER 9, 2002

Today is the third of three for our friend David Reese and pals Mike and James. After the

action on the Dorado yesterday they were hoping for a repeat, but it was not to be. They

returned to the same area but this time the whole day was a boat ride. They saw no Marlin or

Dorado today. We sure are glad they managed to get 100 pounds of fillets on the first two days!

Thanks David, we look forward to seeing you again sometime in April!

FLY HOOKER FISH REPORT FOR 10 DECEMBER, 2002

Today was booked by Dennis Bracken for himself and five friends. He had originally wanted

five days with us but we were only able to give him three, so for the last two days he fished

another boat. Well, he was not able to figure out how to call us once he arrived and even though

he knew where the boat was, he booked another boat for today. We found this out this morning

as he and his group passed by the gate to E Dock on their way to the other boat. Wish we had

known as we turned down other charters for him and could have gotten a trip for today.

FLY HOOKER FISH REPORT FOR 11 DECEMBER, 2002

Dennis Bracken and his group showed up at 7:10 this morning, a bit the worse for wear after

last night. Juan said they slept most of the day. Juan and Manuel worked the area off of the Los

Arcos and Juan said they had one Marlin eat a live bait tossed in front of it, but the fish got the

bait, not the hook. That was all the action for the day.

FLY HOOKER FISH REPORT FOR 12 DECEMBER, 2002

Dennis Bracken had his brother come down to see me yesterday afternoon and cancel todays

trip but we were able to put together two of our repeat clients who were in town and wanted to

fish. Mike Henstra is vacationing with his wife, her sister and her mother so he said he would be

happy to share a boat with Mike and Teresa rather than go shopping. Juan and Manuel went 25

miles to the south looking for a band of warm water that is approaching but found nothing once

they got there, it was on the way back when they got a strike and that was a nice 35 pound

Wahoo that Teresa got to reel in. Good dinner material!

FLY HOOKER FISH REPORT FOR DECEMBER 13, 2002

Today was a payback to our webmaster for all his effort in building and maintaining our

website. Hats off to Mr. Phil Orr! Myself, Phil, and our friends Leon and Robert were supposed

to go and Phil had also invited a couple of the guys he works with at the golf course. Robert

missed the boat as he ended up waiting somewhere else for us and he had a cooler of chicken and

ribs! Thank goodness Leon showed up with six box lunches! One of the guys invited by Phil

showed up, Miguel, and this was his first time to go fishing. We decided to try deep dropping

some live bait off the lighthouse at the beginning of the trip and worked that for about an hour

and a half with no response from the fish except for one bait getting scarred and taking a lot of

line but not getting eaten. Then we went in and fished the area off the beach between the

lighthouse and Punta San Cristobal (Los Arcos) for Sierra. Miguel got one to the boat and Phil

farmed one. The action shut down and we headed offshore looking for something larger. Not

until the tail end of the trip did we find anything except the large Black Porpoise, and as we were

returning to the marina we hooked up a Dorado right outside the lighthouse, where we began the

morning deep dropping live bait! It was a nice fish about 20-25 pounds and delivered up some

good fillets!

FLY HOOKER FISH REPORT FOR DECEMBER 14, 2002

Our new friends Sonny and Randy fished our boat today. They went out on another boat

yesterday with friend Gary but Gary instructed the Captain to return after three hours out, he

didn’t want to get that far away from town. They caught a Dorado yesterday and would like to

catch some more of them today, but Gary is going to stay ashore and they invited me to go along.

We wanted to be sure to get fish in the boat for them and started out by working the are off the

beach between the lighthouse and San Cristobal for about an hour, picking up two Sierra of about

4 pounds each. When the action had been slow for about a half hour I suggested that we head

offshore to look for something larger. We worked the deep water for several hours until we saw

a Marlin free jumping about a half mile away. Another boat spotted it too and were there before

we were. In the same are there were a couple of Frigate birds circling around way up high so we

decided to try and slow troll the area with live baits. About 30 minutes after starting to slow troll

there was action on Randy’s bait. It zipped out line a few times and there was a big swirl behind

it. Juan had the rod in hand, ready to set the hook when the rod on Sonny’s side dipped a little

and the line started to sing off of that reel. Both of these baits were ones that had been trolled on

top of the water, not the one on the planer. I set the hook on the fish that had hit Sonny’s rod and

the fight was on! Lots of jumps were done by the Marlin as he made a big circle. Sonny tired real

quick and Randy got on the fish as it completed the circle and swam towards the boat. Randy

thought the fish had come off so Manuel goosed the engines and there the Marlin was, not more

than 20 feet away, still hooked up. Juan was able to grab the leader for a second before the fish

realized what was going on but it pulled out of his grip almost immediately. Another series of

jumps took place and the rod switched hands several times before Sonny took the last up and got

the fish close enough to the boat for Juan to try and grab it. it was not easy because the fish had

just a little stumpy bill that projected maybe an inch past it’s lower jaw. The fish was hooked in

the corner of the jaw and the hook was easy to remove. The fish was tagged and released,

swimming slowly away, tired but in good shape. After a round of High-Fives another bait was

put out as more rigs were readied. less than three minutes later the one boat that was out got

eaten by a nice 25 pound bull Dorado! After the Marlin action this one was easy and Randy had it

to the boat pretty quickly. We tried again but had no more action and there was no action as we

trolled for the last hour. Not a bad day though, and I hope we have this good of action

tomorrow!

FLY HOOKER FISH REPORT FOR DECEMBER 15, 2002

Today and tomorrow we have Larry Quinn and his adult son Trey as our anglers. Larry

booked two days fishing as a birthday present for Trey. They were kind enough to be willing to

share the boat today with our friends from Bend, Oregon, Mike and Teresa. Since it is a birthday

gift for Trey, he is supposed to get first fish and the guys tried hard but had little luck. They did

have a Marlin rap one of the lures and had another one hook up just long enough to pull line for a

few seconds, but nothing was hooked solid. Hopefully tomorrow will be better!

Until Next Week, Tight Lines from George, Mary, Juan and Manuel, the “Fly Hooker” Crew

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