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Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Capt. George Landrum
June 21, 2004
Cabo San Lucas - Saltwater Fishing Report
Cabo Bite Report
Capt. George Landrum
Fly Hooker Sportfishing
[email protected]
www.flyhooker.com
CABO SAN LUCAS FISH REPORT JUNE 14 TO JUNE 20, 2004
WEATHER: This weeks temps remained the same as last week’s with the highs in the low to mid 90’s and at night it dropped as low as the mid 60’s. We had a day of strong wind on Wednesday and again Friday morning, but the rest of the week was calm. No rain of course!
WATER: The water continues to warm right up and the coolest we have on the Pacific side at the end of the week was 71 degrees. On the Sea of Cortez up around the Westin and farther north, and out to 10 miles, the water has been in the low 80’s with a lot of 82 degree water holding fish. Out past the 10 mile band the water drops back to 74 degrees for another 10 miles, then warms back up. Surface conditions were really choppy on the Cortez side and very bad on the Pacific when we had the winds blow, but other than that it was nice water this week.
BAIT: Small Caballito at $2 per bait, some Mullet at $2 per bait and some Sardinas at $20 per bucket.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Lots of Striped Marlin this week! Many of the boats were flying three or four Marlin flags when they returned for the day and the anglers said that they had seen “lots of fish all over the place”. Talking with the Captains, “all over the place” meant up the Cortez side off of the Palmilla and Gorda Banks area out to 10 miles (in that warm water band). The fish were biting well on live bait this week and lures took a second spot to bait. There were fish caught in other places as well, just not in the same numbers. Average size was 120 pounds.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Thank goodness the Yellowfin have been biting this week! There have not been a lot of them and they have not been very large on average, but they have been there. Most of the fish were blind strikes on Marlin lures and the fish were averaging 15 pounds. The warm water where the Striped Marlin were found held most of the fish. A lot of boats have been going out to the San Jaime and south of there looking for larger Tuna, but there have been very few of them found.
DORADO: The Dorado bite continues to pick up as the water warms and most of the boats seemed to be flying yellow flags this week. The fish are averaging 20 pounds and have been hitting almost anything put in front of them. Best bite was close to shore on the Cortez side of the Cape.
WAHOO: Again just a few fish. Hopefully with the warmer water and the moon changing the bite will pick up.
INSHORE: This week the inshore bite was a repeat of last weeks so here is a repeat on last weeks report! The Rooster fish have re-appeared on the Pacific beaches and there have been Jack Crevalle mixed in as well. The Roosters seem to be following the warm water as it creeps north. Most of the fish have been in the 20 pound class with a few larger ones in the mix. There were a couple of days when Pargo were biting off of the Lighthouse in close to the rocks. Of course, live bait was the key on all these fish, Mullet for the Roosterfish and Sardinas for the Pargo.
NOTES: Warmer water, warmer weather, calmer seas, colder beer! It’s time to get down here if you can as the bite starts to heat up. It is still not wide open yet, but hopefully by the time you read this and are able to make your arrangements things will be busting loose. That said, let me add this disclaimer: “Ka-ka pasa” and don’t hold me liable if Mother Nature decides to change things once again! This weeks report was written to the music of ZZ Top on the 1985 Warner release “Afterburner”. Until next week, Tight Lines!
Fly Hooker Daily Catch Reports
Capt George Landrum
“Fly Hooker” Sportfishing
[email protected]
www.flyhooker.com
WEEKLY FISH COUNT
STRIPED MARLIN: ONE FISH RELEASED (#120)
DORADO: ONE FISH KEPT (#20)
YELLOWFIN TUNA: TWO FISH KEPT (#12, #15)
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR JUNE 19, 2004
This was our one and only trip for the week and we had half of a group of four guys on our boat. It was a trip from a friend of ours and these guys have been fishing here for several years, always booking two boats and having a bit of competition between themselves. Manual is back from vacation and it has been almost three weeks since he has been out, Juan has not been out in 10 days. Surprisingly, they have not forgotten how to fish! The fish have been concentrated in a band of warm water close to the coast on the Cortez side of the Cape, moving slowly northward every day. Today they found the fish outside the Palmilla area and were rewarded with one out of two Marlin to the boat; the other one just struck and did not get hooked up. One nice Dorado came into the fish box for dinner and both of the Yellowfin were blind strikes on Marlin lures. Apparently there were a lot of Yellowfin caught in the area over the last few days, all blind strikes. The other boat they were fishing with got lucky on the Marlin and had three releases, one Dorado and two Yellowfin as well. Good water and pretty good fishing for the day! Until next week, Tight Lines!
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