Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Capt. George Landrum
June 28, 2004
Cabo San Lucas - Saltwater Fishing Report
Cabo Bite Report
Capt. George Landrum
Fly Hooker Sportfishing
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www.flyhooker.com
CABO SAN LUCAS FISH REPORT JUNE 21 TO JUNE 27, 2004
WEATHER: Wonderful summertime weather and the days just don’t seem to end. Our night time lows have been in the mid 70’s while the day time highs have been in the high 90’s and the humidity is starting to get up there. Last night we ran the air conditioner in our bedroom for the first time this year, but only for a couple of hours. We had warm, still days and a slight breeze pick up every day in the late afternoon.
WATER: It keeps getting warmer! We were seeing water temperatures in the 85 degree range up around Punta Gorda and the Pacific around the San Jaime and Golden Gate Banks has warmed up to 77-78 degrees. This band of warmer water has wrapped around the Cape and the fish are following it! Our surface conditions this week were great as we had very little daytime wind, for the most part just a bit of swell and chop.
BAIT: Caballito at $2 per bait, some Mullet at $2 per bait and some Sardinas at $20 per bucket. There were small Mackerel available at the bait receiver but they were very small.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: The hot area this week was just outside the Cape, up to 10 miles out but for the most part mostly within 6 miles. There were Striped Marlin everywhere, along with an occasional Sailfish and Blue Marlin. This week almost every boat that came in was flying at least one Marlin flag, and if they weren’t, it was because they were focused on another species. Many boats were returning with multiple flags, the most I saw on one boat this week was six! They were biting well on live bait this week, at least compared to the number of strikes to be had on lures.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: More Tuna this week, and again most of them wee football size fish. Blind strikes were the normal method of finding them, but Ion Sunday I was out when a pod of porpoise were found. Of course we were not the ones to find them but the first two boats in the area hooked up to some nice Yellowfin in the 40-60 pound class. The football fish have been scattered from just off the beach to 15 miles out, so they have been easy to catch.
DORADO: The bite is still on for Dorado this week, and it keeps getting better. One of the signs of a good summer is the number of Flying Fish around, and right now they are everywhere to the south and the Sea of Cortez. Most of the Dorado being caught are around 15 pounds but there have been quite a few both larger and smaller. I saw some fish brought in the weighed an easy 50 pounds. The bite has seemed to be best about 1 ½ to 2 miles off the beach on the Sea of Cortez and the best method was slow trolling live Caballito.
WAHOO: It was not a red hot Wahoo bite this week but I did see some nice fish brought in. Two days in a row a boat on our dock brought in a Wahoo, and one of them was a very easy #100 fish! Another friend of mine got two Wahoo of about 40 pounds each on Sunday, along with three Dorado of #15-20, four football Yellowfin and a Striped Marlin released, all in 6 hours on live bait! All these fish were found close to shore, not out at the banks.
INSHORE: Most of the inshore fishing was on hold this week as the Pelagics showed up so close to the beach that no one wanted to go for Roosterfish and Jacks when there were Dorado, Marlin and Tuna right there! For the few boats that did try, the bite on Roosterfish was on the Pacific up past the lighthouse as the Mullet followed the water change.
NOTES: Kudos to both Marco Ehrenberg and Tony Berkowitz this week for their actions in having a long-liner apprehended in the act of fishing on top of the Outer Gordo Bank. Briefly, one of Marcos boats observed the long-liner in action. Marco called the Navy and was told they did not have a boat available to enforce the law, and had no fuel for a private boat. All Marcos boats were fishing or being worked on. He called Tony who said that he knew of a boat available and ended up getting two. They loaded on the Marines and a guy from the fisheries department went out to Gorda Banks and found the boat pulling in one line, filleting a Striped Marlin on the deck, two more Marlin jumping on the line still in the water and their small boat setting another five mile long-line at the same time. The boat was confiscated and there is legal action ensuing. Thanks to everyone involved. So why is the high speed Navy boat anchored off of Medano beach in front of the beach bars every day? This weeks report was written to the music of Fleetwood Mac on their 1990 Warner release “Behind the Mask”. 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 TAGGED AND RELEASED (#120), ONE FISH
KEPT (#100, BLEEDING BADLY FROM THE GILLS)
DORADO: ONE FISH KEPT (#12)
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR JUNE 23, 2004
Today was supposed to be another share trip on the “Fly Hooker”, but one side of the share failed to show up this morning. That meant that Jody Dean got the boat to himself for the day! Lucky him, as he had a great time fishing with Juan and Manuel. Lots and lots of Marlin were seen all over the place, and the farthest they got from the Marina was about 10 miles, and most of the fish were closer than that. Jody did very well on the fish and managed to get one to the boat for a successful tag and release, and another fish to the boat that was bleeding badly from the gills. There were five other fish that tried to eat either the bait of the lures, plus all the fish they saw that were not interested. Jody said after the trip that he had better work out before trying this again next year!. I hope you do as well next time you come down, and hope that Juan and Manuel get a chance to show you one more time why this is such a favorite fishing destination! Until then, Tight Lines!
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR 26 JUNE, 2004
We were part of an eight boat arrangement today. A corporate group booked these boats to have a little tournament, they had a golf thing the other day. This is the second year that we have been involved, and the teams of three persons each fish for points, with different species having limits on numbers and each fish being worth so many points. The team on our boat decided that Roosterfish were the highest points per fish and that they should go for them. Well, Juan and Manuel worked the coast between the Chileno area up to La Laguna at Punta Gorda and had not even one strike. Trolling back, running just a little offshore, they were lucky enough to get one Dorado of around 12 pounds. Teams that went for what was out there did much better, and most of the fish were on the Pacific side. Top boat took the winnings with three Marlin, a Sailfish, two Dorado and a Yellowfin. One boat got skunked, the others had varied results but got a few fish each.
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR 27 JUNE, 2004
We had two couples on the “Fly Hooker” today who booked yesterday from their hotel. We were off at 6:45 this morning and Juan headed out and put the lines in the water at 6 miles. We caught three football Yellowfin Tuna before reaching a pod of Porpoise that already had 10 boats on it. Apparently the first two boats there caught fish to #60. We hooked up two that were a little bigger than footballs, around #20, but I managed to farm them both at the back of the boat. We turned in towards the Punta Ballena and about 5 miles out caught another Yellowfin about #10 then spotted a Marlin on the Surface. The Marlin went down right away. An hour later we had a Dorado try and eat an outrigger lure but it came off as soon as the rod was pulled from the rod holder. As we were pulling lines right in front of the arch, not even 100 yards off it, another Yellowfin hit, the biggest of the day and it was about 15 pounds. We ended up with 6 Yellowfin and Me farming two nicer ones, one Dorado coming off and tossing bait at one Marlin. The water was very nice and the weather was great! Now, next trip we will stay close to shore and go for the Dorado and Marlin!
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