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Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Capt. George Landrum
August 16, 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 AUGUST 9-15, 2004
WEATHER: Tropical weather is the norm this time of year and we are in the midst of it for sure as our day time highs have touched above the three digit level a few times this week, at least here on shore, and the humidity has been high. Our night time lows have been 80 degrees and there has not been much breeze at night so having air conditioning has been a good thing (even though the electric bills are outrageous!). We have had no rain but there has been some cloud cover.
WATER: Summertime warm water conditions continued this week as the water on the Cortez side of the Cape reached temperatures as high as 88 degrees off of Punta Gorda. As you went south toward the Cape the temperatures started to drop, and at the tip it was about 85 degrees. On the Pacific side our cold water was 80-82 degrees and on Saturday this covered a band of water that ran 15 miles up the Pacific coast and went out to the San Jaime Banks. The surface conditions were good all week with little morning wind except for Tuesday, and just light winds in the afternoons.
BAIT: $2 a piece for Caballito and not much else easily available this week.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: The Marlin bite continues to improve as we get to the new moon phase. There have been some nice Blue and Black Marlin caught on the Cortez side and there seems to be a few Sailfish out there as well. The hot areas this past week were the 95 spot for Striped Marlin and the 1150 for Blue Marlin and Sailfish. Out toward the Seamount there were a mixed bag to be found and at the Gorda Banks you had a chance at both Blue and Black guys. A few fish were found on the Pacific side but they were mostly Striped Marlin. The Striped Marlin were best hooked on live bait while fast trolled lures worked on the Blues. Slow trolled live bait around the Banks and drop offs was the most successful method for Black Marlin.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: This weeks Tuna section should be run just as a copy of last weeks! There were football fish to be found with Dolphin and in the blind on the Pacific side, and fairly close to shore at that. These fish ran from 6 to 15 pounds. A few pods of Dolphin held slightly larger fish to 30 pounds, but the real bruisers were farther off shore. I heard one account of nice fish to #200 being hooked up out at the Seamount in the Dolphin, but while they were hooked, none were landed. The area to the south of the San Jaime kicked out a few nice fish as well, but they were mixed in with a lot of the smaller fish. Best results were on small feathers and cedar plugs for the footballs and larger, Marlin sized lures for the larger fish.
DORADO: This week is a repeat of last week Dorado action. The Dorado bite was all about being out there. That was all you had to do, and the earlier the better. Most of the fish were found on the Pacific side, and the sizes were not large, averaging perhaps 12 pounds. Not big fish, but a good catch on light tackle and great as fillets. Best results were had by boats spotting Frigate birds working then running under them and tossing out live bait. There were larger fish found, but not in any quantities, by boats working the banks and off shore current breaks. These fish went upwards of 35 pounds, but they were few and far between.
WAHOO: There were some Wahoo caught this week, but none of them I heard about were very large fish. Most of them were in the 20-30 pound range and were found on the edges of the Banks or around the drop-offs. Regular Marlin lures seemed to attract them just as well as the normal Wahoo lures such as Marauders.
INSHORE: Scattered Roosterfish close to the beach, with some of the fish reported as large as #50 provided a bit of inshore action, but there were not a lot of them found. Most of the Pangas focused on the Dorado and Yellowfin found within three miles of the beach on the Pacific side.
NOTES: Fishing is picking up again as we get to the new moon! Thank goodness for that, because we are going to be busy this week! I played the “El Dorado” course last week. Well, I guess if you were really kind you could say I played it. Today I go to the driving range and try to see if I can drive a ball far enough to get out of the tee box area. Maybe I should stick to fishing, buy a new boat with a fuel sucking engine and all new gear, it might save me some money! Until next week, tight lines!
Fly Hooker Daily Catch Reports
Capt. George Landrum
Fly Hooker Sportfishing
[email protected]
www.flyhooker.com
1Yellowfin kept (#25)
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR AUGUST 10, 2004
Bill and his wife Peg had this trip arranged for them by one of my best friends. Bill is Tom’s accountant and Tom was going to pay for the fishing while on a cruise ship stopover here in Cabo. Well, Juan and Manuel got them out at 10 am but about 30 minutes into the trip noticed that the oil pressure on the Starboard. Engine had dropped. Juan went and checked it out and found that we had engine oil in the fresh water so they shut the engine down and came back. The mechanic was called and that afternoon we determined that we had an oil cooler failure. The cooler was removed and taken to a local welding shop, repaired and replaced on the engine. Oil was replaced, the fresh water system flushed many times and everything worked fine. No charge to Tom, and Mary got to spend the rest of the day with Bill and Peg, showing them around the town.
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR AUGUST 11, 2004
Today’s three anglers were from another Sportfishing outfit that needed another boat for the day and they were really looking forward to the trip. Imagine my feelings when I received a call from Juan at 9 am saying that the oil cooler had failed and they were working their way back. I told him to stay in the area they were at since they had already boated a 25 pound Yellowfin and that I would contact another boat to come and get the anglers to finish their trip. I found someone else and they went on to catch 4 Dorado so they had a good day and were happy that it did not have to finish early. Meanwhile, the mechanic was not in town so Juan and I removed the oil cooler ourselves. Luckily there was one available at Diesel Professionals, but it hurt, to the tune of $500. But we did not have to pay a Mechanic this time. Getting the job done at 4:30 in the afternoon we proceeded out to test it for an hour, discovered one little other problem, got it fixed and were done and cleaned up by 6:30. Maybe I should take up golf?
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR AUGUST 14, 2004
A split trip with another boat arranged through another agent was scheduled for today. We had four guys on our boat and there were four on the other boat. All these guys had fished together on a larger boat yesterday and had caught a couple of football Yellowfin. The other boat caught one Dorado today. Juan and Manuel worked the 95 spot since our guys wanted Marlin. Juan said they spotted 5 fish on the surface but could get only one of them to bite, and that fish did not hook up well. That was all the action for the day for us. Sorry guys, but that is the way fishing goes sometimes!
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