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Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Capt. George Landrum
April 4, 2005
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 MARCH 28-APRIL 3, 2005
WEATHER: We had great weather this week, almost no wind and calm seas. There were some small swells from the north-west and some wind swell from the east once you were to the south of the Cape, but it was very comfortable. Oh, except for a slight chop in the afternoon close to home. Our daytime highs were in the mid to low 80’s while the night time lows were in the mid 60’s.
WATER: Cold water at the end of the week on the Pacific side from just south of the San Jaime Banks on up, the water stayed in the mid 60’s from 10 miles south of the Banks and up to 5 miles from the coast. In close to the coast it warmed up by a few degrees. Due south the water was 68 to 70 degrees and to the east there was a pocket of cold water in the mid 60’s that formed early in the week and got pinched off with a northern movement of the warm water to the south. This pocket of cool water was in the mid 60’s. Elsewhere on the east side the water remained 68-70 degrees until you got 30 miles off shore, then it was 71-73 degrees. There was a pretty well defined temperature break on the Pacific side south of the San Jaime and that break held some floating kelp, these paddies were scattered along the break and occasionally worked loose of the line and eventually formed up to the south of the Cape.
BAIT: There was no problem getting bait this week, only it was Caballito, nice size ones, and they were the usual $2 per bait.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: While still not being caught in large numbers, the fish have moved closer to home. There was a concentration of Striped Marlin within 7 miles of the lighthouse on the Pacific side this week, lots of jumpers in there but they were difficult to catch. Lucky boats were able to get hooked up to one that stayed hooked, sometimes to several, others were just able to get some line stripped from the reels. Luck was pretty evenly split between lures and live bait, some of the guys think that there is so much giant squid in the area that the Marlin are full and don’t have to work that hard for food. There were Swordfish sighted this week again, but I did not hear of anyone catching them. There may have been some landed though, some of the boats did night-time fishing this week.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Wow, I am just going to repeat what I wrote last week! Look for the Porpoise and if you get lucky there will be Tuna mixed in. That was the key for this week, and the key word there is “lucky”. Many of the Porpoise pods found did not have any Tuna with them, so you often had to try and find as many pods as possible. Those fish that were caught were mostly in the 10-15 pound range with a few to 40 pounds. Cedar plugs and feathers worked and boats that were able to get a good bite going found themselves able to catch a limit. Other boats, not so lucky, ended up a trip with just one Tuna in the box.
DORADO: The kelp finally moved to the south of the San Jaime and into the warmer waters, there were a fair number of Dorado, some of them very nice fish, found under a few paddies. Most of the fish were small ones, from 6 pounds and up. The problem was finding a paddy that held fish! You might work a couple of dozen of them, and they were mostly small ones, before you found one that had fish under it. Getting hit on a lure was a start, but most of the boats had better luck soaking live bait around them.
WAHOO: Wow, we had the best day I have seen in a long time on Wednesday as far as the Wahoo catch is concerned! One boat found a big kelp and there must have been several dozen big Wahoo, ranging in size from 60 to 105 pounds taken from it. A few other smaller kelps in the area kicked out a few fish as well. For the rest of the week there were scattered fish found here and there under kelp as well as along the drop offs on the Cortez side of the Cape.
INSHORE: There were scattered Sierra schools this week, most of them found on the Cortez side of the Cape. The fish were averaging 4 pounds with a few to 8 pounds. Good colors were yellow and chartreuse. A few decent bottom fish were caught as well but most of the Pangas were working offshore since the water was in great condition.
NOTES: It was a hit or miss kind of week fishing, not a lot of fish for most of the boats and a few of them were very lucky and really got into the Tuna, Dorado and Wahoo. I would venture a guess that an average catch for the week was a Marlin and maybe a Dorado or a Tuna per boat, or a couple of each except for Marlin. There are still Humpback whales out there but they are continuing to thin out. This weeks report was written to the sounds of Jimmy Buffet on the 1990 MCA release “Feeding Frenzy”. Until next week, Tight Lines!
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