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Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Capt. George Landrum
February 6, 2006
Cabo San Lucas - Saltwater Fishing Report
Cabo Bite Report
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrum
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www.flyhooker.com
Cabo Fish Report
Jan 30-Feb. 5, 2006
WEATHER: Daytime highs in the low 80’s and nighttime lows right around 60 degrees had us smiling this week. The wind was light so even with the lows at 60, you often didn’t need a light jacket. We had just a scattering of clouds overhead and no large mass move through so we really had a wonderful week weather wise.
WATER: There was basically no change in the water conditions this week from what we experienced last week. The only thing that differed was the slow approach of the warm 73-degree water from the west, at the end of the week it had pushed up against the shore on the Pacific side. We still have cold green water on the Cortez side of the Cape with the water from Gorda Bank and to the south at 67-68 degrees. South of us and out to 60 miles on the Pacific side it warms to 73 degrees and is a little off-color but mostly blue. You know the water is good when there are plenty of flying fish to be seen, and that is the case once you get about 25 miles out to the southwest.
BAIT: Most of the bait available this week was Caballito but there were some mackerel if you were early to the bait boats. The price was the normal $2 per bait.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Striped Marlin continued to be the only billfish available and the bite definitely dropped off this week for most of the fleet. Golden Gate Bank still produced a few fish for boats dropping bait deep, but it appeared that the fishermen trolling lures might have had the better luck. Reports were that lures in blue/black were bringing fish into the patterns and that about 60% of the fish brought up were striking the lures. About 20% were opting for live bait dropped back to them. A good day brought a Marlin to the boat and a few boats had exceptional fishing considering the slow bite with up to five releases a day.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: The Tuna bite that we thought might start at the San Jaime last week got the ka-bosh put on it by the Purse Seiners. Several super Seiners were observed wrapping dolphin and tuna with one seiner including a 70’ sport fisherman in the wrap. The captain says he has some good pictures of the seiner and the mangling of the porpoise as they worked the wrap. I hope to get a chance to see it soon. With that happening at the San Jaime, many boats cruised farther offshore in search of fish and a few boats got lucky 50 miles out with fish in the 50-60 pound class. The fish were moving right along though, and were not there the next day. There were reports of some very nice fish in the 100+ class popping up occasionally on the Golden Gate but they were hard to fool into biting. One boat reported getting a fish that weighed #190 on a cedar plug; they had the hook almost straighten out on them during the fight.
DORADO: There were a few Dorado found this week and it was floating debris that helped the boats find fish. I saw one boat come in with one rigger loaded with Tuna flags and the other rigger loaded with Dorado flags and found out from the anglers that they had found a piece of wood 26 miles to the southwest loaded with Dorado to 20 pounds and football Yellowfin.
WAHOO: I did not hear work of any Wahoo this week.
INSHORE: Inshore is a repeat of last week with the exception of the number of boats working the concentrations of fish. At some of the rocky points it looked like a parking lot! The Sierra and Pargo bite was still on and the Pangas were having a great time with Sierra to 10 pounds and Pargo to 30 pounds just off the beach. Live bait for both species worked best but there was also good action for the Pargo by using large, deep diving Rapallas. Best action was seen from the lighthouse on the Pacific side and to the north of there. The best Sierra bite was a little farther off the beach than last week with most of the action taking place in 50’ of water.
NOTES: In brief, slow offshore action but some great inshore fishing this week. I guess we will just have to wait for next year for the Seahawks to win the Super bowl. This weeks report was written to the sounds of the Dave Matthews Band on their 2005 RCA release “American Baby”.
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