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Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Capt. George Landrum
July 10, 2006
Cabo San Lucas - Saltwater Fishing Report
Cabo Bite Report
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Captain George Landrum
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Cabo Fish Report
July 3-9, 2006
WEATHER: All week long we had the daytime highs in the high 90’s to right at a top of 102 degrees. The evening temperatures were quite a bit cooler at the low 80’s but no matter how you cut it, most people were looking for air-conditioning in the middle of the day! We did have the daytime temps drop for an afternoon and then into the evening on Friday with the threat of clouds and thunderstorms from the mainland, that cooled thing rapidly! No rain and it looks like thing may remain the same for a while.
WATER: It keeps getting warmer and the water continues to blue right up, I saw water this past couple of days that looked almost purple. On the Cortez side of the Cape we have had surface readings of up to 90 degrees. I have been in a few of those areas the past few days and never did see anything above 88.5 degrees, but that is easily explained by differing equipment. What it comes down to is that on the Cortez side of the Cape the water has been between 89 and 80 degrees with the cooler water being outside the Cabo area toward San Jose a distance out 10-20 miles. Off of the East Cape the water is very warm, averaging 87 degrees on the surface. As far as the Pacific side of the Cape is concerned, the warm water is progressing fairly quickly toward the north. We are already receiving reports of 80-degree water covering the Golden Gate Bank. It is bluing up nicely in that direction as well as the chlorophyll laden green water is pushed north.
BAIT: Mostly Mackerel, Caballito and Mullet at the normal $2 per bait.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: I am now able to say officially that the summer season in Cabo is upon us. I could not say that until I had hooked my first Blue of the season and we did that on the 7th, with a Blue that was well over #350 crashing the short corner plunger and charging the boat. Of course, as always, the guys with the video cameras we asleep and did not get any film of the fish, but it was a classic take and then an epic show, at least until the hook pulled with the fish three hundred yards out. Other guys have been getting into them, but that is my first of the year, so now for me, it is “official”, and the big gear is coming out. Over the radio I heard that there were fish ranging in size from #600 to #200 caught. There were also a few Blacks, but not the number of last week. Surprisingly, there were still a lot of Striped Marlin caught as well, we released two on the 7th and had another one come off after a short run. Most of the billfish action occurred within 10 miles of shore, and the action was not concentrated in any one area, at least close to home. I did hear that there were two days this week when anglers on the East Cape were getting multiple fish per day only two miles off of the beach outside the Cabo Pulmo area. We are hoping that the Number of fish remains high and that the water does not warm up too much, we’d like them to stay around for a while!
YELLOWFIN TUNA: tuna were no the fish of the week, there can be no doubt about that. The fish that were found were 90% footballs, between 6 and 10 pounds in size. Most of the boats were releasing these baby Tuna, but quite a few boats (and fishermen) were loading up just to put meat in the coolers. Offshore were where most of the bigger fish were found, but there were no fish as far as I heard of that weighed more than 60 pounds. ^0 miles due south of the Arch and 50 miles due east of Punta Gorda were reported to have good size porpoise pods that held Tuna, but that was to far for most of the boats to travel. That is not to say there were not any fish found closer to home, it’s just that these fish were blind strikes, and the largest of them were only in the 25-pound class.
DORADO: Once again I have to say the Dorado were the fish of the week. They were found everywhere and almost every boat got some, a few boats did very well with fish counts of five or more, all in the 10-20 pound class with a few fish to 50 pounds. We expect the bite to only get better and the fish to get larger as time moves on. Bright colored lures and slow trolled live bait seemed to work best on these fish, and as long as the water was 80 degrees or better, the fish were there. Wow, that was almost word for word from last week! Must mean that there are fish here! This week however they were not everywhere, you had to search a bit to find them, but there are still large numbers of these quality fish, and the boats that got into them did very well!
WAHOO: I thought that this moon was going to bring on a good Wahoo bite and while I did hear about a few fish, there were not the numbers that I was expecting. A few boats had more than one strike and a few of them got lucky and caught both fish, but most boats were lucky to get one Wahoo strike, even if they were concentration of the fish. The best results seemed to come from the Punta Gorda, La Fortuna area and around the Inman Banks, as live bait slow trolled very early in the morning produced consistent fish every day. Elsewhere the bit was slow and most of the fish were incidental catch found while looking for Marlin or Tuna. Overall the Wahoo averaged 40 pounds, with the smallest I heard of around 12 pounds and the largest right at 80 pounds.
INSHORE: Roosterfish is beginning to get better with more quality fish being found but the key is still having fresh, lively Mullet in the bait tank. With the calm water we had most of the week many, if not most, of the Panga fleet boats were working offshore for Dorado and Marlin. Other than the Roosterfish, inshore fishing consisted of Needlefish and Bonita, and there were plenty of both to be found. Best baits for them were Sardinas.
NOTES: Music for this week’s report was from the Sirius radio “Classic Vinyl” channel. You learn more cuss words playing golf than you do fishing! My best at 118 and getting better every week! Until then, Tight Lines!
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