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Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Capt. George Landrum
September 11, 2006
Cabo San Lucas - Saltwater Fishing Report
Cabo Bite Report
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrum
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Cabo Fish Report
Sept.4-10, 2006
WEATHER: It’s fairly simple to describe the weather for the past week, cloudy and rainy! Early in the week we had rain every day, the crab grass in my front yard (normally just dirt) got so bad (2 ½ feet) from the past two weeks that I had to go and buy a weed-eater (as you get older those gadgets come in handy, sure saves your back!). Almost every day we had a solid cloud cover except at the end of the week where Saturday and Sunday had some sun peeking through, actually on Sunday it was mostly sunny. Our daytime highs were in the mid 90’s while our nighttime lows were in the mid 70’s.
WATER: Hurricane John really cooled things off and turned the water over. Inshore on both the Cortez and Pacific side the water was green and had cooled off to 80 degrees. There were some good size swells as a result of the passing of the hurricane on the Cortez side but the water on the Pacific side was really nice. As the week progressed the Cortez side smoothed out but there was quite a bit of debris in the water the farther north you went. At the end of the week the water on the Cortez side was 83-84 degrees and the Pacific was mostly in the 81-82 degree range.
BAIT: Bait was a bit tough to get this week with the inshore water being all green. Most of the boats were lucky to get 7 or 8, a mix of Caballito and Mullet at the normal $2 per bait. If you got out real early there was some Sardinas available up at Palmilla and San Jose at $20 a scoop, but they sold out real early.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: There were still Striped Marlin getting hooked up this week but there were more Blue Marlin than Striped Marlin on the Cortez side of the Cape. All the Blues that I hear of came on lures around the Porpoise schools and around the banks while the Striped Marlin were closer to shore and came on live bait dropped back to fish appearing in the spread or to tailing fish. Most of the Blues were in the 150-200 pound range but there were enough of the 400-500 pound fish to keep everyone on their toes.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: This is almost a repeat of last weeks report. I and almost everyone else thought that Hurricane John would have chased the Yellowfin away from the Inman and Gorda Banks but it appears that the off colored water was all right with them. Scattered football fish were caught on the Pacific side amongst Porpoise and there was a good bite on Yellowfin to 40 pounds on those two banks, but the bite happened very early in the day based on the reports that I received. Sardines were the bait of choice for the early boats but others did all right on chunk baits and a few boats hooked up decent fish on lures. The fish found on the Pacific side were almost all associated with porpoise but you really had to hunt to find a pod that held the tuna, sometimes going through three or four pods of fish.
DORADO: Repeat of last week once again. Slow trolling strip baits was the way to go if you wanted Dorado this week. A good trip could result in 45 to 50 pounds of fillets. Most of the fish were between 12 and 20 pounds and they were found close to shore with the most effort being expended on the Pacific side. These fish like the rougher water and with the swells churning up the beach there were a lot of rip currents and debris lines to attract their attention. Lures also garnered a few fish but best results were had with the first fish kept behind the boat and chunks or strip baits drifted behind the first caught fish.
WAHOO: Nada
INSHORE: There were a few nice sized Roosterfish found this week but the discolored water made it a real search. Most of the inshore fishing was for Grouper and Amberjack. Almost all the Pangas that I heard about were going for the Dorado since they were so numerous and so close to shore.
NOTES: One more month to tournament time, start getting all the gear in order! If you are planning to come to Cabo during the month of October and want to fish, you may be too late for booking, get on the inter-net or on the phone and go to work, or change to golf! This weeks report was written to the music of that Texan guy, Jerry Jeff Walker as he sang about living in the tropics on the 1997 Tried and True Music release “Cowboy Boots & Bathing Suites”. Until next week, tight lines!
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