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Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Capt. George Landrum
October 31, 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
Oct. 23-29, 2006
WEATHER: As we had expected, Hurricane Paul did have an effect on us last week. It slowed down quickly and fell apart, bringing us only some rain, winds to 45 knots and big swells, but the port was closed from Tuesday morning until Wednesday at 2 pm. Both the winds and the seas diminished quickly and things were back to Normal Thursday morning. Our daytime highs were in the low 80’s and the nighttime lows were in the low to mid 70’s.
WATER: The beginning of the week had us with warm water across the entire cape with most of it in the 85-86 degree range and with small swells. The effects of Paul were to cool off the water several degrees and bring in some swells at 4-6 feet with an occasional 6-9 set. These were storm swells and spaced some distance apart so it was not really rough, just lumpy. The water within reach of most of the fleet at the end of the week was in the 82-83 degree range and almost all of it outside ½ mile from shore was blue.
BAIT: Caballito were available at the usual $2 per bait and there were Sardinas at $20 a bucket, both at the mouth of the harbor and up off of Palmilla and La Playita.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Probably the best way to give you an idea of the bill fishing this past week is to post results of the Bisbee Black and Blue Tournament. The normal three days of fishing were cut to two days due to the port closure on Wednesday so the 183 teams only fished for two days total. That is 366 fishing days total. There were 152 billfish caught, a reported 64 Blue Marlin, 6 Black Marlin, 61 Striped Marlin and 21 sailfish. This is .4 billfish per team per day. Not great fishing, that’s for sure. There were three marlin over #300 weighed and one of them barely made it at #301. That gives you an idea of how the Marlin fishing was this past week.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: The Yellowfin action off of La Playita continued on an erratic basis with most of the fish biting around the tide change. They were school fish in the 20-30 pound class. There were larger fish found out at the Inner and Outer Gorda Banks as well as at the Inman, but you had to have the right bait for the cows that went up to #250. There were several of these nice fish caught this past week. In other areas, Porpoise pods 30 miles to the south had fish in them that averaged 35 pounds and gave quite a few people a lot of fun. Boats dropping live Mackerel deep on the Golden Gate Banks for Striped Marlin also came up with a few nice Yellowfin to #80.
DORADO: There were still plenty of Dorado to be found but you had to farther up the Pacific side to get into them. I tried the area inside the Golden Gate Bank on Saturday with poor results only to find that the action had moved another 10 miles up the coast. The fish are averaging 15 pounds with some of them in the #40 class, but 30 miles is a way to run. There were scattered fish closer to home but not in any numbers.
WAHOO: There were still scattered Wahoo around as we caught one that was about #65 on the second day of the Bisbee. No concentrations yet, maybe on the November moon?
INSHORE: Slow fishing inshore with a few Dorado, Skipjack and Yellowfin, some early season Sierra and a scattering of misc. bottom species. The better inshore fishing has been reported up toward San Jose.
NOTES: Sorry the report is late; a two-day case of some virus had me laid out since Sunday morning. Until next week, Tight Lines
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