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Fishing Report for San Jose del Cabo, Baja
Capt. Eric Brictson
April 8, 2001
San Jose del Cabo - Saltwater Fishing Report
GORDO BANKS PANGAS
SAN JOSE DEL CABO
Anglers - April 8, 2001
Water temperatures plummeted to the coolest levels of the year, with 64 to 68 being the average throughout the region. The clarity did improve, in the areas to the north of Punta Gorda blue water was found within a couple miles of shore. There was also some wind, first from the north and then switching from out of the south, which meant that conditions still have not settled. Sportfishing fleets searched for the best action, from far offshore to back along the beaches, the most consistent reports were coming from either working bottom structure or trolling the shoreline. With the southern swell of last week all but diminishing, live sardinas were once again readily available and was the bait of choice. Crowds of tourists were light and combined with the lack of larger gamefish being caught, angler interest was lagging. It seems like an annual tradition that during Easter vacation, along with all of the people taking time off to be with their families, the fish also become scattered and a challenge to catch. Though this week the action was mostly limited to bottom or inshore action there was great variety of medium gamefish found. The fishing grounds from Red Hill to La Fortuna is where the action proved to be most consistent.
The red crabs that had been so thick on the Gordo Banks thinned out and along with them the pargo catches became scarce. Yellowfin tuna had all but disappeared from the near shore waters and the only significant catches of tuna were reported from the cruiser fleet that found football sized fish mixed in with migrating schools of porpoise, but this was happening some 30 plus miles offshore and with how the ocean conditions were, was a hit or miss proposition. Dorado catches were limited to an occasional stray 10 to 15 pound fish and will most likely continue this way until warmer waters moves back in. The marlin bite off of San Jose was very weak and the larger boats that normally would be targeting the billfish could be seen fishing inshore, along side the smaller pangas.
Anglers were reporting decent daily catches on species like sierra, yellowtail, amberjack and cabrilla. The best sierra action was found off of Palmilla and Red Hill, trolling rapalas or preferably live sardinas was producing fish from 2 to 8 pounds. In the same areas, yellowtail in the 14 to 18 pound class were being taken, hitting on trolled rapalas, sardinas and yo-yo style lures, boats were averaging from 1 to 4 of these fish each day, combined with a half of dozen sierra, some amberjack and a few inshore pargo. Roosterfish up to 10 pounds were also found, but not in the numbers that they had been before the cooler current swept in. The schools of mullet which had been moving in off of La Playita and is the roosters favorite diet spread out during the recent swell, but as springtime begins to warm up in the next few weeks they will be back, along with the big roosterfish.
Good Fishing, Eric
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