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Fishing Report for San Jose del Cabo, Baja
Capt. Eric Brictson
July 22, 2001
San Jose del Cabo - Saltwater Fishing Report
Anglers - July 22, 2001
It was a beautiful week in Southern Baja, with the exception of one day when the wind blew out of the south, the days were very calm, which made for great offshore fishing conditions. The water is back on a warming trend, after having cooled off inshore close to ten degrees last week. Anglers found that the fishing action also improved, most common catches for the panga fleets out of San Jose del Cabo were yellowfin tuna and amberjack, but there were also a good mix of other species being caught. Good supplies of mullet were available from the bait boats off of
La Playita and for the second part of the week there were also live sardinas being netted off of Desteladera. The most consistent bite was off of Punta Gorda, in the spot known as " Zero ".
Quality sized amberjack were being taken by trolling live bait close off of Punta Gorda. It was especially good early in the morning before the crowds of boats made the fish shy. The largest amberjack of the week weighed in at 75 pounds, several others were over 50 pounds and they averaged about 25 pounds. Some pangas accounted for as many as 6 of the ambers during a morning charter. Most people that did troll for them in the right area, at least had several opportunities.
With the availability of sardinas the panga fleet located a good bite on yellowfin tuna within a mile of shore, at Punta Gorda. The fish would hit on both trolled and drifted sardinas, average fish weighed 25 to 35 pounds and the larger ones in the school were over 50 pounds. Many fish were hooked but a good majority were lost due to anglers using too light of line. It was wise to use at least 30 pound and preferably 40 or 50 pound, since were some larger tuna mixed in. The tuna that were brought to the fillet tables were noticeably filled to the brim with shrimp, but it did not keep them from feeding on sardinas. The bite would vary from one morning to the next, one day it would be a late bite and then the next the hot action would be early in the morning.
The offshore action is starting to heat up for blue marlin, as the cruiser fleet reported blues of up to 500 pounds. There was a particular productive area outside of the Outer Gordo Banks. The marlin were taken on the medium to large sized trolling lures. Dorado catches were still down from normal but there were a handful of monster bulls being landed, included one that was estimated at close to 75 pounds, caught from a La Playita panga.
Action along the shore continued to produce a mixed bag, but this past week the most common fish were jack crevalle, and some nice size specimens up to 25 pounds were taken. Some roosterfish are also being caught, but not in numbers that they were the past month. A few pargo, sierra and pompano rounded out the inshore action. Best success was by trolling either live mullet or sardinas.
Good Fishing, Eric
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