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Fishing Report for San Jose del Cabo, Baja
Capt. Eric Brictson
August 5, 2001
San Jose del Cabo - Saltwater Fishing Report
Anglers -
August 5, 2001
This week the weather did settle down and anglers were able to enjoy calm seas and warm sunny skies. The water temperature has once again risen sharply and is now in the low 80's, and the water clarity has improved. There were plenty of live sardinas being netting off of the beach of La Playita and as the week progressed and the surf conditions diminished the baitfish became easier to get. Mullet were also still hanging around, mixing in with the sardinas, but the sardinas were the preferred choice of bait. Panga fleets fished from Red Hill to San Luis and the hot spot continued to be within a mile shore, off of Punta Gorda, this is where the yellowfin tuna have been very consistent and in recent days there was increased action for dorado and sailfish.
The bite has definitely become more consistent, with most everybody catching fish, boats were averaging up to 10 yellowfin tuna and 1 to 3 dorado each. The tuna weighed from 20 to 60 pounds. Live sardinas proved to be the most successful bait, with tackle ranging from 20 to 80 pound being used, 40 pound tackle was the most popular choice. Numerous larger fish were being lost due to anglers using too light of equipment. At times the tuna were a bit line shy and did strike the lighter line best but on other days the fish would hit 80 pound tackle just as well.
Fishing techniques included slow trolling, drifting with a live bait down on a ½ to 1 oz. weight and just fly lining live bait on the surface. Still no great news to report that the tuna are back on the Gordo Banks but these other spots have been taking up the slack of no fish on the Gordo, besides the Punta Gorda area of " Zero " being red hot, over the weekend the fleet discovered a hot tuna bite off of Palmilla point, these tuna were up to 80 pounds, hitting on bait and lures.
Dorado action has been on the steady increase but still not equal with the tuna action, an average of one to three dorado per boat were accounted for. They were located from close to shore to further out, while trolling for marlin, sizes averaged 10 to 18 pounds, with some larger bulls over 30 pounds reported. In recent days, with the water warmer and cleaning there have been some wahoo being hooked by anglers trolling lures in the areas of La Fortuna to Iman. Best lures seemed to be the old wahoo stand by, Marauders, in either orange or purple combinations. The 'hoo that have been weighed in were between 30 and 50 pounds. A handful of wahoo were landed each day for the pangas out of La Playita, not a big bite, but a good sign of things to come. Sailfish started moving into the area and were being hooked daily by anglers that were targeting the tuna and dorado, the sails were averaging 60 to 80 pounds.
Along the shoreline there were plenty of jack crevalle and roosterfish providing action, some of the roosters weighed over 30 pounds but most of them were 15 to 20 pounds, trolling live bait was the best bet. One monster 38 pound snook was caught mid week by a local angler fishing from the shore, right in front of where the panga fleet launches he caught the trophy fish, it hit on a sardina.
Good Fishing, Eric
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