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Fishing Report for San Jose del Cabo, Baja
Capt. Eric Brictson
November 4, 2001
San Jose del Cabo - Saltwater Fishing Report
Anglers -
November 4, 2001
Crowds of anglers are now making their annual trips to Southern Baja, sportfishing fleets are very busy and everyone is enjoying the perfect weather. The days have been sunny, reaching into the upper 80's and the early mornings have been in the low 60's. Water temperatures averaged 80 to 82 degrees and seas have been extremely calm on the Sea of Cortez side of the Peninsula. Fleets have been fishing the areas from the Gordo Banks to Vinorama and the most consistent action has come from the spots further north, between Iman and Vinorama. Overall catches for the La Playita panga fleet included, yellowfin tuna, dorado, sailfish, wahoo, rainbow runners, amberjack, skipjack, sierra, pargo and roosterfish. Considering that the moon was just full and the nights have been very bright, it did not slow down the action that much, most pangas have had daily catches of 8 to 12 fish in combination. The supplies of live sardinas have been plentiful and continued to be the preferred bait.
The tuna were hitting best on the live sardinas in the area off of Vinorama, the fish averaged from 15 to 40 pounds, with a few larger ones mixed in. Early in the week, the first pangas to arrive on the fishing grounds were hooking up with wahoo on sardinas and casting lures, catches of 1 to 3 wahoo per boat was common and the sizes ranged from 25 to 40 pounds. Many other wahoo were lost due to cut lines, but anglers found that the wahoo did not want to hit on lures or bait that were rigged with wire leaders, they would hit the straight mono though, and that meant there was more chance of getting cut off, but at least you could have the opportunity of hooking up and with a little luck, landing one of these elusive speedsters.
Sailfish were being located in the same areas as the tuna but not that many were being hooked up because the bait being used for the tuna and dorado were small for the sails, if there was larger bait available there would be many more of them accounted for. Of the sailfish that were landed, they were weighing from 60 to 100 pounds. There was some talk about striped marlin starting to move back into local waters, but very few black and blue marlin were accounted for since the passing of the recent big buck tournaments. The local pangeros did mention that there was a large dead marlin floating on the surface near shore, possibly a released fish that did not recover its strength after battling with an angler.
A few more dorado were being caught in recent days, compared to the previous week. The sizes were larger also, with many of the fish weighing 15 to 25 pounds. They were found by trolling medium sized feathers and skirted lures. Once a school was located by trolling, there could be other following fish hooked up on bait.
Other species that anglers caught included a few nice amberjacks on yo-yo style lures off the bottom, some early season sierra also now showing up in the fish counts, along with good numbers of 5 to 8 pound rainbow runners. A couple of roosterfish were caught in the area where anglers were targeting the tuna, which was a couple miles offshore, unusual to find the roosterfish so far from shore.
Good Fishing, Eric
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