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Fishing Report for San Jose del Cabo, Baja
Capt. Eric Brictson
June 8, 2003
San Jose del Cabo - Saltwater Fishing Report
Anglers -
June 8, 2003
After a fairly busy month of May for anglers visiting southern Baja there has been a noticeable decline recently, even though the weather has been great and the fishing opportunities varied. Hopefully this is just a lull and business will pick up soon, otherwise we will be in for a long hot and slow summer. Days have been steadily heating up, with high temperatures now reaching 90 degrees, the skies are virtually cloudless, lots of sunshine, the wind has been out of the southwest and mostly affected only the Pacific side off of Cabo San Lucas. Seas on the Cortez side were very calm for the most part, this is also where the warmer water has been, averaging from 75 to 77 degrees and in turn sportfishing boats have been finding the more consistent action in this direction. Swells have diminished and no storms are on the horizon at his time, though as we head into the warmer months we will most certainly see our share of tropical activity developing from the south. Live bait became scarcer, with mackerel and sardinas being hard to find, although mullet were readily available off of San Jose del Cabo. There were now more bolito (bullet tuna) showing offshore and they will prove to be a valuable baitfish as other bait becomes harder to obtain.
Blue water is now being found within one mile of shore and anglers found great billfish action within a couple of miles of shore, the hot spot was off of the Santa Maria area, many boats were accounting for more than one striped marlin per day, striking on live baits, as well as on trolled lures. Tailing stripers could be seen on the surface, but it took persistence in order to actually have one take the bait. Most of the marlin being accounted for were in the 100 to 150 pound range, though several up to 170 pounds were reported. Despite the clean warm water dorado action was slow, scattered fish were found in the 10 to 30 pound class, but just in ones and twos, no big schools at this time. There was a wide variety of species now being caught, but none of them were particularly abundant. An occasional wahoo hook up was being reported from open water, mostly by boats targeting other species and often resulting in cut off monofilament lines. Yellowfin tuna were mainly found by boats venturing further offshore, anywhere from 20 to 30 miles out and associated with porpoise, sizes ranged to over one hundred pounds, but numbers of them were limited. The panga fleets did report several nice sized yellowfin tuna caught inside of the Inner Gordo Banks while trolling among schooling porpoise with live bolito, but this was a deal where you had to be in the right place at the right time and take advantage of the opportunity.
There was also some bottom action being found on various rock piles, with anglers retrieving
yo-yo's accounting for a mix of amberjack, pargo, grouper and cabrilla. Again no large numbers of fish, but the quality was good for the fish that were landed. Along the shoreline anglers found that trolling live mullet was the best bet and there was varying success reported for sierra, including one monster 15 pound specimen, pargo to 30 pounds, roosterfish to 40 pounds and jack crevalle to 25 pounds. This is the time of year when the locals take advantage of the roosterfish opportunities off the beaches and one local panguero accounted for an estimated 80 pound roosterfish while hand lining with a live mullet off the beach just north of La Playita, reports were that it was so large they could barely load the fish into the truck and he also had the deep line burns on his fingers in proof of the tremendous battle. Along with the more abundant roosterfish and jack crevalle, beach anglers also reported a couple of nice snook up to 25 pounds.
Good fishing, Eric
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