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Fishing Report for San Jose del Cabo, Baja
Capt. Eric Brictson
June 22, 2003
San Jose del Cabo - Saltwater Fishing Report
Anglers -
June 22, 2003
Well the summer season has now officially started, I wish I could say that this has brought increased crowds of tourists to Los Cabos, but so far the numbers of anglers arriving in town has been below normal levels. The whole year has been unusual, many people are making last minute travel plans and we hope that this will be the case in the coming months. While the East Cape region is now enjoying excellent fishing offshore for dorado, tuna and wahoo, this has not been the case here at the Southern tip of Baja, as fish are spread out and overall counts are down. This seems to the pattern every June, as the warm water species first migrate back into the areas from Los Frailes and Los Barriles, and then by July the bite starts to swift southward. Last year at this time we were dealing with very cool water temperatures, but that is not the problem this season, as water temperatures on the Cortez side are now averaging in the upper 70s, on the Pacific side there has been cooler waters, dipping in the 60s. For this reason the best chance of finding any consistent action has been on the Sea of Cortez side of the Peninsula.
Fleets were finding a mix of dorado, yellowfin tuna and billfish offshore, but the fish were scattered, with no particular hot spot, there was not a lot of baitfish activity, water was not that preferred deep blue color yet, though seas were calm, swells minimal and with each passing day the conditions were improving, so we expect the same type of action that the East Cape is now enjoying will work its way into our local waters soon. The past week did see more numbers of dorado being found off of the Chileno and Red Hill areas, they were striking equally on trolled bait and lures, ranging on size up to 30 pounds, no great numbers, mostly ones or twos, but some boats reported as many as 4 or 5 of them. Yellowfin tuna for the most part were found close to 20 miles offshore, associated with porpoise, with the best bet towards Los Frailes.
The most consistent action continued to be closer to the shoreline for amberjack, roosterfish, jack crevalle, sierra, pargo and grouper. Slow trolling with live mullet was the most productive technique, with the most impressive catches being dog tooth snapper (pargo) to over 30 pounds, amberjack to 40 pounds, roosterfish to 50 pounds, as well as several late season sized trophy sized sierra. Off the bottom anglers had some success while working the yo-yo jigs for a combination of grouper, amberjack, cabrilla and pargo, there was a strong current running at times and this made it difficult to work the rock piles, but on the days when the current slacked the bite proved to be very good.
Off the beaches the locals are still catching fair numbers of roosterfish, jack crevalle and a few amberjack, best reports recently were coming from the Chileno and Punta Gorda areas. Mullet proved to be the best bait and they were being found in large concentrations off of most beaches and could be snagged of netted.
Good Fishing, Eric
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