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Fishing Report for San Jose del Cabo, Baja
Capt. Eric Brictson
July 6, 2003
San Jose del Cabo - Saltwater Fishing Report
Anglers -
July 6, 2003
Though we are now in the month of July the weather has felt more like it typically does during springtime. Steady breezes from the southwest have been persistently pushing in cooler Pacific air and water temperatures, there has been a hazy marine layer present in the mornings, before being burnt off by warm sunshine that is reaching 90 degrees by mid-day. Over the weekend conditions seemed to stabilize, as winds resided and the water was back on a warming trend. The ocean swells increased this past week, surfers were happy, though it was not so large that panga operations could not launch. Sea temperatures varied from 70 to 77 degrees, it was a green and cloudy color near shore, with clean blue waters found further out, from five to twenty-five miles. There was distinct water temperature break offshore of San Jose to Los Frailes, ranging fifteen to twenty miles out, this is where the majority of sportfishing charters are now concentrating efforts for a combination of striped marlin, yellowfin tuna, dorado and a few stray wahoo.
Quantities of squid and flying fish are now attracting gamefish into local waters, anglers found action for yellowfin tuna ten to twenty miles off of San Jose Del Cabo, La Laguna to outside the Gordo Banks, tuna were seen feeding on the surface, though the fish proved to be shy about taking lures or hooked baits. Many yellowfin ranging from 30 to 90 were hitting the decks of both cruisers and pangas alike, there were a handful of tuna over one hundred pounds being accounted for. The numbers of fish were not high, but the quality was definitely there, it is a shame that there is no live squid available locally or it would be wide open. Slow trolling with live mackerel was the best bet at this time, with more activity being found early in the day, most of time the tuna were located in the same areas as migrating porpoise. Tuna Purseiners were also reportedly seen in recent days, so these large schools of tuna could be in jeopardy.
Dorado remained very scattered, more often than not found in the blue warm waters further offshore, no large schools yet, just ones and twos, hitting both lures and live baits, ranging in sizes to 40 pounds. Striped marlin is still the most common billfish in the area, though there have been some sailfish mixed in. Many marlin were seen tailing on the surface within several miles of shore, anglers reported that it was difficult to get the fish to take the bait. A number of of them did prove to be hungry, live mackerel was their favorite, often times they simply would not want to strike the live mullet, the stripers that were being landed ranged from 100 to 180 pounds.
Since the fishing offshore was not all that red hot for numbers of fish, many people did opt to try their luck closer to shore, they found varying success on roosterfish, pargo, pompano, amberjack, grouper and jack crevalle. Trolling mullet close to the shoreline was the most successful technique, and an affective method for hooking into a sizable roosterfish, as specimens over 50 pounds were landed in recent days, last week the numbers of roosterfish had really dropped off, but this past week more of them have moved back in, following the schools of mullet.
Good Fishing, Eric
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