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Fishing Report for San Jose del Cabo, Baja
Capt. Eric Brictson
September 2, 2003
San Jose del Cabo - Saltwater Fishing Report
Anglers -
September 2, 2003
The passing of Hurricane Ignacio highlighted this past week, though Los Cabos was spared of a direct hit by the seasons first real tropical storm threat, the center of the system had winds of a category two hurricane, to over one hundred miles per hour and luckily stayed some 30 to 45 miles offshore, it was close enough to dump up to over a dozen inches of rain in certain areas and wind gusts to over 50 mph. swept over the lower Peninsula. Sunday and Monday were basically a was out, needless to say all sportfishing fleets were dry docked, with most operations having to wait until Thursday or Friday before opening back their operations. There was wide spread flooding, but most of the areas roads hung in there and only sustained minimal damage, one exception was the new paved road through arroyo leading to the village of La Playita, rushing flash flood waters virtually washed out all of the recent road work by Puerto Los Cabos and the San Jose River was not even passable on foot for a couple of days and then it was a day or two more when the first 4x4’s were able to negotiate through hood high muddy water. Of course in the course of things all utilities were knocked out and locals had to practice their camping skills for several days.
Fleets are now searching through out the area for some consistent action, which since the storm seems to have switched towards the Pacific and closer to Cabo San Lucas, while anglers out of San Jose Del Cabo reported greenish cloudy water and have had to mostly scratch away for bottom fish. Out of Cabo there were good reports of striped and blue marlin, as well as some dorado, tuna and wahoo rounding out the catches. Live bait has been very scarce, most charters were going with artificial lures and catching whatever bolito or smaller skipjack they could find to use for bait on the offshore fishing grounds. As the water continues to clear we expect the bite to improve, the temperature did drop a little, but was still around the 80-degree mark and was clearing daily. Some anglers did report finding floating debris offshore that were holding schools of dorado, but much of the debris had already drifted out of range. Most of the wahoo that were found were located in blue open water, not necessary on high spots or banks, striking on marlin lures, as well as the old standby lead heads and Marauders.
Off the bottom there were varied reports for grouper, amberjack and pargo, with some specimens very impressive weighing up to fifty pounds. Commercial pangueros out of La Playita reported a good run of monster squid to forty pounds, they found them sporadically from near the Gordo Banks to Desteladera and some pangas accounted for three hundred or more pounds of calamari. Local beach anglers are just waiting for the snook to go on the bite in front of the San Jose Estuary, water has been murky, but is now just getting in shape, there should be some better snook action this next week.
Good Fishing, Eric
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