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Fishing Report for San Jose del Cabo, Baja
Capt. Eric Brictson
September 14, 2003
San Jose del Cabo - Saltwater Fishing Report
Anglers -
September 14, 2003
The month of September is passing along slowly, as usual there has been several tropical storms pass in the direction of the Los Cabos area, at this time there is recently formed tropical depression 12 E that has formed 500 miles south of Cabo San Lucas, though the projected track predicts that it will stay off to west of the peninsula, it could pass close enough to bring even more rainfall to the already soaked desert landscape. It is incredible how rapidly southern Baja can change from being a parched dry desert to a lush green tropical like paradise, especially noticeable as tourists fly into the Los Cabos airport. Though at this time there have been only moderate crowds visiting this resort area. The busy fall season is now just a few weeks away and businesses are now gearing up for what everyone hopes will be a bustling time. As for the now the weather can only be described as hot and muggy, this month is the most humid time of year, though the early mornings are starting to show a slight sign of fall in the air. Water temperatures have averaged in the low 80s and this past week the ocean swells have been minimal with virtually no wind at all to speak of. The water closer to shore has been a bit cloudy and greenish, but anywhere from 3 to 10 miles offshore the clarity has been clean and blue.
Though the ocean was flat calm and the conditions appeared favorable the overall fishing the past few days tapered off from last week and were definitely not up to Cabo standards, maybe it had something to do with the passing of the full moon on September 10 th and the fish have been feeding by the bright moon light, the whole season has been late and hopes are that the situation will improve soon. Sportfishing fleets were searching in all directions, as the action was now scattered and there was no particular hot spot reported. There was a wide variety of species being found offshore, including striped and blue marlin, sailfish, yellowfin tuna, dorado, skipjack and wahoo, though none of them were particularly numerous. In fact the average daily catch was several fish in combination per boat, most common species out of San Jose was dorado, average sizes ranged 10 to 20 pounds, but there were some very impressive bulls to over 40 pounds accounted for. Live bait has been a bit scarce, with only minimal supplies of mackerel available from the Cabo marina, many charters have been trolling artificial lures and catching what bolito or skipjack they can find on the fishing grounds to use as bait for slow trolling. The yellowfin tuna were being found further from shore and most of them weighed 20 to 50 pounds, some boats landed as many as six or more, striking on feathers, rapalas and cedar plugs. The better action was being found off of the Pacific to Chileno, with not much being reported at this time from the Gordo Banks area.
Beach anglers did not have much to report off of the San Jose Estuary, only a couple of medium sized snook, croaker and jack crevalle were taken, still tons of debris to deal with scattered along the beaches north to Punta Gorda and the water was dirty due to the continued run off from the recent rains.
Good fishing, Eric
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