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Fishing Report for San Jose del Cabo, Baja
Capt. Eric Brictson
November 23, 2003
San Jose del Cabo - Saltwater Fishing Report
Anglers -
November 23, 2003
Near perfect weather conditions continue to attract crowds of visitors to Southern Baja, there has been plenty of warm sunshine, high temperature of 80 degrees, lows in the 60s. The northern winds increased this past week, which is the typical fall pattern and this limits where sportfishing fleets can comfortably and efficiently fish. Overall the fish counts were not high, but of the fish being caught there was quality. Wahoo, dorado, tuna and striped marlin made up the majority of the offshore surface action. Areas that were consistently producing fish included the 95 spot, El Faro, Punta Gorda, Cardona and La Fortuna. Water temperatures averaged 79 to 81 degrees and the clarity was mostly clear and blue, though spots to the north of Iman Bank were cloudy and churned up due to the wind. Schools of mackerel are now being found off of El Faro, sardinas have also been abundant along the beach stretches from Cabo San Lucas to San Jose del Cabo. Anglers found that most of the activity anywhere from one to ten miles from shore. Average catches per boat ranged from a couple of fish, up to 8 or 10 fish in combination.
For the La Playita panga fleets there continued to be a good bite for wahoo and dorado. Trolling with live chihuil proved to be the best bet for hooking into both the wahoo and dorado. Some boats accounted four as many as four wahoo and several dorado, though others felt lucky just to land one wahoo. The ‘hoo were weighing from 25 pounds to 60 pounds. In recent days there were more numbers and larger sized dorado moving into local inshore waters, after the sun would warm the surface of the water, anglers could see frigate bird circling and diving over feeding dorado. The action for yellowfin tuna dropped to a standstill over the weekend, fleets had been finding yellowfin mixed in with porpoise and holding over various rock piles earlier in the week. Most of the tuna were of the football variety, but there were also some surprisingly large tuna mixed in with the 10 to 15 pound fish. Bob Grimes of San Diego was fishing from La Playita, on the panga Alondra with skipper Jaime and Niko, when he tied into a 132 pound specimen, which was the fleet’s largest tuna of this fall season to date. Other pangas reported big hook-ups as well, but they did not have the correct equipment rigged up and the tackle was just over matched.
Miscellaneous action include more numbers of sierra moving close to shore, hitting small hoochies and live sardinas, jack crevalle to 20 pounds also were being found feeding near shore, triggerfish made up most of the bottom action, though a handful of pargo, cabrilla and grouper were also being landed by anglers concentrating on the rocky bottom reefs.
Good Fishing, Eric
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