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Fishing Report for San Jose del Cabo, Baja
Capt. Eric Brictson
November 30, 2003
San Jose del Cabo - Saltwater Fishing Report
Anglers -
November 30, 2003
Los Cabos weather has continued to be ideal and paradise like. While much of the country is now facing the onslaught of winter conditions, the climate in Cabo has been predominantly sunny, with high temperatures in the low 80s and lows in the mid 60s. This past week the north winds steadily became more of a nuisance factor for anglers as they were trolling offshore waters. The weather cycle has basically been a few windy days and then followed by one of two with only light breezes, accordingly the water temperature is also on cooling trend, this week the average was from 77 to 79 degrees. Water clarity has been favorable, the majority of the water from several miles from shore
was reported to be clean and blue. Overall the fishing action has been on an improving trend in recent days, daily catches included dorado, wahoo, yellowfin tuna, striped marlin, skipjack, rainbow runner, bonita, sierra, pargo, cabrilla and others. For live bait fleets were using a combination of mackerel, caballito, sardina and chihuil. Charter boats are now fishing in all different directions, covering the regions from San Jaime and Golden Gate Banks on the Pacific to Gordo Banks and Iman Banks located in the gateway of the Sea of Cortez. Action did not seem to be particularly red hot in any particular place each day, but for the anglers that ended up be in the right spot at the right time, they did account for some impressive numbers and quality.
Yellowfin tuna action was sporadic for the anglers out of San Jose del Cabo, just a scattering of football-sized fish being taken on live bait, but it was another story on the Pacific, tuna ranging in sizes from 20 to 100 pounds were found in big numbers on the offshore banks and there were reports of boats landing as many as 20 fish per day, though overall the numbers per fish on an average charter was more like 2 to 8 fish in combination. The persistent winds did limit where charter fleets could target action on days when gusts were stronger, but there were a variety of other fish being found close to shore in the more protected areas, particularly dorado, which were found in fair numbers
less than a mile form shore. Though the numbers of dorado were not huge, they did increase in both size and quantity, average size was 10 to 20 pounds and there were
bulls to over 30 pounds were mixed in. Live bait had the edge over trolling lures, but anglers did have success by first located the schools of fish with the artificials and then switching to bait.
The most sought after species for the pangas out of La Playita continued to be wahoo, and they definitely proved to be more elusive than they had been a couple of weeks ago, though everyday a handful of anglers were getting lucky and landing one or two of them. Slow trolling with live chihuil was the best bet to hook into one of the speedsters, of the fish landed, most of them were weighing in the 30 to 50 pound class. The areas around the Gordo Banks, Cardon, La Fortuna and Iman all produced hook-ups on ‘hoo and dorado, tuna and an occasional sailfish rounded out the action on these same fishing grounds.
Inshore action improved, including more fish for beach anglers, as the water temperatures
are dropping, more sierra, jacks and croaker are moving into local waters and increased bait activity should attract even more numbers of fish in coming weeks.
Good Fishing, Eric
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