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Fishing Report for San Jose del Cabo, Baja
Capt. Eric Brictson
February 15, 2004
San Jose del Cabo - Saltwater Fishing Report
Anglers -
February 15, 2004
Sunshine is once again welcoming visitors to the Los Cabos area, after weeks of scattered cloud cover the weather now seems to be on a warming trend. With the feeling of springtime in the air more numbers of people are now traveling south to play in the sun. There continued to be dominating winds blowing from the north, but for the most part ocean conditions were favorable, swells were minimal. The water temperature has averaged from 68 to 72 degrees, with the warmest currents now being found directly out front from the tip of the peninsula and clean blue water is being found close to shore. There were sufficient supplies of live bait, with sardinas, caballito and mackerel all available. Fleets were reporting daily catches of striped marlin, dorado, yellowfin tuna, skipjack, sierra, snapper, cabrilla, amberjack and others. Though charter numbers continued to be light.
Over the weekend the better action was found where the warmer water was, the 95 spot and straight out from Cabo were both productive for dorado, striped marlin, as well as for yellowfin tuna. Numbers were not huge, but were improved over past week. Early in the week there was a dead whale drifting off of the San Jose area and for anglers lucky enough to be on the scene this was the hot spot for wide-open dorado action, until the whale drifted out of range after a couple of days. There were also a handful of wahoo hook ups reported by anglers trolling the warmer offshore waters. Yellowfin tuna were found schooling with migrating porpoise from 5 to 15 miles out and were striking trolling lures readily. Yellowfin were also found within a couple miles of shore, particularly in the areas from La Fortuna to Iman Bank, though on certain days the north wind did make fishing this area a bit uncomfortable. Anglers using live sardinas reported the best success on the yellowfin found closer in, with most of the tuna weighing in the 10 to 20 pound class, but there was the exception of some larger fish mixed in.
With each passing week the numbers of quality bottom fish being caught keeps increasing, rock piles with depths ranging from 100 to 200 feet have been producing grouper, cabrilla, amberjack and various species of pargo. Fishing with bait has been more consistent, but anglers reported that the fish are now hitting the iron yo-yo style jigs as well. The majority of these fish weighed 5 to 20 pounds, but there were larger specimens accounted for, including one 80 pound amberjack and one impressive 70 pound dog tooth snapper.
Sierra were the main catch along the shorelines, but the numbers have dropped off since last month, some hog sized jack crevalle were testing light tackle enthusiasts to the limits and there were now more roosterfish making there way into the fish counts.
Good Fishing, Eric
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