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Fishing Report for San Jose del Cabo, Baja
Capt. Eric Brictson
March 13, 2005
San Jose del Cabo - Saltwater Fishing Report
March 13, 2005
Anglers –
Visitors to Los Cabos this past week were greeted with ideal early spring like weather, not the gloomy cloud cover as in previous weeks, there was plenty of sunshine, very few clouds in the skies and temperatures were reaching 80 degrees. The winds seem to becoming less of a nuisance the past couple of weeks, one day it would blow lightly from the north and on others from the south, but overall anglers enjoyed very pleasant calm ocean conditions. Water clarity fluctuated daily, from cloudy green through much of the region and then also some clean blue water being reported north towards Los Frailes, water temperatures have averaged in the 68 to 71 degree range.
Offshore fishing slowed down, as very few striped marlin were being hooked up, especially compared to how wide open it was in the past couple of weeks, the slow down was most likely due to the dirty and cooler water conditions. Boats searched far offshore and did not find much for their efforts, though the few marlin that were found were mostly far from shore, also a handful of wahoo were striking trolled lures in the open water and the middle of nowhere, several of them topped the 60 pound mark. This is the season that swordfish start to appear in local waters and there were reports of several being sighted, but none were actually landed that we heard about.
Yellowfin tuna action was slow, but the areas of Golden Gate to San Jaime Banks did report a on and off bite for smaller football sized yellowfin. Dorado reports were slightly up from last week, most of them found closer to shore where schools of baitfish are attracting them, particularly half beaks (ballyhoo). Most panags out of the San Jose area have ended up with two or three dorado in their overall catch, best areas being from Punta Gorda to San Luis.
The inshore bite showed signs of improvement and supplies of sardinas were also more plentiful, now being netted right off the beach of La Playita. The fleet found the most consistent bite to be at San Luis, an area locally known as “blue rock”. A wide variety of smaller gamefish congregate on this spot every year during the months of March and April. At this time African pompano are showing up, ranging in sizes from 5 to 15 pounds, great fighters on light tackle and even better table fare, very firm white fillets.
The action was almost exclusively on live sardinas, either drift fishing with light sinkers or slow trolling. A variety of pargo, cabrilla, triggerfish and sierra were rounding out the catches, some of the sierra were of impressive size, reaching 5 to 8 pounds. Off the deeper rock piles, 120 to 180 feet, anglers working yo-yo jigs had some stories to tell about hooking into hard fighting amberjack, yellowtail and grouper, most numerous were the amberjack, with sizes ranging from 10 to 50 pounds.
Did not here much of anything happening in the way of surf fishing action, besides some early morning sierra and smaller croakers and pompano.
The La Playita panga fleets sent out approximately 58 panga charters for the week and anglers accounted for a combined catch of; 520 sierra, 15 roosterfish, 8 yellowfin tuna, 120 African pompano, 115 dorado, 1 striped marlin, 8 yellowtail, 240 pargo and 65 amberjack.
Good Fishing, Eric
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