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Fishing Report for San Jose del Cabo, Baja
Capt. Eric Brictson
March 27, 2005
San Jose del Cabo - Saltwater Fishing Report
March 27, 2005
Anglers –
With springtime now officially here there have been the traditional crowds of tourists traveling to the Los Cabos area and they are being treated with plenty of sunshine, 80 degree temperatures and an all around great climate for taking advantage of all of the outdoor activities available. The north wind did increase compared to the past week, but at an average of about 12 mph it was not too much of a nuisance. There were only moderate crowds of anglers in town and in fact many of the local charter skippers were not even available to work through the later part of the week, as they were spending time with their families camping on the beaches as is customary over the Easter Holiday weekend. This year the holiday came early, as it is typically in April and though the weather was not as warm as it would normally be this did not make the beach crowds any lighter. Water temperatures continued to fluctuate with the average conditions throughout the region ranging from 66 to 70 degrees, there was a warmer band of water lurking offshore some 15 to 20 miles and this is where the clearer blue water was being found, inshore the currents have been pushing in greenish off colored water and has attributed to slower action.
Striped marlin are now being located 10 to 20 miles offshore in the cleaner water, anywhere from straight out of Cabo San Lucas to off of Red Hill, the bite was not wide open, but better than it was the past week or so, stripers were blind striking on lures and being seen tailing on the surface, hitting on dropped back live bait. The same offshore areas have been produced sporadic action for yellowfin tuna which have for the most part been associated with porpoise and been of the football sized variety, though some fish up to 40 pounds were reportedly mixed in. Dorado were not as numerous, though were caught on the average of one per every couple of charters, sizes ranging from 5 to 30 pounds. There were even a handful of wahoo accounted for in the open water, striking on the same marlin style lures, a couple of them weighed in at over 60 pounds.
The highlight for the San Jose del Cabo panga fleets had to have been an unusual appearance of giant Humboldt squid that for several days mid-week came within a couple miles of shore off of Palmilla Point. The squid were three to four feet in length and weighed up to 40 pounds and were seen feeding near the surface on red crabs, they would readily strike on yo-yo jigs that were dropped to a depth of 50 to 80 feet down and then jigged upwards towards the surface, very powerful fighters, pulling down deep similar to grouper or large snapper, though many hook-ups were lost due to hooks ripping free. More than one person became drenched in squid ink during the actually landing part of the battle and major clean ups were part of the deal. Some boats reported as many as ten squid landed, many of them actually free gaffed during their surface feeding frenzy. This bite faded out by the weekend just as fast as it had appeared, but not before half the area had more calamari to consume than could be dealt with.
Other inshore action consisted mainly for sierra, as early in the day they were very active striking on trolled sardinas, sizes varied, but some of them were hefty, weighing up to 8 pounds, though the average was more like 2 or 3 pounds. Palmilla was once again the hot spot for the sierra, and just outside of where they were biting anglers found some hit or miss action for bottom species, including amberjack, pargo, cabrilla and yellowtail. There was even one rare tripletail of 12 pounds accounted for on a surface trolled sardina.
The La Playita panga fleet sent out approximately 53 pangas for the week, with anglers accounted for an overall fish count of: 1 tripletail, 10 yellowtail, 26 amberjack, 110 pargo, 32 dorado, 24 yellowfin tuna, 48 giant squid, 12 whitefish, 18 parrotfish, 12 pompano, 30 triggerfish and 325 sierra.
Good fishing, Eric
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