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Fishing Report for San Jose del Cabo, Baja
Capt. Eric Brictson
April 3, 2005
San Jose del Cabo - Saltwater Fishing Report
April 3, 2005
Anglers –
With the start of springtime and the advancing of the clocks by one hour this has brought on the feeling of summer time , though the early mornings still have a slight chill to them. Actually the weather at this time is paradise like, how you would enjoy it to be all year long. There were moderate north winds that gusted up to 12 miles per hour on certain afternoons, but generally the mornings were relatively calm and anglers enjoyed calm oceans, except for those who were further offshore, this is where the winds were reportedly to be stronger. The water temperatures ranged from 65 to 72 degrees, with the warmest areas now about 15 to 25 miles offshore from San Jose del Cabo. There were good numbers of spring breakers in town, but only limited numbers of anglers. Consistent fishing action was found for species that were close to shore or off the bottom and offshore produced not so consistent action for striped marlin, dorado, yellowfin tuna and even a few wahoo.
Good supplies of sardinas were now being netted from the San Jose Estuary area. The San Jose panga fleets found their best action to be close by off of Palmilla to Regina Hotel, this is where the best action for sierra was, fish ranging up to 8 pounds, averaging 2 to 4 pounds, striking on live sardinas best, but also on various trolled lures. There were a couple of days where the sea lions were a major nuisance and ending up steeling a good percentage of the hook-ups. The same area produced a scattering of bottomfish on yo-yo jigs, amberjack, pargo, cabrilla, grouper and yellowtail, numbers were not high but the fish that were accounted for were of high quality. The rock piles to the north of Punta Gorda were not producing much action at this time.
The giant Humboldt Squid made another appearance on Wednesday off of Red Hill and boats loaded up on plenty of fresh calamari, squid averaged 20 to 35 pounds. Yellowfin tuna were encountered traveling with schools of porpoise offshore, anywhere from 15 to 30 miles offshore, but this action was not consistent, with the seas rough at times, the first few boats that did locate the porpoise had instant strikes, but then the tuna would go down and the bite would be over with just like that, most of the yellowfin tuna now being found were under 25 pounds. Dorado activity was even less consistent that the yellowfin were and most that were found were of smaller size. Floating Sargasso (sea weed) was found and this is where the majority of dorado were also found this past week. Some of the weed debris found also attracted other species, including wahoo and yellowtail.
The surf fishing action off of La Playita showed signs of picking up, sierra and jacks were caught early in the morning and the afternoon bite included at least one quality sized Cortez halibut of 15 pounds, hooked while using live sardina for bait. The most incredible fish story for the week had to of involved a person who was not even fishing at the time of his catch, he was actually surfing, off of the San Jose Estuary and on his return past where the Estuary was running into the ocean he noticed a monster sized snook that was trying to navigate the shallow stretch of water from the ocean up into the Estuary itself and had become somewhat trapped by the low water, the surfer Nathan Browne quickly threw his board to the side and wrestled the snook up onto the dry sand. The snook weighed all of 30 pounds and another twist to the story is that Nathan actually holds the existing IGFA record for 8 pound line for snook, that is listed as a 41 pound fish, so he is definitely not new the presence of big snook, just that that this fish came much easier than most of his others have.
The La Playita panga fleets sent out approximately a total of 55 charters for the week and anglers accounted for a catch of: 18 roosterfish, 14 jack crevalle, 28 pompano, 10 yellowtail, 22 amberjack, 26 dorado, 360 sierra, 28 giant squid, 65 pargo, 1 golden cabrilla, 36 cabrilla, 45 yellowtail snapper and 14 yellowfin tuna.
Good Fishing, Eric
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