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Fishing Report for San Jose del Cabo, Baja
Capt. Eric Brictson
April 10, 2005
San Jose del Cabo - Saltwater Fishing Report
April 10, 2005
Anglers –
There seemed to be a second wave of late spring breakers visiting Los Cabos at this time, though the number of anglers continued to be minimal. Maybe it is because of the not so great fish report for the past couple of weeks. With water temperatures ranging form 65 to 70 degrees the sportfishing fleets have been searching throughout the region trying to find the best possible action, there has been a variety of species found, but no great numbers of anything in particular going on at this time. The wind has been picking up fairly strong out of the north and this has limited where charters could comfortably fish, also the swell increased during the recent new moon phase, scattering inshore baitfish a bit. Though on most days there were adequate supplies of sardinas being netted and offshore there were schools of mackerel found. Daily catches included striped marlin, dorado, yellowfin tuna, wahoo, pargo, sierra, jack crevalle, pompano and a mix of others.
Yellowfin tuna action was hit or miss and far offshore for the most part, cruisers were traveling from 15 to 30 miles out to encounter the schools of porpoise where the tuna were being located as well. The first boats that did find the schools caught some fish and then the bite would shut off after the crowds of boats congregated, the fish landed were medium football sized yellowfin of 10 to 20 pounds. Striped marlin were found spread out from Cabo San Lucas to the Gordo Banks, most of them 10 to 15 miles out, striking on lures and bait, but again not in big numbers. A few swordfish were reportedly spotted but apparently showed no interest in taking the baits offered. Dorado fishing was the same story, basically very slow and spread out, but if any floating debris or structure was found anglers reported a frenzy of action for small to medium sized fish. Also trolling the open offshore water produced a handful of wahoo strikes, again especially near any type of floating debris.
More consistent fishing was encountered closer to shore, but most of the fish were smaller sierra, up to 6 or 7 pounds and pargo to 10 pounds. A few jack crevalle to 15 pounds were found this past week, as well as some African pompano to 10 pounds. At San Luis there was some promising signs of a strong bite on pompano about to develop, but then a large sized school of bull sharks shut down any hope for that, as the sharks could be seen in swarms passing underneath the pangas near shore in shallow water of only 30 to 40 feet and quickly scattered the schooling pompano. Several of the sharks were hooked up on sardinas and of the ones landed they were in the 5 to 6 foot range, weighing to over 100 pounds. Bets spot for sierra continued to be off of the Red Hill area, but on some days the sea lions proved to be a major nuisance, biting off a majority of fish that were hooked up.
Bottom fishing was slower than normal for this time of year, but there were some nice catches of cabrilla, pargo and amberjack accounted for on some days, but the action was not consistent. More of the quality-sized fish were hooked on yo-yo jigs and the majority of the pargo hit of sardinas or red crabs, when they were available.
The La Playita panga fleets sent out approximately 48 charters for the week and anglers accounted for an all around fish count of: 8 yellowfin tuna, 16 dorado, 4 bull shark, 120 pargo, 18 amberjack, 22 cabrilla, 2 yellowtail, 22 pompano, 210 sierra, 4 roosterfish, 18 jack crevalle and 30 triggerfish.
Good fishing, Eric
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