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Fishing Report for San Jose del Cabo, Baja
Capt. Eric Brictson
June 12, 2005
San Jose del Cabo - Saltwater Fishing Report
June 12, 2005
Anglers –
There are lighter than usual crowds of tourists visiting the Los Cabos area, typically there seems to be a lull in traveling just before the school year lets out. For those that are making the trip they have been greeted with very pleasant weather, still a bit cool in the early mornings, with the days reaching into the mid 80s, plenty of sunshine, but at times with a breeze predominately blowing from the north, this made it chilly to sit in the shade. The direction of the wind has helped push warmer and clean blue water in a southerly direction, but overall offshore fishing has not been consistent, though it is the time of year when things can change very quickly. The water temperature has varied greatly, from as low as 60 degrees on the Pacific side of the peninsula to as high as 76 degrees towards the East Cape region. Swells have been minimal and at this time there are no storms brewing to the south. Live bait supplies have been sufficient and included sardinas, mullet and caballito.
Striped marlin were found in significant numbers from the Gordo Banks to north of Vinorama, they were seen in groups of up to a half a dozen fish tailing on the surface and many charter boats did report catching several billfish per day, though at other times the fish seemed to have lock jaw and would not show much interest in any offerings, mullet or caballito are not known to be their preferred bait and mackerel have been in short supply. Most productive technique proved to be casting live baits to tailing fish, but some stripers were striking on lures or slow trolled bait. Size of the marlin ranged from 90 to 160 pounds. The billfish were being found fairly close to shore anywhere from 2 to 10 miles.
Dorado action was virtually nonexistent, despite conditions becoming more favorable, lack of offshore baitfish might be a contributing factor and surely once more schools of bolito and flying fish appear the dorado will not be far behind.
Yellowfin tuna continued to be very scarce for charters out of San Jose del Cabo and Cabo San Lucas, on some days boats did encounter school of porpoise that had yellowfin tuna of 15 to 40 pounds underneath, for the anglers lucky enough to encounter the yellowfin they had hook-ups using sardinas, mullet and lures, these were the dark larger sized porpoise, not the typical tuna attracting gray and white spinners.
Roosterfish dominated the action along the shoreline, the bite was not wide open, but was the best it has been so far this year and anglers trolling with live mullet close to beaches faced good odds at having the chance of hooking into a trophy-sized rooster. The time of day did not seem to matter, it was more of being in the right place at the right time. There were several fish landed in recent days that topped the 50-pound mark and innumerable stories of monster sized fish that were lost. Early in the week off of Cardon the La Playita panga fleet landed some quality sized amberjack in shallow water while trolling the surface with live mullet, fish to 73 pounds were caught, but anglers reported seeing schools of ambers to over one hundred pounds feeding.
There are still some big dogtooth snapper to be caught, though it has been the same old story of more of them being hooked and lost than actually landed, another factor was a group of spear fishermen targeting the same small area off of Zacaton where the recent hot spot has been, this seems to have helped scatter the main school. Other inshore action included pompano, pargo, jack crevalle and sierra.
The combined La Playita panga fleet sent out approximately 74 charters for the week and anglers had an overall fish count of: 11 striped marlin, 22 yellowfin tuna, 8 dorado, 115 roosterfish, 45 amberjack, 130 jack crevalle, 90 cabrilla, 220 yellowtail snapper, 80 huachinango, 35 dogtooth snapper, 65 bonita, 70 sierra, 32 African pompano and 110 triggerfish.
Local surf fisherman off of San Jose are now reported lots of action from roosterfish in the late afternoon, in the evenings they have caught nice sized pargo on bait and there were also several halibut accounted for, all big ones, included one of 24 pounds.
Good Fishing, Eric
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