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Fishing Report for San Jose del Cabo, Baja
Capt. Eric Brictson
June 26, 2005
San Jose del Cabo - Saltwater Fishing Report
June 26, 2005
Anglers –
With the summer season now officially started the weather in the Los Cabos region is steadily warming, days are reaching in the low 90s and the humidity is rising. This past week Tropical Strom Beatriz developed south of Manzanillo and did not affect the Cabo area except for creating more humid conditions and pushing in larger ocean swells for a couple of days. The wind blew steadily from the south throughout much of the week and once again a cooler Pacific current worked its way into the lower Sea of Cortez, water conditions went from 75 to 70 over night and baitfish scattered, this had the sportfishing fleets scrambling and boats off of La Playita were forced to cancel operations on Friday.
Anglers found the fishing to be very spread out, no particular hot spot, striped marlin counts dropped way down, many fish were seen on the surface, but they were not very eager to bite. Dorado were almost non existent, though wahoo action picked up off of the Cabo San Lucas area, as a surprising amount of these elusive speedsters were taken while trolling lures in the warmer open water 5 to 20 miles offshore. The most consistent offshore action was for yellowfin tuna, though there was no sure bet on finding them, everyday they were found in different spots, anywhere from 10 to 20 miles offshore, where the water was clean and blue and up to 75 degrees, the tuna were schooling with the larger sized dark colored porpoise. Sizes ranged from small footballs to fish over 200 pounds, though only a handful of the larger fish were landed, many others were lost after long battles. There were reports of the tuna striking lures, though more hook ups were reported by trolling bait in the vicinity of the porpoise.
Along the shoreline and shallow rock piles anglers reported catching sporadic numbers of sierra, pargo, roosterfish, pompano, cabrilla, amberjack and jack crevalle. Trolling and drifting with mullet or sardinas was the best technique, though the bite was not consistent and the lack of the smaller sardina baitfish provided limited opportunities for anglers. Roosterfish activity dropped way off with the influx of the cooler inshore water, though by the weekend water temperatures were starting to climb back up, this has been a crazy month of June, water conditions have been rapidly changing, the increasingly hot weather will most certainly warm the water and bring in more tropical pelagic gamefish.
Off the beaches anglers reported a mix of species, including roosterfish, jack crevalle, pargo, halibut and at least one 15-pound snook was landed off the La Playita beach.
The La Playita panga fleets sent out approximately 64 panga charters and anglers accounted for a fish count of: 2 striped marlin, 7 dorado, 5 hammerhead sharks, 18 yellowfin tuna, 14 dogtooth snapper, 18 pargo colorado, 65 yellowtail snapper, 22 cabrilla, 24 pompano, 16 amberjack, 26 roosterfish, 20 sierra, and 48 jack crevalle.
Good Fishing, Eric
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