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Fishing Report for San Jose del Cabo, Baja
Capt. Eric Brictson
July 10, 2005
San Jose del Cabo - Saltwater Fishing Report
July 10, 2005
Anglers –
This past week the crowds of tourists were lighter than usual in the Los Cabos area, as the summer season progresses the weather continues to be very unpredictable, still a bit cooler than usual, one of the reasons being the unrelenting southern winds that push in cooler and off colored green water from the Pacific, all this contributed to poor fishing conditions, even though some quality fish were accounted for, the action was very inconsistent from day to day. Last week the average water temperature was ranging 73 to 78, but in recent days there was a set back and it once again was in the 72 to 74 degree range close to shore, with blue water being found from 25 miles on out, out of range for most charters, especially since even in the cleaner water there were not any significant numbers of fish being found. Tropical activity to the south created humid weather and higher surf conditions, surfing enthusiasts were happy, but panga fleets launching through the surf had to take extra caution. Live bait became a bit more scattered, particularly sardinas, as they were almost nonexistent, there were limited supplies of mackerel and along the shoreline mullet was the mainstay.
A wide variety of fish were accounted for, with the overall catches including dorado, wahoo, yellowfin tuna, striped marlin, amberjack, pompano, sierra, jack crevalle, roosterfish, amberjack and others, the main predicament was that the numbers were very limited and by the weekend things even became more difficult with the influx of yet another cool current from the south. This seems to have been the same story for the past month, just as the conditions finally become favorable and anglers start to catch some nice gamefish, overnight the water becomes cooler and dirty and the fish scatter. Everyone knows that the action is bound to break loose any day, with the number one question recently being “when is the water going to right for the fish to bite?” In the mean time fleets are working many different areas throughout the region, from the Pacific to inside the Sea Of Cortez, no particular hot spot, though anglers that did find themselves in the right spot got lucky.
Inshore action produced limited action for roosterfish to over 50 pounds, jack crevalle up to 20 pounds, sierra to 8 pounds, pargo of 5 to 20 pounds and one beautiful African Pompano that topped out at 27 pounds. Though numbers were limited there were some trophy-sized fish around, best bet was trolling with live mullet. Without sardinas the numbers of medium sized pargo and miscellaneous shallow water rockfish were scarce, anglers trying yo-yo bottom jigs did not report much action.
Offshore action was also sporadic, earlier in the week was better, the water was warmer and cleaner, anglers found a handful of nice dorado up to 30 pounds, also some yellowfin tuna to 60 pounds, not as large as the previous week, and as a bonus there were even some wahoo landed, out in the open water, most of them incidentally while trolling with marlin style lures. Yellowfin tuna counts dropped off, though some schooling fish were further offshore moving with porpoise.
Striped marlin continued to provide action, some cruiser charters accounted for multiple marlin days, particularly those that had mackerel for bait, as mullet proved to be not so appealing to the stripers, the bite fluctuated day to day, just as did the water clarity and once again was better early in the week.
The combined panga fleets launching out of La Playita sent out approximately 47 pangas for the week and anglers accounted for a fish count of: 2 striped marlin, 12 dorado, 16 yellowfin tuna, 1 wahoo, 18 amberjack, 12 African pompano, 16 roosterfish, 14 sierra, 22 jack crevalle, 18 cabrilla, 65 miscellaneous pargo and 32 triggerfish.
Good Fishing, Eric
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