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Fishing Report for San Jose del Cabo, Baja
Capt. Eric Brictson
July 24, 2005
San Jose del Cabo - Saltwater Fishing Report
July 24, 2005
Anglers –
We are now into the final week of July and so far the normal blistering Baja heat has not really arrived, of course there have been some very warm days, but not like one would normally expect for this time of year. The water temperature continues to fluctuate daily, it had been up to 80 degrees, but then once again dropped into the lower 70 s, at this time it is now on a warming trend, perhaps the water will now finally warm up and stay that way for the rest of the summer. The constantly changing water conditions attributed to inconsistence fishing action as well. With the main offshore catch being striped marlin, but also a few blue marlin and even blacks starting to appear in local waters. The clarity has been up and down, patches of dirty green water and blue water being found further offshore. Though most of the fishing has been relatively closer to shore, within 2 to 5 miles out. Most productive areas recently were from Chileno to San Luis. Mid week tropical storm Eugene developed off of Manzanillo and passed with 200 miles southwest of Cabo San Lucas, this creating humid conditions and some very slight rainfall, but more than anything else the surf picked up to ten feet plus and closed down panga operations off of La Playita for two or three days. Baitfish were scattered and pangueros were working hard to find adequate supplies of mullet and a few sardinas.
Schools of bolito moved onto to the fishing grounds and were being caught with hoochies and small casting lures to be used as bait for trolling. Enticing marlin strikes as well as a handful of dorado and yellowfin tuna, but actually there were more billfish at this time than any other offshore species. On Saturday, Dan Redar from Indiana was fishing with Gordo Banks Pangas skipper Marcelino Castillo when he hooked into a black marlin while trolling with a live bolito in the area of San Luis and after a battle that lasted several hours he was able to bring the tail wrapped fish to gaff, this was the first Black reported this season and it weighed in at 342 pounds. A few blue marlin in the 200 to 250 pound class were also reported, but the majority of the billfish have been striped marlin in the 70 to 120 pound range.
Not much action being reported along the shoreline, though there were a scattering of roosterfish and dogtooth snapper reported, including one 50 pound specimen that John Rosales of the Bay Area landed off of Cardon while fishing with panga skipper Chame Pino, John’s wife also accounted for a 50 pound class amberjack the same day.
Off the beach in front of the La Playita Estuary there were several hefty snook up to 40 pounds caught by local anglers over the weekend, this being the first significant snook action reported for the summer season.
The La Playita panga fleets sent out approximately 32 charters for the week and anglers accounted for a fish count of: 1 black marlin, 1 blue marlin, 12 striped marlin, 1 wahoo, 14 yellowfin tuna, 15 dorado, 24 bonito, 6 dogtooth snapper, 8 amberjack, 12 pompano, 15 roosterfish, 18 jack crevalle, 14 cabrilla and 22 yellowtail snapper.
Good Fishing, Eric
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