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Fishing Report for San Jose del Cabo, Baja
Capt. Eric Brictson
July 31, 2005
San Jose del Cabo - Saltwater Fishing Report
July 31, 2005
Anglers –
This past week the summer season finally heated up, after being mild through most of June and July, the weather did warm into the 90s and the humidity was on the rise as well. There were some significant rainsqualls over the mountainous areas to the north and actually on Thursday evening there was a flash flood that shut down the road to the village of La Playita overnight. The tropical storm season is in its early stages and the next eight weeks is when the majority of hurricanes have historically developed in the Eastern Pacific, only time will tell what the month of August and September bring. Water temperatures are back on the rise and are now averaging 79 to 83 degrees throughout most of the region. After the large swells of last week the ocean has now calmed down and there is barely a two to three foot swell, very little wind, this combination making for comfortable fishing conditions, though the weather is quite warm and anglers do need to remember to carry sufficient sun protection and beverages. Bait supplies were mainly limited to caballito and mullet, with very few mackerel and sardinas available. On the offshore fishing grounds there are increasing amounts of schooling bolito moving in and they are being caught for bait use for a variety of fish. The fishing grounds from Chileno to the Gordo Banks and north to San Luis is where the more consistent action was found. The all around action was not up to Cabo potential, with most charters just accounted for three to five fish in combination, though the variety was good, the problem was no particular species was very abundant.
Offshore the number one fish being caught was striped marlin, though this past week the numbers on them did steadily drop off, also there were sailfish, blue and black marlin starting to appear in limited numbers. Most of the stripers were smaller sized, ranging from 50 to 120 pounds. Yellowfin tuna and dorado were found scattered in the same areas as the billfish, though they were few and far between, more strikes were encountered on bait, though lures did produce a percentage of hook ups as well. We are all wondering what happened to the dorado season, there were more of them caught in January and February than in the last few months, every season is a bit different and up until this point something just has not been right to bring in the typical summer numbers of dorado, we are confident that now with the warmer days and waters conditions it will not be long before the offshore action really breaks wide open.
Wahoo were an added bonus, with areas from the Gordo Banks to San Luis producing jig and bait strikes for anglers, mostly just one or two fish here for a few lucky boats, with the largest weighing up to 50 pounds.
No major catches to report from local surf anglers, though there were at least several nice sized snook accounted for off of the San Jose Estuary area.
The combined La Playita panga fleets sent out approximately 76 panga charters for the week and anglers accounted for a fish of: 3 wahoo, 2 sailfish, 1 blue marlin, 24 striped marlin, 28 dorado, 18 yellowfin tuna, 36 amberjack, 8 dogtooth snapper, 76 huachinango, 22 yellowtail snapper, 16 roosterfish, 15 cabrilla, 22 jack crevalle and 8 pompano.
Good Fishing, Eric
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