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Fishing Report for San Jose del Cabo, Baja
Capt. Eric Brictson
August 28, 2005
San Jose del Cabo - Saltwater Fishing Report
August 28, 2005
Anglers –
Sportfishing operations out of the La Playita beach came to a standstill this past week due to high stormy surf conditions created by Hurricane Hilary, which passed within 200 miles of Cabo San Lucas and pushed in waves as large as 12 to 15 feet. The weather became very humid and tropical, on Monday the area saw some major rainfall, though there was not much wind associated with it, which was a fortunate.
Roads were flooded and a general mess, but overall there was only minimal damage reported. The rain was desperately welcome, as the entire region has been in the midst of a drought for the past two years. In spite of this not being the optimum time to start work on the much talked about and anticipated Puerto Los Cabos jetty in the new La Playita marina project, they have started placing the first rocks for the new breakwater, which most certainly will be a long and challenging process.
On Thursday a few pangas did try to venture out to the Gordo Banks, but quickly were forced to turn back and head for the beach, as the skies were extremely dark and threatening to rain at any moment, combined with strong gusty winds it was time to get off of the water as quickly as possible. Though on Friday the skies were clear and seas were calm enough for pangas to easily launch. Lives sardinas were also plentiful and proved to be very effective for catching yellowfin tuna on the Inner Gordo Bank. The pangas averaged 5 to 7 tuna each, with weights going from 15 to 35 pounds. Also they had some action on large dogtooth snapper, which could be seen far below the boats and were striking on drifted chunk bait, most of the snapper that were hooked into ended up snapping off leaders, either with their teeth or by reaching the rocky reef below, the few that were landed weighed in the 30 pound range. In addition wahoo started to become active on the Banks, several ‘hoo to 40 pounds were landed on trolled lures and other strikes were reported while anglers were trolling with bolito.
The cruiser fleets reported better offshore action on the days that they were able to fish, a mix of sailfish, blue marlin, striped marlin, yellowfin tuna, dorado and wahoo were rounding out the reports. With blue marlin being the prized catch, as fish to over 300 pounds were accounted for while trolling lures in the open blue water, which has been averaging 83 to 86 degrees.
The La Playita panga fleets sent out only 7 charters from Monday through Saturday and anglers reported catching: 3 wahoo, 4 dogtooth snapper, 1 dorado and 33 yellowfin tuna.
Good fishing, Eric
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