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Fishing Report for San Jose del Cabo, Baja
Capt. Eric Brictson
October 16, 2005
San Jose del Cabo - Saltwater Fishing Report
October 16, 2005
Anglers –
Crowds of anglers of anglers are now arriving in Los Cabos and sportfishing fleets are operating at near capacity levels. Vacationers are being greeted with ideal weather conditions, clear sunny skies with high temperatures in the mid to upper 80s and just this last week the early mornings had a bit of a fall chill to them. Ocean conditions were calm, no swell to speak of at all, though early in the week there was some wind that howled from the north for a couple of days. Water clarity varied in different areas, but did seem to now be on a clearing trend and water temperatures were ranging from 81 to 86 degrees throughout the region. Live bait consisted on caballito and sardinas, with the sardinas being of the very small pinner-size variety, but the tuna still seemed to love them. Fleets were fishing throughout the area looking for the best action and the most common catch was for yellowfin tuna, with also a scattering of billfish, dorado, wahoo and various bottom species.
The hot action for the yellowfin tuna was being found off of Cabeza de Ballena (Whale’s Head), near Santa Maria. Anglers were using the mini-sized sardinas to catch limits of tuna in the 7 to 15 pound class, though there were a few larger fish mixed in. The key to success was using light line and small hooks. Offshore there were reports of at least one yellowfin tuna over 200 pounds landed by local San Jose del Cabo anglers Daniel Fisher and Hugo Pino. The same area where the tuna were schooling there were some striped marlin and sailfish hooked into, as well as a scattered of medium sized dorado and a handful of wahoo were taken by anglers who got to the spot really early and trolled lures before the main crowd of boats arrived.
The fishing grounds from the Gordo Banks to Iman only produced sporadic action this past week, one reason being that the live bait was now only available in the direction of Cabo off of Santa Maria, too far for the pangas from San Jose to back track to. Trolling lures produced only limited action, same as for using strips of squid, and if you were lucky enough to jig up a larger baitfish such as a cocinero (jack) you were almost assured of a big strike while drifting the bait off of the rock piles, for either a amberjack, grouper or dogtooth snapper, the problem was that the larger baitfish were not easy to come by. Very few wahoo are being caught at this time, but in recent days more of them were reportedly striking, quite a few missed strikes by anglers trolling the normal marauders, rapalas, yo-zuris and skirted led heads.
The bottom action was slow for the most part, though of the fish that were hooked into there was some very impressive quality, including 50 pound dogtooth snapper, 40 pound grouper and amberjack up to 100 pounds. It was angler Jack Simpson who was fishing with Gordo Banks Pangas skipper Tony who hooked into the monster amberjack that weighed in at exactly 100 pounds, he was using a larger whole bait drifted down around mid-water on the Iman Bank.
The combined panag fleets out of La Playita sent out approximately 140 charters for the week with anglers accounted for a fish count of: 15 sailfish, 6 striped marlin, 80 dorado, 1,400 yellowfin tuna, 12 wahoo, 16 amberjack, 14 grouper, 24 cabrilla, 28 rainbow runners and 10 dogtooth snapper.
Good fishing, Eric
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