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Fishing Report for San Jose del Cabo, Baja
Capt. Eric Brictson
November 27, 2005
San Jose del Cabo - Saltwater Fishing Report
November 27, 2005
Anglers –
After about six weeks of seeing near capacity crowds arriving in the Los Cabos area we are now watching tourism slow down as people are now starting to make plans for the coming holiday season. The weather continued to be clear and sunny, some wind out of the north and south in the afternoons, low temperatures in the 50s over the weekend, days were in the 80 degree range.
Anglers fishing on the Pacific continued to report incredible action for striped marlin, the fish were found feeding in schools from the Golden Gate Bank to Finger Bank. There were reports of individual charters catching and releasing over 20 stripers in one morning. The marlin were also found in other areas closer to Cabo San Lucas, though not in the same concentrations that they were further north. One incredible story was told by a group of anglers, while they were in the midst of a wide-open marlin bite on a bait ball, watching striped marlin take turns darting through the meat ball, then all of a sudden a huge whale came up from no where, right in the middle of the bait, devouring practically the whole school, needless to say, that was the end of the marlin feeding frenzy, just like that, what a time to have a video tape rolling.
Dorado and wahoo remained scattered and spread out, though they were being caught in limited numbers daily. Wahoo especially were hit or miss, a couple of the more productive areas were near San Cristobal and Vinorama, trolling with small skipjack and lures were both working when the fish felt like cooperating.
For the panga fleets out of La Playita they were finding yellowfin tuna in the 10 to 25 pound class being the most consistent catches. The tuna were being caught on live sardinas, which were being netted in the area of Red Hill to Cabo Real, best spots for the yellowfin tuna were from La Fortuna to San Luis. North wind was a problem part of the week, as when the winds gusted to 15 knots it was difficult to effectively fish in certain spots. Typical catches per panga was 4 to 12 yellowfin tuna and maybe one or two dorado mixed in. Average tuna was around 15 pounds, but several up to 50 pounds were landed from the same area.
Another option on the days when the strong current slacked, was to drift over the rock piles and soak larger baits down near the bottom, this produced some quality catches of dogtooth snapper, grouper, amberjack and cabrilla. A few anglers also reported hooking into a handful of larger fish while using yo-yo style iron jigs. The shoreline action was now coming to life, with sierra and jacks dominating the action. Coastal areas on the Pacific and to off of San Jose del Cabo were reported good numbers of sierra up to 6 pounds striking on rapalas, hoochie skirts and sardinas.
The combined panga fleets off of La Playita sent out approximately 98 charters for the week with anglers accounting for a fish count of: 6 striped marlin, 2 sailfish, 45 sierra, 8 roosterfish, 16 amberjack, 7 grouper, 8 dogtooth snapper, 16 rainbow runner, 26 cabrilla, 12 wahoo, 52 dorado, 210 white skipjack and 590 yellowfin tuna.
Good Fishing, Eric
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