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Fishing Report for San Jose del Cabo, Baja
Capt. Eric Brictson
June 4, 2006
San Jose del Cabo - Saltwater Fishing Report
June 4, 2006
Anglers –
We are now barely into the month of June and if current weather is any sign of what is to come throughout the summer, we are going to be in for another long hot one. Skies have been virtually cloudless and highs are reaching the mid 90s. The wind has been on the Pacific, this is where the cooler water is, along with choppy ocean conditions. In the Sea of Cortez there was a cold current that moved in last week, but in recent days the water temperatures has quickly climbed back up near the 80-degree mark. Most of the fishing action is all taking place now from Cabos San Lucas to the Gordo Banks, with the best areas being from Red Hill to Chileno. Live Bait supplies were plentiful for mullet out of San Jose del Cabo and for mackerel from the Cabo San Lucas Marina, on the fishing grounds there have been concentrations of bolito and skipjack that are also being used for trolling baits. Earlier in the week there were mackerel found on the fishing grounds, as they were being forced into defensive meatballs by feeding striped marlin.
Sportfishing fleets continued to find similar offshore action, with the striped marlin definitely dominating the show, most the action was found from 5 to 15 miles from shore, many boats were catching as many as three, four or even more marlin per day, the stripers were found tailing on the surface, as well as by trolling lures and having them light up in the lure spread, though more hook ups resulted by casting or dropping back live baits. Sizes were averaging 100 to 150 pounds, though a few larger stripers were accounted for, including a 200-pound specimen landed from a panga from Gordo Banks.
Dorado, tuna and wahoo continued to be hit or miss, though a scattering of dorado were found throughout the region, mainly by the boats targeting the billfish, only every few charters were actually reporting one or two dorado in their fish counts, average size being anywhere from 10 to 30 pounds. Yellowfin tuna was the same story, no one knows where they are and why they are not more numerous, though a few football sized fish were found offshore, traveling with porpoise and a handful of larger yellowfin tuna were landed from the Gordo Banks area by trolling baits. Wahoo activity was even scarcer and most of the reports were of strikes that did not stick or of cut off monofilament lines, very few ‘hoo actually landed.
Along the shoreline there were now increasing numbers of roosterfish appearing, though the bite has still not broken wide open as it should at any time during the next couple of weeks. There were more dogtooth snapper landed than other species, trolling with live mullet and heavy leaders was the best technique, many fish were lost because they cut lines off in the nearby shallow rocks, though some trophy sized snapper as large as 45 pounds were accounted for. One area where these largest of the snapper species congregate at this time of year is the shipwreck off of the La Laguna area that lies in forty feet of water. Recently there has been illegal spear fishing reported from this spot, divers equipped with both air tanks and powerful spear guns have been seen shooting and killing these fish without any respect of the law, in fact local pangueros reported finding several floating snapper that apparently died from injuries resulting from spears, these fish were monsters in the 50 pound range, hopefully the local authorities can stop these poachers before the kill off the entire species.
The combined panga fleet from La Playita sent out approximately 75 charters for the week, with anglers accounting for a fish count of: 2 wahoo, 12 yellowfin tuna, 21 dorado, 34 roosterfish, 22 sierra, 38 dogtooth snapper, 11 amberjack, 16 jack crevalle, 4 hammerhead sharks, 2 mako sharks, 38 Mexican bonito and 55 striped marlin.
Good fishing, Eric
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