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Fishing Report for San Jose del Cabo, Baja
Capt. Eric Brictson
June 25, 2006
San Jose del Cabo - Saltwater Fishing Report
June 25, 2006
Anglers –
The summer season has now officially started and the weather throughout the Southern Baja region is steadily warming, days have been cloudless and high temperatures are reaching the mid 90s, with the humidity rising. The past couple of weeks the water temperatures have fluctuated greatly, with the south winds finally diminishing the water has now quickly warmed back up to around the 82-degree mark. Winds have been minimal and this has helped clean the water back to its clear blue status, it had become very greenish during the past week, so overall the conditions are looking very favorable for the start of the summer season. Offshore the baitfish are still a bit scattered from all of the rapid condition changes, but with the consistent warming weather it will not be long before things normalize.
Fishing action was spread out in the direction of the Sea of Cortez, no particular hot spot. The most common offshore species was striped marlin, with a few dorado mixed in and an occasional blue marlin hook up reported. Not much to report on yellowfin tuna, though there were unconfirmed reports coming from the area off of Los Frailes to Cabo Pulmo. We expect dorado counts to once again improve now that the water is warming and clearing back to how it was the previous week when fish counts for quality sized dorado were so good. Striped marlin action had to be considered very good considering it was so late in the season, they were striking on trolled lures, various baits and even a couple reportedly ate yo-yo’d iron jigs, most of the stripers landed were in the 90 to 150 pound range.
Along the shoreline and shallow rock piles anglers reported catching a great variety of fish, including dogtooth snapper, sierra, yellowtail snapper, roosterfish, pompano, purple surgeonfish, cabrilla, amberjack, triggerfish and jack crevalle. Trolling and drifting with mullet or sardinas was the best technique, schools of large dogtooth snapper were seen but they were not always easy to entice into striking and once they did strike more hook ups were lost than were landed, though a couple trophy sized specimens close to fifty pounds were accounted for.
Roosterfish activity dropped off with the cooler inshore water, though as temperatures warmed back up the roosterfish became active again and fair number of fish ranging from 30 to 50 pounds were released, the La Laguna stretch of beach, just south of Punta Gorda was productive for the larger roosters.
The La Playita panga fleets sent out approximately 86 panga charters and anglers accounted for a fish count of: 37 striped marlin, 18 dorado, 4 hammerhead sharks, 32 dogtooth snapper, 11 pargo colorado, 86 yellowtail snapper, 16 cabrilla, 8 pompano, 6 amberjack, 22 roosterfish, 18 sierra, 26 jack crevalle, 145 Mexican bonito, 55 triggerfish and 66 purple surgeonfish.
Good Fishing, Eric
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