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Fishing Report for San Jose del Cabo, Baja
Capt. Eric Brictson
July 2, 2006
San Jose del Cabo - Saltwater Fishing Report
July 2, 2006
Anglers –
The story this past week was mainly the hot and humid weather, ocean conditions continued on a warming trend, with water temperatures now averaging from 82 to 84 degrees throughout the region. The sportfishing fleet continued to concentrate their efforts in the direction of the Sea of Cortez, though there was no particular hot spot found, with the action being spread out. The most common offshore species was striped marlin, a few scattered dorado, very few yellowfin tuna, some larger black and blue marlin now starting to show up and a mix of snapper, jacks and roosterfish rounded out the action. Live bait supplies were plentiful for both sardinas and mullet. Ocean swells were at a minimal and there were no tropical storms on the horizon at this time, the tropical weather is now definitely favorable for storm development in the coming weeks.
The week started off with some quality huachinango action for the San Jose panga fleets working the San Luis Bank. Anglers used yo-yo jigs to catch snapper in the 8 to 14 pound range, with boats averaging anywhere from 4 to 8 fish per morning, also a few cabrilla, bonita and amberjack mixed in. This bite faded towards the end of the week and the fleet was once again scratching away for surface action, which was mainly for a mix of striped marlin and dorado. Most popular technique was to catch bolito and then slow troll them around the bank. Marlin out numbered dorado this week, most of the stripers caught were in the 100 to 160 pound class. Dorado were being landed at a rate of about one fish for every two or three boats, weight ranged to over forty pounds.
A couple of very impressive fish were hooked into from the same San Luis area, first was a yellowfin tuna that was landed and weighed 230 pounds, it was taken from the Palmilla cruiser the “Tres Amigos”, it was the only larger tuna reported from that area during the week. On Friday, a panga from La Playita, reportedly hooked into a black marlin mid day while trolling a bolito and fought the fish all afternoon before losing what was estimated to be a fish in the range of six hundred pounds.
Other action included jack crevalle, roosterfish and dogtooth snapper, though this action was not very consistent from day to day. For an example, one area would produce hot action for big roosterfish to 50 pounds one day and then the very next morning in the same spot there would be no sign of fish at all, I guess that is why they call it fishing. The dog snapper action was slowing down as well along the shoreline, though several trophy-sized specimens were accounted for. It appears some of the snapper are now starting to move further offshore, as was proof when one 30 pounder was taken while trolling a bolito on the surface on the San Luis Bank where the marlin action was.
There were porpoise being located offshore, but not many tuna were reported at all and the ones that were accounted for were of the football size variety. There were reports of lots of flying fish activity further offshore and blue water conditions, very favorable for more gamefish to start showing up.
The La Playita panga fleets sent out a total of 77 charters for the week, with anglers accounting for an approximate fish total of: 32 striped marlin, 24 dorado, 5 yellowfin tuna, 2 hammerhead sharks, 15 sierra, 14 amberjack, 16 roosterfish, 18 jack crevalle, 34 yellowtail snapper, 22 barred pargo, 12 cabrilla, 64 bonita, 14 dogtooth snapper.
Good Fishing, Eric
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