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Fishing Report for San Jose del Cabo, Baja
Capt. Eric Brictson
September 24, 2006
San Jose del Cabo - Saltwater Fishing Report
Gordo Banks Pangas
San Jose del Cabo
September 24, 2006
Anglers –
Los Cabos welcomed the end of the summer season and the start of the fall season this past week. This was one of the warmer summers on record and everyone is now looking forward to the ideal weather in the coming months. Already the mornings are becoming cooler, this is another transition period, with the predominate airflow now moving in from the north. There are no new tropical storms developing on the horizon at this time and the feeling in the air is that the hurricane season might now be past us. Crowds of tourists continued to be moderate, which is normal for late September, but within a couple of weeks all this will change, as southern Baja will be attracting visiting anglers by the thousands from all over the world.
Anglers enjoyed pristine ocean conditions this past week, clear sunny skies, humid days and with minimal swells. Water temperatures ranged from 83 to 86 degrees throughout the region. Supplies of sardinas remained plentiful off of the La Playita area and sportfishing fleets continued to find the most productive fishing action on the fishing grounds from La Fortuna to the Iman Bank. Yellowfin tuna dominated the action, as they have for the past couple of months. Anglers found the best success while drift fishing and fly lining live baits, average sized tuna ranged from 12 to 25 pounds, with some specimens taken that were in the 30 to 60 pound class. Also there was a mix of skipjack, both the black variety and the good eating white type. The same spot has seen roaming schools of medium sized dorado move in throughout the day and if anglers were in the right spot at the right time they could catch several of the do-dos. Sailfish were encountered as well in the same area and were striking on sardinas, sizes ranged from 50 to 100 pounds. Overall the billfish bite has been slow recently, the best area seemed to be around the 95 spot, cruisers trolling lures in this vicinity have been hooking into a handful of blue marlin everyday, medium sized fish in the 150 to 275 pound range.
The fleets out of Cabo San Lucas have found good numbers of dorado off of the old light house. Trolling with both lures and bait, not associated with debris, just attracted to the baitfish in the area. These dorado were medium sized schooling fish, ranging 8 to 20 pounds.
Only limited action reported for bottomfish, a few dogtooth snappers, amberjack, rainbow runners, cabrilla and pargo. Off the beach, shore anglers reported mainly jack crevalle, a few needlefish and at least one triple tail of ten pounds was accounted for, all this action was coming from the San Jose Estuary region.
The combined panga fleets out of La Playita reported 52 charters for the week, with anglers accounting for a fish count of: 2 sailfish, 1 blue marlin, 1 wahoo, 12 rainbow runners, 8 dogtooth snapper, 18 pargo, 6 amberjack, 8 cabrilla, 62 dorado, 160 skipjack and 465 yellowfin tuna.
Good fishing, Eric
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