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Fishing Report for San Jose del Cabo, Baja
Capt. Eric Brictson
October 1, 2006
San Jose del Cabo - Saltwater Fishing Report
October 1, 2006
Anglers –
The long hot summer has ended and we are now starting the busy October fall season, though the weather is still quite humid and tropical, in another couple of weeks conditions will be ideal. There are no storms on the horizon now, though there is still a chance of a late season tropical system developing, with the cooler mornings the feeling is that the Los Cabos area has escaped another hurricane season without any significant damage. Water temperatures are averaging 80 to 87 degrees throughout most of the region, there has been minimal swells and slight afternoon breezes, predominately from the north. Supplies of sardinas remained plentiful off of La Playita and most of the action for the panga fleets was while using these baitfish.
The fishing action changed this past week and became more spread out, the hot tuna action that had been going on for the past couple of months in the area of the Iman Bank slacked up and the numbers of fish caught dropped significantly, though yellowfin were still dominating the daily catch, numbers per charters were down to an average of 3 or 4 fish, instead of the wide open, as much as you wanted style fish that had been going on. Cruisers from the East Cape are still making the long run south to Iman Bank, so that must mean that not much is going on their local fishing grounds. There was also tuna action found off of Palmilla, Red Hill, Santa Marina and the Hyatt Hotel area close to Cabo San Lucas. The average sized yellowfin have ranged from 8 to 25 pounds, though there are many larger tuna reportedly being seen feeding throughout the area. Most of the big fish were not interested in striking either lures or bait, just feeding on the schools of baitfish found on the fishing grounds. On Saturday there was one huge 275-pound yellowfin tuna landed from the panga “Gaviota” with skipper Modesto out of La Playita, the big tuna was supposedly hooked outside of the Iman Bank, but all of the details have not been reported yet.
Dorado fishing was best near Cabo San Lucas, where some wide open action on small to medium sized fish was reported, do-dos were found in schools and most of the time not associated with any floating debris. A few larger bulls were reported, but most of the larger dorado appear to be further into the Sa of Cortez at this time, particularly around the La Paz region.
Billfish action was concentrated off Cabo San Lucas from the 95 spot and towards the Pacific, where there was a mix of blue and striped marlin being found, though more stripers than blues were caught, also some sailfish taken in the same areas. Several of the blue marlin reported weighed more than 300 pounds. The fish were coming up to strike on lures, but dropped back live baits proved to be even more successful.
The combined La Playita panga fleets sent out approximately 58 charters for the week and anglers accounted for a fish count of: 3 sailfish, 12 amberjack, 6 dogtooth snapper, 72 dorado, 202 yellowfin tuna, 8 grouper, 16 skipjack, 11 rainbow runners and 2 hammerhead sharks.
Good fishing, Eric
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