12-19-2011, 03:02 PM
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[#000000]Captain George Landrum[/#000000]
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[#000000]Cabo Fish Report[/#000000]
[#000000] December 12-18, 2011[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]WEATHER: [/#000000][#000000]Wehad a week of cloudy skies and it seemed that the only sunshine thatlasted very long happened Thursday afternoon. The rest of the weekwe kept thinking that it would begin raining any moment. That said,we still had great temperatures as the early morning lows were in thehigh 60's and the daytime highs in the high 80's. We did get just alittle spit of rain, dotting the windshields of the cars and showingyou how dusty they were, but nothing heavy here in town. There weresome breezy mornings as well, not enough to keep you off the waterbut enough to have an effect on the golf courses![/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000] WATER: [/#000000][#000000]The swells this week were mixed with some days small ones coming infrom the east and other days normal ones coming from the northwest. All in all there were no large swells, the biggest were on thePacific side at 4-6 feet, the smaller on the Cortez at 1-3 feet. Water temperatures were the key this week as the warmest water we hadwas to the southwest 20+ miles, there it warmed to 77 degrees. Elsewhere it stayed fairly stable at 74 degrees with the waterdirectly to the south of the Cape a bit cooler at 73 degrees.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BAIT: [/#000000][#000000]Some Caballito and a few Mackerel were to be had at $3 per bait,mostly boats were getting junk bait for their money so many weregoing with frozen Ballyhoo instead. There were some Sardinas at$25-$30 a scoop as well.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000] FISHING:[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BILLFISH[/#000000][#000000]: Still waiting! The word from private boats working the area to thenorth of Mag Bay is that the fish are there, one boat reportedreleasing 50 Striped Marlin in one day, but the concentrations havenot yet moved this far south. The boats that are going out arereleasing between one and four per day and the methods have varied. Some boats have done well by dropping a live bait to 250 feet off thepoints and have been getting one or two per day, others are running arigged ballyhoo on the long line and are getting bit on that. Someboats are having better luck pulling plastic lures and dropping backrigged bait to fish that come into the pattern and that won't bite onthe lures. Anyway that is being used seems to work for a few fish,the trick is to find them! Almost all the action we have seen hascome from the Pacific side but there have been a few showing up onthe 95 spot and the 1150.[/#000000][/#000000]
YELLOWFIN TUNA: We are still experiencing very good fishing forYellowfin Tuna, and there are still some large fish out there. Ofcourse most of the boats are getting fish between 12 and 25 poundswith a few in the 60 pound range but there have been several fishthis week that have been over 200 pounds. Most of these larger fishhave been caught by boats flying a kite. The majority of the schoolshave been found between 14 and 24 miles to the south and west amongspotted and spinner dolphin, the white bellied dolphin have notseemed to have as many fish with them. If you are thinking aboutgetting some tuna it's time to get here, we expect the purse seinersto start back in operation the first of the year, but right now it'spossible to limit out on every trip. That's no guarantee of courseas the tide can have a strong effect on your success. At the end ofthe week the bite was good early in the morning and then as the tidechanged the bite turned off.
[#000000]DORADO: There are still plenty of Dorado outthere even thought the water has cooled down, the trick is gettingthem to eat! Boats that have concentrated on pulling lures have notbeen having a lot of luck. The best way has been to slow troll alive bait or two, hooking one up and leaving him in the water toattract other Dorado. It's possible to limit out at two fish perangler this way, and the fish are fairly decent size at 15-25 pounds. Most of the effort has been on the Pacific side but I did hear ofsome decent fishing happening off of the Palmilla area.[/#000000]
[#000000]WAHOO: The Wahoo bite died off this week asthe moon started waning, but there were still a few caught, just nolarge ones. Those that were hooked up came from the usual areas,just off the beach along the rocky areas and off of the shallowsea-mounts like the Gorda Banks.[/#000000]
[#000000] INSHORE: Sierra are starting to bite goodand there are some Snapper in there among the rocks if you have thehooks and lead to spare. Most of the Pangas are fishing live baitfor Dorado and venturing offshore for Tuna and Marlin as the fishingfor these have been pretty good and the water comfortable.[/#000000]
[#000000]FISH RECIPE: posted on the blog Thursday orFriday. [/#000000]
[#000000]NOTES: Whales, cloudy skies and fish, notour normal Cabo weather, but everything else is the same! This weeksreport was written to the music of Steppenwolf from a facebook friendwho keeps posting clips! Thanks to everyone for reading, and tightlines![/#000000]
[#000000]We would like to wish you all a MerryChristmas and safe travels for all of your family![/#000000]
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[#000000]Captain George Landrum[/#000000]
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[#000000]http://captgeo.wordpress.com/[/#000000]
[#000000]Cabo Fish Report[/#000000]
[#000000] December 12-18, 2011[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]WEATHER: [/#000000][#000000]Wehad a week of cloudy skies and it seemed that the only sunshine thatlasted very long happened Thursday afternoon. The rest of the weekwe kept thinking that it would begin raining any moment. That said,we still had great temperatures as the early morning lows were in thehigh 60's and the daytime highs in the high 80's. We did get just alittle spit of rain, dotting the windshields of the cars and showingyou how dusty they were, but nothing heavy here in town. There weresome breezy mornings as well, not enough to keep you off the waterbut enough to have an effect on the golf courses![/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000] WATER: [/#000000][#000000]The swells this week were mixed with some days small ones coming infrom the east and other days normal ones coming from the northwest. All in all there were no large swells, the biggest were on thePacific side at 4-6 feet, the smaller on the Cortez at 1-3 feet. Water temperatures were the key this week as the warmest water we hadwas to the southwest 20+ miles, there it warmed to 77 degrees. Elsewhere it stayed fairly stable at 74 degrees with the waterdirectly to the south of the Cape a bit cooler at 73 degrees.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BAIT: [/#000000][#000000]Some Caballito and a few Mackerel were to be had at $3 per bait,mostly boats were getting junk bait for their money so many weregoing with frozen Ballyhoo instead. There were some Sardinas at$25-$30 a scoop as well.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000] FISHING:[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BILLFISH[/#000000][#000000]: Still waiting! The word from private boats working the area to thenorth of Mag Bay is that the fish are there, one boat reportedreleasing 50 Striped Marlin in one day, but the concentrations havenot yet moved this far south. The boats that are going out arereleasing between one and four per day and the methods have varied. Some boats have done well by dropping a live bait to 250 feet off thepoints and have been getting one or two per day, others are running arigged ballyhoo on the long line and are getting bit on that. Someboats are having better luck pulling plastic lures and dropping backrigged bait to fish that come into the pattern and that won't bite onthe lures. Anyway that is being used seems to work for a few fish,the trick is to find them! Almost all the action we have seen hascome from the Pacific side but there have been a few showing up onthe 95 spot and the 1150.[/#000000][/#000000]
YELLOWFIN TUNA: We are still experiencing very good fishing forYellowfin Tuna, and there are still some large fish out there. Ofcourse most of the boats are getting fish between 12 and 25 poundswith a few in the 60 pound range but there have been several fishthis week that have been over 200 pounds. Most of these larger fishhave been caught by boats flying a kite. The majority of the schoolshave been found between 14 and 24 miles to the south and west amongspotted and spinner dolphin, the white bellied dolphin have notseemed to have as many fish with them. If you are thinking aboutgetting some tuna it's time to get here, we expect the purse seinersto start back in operation the first of the year, but right now it'spossible to limit out on every trip. That's no guarantee of courseas the tide can have a strong effect on your success. At the end ofthe week the bite was good early in the morning and then as the tidechanged the bite turned off.
[#000000]DORADO: There are still plenty of Dorado outthere even thought the water has cooled down, the trick is gettingthem to eat! Boats that have concentrated on pulling lures have notbeen having a lot of luck. The best way has been to slow troll alive bait or two, hooking one up and leaving him in the water toattract other Dorado. It's possible to limit out at two fish perangler this way, and the fish are fairly decent size at 15-25 pounds. Most of the effort has been on the Pacific side but I did hear ofsome decent fishing happening off of the Palmilla area.[/#000000]
[#000000]WAHOO: The Wahoo bite died off this week asthe moon started waning, but there were still a few caught, just nolarge ones. Those that were hooked up came from the usual areas,just off the beach along the rocky areas and off of the shallowsea-mounts like the Gorda Banks.[/#000000]
[#000000] INSHORE: Sierra are starting to bite goodand there are some Snapper in there among the rocks if you have thehooks and lead to spare. Most of the Pangas are fishing live baitfor Dorado and venturing offshore for Tuna and Marlin as the fishingfor these have been pretty good and the water comfortable.[/#000000]
[#000000]FISH RECIPE: posted on the blog Thursday orFriday. [/#000000]
[#000000]NOTES: Whales, cloudy skies and fish, notour normal Cabo weather, but everything else is the same! This weeksreport was written to the music of Steppenwolf from a facebook friendwho keeps posting clips! Thanks to everyone for reading, and tightlines![/#000000]
[#000000]We would like to wish you all a MerryChristmas and safe travels for all of your family![/#000000]
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