06-25-2012, 04:02 PM
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[#000000]Cabo Fish Report[/#000000]
[#000000] June 18-24, 2012[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]WEATHER: [/#000000][#000000]Theonly sure thing about our weather is how quickly it can change. Yesterday morning at 4:30 it was 81 degrees and 40% humidity withlight winds, this morning it is 70 degrees with 88% humidity andbreezy. This time of year it happens often, but is still unsettlingas there is no way to predict what we are going to see just a fewdays in the future. We had scattered clouds this week but no rain,as normal. We sure could use some though.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000] [b]WATER:[/#000000][#000000] Still in transition from spring to summer water conditions, we keephoping that it will settle down into the summer pattern, but mothernature is fickle and keeps changing her mind. The water out in frontof Cabo remained cool at 64-65 degrees. On Friday it was 65 in frontof the marina, but by the time we were 12 miles offshore it had risen12 degrees to 77, and had changed from very green to almost clearwith a light green tinge. When we returned at the end of the day thewater in front had risen to 68 degrees but remained green. At theend of the week the warm water that had been offshore had been pushedto the east and it was not until you got east of a line south of theGorda Banks that the water warmed up much. The good thing was theclarity of the water. The cold water that wrapped around wasactually clearer than the warmer water.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BAIT: [/#000000][#000000]Caballitoand Mullet were available at the normal $3 per bait and there wereplenty of green Jacks if you wanted them.[/#000000][/#000000]
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[#000000][#000000]BILLFISH[/#000000][#000000]: As it is in most areas of the world, our marlin fishing this weekwas once again an exercise in patience. While we consider thefishing we had this past week as slow compared to what we are usedto, it was what most areas consider normal. A few boats did manageto get into a group of fish that would bite, with the most I heard offrom one boat was five releases, the normal, or average experiencewas a few fish to throw a bait at, a couple in the lures and perhapsone or two bites. Not bad, but of course we get spoiled because whenthe bite is on, our arms get tired! The fish were actually in twodifferent areas this week. The most productive, and with the calmestseas was the Punta Gorda to Los Frailles stretch out to 6 miles. Quite a few fish were seen and the hook-up ratio was decent. Theonly issue with fishing this area is the distance, two hours to getthere and two hours back. Closer to home there were fish found inthe stretch of water between the 95 spot and the 1150, just not asmany fish as to the north, but still the chance was decent. We didhave a one day showing on Thursday of a concentration of StripedMarlin just off of the lighthouse on the Pacific, but they had movedoff by Friday.[/#000000][/#000000]
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Finally there were some Yellowfin caught close tohome this week. No great numbers were reported, I heard of severalboats getting between three and five fish, and no large sizes either,most of them were between 8 and 18 pounds. These fish were caught inthe open and were not associated with porpoise, they were blindstrikes. The area between the Arch and Chileno Bay out from two tofour miles had these fish scattered about. Cedar plugs and feathersdid the work to get hook ups. I did hear of a few nice sized fishfound off of Los Frailles, but they were quite a ways offshore,that's a really long run for a charter boat, but the fish werereported to be nice size, up to 100 pounds.
[#000000]DORADO: I'm not really sure why, but most ofthe Dorado found this week were on the Cortez side in the cool waterfrom the Arch to Chileno Bay, the same area that the Yellowfin werefound. None of the fish were large, and there were no great numbers,but almost all the boats that fished the area returned with at leastone, sometimes more, flags flying.[/#000000]
[#000000]WAHOO: I haven't seen one of these fish inquite a while, and did not hear of any caught this past week.[/#000000]
[#000000] INSHORE: Still slow, the bite onYellowtail was almost non-existent, the Sierra bite slowed way downas well. The positive note for Sierra was the size increased byquite a bit with many of the fish being caught being larger, in the8-12 pound class. Add in an occasional Grouper to 25 pounds, a fewRoosterfish to 40 pounds, an Amberjack once in a while and a fewSnook being reported and there was something to catch for almosteveryone.[/#000000]
[#000000]FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this weeksrecipe! [/#000000]
[#000000]NOTES: Now the G20 is over and our visitornumbers are returning to normal, if only the fishing would! Notgreat, but not bad, there was a decent chance of hooking up on everytrip, but no one expected to get into a wide open bite on any onespecies, and no one did. A steady catch on scattered fish was theexperience of the week, but hopefully as we get further into summerthe fishing will improve. For now, just have a great time on thewater and be patient! Until next week, tight lines![/#000000]
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