12-17-2012, 03:51 PM
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[#000000]Cabo Fish Report[/#000000]
[#000000] Dec 10 - 16, 2012[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]WEATHER: [/#000000][#000000]Ithas been a strange week for us on the weather front as we started theweek with a bit of high cloud cover then went into a period of sunnyskies for a few days. After enjoying the sun it appeared that wehad just been teased as the clouds moved in on Thursday morning. Therain began and it was on and off all day and night with an eventualdump of about 1 inch total. We expected the clouds to move away thenbut upon looking at the animated shots could see that this may lastat least through the weekend, and perhaps even longer. I don't knowif I should call this a “pineapple express” or not as it iscoming at us from at least 800 miles south of Hawaii. There is afrontal system to the north of us that is preventing this system fromgoing further north, if it lets up perhaps our skies will clear. Looking over my reports for the past 10 years we normally get thistype of weather at the beginning of the year, and it is short livedgiving us a little rain every week for about three weeks. One thingthis has done for us is wash off all the trees and plants, givingback that green look, and of course it will help everything continueto grow. I just hope that since the weather is cooler with our lowsin the high 60's that the mosquitoes and flies will not be asprevalent. Our daytime highs have been in the mid 80's.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]WATER: [/#000000][#000000]Onceagain d[/#000000][#000000]ueto the cloud cover there were no good shots of the surfacetemperature, but from what we could see and what was reported by theboats it appears as if the water temperature across the area hasdropped another degree or two. On both the Cortez and on the Pacificside of the cape we had inshore water at 75 to 76 degrees while justoffshore on the Cortez side it warmed to 79 degrees and on thePacific side to 78 degrees. With the rain came murky inshore waterand the off-color conditions extended out for about ½ mile aroundall areas where arroyos entered the ocean. The cloud cover wasmoving in from the southwest but the surface winds were from thenorth, and with the north wind came choppy sea conditions on thePacific side. Swells from the southwest collided with the wind fromthe north and it was a bit uncomfortable, at least on Thursday andFriday. By Saturday the winds had died off and the water settleddown. On the Cortez side of the Cape the water was very nice withsmall swells at 1-3 feet, and if you were within 10 miles of shorethe wind had little effect on you.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BAIT: [/#000000][#000000]There were bigger live baits such as Caballito (goggle-eye scad),some Mackerel (pacific greenback mackerel), Lisa (yellowtail mullet)and a few mixed baits available at the usual $3 each. Frozenhorse-ballyhoo were available as well at $3 each and if you wentnorth in the morning with plans to fish in the Punta Gorda area therewere some Sardina available as well if you were there early, at theusual $25 a scoop.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000] FISHING:[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BILLFISH[/#000000][#000000]:Not surprisingly there are fewer and fewer Blue and Black Marlinreported as the water cools off, but I know of at least one boat thatcaught and released a Blue Marlin they estimated at #250, and thiswas reported by experienced anglers. The fish was found inside the95 spot to 1150 line, an area this boat fished heavily for severaldays. The Striped Marlin bite continued to pick up, and we do expectthe action on these guys to improve on a steady basis. Drifting thehigh spots along the shore on the Pacific side with live bait droppeddeep is still the most constant producer, but more and more fish arebeing found on the surface. As the cool water continues to wraparound the Cape from the Pacific side the Striped Marlin arefollowing, and the fishing is improving on a daily basis on theCortez side of the Cape. This was nice to have happen this week asconditions on the Pacific side were a bit bumpy. I think thatperhaps 75% of the boats that went out this week were able to hookinto a Striped Marlin. Unfortunately there are still many of thesefish being killed by the crews, even though the anglers want torelease the fish. I keep seeing the buckets going up the docks with aMarlin folded into it and no longer wonder why so many boats refuseto use circle hooks, I know that the crews want to keep the fish,sigh.[/#000000][/#000000]
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Perhaps we will not see good Tuna action in ourarea until the beginning of the year, but there are still some cowsbeing caught on the Gorda Banks every day. The fish have been undersome heavy pressure but they are there, it is just a matter ofspending the time, waiting them out, waiting for the bite to happen. Most of the action has been on chunk baits with hooks tied directlyto the main line, and the fish are running between 150 and 250pounds. Elsewhere the porpoise pods continue to be a hit-or-missexperience, with the first boats that find pods holding fish managingto get two or three in the 25 to 75 pound class and boats showing upa bit later just getting practice at trolling lures or soaking bait. I heard from a couple of private boats that there is an on-off biteon fish averaging 25 pound on the high points off of Punta Gordo, butthey are getting there before sunrise to get into the bite, shortlyafter sunrise the local fleet pangas out of San Jose show up and thebite quickly drops off. Porpoise have been found from 5 miles duesouth to all along the 1,000 fathom line, so you never know when orwhere they may appear, you just have to keep your fingers crossedthat the ones you come across hold tuna. The larger fish have beencaught on live bait while lures, especially cedar plugs and darkcolored feathers have been the best producers on the medium andsmaller fish mixed with porpoise.
[#000000]DORADO: Dorado action continued, but at areduced pace as the water continues to cool. Most of the action hasbeen found within 5 miles of the beach on the Pacific side, and whilethere are fewer numbers, the size continues to improve. Many of thefish being found are in the 20-25 pound class, and most of these fishare being found under feeding Frigate birds, and caught on live baittossed out directly under the birds. You have to be careful though,because these birds are also a good indicator of feeding StripedMarlin, and it has not been uncommon for a couple of baits tossed outto be inhaled by a pair of Marlin! My guess is that about 75% of theboats are coming in with Dorado these days, but only 20% of them arecoming in with limits, compared with 60% coming in with limits twoweeks ago. The Cortez side is now producing more Dorado as thewarmer water is now in this area and the Pacific side is cooling off,so look for the bite to slowly move from the Pacific side to theCortez side over the next few week.[/#000000]
[#000000]WAHOO: As always, a hit or miss fishery isthe best way to describe the Wahoo bite. Mostly this week it hasbeen a miss, but there are a few boats that are having fairly regularaction of fish ranging from 20 to 35 pounds, as well as a few fishthat are only as big as Sierra. Trolling lipped plugs like Rapallas,or swimming plugs like Marauders has been the best method of gettinga Wahoo bite, but boats that are chunking or live baiting are gettingbit as well, it's just that most of these bites are cutting theleader![/#000000]
[#000000] INSHORE: The inshore bite has not changedfrom last weeks report with the exception of the fact that at the endof the week the areas around the arroyos have had dirty water due tothe rain run-off. More and more Sierra are beginning to show uplocally and while small at 3-5 pounds they have been biting when theschools have been found. Add in a few early Yellowtail to 20 pounds,a few red Snapper to 15 pounds and a few grouper to 20 pounds and thetraditional inshore fishery is beginning to shape up nicely. Still,most of the Pangas are fishing slightly farther off the beach, takingadvantage of the continued Dorado bite and the close proximity ofStriped Marlin. [/#000000]
[#000000]FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this monthsrecipe! [/#000000]
[#000000]NOTES: We are seeing more and more whalesshowing up, both Humpbacks offshore and Gray Whales along the beach. Christmas is usually the start of the season for these guys (actuallygirls) to show up and they are not disappointing us this year. Justbefore the holidays is normally a slow time for tourism as family arestaying home in celebration, but as soon as Christmas is over weexpect to be very busy again, and hopefully the fishing continues toimprove! My music choice for this week was the CD “UndergroundWhispers” by violinist Alex DePue and guitarist Miguel De Hoyas. Ilistened to this one again as Miguel was playing in Las Riberras thisweekend and we wanted to go listen, but all the hotels and motelswere sold out due to an off-road race taking place. I had to listento the CD instead, sigh. Until next week, tight lines![/#000000]
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[#000000]Captain George Landrum[/#000000]
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[#000000]Cabo Fish Report[/#000000]
[#000000] Dec 10 - 16, 2012[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]WEATHER: [/#000000][#000000]Ithas been a strange week for us on the weather front as we started theweek with a bit of high cloud cover then went into a period of sunnyskies for a few days. After enjoying the sun it appeared that wehad just been teased as the clouds moved in on Thursday morning. Therain began and it was on and off all day and night with an eventualdump of about 1 inch total. We expected the clouds to move away thenbut upon looking at the animated shots could see that this may lastat least through the weekend, and perhaps even longer. I don't knowif I should call this a “pineapple express” or not as it iscoming at us from at least 800 miles south of Hawaii. There is afrontal system to the north of us that is preventing this system fromgoing further north, if it lets up perhaps our skies will clear. Looking over my reports for the past 10 years we normally get thistype of weather at the beginning of the year, and it is short livedgiving us a little rain every week for about three weeks. One thingthis has done for us is wash off all the trees and plants, givingback that green look, and of course it will help everything continueto grow. I just hope that since the weather is cooler with our lowsin the high 60's that the mosquitoes and flies will not be asprevalent. Our daytime highs have been in the mid 80's.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]WATER: [/#000000][#000000]Onceagain d[/#000000][#000000]ueto the cloud cover there were no good shots of the surfacetemperature, but from what we could see and what was reported by theboats it appears as if the water temperature across the area hasdropped another degree or two. On both the Cortez and on the Pacificside of the cape we had inshore water at 75 to 76 degrees while justoffshore on the Cortez side it warmed to 79 degrees and on thePacific side to 78 degrees. With the rain came murky inshore waterand the off-color conditions extended out for about ½ mile aroundall areas where arroyos entered the ocean. The cloud cover wasmoving in from the southwest but the surface winds were from thenorth, and with the north wind came choppy sea conditions on thePacific side. Swells from the southwest collided with the wind fromthe north and it was a bit uncomfortable, at least on Thursday andFriday. By Saturday the winds had died off and the water settleddown. On the Cortez side of the Cape the water was very nice withsmall swells at 1-3 feet, and if you were within 10 miles of shorethe wind had little effect on you.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BAIT: [/#000000][#000000]There were bigger live baits such as Caballito (goggle-eye scad),some Mackerel (pacific greenback mackerel), Lisa (yellowtail mullet)and a few mixed baits available at the usual $3 each. Frozenhorse-ballyhoo were available as well at $3 each and if you wentnorth in the morning with plans to fish in the Punta Gorda area therewere some Sardina available as well if you were there early, at theusual $25 a scoop.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000] FISHING:[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BILLFISH[/#000000][#000000]:Not surprisingly there are fewer and fewer Blue and Black Marlinreported as the water cools off, but I know of at least one boat thatcaught and released a Blue Marlin they estimated at #250, and thiswas reported by experienced anglers. The fish was found inside the95 spot to 1150 line, an area this boat fished heavily for severaldays. The Striped Marlin bite continued to pick up, and we do expectthe action on these guys to improve on a steady basis. Drifting thehigh spots along the shore on the Pacific side with live bait droppeddeep is still the most constant producer, but more and more fish arebeing found on the surface. As the cool water continues to wraparound the Cape from the Pacific side the Striped Marlin arefollowing, and the fishing is improving on a daily basis on theCortez side of the Cape. This was nice to have happen this week asconditions on the Pacific side were a bit bumpy. I think thatperhaps 75% of the boats that went out this week were able to hookinto a Striped Marlin. Unfortunately there are still many of thesefish being killed by the crews, even though the anglers want torelease the fish. I keep seeing the buckets going up the docks with aMarlin folded into it and no longer wonder why so many boats refuseto use circle hooks, I know that the crews want to keep the fish,sigh.[/#000000][/#000000]
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Perhaps we will not see good Tuna action in ourarea until the beginning of the year, but there are still some cowsbeing caught on the Gorda Banks every day. The fish have been undersome heavy pressure but they are there, it is just a matter ofspending the time, waiting them out, waiting for the bite to happen. Most of the action has been on chunk baits with hooks tied directlyto the main line, and the fish are running between 150 and 250pounds. Elsewhere the porpoise pods continue to be a hit-or-missexperience, with the first boats that find pods holding fish managingto get two or three in the 25 to 75 pound class and boats showing upa bit later just getting practice at trolling lures or soaking bait. I heard from a couple of private boats that there is an on-off biteon fish averaging 25 pound on the high points off of Punta Gordo, butthey are getting there before sunrise to get into the bite, shortlyafter sunrise the local fleet pangas out of San Jose show up and thebite quickly drops off. Porpoise have been found from 5 miles duesouth to all along the 1,000 fathom line, so you never know when orwhere they may appear, you just have to keep your fingers crossedthat the ones you come across hold tuna. The larger fish have beencaught on live bait while lures, especially cedar plugs and darkcolored feathers have been the best producers on the medium andsmaller fish mixed with porpoise.
[#000000]DORADO: Dorado action continued, but at areduced pace as the water continues to cool. Most of the action hasbeen found within 5 miles of the beach on the Pacific side, and whilethere are fewer numbers, the size continues to improve. Many of thefish being found are in the 20-25 pound class, and most of these fishare being found under feeding Frigate birds, and caught on live baittossed out directly under the birds. You have to be careful though,because these birds are also a good indicator of feeding StripedMarlin, and it has not been uncommon for a couple of baits tossed outto be inhaled by a pair of Marlin! My guess is that about 75% of theboats are coming in with Dorado these days, but only 20% of them arecoming in with limits, compared with 60% coming in with limits twoweeks ago. The Cortez side is now producing more Dorado as thewarmer water is now in this area and the Pacific side is cooling off,so look for the bite to slowly move from the Pacific side to theCortez side over the next few week.[/#000000]
[#000000]WAHOO: As always, a hit or miss fishery isthe best way to describe the Wahoo bite. Mostly this week it hasbeen a miss, but there are a few boats that are having fairly regularaction of fish ranging from 20 to 35 pounds, as well as a few fishthat are only as big as Sierra. Trolling lipped plugs like Rapallas,or swimming plugs like Marauders has been the best method of gettinga Wahoo bite, but boats that are chunking or live baiting are gettingbit as well, it's just that most of these bites are cutting theleader![/#000000]
[#000000] INSHORE: The inshore bite has not changedfrom last weeks report with the exception of the fact that at the endof the week the areas around the arroyos have had dirty water due tothe rain run-off. More and more Sierra are beginning to show uplocally and while small at 3-5 pounds they have been biting when theschools have been found. Add in a few early Yellowtail to 20 pounds,a few red Snapper to 15 pounds and a few grouper to 20 pounds and thetraditional inshore fishery is beginning to shape up nicely. Still,most of the Pangas are fishing slightly farther off the beach, takingadvantage of the continued Dorado bite and the close proximity ofStriped Marlin. [/#000000]
[#000000]FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this monthsrecipe! [/#000000]
[#000000]NOTES: We are seeing more and more whalesshowing up, both Humpbacks offshore and Gray Whales along the beach. Christmas is usually the start of the season for these guys (actuallygirls) to show up and they are not disappointing us this year. Justbefore the holidays is normally a slow time for tourism as family arestaying home in celebration, but as soon as Christmas is over weexpect to be very busy again, and hopefully the fishing continues toimprove! My music choice for this week was the CD “UndergroundWhispers” by violinist Alex DePue and guitarist Miguel De Hoyas. Ilistened to this one again as Miguel was playing in Las Riberras thisweekend and we wanted to go listen, but all the hotels and motelswere sold out due to an off-road race taking place. I had to listento the CD instead, sigh. Until next week, tight lines![/#000000]
[#000000]And as always, George writes this report
and posts it on Sunday morning. So if you
can'twait, click the "FOLLOW" on the top of the
page! You will know whenever something new is posted!
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