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[#000000]Captain George Landrum[/#000000]
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[#000000]Cabo Fish Report[/#000000]
[#000000]October 31-November 6, 2011[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]WEATHER: [/#000000][#000000]Whatgreat weather! Our nighttime lows have been in the low 70's whilethe daytime highs have pushed the mid 90's on a few days but havebeen in the low 90's most of the time. No rain, a few clouds and nota lot of wind, just a light breeze. I really don't think it gets anybetter than that![/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000] WATER: [/#000000][#000000]Surface conditions have been great this week with normal swells fromthe west at 2-4 feet and a light breeze in the afternoon from thenorthwest at 10 knots. Water on the Pacific side of the Cape hasaveraged 8 degrees from three miles off the beach and out, in closeit has been 82 degrees. On the Sea of Cortez things have averagedjust a bit higher with the warm water at 85 degrees from the shore tothe 1,000 fathom line, from the 95 spot and to the north. Outside ofthere it has been 83 degrees.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BAIT: [/#000000][#000000]Justlike last week, bait, at least good live bait was hard to come by. The tournaments we have just had really stressed the ability of thebait boats, or perhaps they just got a bit lazy the past few weeks,after all, they have to be making a lot of money at the price theycharge. There were a few live baits of the larger size, but not muchin the way of quality baits. Toward San Jose you could get decentSardinas at a better price, there was a high demand here because ofthe tuna tournament and the price was high.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000] FISHING:[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BILLFISH[/#000000][#000000]: Some decent size fish were caught during the Western Outdoor NewsTuna Tournament by boats looking for big Tuna. I heard of one fightwith a Blue Marlin estimated at 450 pounds and another with a BlackMarlin estimated at right around 500 pounds. There were smaller fishcaught as well with a number of Blues in the 150-250 pound class. Not as many Striped Marlin were caught as were seen, they tended toignore the lures and go for live bait instead, unlike the Sailfishwho would jump on anything that came their way. I don't mean it tosound as if there were billfish everywhere, there weren't, but therewere enough of them out there that every anglers stood a decentchance of catching one. Most of the fish were found on the Pacificside, but the Black Marlin were all reported from the area aroundPunta Gorda.[/#000000][/#000000]
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Big fish and plenty of them were the words of theweek as we had two days of full on tournament Tuna fishing. Resultsposted by the Western Outdoor News Tuna Tournament only showed thelarger fish, but there were PLENTY of ones in the fish boxes thatnever reached the scales. With a minimum qualifying weight of 30pounds 108 boats fishing two days managed to weigh three Tuna over200 pounds, all caught on the second day. The largest at 213 poundstook home 36K, second place overall took home 158K for their 206pound cow and third place overall had a fish that weighed 205 poundsand was worth 21K. The second place fish was brought in just minutesbefore the scale closed and since they were across the board in allthe jackpots they took all the money for the second day. There wereplenty of fish caught that were over 100 pounds and uncounted numbersin the 40-80 pound class. A 48 pound fish took home 36K since it wasthe only qualifying fish caught by a boat entered in the 10K jackpoton the first day. Almost all the action happened on the Pacific sidethis week but there were fish caught at the Gorda Banks and due southof us, but the majority were to the west.
[#000000]DORADO: Once again it was almost impossibleto avoid catching a Dorado, but it appeared difficult for any of the108 boats in the tournament to get one over 30 pounds since none thatsize were weighed in. With no really large fish reported there wasno shortage of smaller fish out there, most of them in the 10-18pound class. An average trip resulted in several of these perperson, most anglers catching their limit, or at least as many asthey wanted. Once again most of the action happened on the Pacificside. Great results were had by pulling lures up the coast untilgetting a bite, then drifting or slow trolling the area with livebait.[/#000000]
[#000000]WAHOO: I was truly surprised that thelargest Wahoo weighed during the tournament was only 55.5 pounds thefirst day and under 40 pounds the second day, but they still managedto make 26K for each of their teams. There were many other Wahoocaught by boats entered in the tournament, as well as by dailycharter boats, but none that were very big. On average the Wahoobrought in were in the 20-25 pound class. Not every boat caught one,but there were enough out there that you stood a good chance.[/#000000]
[#000000] INSHORE: Just like last week. The watertemperatures are staying warm, so still some nice Roosterfish around,snapper, groupers, almost November, but I haven't seen any sierrayet. The Dorado fishing is also good close to shore. [/#000000]
[#000000]FISH RECIPE: posted on the blog Thursday orFriday.[/#000000]
[#000000]NOTES: Most of the focus this week was onTuna, and for good reason. The water is perfect and the fish arehere! Toss in the numbers of Dorado and the Wahoo that are beingcaught and it is hard to pick a better time to get on down here withan empty cooler to fill with fish. We have seen a few HumpbackWhales this week so those giants should start putting on a decentside show soon. If the weather and fishing gets any better I willthink I dies and went to heaven! Many thanks from me to Mark Baileyfor the re-supply of CD's! This week's report was written to themusic of the Rodeo Clown Dropouts, strange but true.[/#000000]
[#000000]In the meantime Tight Lines and good luck toall of you in the Tuna Tournament![/#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]October 31-November 6, 2011[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]WEATHER: [/#000000][#000000]Whatgreat weather! Our nighttime lows have been in the low 70's whilethe daytime highs have pushed the mid 90's on a few days but havebeen in the low 90's most of the time. No rain, a few clouds and nota lot of wind, just a light breeze. I really don't think it gets anybetter than that![/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000] WATER: [/#000000][#000000]Surface conditions have been great this week with normal swells fromthe west at 2-4 feet and a light breeze in the afternoon from thenorthwest at 10 knots. Water on the Pacific side of the Cape hasaveraged 8 degrees from three miles off the beach and out, in closeit has been 82 degrees. On the Sea of Cortez things have averagedjust a bit higher with the warm water at 85 degrees from the shore tothe 1,000 fathom line, from the 95 spot and to the north. Outside ofthere it has been 83 degrees.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BAIT: [/#000000][#000000]Justlike last week, bait, at least good live bait was hard to come by. The tournaments we have just had really stressed the ability of thebait boats, or perhaps they just got a bit lazy the past few weeks,after all, they have to be making a lot of money at the price theycharge. There were a few live baits of the larger size, but not muchin the way of quality baits. Toward San Jose you could get decentSardinas at a better price, there was a high demand here because ofthe tuna tournament and the price was high.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000] FISHING:[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BILLFISH[/#000000][#000000]: Some decent size fish were caught during the Western Outdoor NewsTuna Tournament by boats looking for big Tuna. I heard of one fightwith a Blue Marlin estimated at 450 pounds and another with a BlackMarlin estimated at right around 500 pounds. There were smaller fishcaught as well with a number of Blues in the 150-250 pound class. Not as many Striped Marlin were caught as were seen, they tended toignore the lures and go for live bait instead, unlike the Sailfishwho would jump on anything that came their way. I don't mean it tosound as if there were billfish everywhere, there weren't, but therewere enough of them out there that every anglers stood a decentchance of catching one. Most of the fish were found on the Pacificside, but the Black Marlin were all reported from the area aroundPunta Gorda.[/#000000][/#000000]
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Big fish and plenty of them were the words of theweek as we had two days of full on tournament Tuna fishing. Resultsposted by the Western Outdoor News Tuna Tournament only showed thelarger fish, but there were PLENTY of ones in the fish boxes thatnever reached the scales. With a minimum qualifying weight of 30pounds 108 boats fishing two days managed to weigh three Tuna over200 pounds, all caught on the second day. The largest at 213 poundstook home 36K, second place overall took home 158K for their 206pound cow and third place overall had a fish that weighed 205 poundsand was worth 21K. The second place fish was brought in just minutesbefore the scale closed and since they were across the board in allthe jackpots they took all the money for the second day. There wereplenty of fish caught that were over 100 pounds and uncounted numbersin the 40-80 pound class. A 48 pound fish took home 36K since it wasthe only qualifying fish caught by a boat entered in the 10K jackpoton the first day. Almost all the action happened on the Pacific sidethis week but there were fish caught at the Gorda Banks and due southof us, but the majority were to the west.
[#000000]DORADO: Once again it was almost impossibleto avoid catching a Dorado, but it appeared difficult for any of the108 boats in the tournament to get one over 30 pounds since none thatsize were weighed in. With no really large fish reported there wasno shortage of smaller fish out there, most of them in the 10-18pound class. An average trip resulted in several of these perperson, most anglers catching their limit, or at least as many asthey wanted. Once again most of the action happened on the Pacificside. Great results were had by pulling lures up the coast untilgetting a bite, then drifting or slow trolling the area with livebait.[/#000000]
[#000000]WAHOO: I was truly surprised that thelargest Wahoo weighed during the tournament was only 55.5 pounds thefirst day and under 40 pounds the second day, but they still managedto make 26K for each of their teams. There were many other Wahoocaught by boats entered in the tournament, as well as by dailycharter boats, but none that were very big. On average the Wahoobrought in were in the 20-25 pound class. Not every boat caught one,but there were enough out there that you stood a good chance.[/#000000]
[#000000] INSHORE: Just like last week. The watertemperatures are staying warm, so still some nice Roosterfish around,snapper, groupers, almost November, but I haven't seen any sierrayet. The Dorado fishing is also good close to shore. [/#000000]
[#000000]FISH RECIPE: posted on the blog Thursday orFriday.[/#000000]
[#000000]NOTES: Most of the focus this week was onTuna, and for good reason. The water is perfect and the fish arehere! Toss in the numbers of Dorado and the Wahoo that are beingcaught and it is hard to pick a better time to get on down here withan empty cooler to fill with fish. We have seen a few HumpbackWhales this week so those giants should start putting on a decentside show soon. If the weather and fishing gets any better I willthink I dies and went to heaven! Many thanks from me to Mark Baileyfor the re-supply of CD's! This week's report was written to themusic of the Rodeo Clown Dropouts, strange but true.[/#000000]
[#000000]In the meantime Tight Lines and good luck toall of you in the Tuna Tournament![/#000000]
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