09-10-2012, 05:23 PM
[#000000][size 4]FLYHOOKER SPORTFISHING[/size][/#000000]
[#000000]Captain George Landrum[/#000000]
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[#000000]Cabo Fish Report[/#000000]
[#000000] Sept 3 - 9, 2012[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]WEATHER: [/#000000][#000000]Hot,humid and buggy has been our experience on land this week, that's oneof the reasons to get out on the water, or in many cases, into thewater at the beach. With our daytime highs in the high 90's andoccasionally breaking 100 degrees combined with the 80% humidity theflies, bo-bo's (no-see-um's) and mosquitoes have been a bigannoyance. This happens every time after we have a big wet spell,but since it has been three years we tend to forget. The skies weremostly sunny late this week with just a few high, passing clouds butit looked as if we might have received some rains in the mountainsearly in the week as another storm system moved over the peninsula tothe north of us and Hurricane John passed to the west.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000] WATER: [/#000000][#000000]Wehad a breeze on the Pacific side early in the week that was a resultof feeder bands from Hurricane John coming through, and combined witha storm that came in from the mainland conditions were choppy andvery bumpy early in the week. On Tuesday we were seeing swells to 12feet coming in on the beach at Medano, washing right up to theretaining walls at the resorts and washing over the sand berm at thearroyo, filling in the area behind so it became a saltwater pool. This swell, a result of the passing hurricane, fell off very quicklyand by the end of the week we had almost flat conditions with swellson the Pacific at 2-4 feet and on the Cortez side at 1-3 feet. Wateron the Sea of Cortez has been warm in our area, often in the 89degree range. Looking at the charts we can see water as warm as 91degrees up in the East Cape area. Right in front of the Cape thewater is 88 degrees but farther to the north along the beach it coolsa bit to 84 degrees. Out at the San Jaime and the Golden Gate Banksthe water is between 85 and 86 degrees. It is blue water almosteverywhere you go as well, with it just a bit deeper in color on thePacific side.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BAIT: [/#000000][#000000]Caballito and Mullet were available at the normal $3 each and if youwent to San Jose and were early it was possible to get Sardinas at$20 a scoop. Most of the bait boats had frozen Horse Ballyhooavailable as well at a very proud $3 each.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000] FISHING:[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BILLFISH[/#000000][#000000]: Striped Marlin and Sailfish remained the most common billfish inthe area but there were a few Blue Marlin reported hooked andreleased this week, and a few small one that were caught and broughtin, sigh. I heard of no Black Marlin this week but there may havebeen a few of these fish as well. Most of the Sailfish and StripedMarlin were found just to the south of us by boats looking for Tuna. A few were caught to the east at the 95 spot and many were foundbetween 3 and 10 miles off the beach on the Pacific side. Droppingback a live bait or frozen (then thawed) Ballyhoo to fish appearingin the spread was the most common method that worked this week,throwing a live bait at a tailing or sleeping Striped Marlin came ina distant second as far as working went. It is exciting when a podof Sailfish appears in the spread and suddenly there is a fish behindevery lure![/#000000][/#000000]
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Most of the Tuna caught this week were footballsized fish, and later in the week you did not have to go far to findthem. The area off of Chileano Beach had a good showing of theseTuna that ranged between 5 and 10 pounds early in the week. As timewent on these fish slowly moved toward Cabo. At the end of the weekthe fish were right in front of the bay. The only difficulty wasweeding your way through the numbers of Skipjack and Bonito that weremixed in with them. I was really surprised that with this amount ofsmall tuna out there, there were not a number of Black Marlin hookedup. Maybe it's just a bit early for numbers of these billfish toshow up. Offshore, looking for pods of Dolphin was the main methodof finding tuna, either that or searching for the Tuna Seiners andtheir helicopters. There were enough Seiners out there looking toset their nets on fish that you had to get lucky to find fish foryourself. Most of the boats that got decent Tuna found small pods ofDolphin, pods small enough to draw no interest from the helicopters.Flying a kite to take your lure or bait well away from the boat wasthe most successful method used to catch fish to 150 pounds, butthere were not many of these out there (fish I mean). I only hopethat these vessels go away soon before they net everything in thearea and leave us hoping for a stray tuna.
[#000000]DORADO: Fish of the week, and most of themwere caught close to the beach on the Pacific side, just as they werelast week. Smaller lures in bright colors trolled at 8 to 81/2 knotsbrought them in, keeping the first fish in the water for a whilebrought in others. Most of the fish were in the 5 to 10 pound classbut there were a few larger one to 20 pounds caught inshore as well. The majority of larger ones were caught at least 5 miles from thebeach, and finding working Frigate birds was the key to getting morethan one shot at fish that came as large as 35 pounds. There werenot many of these, but if you worked it there was a chance of two orthree in the box. Slow trolling live bait in the area of theFrigates worked well, very few anglers were willing to risk thechance of loosing a large Dorado by leaving one of them in the wateras a teaser for more.[/#000000]
[#000000] INSHORE: Inshore currents were variablethis week and bottom fishing was scratchy as a result. The water isclearing up and the inshore catch was a mix of Roosterfish,Amberjack, a few Snapper and a couple of Grouper. Most of the pangaswere going for the football Tuna and venturing a bit farther out forDorado and Sailfish.[/#000000]
[#000000]FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this weeksrecipe! [/#000000]
[#000000]NOTES: Off to the beach in a few minutes toget in some quality time before football! Sunday morning breakfastand Bloody Mary's when we get back from the beach. Think I'll fix upsome Sashimi from our tuna as a snack! My music for this weeksreport was something I have not listened to for a long time, a bit ofreggae from a local band, Rhythm Force, off their self-titled albumpublished about 10 years ago. 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] Sept 3 - 9, 2012[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]WEATHER: [/#000000][#000000]Hot,humid and buggy has been our experience on land this week, that's oneof the reasons to get out on the water, or in many cases, into thewater at the beach. With our daytime highs in the high 90's andoccasionally breaking 100 degrees combined with the 80% humidity theflies, bo-bo's (no-see-um's) and mosquitoes have been a bigannoyance. This happens every time after we have a big wet spell,but since it has been three years we tend to forget. The skies weremostly sunny late this week with just a few high, passing clouds butit looked as if we might have received some rains in the mountainsearly in the week as another storm system moved over the peninsula tothe north of us and Hurricane John passed to the west.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000] WATER: [/#000000][#000000]Wehad a breeze on the Pacific side early in the week that was a resultof feeder bands from Hurricane John coming through, and combined witha storm that came in from the mainland conditions were choppy andvery bumpy early in the week. On Tuesday we were seeing swells to 12feet coming in on the beach at Medano, washing right up to theretaining walls at the resorts and washing over the sand berm at thearroyo, filling in the area behind so it became a saltwater pool. This swell, a result of the passing hurricane, fell off very quicklyand by the end of the week we had almost flat conditions with swellson the Pacific at 2-4 feet and on the Cortez side at 1-3 feet. Wateron the Sea of Cortez has been warm in our area, often in the 89degree range. Looking at the charts we can see water as warm as 91degrees up in the East Cape area. Right in front of the Cape thewater is 88 degrees but farther to the north along the beach it coolsa bit to 84 degrees. Out at the San Jaime and the Golden Gate Banksthe water is between 85 and 86 degrees. It is blue water almosteverywhere you go as well, with it just a bit deeper in color on thePacific side.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BAIT: [/#000000][#000000]Caballito and Mullet were available at the normal $3 each and if youwent to San Jose and were early it was possible to get Sardinas at$20 a scoop. Most of the bait boats had frozen Horse Ballyhooavailable as well at a very proud $3 each.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000] FISHING:[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BILLFISH[/#000000][#000000]: Striped Marlin and Sailfish remained the most common billfish inthe area but there were a few Blue Marlin reported hooked andreleased this week, and a few small one that were caught and broughtin, sigh. I heard of no Black Marlin this week but there may havebeen a few of these fish as well. Most of the Sailfish and StripedMarlin were found just to the south of us by boats looking for Tuna. A few were caught to the east at the 95 spot and many were foundbetween 3 and 10 miles off the beach on the Pacific side. Droppingback a live bait or frozen (then thawed) Ballyhoo to fish appearingin the spread was the most common method that worked this week,throwing a live bait at a tailing or sleeping Striped Marlin came ina distant second as far as working went. It is exciting when a podof Sailfish appears in the spread and suddenly there is a fish behindevery lure![/#000000][/#000000]
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Most of the Tuna caught this week were footballsized fish, and later in the week you did not have to go far to findthem. The area off of Chileano Beach had a good showing of theseTuna that ranged between 5 and 10 pounds early in the week. As timewent on these fish slowly moved toward Cabo. At the end of the weekthe fish were right in front of the bay. The only difficulty wasweeding your way through the numbers of Skipjack and Bonito that weremixed in with them. I was really surprised that with this amount ofsmall tuna out there, there were not a number of Black Marlin hookedup. Maybe it's just a bit early for numbers of these billfish toshow up. Offshore, looking for pods of Dolphin was the main methodof finding tuna, either that or searching for the Tuna Seiners andtheir helicopters. There were enough Seiners out there looking toset their nets on fish that you had to get lucky to find fish foryourself. Most of the boats that got decent Tuna found small pods ofDolphin, pods small enough to draw no interest from the helicopters.Flying a kite to take your lure or bait well away from the boat wasthe most successful method used to catch fish to 150 pounds, butthere were not many of these out there (fish I mean). I only hopethat these vessels go away soon before they net everything in thearea and leave us hoping for a stray tuna.
[#000000]DORADO: Fish of the week, and most of themwere caught close to the beach on the Pacific side, just as they werelast week. Smaller lures in bright colors trolled at 8 to 81/2 knotsbrought them in, keeping the first fish in the water for a whilebrought in others. Most of the fish were in the 5 to 10 pound classbut there were a few larger one to 20 pounds caught inshore as well. The majority of larger ones were caught at least 5 miles from thebeach, and finding working Frigate birds was the key to getting morethan one shot at fish that came as large as 35 pounds. There werenot many of these, but if you worked it there was a chance of two orthree in the box. Slow trolling live bait in the area of theFrigates worked well, very few anglers were willing to risk thechance of loosing a large Dorado by leaving one of them in the wateras a teaser for more.[/#000000]
[#000000] INSHORE: Inshore currents were variablethis week and bottom fishing was scratchy as a result. The water isclearing up and the inshore catch was a mix of Roosterfish,Amberjack, a few Snapper and a couple of Grouper. Most of the pangaswere going for the football Tuna and venturing a bit farther out forDorado and Sailfish.[/#000000]
[#000000]FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this weeksrecipe! [/#000000]
[#000000]NOTES: Off to the beach in a few minutes toget in some quality time before football! Sunday morning breakfastand Bloody Mary's when we get back from the beach. Think I'll fix upsome Sashimi from our tuna as a snack! My music for this weeksreport was something I have not listened to for a long time, a bit ofreggae from a local band, Rhythm Force, off their self-titled albumpublished about 10 years ago. Until next week, tight lines![/#000000]
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