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[#000000]Cabo Fish Report[/#000000]
[#000000] October 14-22, 2012[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]WEATHER: [/#000000][#000000]Onceagain the great weather continues! This week our nighttime lows werein the mid 70's and the daytime highs stayed in the low 90's. Combine that with a humidity level that has been in the mid to high20% range, sunny skies and light breezes and you can understand whythis is the perfect time to be here. Not only that, but if you are afisherman, the action this week, and normally this time of year, hasbeen great![/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]WATER: [/#000000][#000000]Onthe Pacific side of the Cape this week we had blue water, really blueto the north of the lighthouse and just a slightly off-color bluecloser to home, at least late in the week. Very early in the weekthe water close to home and off of the lighthouse was a dirty green. This was probably due to the large swells produced by the passing ofHurricane Paul. Later in the week the water on the Pacific hadswells in the 2-5 foot range with a bit of wind picking up in theafternoons putting some chop on the water within 6 miles of thebeach, but it was a bit smoother farther offshore. Watertemperatures have been between 81 degrees offshore to the north to 85degrees 10 miles off the beach inside the San Jaime Bank area. Onthe Cortez side of the Cape the water has been just a bit off colorwith an occasional spot of dirty water, but for the most part veryfishable. The temperatures have been 85 degrees with a few areasshowing as high as 88 degrees. Swells have been small tonon-existent at 1-3 feet with no wind within 20 miles of shore.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BAIT: [/#000000][#000000]Sardines could be had here in Cabo this week, probably due to thedemand of the tournament boats who use them to catch skip jack andsmall Yellowfin for bait. A scooped bucket would set you back $25,but they were in much better shape than the Sardines we were gettingearlier in the week from bait boats farther north. Caballito andMullet could be had easily at $3 each, and there were frozenBally-hoo for $3 each.[/#000000][/#000000]
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[#000000][#000000]BILLFISH[/#000000][#000000]: I am going to give some data here, then some explanations, so beready. First off, there were two Billfish tournaments held in Cabothis week, the Los Cabos Billfish Tournament, scheduled for threedays but fished only two days due to swells from the passing ofHurricane Paul on Tuesday, the first day scheduled. The secondtournament was the Bisbee Los Cabos Offshore Tournament, fished onSaturday and Sunday. This tournament is the reason the report is aday late, I was fishing in it. What we have then are 37 boatsfishing the first tournament for two days and 80 boats fishing thesecond for 2 days, a total of 234 fishing days. During that timeframe there were a total of 51 billfish either brought in orreleased, an average of just under 1 fish for four days of fishing. That's not a great statistic, especially for an area known as thebillfish capital of the world, but here is a quick explanation. Mostof the boats fishing these tournaments were fishing for large Marlin. There were three fish weighed in over 300 pounds among the 51caught, a 483 pound Black Marlin, a 583 and a 565 pound Blue Marlin. 1 Black Marlin, 12 Blue Marlin, 23 Striped Marlin and 13 Sailfishwere released. These numbers would have been much higher, if theweights smaller, if the target for the tournaments would have beennumbers instead of size. On the boat I fished, we only pulled verylarge lures for a reason. Elephants eat peanuts, but so do monkeys,and we only wanted elephants, so we did not pull anything a monkeycould eat. Many boats did the same thing. So there you go, for atournament, 1 fish per 4 days is a bit slow here, but the average washigher for regular charters. The catch per unit of effort was aboutthe same for both tournaments, so it appears that the moon phase hasnot had a great effect so far. That could change for the Black andBlue Tournament coming up this week as the moon will be just beforefull instead of coming off new phase into the first quarter.[/#000000][/#000000]
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Yellowfin were the high point of the past week formany boats fishing, both in the tournaments and regular charters. Some stats for you that might make you thing about coming down andentering the Tuna Tournament the first week of November: 4 tournamentdays of fishing, with very few boats targeting Yellowfin resulted intuna weighing 247 and 227 in the first tournament, and in the secondtournament the top five weighed in were 314, 299, 276, 234 and 218. That's 7 fish over 200 pounds, a better success ratio by 100% thanthat of large Marlin. This is not counting the fish that were under200 pounds! Many of these large fish were caught off of the innerand outer Gorda Banks, an area that has been producing some largefish for the past few weeks. Slow trolling live skip jack and Bolitoon the surface or on down-riggers produced the hook-ups. The successrates on the hook-ups is probably higher than normal for a couple ofreasons. One is that most of the tuna were caught by boats trying tocatch a large Black Marlin, so the gear was much stronger than thatused by normal charters, and the fact that most of the baits werefished on very strong flouro-carbon leader, 400 to 500 pound breakingstrength. There were Tuna caught in other areas as well, and some ofthem were very nice sized, with a few in the 100+ class and most inthe 25-35 pound class. Boats working the outside of the CabrilloSeamount, the south side of the San Jaime Bank and the north side ofthe Golden Gate Bank found dolphin pods that held fish. Some of thedolphin looked like a catch would be guaranteed, dolphin feedingeverywhere and hundreds of birds working, only to produce no strikes,but if you kept searching you would find a pod with fish on iteventually. Making a 20 to 30 mile run to get to the fish was theonly issue, once out there it was a matter of time for most boats. Small lures, large lures, it didn't seem to matter, if the fish werehungry they would eat. If not, go find the next school.
[#000000]DORADO: It might be a tie this week forfish of the week between the excellent Tuna fishing we have beenexperiencing and the large numbers of Dorado that showed up onceagain. It did take a couple of days at the start of the week for thefishing to pick back up after the passing of Hurricane Paul, but itdid get better. Not all boats were able to get limits but most wereable to get enough Dorado to keep anglers happy, then on Friday oneboat found a very large dead whale just to the south of the GoldenGate Bank. Mike reported that he saw “thousands” of Doradoaround the whale when he arrived, the first boat on the scene. Theyreleased all the small ones and kept their limit of fish over 20pounds, eventually releasing 25 fish that were smaller. Other boatscame in on the action and did very well, and on Saturday it was aparking lot, albeit a stinky one if you were downwind, but by theafternoon the bite had died off. Still, most of the boats were ableto catch limits of good sized fish for two days. Elsewhere, therewas a decent bite along the Pacific shoreline out to two miles fromthe Los Arcos area to Todo Santos, and a scattering of fish on theCortez side. The tournaments had Dorado of 54, 45, 42, 41 and 40pounds as the top 5 fish for the second tournament and 42, 39 and 28for the first tournament. Imagine the numbers if Dorado had beenthe target instead of Marlin![/#000000]
[#000000]WAHOO: We did not hear of any Wahoo beingcaught in the tournaments this week, even though there was a categoryfor them in the first tournament. Also, there were none I heard offrom the charter fleets, but possibly a few were caught.[/#000000]
[#000000] INSHORE: Early in the week the large surfconditions from the passing of Hurricane Paul made fishing close tothe shore dangerous. Later in the week there were some smallRoosterfish as well as some Amberjack caught, and a half-way decentbite on Snapper and Grouper by those fishing the bottom. Most of thePangas in the early and mid week were fishing just offshore forDorado. At the end of the week the fishing outside of the Cabo Realarea in 200 feet of water turned on for football Yellowfin and largeWhite Skipjack, something for the tournament boats to keep in mindnext week![/#000000]
[#000000]FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this weeksrecipe! [/#000000]
[#000000]NOTES: This report may be a bit longer thannormal, but it has been a while since I have had this many days onthe water in a row. Being out there makes it so much more detailed,just wish I was fishing myself four or five days a week instead ofone or two if I am lucky! Our fingers are crossed for a big fish inthe coming Black and Blue tournament, we will be fishing Wednesday,Thursday and Friday. If you want to follow the live action you canlog onto the Bisbee website and click on “live action”. Hopefully you will see “Sporty Game” on the leader-board! OK,off to post this and then get the lawn cut. My music for this weekwas “Black Joe Lewis and the Honey Bears” on their CD“Scandalous” on Lost Highway Records. He sounds like the newJames Brown! Thanks for the CD Mark! 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] October 14-22, 2012[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]WEATHER: [/#000000][#000000]Onceagain the great weather continues! This week our nighttime lows werein the mid 70's and the daytime highs stayed in the low 90's. Combine that with a humidity level that has been in the mid to high20% range, sunny skies and light breezes and you can understand whythis is the perfect time to be here. Not only that, but if you are afisherman, the action this week, and normally this time of year, hasbeen great![/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]WATER: [/#000000][#000000]Onthe Pacific side of the Cape this week we had blue water, really blueto the north of the lighthouse and just a slightly off-color bluecloser to home, at least late in the week. Very early in the weekthe water close to home and off of the lighthouse was a dirty green. This was probably due to the large swells produced by the passing ofHurricane Paul. Later in the week the water on the Pacific hadswells in the 2-5 foot range with a bit of wind picking up in theafternoons putting some chop on the water within 6 miles of thebeach, but it was a bit smoother farther offshore. Watertemperatures have been between 81 degrees offshore to the north to 85degrees 10 miles off the beach inside the San Jaime Bank area. Onthe Cortez side of the Cape the water has been just a bit off colorwith an occasional spot of dirty water, but for the most part veryfishable. The temperatures have been 85 degrees with a few areasshowing as high as 88 degrees. Swells have been small tonon-existent at 1-3 feet with no wind within 20 miles of shore.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BAIT: [/#000000][#000000]Sardines could be had here in Cabo this week, probably due to thedemand of the tournament boats who use them to catch skip jack andsmall Yellowfin for bait. A scooped bucket would set you back $25,but they were in much better shape than the Sardines we were gettingearlier in the week from bait boats farther north. Caballito andMullet could be had easily at $3 each, and there were frozenBally-hoo for $3 each.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000] FISHING:[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BILLFISH[/#000000][#000000]: I am going to give some data here, then some explanations, so beready. First off, there were two Billfish tournaments held in Cabothis week, the Los Cabos Billfish Tournament, scheduled for threedays but fished only two days due to swells from the passing ofHurricane Paul on Tuesday, the first day scheduled. The secondtournament was the Bisbee Los Cabos Offshore Tournament, fished onSaturday and Sunday. This tournament is the reason the report is aday late, I was fishing in it. What we have then are 37 boatsfishing the first tournament for two days and 80 boats fishing thesecond for 2 days, a total of 234 fishing days. During that timeframe there were a total of 51 billfish either brought in orreleased, an average of just under 1 fish for four days of fishing. That's not a great statistic, especially for an area known as thebillfish capital of the world, but here is a quick explanation. Mostof the boats fishing these tournaments were fishing for large Marlin. There were three fish weighed in over 300 pounds among the 51caught, a 483 pound Black Marlin, a 583 and a 565 pound Blue Marlin. 1 Black Marlin, 12 Blue Marlin, 23 Striped Marlin and 13 Sailfishwere released. These numbers would have been much higher, if theweights smaller, if the target for the tournaments would have beennumbers instead of size. On the boat I fished, we only pulled verylarge lures for a reason. Elephants eat peanuts, but so do monkeys,and we only wanted elephants, so we did not pull anything a monkeycould eat. Many boats did the same thing. So there you go, for atournament, 1 fish per 4 days is a bit slow here, but the average washigher for regular charters. The catch per unit of effort was aboutthe same for both tournaments, so it appears that the moon phase hasnot had a great effect so far. That could change for the Black andBlue Tournament coming up this week as the moon will be just beforefull instead of coming off new phase into the first quarter.[/#000000][/#000000]
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Yellowfin were the high point of the past week formany boats fishing, both in the tournaments and regular charters. Some stats for you that might make you thing about coming down andentering the Tuna Tournament the first week of November: 4 tournamentdays of fishing, with very few boats targeting Yellowfin resulted intuna weighing 247 and 227 in the first tournament, and in the secondtournament the top five weighed in were 314, 299, 276, 234 and 218. That's 7 fish over 200 pounds, a better success ratio by 100% thanthat of large Marlin. This is not counting the fish that were under200 pounds! Many of these large fish were caught off of the innerand outer Gorda Banks, an area that has been producing some largefish for the past few weeks. Slow trolling live skip jack and Bolitoon the surface or on down-riggers produced the hook-ups. The successrates on the hook-ups is probably higher than normal for a couple ofreasons. One is that most of the tuna were caught by boats trying tocatch a large Black Marlin, so the gear was much stronger than thatused by normal charters, and the fact that most of the baits werefished on very strong flouro-carbon leader, 400 to 500 pound breakingstrength. There were Tuna caught in other areas as well, and some ofthem were very nice sized, with a few in the 100+ class and most inthe 25-35 pound class. Boats working the outside of the CabrilloSeamount, the south side of the San Jaime Bank and the north side ofthe Golden Gate Bank found dolphin pods that held fish. Some of thedolphin looked like a catch would be guaranteed, dolphin feedingeverywhere and hundreds of birds working, only to produce no strikes,but if you kept searching you would find a pod with fish on iteventually. Making a 20 to 30 mile run to get to the fish was theonly issue, once out there it was a matter of time for most boats. Small lures, large lures, it didn't seem to matter, if the fish werehungry they would eat. If not, go find the next school.
[#000000]DORADO: It might be a tie this week forfish of the week between the excellent Tuna fishing we have beenexperiencing and the large numbers of Dorado that showed up onceagain. It did take a couple of days at the start of the week for thefishing to pick back up after the passing of Hurricane Paul, but itdid get better. Not all boats were able to get limits but most wereable to get enough Dorado to keep anglers happy, then on Friday oneboat found a very large dead whale just to the south of the GoldenGate Bank. Mike reported that he saw “thousands” of Doradoaround the whale when he arrived, the first boat on the scene. Theyreleased all the small ones and kept their limit of fish over 20pounds, eventually releasing 25 fish that were smaller. Other boatscame in on the action and did very well, and on Saturday it was aparking lot, albeit a stinky one if you were downwind, but by theafternoon the bite had died off. Still, most of the boats were ableto catch limits of good sized fish for two days. Elsewhere, therewas a decent bite along the Pacific shoreline out to two miles fromthe Los Arcos area to Todo Santos, and a scattering of fish on theCortez side. The tournaments had Dorado of 54, 45, 42, 41 and 40pounds as the top 5 fish for the second tournament and 42, 39 and 28for the first tournament. Imagine the numbers if Dorado had beenthe target instead of Marlin![/#000000]
[#000000]WAHOO: We did not hear of any Wahoo beingcaught in the tournaments this week, even though there was a categoryfor them in the first tournament. Also, there were none I heard offrom the charter fleets, but possibly a few were caught.[/#000000]
[#000000] INSHORE: Early in the week the large surfconditions from the passing of Hurricane Paul made fishing close tothe shore dangerous. Later in the week there were some smallRoosterfish as well as some Amberjack caught, and a half-way decentbite on Snapper and Grouper by those fishing the bottom. Most of thePangas in the early and mid week were fishing just offshore forDorado. At the end of the week the fishing outside of the Cabo Realarea in 200 feet of water turned on for football Yellowfin and largeWhite Skipjack, something for the tournament boats to keep in mindnext week![/#000000]
[#000000]FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this weeksrecipe! [/#000000]
[#000000]NOTES: This report may be a bit longer thannormal, but it has been a while since I have had this many days onthe water in a row. Being out there makes it so much more detailed,just wish I was fishing myself four or five days a week instead ofone or two if I am lucky! Our fingers are crossed for a big fish inthe coming Black and Blue tournament, we will be fishing Wednesday,Thursday and Friday. If you want to follow the live action you canlog onto the Bisbee website and click on “live action”. Hopefully you will see “Sporty Game” on the leader-board! OK,off to post this and then get the lawn cut. My music for this weekwas “Black Joe Lewis and the Honey Bears” on their CD“Scandalous” on Lost Highway Records. He sounds like the newJames Brown! Thanks for the CD Mark! Until next week, tight lines![/#000000]
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