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[#000000]Cabo Fish Report[/#000000]
[#000000] October 23 - 28, 2012[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]WEATHER: [/#000000][#000000]Ireally don't know what to say except to mention what a great pleasureit has been to once again get through the heat and humidity thatsummer time brings to us here in the southern part of the BajaPeninsula. When our nighttime lows stay in the mid 70's and thedaytime highs stay in the low 90's it is about as good as it gets,compared to what we had for the past three months. In another fewmonths we will be even cooler as the temperature at night drops tothe low 60's, but this weather I would prefer to have year round! Wehad very light clouds this week and while the beginning of the weekstarted off a bit windy, by the end of the week we were experiencingjust light breezes. The week started with moderate winds from thenorthwest, picking up in the afternoon, and ended with light breezesfrom the northeast in the morning, dying to nothing in the afternoon.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]WATER: [/#000000][#000000]Onthe Sea of Cortez side of the Cape we had water at 84-85 degreesinside the 1,000 fathom line most of the week, with the exception onFriday when a hot spot of 87 degree water formed across the 1150 tothe 95 spot and out to the 1,000 fathom line. For most of the weekthere was a good temperature break at the 1,000 fathom line as wellwith the water to the northeast being 2 degrees warmer than the waterto the southwest. Surface conditions on the Cortez side were greatall week as well with swells at 2-4 feet early in the week anddropping to 1-3 feet later in the week. On the Pacific side we wereseeing the water between the San Jaime and the Golden Gate Banks at84-85 degrees with swells at 3-6 feet early in the week and droppingto 2-4 feet later in the week. In between the Cortez and the Pacificwe had a late intrusion of cooler water at 82-83 degrees, coming into almost three miles of the arch. The water was slightly cleaner onthe Pacific side than it was on the Cortez side this week.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BAIT: [/#000000][#000000]Same bait report as last week. Sardines could be had here in Cabothis week, probably due to the demand of the tournament boats who usethem to catch skip jack and small Yellowfin for bait. A scoopedbucket would set you back $25, but they were in much better shapethan the Sardines we were getting earlier in the week from bait boatsfarther north. Caballito and Mullet could be had easily at $3 each,and there were frozen Bally-hoo for $3 each.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000] FISHING:[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BILLFISH[/#000000][#000000]:Our big money Marlin tournament season is over now that the BisbeeBlack and Blue is finished, at least the tournaments for big Marlin. Next week is a small tournament with the Trip Advisor websitemembers, then the W.O.N. Tuna tournament in November. Next year wewill see more tournaments that focus on Striped Marlin in the Spring. Statistics can do funny things to your thinking, and as I did lastweek in the report, this week I am going to lay a few more on you,based on the three day Black and Blue tournament that just finished. There was 106 teams fishing three days for 318 boat days on thewater, with big Marlin as the focus. There were 67 billfish caught, 1Spearfish, 4 Sailfish, 4 Black Marlin, 19 Blue Marlin and 39 StripedMarlin. Based on this, it took 4.75 boat days to get a Marlin thisweek. Pretty
stats, and when there was only one Marlin caughtover 300 pounds it almost makes me cry. (The team that caught the 2.4million dollar fish is not crying!) Once again I have to remind youthat the stats for normal charters would be much better as the focusfor most of the boats in the tournament was big Blue or Black Marlinover 300 pounds, or numbers of smaller sized Blues or Blacks. Noneof these boats focused on Striped Marlin, which is the most commonspecies here, as evidenced by the comparative number caught duringthe Tournament. In conclusion, while the possibility of getting aBlue or Black to the boat was fairly small, the chances of hookinginto a Striped Marlin, if you focused on that, was fairly good,probably at twice the rate of the Marlin hook-ups experienced by thetournament anglers.[/#000000][/#000000]
YELLOWFIN TUNA: With the Black and Blue Tournament going on, andsince Tuna did not count in any category, the pressure on the Tunawas pretty slack. Not that there were many out there, but those thatwere caught were pretty decent fish. There were scattered pods ofDolphin to the south 30 miles and to the west the same distance, andsome of these pods produced a few Yellowfin to 35 pounds, but onceagain the focus for big fish was on the Gorda Banks area. Charterboats drifting, slow trolling or flying live bait off of kites weregetting the occasional bite from fish that occasionally exceeded 300pounds (314 for one boat) but most of them were between 100 and 200pounds. It took a while, you had to have patience. One of ourfriends worked the area for two days and managed to get a nice 158pound fish.
[#000000]DORADO: The Dorado bite experienced asudden drop this week and I am not sure why. Plenty of charters wereworking both the inside and the outside area of the Pacific coastlineand most were lucky to get three or four fish, there were no reallylarge concentrations found. Boats that did well were ones that werewilling to lose their first fish to get more. Leaving that firstfish in the water and slow trolling it 30 feet behind the boat untilmore fish appeared was the trick, and it works much of the time. Wehad one fly-fishing client this week who did very well, it's oftenhard to get enough shots at a fish on the fly rod, but if your targetis Dorado, this method as well as heavily chumming with Sardinesworks very well. On the Cortez side there were Dorado appearing infair numbers off of the Cabo Del Sol area as tournament boats wereheavily chumming the area early in the morning attempting to getthose big Skipjack for live bait. With 30 or 40 boats tossingSardinia in the water the Dorado came in and there were quite a fewcaught. I didn't see any really large Dorado come in, or hear of anylarge ones, most of the fish were between 10 and 15 pounds, but therewere a couple of big fish caught by tournament boats, at least Iassume they were big as the teams reported the hook-ups on the radiobefore reporting them as non-qualifying species.[/#000000]
[#000000]WAHOO: The full moon did produce more Wahoothan were caught last week. During the tournament our team caught a60 pound fish the first day. While not worth any money in thetournament, it sure was good to eat! Other boats reported hooking upWahoo as well, and there were a decent number caught by the charterfleet. I did hear of one boat getting two 30 pound fish one day. The action on these fish was scattered and not concentrated in anyone area.[/#000000]
[#000000] INSHORE: The slow down in the Dorado bitehad many of the panga anglers crying this week. Last week wasabsolutely great, but there was a dearth of action off the beach thisweek. One of the saving graces was that area off of Cabo Real earlyin the morning as the numbers of white Skipjack and scattered Doradoat least produced action. For the normal inshore species such asRoosterfish, Jacks, Grouper and Snapper, the action was slow as well. Fishing on the Cortez side of the Cape just off the beach producedmost of the action as this was the side of the Cape that was holdingthe Sardinia schools.[/#000000]
[#000000]FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this weeksrecipe! [/#000000]
[#000000]NOTES: In a couple of days I am going toproduce a short blog with some number crunching concerning thetournaments we have just had, so check it out. I had a great timefishing this week, just wish our team, “Sporty Game” had gottenour big bite on Thursday hooked up. Oh well, next year! We did getthat nice Wahoo as well as a Dorado while bait fishing, so there werefish in the boat, just not the right kind. I would like to thankMary for keeping the blog updated with the tournament results while Iwas out fishing, great job honey! Also, a big thank you to MarkBailey for turning me on to the group “Two Tons of Steel”, thisis the first time I had heard of them. Based out of San Antonio,they are described as a “rockabilly” group. However you want todescribe them, they are fun to listen to! Until next week, tightlines! Oh, don't forget that Cabo has changed their time already,last night we set our clock back when we went to sleep. This is oneweek earlier than in the states, so don't get
when you getdown here![/#000000]
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[#000000]Captain George Landrum[/#000000]
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[#000000]Cabo Fish Report[/#000000]
[#000000] October 23 - 28, 2012[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]WEATHER: [/#000000][#000000]Ireally don't know what to say except to mention what a great pleasureit has been to once again get through the heat and humidity thatsummer time brings to us here in the southern part of the BajaPeninsula. When our nighttime lows stay in the mid 70's and thedaytime highs stay in the low 90's it is about as good as it gets,compared to what we had for the past three months. In another fewmonths we will be even cooler as the temperature at night drops tothe low 60's, but this weather I would prefer to have year round! Wehad very light clouds this week and while the beginning of the weekstarted off a bit windy, by the end of the week we were experiencingjust light breezes. The week started with moderate winds from thenorthwest, picking up in the afternoon, and ended with light breezesfrom the northeast in the morning, dying to nothing in the afternoon.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]WATER: [/#000000][#000000]Onthe Sea of Cortez side of the Cape we had water at 84-85 degreesinside the 1,000 fathom line most of the week, with the exception onFriday when a hot spot of 87 degree water formed across the 1150 tothe 95 spot and out to the 1,000 fathom line. For most of the weekthere was a good temperature break at the 1,000 fathom line as wellwith the water to the northeast being 2 degrees warmer than the waterto the southwest. Surface conditions on the Cortez side were greatall week as well with swells at 2-4 feet early in the week anddropping to 1-3 feet later in the week. On the Pacific side we wereseeing the water between the San Jaime and the Golden Gate Banks at84-85 degrees with swells at 3-6 feet early in the week and droppingto 2-4 feet later in the week. In between the Cortez and the Pacificwe had a late intrusion of cooler water at 82-83 degrees, coming into almost three miles of the arch. The water was slightly cleaner onthe Pacific side than it was on the Cortez side this week.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BAIT: [/#000000][#000000]Same bait report as last week. Sardines could be had here in Cabothis week, probably due to the demand of the tournament boats who usethem to catch skip jack and small Yellowfin for bait. A scoopedbucket would set you back $25, but they were in much better shapethan the Sardines we were getting earlier in the week from bait boatsfarther north. Caballito and Mullet could be had easily at $3 each,and there were frozen Bally-hoo for $3 each.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000] FISHING:[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BILLFISH[/#000000][#000000]:Our big money Marlin tournament season is over now that the BisbeeBlack and Blue is finished, at least the tournaments for big Marlin. Next week is a small tournament with the Trip Advisor websitemembers, then the W.O.N. Tuna tournament in November. Next year wewill see more tournaments that focus on Striped Marlin in the Spring. Statistics can do funny things to your thinking, and as I did lastweek in the report, this week I am going to lay a few more on you,based on the three day Black and Blue tournament that just finished. There was 106 teams fishing three days for 318 boat days on thewater, with big Marlin as the focus. There were 67 billfish caught, 1Spearfish, 4 Sailfish, 4 Black Marlin, 19 Blue Marlin and 39 StripedMarlin. Based on this, it took 4.75 boat days to get a Marlin thisweek. Pretty
stats, and when there was only one Marlin caughtover 300 pounds it almost makes me cry. (The team that caught the 2.4million dollar fish is not crying!) Once again I have to remind youthat the stats for normal charters would be much better as the focusfor most of the boats in the tournament was big Blue or Black Marlinover 300 pounds, or numbers of smaller sized Blues or Blacks. Noneof these boats focused on Striped Marlin, which is the most commonspecies here, as evidenced by the comparative number caught duringthe Tournament. In conclusion, while the possibility of getting aBlue or Black to the boat was fairly small, the chances of hookinginto a Striped Marlin, if you focused on that, was fairly good,probably at twice the rate of the Marlin hook-ups experienced by thetournament anglers.[/#000000][/#000000]YELLOWFIN TUNA: With the Black and Blue Tournament going on, andsince Tuna did not count in any category, the pressure on the Tunawas pretty slack. Not that there were many out there, but those thatwere caught were pretty decent fish. There were scattered pods ofDolphin to the south 30 miles and to the west the same distance, andsome of these pods produced a few Yellowfin to 35 pounds, but onceagain the focus for big fish was on the Gorda Banks area. Charterboats drifting, slow trolling or flying live bait off of kites weregetting the occasional bite from fish that occasionally exceeded 300pounds (314 for one boat) but most of them were between 100 and 200pounds. It took a while, you had to have patience. One of ourfriends worked the area for two days and managed to get a nice 158pound fish.
[#000000]DORADO: The Dorado bite experienced asudden drop this week and I am not sure why. Plenty of charters wereworking both the inside and the outside area of the Pacific coastlineand most were lucky to get three or four fish, there were no reallylarge concentrations found. Boats that did well were ones that werewilling to lose their first fish to get more. Leaving that firstfish in the water and slow trolling it 30 feet behind the boat untilmore fish appeared was the trick, and it works much of the time. Wehad one fly-fishing client this week who did very well, it's oftenhard to get enough shots at a fish on the fly rod, but if your targetis Dorado, this method as well as heavily chumming with Sardinesworks very well. On the Cortez side there were Dorado appearing infair numbers off of the Cabo Del Sol area as tournament boats wereheavily chumming the area early in the morning attempting to getthose big Skipjack for live bait. With 30 or 40 boats tossingSardinia in the water the Dorado came in and there were quite a fewcaught. I didn't see any really large Dorado come in, or hear of anylarge ones, most of the fish were between 10 and 15 pounds, but therewere a couple of big fish caught by tournament boats, at least Iassume they were big as the teams reported the hook-ups on the radiobefore reporting them as non-qualifying species.[/#000000]
[#000000]WAHOO: The full moon did produce more Wahoothan were caught last week. During the tournament our team caught a60 pound fish the first day. While not worth any money in thetournament, it sure was good to eat! Other boats reported hooking upWahoo as well, and there were a decent number caught by the charterfleet. I did hear of one boat getting two 30 pound fish one day. The action on these fish was scattered and not concentrated in anyone area.[/#000000]
[#000000] INSHORE: The slow down in the Dorado bitehad many of the panga anglers crying this week. Last week wasabsolutely great, but there was a dearth of action off the beach thisweek. One of the saving graces was that area off of Cabo Real earlyin the morning as the numbers of white Skipjack and scattered Doradoat least produced action. For the normal inshore species such asRoosterfish, Jacks, Grouper and Snapper, the action was slow as well. Fishing on the Cortez side of the Cape just off the beach producedmost of the action as this was the side of the Cape that was holdingthe Sardinia schools.[/#000000]
[#000000]FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this weeksrecipe! [/#000000]
[#000000]NOTES: In a couple of days I am going toproduce a short blog with some number crunching concerning thetournaments we have just had, so check it out. I had a great timefishing this week, just wish our team, “Sporty Game” had gottenour big bite on Thursday hooked up. Oh well, next year! We did getthat nice Wahoo as well as a Dorado while bait fishing, so there werefish in the boat, just not the right kind. I would like to thankMary for keeping the blog updated with the tournament results while Iwas out fishing, great job honey! Also, a big thank you to MarkBailey for turning me on to the group “Two Tons of Steel”, thisis the first time I had heard of them. Based out of San Antonio,they are described as a “rockabilly” group. However you want todescribe them, they are fun to listen to! Until next week, tightlines! Oh, don't forget that Cabo has changed their time already,last night we set our clock back when we went to sleep. This is oneweek earlier than in the states, so don't get
when you getdown here![/#000000][signature]