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[#000000]Captain George Landrum[/#000000]
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[#000000]Cabo Fish Report[/#000000]
[#000000] November 5 - 11, 2012[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]WEATHER: [/#000000][#000000]Ilove this time of the year in Cabo. We get the nice cool eveningswhen the temperature is right around 80 degrees, mornings with aslight chill with low 70's and daytime where you can warm up a bit inthe low 90's. No sweaters needed at night, but no air conditioningeither! This week we had mostly sunny days with light clouds formost of the week. The winds were light except on Saturday when theyfreshened up a bit, but they never got strong.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]WATER: [/#000000][#000000]Onthe Cortez side of the Cape this week we were seeing water from thebeach out to the 1,000 fathom line showing 82.4 to 84.4 degrees whilejust past this area the water warmed up to the mid 85 degree rangeand did touch 86 degrees in a few areas. The water was mostly cleanand blue with a few of the area in cooler water showing a touch ofgreen, but nothing easy to notice. Add in the flat water with littlewind and no swells to speak of and it was like being on a pool table. On the Pacific side it was 81 to 83 degrees all along the coast linefrom the beach out past the banks. The water was clean and blue withsmall swells and almost no wind most days. It did blow a bit onSaturday but not hard enough or long enough to get the swells up,just a bit of chop.[/#000000][#000000] UPDATE 11/11/12:[/#000000][#000000] The wind yesterday continued to blow the rest of the day andincreased over the night. We went to the Pacific side this morningand only made it half way past the lighthouse to the Los Arcos areabefore turning back. Swells had picked up to 4-6 feet with the windat 15-20 knots. Boats running the beach made it farther up, avoidingthe wind chop and current lines, but I can't imagine that the waterconditions off the beach were much better. Wind is supposed to laydown to 8-10 knots tomorrow, and like today from the NNW.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BAIT: [/#000000][#000000]Same as last week, Caballito and Mullet could be had at $3 each. Oncethe water cools a few more degrees there should be a few Mackerelshowing up as well. There were Sardinas at $25 a bucket and plentyof them as boats were supplying enough for the Tuna Tournament. Youcould get frozen horse Bally-hoo at $3 each.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000] FISHING:[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BILLFISH[/#000000][#000000]:I heard of no reports I could verify of any Blue or Black Marlin thisweek, and I spent two days with a friend looking for only those fishwhile the W.O.N. Tuna tournament was going on. There were someStriped Marlin caught, but almost all were on the Pacific side, closeto the beach. A few boats were dropping live bait down halfway tothe bottom or all the way to the bottom and getting a few hook-ups,and there were a few fish spotted tailing that were willing to eat alive bait. Just as last week, I estimate that about 20% or fewer ofthe boats were able to catch a Striped Marlin this week. There werealso few Sailfish, though a couple were caught, and they were foundon the Cortez side in the warmer water.[/#000000][/#000000]
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Fish of the week! The only reason they have edgedout the Dorado is the number of boats that were targeting them thisweek. Thursday and Friday were the two fishing days for theYamaha/Western Outdoor News Tuna Tournament and with 121 teamsentered the pressure to find a big fish was heavy. Since practicallythe only area that has been producing any Yellowfin fish of qualityhas been the Gordo Banks, my friend Mike of”Renegade Mike” toldme it was almost a parking lot with over 70 boats positioned on andaround the area on the first day. The pressure was too much for someof the boats on the second day so they left and targeted Dorado andWahoo instead. The results were impressive with the largest fishcaught being 372 pounds! Mike caught the largest Tuna of day one witha #266 and ended up taking second overall along with a fish thatwould have been fourth place if the money had paid out that far. There were a dozen fish over 200 pounds caught during the tournament,and all but one came from the Gordo area. The tournament has no ideaof the numbers of smaller fish but there were plenty of them! Mostof these fish were taken by boats that were chunking bonito orchumming with Sardinas, and you were not getting bit if you did nothave flouro-carbon leader, the fish were very shy. The only otherarea that produced Yellowfin was a school on the second dayapproximately 12 miles to the north of the Golden Gate Bank. I onlysaw 6 boats working this school, four of them flying kites, but oneof the 200+ pound fish was caught from this school.
[#000000]DORADO: I think the results of the Tunatournament speak of the Dorado fishing as far as size goes as therewere no Dorado weighed over 30 pounds, even with $78,000 U.S. on theline the second day. But there were lot's of them out there! Almostall the action was on the Pacific side between the Los Arcos area allthe way to Todo Santos. Fishing within two miles of the beach usingdrifted or slow trolled live bait, or fishing a spread of lures,every boat that tried was able to limit out on fish that ran from 10to 20 pounds with a few to 25 pounds. As usual, getting the firstone hooked up and leaving it in the water behind the boat resulted inmore fish coming in and better catches. With most of the boats onthe first day concentrating on Yellowfin the pressure on the Doradowas light, but on the second day of the tournament it picked up abit. Now that the tournament is over you can expect the pressure onthe Dorado to return as they are the base of the charter operationsthis time of year.[/#000000]
[#000000]WAHOO: Once again Wahoo action was sporadicwith quite a few small fish caught and no really large ones. Theaction was spread out all over the place with fish being caughtaround the Punta Gordo area and up off of Todo Santos. Looking forthem along the 50 fathom line or closer in resulted in fish that werein the 20 pound class. The largest one weighed in during the Tunatournament was only #30.4 and ended up taking the $78,000 prize inthe Wahoo/Dorado category. My math makes that fish worth $2,565.78 apound![/#000000]
[#000000] INSHORE: There was no change in the inshorefishing report for this week . You can almost consider the Yellowfin,Skipjack and Dorado bite as inshore fishing since the mainconcentration was in less than 300 feet of water, and since it hasbeen so good, few of the Pangas did any fishing right on the beach. Those that did found a few smaller sized Roosterfish, plenty ofNeedle-fish, a scattering of Jack Crevalle but not a lot of anythingelse. I did hear of a few Sierra being caught, but not any largenumbers.[/#000000]
[#000000]FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this weeksrecipe! A really good one for Dorado![/#000000]
[#000000]NOTES: The tournaments are now over and itis time to settle in for the season. It appears as if both the Tunaand Dorado may be here for a little while longer, at least for thenext month or so. Hopefully the Striped Marlin bite will turn onsoon. When we start to see more Mackerel in the bait supplies thereshould be more Striped Marlin showing. Remember, all I do is fishing(with a bit of golf thrown in) so you get a no non-sense, factualreport on our conditions every week, and most of the time I have beenon the water a day or two myself. I have had a few questions abouthow I get my information, and after 13 years here I have an amazingnumber of phone numbers that I work every week, besides by ownexperience. Combine the calls I make to Captains, I talk to greatnumbers of anglers, both clients and non-clients to find out how theydid and where they went. This weeks report was written to the musicof Brian Flynn once again as I am looking forward to his bandsconcert this Sunday at the outdoor amphitheater in the new culturalcenter. (Brian has played with Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck, Loverboy,Ralph Dinosaur, The Marshall Tucker Band, Molly Hatchett, SouthernRock Allstars and Guess Who). Looking forward to it! Until nextweek, tight lines![/#000000]
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and posts it on Sunday morning. So if you
can'twait, click the "FOLLOW" on the top of the
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[#000000]Captain George Landrum[/#000000]
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[#000000]Cabo Fish Report[/#000000]
[#000000] November 5 - 11, 2012[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]WEATHER: [/#000000][#000000]Ilove this time of the year in Cabo. We get the nice cool eveningswhen the temperature is right around 80 degrees, mornings with aslight chill with low 70's and daytime where you can warm up a bit inthe low 90's. No sweaters needed at night, but no air conditioningeither! This week we had mostly sunny days with light clouds formost of the week. The winds were light except on Saturday when theyfreshened up a bit, but they never got strong.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]WATER: [/#000000][#000000]Onthe Cortez side of the Cape this week we were seeing water from thebeach out to the 1,000 fathom line showing 82.4 to 84.4 degrees whilejust past this area the water warmed up to the mid 85 degree rangeand did touch 86 degrees in a few areas. The water was mostly cleanand blue with a few of the area in cooler water showing a touch ofgreen, but nothing easy to notice. Add in the flat water with littlewind and no swells to speak of and it was like being on a pool table. On the Pacific side it was 81 to 83 degrees all along the coast linefrom the beach out past the banks. The water was clean and blue withsmall swells and almost no wind most days. It did blow a bit onSaturday but not hard enough or long enough to get the swells up,just a bit of chop.[/#000000][#000000] UPDATE 11/11/12:[/#000000][#000000] The wind yesterday continued to blow the rest of the day andincreased over the night. We went to the Pacific side this morningand only made it half way past the lighthouse to the Los Arcos areabefore turning back. Swells had picked up to 4-6 feet with the windat 15-20 knots. Boats running the beach made it farther up, avoidingthe wind chop and current lines, but I can't imagine that the waterconditions off the beach were much better. Wind is supposed to laydown to 8-10 knots tomorrow, and like today from the NNW.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BAIT: [/#000000][#000000]Same as last week, Caballito and Mullet could be had at $3 each. Oncethe water cools a few more degrees there should be a few Mackerelshowing up as well. There were Sardinas at $25 a bucket and plentyof them as boats were supplying enough for the Tuna Tournament. Youcould get frozen horse Bally-hoo at $3 each.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000] FISHING:[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BILLFISH[/#000000][#000000]:I heard of no reports I could verify of any Blue or Black Marlin thisweek, and I spent two days with a friend looking for only those fishwhile the W.O.N. Tuna tournament was going on. There were someStriped Marlin caught, but almost all were on the Pacific side, closeto the beach. A few boats were dropping live bait down halfway tothe bottom or all the way to the bottom and getting a few hook-ups,and there were a few fish spotted tailing that were willing to eat alive bait. Just as last week, I estimate that about 20% or fewer ofthe boats were able to catch a Striped Marlin this week. There werealso few Sailfish, though a couple were caught, and they were foundon the Cortez side in the warmer water.[/#000000][/#000000]
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Fish of the week! The only reason they have edgedout the Dorado is the number of boats that were targeting them thisweek. Thursday and Friday were the two fishing days for theYamaha/Western Outdoor News Tuna Tournament and with 121 teamsentered the pressure to find a big fish was heavy. Since practicallythe only area that has been producing any Yellowfin fish of qualityhas been the Gordo Banks, my friend Mike of”Renegade Mike” toldme it was almost a parking lot with over 70 boats positioned on andaround the area on the first day. The pressure was too much for someof the boats on the second day so they left and targeted Dorado andWahoo instead. The results were impressive with the largest fishcaught being 372 pounds! Mike caught the largest Tuna of day one witha #266 and ended up taking second overall along with a fish thatwould have been fourth place if the money had paid out that far. There were a dozen fish over 200 pounds caught during the tournament,and all but one came from the Gordo area. The tournament has no ideaof the numbers of smaller fish but there were plenty of them! Mostof these fish were taken by boats that were chunking bonito orchumming with Sardinas, and you were not getting bit if you did nothave flouro-carbon leader, the fish were very shy. The only otherarea that produced Yellowfin was a school on the second dayapproximately 12 miles to the north of the Golden Gate Bank. I onlysaw 6 boats working this school, four of them flying kites, but oneof the 200+ pound fish was caught from this school.
[#000000]DORADO: I think the results of the Tunatournament speak of the Dorado fishing as far as size goes as therewere no Dorado weighed over 30 pounds, even with $78,000 U.S. on theline the second day. But there were lot's of them out there! Almostall the action was on the Pacific side between the Los Arcos area allthe way to Todo Santos. Fishing within two miles of the beach usingdrifted or slow trolled live bait, or fishing a spread of lures,every boat that tried was able to limit out on fish that ran from 10to 20 pounds with a few to 25 pounds. As usual, getting the firstone hooked up and leaving it in the water behind the boat resulted inmore fish coming in and better catches. With most of the boats onthe first day concentrating on Yellowfin the pressure on the Doradowas light, but on the second day of the tournament it picked up abit. Now that the tournament is over you can expect the pressure onthe Dorado to return as they are the base of the charter operationsthis time of year.[/#000000]
[#000000]WAHOO: Once again Wahoo action was sporadicwith quite a few small fish caught and no really large ones. Theaction was spread out all over the place with fish being caughtaround the Punta Gordo area and up off of Todo Santos. Looking forthem along the 50 fathom line or closer in resulted in fish that werein the 20 pound class. The largest one weighed in during the Tunatournament was only #30.4 and ended up taking the $78,000 prize inthe Wahoo/Dorado category. My math makes that fish worth $2,565.78 apound![/#000000]
[#000000] INSHORE: There was no change in the inshorefishing report for this week . You can almost consider the Yellowfin,Skipjack and Dorado bite as inshore fishing since the mainconcentration was in less than 300 feet of water, and since it hasbeen so good, few of the Pangas did any fishing right on the beach. Those that did found a few smaller sized Roosterfish, plenty ofNeedle-fish, a scattering of Jack Crevalle but not a lot of anythingelse. I did hear of a few Sierra being caught, but not any largenumbers.[/#000000]
[#000000]FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this weeksrecipe! A really good one for Dorado![/#000000]
[#000000]NOTES: The tournaments are now over and itis time to settle in for the season. It appears as if both the Tunaand Dorado may be here for a little while longer, at least for thenext month or so. Hopefully the Striped Marlin bite will turn onsoon. When we start to see more Mackerel in the bait supplies thereshould be more Striped Marlin showing. Remember, all I do is fishing(with a bit of golf thrown in) so you get a no non-sense, factualreport on our conditions every week, and most of the time I have beenon the water a day or two myself. I have had a few questions abouthow I get my information, and after 13 years here I have an amazingnumber of phone numbers that I work every week, besides by ownexperience. Combine the calls I make to Captains, I talk to greatnumbers of anglers, both clients and non-clients to find out how theydid and where they went. This weeks report was written to the musicof Brian Flynn once again as I am looking forward to his bandsconcert this Sunday at the outdoor amphitheater in the new culturalcenter. (Brian has played with Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck, Loverboy,Ralph Dinosaur, The Marshall Tucker Band, Molly Hatchett, SouthernRock Allstars and Guess Who). Looking forward to it! Until nextweek, 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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