San Jose del Cabo Fish Report (11/16/2009)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] In recent days there were more tuna moving in throughout the region, Santa Maria, Chileno, Red Hill, Gordo Banks, Punta Gorda, Cardon, La Fortuna, Iman to Vinorama were all attracting large concentrations of yellowfin that were ranging from smaller football models to over 100 pounds as well, once again these fish were striking best while drift fishing with bait.
San Jose del Cabo Fish Report (11/10/2009)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] Latest WON Tournament update is that a local team on the sportfisher“Fisherman” team has broken a new Cabo San Lucas record on the first day of the event with a humongous yellowfin tuna that weighed in at an incredible 383 pounds.
Gordo Banks Coming To Life! (11/01/2009)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] The Gordo Banks is showing signs of coming to life this past week, larger sized tuna of 60 to 250 pounds were schooling in this area and anglers drift fishing with sardinas and chunk bait did report hook ups, dead sardinas were working better than live.
San Jose del Cabo Fish Report (10/25/2009)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] Water was just clearing back up to pre storm conditions and dorado was the most common fish being encountered. Most charters were working the areas from Santa Maria north to San Luis Bank, the majority of the dorado found weighed in the 10 to 15 pound class, though there were impressive size bulls up to 40 pounds accounted for.
Fishing For Dorado by Chumming with Sardinas (10/11/2009)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] Dorado counts also improved, they were striking a variety of medium sized lures and once found by trolling the schools could be brought close to the boat by chumming with sardinas.
Mixed Bag Fishing Report From Santa Maria to Vinorama (9/27/2009)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] Local fleets out of San Jose del Cabo are working areas from the Gordo Banks to Vinorama, finding mixed action for yellowfin tuna, dorado, dogtooth snapper, grouper, amberjack, barred pargo, bonito and skipjack.
San Jose del Cabo Fish Report (9/20/2009)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] On Thursday the tuna seemed to have moved off of the Iman Bank and further north to the Vinorama area, this is where the 100 fathom curve comes within one mile of shore. Yellowfin tuna were found free jumping and readily came up on live sardinas, when boat pressure was light they also hit on medium sized trolling feathers, these fish were mixed in size, from footballs to 80 pounds.
Yellowfin Fishing Trips Are Best Now (9/13/2009)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] There continue to be the quality grade of yellowfin found in this area, the majority of the fish being hooked into are weighing in the 50 to 80 pound class, though there were much larger tuna being seen at times boiling on the surface.
San Jose del Cabo Fish Report (8/30/2009)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] The yellowfin tuna which are averaging 30 to 80 pounds are striking on lighter 40 to 60 pound leaders more readily, hitting on a combination of techniques.
San Jose del Cabo Fish Report (8/23/2009)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] Local fleets were finding the most consistent action from La Fortuna to San Luis Bank, with the Iman Bank being the top producer for yellowfin tuna. These tuna were averaging 60 to 80 pounds, but there were much larger yellowfin tuna in the area.
San Jose del Cabo Fish Report (8/16/2009)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] Average daily catches per charter have consisted of one to three yellowfin tuna of 40 to 80 pounds per boat and 3 to 10 dorado mixed in.
San Jose del Cabo Fish Report (8/09/2009)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] In recent days the yellowfin tuna seemed to be more active within several miles of shore concentrated near structure, there were larger pods of porpoise still found further offshore, but more often than not the yellowfin tuna were not up on the surface ready to bite.
San Jose del Cabo Fish Report (7/26/2009)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] Perhaps the best local bite this past week was for amberjack, pangeros from La Playita were jigging up small jacks (jurelito) from directly in front of the Puerto Los Cabos Marina Jetties early in the morning, using these for fly lined baits.
San Jose del Cabo Fish Report (7/19/2009)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] Overall the fishing action has not been up to summer standards for the Los Cabos area, though there have been a variety of species being found, just the bite has not been consistent and numbers of fish caught have been limited.
San Jose del Cabo Fish Report (7/12/2009)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] The fleet was concentrating on San Luis Bank where large schools of huachinago (red snapper) were seen feeding near the surface on small sized jelly fish, not the easiest baitfish to match, but the snapper would strike on yo-yo jigs early in the day, many charters were catching ten or more of these fish that were weighing anywhere from 8 to 12 pounds.
San Jose del Cabo Fish Report (7/05/2009)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] Starting on Saturday morning the conditions improved, wind laid completely down. The local panga charters found very good action on the San Luis Bank for huchinango (red snapper) that were found schooling on the surface feeding on small jelly fish, early in the day these 8 to 14 pound snapper did strike well on yo-yo style jigs, anglers that were on this spot accounted for up to ten nice snapper.
Didn't Take Long For First Tropical Storm - Andres (6/28/2009)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] On Friday the south wind started to blow to 20 plus miles per hour, this pushed in cooler green water (70 degrees) from the Pacific and limited fishing options over the weekend, we are now waiting for conditions to return to how they had been.
San Jose del Cabo Fish Report (6/21/2009)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] The fishing grounds have had increased concentrations of bolito, which proved to be very productive baitfish for a variety of gamefish.
San Jose del Cabo Fish Report (6/15/2009)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] Dorado have slowly begun to increase in numbers, trolling lures and various baits is producing, both inshore and offshore, trolled bolito baits have accounted for a larger percentage of the bulls accounted for this past week.
San Jose del Cabo Fish Report (6/08/2009)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] almilla Point has been producing good morning action for sierra, yellowtail, amberjack, bonito and even a few dorado. Concentrations of juvenile sized roosterfish are schooling along the beach stretches.
San Jose del Cabo Fish Report (5/31/2009)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] For the local panga fleets the most consistent action and chance at catching larger fish has been to troll with live mullet close to shore, near rock outcroppings and sandy beach stretches for dogtooth snapper and roosterfish.
San Jose del Cabo Fish Report (5/24/2009)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] Giant squid are still in the area, creating problems on the inshore fishing grounds where they have moved in and scattered all of the yellowtail, amberjack and other species that had been providing sport for anglers.
San Jose del Cabo Fish Report (5/17/2009)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] In recent days the water clarity closer to shore has progressively become greener, by mid week visibility was down to about five feet. Charters are reporting cleaner blue water outside where the warmer water was found, but fishing action was not consistent, though lots of striped marlin were seen swimming on the surface and free jumping, getting them to bite was another story.
Fishing San Jose Del Cabo For Mixed Action (5/10/2009)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] Local panga fleets fished areas from Palmilla to Iman, doing a combination of jigging off the rock structure, trolling bait and lures on the surface. They found mixed action for amberjack, pargo, cabrilla, yellowfin tuna, bonito, wahoo, roosterfish, yellowtail and dorado.
San Jose del Cabo Fish Report (5/03/2009)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] Over the past weekend the first real action of the year for yellowfin tuna broke open on the fishing grounds from San Luis to Vinorama. Anglers were jigging up the abundant giant squid and using them as strip bait to drift fish for yellowfin tuna that were averaging 40 to 70 pounds.
San Jose del Cabo Fish Report (4/20/2009)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] Since the offshore action has not been consistent many of the charters are concentrated closer to shore where anglers were using live sardinas, hoochies, rapalas and yo-yo jigs, accounting for a wide variety of mostly smaller species.
San Jose del Cabo Fish Report (4/13/2009)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] Most of the panga charters continue to fish closer to shore for a mixed bag of species while they wait for offshore action to come even closer to shore and become more consistent.
San Jose del Cabo Fish Report (4/06/2009)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] The fishing grounds off of San Jose del Cabo and to the north are starting to see more schooling of mackerel and sardinetas, this is also attracting gamefish such as striped marlin, dorado, thrasher and mako shark, as well as yellowfin tuna.
San Jose del Cabo Fish Report (3/29/2009)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] This past week there were once again more dorado seen in the fish counts, this due to warming water temperatures off of San Jose, fish were found close to shore as well as 3 to 8 miles out, at times congregating near drifting sargasso weed lines.
San Jose del Cabo Fish Report (3/23/2009)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] The most consistent fishing action is now being found closer to shore, this is where schools of sardinas have been congregating, attracting sierra, roosterfish, dorado and jack crevalle.
San Jose del Cabo Fish Report (3/14/2009)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] Sierra have been the most consistent catch close to shore, striking best on live sardinas, but also on a variety of artificial lures. The arroyo off of Chileno has been a hot spot, with much of the fleet concentrating in this area.
San Jose del Cabo Fish Report (3/08/2009)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] Inshore action was mainly for sierra in the 2 to 4 pound class, striking most consistently on trolled sardinas, but also on rapalas and hoochies. The same beach stretches produced some spotty roosterfish action and there were a couple of reports of dorado being hooking into right outside the surf zone.
San Jose del Cabo Fish Report (3/02/2009)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] Dorado numbers dropped and schools became scattered, though some fish in the 10 to 20 pound were still providing action, more often than not they were found closer to shore.
San Jose del Cabo Fish Report (2/21/2009)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] The most consistent fishing for dorado and yellowfin tuna was now being found on the fishing grounds from La Fortuna to Iman Bank.
San Jose del Cabo Fish Report (2/14/2009)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] Dorado were the most common species found, boats were catching easy limits, with many other fish being released, weights ranged from 10 to 20 pounds, with a few exceptions of larger fish mixed in.
San Jose del Cabo Fish Report (2/08/2009)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] Punta Gorda continues to be the best area to search for wahoo, the bite has varied from dead to wide open, depending when you were there and what baits or lures you were using. These wahoo, when active, would readily strike on mackerel, sardinas, yo-yo jigs, Yo-Zuri, Rapala and skirted lead heads.
Dorado and Yellowfin Tuna Fishing Off Punta Gorda (2/01/2009)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] Local panga fleets continued to find the best action close to shore off of Punta Gorda, this is where there were concentrations of dorado, yellowfin tuna and surprisingly many wahoo were still found schooling here, even though the water was cooling and off colored.
San Jose del Cabo Fish Report (1/25/2009)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] This winter is full of surprises and one of the more incredible things being talked about is that there are still wahoo holding in the area of Punta Gorda and for the anglers that have targeted these largest members of the mackerel family.
San Jose del Cabo Fish Report (1/17/2009)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] Schools of mackerel baitfish are now congregating on all of the regular spots off of the San Jose del Cabo region and this has attracted more striped marlin.
San Jose del Cabo Fish Report (1/10/2009)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] Dorado were the most common species being hooked into, found from very close to shore to several miles offshore where the baitfish were concentrated.
Dorado Action (1/03/2009)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] It was definitely the dorado action that highlighted the action in recent days. Quality sized for this late in the season. With bulls reportedly as large as 40 pounds and many fish in the 15 to 25 pound class.
San Jose del Cabo Fish Report (12/27/2008)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] he fishing action was very good through the weekend and at the start of the week, before conditions became less favorable. Dorado counts were high, with fish being found close to shore. Striking on practically anything offered.
San Jose del Cabo Fish Report (12/21/2008)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] Though the dorado have been hard to stay away from, there are still some nice late season wahoo to be had. The areas of Punta Gorda, Cardon and La Fortuna are producing fish on a daily basis, some anglers are landing up to three or four wahoo in a morning.
Best Wahoo Bite Of The Fall Season (12/14/2008)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] The first week of December produced the best wahoo bite of the fall season, several charters reported up to five wahoo landed and many other strikes lost as well. Fish were ranging in sizes from 10 to 50 pounds, striking on a wide variety of lures and baits, including sardinas, caballito, Rapala, Yo-Yuri, Marauder and yo-yo.
San Jose del Cabo Fish Report (12/07/2008)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] Wahoo have become much more active the past few days, particularly off of La Fortuna, anglers caught them on sardinas, cocinero (jacks), chihuil, ballyhoo and even casting yo-yo jigs. Also the elusive ‘hoo were striking on the normal array of specialized lures, such as Marauders, Rapalas, Yo-Zuris and skirted lead heads.
Dorado Fishing Los Cabos Area (11/30/2008)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] Dorado action has been good throughout the area, many fish in the 10 to 20 pound class, striking on lures and various baits.
Wahoo Fishing Punta Gorda To Vinorama (11/22/2008)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] Over this last weekend a very respectable bite for wahoo developed, the hot spots were off of Punta Gorda, less than a mile from shore and also on the Inner Gordo Banks, with a few other wahoo taken from the areas off of Cardon, La Fortuna, Iman and San Luis.
The yellowfin tuna were biting well (11/16/2008)
[San Jose del Cabo,BJ] The yellowfin tuna were biting well on the live bait early in the morning, but it took quite a bit of chum to get the tuna up on the surface in the feeding mood and once the bait supply ended the fish disappeared just as fast.