FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrum
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
Cabo Fish Report
WEATHER: It seems like summer already since the daytime temperatures have been in the mid 90's! Our evenings have been a bit cooler with early morning readings of 65 degrees but the warm air in the daytime has been nice, especially since we have had very low humidity. The week has been a good one with partly cloudy skies and no rain, just enough wind in the afternoons to keep things from getting too warm and almost no wind at all in the mornings. WATER: The warmer water this week was mostly on the Cortez side of the cape at an average temperature of 73 degrees while the Pacific side was averaging 70 degrees. There is a plume of cooler water running from the tip of the Cape out about 10 miles but other than that there has been no pronounced water changes. Surface conditions have been good with light chop and swells on the Pacific side and winds from the west-northwest, the Cortez side has been fairly flat with wind from the north once you get up around the Punta Gorda area. On Sunday there was a heavy fog bank to the east, it is unusual to get fog this heavy here in March so who knows what is going on, other than the water is a bit warmer and the air temps a bit higher than normal for this time of year, maybe an El Nino year? BAIT: This week the bait was 90% Mackerel with 10% Caballito and they were the normal $2 per bait. FISHING:
BILLFISH: Marlin fishing has remained slow for almost everyone but at least there are fish out there. Striped Marlin have been found this past week at the San Jaime and the Golden Gate Banks as well as inside the banks 4 miles off the beach. The high spots are concentrating the bait and the closer fish have been holding on the temperature break. While there are a lot of fish out there the bite is still slow, probably due to the massive amounts of squid in the area. Almost every fish that has been caught has spit up lots of squid. The water is starting to warm up and there was a report of a Blue Marlin being hooked up at the San Jaime bank this week, 7 jumps and then a spit hook on a fish estimated at 300 pounds.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Tuna were scarce once again but there were reports of fish found on both the Cortez and the Pacific side out around 25 to 40 miles. Quite a few boats went looking for the Tuna but only a lucky few got into them. I heard of a lot of 40+ mile trips that did not see any fish or found Porpoise but couldn't get bit. The lucky boats found fish that were small, most of them were footballs in the 10-pound class, but there were a few fish that pushed the 25-pound mark. Little tuna, yes, but at least there were some found. Hopefully there will be some bigger ones in the area soon. Cedar plugs were once again the key to getting bit, feathers were not doing very well and I did hear of one boat that broke out the Rapallas and did well on the jointed lures.
DORADO: Lucky boats were catching one fish a day but they were good size, in the 30-40 pound class. There was no concentration of fish and they were scattered.
WAHOO: I did not hear of any Wahoo this week. INSHORE: Even the inshore fishing was spotty this week. There was some Sierra, a few Yellowtail and a scattering of bottom fish, but no great catches to be had.
NOTES: One item of note about this past week was the number of Mako sharks that have been caught on the Pacific side. There appears to be a concentration of them on the San Jaime Bank, but they are small fish in the 20-40 pound range. Unfortunately they are very good eating so the boats hooking them up have kept almost all of these small fish. Until next week, keep you fingers crossed that we will have tight lines!
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING Captain George Landrum gmlandrum@hotmail.com www.flyhooker.com Cabo Fish Report March 12-18, 2007
