August 5, 2007
Anglers –
There were no new tropical storm systems on the horizon at this time and light crowds of tourists were enjoying very pleasant summer time conditions, lots of sunshine with some scattered clouds and light breezes picking up in the afternoon. Ocean water temperatures have warmed up into the lower 80s and for the next couple of months we will need to monitor weather reports closely, as this is the time when hurricanes historically can develop in a hurry, hard to predict more than a few days ahead of time.
Live sardinas were again plentiful off of the Puerto Los Cabos jetties and on the offshore fishing grounds there were bolito and flying fish. Sportfishing fleets have been fishing in all different directions, but the most consistent action recently was found from Chileno to San Luis. With the warmer clean blue water there were much better counts of dorado reported this past week, striking on trolled lures and all types of baitfish. Charters were accounting for one, two, three or even four nice sized dorado per trip, many of them weighing 30 to 50 pounds. Yellowfin tuna were still scarce, but there were more reports of them being found, blind strikes while trolling lures closer to shore, on fish ranging in size from 5 to 50 pounds, also some tuna mixed with porpoise further offshore, including some yellowfin in the 100 to 200 pound class that were seen feeding off of the La Fortuna area early in the week, but disappeared as quickly as they had come up.
Striped marlin continued to dominate the billfish action, being found as close to one mile from shore, striking the normal array of lures and baits, ranging from 60 to 150 pounds, surprising to see so many stripers hanging around this far into the summer, typically most of them have migrated north by this time. This week also had several reports of larger black and blue marlin hook ups, in the vicinity of the Gordo Banks and north to Vinorama. On Friday skipper Jesus Pino of Gordo Banks Pangas hooked into a monster black marlin estimated to weigh over 600 pounds while trolling a bolito on the Inner Gordo Bank, the battle lasted over one hour before the fish broke the light 80 pound leader. Several blue marlin to over 300 pounds were also lost when hooked up on too light of tackle. There were sailfish moving into the area as well, attracted by the warm currents and abundant baitfish supply.
Nor much to report close in along the beaches, except some hog sized jack crevalle. There were some nice huachinango being accounted for off the rock piles while using yo-yo jigs and bait off of the bottom, also a handful of cabrilla and amberjack.
Surf fishermen reported the seasons first action off of the San Jose Estuary for snook, as at least several fish up to 30 pounds were reportedly landed while fishing in the area between the southern Puerto Los Cabos jetty and Hotel Presidente.
The marina construction continues, with the main emphasis now being on dredge work in the channel itself and the extension of the channel's southern rock entrance which engineers say needs to be extended close to one hundred more yards in order to block the southern swells from entered directly into the marina.
The La Playita panga fleets sent out approximately 58 panga charters for the week and anglers accounted for a fish count of: 19 striped marlin, 4 sailfish, 77 dorado, 22 yellowfin tuna, 9 amberjack, 16 cabrilla, 46 huachinango, 32 yellowtail snapper, 12 jack crevalle, 5 hammerhead shark and 25 triggerfish.
Good Fishing, Eric
