06-06-2011, 02:22 PM
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[#000000]Captain George Landrum[/#000000]
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[#000000]Cabo Fish Report[/#000000]
[#000000] May 30- June 5, 2011[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]WEATHER: [/#000000][#000000]Suream glad I am here and not there! With nighttime lows in the low 70'sand daytime highs in the mid 90's, humidity most day around 35% itjust doesn't get much better than this. We had sunny skies all weeklong and at the start of the week we had a steady, but not too strongwind from the northwest. Today is going to be the hottest of theweek though, as it is 77 degrees and not even 7 am yet![/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000] WATER: [/#000000][#000000]Onthe Cortez side of the Cape, almost in a line running due east of us,the water to the north was 80 degrees until you got off of the LosFrailles area offshore. There it warmed to 84 degrees at the end ofthe week. South of that line it dropped to 74 degrees except for anintrusion from the Pacific side that ran right along the 1,000 fathomline where it dropped to 70 degrees. On the Pacific side of the Capeit was 66-70 degrees everywhere. Early in the week the Pacific sidewas a bit rough with large swells and some steady wind, but theswells died down late in the week as did the wind. On the Cortezside of the Cape the wind had little effect later in the week but atthe beginning it made for a few days of rough riding back to Cabo ifyou went east to fish.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BAIT: [/#000000][#000000]Therewas a decent availability on Caballito this week at the normal $3 perbait, some Sardinas were found in the Palmilla area at $25 a scoopand of course you could get frozen ballyhoo at $3 each.[/#000000][/#000000]
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[#000000][#000000]BILLFISH[/#000000][#000000]: I did not hear of any Swordfish being caught this week but theremay have been a few. Most of the boats were concentrating on theStriped marlin that were being found up to the east in theDestillidera area. The best catches were in double digits but mostboats were getting between 3 and 5 releases per day, with a lot offish just giving quick strikes and not hooking up. Most of theaction for the fleet boats was on lures and the fish were averaging alittle bit larger at 130 pounds instead of the normal 110 pounds. The action fluctuated a bit day to day and the fish moved around abit as well. While the concentrations were in the Destillidera area,there were fish found closer to home also. Scattered Striped marlinwere found all over the place and it seemed that most of them werewilling to hit a lure or bait, but the concentrations were not therefor large numbers to be caught. For the boats not making the longtrek to the concentrations, a release average of 1 per boat was thenorm. There were still Sailfish being caught in the San Jose area aswell, mainly closer to the beach and the structure with small pods ofthree or four fish coming in to attack lures. Not a lot of them butenough that any trip had the chance of catching one.[/#000000][/#000000]
YELLOWFIN TUNA: We finally had some decent numbers of Yellowfinshow up. To the east of us there have been occasional breezers,schools of fish that are traveling just under the surface, pushingthe water so that it looks like a gust of wind is traveling through. If you see one of them, the chances of hooking up fish are good, justthrow a live bait in the water in front of the school. Boats thatwere finding them and doing that were getting fish averaging 45pounds with an occasional jumbo over 100 pounds. Most of the boatsare catching smaller fish close to home. The area from 2 to 6 milesoff the beach between the arch and Chileano Bay produced plenty ofblind strikes on fish that averaged 18 pounds, a few smaller thanthat but nice fish anyway. Almost anything worked, lures big andsmall, live bait, rigged dead bait, it was just a matter of getting astrike and then working the area. A good catch was a dozen fish, abig catch was limits for everyone.
[#000000]DORADO: Every week the numbers increase, andthis week the size increased as well. There were quite a few fish inthe 40-50 pound class caught, and a lot of fish in the 12-20 poundclass. The warm water on the Cortez side of the Cape was producingalmost all the fish with the larger ones found offshore and thesmaller ones closer to the beach.[/#000000]
[#000000]WAHOO: It sounded as if the Wahoo bite wasdecent this week if you were fishing out at Punta Gorda. Boats thatconcentrated their effort on the 50 fathom line and worked it hardwith swimming plugs and lead head lures were getting between two andfive fish per day, most of them in the 30 pound class with anoccasional fish to 60 pounds. There were a few others caughtoffshore but there were no concentrations out there, just incidentalcatches.[/#000000]
[#000000] INSHORE: Roosterfish were the stars of theweek for the inshore fishermen as some of the larger fish arrivedwith the warmer water. In the white water you could see fish to 40pounds cruising for something to eat and getting a live bait in thereusually resulted in a hook-up. Almost all of the sandy beaches wereproducing the Roosterfish, but the average size was 15 pounds, thelarger ones were not as common. There were also some nice snappercaught in the rocks if you were able to get a bait in there, but thelarge swells early in the week made that a bit difficult. Many ofthe Pangas were fishing for Yellowfin Tuna since they were so closeand biting so well. [/#000000]
[#000000]FISH RECIPE: My recipe has been taking toomuch space so if you want to see it, check out my wordpress blog alittle later in the week, or subscribe to the blog and you willreceive an email as soon as I post it. [/#000000]
[#000000]NOTES: Reports on the weather stations saythat we might reach 100 degrees today! I think it is time to head tothe beach before the sand get too hot to walk on, Tawny does not likethat hot sand on her paws! The weather is heating up and so is thefishing, I am planning on a meat trip tomorrow, going out for a halfday to get some fresh Tuna. This means that my recipe mid-week willbe something to do with Tuna, you betcha! This weeks report waswritten to the music of Mark Knopfler on my favorite album of his,the soundtrack for “Sailing to Philadelphia”. Until next week,tight lines![/#000000]
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