08-08-2011, 03:30 PM
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[#000000]Captain George Landrum[/#000000]
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[#000000]Cabo Fish Report[/#000000]
[#000000] August 1 - 7, 2011[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]WEATHER: [/#000000][#000000]Hot,humid with occasional afternoon breezes. Wow, that says it, right? We have been around 84-86 degrees in the coolest part of the earlymorning and just pushing the 100 degree mark in the late afternoon. Join that with a bit of scattered cloud cover late in the week, withjust a bit of a breeze and it is livable, but not really comfortable. The best place to be is on the water since the air temperature isabout 10 degrees less out there.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000] WATER: [/#000000][#000000]Still warm, almost everywhere you wanted to go on the Cortez side ofthe Cape it was 88 degrees with small swells. On the Pacific sidethere was a slow change in the water temps as you went offshore butno sharp breaks. Out at the San Jaime the warm water continued at86-87 degrees, for another 6 miles to the west it dropped to 84degrees and then down to 80 degrees, a slow and gradual change. Onthe Pacific side the swells were slightly larger at 3-6 feet and wedid have a couple of days late in the week when the breeze picked uparound noon and got things a bit choppy.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BAIT: [/#000000][#000000]Caballitoand Mullet were the baits of the week with no Mackerel being founddue to the warm waters. Everything was the normal $3 per bait. There were also some decent Sardinas to the north around Palmilla at$25 a scoop.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000] FISHING:[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BILLFISH[/#000000][#000000]: With the warm water come the Blue and Black Marlin, except this yearthe Black Marlin seem a bit slow to show up. By this time last yearthere were plenty of them out there, this year so far it has beenalmost only Blue Marlin when it comes to the big fish. We had aclient on a Panga the other day who fought an estimated #450 fish for4 hours before having the line break when the fish was 6 feet belowthe boat. Heck, they were going to release it anyway, but what afight that must have been. I keep hearing of a few large fish everyweek, and I know that a few have been brought in, yes, some peoplestill kill the big ones even though it is not a tournament, sigh.There are still some Striped Marlin being caught as well, but no asmany as a few weeks ago. As the water warms up these fish tend tomove on or start staying deeper in the water column. A billfish thathas replaced the Striped Marlin is the Pacific Sailfish! Quite a fewof these have been caught this week, they love the warm water! Thesehave been nice sized Sailfish as well with an average size of 80#. One client caught one just over 100 pounds, as well as a small wahooduring his Panga trip this week. See, you don't have to have a largeboat to catch a large fish, but if you like a bit more comfortableride and a bathroom the larger boats are sure nice! All the billfishhave been scattered, when the water is the same temperatureeverywhere you start looking for structure and current lines insteadof temp breaks.[/#000000][/#000000]
YELLOWFIN TUNA: The bite for Yellowfin slowed down a bit fromlast week as instead of getting limits, boats were only getting 3 to6 fish per trip, that is is they were looking for Tuna. The goodnews is there were some real quality fish out there, as in fish over150#'s!. Not every day of course, for every boat, but at least oneboat every day was getting one of these big tuna. The average sizewas just 25-30 pounds, and if you kept working the school there was afair chance of hanging one that weighed in the 100 pound class. Wehad three clients this week who got into a school like that and endedup with two fish between 80-100 pounds and five at around 30 pounds. For a lot of the boats the larger fish have come as a result offishing from kites or on live bait drop-backs after hooking up one ofthe smaller fish. Most of the action has come from either directlysouth or on the Pacific side. The schools move around a lot sofinding porpoise has been the key to finding the fish.
[#000000]DORADO: There have been plenty of Doradothis week, but most of them have been small, a good indicator ofthings to come since they grow so fast, but that is dependent on thelittle guys being released! Most of these smaller fish have beenfound close to the beach, and you really have to week through theSkip-jack to get them, and then you have to weed through the Doradoto fins ones larger enough to have some meat on them. As an example,out of four Dorado kept that weighed 10-12 pounds, there were 10 fishreleased that were 5-6 pounds and about 30 Skip-jack released. Therewere larger fish found offshore though not in as large numbers. Thefish offshore were averaging 20 pounds with an occasional 50 poundexample in there. For the larger fish finding a working Frigate birdand slow trolling a live bait in the area worked well.[/#000000]
[#000000]WAHOO: There was a scattering of Wahoo inthe smaller size range caught this week, mostly by boats working offthe beach for the small Dorado. I did not hear of any large Wahoobeing caught and the smaller fish were in the 20-25 pound class.[/#000000]
[#000000] INSHORE: The inshore fishing has beenpretty good this week, but not for the normal species. Usually whenyou are speaking about inshore you are talking Roosterfish, Snapper,Grouper, Sierra, Yellowtail, etc. This week we did have someRoosterfish but they were not large ones averaging just 15 poundswith a few to 35 pounds. And of course with the warm water we arenot seeing any Sierra or Yellowtail. With the swells we were gettingmid-week from the passing of Hurricane Eugene to the southwest thewater close to the beach was churned up and green so most of thePangas worked out in depths 250 feet and more, concentrating on theDorado and Skip-jack. This meant plenty of Dorado, some Wahoo andquite a few Blue Marlin that were in feeding on the Skip-jack. Tossin the occasional pod of porpoise passing close to the beach that hadYellowfin with them and it was actually a nice selection of what arenormally offshore fish being caught by the Pangas.[/#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. Sorry about this last weeksno show, I got busy and forgot![/#000000]
[#000000]NOTES: Four days to FOOTBALL! Hit thebeach for a walk and swim this morning, came home and washed the dog,fixed the best Bloody Mary's in the world, Mary is fixing bacon andeggs for our brunch, NASCAR at Pocono is on, golf is later andhomemade Chile Verde to work on in the afternoon for dinner. What alife! Oh, new music for this week as well! This report was writtento the soulful blues of Duke Robillard on his soon to be released newalbum (don't ask me how I got to hear it) “Low Down and Tore Up”via Stony Plains Records in September. If you want an idea of hissounds, check out the 2006 release “Guitar Grove-A-Rama” and2009's “Stomp! The blues tonight”, both Grammy Award winners! Blues on![/#000000]
[#000000]Until next week, tight lines![/#000000]
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[#000000]Captain George Landrum[/#000000]
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[#000000]Cabo Fish Report[/#000000]
[#000000] August 1 - 7, 2011[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]WEATHER: [/#000000][#000000]Hot,humid with occasional afternoon breezes. Wow, that says it, right? We have been around 84-86 degrees in the coolest part of the earlymorning and just pushing the 100 degree mark in the late afternoon. Join that with a bit of scattered cloud cover late in the week, withjust a bit of a breeze and it is livable, but not really comfortable. The best place to be is on the water since the air temperature isabout 10 degrees less out there.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000] WATER: [/#000000][#000000]Still warm, almost everywhere you wanted to go on the Cortez side ofthe Cape it was 88 degrees with small swells. On the Pacific sidethere was a slow change in the water temps as you went offshore butno sharp breaks. Out at the San Jaime the warm water continued at86-87 degrees, for another 6 miles to the west it dropped to 84degrees and then down to 80 degrees, a slow and gradual change. Onthe Pacific side the swells were slightly larger at 3-6 feet and wedid have a couple of days late in the week when the breeze picked uparound noon and got things a bit choppy.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BAIT: [/#000000][#000000]Caballitoand Mullet were the baits of the week with no Mackerel being founddue to the warm waters. Everything was the normal $3 per bait. There were also some decent Sardinas to the north around Palmilla at$25 a scoop.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000] FISHING:[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BILLFISH[/#000000][#000000]: With the warm water come the Blue and Black Marlin, except this yearthe Black Marlin seem a bit slow to show up. By this time last yearthere were plenty of them out there, this year so far it has beenalmost only Blue Marlin when it comes to the big fish. We had aclient on a Panga the other day who fought an estimated #450 fish for4 hours before having the line break when the fish was 6 feet belowthe boat. Heck, they were going to release it anyway, but what afight that must have been. I keep hearing of a few large fish everyweek, and I know that a few have been brought in, yes, some peoplestill kill the big ones even though it is not a tournament, sigh.There are still some Striped Marlin being caught as well, but no asmany as a few weeks ago. As the water warms up these fish tend tomove on or start staying deeper in the water column. A billfish thathas replaced the Striped Marlin is the Pacific Sailfish! Quite a fewof these have been caught this week, they love the warm water! Thesehave been nice sized Sailfish as well with an average size of 80#. One client caught one just over 100 pounds, as well as a small wahooduring his Panga trip this week. See, you don't have to have a largeboat to catch a large fish, but if you like a bit more comfortableride and a bathroom the larger boats are sure nice! All the billfishhave been scattered, when the water is the same temperatureeverywhere you start looking for structure and current lines insteadof temp breaks.[/#000000][/#000000]
YELLOWFIN TUNA: The bite for Yellowfin slowed down a bit fromlast week as instead of getting limits, boats were only getting 3 to6 fish per trip, that is is they were looking for Tuna. The goodnews is there were some real quality fish out there, as in fish over150#'s!. Not every day of course, for every boat, but at least oneboat every day was getting one of these big tuna. The average sizewas just 25-30 pounds, and if you kept working the school there was afair chance of hanging one that weighed in the 100 pound class. Wehad three clients this week who got into a school like that and endedup with two fish between 80-100 pounds and five at around 30 pounds. For a lot of the boats the larger fish have come as a result offishing from kites or on live bait drop-backs after hooking up one ofthe smaller fish. Most of the action has come from either directlysouth or on the Pacific side. The schools move around a lot sofinding porpoise has been the key to finding the fish.
[#000000]DORADO: There have been plenty of Doradothis week, but most of them have been small, a good indicator ofthings to come since they grow so fast, but that is dependent on thelittle guys being released! Most of these smaller fish have beenfound close to the beach, and you really have to week through theSkip-jack to get them, and then you have to weed through the Doradoto fins ones larger enough to have some meat on them. As an example,out of four Dorado kept that weighed 10-12 pounds, there were 10 fishreleased that were 5-6 pounds and about 30 Skip-jack released. Therewere larger fish found offshore though not in as large numbers. Thefish offshore were averaging 20 pounds with an occasional 50 poundexample in there. For the larger fish finding a working Frigate birdand slow trolling a live bait in the area worked well.[/#000000]
[#000000]WAHOO: There was a scattering of Wahoo inthe smaller size range caught this week, mostly by boats working offthe beach for the small Dorado. I did not hear of any large Wahoobeing caught and the smaller fish were in the 20-25 pound class.[/#000000]
[#000000] INSHORE: The inshore fishing has beenpretty good this week, but not for the normal species. Usually whenyou are speaking about inshore you are talking Roosterfish, Snapper,Grouper, Sierra, Yellowtail, etc. This week we did have someRoosterfish but they were not large ones averaging just 15 poundswith a few to 35 pounds. And of course with the warm water we arenot seeing any Sierra or Yellowtail. With the swells we were gettingmid-week from the passing of Hurricane Eugene to the southwest thewater close to the beach was churned up and green so most of thePangas worked out in depths 250 feet and more, concentrating on theDorado and Skip-jack. This meant plenty of Dorado, some Wahoo andquite a few Blue Marlin that were in feeding on the Skip-jack. Tossin the occasional pod of porpoise passing close to the beach that hadYellowfin with them and it was actually a nice selection of what arenormally offshore fish being caught by the Pangas.[/#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. Sorry about this last weeksno show, I got busy and forgot![/#000000]
[#000000]NOTES: Four days to FOOTBALL! Hit thebeach for a walk and swim this morning, came home and washed the dog,fixed the best Bloody Mary's in the world, Mary is fixing bacon andeggs for our brunch, NASCAR at Pocono is on, golf is later andhomemade Chile Verde to work on in the afternoon for dinner. What alife! Oh, new music for this week as well! This report was writtento the soulful blues of Duke Robillard on his soon to be released newalbum (don't ask me how I got to hear it) “Low Down and Tore Up”via Stony Plains Records in September. If you want an idea of hissounds, check out the 2006 release “Guitar Grove-A-Rama” and2009's “Stomp! The blues tonight”, both Grammy Award winners! Blues on![/#000000]
[#000000]Until next week, tight lines![/#000000]
[#000000]I will be posting more to my blog now,please go to [url "http://captgeo.wordpress.com/"][font "Tahoma"][#000099]http://captgeo.wordpress.com/[/#000099][/font][/url]and subscribe, you will be sent a notice every time I post a newarticle. Please feel free to send suggestions or if you have anyideas for articles. Thanks George[/#000000]
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