09-26-2011, 02:03 PM
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[#000000]Captain George Landrum[/#000000]
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[#000000]Cabo Fish Report[/#000000]
[#000000] Sept. 19-25, 2011[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]WEATHER: [/#000000][#000000]Onceagain we had hot weather, just when we thought that there was achance that fall was here early! What were we thinking? Our daytimehighs have been over 100 degrees most days while the nighttime lowshave only dropped to the mid 80's. With very little cloud cover thisweek it was a warm 7 days! What did keep our attention focused onthe weather was the possible approach of Hurricane Hillary. Shestarted in the usual place but then took off to the west due to somehigh pressure in our area but she is expected to re-curve to thenorth this weekend, but will be passing well to the west of us as atropical storm. We have a very low chance (0-10%) of gettingtropical storm strength winds, but we do hope that we get a bit ofcloud cover and (fingers crossed!) a bit of rain.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000] WATER: [/#000000][#000000]At the end of the week the water across the Sea of Cortez was a veryconsistent 88 degrees with an occasional showing of 90 degree water. To the west on the Pacific ocean the temperature dropped a littlebit, but there was no hard definition to the change. Across the SanJaime Bank we were seeing 85-86 degree water and on the Golden GateBank it dropped a bit to 84 degrees. The band of cooler water we hadlast week along the shore went away and now it is the same almosteverywhere. Surface conditions have been great at the beginning ofthis week with little if any wind chop, small swells and smooth seas. With the approach of Hurricane Hillary we expected the size of theswells to pick up and we were not disappointed. If you have been toCabo and know Medano beach, then you know when the swell is buckingup against the beach steps of the Pueblo Bonito Rose and Blancohotels, then they are large swells. They are expected to pick up alittle more in the next few days then go back to normal. If it isjust the swells then we should have no problems offshore, but inshorefishing may be a very iffy proposition.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BAIT: [/#000000][#000000]Caballito,Mullet and Sardines were the live bait available with the biggerbaits at the usual $3 each and the Sardinas at $25 a scoop up in thePalmilla area.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000] FISHING:[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BILLFISH[/#000000][#000000]: I heard of a very nice Black Marlin of 580 pounds being caught by aPanga out of San Jose while fishing the Gorda Bank area this week aswell as a few smaller ones from the same area as well as off of PuntaGorda. There were a few scattered Blue Marlin bites to be hadscattered around our area as well, but once again no concentration ofthem. Most of the Blue Marlin were reported to be smaller specimensin the 150-250 pound range. With the warm water came a burst ofSailfish action, at least for a few days, for boats that fished theCabrillo Seamount, the 1150 and the 95 areas. On the Pacific side ofthe Cape, as well as off of the Inman Bank there were Striped Marlin,but they were finicky and most of them were in the 100 pound range. [/#000000][#000000] UPDATE[/#000000][#000000]::::[/#000000][/#000000]
Marlin Update! The 33 foot Blackfin “Go Deep” just came to the dock with a 855 pound Black Marlin after a fight lasting 28 hours. Anglers Richard Biehl and Tom Miller hooked the beast at 8:20 yesterday morning and finally landed the fish around noon today. More information and pictures tomorrow!
[#000000]It appears that the Black Marlin I reportedas weighing 855 pounds may actually be larger than that, making itthe largest Marlin weighed here in Cabo in decades! After hooking theelectronic scale to the fish and recording the weight of 855 pounds,the scale was removed and an attempt was made to zero it out. Thatattempt failed, making the recorded weight suspect. Thereforemeasurements were taken and re-taken in order to use a basicmathematical formula to find the weight. The girth of the fish (751/2 inches) squared (5,700.25) multiplied by the fork length (ameasurement from the tip of the lower bill to the fork of the tail,136.5 inches) = 778,084.125 divided by 800 = 972.60 pounds + or -10%. An extremely nice fish and one of a lifetime for Richard Biehland Tom Miller. congratulations to both, and to the crew of the "GoDeep" for their professionalism in staying the course of thefight instead of cutting the fish off after 8 hours.
This fishjust goes to show that if you want to be afraid to come to Mexico andCabo in particular, don't worry about anything on land, worry aboutwhat might happen to you if you hook up to a beast like this! If ithappens during one of our Marlin Tournaments in October it might beworth a few million dollars as well! Now that is a real reason tofish our waters![/#000000]
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Like I said last week, this has been a fish thathas been hot one week and cold the next except for this past twoweeks when it has been cold for most of the boats. One reason couldbe the 3 Purse Seiners that have been working our area for the pastseveral weeks, the fish was good until they showed up. There arestill some small area that have been producing fish on a fairlysteady basis, but for most of the Cabo based boats running to theInman banks is just too far an takes too much time. The Inman hasbeen producing some fish in the 30-80 pound class for boats that arethere at the right time, but it has been a very time specificfishery, be there when the fish pass through or don't even bother. Fly lined live Sardinas on #20 flouro-carbon leader with plentytossed into the water for chum, or drifting chunks of fresh bonitohave worked for some boats. On the Inner and Outer Gorda some boatswere getting lucky on large fish by slow trolling or flying kitesusing live Skipjack as bait, but unless you were able to get bellowthe green Jacks on the surface it was hard to get good bait. On thePacific side there were scattered groups of porpoise that held somefish, but the fish were extremely shy and it took a kite to present abait properly to these fish. Even then it was a very tough go asthere were many short bites and the fish were moving fast. It comesdown to slow fishing for Yellowfin Tuna for almost all the boats, butthe ones that did get fish were usually getting quality fish.
[#000000]DORADO: It looks like Dorado ended up beingthe fish of the week although at the start of the week it was veryslow fishing for these guys. Mid-week the bite started to turn backon close to the beach on the Pacific side, but the fish were notlarge ones. There were plenty of small ones in the 4-8 pound classwhich bodes well for the future several months, but larger fish werea hit or miss. Almost every boat that went inshore and tried for theDorado caught plenty, and almost everyone got at least one fish inthe 20 pound class, but these fish were not common inshore. A fewboats did manage to find small concentrations of larger fish offshoreunder small pieces of floating debris, but once again these wereisolated incidents and you had to be very lucky.[/#000000]
[#000000]WAHOO: Once again there were Wahoo reportedin the catch of quite a few boats this week, perhaps as many as 15%of the boats fishing reported at least on strike, and about 5% wereable to bet one in the fish box. The Wahoo averaged 30 pounds andmost of the strikes occurred inshore and happened to the anglersfishing for Dorado. The use of light mono leaders had the expectedresult of being bitten off by the Wahoo, but sure helped on theDorado bite![/#000000]
[#000000] INSHORE: There were some Roosterfish aswell as plenty of action on Jack Crevalle close to the beach early inthe week, but at the end of the week the increasing size of theswells made fishing in close a very tricky thing to try. With theincrease in Dorado action just off the beach most of the Pangasfocused on these fish instead and they did very well (see the Doradosection above).[/#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. This week I actually will beposting one since we finally got some Tuna to take home, a very nicepiece from the 169 pound fish![/#000000]
[#000000]NOTES: For the story and pictures of the972 pound Black caught yesterday go to my blog at http://www.captgeo.wordpress.com. Back from the Sunday morningbeach trip with a tired dog and a Bloody Mary in hand as Mary fixesbreakfast. My music for the morning is the sound of the talkingheads (not the band) of ESPN giving their analysis of today's games. Our hope is for a Seahawk perfect season, if we can manage to loseevery game we can get a good quarterback next season.[/#000000]
[#000000]Until next week, tight lines![/#000000]
[#000000]I will be posting more to my blog nowhttp://captgeo.wordpress.com, please go to and subscribe, you will besent a notice every time I post a new article. Please feel free tosend suggestions or if you have any ideas for articles. ThanksGeorge[/#000000]
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[#000000]Captain George Landrum[/#000000]
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[#000000]http://captgeo.wordpress.com/[/#000000]
[#000000]Cabo Fish Report[/#000000]
[#000000] Sept. 19-25, 2011[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]WEATHER: [/#000000][#000000]Onceagain we had hot weather, just when we thought that there was achance that fall was here early! What were we thinking? Our daytimehighs have been over 100 degrees most days while the nighttime lowshave only dropped to the mid 80's. With very little cloud cover thisweek it was a warm 7 days! What did keep our attention focused onthe weather was the possible approach of Hurricane Hillary. Shestarted in the usual place but then took off to the west due to somehigh pressure in our area but she is expected to re-curve to thenorth this weekend, but will be passing well to the west of us as atropical storm. We have a very low chance (0-10%) of gettingtropical storm strength winds, but we do hope that we get a bit ofcloud cover and (fingers crossed!) a bit of rain.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000] WATER: [/#000000][#000000]At the end of the week the water across the Sea of Cortez was a veryconsistent 88 degrees with an occasional showing of 90 degree water. To the west on the Pacific ocean the temperature dropped a littlebit, but there was no hard definition to the change. Across the SanJaime Bank we were seeing 85-86 degree water and on the Golden GateBank it dropped a bit to 84 degrees. The band of cooler water we hadlast week along the shore went away and now it is the same almosteverywhere. Surface conditions have been great at the beginning ofthis week with little if any wind chop, small swells and smooth seas. With the approach of Hurricane Hillary we expected the size of theswells to pick up and we were not disappointed. If you have been toCabo and know Medano beach, then you know when the swell is buckingup against the beach steps of the Pueblo Bonito Rose and Blancohotels, then they are large swells. They are expected to pick up alittle more in the next few days then go back to normal. If it isjust the swells then we should have no problems offshore, but inshorefishing may be a very iffy proposition.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BAIT: [/#000000][#000000]Caballito,Mullet and Sardines were the live bait available with the biggerbaits at the usual $3 each and the Sardinas at $25 a scoop up in thePalmilla area.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000] FISHING:[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BILLFISH[/#000000][#000000]: I heard of a very nice Black Marlin of 580 pounds being caught by aPanga out of San Jose while fishing the Gorda Bank area this week aswell as a few smaller ones from the same area as well as off of PuntaGorda. There were a few scattered Blue Marlin bites to be hadscattered around our area as well, but once again no concentration ofthem. Most of the Blue Marlin were reported to be smaller specimensin the 150-250 pound range. With the warm water came a burst ofSailfish action, at least for a few days, for boats that fished theCabrillo Seamount, the 1150 and the 95 areas. On the Pacific side ofthe Cape, as well as off of the Inman Bank there were Striped Marlin,but they were finicky and most of them were in the 100 pound range. [/#000000][#000000] UPDATE[/#000000][#000000]::::[/#000000][/#000000]
Marlin Update! The 33 foot Blackfin “Go Deep” just came to the dock with a 855 pound Black Marlin after a fight lasting 28 hours. Anglers Richard Biehl and Tom Miller hooked the beast at 8:20 yesterday morning and finally landed the fish around noon today. More information and pictures tomorrow!
[#000000]It appears that the Black Marlin I reportedas weighing 855 pounds may actually be larger than that, making itthe largest Marlin weighed here in Cabo in decades! After hooking theelectronic scale to the fish and recording the weight of 855 pounds,the scale was removed and an attempt was made to zero it out. Thatattempt failed, making the recorded weight suspect. Thereforemeasurements were taken and re-taken in order to use a basicmathematical formula to find the weight. The girth of the fish (751/2 inches) squared (5,700.25) multiplied by the fork length (ameasurement from the tip of the lower bill to the fork of the tail,136.5 inches) = 778,084.125 divided by 800 = 972.60 pounds + or -10%. An extremely nice fish and one of a lifetime for Richard Biehland Tom Miller. congratulations to both, and to the crew of the "GoDeep" for their professionalism in staying the course of thefight instead of cutting the fish off after 8 hours.
This fishjust goes to show that if you want to be afraid to come to Mexico andCabo in particular, don't worry about anything on land, worry aboutwhat might happen to you if you hook up to a beast like this! If ithappens during one of our Marlin Tournaments in October it might beworth a few million dollars as well! Now that is a real reason tofish our waters![/#000000]
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Like I said last week, this has been a fish thathas been hot one week and cold the next except for this past twoweeks when it has been cold for most of the boats. One reason couldbe the 3 Purse Seiners that have been working our area for the pastseveral weeks, the fish was good until they showed up. There arestill some small area that have been producing fish on a fairlysteady basis, but for most of the Cabo based boats running to theInman banks is just too far an takes too much time. The Inman hasbeen producing some fish in the 30-80 pound class for boats that arethere at the right time, but it has been a very time specificfishery, be there when the fish pass through or don't even bother. Fly lined live Sardinas on #20 flouro-carbon leader with plentytossed into the water for chum, or drifting chunks of fresh bonitohave worked for some boats. On the Inner and Outer Gorda some boatswere getting lucky on large fish by slow trolling or flying kitesusing live Skipjack as bait, but unless you were able to get bellowthe green Jacks on the surface it was hard to get good bait. On thePacific side there were scattered groups of porpoise that held somefish, but the fish were extremely shy and it took a kite to present abait properly to these fish. Even then it was a very tough go asthere were many short bites and the fish were moving fast. It comesdown to slow fishing for Yellowfin Tuna for almost all the boats, butthe ones that did get fish were usually getting quality fish.
[#000000]DORADO: It looks like Dorado ended up beingthe fish of the week although at the start of the week it was veryslow fishing for these guys. Mid-week the bite started to turn backon close to the beach on the Pacific side, but the fish were notlarge ones. There were plenty of small ones in the 4-8 pound classwhich bodes well for the future several months, but larger fish werea hit or miss. Almost every boat that went inshore and tried for theDorado caught plenty, and almost everyone got at least one fish inthe 20 pound class, but these fish were not common inshore. A fewboats did manage to find small concentrations of larger fish offshoreunder small pieces of floating debris, but once again these wereisolated incidents and you had to be very lucky.[/#000000]
[#000000]WAHOO: Once again there were Wahoo reportedin the catch of quite a few boats this week, perhaps as many as 15%of the boats fishing reported at least on strike, and about 5% wereable to bet one in the fish box. The Wahoo averaged 30 pounds andmost of the strikes occurred inshore and happened to the anglersfishing for Dorado. The use of light mono leaders had the expectedresult of being bitten off by the Wahoo, but sure helped on theDorado bite![/#000000]
[#000000] INSHORE: There were some Roosterfish aswell as plenty of action on Jack Crevalle close to the beach early inthe week, but at the end of the week the increasing size of theswells made fishing in close a very tricky thing to try. With theincrease in Dorado action just off the beach most of the Pangasfocused on these fish instead and they did very well (see the Doradosection above).[/#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. This week I actually will beposting one since we finally got some Tuna to take home, a very nicepiece from the 169 pound fish![/#000000]
[#000000]NOTES: For the story and pictures of the972 pound Black caught yesterday go to my blog at http://www.captgeo.wordpress.com. Back from the Sunday morningbeach trip with a tired dog and a Bloody Mary in hand as Mary fixesbreakfast. My music for the morning is the sound of the talkingheads (not the band) of ESPN giving their analysis of today's games. Our hope is for a Seahawk perfect season, if we can manage to loseevery game we can get a good quarterback next season.[/#000000]
[#000000]Until next week, tight lines![/#000000]
[#000000]I will be posting more to my blog nowhttp://captgeo.wordpress.com, please go to and subscribe, you will besent a notice every time I post a new article. Please feel free tosend suggestions or if you have any ideas for articles. ThanksGeorge[/#000000]
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