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[#000000]Captain George Landrum[/#000000]
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[#000000]Cabo Fish Report[/#000000]
[#000000]November 7-13, 2011[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]WEATHER: [/#000000][#000000]Wow,it just keeps getting better every day! Daytime highs in the low90's and nighttime lows in the low 70's, does it really get anybetter than this? We had partly cloudy skies for most of the weekand toward the end of the week we had some really blustery days,Saturday was a bit windy in the afternoon. No rain here in town butit looked as if there might have been some in the mountains.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000] WATER: [/#000000][#000000]Surface temperatures were 84 degrees close to Cabo from the shore toabout 5-8 miles out, then they dropped to 81-82 degrees. The waterstayed at 84 degrees up toward San Jose. On the Pacific side it wasin the cooler side with most of the water 81 to 82 degrees. Thee wasa plume of warm 84 degree water that ran from the tip of the Capetoward the west and across the southern end of the San Jaime Bank forseveral days. Mid week the water on the Pacific side was a bit onthe rough side due to the winds, but it calmed down at the end of theweek. Swells on the Pacific side were in the 4-6 foot range and inthe 2-3 foot range on the Sea of Cortez.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BAIT: [/#000000][#000000]Itwas still tough to get good bait this week, some of the bait guyswere bringing it down from San Jose but by the time it got here afteran hour of running full bore and pounding and slapping on the way itwas a bit beat up and did not last long in the bait tanks. It's hardto justify spending $30 on live bait just to have it die within 4hours so a lot of anglers were opting to just buy a few and see ifthey would be able to catch something else to use later on. Caballito and Mullet were $3 each, or sometimes $4 each depending onthe supplier. There were some sardinas, but not many and they werepricy at around $35 a scoop.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000] FISHING:[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BILLFISH[/#000000][#000000]: Small Blue and Black Marlin as well as a decent showing of Sailfishcombined with an increasing number of Striped Marlin kept anglersexcited this week. The big news was the increase in the number ofStriped Marlin being caught. For the boats that were able to getfarther up the coast toward the north side of the Golden Gate Bankthere were plenty of Striped Marlin to see, and many of them werehungry. A good day was three releases, a great day was 5 releasesbut the average was one or two per day. Mackerel are beginning toshow up and the water is cooling down so perhaps we are going to havea good season on these billfish. Some of the private boats that havebeen fishing in the Mag Bay area have reported that the StripedMarlin bite is almost wide open so if the fish continue to move inour direction....well, remember 4 years ago? Look out buddy, betterput new line on them reels!![/#000000][/#000000]
YELLOWFIN TUNA: What a change! One week the Tuna fishing wasworld class and then it tanked for five or six days. I don't knowthe reason but the fleet was getting skunked just three days afterone of the best Tuna Tournaments we have had in a long time. Atleast by the end of the week the fish had started to show up again. This is not to say that there were no Tuna being caught because therewere, and they were nice ones, it's just that the school fish we hadbeen seeing in the 25-40 pound class seemed to have disappeared. Boats were still getting some of the larger fish in the 100-200+class. We had one party that caught a 65 and 45 pound tuna and thatmade everyone happy because it had been slow.
[#000000]DORADO: The Dorado continue to bite and havebecome the bread and butter of the charter fleet for the past fewweeks. Most of the fish have come on live bait slow trolled in areaswhere the fish have been found after getting strike on a lure. Averaging 12 pounds, they have not been large but there have beenenough of them for most anglers to limit out if they want to. A fewlarger fish have been caught but anything over 30 pounds has beenrare. Almost all the action has been on the Pacific side of the Capebetween the lighthouse and the inside of the Golden Gate Bank.[/#000000]
[#000000]WAHOO: Never a very common fish, theapproach and arrival of the full moon helped in the catching of Wahoothis week. My guess is that about 50% of the boats fishing close toshore for Dorado had at least on bite from a Wahoo. The problem ofcourse is the razor sharp teeth these fish have. Slow trolling alive bait on 80 pound monofiliment line is not the ideal way to keepone hooked up! If you use a wire leader you won't catch very manyDorado, so there were quite a few bite offs from Wahoo. Nothing isquite as frustrating as seeing a splash behind your bait and pullingit in just to find that the back half has been surgically removed.[/#000000]
[#000000] INSHORE: Still no reports of Sierra that Ihave heard of, but we did have a client that managed to get a 20pound Yellowtail this week by jigging close to the bottom in 200 feetof water. Most of the Pangas were focused on the Dorado and Marlinbecause they were close to shore and not far from home.[/#000000]
[#000000]FISH RECIPE: posted on the blog Thursday orFriday. We have been really busy the past several weeks and promiseto get a new one up this week![/#000000]
[#000000]NOTES: Let's see. Perfect weather, greatfishing, sunshine, the whales are beginning to show up, guess it'stime to make travel plans! We hope you manage to take advantage ofour present conditions and visit Cabo soon. This weeks report waswritten to the music of Cory Morrow on his 2010 release “Brand NewMe”. You really need to check him out, my heartfelt thanks to MarkBailey (once again) for introducing me to this album! Until nextweek, tight lines![/#000000]
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[#000000]Captain George Landrum[/#000000]
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[#000000]Cabo Fish Report[/#000000]
[#000000]November 7-13, 2011[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]WEATHER: [/#000000][#000000]Wow,it just keeps getting better every day! Daytime highs in the low90's and nighttime lows in the low 70's, does it really get anybetter than this? We had partly cloudy skies for most of the weekand toward the end of the week we had some really blustery days,Saturday was a bit windy in the afternoon. No rain here in town butit looked as if there might have been some in the mountains.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000] WATER: [/#000000][#000000]Surface temperatures were 84 degrees close to Cabo from the shore toabout 5-8 miles out, then they dropped to 81-82 degrees. The waterstayed at 84 degrees up toward San Jose. On the Pacific side it wasin the cooler side with most of the water 81 to 82 degrees. Thee wasa plume of warm 84 degree water that ran from the tip of the Capetoward the west and across the southern end of the San Jaime Bank forseveral days. Mid week the water on the Pacific side was a bit onthe rough side due to the winds, but it calmed down at the end of theweek. Swells on the Pacific side were in the 4-6 foot range and inthe 2-3 foot range on the Sea of Cortez.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BAIT: [/#000000][#000000]Itwas still tough to get good bait this week, some of the bait guyswere bringing it down from San Jose but by the time it got here afteran hour of running full bore and pounding and slapping on the way itwas a bit beat up and did not last long in the bait tanks. It's hardto justify spending $30 on live bait just to have it die within 4hours so a lot of anglers were opting to just buy a few and see ifthey would be able to catch something else to use later on. Caballito and Mullet were $3 each, or sometimes $4 each depending onthe supplier. There were some sardinas, but not many and they werepricy at around $35 a scoop.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000] FISHING:[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BILLFISH[/#000000][#000000]: Small Blue and Black Marlin as well as a decent showing of Sailfishcombined with an increasing number of Striped Marlin kept anglersexcited this week. The big news was the increase in the number ofStriped Marlin being caught. For the boats that were able to getfarther up the coast toward the north side of the Golden Gate Bankthere were plenty of Striped Marlin to see, and many of them werehungry. A good day was three releases, a great day was 5 releasesbut the average was one or two per day. Mackerel are beginning toshow up and the water is cooling down so perhaps we are going to havea good season on these billfish. Some of the private boats that havebeen fishing in the Mag Bay area have reported that the StripedMarlin bite is almost wide open so if the fish continue to move inour direction....well, remember 4 years ago? Look out buddy, betterput new line on them reels!![/#000000][/#000000]
YELLOWFIN TUNA: What a change! One week the Tuna fishing wasworld class and then it tanked for five or six days. I don't knowthe reason but the fleet was getting skunked just three days afterone of the best Tuna Tournaments we have had in a long time. Atleast by the end of the week the fish had started to show up again. This is not to say that there were no Tuna being caught because therewere, and they were nice ones, it's just that the school fish we hadbeen seeing in the 25-40 pound class seemed to have disappeared. Boats were still getting some of the larger fish in the 100-200+class. We had one party that caught a 65 and 45 pound tuna and thatmade everyone happy because it had been slow.
[#000000]DORADO: The Dorado continue to bite and havebecome the bread and butter of the charter fleet for the past fewweeks. Most of the fish have come on live bait slow trolled in areaswhere the fish have been found after getting strike on a lure. Averaging 12 pounds, they have not been large but there have beenenough of them for most anglers to limit out if they want to. A fewlarger fish have been caught but anything over 30 pounds has beenrare. Almost all the action has been on the Pacific side of the Capebetween the lighthouse and the inside of the Golden Gate Bank.[/#000000]
[#000000]WAHOO: Never a very common fish, theapproach and arrival of the full moon helped in the catching of Wahoothis week. My guess is that about 50% of the boats fishing close toshore for Dorado had at least on bite from a Wahoo. The problem ofcourse is the razor sharp teeth these fish have. Slow trolling alive bait on 80 pound monofiliment line is not the ideal way to keepone hooked up! If you use a wire leader you won't catch very manyDorado, so there were quite a few bite offs from Wahoo. Nothing isquite as frustrating as seeing a splash behind your bait and pullingit in just to find that the back half has been surgically removed.[/#000000]
[#000000] INSHORE: Still no reports of Sierra that Ihave heard of, but we did have a client that managed to get a 20pound Yellowtail this week by jigging close to the bottom in 200 feetof water. Most of the Pangas were focused on the Dorado and Marlinbecause they were close to shore and not far from home.[/#000000]
[#000000]FISH RECIPE: posted on the blog Thursday orFriday. We have been really busy the past several weeks and promiseto get a new one up this week![/#000000]
[#000000]NOTES: Let's see. Perfect weather, greatfishing, sunshine, the whales are beginning to show up, guess it'stime to make travel plans! We hope you manage to take advantage ofour present conditions and visit Cabo soon. This weeks report waswritten to the music of Cory Morrow on his 2010 release “Brand NewMe”. You really need to check him out, my heartfelt thanks to MarkBailey (once again) for introducing me to this album! Until nextweek, tight lines![/#000000]
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