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WEATHER: We hit a new high of the year this week with the top number being 102 degrees on Thursday afternoon. The rest of the week we were seeing high 90’s during the daytime and low 80’s at night. There was very little wind early in the week but on Friday the breeze picked up a bit. No rain for the week, instead we had mostly sunny skies.
WATER: On the Sea Of Cortez we had water in the 81-84 degrees range, on the Pacific side of the Cape it was 67-68 degrees and from due south of the cape toward the southwest it was averaging 73-75 degrees. The cold water on the Pacific side was green as well, and the warm water on the Cortez side was nice and blue. Surface conditions were great all around early in the week. At the end of the week the swells began to pick up as a result of a storm that had built up to the southwest of us. Starting Friday the wind started getting stronger and the swells started getting larger. On the weekend the swells on the Pacific side were at 6-9 feet, causing surf to 20 feet, on the Cortez side the swells were less visible until they crashed on-shore, then they were dangerous.
BAIT: Large Caballito at the normal $3 per bait, small and large Mackerel at $3 per bait and plenty of mullet at $3 per bait. The large swells at the end of the week resulted in no Sardines being available.
FISHING:
YELLOWFIN TUNA: The numbers were still low for Yellowfin Tuna this past week, but there were some caught. Most of the fish were less than 20 pounds, and most of them were caught while blind trolling, not in the porpoise. Directly to the south and into the southwestern area were the best bets to find the Tuna this week. There were a lot of flags being flown this week, but most of them were for Bonita that were being caught directly in front of town.
DORADO: The Dorado bite continued to improve this week with most boats returning flying at least one or two flags for fish that ran up to 50+ pounds. A few boats really got into the fish and returned with limits for their anglers, but it did not happen very often. The warmer water on the Cortez side of the Cape had the largest fish, the numbers occurred to the south of us. At least a few of the large fish were being found up on the Pacific side as a few boats returned from the Golden Gate area with fish to 50 pounds, but no large numbers.
WAHOO: There were still a few Wahoo caught this week and there should be a few caught this coming week as well as the warm water stays with us. The fish I heard of this past week were from the Punta Gorda and Gorda Banks area.
INSHORE: The Snook disappeared and the bite for Snapper and Sierra as well as Yellowtail slowed along with it. Early in the week there was a concentration of Roosterfish to 50 pounds with most of them much smaller found just to the north of Chileno beach, but by the end of the week they had moved somewhere else. Most of the Pangas were working just outside for the Bonita and Dorado.
Notes: At the end of the month we are going on a short vacation so there will not be a report for the last week of June. Until next week, tight lines!
George & Mary Landrum, Juan & Manuel
Report: SAN JOSE DEL CABO, June 14, 2009
Southern Baja is welcoming light crowds of tourists, great to time to visit, weather prefect, not too warm yet, sunny days in the mid 80s. Oceans have been calmer in the direction of San Jose del Cabo and water temperatures are now close to 80 degrees is this region, though the Pacific is much cooler than this. Warmest currents are definitely being found in the direction of the Sea of Cortez.
Anglers found supplies of live mullet, caballito and limited sardinas available. Schools of bolito and smaller skipjack are becoming more prevalent on the fishing grounds. Offshore fishing action has been dominated by striped marlin, most often being found 6 to 20 miles from shore, striking on lures and live bait, but often times not eager to bite. Some dorado are being encountered scattered through the area, hitting various lures and baits, though not in big numbers, there has been chance at catching a 40 pound plus bull. We expect with more baitfish appearing on the banks that more dorado and other gamefish will be following. Only a few tuna being reported, on some days there are reports of fish seen feeding on the banks, but more often they are not striking, just an occasional tuna in the 10 to 30 pound class being accounted for, these fish were taken on either dead or live sardinas, no consistent bite.
Concentrations of mullet are now moving inshore, this has attracted more roosterfish, jacks and snapper. Slow trolling with mullet in the shallow rocky areas north of Punta Gorda has been producing great opportunities of hooking into and trying to actually bring to the boat a monster sized dogtooth snapper. Anglers using 50 to 80 pound main line with fluorocarbon leader of 80 to 120 pound have reported consistent success. Amberjack and grouper have also been mixed in with the big snapper, fun to see these aggressive fish attack the slow trolled surface bait and you better be ready to apply as much pressure as possible in order to keep from being cut off by the rocks.
Palmilla Point has been producing good morning action for sierra, yellowtail, amberjack, bonito and even a few dorado. Concentrations of juvenile sized roosterfish are schooling along the beach stretches, only a few larger roosterfish being reported, this could change at any time, peak rooster time is now.
There were several wahoo reportedly caught this past weekend in the area of La Fortuna to Iman, one of them weighed close to 70 pounds and hit on a small sized Rapala being used to target bonito. Maybe conditions will become just to the wahoo's liking prefer and go on the bite. In years past there could be some incredible wahoo action found on the inshore banks during late spring, early summer season.
The combined panga fleets launching from La Playita/Puerto Los Cabos sent out approximately 58 charters for the week, with anglers reporting a fish count of: 4 wahoo,
8 striped marlin, 11 dorado, 4 yellowfin tuna, 215 roosterfish, 23 sierra, 16 yellowtail, 25 amberjack, 44 bonito, 27 dogtooth snapper, 10 cabrilla, 104 various pargo species, 18 hammerhead shark and 15 jack crevalle.
Good Fishing, Eric
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