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CaboFish Report
Dec 3-9, 2012
WEATHER: The air continues to getcooler every week, but I still don't think we are going to have awhite Christmas in Cabo! This week on the way to the Golf Course Iread a chilly 65 degrees, but it did warm up later on to 81 degrees.Our average early morning has been right around 71 degrees, down abit from last week. The week started out with sunny skies and slowlythe clouds moved in, and with the clouds came some wind. The windreally picked up on the Pacific side on Friday, building up some nicewhitecaps and rollers making it very uncomfortable to fish, but thatwas the introduction to the cloud deck that hovered over us onSaturday. On Saturday the clouds settled in and the wind dieddown.
WATER: Due to the cloud cover there were no good shots ofthe surface temperature, but from what we could see and what wasreported by the boats it appears as if the water temperature acrossthe area has dropped a degree or two. On both the Cortez and on thePacific side of the cape we had inshore water at 77 to 78 degreeswhile just offshore on the Cortez side it warmed to 81 degrees and onthe Pacific side to 80 degrees. On the Pacific side the water becamea bit off-colored, not as clear as we had been getting the pastseveral months. Due to the wind at the end of the week we did haveseveral days when the Pacific side became very choppy, on the Cortezside the swells were small and the wind just created a small chop.Farther up the coast on the Cortez side, up past Punta Gordo thewater conditions again became a bit rough due to the wind.
BAIT:No change in the bait availability this week from last week. Therewas plenty of Caballito, a few Mackerel and a very limited supply ofSardina. The bigger baits were the usual $3 each while the Sardinas,if you could find a boat with some to sell, were going for $25 ascoop.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: As the water cools down the number ofStriped Marlin that are being seen and are being caught continues toincrease, and the number of Blue and Black Marlin caught decreases.As a matter of fact, I only heard of one Blue Marlin being caughtthis week, a small fish of about 200 pounds caught on the Cortez sideout around the 1150 area. The Striped Marlin are another storythough. It appeared that if you really wanted to catch a StripedMarlin all you had to do was wait. The fish were stacked up on theLighthouse ledge, San Cristobal point and a few were on the GoldenGate bank again this week. Along with dropping bait down and driftingfor them in these areas, boats were seeing more and more tailing fishon the surface, and getting more fish coming into the pattern whentrolling lures. Over all though, the best method continued to bedropping live bait down 100 to 200 feet and waiting for a bite. As Imentioned last week, this is not my favorite method, but it sure doeswork. Trolling rigged Ballyhoo was also a great producer as long asthere were fish in the area you were working. There are still a fewSailfish around to go with the Marlin, but not in any great numbers.The Striped Marlin have been ranging in size from 50 pound littleguys to 180 pound fish with the average right around 110pounds.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: There is still a lack of schooling Tuna inour area, even though once in a while a boat will find porpoise withTuna on them. One of our clients this week was trying to get a Marlinon his Fly Rod and while looking for the right fish they found a podof Porpoise that held tuna. When getting one to strike the fly provedunsuccessful they put out a live bait and brought in a nice 70 poundfish. Other boats soon arrived and for a little while there was someaction. This has been the situation this week, at least to the southand the west. For boats going up to the Cortez side and working theGordo Banks, there are still some nice big cows being caught, but asalways, you really have to put in the time and effort to get one ofthem. Chunking with Bonito and Skipjack while chumming with Sardinashas been the preferred method for these freight train tuna. Fartherup the coast there is still some action happening on the high spotsas long as the wind is not blowing. There were a couple of reallygood days this week according to boats that made the run from here,but the earlier you arrived the better, and boats fishing out of SanJose did much better than boats out of Cabo as it is at least an hourcloser for them.
DORADO: The Dorado action dropped offquite a bit this week, probably due to the cooler water as the fishmove and follow the warmer temperatures. Not that there were no fish,there just were not the numbers or concentrations we were seeingseveral weeks ago. As an example, boats fishing short trips close tohome had a difficult time getting limits this week. It took aconcentrated effort and a full day working the shoreline between Caboand Todo Santos for one of our clients to come in with 9 very nicefish. Hard work as he said and the fish were scattered. It was steadyaction all day long with the largest fish going 35 pounds, several inthe 25 pound range and the rest between 12 and 18 pounds. Slowtrolling Ballyhoo in an area where a fish had been hooked upsometimes produced another fish, but the fish were not concentrated.The normal method of keeping a fish in the water as a decoy to bringin other fish in the school did not work well this week. FishingFrigate birds was a good method, as always, of getting hooked up to aDorado, but as the water cools the chances are just as good that thebirds are working Striped Marlin as they are of the fish being aDorado.
WAHOO: The Wahoo bite slowed down quite a bit this week aswe are going into the new moon phase, but there were still a few fishcaught and more lost. The action as always was just off the rockypoints and drop-offs of fish that ranged from wee-hoo's to 40 poundfish.
INSHORE: More and more Sierra are beginning to show uplocally and while small at 3-5 pounds they have been biting when theschools have been found. Add in a few early Yellowtail to 20 pounds,a few red Snapper to 15 pounds and a few grouper to 20 pounds and thetraditional inshore fishery is begining to shape up nicely. Still,most of the Pangas are fishing slightly farther off the beach, takingadvantage of the continued Dorado bite and the close proximity ofStriped Marlin.
FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this monthsrecipe!
NOTES: Whale season in on its way, traditionally betweenChristmas and Easter, but there are a few showing up now. We finallygot our Christmas tree up and have been watching specials on TV,getting into the spirit of Christmas. It's sometimes hard to do whenthe weather doesn't change! If you are thinking about coming to Cabofor a vacation and want to fish, check us out on our website, all wedo is fishing, no tee-shirts sales, bait or gear, we concentrate onfishing!
And as always, George writes this report
andposts it on Sunday morning. So if you
can't wait, click the"FOLLOW" on the top of the
page! You will knowwhenever something new is posted!
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CaboFish Report
Dec 3-9, 2012
WEATHER: The air continues to getcooler every week, but I still don't think we are going to have awhite Christmas in Cabo! This week on the way to the Golf Course Iread a chilly 65 degrees, but it did warm up later on to 81 degrees.Our average early morning has been right around 71 degrees, down abit from last week. The week started out with sunny skies and slowlythe clouds moved in, and with the clouds came some wind. The windreally picked up on the Pacific side on Friday, building up some nicewhitecaps and rollers making it very uncomfortable to fish, but thatwas the introduction to the cloud deck that hovered over us onSaturday. On Saturday the clouds settled in and the wind dieddown.
WATER: Due to the cloud cover there were no good shots ofthe surface temperature, but from what we could see and what wasreported by the boats it appears as if the water temperature acrossthe area has dropped a degree or two. On both the Cortez and on thePacific side of the cape we had inshore water at 77 to 78 degreeswhile just offshore on the Cortez side it warmed to 81 degrees and onthe Pacific side to 80 degrees. On the Pacific side the water becamea bit off-colored, not as clear as we had been getting the pastseveral months. Due to the wind at the end of the week we did haveseveral days when the Pacific side became very choppy, on the Cortezside the swells were small and the wind just created a small chop.Farther up the coast on the Cortez side, up past Punta Gordo thewater conditions again became a bit rough due to the wind.
BAIT:No change in the bait availability this week from last week. Therewas plenty of Caballito, a few Mackerel and a very limited supply ofSardina. The bigger baits were the usual $3 each while the Sardinas,if you could find a boat with some to sell, were going for $25 ascoop.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: As the water cools down the number ofStriped Marlin that are being seen and are being caught continues toincrease, and the number of Blue and Black Marlin caught decreases.As a matter of fact, I only heard of one Blue Marlin being caughtthis week, a small fish of about 200 pounds caught on the Cortez sideout around the 1150 area. The Striped Marlin are another storythough. It appeared that if you really wanted to catch a StripedMarlin all you had to do was wait. The fish were stacked up on theLighthouse ledge, San Cristobal point and a few were on the GoldenGate bank again this week. Along with dropping bait down and driftingfor them in these areas, boats were seeing more and more tailing fishon the surface, and getting more fish coming into the pattern whentrolling lures. Over all though, the best method continued to bedropping live bait down 100 to 200 feet and waiting for a bite. As Imentioned last week, this is not my favorite method, but it sure doeswork. Trolling rigged Ballyhoo was also a great producer as long asthere were fish in the area you were working. There are still a fewSailfish around to go with the Marlin, but not in any great numbers.The Striped Marlin have been ranging in size from 50 pound littleguys to 180 pound fish with the average right around 110pounds.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: There is still a lack of schooling Tuna inour area, even though once in a while a boat will find porpoise withTuna on them. One of our clients this week was trying to get a Marlinon his Fly Rod and while looking for the right fish they found a podof Porpoise that held tuna. When getting one to strike the fly provedunsuccessful they put out a live bait and brought in a nice 70 poundfish. Other boats soon arrived and for a little while there was someaction. This has been the situation this week, at least to the southand the west. For boats going up to the Cortez side and working theGordo Banks, there are still some nice big cows being caught, but asalways, you really have to put in the time and effort to get one ofthem. Chunking with Bonito and Skipjack while chumming with Sardinashas been the preferred method for these freight train tuna. Fartherup the coast there is still some action happening on the high spotsas long as the wind is not blowing. There were a couple of reallygood days this week according to boats that made the run from here,but the earlier you arrived the better, and boats fishing out of SanJose did much better than boats out of Cabo as it is at least an hourcloser for them.
DORADO: The Dorado action dropped offquite a bit this week, probably due to the cooler water as the fishmove and follow the warmer temperatures. Not that there were no fish,there just were not the numbers or concentrations we were seeingseveral weeks ago. As an example, boats fishing short trips close tohome had a difficult time getting limits this week. It took aconcentrated effort and a full day working the shoreline between Caboand Todo Santos for one of our clients to come in with 9 very nicefish. Hard work as he said and the fish were scattered. It was steadyaction all day long with the largest fish going 35 pounds, several inthe 25 pound range and the rest between 12 and 18 pounds. Slowtrolling Ballyhoo in an area where a fish had been hooked upsometimes produced another fish, but the fish were not concentrated.The normal method of keeping a fish in the water as a decoy to bringin other fish in the school did not work well this week. FishingFrigate birds was a good method, as always, of getting hooked up to aDorado, but as the water cools the chances are just as good that thebirds are working Striped Marlin as they are of the fish being aDorado.
WAHOO: The Wahoo bite slowed down quite a bit this week aswe are going into the new moon phase, but there were still a few fishcaught and more lost. The action as always was just off the rockypoints and drop-offs of fish that ranged from wee-hoo's to 40 poundfish.
INSHORE: More and more Sierra are beginning to show uplocally and while small at 3-5 pounds they have been biting when theschools have been found. Add in a few early Yellowtail to 20 pounds,a few red Snapper to 15 pounds and a few grouper to 20 pounds and thetraditional inshore fishery is begining to shape up nicely. Still,most of the Pangas are fishing slightly farther off the beach, takingadvantage of the continued Dorado bite and the close proximity ofStriped Marlin.
FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this monthsrecipe!
NOTES: Whale season in on its way, traditionally betweenChristmas and Easter, but there are a few showing up now. We finallygot our Christmas tree up and have been watching specials on TV,getting into the spirit of Christmas. It's sometimes hard to do whenthe weather doesn't change! If you are thinking about coming to Cabofor a vacation and want to fish, check us out on our website, all wedo is fishing, no tee-shirts sales, bait or gear, we concentrate onfishing!
And as always, George writes this report
andposts it on Sunday morning. So if you
can't wait, click the"FOLLOW" on the top of the
page! You will knowwhenever something new is posted!
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