Tuna Main
Species, Wahoo in the Mix ~ November 5, 2016
Anglers –
November 5,
2016
Near
capacity crowds are arriving now, as this is the peak fall season for the Los
Cabos area, the influx of tourists will start to taper off by the end of this
month. With the WON Tuna Jackpot being the main event going on this week, with
some 169 teams competing for three quarters of a million dollars in prize money
and next week there is the annual Wahoo Tournament out of La Playita, in Puerto
Los Cabos Marina. Weather has been feeling more like fall now, cooler mornings
and also the first predominate north winds sweeping in during the latter part
of the week, making tournament conditions a bit rougher that what would be
ideal. Ocean temperatures have ranged from 82 to 86 degrees, we should see a
cooler trend in the coming weeks.
Anglers have
continued to rely on slabs of squids as the main bait sources for targeting the
yellowfin tuna, which has been the most common species now being found. As
dorado continue to be scarce and wahoo have not been consistent either, though
are showing some more signs of becoming more active. Other bait options were
small skipjack, chihuil and caballito.
Most
sportfishing fleets are concentrated on the areas from the Gordo Banks to Iman,
San Luis and Vinorama. In recent days the more consistent action switched from
around the Iman Bank to the Gordo Banks, though heavy boat pressure and gusty
winds have made efforts more challenging the past couple of days. The yellowfin
tuna have ranged from 10 lb. footballs, up to 200 lb. plus cows. Most of the
tuna landed were in the 15 to 30 lb. class. Action was up and down, sometimes
not until later in the day, charters accounted for catches ranging from one
yellowfin to a half dozen fish.
The few
wahoo per day on an average that we have seen brought to the docks have been
taken on slow trolled trap hooked baits, as well as on Rapalas. Fish averaged
25 to 40 lb. We expect with cooling conditions that the wahoo should start to
bite more consistently, best areas recently were near Iman and to the north.
Nothing to
speak of near shore now, though we did hear reports of some out of normal
season roosterfish seen off of the San Jose del Cabo resort stretch. A few more
sierra starting to be seen, sure would be nice if we would see signs of
sardinas moving in, but we have heard of no signs at all, this limits options,
especially for the winter inshore action.
The bottom
has not been producing any consistent bite either, of course there are
triggerfish, but only limited numbers of pargo, snapper, cabrilla or amberjack.
We did not
see much billfish action this past week out of San Jose del Cabo, this is
transition period now for the blues, blacks, stripers and sailfish, these fish
are in the area, but numbers are now more limited..
The combined
panga fleets launching out of La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos Marina sent out
approximately 168 charters for the week, with anglers reporting a fish count
of: 2 blue marlin, 6 striped marlin, 8 sailfish, 355 yellowfin tuna, 17 dorado,
23 wahoo, 18 yellow snapper, 12 leopard grouper, 6 barred pargo, 45 bonito, 35
huachinango, 2 dogtooth snapper, 6 amberjack, 1 roosterfish, 21 sierra and 125
triggerfish.
Good
fishing, Eric
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