Wahoo and
Larger Yellowfin Tuna go on the Bite ~ November 12, 2016
Anglers
November 12,
2016
This past
week was one of the busiest of the entire year, large crowds of anglers
continue to arrive in the Los Cabos area and the whole town is bustling with
business. Weather conditions are now typical for the fall season, early
mornings have a slight chill, down into the mid to upper 60’s, daytime highs
have been reaching into the upper 80s. So far winds have been moderate, with
the breeze picking up predominately from the north later in the day. Ocean
swells have been minimal, water temperature have dropped slightly, now
averaging 84 degrees, about 81 degrees on the Pacific side on Cabo San Lucas.
Local fleets
have found the most productive action from the grounds off of Chileno Bay,
north to the Gordo Banks and Iman, even as far as Vinorama. The overall fishing
action improved this past week, the first couple of days of the week the wahoo
action went wide open on the Iman Banks, charters were landing up to five of
six wahoo during a morning trip, with many other strikes also being lost, fast
and furious action. The wahoo were ranging in size up to 45 lb., with the
majority of strikes coming on live baits, such as caballito or even better,
chihuil, which can be caught early on the Inner Gordo Bank. Some anglers had
success trolling rigged ballyhoo, Rapalas or even casting bombs and yo-yo’s.
This action tapered off through the rest of the week, but we were still seeing
a fair amount of wahoo being brought in each day.
The most
common species continue to be yellowfin tuna, these schooling fish were being
found mainly on the Gordo Banks and around Iman Bank. Drift fishing with strips
of squid or slow trolling chihuil proved to be most successful. Sizes ranged
from 10 lb. to 250 lb. Most fish were in the 20 to 30 lb. class, but this week
we saw more 100 lb. and heavier fish than during previous weeks. With the
largest fish coming from the Gordo Banks.
We also
started to see more dorado show up in the fish counts, still no significant
numbers, but at least we are finally seeing some nice dorado, we saw bulls up
to 25 lb. These fish were found scattered throughout the area, sometimes not
very far from shore, where ever there might be concentrations of baitfish, with
frigate birds circling overhead, that was a good place to try.
Billfish
were more active around the 1150 spot, though a few were also found on the
Gordo Banks and further north. A mix of sailfish, blue, striped and black
marlin were all accounted for. There were reports of blue marlin over 300 lb.
Not much
being found off the bottom, besides triggerfish, a few miscellaneous
pargo/snapper species and an occasional leopard grouper. Inshore a few more
sierra showing up, though we will see more when the water temperature cools off
more. An occasional roosterfish still around late into the season, including some
being found on the offshore high spots.
The combined
panga fleets launching out of La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos Marina sent out
approximately 240 charters for the week, with anglers reporting a fish count
of: 2 black marlin, 6 blue marlin, 4 striped marlin, 7 sailfish, 720 yellowfin
tuna, 42 dorado, 140 wahoo, 14 yellow snapper, 7 leopard grouper, 15 bonito, 22
huachinango, 7 amberjack, 5 roosterfish, 31 sierra, 22 rainbow runner, 8
surgeonfish and 125 triggerfish.
Good
fishing, Eric
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