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Settles, Tuna Action Improves ~ September 17, 2016
Anglers –
September
17, 2016
As summer
season now is entering its final week we continue to see light crowds of
visitors, though our busy fall season will be upon us soon. We continue to
follow weather forecast closely, this week there was Hurricane Orlene which
headed far off to the west, making no impact at all on land, except for
increasing the already high humidity. Now we are watching a newly forming low
pressure system off of the mainland coast, they are forecasting this system to
travel offshore, paralleling the west coast of Baja, far enough away to not
cause any problems, hopefully this will be the case. Most of the area is now
finishing up cleaning the debris and damage caused by Newton, though our local panga
dock area will require more rebuilding than most areas, clean up has begun, but
will be an ongoing process.
Ocean
conditions are great now, practically no winds, light swells, clear blue water
of about 85 degrees, lots of baitfish activity on the local fishing grounds.
Anglers were fishing the spots from the Gordo Banks to San Luis, using strips
of squid, some caballito, bolito, skipjack and chihuil for bait, finding a
variety of species, but no great numbers of any particular fish at this time.
Yellowfin tuna are being seen feeding and breezing on the surface, but with all
of the natural food source available on the same grounds, they are tough to
entice into striking. A handful of tuna in the 100 to 150 lb. class were
accounted for and other yellowfin in the 10 to 60 lb. range, best bet has been
on the Iman Bank, though the Gordo Banks is producing some fish as well. Most
charters were fortunate to land one or two tuna in their overall catch.
Overall
catches averaged a few fish per boat, tuna, dorado, snapper being the most
common catch, a few billfish encountered as well. Large numbers of tuna are in
the area, just a matter of them going on the bite, with so much food on the
grounds, they are not that hungry to aggressively attack anglers offerings at
this time, a lot can happen though from day to day, week to week.
Off the
bottom there were yellow snapper, triggerfish, leopard grouper, barred pargo,
amberjack and dogtooth snapper, though limited numbers, except for the
triggerfish, which were plentiful as usual. Dorado were scattered, some fish up
to 20 lb. landed. Wahoo were scarce, but one quality sized wahoo of 60 lb. was
landed from a panga on Thursday on a lure near Punta Gorda.
The combined
panga fleets launching out of La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos Marina sent out
approximately 54 charters for the week, with anglers reporting a fish count of:
4 striped marlin, 57 yellowfin tuna, 17 dorado, 1 wahoo, 8 yellow snapper, 1
dogtooth snapper, 8 leopard grouper,55 triggerfish, 3 amberjack and 5 rainbow runner.
Good
fishing, Eric
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