Another week with light crowds and increasingly warmer
weather. The latest tropical storm which has developed off of Southern Mexico
is named Greg, it is following the recent trend and heading on a westerly track
offshore, all we felt from this system was perhaps more tropical climate with
increased humidity. Winds were relatively light, morning calmer, with breeze
picking up mid-day on. Ocean temperatures are back up in the 80 to 84 degree
range on the Sea of Cortez side of the Peninsula and on the Pacific Banks it is
about 78 degrees.
Sportfishing fleets have been fishing from Chileno,
Palmilla, Gordo Banks, to Iman and San Luis. Action was spread out now. Largest
fish we heard of was early in the week, a 428 lb. black marlin which was hooked
into while trolling a lure around the Gordo Banks, other highlight was a 100
lb. class yellowfin tuna landed on Thursday. Most common catches were for a
smaller grade of 10 to 20 pound yellowfin, these fish were scattered throughout
the inshore region, striking on trolled hoochies and smaller Rapalas. This
action started out strong early in the week, was more spread out by the
weekend. These schooling tuna were not associated with porpoise, just found in
open water, along the inshore drop off.
A few more numbers of dorado, though most of these were
under 8 lb., only an occasional larger specimen seen. Tolling same type of tuna
lures was the best bet to find these fish. Inshore there was decent action for
roosterfish, hot spot perhaps off of the San Jose Hotel zone, fish to over 40
lb. were landed, also many juveniles mixed in.
The action off the bottom was up and down, one day good,
next day slim, mainly targeting red snapper (huachinango), in the 4 to 12 lb.
range, found near San Luis Bank and hooked up with yo-yo style jigs. Only a few
amberjack were found. No dogtooth snapper to speak of either, only a couple of
small ones. The months of July and August is when we normally to find the
largest of amberjack and dogtooth snapper, so our fingers are crossed that
these normal patterns are just running a little being typical schedules.
Bait supplies consisted of mullet and caballito, some
anglers are starting to try their luck with strips of squid, but so far noting
has been consistent with that, need a larger grade of yellowfin to move in, it
is the time of year we do regularly see the quality grade tuna move in.
Some limited wahoo activity was reported this week, more
strikes missed and lures cut off than fish caught, this happened while trolling
for the tuna, though a couple of wahoo up to 25 lb. were landed. First of these
we have seen in a while. With inshore waters cleaning back up, blue water is
what wahoo prefer. If water temperatures become too much warmer these fish
often become more sluggish.
We heard of one 45 lb. class snook landed off the beach in
the evening, these world class fish are in the area, though you have to put in
some serious effort and be fortunate to land one.
The combined panga fleets launching out of La Playita,
Puerto Los Cabos Marina sent out approximately 59 charters for the week, with
anglers reporting a fish count of: 1 black marlin, 24 dorado, 2 wahoo, 8
amberjack, 16 bonito, 11 yellow snapper, 4 barred pargo, 185 yellowfin tuna, 10
leopard grouper, 2 dogtooth snapper, 84 huachinango, 9 jack crevalle, 68
roosterfish, 2 pompano and 22 triggerfish.
Good fishing, Eric
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