Anglers –
February 25,
2017
There did
seem to be larger crowds of tourists in town this past week, enjoying the
spring like weather conditions, though not many anglers are in these numbers of
people, as amount of charters are slower, not that unusual for this time frame
though, this is never considered to peak season for any of the more glamorous
gamefish species. We did have a day of rainfall last weekend, isolated showers
that really did not amount to much, also more winds, both from the south and
then returning from out of the north, this combined to slow down the all-around
fishing action. Water temperature has been averaging about 69 to 70 degrees
through most of the region, currents have been strong at times and swells also
increased during the previous week, before residing back down. Crazy weather
this time of year, as we begin to transition from winter to spring.
Bait netters
are finding sardinas still near Palmilla and towards Regina Resort, other
options have been strips of squid and we are starting to use some yo-yo jigs
more as well. The tuna action has been centered near the Iman Bank, where fish
up to 60 lb. were landed, though the past week this action did slow way down,
with anglers very fortunate to land one or two of these yellowfin, which were
most of the time averaging 20 to 30 lb. More charters are also starting to work
the bottom for various pargo, snapper, amberjack, cabrilla, bonito, yellowtail
and other species. You have to have calmer conditions to be able to really have
good chances for this type of action. Lots of sea lions to contend with as
well, getting more than their share of the catch.
There has
been a great bite for huachinango (red snapper) on the Outer Gordo Bank, not
many people even knew about this. There was an unusual run of larger size
reddish crabs drifting to the surface, averaging two to three inches in size,
much larger than the more common pelagic red crabs that we see this time of year,
these crabs found in recent days are a much rarer occurrence. The deal was to
cruise around these grounds and net what crabs you could and then rig them up
with sinkers and drop towards the bottom. The few charters that did try this
did very well on quality snapper up to 14 lb. Though they also had to battle
the sea lions, who also knew about these schooling snappers and were waiting
for their chance at easy pickings of hooked up fish. Big numbers of humpback
whales also still congregating on these same popular fishing grounds.
There were
some smaller sized yellowtail, most in the 4 to 8 lb. class off of Palmilla,
still waiting for larger fish to move in. Also some amberjack in the 5 to 25
lb. class, an occasional leopard grouper or yellow snapper, of course many
triggerfish in the mix as well. Not much going on for inshore action, only a
few boats even trying, mainly for limited numbers of smaller sized sierra.
The combined
panga fleets launching out of La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos Marina sent out approximately
63 charters for the week, with anglers reporting a fish count of: 1 striped
marlin, 29 yellowfin tuna, 10 bonito, 14 yellow snapper, 13 leopard grouper,
165 huachinango, 18 sierra, 12 yellowtail, 26 amberjack and 55 triggerfish.
Good
fishing, Eric
This entry
was posted in Fish Reports by admin-pangaMan, at Gordo Banks.