WEATHER: High winds and swells close port for 1 day but it
has moved on through and everything back to normal. I don’t know to say t any
better than this its just plain hot. Highs ladder 90,s with lows in the lower
80,s and the humidity is intense. I guess it is to be expected this time of
year in Cabo but this is the hottest summer I have felt since I have been in
Cabo. Most days are pretty clear with partial clouds and if you look toward the
sierras you will see it is cloudy and looks like it has been raining. Well we
have a little more than 2 more months of the really hot weather so were about
half way through till October and we might get some relieve after the 15th .
WATER: Closer to shore is a bit cooler than offshore and
according to Tembreak. Still the water is around 82 on pacific side and higher
on the Sea of Cortez side. Go to Tempbreak.com to check out map.
TUNA: The Tuna fishing has slowed a bit but there is still
good numbers of football size Tuna being caught inshore and up to 21 miles
offshore. It seems as if the commercial Tuna boats have scattered the schools
all over the place so most of the schools of fish aren’t to big. When you do
find the schools it looks as if they have taken a pounding pretty hard from the
commercial boys. I don’t know when Mexico is going to wake up and start
protecting the sport fishing and all the tourist dollars that come into the
area because of fishing. It seems no one is thinking of the long term affects
this will have on the tourist and sport fishing industry. Not only that the
sport fishing and tourist industry employee many, many families here in Los
Cabos.
BILLFISH: This week remains just ok with the marlin bite
down compared to last week. The fish are still around the horseshoe area and
stretching up to San Jamie Banks with most fish being caught on lures, live
bait and ballyhoo.
Most of the Marlin has been caught from the Light House to
San Jamie 1 to 8 miles offshore. We reported last week lots of Blues in the
200lb to 300lbs range are being caught pretty consistently. The one thing I am
seeing which is pretty sad is that a lot of the people are killing the small
Blues and Sailfish and not releasing them. Do not allow the crews of your
charter boat to talk you into killing these fish because what they do is sell
the meat for very little and it is a huge conservational waste. They should be
let go to see another day and another fisherman. Explain to the captain and
crew before you leave the dock that you are not interested in killing any
Marlin or Sailfish. This policy is going to be good for all of us for we can
pass sport fishing on down to future generations who can enjoy and see what we
have seen.
DORADO: The Dorado fishing is still been pretty good with
most fish being caught more inshore about 1 to 3 miles offshore has been common
but most fish are pretty small and they are being landed by using lures, and
live bait.
INSHORE: The inshore action has been fair to good with some
nice Roosters being landed in the 20lb to 30lbs range. Anglers report the best
way to entice them is slow troll live bait. The Pangas have been doing not to
bad on small Dorado and even some Sailfish landed close to shore.
WAHOO: Another week with some Wahoo report coming in and
this is good as they are great to eat on the grill!! The Wahoo fishing is
picking up and there has been some good reports of Wahoo being caught up to
60lbs. The Wahoo have been showing up pretty much in all areas and are hitting
marlin lures, live bait and jet heads.
Author: Jc Sportfishing
Date: August 13 2017