WEATHER: Windy
most of the week, with the port closing for a few days. This doesn’t happen
very often as it really needs to be hauling to close the port. Although it has
been blowing in the afternoons and evenings and we have had some pretty
pleasant nights with a cool breeze. The highs have been close to 100 degrees
with lows in the 70’s.
WATER: Still
about the same as last week. There is a huge difference in the water
temperatures on the East Cape compared to closer to Cabo on the Pacific side
where there is like a 10 degree difference in water. East Cape some areas are
76 degrees and here close to Cabo on the Pacific it is 71 degrees and colder in
some spots, so quite the contrast and this will affect the fishing in both
areas as we will be catching something completely different from them boys on
the East Cape.
BILLFISH: It
has been a decent week for Striped Marlin and basically all Marlin species here
in Los Cabos. Most fish have been caught on live bait, lures or slow trolling
small Tuna. It has been an active and productive week for Marlin all week with
good numbers of fish being caught and released.
DORADO: Very
slow for Dorado over this past week with just a few being boated. Water
temperatures this year have been playing a major part in what we have been seeing
and it isn’t too much so far. If the USA would stop buying illegal fish caught
in Mexico that would help a lot as it is not legal to net Dorado in Mexico
because it is a sportfishing and not listed as a commercial species. It seems
as long as there are buyers then this will continue to happen and it seems the
authorities just look the other way since they are getting their cut.
SWORDFISH:
Haven’t heard of any caught this week.
WAHOO: Some
pretty nice Wahoo being caught through most of last week.A few being landed
down towards Gordo Banks.
TUNA: Last
week was really good with some large Tuna being caught and this week has been
good also, up and around the doughnut it has been hot using king busters and
cedar plugs with some of the bigger fish being landed with live bait and some
have been up over the 25 TO 30LBS mark this week.
INSHORE: Amberjacks and even Yellowtail being landed around
the Light House in numbers. The pangas have been doing well with Sierras with
some nice ones being landed and ranging from 5lb to 10lb. The Grouper and
Snapper fishing has been going off up and around the Light House on the
pacific.Pangas are having a pretty rough ride this week on the pacific side,
but for the hardcore fisherman they love that stuff.