Cabo Fishing Report | JC Sportfishing Dec 23

23 December 2012 WATER: Well water temps have really fallen some. On the Pacific side we are seeing temps as low as 74 to 75 according to Terra Fin. Gordo Banks area had temps in the low 80,s a couple days ago. So we are seeing a temperature change of 6 to 7 degrees from one area to the other. The average water temp now is around 79 degrees compared to a couple weeks ago when it was 84 to 85. So some big changes. WEATHER: The weather has been pretty good with temps in the ladder 70,s to lows in the low 60,s. It has gradually cooled at night over the last week. Really our cooler weather hadn’t set in till about this week. It has been warmer than normal through November and December. As I sit and write the report today its about 76 and sunny with some clouds but all in all really nice. BILLFISHING: Lots of good Marlin fishing happening this past week, up and around the Pump House we have been seeing lots of action on Striped Marlin. They seem to be about 2 to 4 miles off shore and are biting on lures and some on casting bait to the tailers. We have had an average of 1 marlin a day on our own Bob Marlin. One of those Striped Marlin was 190 pounds, a big striped marlin. We have not seen much if at all Blue or Black Marlin action. The water temp has cooled off quite a bit so this has had an effect on the Marlin the fishing. We do expect the Striped Marlin fishing to stay good but the Blue and Blacks are going to be limited from now on out. Really the focus for Marlin has been on the Pacific side all the way up to San Cristobel. .BAIT: Bait is the standard 3.00 dollares a piece and there has been plenty around. On Tuesday and Wednesday we ran into some Tuna swimming with the Porpoise. TUNA: Really all the Tuna have been caught in the Gordo Banks area of the fishing grounds. I did hear of reports of some good size Tuna being caught there. A couple of them were around a 100 pounds. That is quite a run for us to make every day. Really the Tuna fishing hasn’t been to hot. Few and far between. Some smaller Tuna have been caught on the Pacific side but nothing of any size really. Most are 10 to 30 pounds. Kite fishing has been a way to score on the Tuna when you run into them. DORADO: The Bob marlin all week has been kicking them good on the Dorado fishing, with our boat catching 3 to 7 Dorado a trip. The Dorado are good size from 17 to 35 pounds. The Dorado have been biting lures, ballyhoo and live bait. It isn’t as good as it was like 2 weeks ago but it has been pretty decent for Dorado from Gordo Banks to the Pacific side. All areas were producing just not in the numbers that we were seeing but it is still good. INSHORE: The Sierras are starting to show up with the cooler water. Its still a little early for them but they are starting to be caught on Hoochies just off the Solmar and all the way up to the Light House. There also has been reports of Yellow Tail to 20 pounds in the same area as the Sierra. The Yellow Tail were being caught on Rapalas. Roosterfish have been taken up off of San Jose with a couple to 40 pounds. Some snappers and Grouper taken in 40 to 50 feet of water using cut bait. Some of the local guys do real well on the Pacific side using this method and hand lines. WAHOO: We have been doing pretty good with the Wahoo. A good friend of ours did catch 3 nice Wahoo with one of them going to 54 pounds. All the fish were caught between the Pump House and Los Arcos about 2 miles offshore while trolling for Marlin. They also picked up 5 Dorado on that trip. So Wahoo are still around and you really don’t know when you will catch one of them. If you do you will have one of the best dinners you have ever had. 30 December 2012 WATER: the water temperature has been a pretty solid 75 to 78 in most of our local fishing grounds. The pacific side was a little cooler going down to 75 degrees in some areas. The 95 according to Terra Fin was down to 76 yesterday and the 1150 was at 77 . The pacific side did have some choppy conditions over the last week due to wind a couple days. Swells were pretty small on pacific side at about 3 feet. On the Sea of Cortez side swells were about 1 to 2 feet. WEATHER: Its been partly cloudy a few days of this past week. We are suppose to have some rain move into Cabo over the next couple days. Spirits have been high with lots of holiday people in town fishing, golfing and just relaxing. Temperatures have been in ladder 70,s in the day and going down to low 60,s at night. It hasn’t effected the fishing to much as the fishing has been pretty hot. BILLFISHING: Well Billfishing has been pretty hot as we speak with lots of marlin being taken from Light House to the 95. Most of the marlin are being taken on lures and im thinking the reasons for that is there is so much bait in the water that there looking for something else to bite. Lots of boats are reporting 2 to 5 marlin a boat. Most fleets do practice catch and release, which is great so were catching and not keeping. When we think we know what we are talking about, we realize we don’t, normally with the full moon its really slow and we have been proven wrong since last month and this month fishing has been hot. So all in all, this past week was good for Striped Marlin. I did even hear reports of Blue and Black marlin being hooked up in San Jose. BAIT: Bait is the standard 3.00 dollares a piece and there has been plenty around. DORADO: Good numbers of Dorados being caught from Santa Maria to the Los Arcos area they are hitting lures and live bait with some even hitting Ballyhoo. This fish being caught were nice size at 15 to 35 pounds each. Over in San Jose also was productive for Dorado with quite a few reports of them being caught trolling live bait. A very productive week for Dorado lots of great dinners happening....

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