Cabo Bite Report FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING Captain George Landrum [email protected] www.flyhooker.com Cabo Fish Report Oct. 30-Nov. 5, 2006 WEATHER: We had beautiful fall weather this week with our nighttime lows in the low 70’s and daytime highs in the mid 80’s with just a few light winds. No rainfall and only scattered clouds made for some excellent days. This was also the week of the full moon and this morning the moon was setting as the sun was rising. WATER: Water on the Pacific side of the Cape was almost uniformly 81-83 degrees while on the Cortez side we saw mostly 83 degrees. There has been a fairly consistent temperature break on the Pacific side at 220 degrees out by the 1,000-fathom edge going from 82 degrees shore-side to 80 degrees to the west. Surface conditions have been very good with only slight swells and almost no chop. BAIT: Caballito and Mackerel were available at the usual $2 per bait and there were Sardinas at $20 a bucket, both at the mouth of the harbor and up off of Palmilla and La Playita. FISHING: BILLFISH: There were a few large fish, both Blue and Black Marlin found this week but I did not hear of any real big ones with the exception of a reported 1,000 pound Blue at the beginning of the week. This fish was reported to have been hung and weighed at the main dock but I have not seen a picture or heard any more information on that fish. Most of the Blues and Blacks that have been caught have been in the #200-#300 class. There was a decent bite on Striped Marlin at the end of the week at the Gorda Banks by boats soaking live bait while hoping for a large Tuna and there were scattered fish found off the edges of the banks and just within two miles of the shore on the Pacific side. A fair concentration of Mackerel on the Golden Gate Bank resulted in a large number of fleet boats soaking bait on the shallow spot with mixed results. A few boats came in with three of four flags flying and a few boats caught nothing. YELLOWFIN TUNA: The Tuna tournament resulted in one fish of #318 pounds, one of #204 and two fish over #100 along with several fish between #46 and #100. There were not the numbers of fish found that we have had in recent years. There were quite a few nice fish in the 20-30 pound range found among Porpoise pods offshore along with a few of the larger #60-90 pound fish but all the larger ones came on live bait at the Gorda Bank. DORADO: I thought the bite on Dorado was wide open up at the Finger Bank based on an incomplete mid-week but found out via radio conversations after making the run up that the bite had been in the area of the Bank around a dead Pilot Whale. You always have to check out anything floating if you are looking for Dorado and the boat that found the whale ended up with 15 fish in the 20-30 pound range and lost twice as many more. Other than floating debris for a few lucky boats, it was a matter of one or two fish per boat. At least close to home that is. Quite a few boats were making 30 mile runs up the Pacific side and while working just off the shoreline they were able to get into decent action on fish from 10-20 pounds with a few boats making catches of 10 or more fish. WAHOO: Very surprisingly there were very few Wahoo caught even though this is a fall full moon and we expect there to be some nice fish out there. No Wahoo over #40 was weighed in during the Tuna tournament and I heard of very few being caught at all. Last minute update, talked to a friend last night and they started biting up around Gordo Banks yesterday. INSHORE: Exactly the same as last week as far as inshore fishing is concerned. Slow fishing inshore with a few Dorado, Skipjack and Yellowfin, some early season Sierra and a scattering of misc. bottom species. The better inshore fishing has been reported up toward San Jose. NOTES: There has been a good variety of fish but not any numbers of a particular species except for a few boats lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time. As the water cools over the next few weeks we should start seeing more Tuna, Striped Marlin and inshore should start producing more Sierra. Our fingers are crossed that it doesn’t take too long! Until next week, Tight Lines!