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[#000000][size 4]FLYHOOKER SPORTFISHING[/size][/#000000]
[#000000]Captain George Landrum[/#000000]
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[#000000]Cabo Fish Report[/#000000]
[#000000] Nov. 26 – Dec. 1, 2013[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]WEATHER: [/#000000][#000000]Onceagain we had a week with partly sunny skies. If I were a pessimist Iwould have said partly cloudy skies, but I am a fisherman and wefishermen have to be optimistic, that's just part of the sport. Anyway, partly sunny with our nighttime lows dipping into the mid60's while the daytime highs have been just touching the 85 degreerange on the thermometer on the patio. We ended last week with aspattering of rain as I finished the report but we have had nonesince then. It appears as if we have a chance of a bit ofprecipitation coming on Tuesday or Wednesday, but who knows, it couldjust as well be sunny and hot, but the animations (hurricane) for theeastern Pacific show some clouds working our way.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]WATER: [/#000000][#000000]EveryoneI talked to this week said that the water wherever they went wasalmost glassy and calm the whole trip. I know that in the afternoonsthe water on the Pacific side received a bit of wind that caused somechop, but the swells stayed down and it was comfortable everywhere. As far as water temperatures go, the Sea of Cortez side of the Capewas a fairly steady 81 degrees within 5 miles of the beach and 82degrees farther out than that. The big news is the temperature breakon the Pacific side. If you ran a line just on the eastern edge ofthe San Jaime Banks and northward to just to the eastern edge of theGolden Gate Banks you would have been on the break, at least at theend of the week. Inside (eastern side) of the break the water was 80degrees, outside of the line it was 76 degrees, and there was notmuch blending, it was a fairly sharply defined break. Notsurprisingly for this time of year, the cooler water was cleaner, abit more blue to it. This is the opposite of what we see when thewater begins to warm back up in the late spring.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BAIT: [/#000000][#000000]Caballito remain the most common of the larger baits, but there arestill a few Mackerel showing up on the bait boats. As the watercontinues to cool we should start seeing many more of them, and fewerof the Caballito. There has also been a mix of misc. baits, a fewLook-downs, a few green Jacks, a few small Pompano and of course thistime of year some strips of Humboldt Squid. The live bait has beenselling for the normal $3 per bait, there has been some frozenballyhoo at the same price and the squid has been all over the place,depending on who you are buying it from.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000] FISHING:[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BILLFISH[/#000000][#000000]:Remember me mentioning how nice it was to not have to say, “Youshould have been here last week” last week? Well I had to say itthis week, at least for the start of the week. The fishing forStriped Marlin went from red-hot to lukewarm almost overnight as soonas that had been written. It took until this Friday for the actionto return, but it finally did. I have no idea why the bite droppedoff, but boats that had been getting 5 to 6 releases per trip weresuddenly only getting one, or sometimes none at all. During thistime frame the temperature break slowly moved to the west, to whereit is now, and it may have been the slow movement that threw everyoneoff. Now the fish are being found on the cool side of the break, orright on the edge of the warm water. Yesterday we had clients thathooked no Marlin on Thanksgiving release four and unfortunately tailwrap a fifth fish that died during the fight. Other boats werereporting the return of the bait-balls as well and once again theFrigate birds were pointing out the right locations to fish. Thismeant it was only an hour run to the break giving anglers plenty oftime to find the Marlin concentrations.[/#000000][/#000000]
YELLOWFIN TUNA: I keep telling myself “Self, be patient, theYellowfin should show up anytime now”, but it is hard to bepatient, I want my Sashimi now, dang it. Guess I will just have tocontinue waiting unless someone stumbles onto a pod of porpoiseholding Tuna. It has been happening now and then this past week, andthe Tuna have been footballs to 15 pounds, but they have been scarcefor everyone. When a boat has found the Tuna they have been quietabout it until they have caught a few, then finally they willannounce it on the radio. Everyone within 8 miles then piles on theschool and puts them down. My fingers remain crossed that these fishwill return soon, and in force.
[#000000]DORADO: The action on Dorado went had inhand with the action on Striped Marlin this week. As soon as theweek started the action dropped to a standstill, but thankfully thebite returned at the end of the week. While the Marlin action movedoffshore with the temperature break, the Dorado stayed in the warmerwater near the beach. Most boats were finding them from 100 feet totwo miles out. I hate to keep repeating myself, but the best way tocatch them continues to be trolling lures until one is hooked up,then leaving that first fish out and dropping a live bait back about50 feet behind it in order to catch others that may be with it. Second most productive (and what happens quite often when the fishare playing hard to get) is boating the first fish so there issomething for dinner, then working the area with slow trolled livebait. Where there is one, there is usually another, especially onthe larger of the species. Dorado, once they get to about 18 poundor so, seem to start spreading out and you will only find two orthree packed together, and the really large fish in the 40+ rangewill be loners.[/#000000]
[#000000]WAHOO: At the end of the week the Wahooaction picked up for boats working the shallow waters close to thebeach. This may be due to the moon once again approaching the newphase, which will be on Dec. 1[size 2]st. Once again many anglersand crew were surprised to pull in a live bait only to find it hadbeen bitten cleanly in half, or find a lure that had the skirtschopped off. Crews that decided to forgo fishing for Dorado andconcentrate on Wahoo changed to wire leaders and either fished theirlures on wire lines as well, or placed heavy 24 ounce torpedo sinkersahead of the lures, running the main line to a swivel, attaching thesinker then attaching the lure to the sinkers other end with anotherswivel. Working the shallows at 8 to 10 knots with this setup caughta lot of the Wahoo brought in at the end of this week. These fishwere not giants, with the larger of them reaching 45 pounds, but theaverage was a decent 25 pounds.[/size][/#000000]
[#000000] INSHORE: The little Roosterfish we havebeen catching continue to bite small lures just off the beach, andthere is a decent chance of running into a school of larger fish inthe 15-18 pound class while fishing just outside the breakers withlive bait. As long as the water on the beach remains fairly warmthis bite should continue. While we are still seeing small Sierraand small Yellowtail, they have not been plentiful. Once the watertemperature starts to drop we should see an increase in numbers onthese fish. I am hoping that the snapper bite will turn on in acouple of weeks when we have the full moon once again, often thistime of year the snapper start to school on the high spots inspawning congregations. When this happens the action can really turnon, but please, if you manage to be there at the right time, try tolimit your catch, not catch your limit. These are spawningaggregations after all, and we do want fish in the coming years![/#000000]
[#000000]FISH RECIPE: Can you say “smoked”? Aseasy as pie (easier, actually as there is no cooking involved),making a sandwich using smoked tuna or dorado flaked into some mayo(I like using wasabi mayo, check last weeks recipe for that) withsome diced celery and onion is magnificent. Use croissants insteadof regular bread for a meal you would be willing to pay big bucksfor.[/#000000]
[#000000]NOTES: I hope your thanksgiving was as greatas ours was, if you live where it is celebrated. We had a lot to bethankful for this year, and friends to share with at the house. Now,if those darn Tuna would just show up I could have Sashimi forChristmas, Ho-Ho-Ho! This weeks report was written to the music of Mark Knopfler on his second solo release, the 2002 “Sailing ToAmerica”. I hope you like it! Until next week, tight lines![/#000000]
[#000000]And as always, George writes this report
and posts to the blog on Sunday morning. So if you
can'twait, click the "FOLLOW" on the top of the blog
page! You will know whenever something new is posted!
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[#000000][size 4]FLYHOOKER SPORTFISHING[/size][/#000000]
[#000000]Captain George Landrum[/#000000]
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[#000000]http://captgeo.wordpress.com/[/#000000]
[#000000]Cabo Fish Report[/#000000]
[#000000] Nov. 26 – Dec. 1, 2013[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]WEATHER: [/#000000][#000000]Onceagain we had a week with partly sunny skies. If I were a pessimist Iwould have said partly cloudy skies, but I am a fisherman and wefishermen have to be optimistic, that's just part of the sport. Anyway, partly sunny with our nighttime lows dipping into the mid60's while the daytime highs have been just touching the 85 degreerange on the thermometer on the patio. We ended last week with aspattering of rain as I finished the report but we have had nonesince then. It appears as if we have a chance of a bit ofprecipitation coming on Tuesday or Wednesday, but who knows, it couldjust as well be sunny and hot, but the animations (hurricane) for theeastern Pacific show some clouds working our way.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]WATER: [/#000000][#000000]EveryoneI talked to this week said that the water wherever they went wasalmost glassy and calm the whole trip. I know that in the afternoonsthe water on the Pacific side received a bit of wind that caused somechop, but the swells stayed down and it was comfortable everywhere. As far as water temperatures go, the Sea of Cortez side of the Capewas a fairly steady 81 degrees within 5 miles of the beach and 82degrees farther out than that. The big news is the temperature breakon the Pacific side. If you ran a line just on the eastern edge ofthe San Jaime Banks and northward to just to the eastern edge of theGolden Gate Banks you would have been on the break, at least at theend of the week. Inside (eastern side) of the break the water was 80degrees, outside of the line it was 76 degrees, and there was notmuch blending, it was a fairly sharply defined break. Notsurprisingly for this time of year, the cooler water was cleaner, abit more blue to it. This is the opposite of what we see when thewater begins to warm back up in the late spring.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BAIT: [/#000000][#000000]Caballito remain the most common of the larger baits, but there arestill a few Mackerel showing up on the bait boats. As the watercontinues to cool we should start seeing many more of them, and fewerof the Caballito. There has also been a mix of misc. baits, a fewLook-downs, a few green Jacks, a few small Pompano and of course thistime of year some strips of Humboldt Squid. The live bait has beenselling for the normal $3 per bait, there has been some frozenballyhoo at the same price and the squid has been all over the place,depending on who you are buying it from.[/#000000][/#000000]
[#000000] FISHING:[/#000000]
[#000000][#000000]BILLFISH[/#000000][#000000]:Remember me mentioning how nice it was to not have to say, “Youshould have been here last week” last week? Well I had to say itthis week, at least for the start of the week. The fishing forStriped Marlin went from red-hot to lukewarm almost overnight as soonas that had been written. It took until this Friday for the actionto return, but it finally did. I have no idea why the bite droppedoff, but boats that had been getting 5 to 6 releases per trip weresuddenly only getting one, or sometimes none at all. During thistime frame the temperature break slowly moved to the west, to whereit is now, and it may have been the slow movement that threw everyoneoff. Now the fish are being found on the cool side of the break, orright on the edge of the warm water. Yesterday we had clients thathooked no Marlin on Thanksgiving release four and unfortunately tailwrap a fifth fish that died during the fight. Other boats werereporting the return of the bait-balls as well and once again theFrigate birds were pointing out the right locations to fish. Thismeant it was only an hour run to the break giving anglers plenty oftime to find the Marlin concentrations.[/#000000][/#000000]
YELLOWFIN TUNA: I keep telling myself “Self, be patient, theYellowfin should show up anytime now”, but it is hard to bepatient, I want my Sashimi now, dang it. Guess I will just have tocontinue waiting unless someone stumbles onto a pod of porpoiseholding Tuna. It has been happening now and then this past week, andthe Tuna have been footballs to 15 pounds, but they have been scarcefor everyone. When a boat has found the Tuna they have been quietabout it until they have caught a few, then finally they willannounce it on the radio. Everyone within 8 miles then piles on theschool and puts them down. My fingers remain crossed that these fishwill return soon, and in force.
[#000000]DORADO: The action on Dorado went had inhand with the action on Striped Marlin this week. As soon as theweek started the action dropped to a standstill, but thankfully thebite returned at the end of the week. While the Marlin action movedoffshore with the temperature break, the Dorado stayed in the warmerwater near the beach. Most boats were finding them from 100 feet totwo miles out. I hate to keep repeating myself, but the best way tocatch them continues to be trolling lures until one is hooked up,then leaving that first fish out and dropping a live bait back about50 feet behind it in order to catch others that may be with it. Second most productive (and what happens quite often when the fishare playing hard to get) is boating the first fish so there issomething for dinner, then working the area with slow trolled livebait. Where there is one, there is usually another, especially onthe larger of the species. Dorado, once they get to about 18 poundor so, seem to start spreading out and you will only find two orthree packed together, and the really large fish in the 40+ rangewill be loners.[/#000000]
[#000000]WAHOO: At the end of the week the Wahooaction picked up for boats working the shallow waters close to thebeach. This may be due to the moon once again approaching the newphase, which will be on Dec. 1[size 2]st. Once again many anglersand crew were surprised to pull in a live bait only to find it hadbeen bitten cleanly in half, or find a lure that had the skirtschopped off. Crews that decided to forgo fishing for Dorado andconcentrate on Wahoo changed to wire leaders and either fished theirlures on wire lines as well, or placed heavy 24 ounce torpedo sinkersahead of the lures, running the main line to a swivel, attaching thesinker then attaching the lure to the sinkers other end with anotherswivel. Working the shallows at 8 to 10 knots with this setup caughta lot of the Wahoo brought in at the end of this week. These fishwere not giants, with the larger of them reaching 45 pounds, but theaverage was a decent 25 pounds.[/size][/#000000]
[#000000] INSHORE: The little Roosterfish we havebeen catching continue to bite small lures just off the beach, andthere is a decent chance of running into a school of larger fish inthe 15-18 pound class while fishing just outside the breakers withlive bait. As long as the water on the beach remains fairly warmthis bite should continue. While we are still seeing small Sierraand small Yellowtail, they have not been plentiful. Once the watertemperature starts to drop we should see an increase in numbers onthese fish. I am hoping that the snapper bite will turn on in acouple of weeks when we have the full moon once again, often thistime of year the snapper start to school on the high spots inspawning congregations. When this happens the action can really turnon, but please, if you manage to be there at the right time, try tolimit your catch, not catch your limit. These are spawningaggregations after all, and we do want fish in the coming years![/#000000]
[#000000]FISH RECIPE: Can you say “smoked”? Aseasy as pie (easier, actually as there is no cooking involved),making a sandwich using smoked tuna or dorado flaked into some mayo(I like using wasabi mayo, check last weeks recipe for that) withsome diced celery and onion is magnificent. Use croissants insteadof regular bread for a meal you would be willing to pay big bucksfor.[/#000000]
[#000000]NOTES: I hope your thanksgiving was as greatas ours was, if you live where it is celebrated. We had a lot to bethankful for this year, and friends to share with at the house. Now,if those darn Tuna would just show up I could have Sashimi forChristmas, Ho-Ho-Ho! This weeks report was written to the music of Mark Knopfler on his second solo release, the 2002 “Sailing ToAmerica”. I hope you like it! Until next week, tight lines![/#000000]
[#000000]And as always, George writes this report
and posts to the blog on Sunday morning. So if you
can'twait, click the "FOLLOW" on the top of the blog
page! You will know whenever something new is posted!
[/#000000]
[#000000]http://captgeo.wordpress.com/[/#000000]
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