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Capt. George Landrum
Fly Hooker Sportfishing
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CABO SAN LUCAS FISH REPORT JULY 5 to JULY 11, 2004
WEATHER: Highs in the high 90’s with humid air, night time lows in the high 70’s. Thank goodness for air conditioning! There have been light winds during the morning hours while at sea, but almost no breeze in the morning here in town. In the afternoons and early evening it has picked up a bit and cooled things off. Slight cloud cover at the beginning and the end of the week and some good, dense clouds in the middle, and these clouds dropped some rain to the north of us, but none here.
WATER: High water temperature was 85 degrees on the Sea of Cortez and the low was around 74 on the Pacific side. Straight south 15 miles we saw water temperatures in the middle. The surface conditions were good almost all week on the Cortez side of the Cape and on the Pacific they only got rough during the middle of the week when the cloud cover and wind moved in.
BAIT: The usual Caballito at $2 each, some Mullet but not much else.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Ok, the bite is still good but not as red hot as last wee, but the variety is improving. There were trips where both Blue Marlin and Striped Marlin were caught, some where a Striped Marlin and a Sailfish were caught, or a Blue Marlin and a Sailfish, and at least one boat came in flying flags for all three! The bite has moved to the south of the Cape and there seems to be a preference for lures right now, and live bait dropped back in the pattern just gets picked at, not really eaten. Darker colors worked the best but the Bleeding Mackerel still got a lot of strikes.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Not a lot of changes on the Tuna bite, there have been a lot of footballs found as well as fish in the 20-25 pound class, and most of them have been in Porpoise pods. The best area has been to the south of the Cape 20 miles and to the south side of the San Jaime Banks. I did talk with one boat that went and worked the Golden Gate Bank and did well on fish from 20-40 pounds, but there were no other boats around at the time, and they did not find the fish on the next day’s trip to the same area. Small feathers in bright colors did well, as did cedar plugs.
DORADO: The Dorado bite keeps getting better and the bite moved on up into the Pacific this week with great action being found up in the Migranios area and the beach off of Margarite. The fish have not been large, averaging 12 pounds, but there have been plenty of them, and there has been the occasional beast mixed in. The larger fish have been farther offshore, and have been much more scattered. Slow trolled live bait under working Frigate Birds has provided a lot of action as has trolling medium sized bright lures.
WAHOO: A decent Wahoo bite this week with a few boats getting doubles on fish averaging 30 pounds. Most boats of course never had a Wahoo strike but that is the way it often goes with these fish. The favorite lure seemed to be anything in either Bleeding Mackerel or Bleeding Dorado run either very short (second wake) or very long (back on #8 or #9).
INSHORE: Most of the boats were working a bit farther offshore than usual due to the number of Dorado to be found, and those working for the normal; inshore fish were a bit disappointed. There were some Roosterfish caught as well as Jack Crevalle, but not in the numbers to be expected this time of year.
NOTES: Well George finally left on his trip north yesterday and he wrote this report Saturday morning just before he left. So if you are in San Diego, say hi to him when he passes by.
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Capt G (Unregistered Guest)
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Capt. George Landrum
Fly Hooker Sportfishing
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
CABO SAN LUCAS FISH REPORT JUNE 29 to July 4, 2004
WEATHER: Last week I said that the humidity was starting to get up there, right? Well, it’s here! But we also have this wonderful warmth to go with it as our night time lows have been in the low 70’s and the day time highs in the mid to high 90’s. You get to sweat when you are walking but it makes sitting in the shade with a cool one all the better. Of course, it is a lot more comfortable out fishing! We have had a little bit of cloud cover, no rain and slight winds in the late afternoon.
WATER: Warmer! The coolest water we were finding at the end of the week was out in the area of the San Jaime and Golden Gate Banks where the surface temperature was in the 77-78 degree range. Everywhere else, both to the south and up the Sea of Cortez we had water in the 80 to 85 degree range. Good surface conditions everywhere at the end of the week with slight swells and just a light wind riffle. The water was a great blue color except near home, near shore on the Pacific side where it greened up a little, but it was still not too bad.
BAIT: The usual Caballito at $2 each, some Lisa, a few small Mackerel and no Sardinas
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FISHING:
BILLFISH: And things just keep getting better! I saw most boats that were flying Billfish flags flying at least two, often four to six flags each as they came in. The fish, at least the Striped Marlin, were close to home, it was not necessary to get more than ½ mile offshore to get into the action. The really good action early in the week started up around San Jose and moved our way as the week went along. As of the end of the week, right out in front of Punta Ballena and the 95 spot there were Striped Marlin everywhere. The Blues are starting to show up as well and there were some nice fish reported from the area of the Gorda Banks. Hopefully they will be coming closer as well as the weeks go on. Almost all the action this week was on live bait. There were fish coming into the patterns but they were not very aggressive, live bait dropped back seemed to do the trick though.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: The Yellowfin bite this week picked up as well, and it is a good thing! We still are not having great numbers or really large fish, but a lot of footballs, sometimes enough of them to seem a nuisance if you were running lures that were too small, but quite a few of them were fish in the 20-25 pound range, with fish to 50 pounds showing as well. Most of the bigger fish were a little farther off shore than everything else, and the south side of the San Jaime Banks was a good place to find them, often pin-pointed by the feeding porpoise. Small feathers in dark colors were needed for the footballs if you wanted to catch a lot of them, medium sized lures in almost any color for the bigger fish.
DORADO: It is summertime and that means Dorado time. I have seen a lot of Dorado flags this week and while there have been some small fish in the catch; I have once again seen quite a few fish in that 50 pound range. Of course most of them are around 20 pounds, but that is nothing to sneeze at! Right out in front of town, within a mile of the arch and slow trolling live bait seems to be an almost sure bet for the Dorado, but most of the boats are covering more ground by pulling lures until they hook up, then dropping back live bait.
WAHOO: Once again it was not a red hot Wahoo bite, but there were fish being caught. Enough red flags were flying that we knew there were fish out there, and I did talk to a few people that hooked up to the toothy speedsters. Most of the fish this week were in the 30-40 pound class, and caught close to shore. I went out with a couple of friends on the 30th, just for fun as it was my birthday, and we tagged and released two Striped Marlin and had hard strikes from two Wahoo as well. All this action happened between 9 am and 11 am on the Sea of Cortez side between Punta Ballena and the Westin.
INSHORE: This week was a repeat of last week’s inshore report with the exception that more Roosterfish are showing up. Most of the inshore fishing was on hold this week as the Pelagics showed up so close to the beach that no one wanted to go for Roosterfish and Jacks when there were Dorado, Marlin and Tuna right there! For the few boats that did try, the bite on Roosterfish was on the Pacific up past the lighthouse as the Mullet followed the water change.
NOTES: I don’t know if I am going to be able to supply much of a report for next week, but I will try and get some information out to you. I will be away until Wednesday afternoon on a boat delivery, and Mary is meeting me on Wednesday for a visit to Disneyland! This weeks report was written to that nagging, obnoxious little tune, “It’s A Small, Small World”, that keeps running through my head! Until next week, Tight Lines!
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Capt George Landrum
“Fly Hooker” Sportfishing
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
WEEKLY FISH COUNT
BLUE MARLIN: ONE FISH TAGGED AND RELEASED (#250)
STRIPED MARLIN: TWO FISH TAGGED AND RELEASED (#75, #80)
DORADO: ONE FISH KEPT (#50)
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR JUNE , 2004
Today was my birthday and since there were no charters booked for the day, it was time to have a little fun! Mary and I, along with our friends Dave McNabb and Ina Yank had Juan and Manuel take us out for a little fishing. It was supposed to be a half day, and hopefully could get a Dorado or Tuna, maybe even a Wahoo, for dinner! Since Mary tends to get seasick, I told Manuel to keep us on the Sea of Cortez and not more than three miles out, the water in close had been like a lake. We did not have any action for the first hour and a half, and it was not until we got up near the Westin that any action happened. Once there, we had a hard strike on the Marauder run close to the boat, and bringing it in to look at afterward you cold see the new Wahoo cuts on the body. Shoot, which would have been great for dinner. A little later Manuel spotted a Striped Marlin come in on the long lure and goosed the boat to keep the lure away and get the fish mad. Juan dropped back a live bait, Manuel slowed the boat and suddenly I was fighting a Striped Marlin! It didn’t take very long and we did get a few jumps out of the fish. I fought the fish standing up and it took about 12 minutes before it was at the side of the boat. I placed a tag and Juan removed the hook from the corner of the mouth. The Marlin was only about #75, but it was a good start! A little later, and about 5 miles off the Palmilla area we spotted an inflatable boat that looked like it might be fighting a fish. Manuel turned in that direction and as he yelled that there were three Marlin up ahead, I saw that someone in the inflatable was waving a red shirt from a paddle. Well, if they were sinking we would have headed over there right away, but they seemed all right for the moment, and by then Dave was hooked up to a Striped Marlin! It took him about 15 minutes to get the fish to the boat, also fighting it stand up style, and the fish jumped very near the inflatable several times. After tagging and releasing his fish (about #5 bigger than mine) we went over to check on the inflatable. It was a dad, his son and daughter and son’s friend. They had an electrical problem with his outboard and couldn’t get it started again. We rigged a bridle, got everyone on the “Fly Hooker” and towed them in to Palmilla. The kids we let us know that seeing the Marlin Dave fought jumping so close to them was really cool. After getting them taken care of at Palmilla we ran out a mile and resumed fishing our way back to Cabo. On the way we had another strike from a Wahoo that did not hook up, and we had one small Dorado try and eat a lure, but the fish just did one back flip when it hooked up, then came off. No fish for dinner, but we had a nice day on the water and were able to do a favor for someone who needed it.
“FLY HOOKER” DAILY FISH REPORT FOR JUNLY 3, 2004
It is the day before the 4th of July holiday and we have an old friend from Guam aboard the boat today, along with his sister, son-in-law and daughter. Wayne Baumunk worked on Guam during the late 70’s and the 80’s as a dive instructor and a few other things, and it was nice to hear from him when he was inquiring about the fishing. Well, we introduced them to Juan and Manuel, and Wayne said he really wanted Tuna or Dorado, so the guys took the boat up to the area between Punta Ballena and Red hill and worked the area offshore from 1 mile to 5 miles really hard. During the morning they saw three Striped Marlin but none of them would eat a live bait, but they had no strikes from any eating fish. It was not until on the way back at 12:45 that they hooked up to a big Dorado. Wayne’s son-in-law just had surgery for carpel tunnel and was not going to be fighting a fish so Wayne was on the rod. It took him about 15 minutes to get the fish close enough for Juan to gaff, and it was right around #50! A very nice Dorado that had beautiful fillets! Manuel turned the boat back and they made another pass in the area and this time a Marlin struck! Too big for the girls so Wayne was back in the chair again. This time the fight took 40 minutes, but at the end Juan was able to tag and release a Blue Marlin that they estimated at #250. Wayne was tired by then! Sometime during the trip they found a Turtle sleeping on the surface and there was a nice Dorado in the shade under it. They made a pass with the lures, tried live bait and then cut bait, but the fish was not interested. Manuel tried to get the boat close enough to free gaff the fish, but the Turtle woke up and went down, taking the Dorado with him. Not a bad end to the day, but all the action happened at the tide change, during high tide. If we could have predicted that it would have been nice. Anyway, congratulations Wayne, you should be receiving your release certificate from the “Billfish Foundation” sometime soon!
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Capt. George Landrum
Fly Hooker Sportfishing
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
CABO SAN LUCAS FISH REPORT JUNE 21 TO JUNE 27, 2004
WEATHER: Wonderful summertime weather and the days just don’t seem to end. Our night time lows have been in the mid 70’s while the day time highs have been in the high 90’s and the humidity is starting to get up there. Last night we ran the air conditioner in our bedroom for the first time this year, but only for a couple of hours. We had warm, still days and a slight breeze pick up every day in the late afternoon.
WATER: It keeps getting warmer! We were seeing water temperatures in the 85 degree range up around Punta Gorda and the Pacific around the San Jaime and Golden Gate Banks has warmed up to 77-78 degrees. This band of warmer water has wrapped around the Cape and the fish are following it! Our surface conditions this week were great as we had very little daytime wind, for the most part just a bit of swell and chop.
BAIT: Caballito at $2 per bait, some Mullet at $2 per bait and some Sardinas at $20 per bucket. There were small Mackerel available at the bait receiver but they were very small.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: The hot area this week was just outside the Cape, up to 10 miles out but for the most part mostly within 6 miles. There were Striped Marlin everywhere, along with an occasional Sailfish and Blue Marlin. This week almost every boat that came in was flying at least one Marlin flag, and if they weren’t, it was because they were focused on another species. Many boats were returning with multiple flags, the most I saw on one boat this week was six! They were biting well on live bait this week, at least compared to the number of strikes to be had on lures.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: More Tuna this week, and again most of them wee football size fish. Blind strikes were the normal method of finding them, but Ion Sunday I was out when a pod of porpoise were found. Of course we were not the ones to find them but the first two boats in the area hooked up to some nice Yellowfin in the 40-60 pound class. The football fish have been scattered from just off the beach to 15 miles out, so they have been easy to catch.
DORADO: The bite is still on for Dorado this week, and it keeps getting better. One of the signs of a good summer is the number of Flying Fish around, and right now they are everywhere to the south and the Sea of Cortez. Most of the Dorado being caught are around 15 pounds but there have been quite a few both larger and smaller. I saw some fish brought in the weighed an easy 50 pounds. The bite has seemed to be best about 1 ½ to 2 miles off the beach on the Sea of Cortez and the best method was slow trolling live Caballito.
WAHOO: It was not a red hot Wahoo bite this week but I did see some nice fish brought in. Two days in a row a boat on our dock brought in a Wahoo, and one of them was a very easy #100 fish! Another friend of mine got two Wahoo of about 40 pounds each on Sunday, along with three Dorado of #15-20, four football Yellowfin and a Striped Marlin released, all in 6 hours on live bait! All these fish were found close to shore, not out at the banks.
INSHORE: Most of the inshore fishing was on hold this week as the Pelagics showed up so close to the beach that no one wanted to go for Roosterfish and Jacks when there were Dorado, Marlin and Tuna right there! For the few boats that did try, the bite on Roosterfish was on the Pacific up past the lighthouse as the Mullet followed the water change.
NOTES: Kudos to both Marco Ehrenberg and Tony Berkowitz this week for their actions in having a long-liner apprehended in the act of fishing on top of the Outer Gordo Bank. Briefly, one of Marcos boats observed the long-liner in action. Marco called the Navy and was told they did not have a boat available to enforce the law, and had no fuel for a private boat. All Marcos boats were fishing or being worked on. He called Tony who said that he knew of a boat available and ended up getting two. They loaded on the Marines and a guy from the fisheries department went out to Gorda Banks and found the boat pulling in one line, filleting a Striped Marlin on the deck, two more Marlin jumping on the line still in the water and their small boat setting another five mile long-line at the same time. The boat was confiscated and there is legal action ensuing. Thanks to everyone involved. So why is the high speed Navy boat anchored off of Medano beach in front of the beach bars every day? This weeks report was written to the music of Fleetwood Mac on their 1990 Warner release “Behind the Mask”. Until next week, Tight Lines!
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Capt George Landrum
“Fly Hooker” Sportfishing
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
WEEKLY FISH COUNT
STRIPED MARLIN: ONE FISH TAGGED AND RELEASED (#120), ONE FISH
KEPT (#100, BLEEDING BADLY FROM THE GILLS)
DORADO: ONE FISH KEPT (#12)
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR JUNE 23, 2004
Today was supposed to be another share trip on the “Fly Hooker”, but one side of the share failed to show up this morning. That meant that Jody Dean got the boat to himself for the day! Lucky him, as he had a great time fishing with Juan and Manuel. Lots and lots of Marlin were seen all over the place, and the farthest they got from the Marina was about 10 miles, and most of the fish were closer than that. Jody did very well on the fish and managed to get one to the boat for a successful tag and release, and another fish to the boat that was bleeding badly from the gills. There were five other fish that tried to eat either the bait of the lures, plus all the fish they saw that were not interested. Jody said after the trip that he had better work out before trying this again next year!. I hope you do as well next time you come down, and hope that Juan and Manuel get a chance to show you one more time why this is such a favorite fishing destination! Until then, Tight Lines!
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR 26 JUNE, 2004
We were part of an eight boat arrangement today. A corporate group booked these boats to have a little tournament, they had a golf thing the other day. This is the second year that we have been involved, and the teams of three persons each fish for points, with different species having limits on numbers and each fish being worth so many points. The team on our boat decided that Roosterfish were the highest points per fish and that they should go for them. Well, Juan and Manuel worked the coast between the Chileno area up to La Laguna at Punta Gorda and had not even one strike. Trolling back, running just a little offshore, they were lucky enough to get one Dorado of around 12 pounds. Teams that went for what was out there did much better, and most of the fish were on the Pacific side. Top boat took the winnings with three Marlin, a Sailfish, two Dorado and a Yellowfin. One boat got skunked, the others had varied results but got a few fish each.
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR 27 JUNE, 2004
We had two couples on the “Fly Hooker” today who booked yesterday from their hotel. We were off at 6:45 this morning and Juan headed out and put the lines in the water at 6 miles. We caught three football Yellowfin Tuna before reaching a pod of Porpoise that already had 10 boats on it. Apparently the first two boats there caught fish to #60. We hooked up two that were a little bigger than footballs, around #20, but I managed to farm them both at the back of the boat. We turned in towards the Punta Ballena and about 5 miles out caught another Yellowfin about #10 then spotted a Marlin on the Surface. The Marlin went down right away. An hour later we had a Dorado try and eat an outrigger lure but it came off as soon as the rod was pulled from the rod holder. As we were pulling lines right in front of the arch, not even 100 yards off it, another Yellowfin hit, the biggest of the day and it was about 15 pounds. We ended up with 6 Yellowfin and Me farming two nicer ones, one Dorado coming off and tossing bait at one Marlin. The water was very nice and the weather was great! Now, next trip we will stay close to shore and go for the Dorado and Marlin!
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Capt George Landrum
“Fly Hooker” Sportfishing
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
WEEKLY FISH COUNT
STRIPED MARLIN: ONE FISH RELEASED (#120)
DORADO: ONE FISH KEPT (#20)
YELLOWFIN TUNA: TWO FISH KEPT (#12, #15)
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR JUNE 19, 2004
This was our one and only trip for the week and we had half of a group of four guys on our boat. It was a trip from a friend of ours and these guys have been fishing here for several years, always booking two boats and having a bit of competition between themselves. Manual is back from vacation and it has been almost three weeks since he has been out, Juan has not been out in 10 days. Surprisingly, they have not forgotten how to fish! The fish have been concentrated in a band of warm water close to the coast on the Cortez side of the Cape, moving slowly northward every day. Today they found the fish outside the Palmilla area and were rewarded with one out of two Marlin to the boat; the other one just struck and did not get hooked up. One nice Dorado came into the fish box for dinner and both of the Yellowfin were blind strikes on Marlin lures. Apparently there were a lot of Yellowfin caught in the area over the last few days, all blind strikes. The other boat they were fishing with got lucky on the Marlin and had three releases, one Dorado and two Yellowfin as well. Good water and pretty good fishing for the day! Until next week, Tight Lines!
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Capt. George Landrum
Fly Hooker Sportfishing
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
CABO SAN LUCAS FISH REPORT JUNE 14 TO JUNE 20, 2004
WEATHER: This weeks temps remained the same as last week’s with the highs in the low to mid 90’s and at night it dropped as low as the mid 60’s. We had a day of strong wind on Wednesday and again Friday morning, but the rest of the week was calm. No rain of course!
WATER: The water continues to warm right up and the coolest we have on the Pacific side at the end of the week was 71 degrees. On the Sea of Cortez up around the Westin and farther north, and out to 10 miles, the water has been in the low 80’s with a lot of 82 degree water holding fish. Out past the 10 mile band the water drops back to 74 degrees for another 10 miles, then warms back up. Surface conditions were really choppy on the Cortez side and very bad on the Pacific when we had the winds blow, but other than that it was nice water this week.
BAIT: Small Caballito at $2 per bait, some Mullet at $2 per bait and some Sardinas at $20 per bucket.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Lots of Striped Marlin this week! Many of the boats were flying three or four Marlin flags when they returned for the day and the anglers said that they had seen “lots of fish all over the place”. Talking with the Captains, “all over the place” meant up the Cortez side off of the Palmilla and Gorda Banks area out to 10 miles (in that warm water band). The fish were biting well on live bait this week and lures took a second spot to bait. There were fish caught in other places as well, just not in the same numbers. Average size was 120 pounds.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Thank goodness the Yellowfin have been biting this week! There have not been a lot of them and they have not been very large on average, but they have been there. Most of the fish were blind strikes on Marlin lures and the fish were averaging 15 pounds. The warm water where the Striped Marlin were found held most of the fish. A lot of boats have been going out to the San Jaime and south of there looking for larger Tuna, but there have been very few of them found.
DORADO: The Dorado bite continues to pick up as the water warms and most of the boats seemed to be flying yellow flags this week. The fish are averaging 20 pounds and have been hitting almost anything put in front of them. Best bite was close to shore on the Cortez side of the Cape.
WAHOO: Again just a few fish. Hopefully with the warmer water and the moon changing the bite will pick up.
INSHORE: This week the inshore bite was a repeat of last weeks so here is a repeat on last weeks report! The Rooster fish have re-appeared on the Pacific beaches and there have been Jack Crevalle mixed in as well. The Roosters seem to be following the warm water as it creeps north. Most of the fish have been in the 20 pound class with a few larger ones in the mix. There were a couple of days when Pargo were biting off of the Lighthouse in close to the rocks. Of course, live bait was the key on all these fish, Mullet for the Roosterfish and Sardinas for the Pargo.
NOTES: Warmer water, warmer weather, calmer seas, colder beer! It’s time to get down here if you can as the bite starts to heat up. It is still not wide open yet, but hopefully by the time you read this and are able to make your arrangements things will be busting loose. That said, let me add this disclaimer: “Ka-ka pasa” and don’t hold me liable if Mother Nature decides to change things once again! This weeks report was written to the music of ZZ Top on the 1985 Warner release “Afterburner”. Until next week, Tight Lines!
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Capt George Landrum
“Fly Hooker” Sportfishing
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
WEEKLY FISH COUNT
STRIPED MARLIN: ONE FISH KEPT (HOOKED IN EYE) (#130)
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR JUNE 8, 2004
This trip was a split share and unfortunately one couple was very ill from the beginning. Juan and his brother kept the “Fly Hooker” close to shore on the way up the Sea of Cortez in order to avoid the large swell and the chop farther out, and they were headed toward the Outer Gorda Bank. That is where the action has been on the Striped Marlin. The father and son half of the charter were fine, and gave the couple some Dramamine at the beginning of the trip. The problem with that is if is not in you for longer than 15 minutes, it does not have a chance to help you! They managed to get to the Outer Gorda Bank, just 2 miles from where the fish were, and then it became too much for the couple. Father and son were not very happy, but the couple was on a honeymoon so there was some sympathy there. Juan had the boat back at the slip at 12:30 with no flags flying.
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR JUNE 9, 2004
Another split charter, this time with two couples and a single guy. Don was the single guy, and he was first at the boat this morning. The wind died down a bit last night so we were hoping that the water had mellowed out as well. As things turned out, they had mellowed out quite a bit and everyone was fine. Don was the only one to get any action though, as he was standing next to the rod when a Striped Marlin of about #130 jumped on the lure. Juan said that there were two other fish that hit at the same time, but only this one hooked up. Don fought the fish for 30 minutes and planned to release it, but when it got close to the boat it was discovered that the fish had been hooked through one eye and would have been shark food if released. They spotted several other fish during the trip but could not get any of them to eat. They fished the same area, outside the Outer Gorda Bank, and Juan said that it looked as if the fish were slowly moving our way with the warmer water. I hope so! Thanks guys, I wish everyone had a chance to get a Marlin, but that is the way it goes sometimes!
Until next week, Tight Lines!
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Capt. George Landrum
Fly Hooker Sportfishing
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www.flyhooker.com
CABO SAN LUCAS FISH REPORT JUNE 7 TO JUNE 13, 2004
WEATHER: This week our daytime highs were around the low 90’s while our night time lows were in the mid 70’s to high 60’s. Strong consistent winds early in the week and they kept blowing until Thursday. The wind was from the north at 10-15 knots with gusts to 20 knots. Partly cloudy and no rain!
WATER: It’s warming back up and that’s a good thing. Our coldest water at the end of the week was on the Pacific side up toward the Golden Gate Bank where we had water in the 67 degree range. Drop down toward the San Jaime Banks and it warmed up to 70 degrees and on the Jaime itself the temperature was up to 72 degrees. The water on the Sea of Cortez has also warmed up and we were getting readings as high as 81 degrees just a mile off the beach. This warm water has followed the coast down and extends out around three miles at the warmest and then gets in the 78 degree range out around the 95 and 1150 spots. Farther out it drops a bit more to 73 degrees. Due to the strong winds, the water on the Pacific side and the Cortez side off shore early in the week was uncomfortable with lots of chop along with some big swells. Later in the week things mellowed out a lot.
BAIT: Small Caballito at $2 per bait, some Mullet at $2 per bait and some Sardinas at $20 per bucket.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Lots of Striped Marlin out there, just a bit difficult to get some of them to eat! The best results have been on lures this week. Early on the fish were off the outer Gorda Banks about two miles and as the warm water came toward us the fish followed. At the end of the week there was good action and good numbers of fish from one mile off shore to the 95 and 1150 spots. Most boats had shots at multiple fish during the day and few of them came in without any flags flying. There were Marlin found on the Pacific side as well, just not in the same numbers. I am starting to get reports of some Blue Marlin coming into the spreads and hopefully this will continue as well!
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Again it was a slow week for Yellowfin Tuna. I did see a lot of white flags flying, but when I went to talk to the Captains and anglers I could see that there were Marlin on the flags. Just to confuse us I suppose. The few fish that were caught were found to the south of the San Jaime Banks, in the open and without any Porpoise around. A friend of mine reported seeing lots of Tuna on his depth sounder out 2 miles on the Cortez side but they were deep and would not come up. He said that is why there are three Purse Seiners anchored off the Beach here, they are waiting for the fish to come up. Or maybe they are here on vacation?
DORADO: There were a few more Dorado flags flying this week than there were last week and that is to be expected as the water warms up. We still do not have any great numbers of them but the size is getting better. It appeared as if around 20% of the boats out this week were able to get a Dorado or two, and they were being found all over the place, no particular area held more or bigger fish. I take that back, the larger fish were off shore while there were smaller fish found in close. Marlin lures worked well, but that may be because that is what most boats were running!
WAHOO: Again just a few fish. Hopefully with the warmer water and the moon changing the bite will pick up.
INSHORE: The Rooster fish have re-appeared on the Pacific beaches and there have been Jack Crevalle mixed in as well. The Roosters seem to be following the warm water as it creeps north. Most of the fish have been in the 20 pound class with a few larger ones in the mix. There were a couple of days when Pargo were biting off of the Lighthouse in close to the rocks. Of course, live bait was the key on all these fish, Mullet for the Roosterfish and Sardinas for the Pargo. A friend caught the largest Yellowtail of the year so far on live bait off of the arch, a nice 33 pound fish.
NOTES: It is starting to look like summer is here. The water is warming up, the Dorado, Roosterfish and Blue Marlin are beginning to come in and the water is starting to calm down. Fingers are crossed that the trend continues. For those of you that are interested, a lot of my water temperature information is based on charts and date from the guys at the terrafin web site. It is a pay site, but if you are on the water a lot it sure is a great tool. Give it a shot and go to the web site and click on the samples and you can see what I mean. This weeks report was written to the great sounds of Credence Clearwater Revival on the 1991 Fantasy Records release “Chronicle, The 20 Greatest Hits”. Until next week, Tight Lines!
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Capt George Landrum
“Fly Hooker” Sportfishing
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WEEKLY FISH COUNT
DORADO: ONE FISH KEPT (#25)
WAHOO: ONE FISH KEPT (#35)
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR MAY 23, 2004
This was the second day of fishing for Jason Thompson and his buddies Rory and Bill. Again, we had to fish another boat as the “Fly Hooker” was still down (will be ready by tomorrow). Today we headed to the 95 spot where the surface temperature was 72 degrees and the water was reported as nice and blue. It was! There were about 6 boats working the area and we did see fish, in fact, I almost ran over two Marlin during the trip! We had a couple of strikes that did not hook up and tried to slow troll live bait in the area, but the bait pump had stopped working for a while and the baits were in pretty sad shape. It was almost a the end of the trip, after working the area very hard, that we had a good hit. It was a Wahoo of about 35 pounds and there was fish for dinner once again! Thanks again guys, I am sorry we could not get you hooked up to a Marlin, but perhaps next time.
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR 27 MAY, 2004
Bo Whitehead and friends Ryan and Adam are fishing with us today and tomorrow. Bo is a fly fisherman and wants to get a shot at a Roosterfish on the fly. My fingers are crossed since the wind has been blowing so hard, but they also want a day of regular offshore fishing. We decided this morning that today would be the offshore day in the hope that the wind lays down for tomorrow. Juan and Manuel ran inside up the Sea of Cortez to the Red Hill area then worked out to the Outer Gorda, the 1150 then to the 95 spot. The wind was howling almost the whole time but they did hook up to a Sailfish for a short while, and had a few shots at Marlin, none of which really wanted to eat. Rough water, one guy sick; let’s keep our fingers crossed for tomorrow!
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR 28 MAY, 2004
Today it was just Bo and Adam on the boat, as Ryan was still recovering from yesterday. The wind had not died down this morning, but they still gave the Roosterfish a shot for about 20 minutes. Bo decided that there was no way he was going to be able to cast a fly in the wind so they went ahead and headed off shore. I am not sure they actually got there, but the intention was to go to the San Jaime. I think that the water was rough enough that the idea was cancelled and they just headed south. Anyway, they ended up getting a nice Dorado of about 25 pounds, Adam’s first. Fish for dinner! Bo, when the time is right, it will happen, just keep trying.
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Capt. George Landrum
Fly Hooker Sportfishing
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CABO SAN LUCAS FISH REPORT MAY 23-29, 2004
WEATHER: Our day time highs here in town were in the mid 90’s this week and the night time lows got down to the mid 60’s. A friend reported that out at his place on the Pacific side the thermometer got down to 56 degrees one night. Out on the water it was at least 10 degrees cooler for most of the week and windy as well. The wind started blowing at around 10 or 11 in the morning and did not stop until just before sunrise. We had partly cloudy skies and no rain was reported.
WATER: As of the end of the week the water temperatures on the Sea of Cortez were seen as high as 76 degrees while the Pacific remained cooler at 62 to 65 degrees out almost as far as you could go. The cold water extended to the south about 30 miles and wrapped around the Cape as well. At the end of the week there was a fairly distinct temperature break running east/west from the Cape, but the off color green water normally associated with the cold side extended up almost to the Red Hill area. The water at the San Jaime and the Golden Gate banks was reported to be blue, but cold, while the water close to the shore on the Pacific was reported as green.
BAIT: Almost all Caballito this week with some mullet available. The normal $2 per bait. Sardinas are available at $20 a bucket.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: This week there was no change in the Marlin situation. It was still a long run to get to where the fish have been concentrated. The area from 2 miles outside of the Outer Gorda Banks to the area off of Punta Gorda has been holding lots of Striped Marlin but they have been lazy fish and most of them have not been actively feeding. Some fish were showing 30 miles to the south as well, but they were fewer in number. Lures were getting a lot of attention from the fish, but the hook up ratio was poor. I am sure there were a few Blue Marlin hooked this week but did not hear of any.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Open water fish, not associated with porpoise, were reported at 30 miles to the south. The largest of these weighed 40 pounds with most of them in the 12-15 pound class. Cedar plugs were working well and so were small feathers in both dark and light colors. The boats that made it out to the San Jaime and the Golden Gate hoping for Tuna were disappointed with the results, but they did find a few fish.
DORADO: No change from last week on the Dorado front, again, scattered Dorado, with smaller fish being found inshore and the larger ones off shore. The bigger fish have been up the Sea of Cortez, around the Punta Gorda area, and they have been nice fish, mostly in the 30 pound and over range. Marlin lures in bright colors have been the ticket.
WAHOO: Fewer Wahoo were reported this week than last week, and again most of them were incidental fish. They ranged in size from 20 to 50 pounds and most were taken on Marlin lures.
INSHORE: Most of the inshore catch this week was small Roosterfish and Jack Crevalle, but there were not a lot of those found except for the area between El Tulle and Red Hill. There were Skipjack and Bonita found as well as small Dorado, and these fish were off the beach from ½ to 3 miles, but the bite was off, probably due to the green water close to home.
NOTES: You had to go a long way this week to get into any fish unless you were very lucky, so there were not as many flags flying at the end of the day as there have been. At the end of the week it looks as if there is warmer water moving into the area and as it comes in the water close to home should blue up and the fishing should improve. This weeks report was written to the sound of various musicians on different channels as we listened to satellite radio! Until next week, Tight Lines!
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Capt. George Landrum
Fly Hooker Sportfishing
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CABO SAN LUCAS FISH REPORT MAY 16-22, 2004
WEATHER: Fun in the sun with the exception of Saturday when we had a wee bit of cloud cover. Our average night time temps were just at 70 degrees while our daytime highs were in the low 90’s. Of course, out on the water it was cooler!
WATER: Warmer water on the Sea of Cortez with the area around Punta Gorda being in the high 70’s, cold water in the Pacific with the area just off the arch and out to the San Jaime being in the mid to low 60’s. The color on the Cortez side has a slight green tinge to it until you get about 15 miles out, then it turns deep blue. Go due east and around 15 miles out, blue water and it starts warming up to over 70 degrees, 24 miles out and you hit 73. The wind died down this week and surface conditions were much better than last week, but there are still some nice swells out there.
BAIT: Almost all Caballito this week with some mullet available. The normal $2 per bait. Sardinas are available at $20 a bucket.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: The area up around Punta Gorda and outside the Gorda Banks has been holding Marlin this week, but they have not been easy to get. While a lot of fish are being seen, the bite has been slow on both lures and live bait. Not many of the boats want to run 30 miles to get to the fish only to find that they have lock jaw, so most of the fish caught this week have been produced closer to home. The area past the 95 spot is still holding a few fish as is the small temperature break to the south of the Cape. Of course the blue/green break running southwest/northeast up the Cortez side has fish on the blue side and they have been striking lures, just not getting well hooked!
YELLOWFIN TUNA: There were few Tuna found this week but at the end of the time frame a few were starting to show up to the north of the Golden Gate Banks and around the San Jaime, mixed in with the Porpoise. The fish have been from just a bit larger than footballs to around 25 pounds, and dark colored feathers have worked well on them.
DORADO: Again, scattered Dorado this week, with smaller fish being found inshore and the larger ones off shore. The bigger fish have been up the Sea of Cortez, around the Punta Gorda area, and they have been nice fish, mostly in the 30 pound and over range. Marlin lures in bright colors have been the ticket.
WAHOO: Scattered fish were found as incidental catches this week with the sizes ranging from 30 to 80 pounds. Off shore around the 95 spot and the 1150 produced most of the fish caught.
INSHORE: I saw one nice Roosterfish in the 50 pound range being filleted on a boat tied to the dock this week (I know, but it was not my boat or my anglers) but the majority of the ones being caught have been in the 5-10 pound class. There are still a few nice Sierra out there and there has been a fair bite on Grouper and a good bite on Snapper this week. There have been occasional big schools of Pargo found inshore and those fish have been from 10 to 15 pounds. Having the wind die down and having the Sardinas really helped this week.
NOTES: I have been really busy this week with friends in town and a broken engine, so my apologies for the abbreviated report, hopefully I will be back in the swing of things next week! Until then, Tight Lines!
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Capt George Landrum
“Fly Hooker” Sportfishing
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www.flyhooker.com
WEEKLY FISH COUNT
DORADO: ONE FISH KEPT (#50)
WAHOO: ONE FISH KEPT (#65)
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR MAY 18, 2004
Gene and Kim Cinco were supposed to fish aboard the “Fly Hooker” today, but we had some issues the other day and are down for a little while. We blew an oil line on the Stbd. Engine and with that, the problems cascaded. Right now we have a new head arriving tomorrow, a new exhaust riser being manufactured, a newer blower being installed and hopefully will be up and running again in two days. Well, we try and give the best service to our clients that we can so we found another boat for them to fish on. Well, actually a friend let me take his boat, as it was not booked for today. Manuel and I set the Hattaras up and Gene and Kim got aboard. After takeing on some fuel and getting ice, we were off. Gene really wanted to catch a Marlin and Kim was having her first experience going off shore. The Marlin had been showing up around the 1150 spot so that is where we headed. We saw other boats hooking up and tossed bait to a couple of fish that went down right away. There were a lot of black porpoise in the area and while passing through one of the pods we had a strike on the long corner. I was hoping for a Marlin but when the run ended after only a couple of minutes and the fish did not jump, we knew it was something else. After several very fast runs and seeing the rod shake after each one, Manuel and I knew that we had hooked a nice Wahoo. Hooked him just right as it turned out, the trailing hook in the roof of the mouth and the lead hook in the gill plate, no way was that fish going to get his teeth on the mono leader! The water was a beautiful clear blue and very calm, and as the fish came closer to the boat we could see it 30 feet under, all lit up silver with the blue stripes. Manuel stood by with the gaff and as the swivel reached the rod tip he pulled the fish in, keeping it moving at the same speed and then gaffed it right behind the head. The size of the fish did not allow him to hit it with the bat as well so I got down to the deck and performed the chore, then opened the transom door to allow us to bring the #65 pound Wahoo on the deck! This was a great fish, and while not a Marlin, Gene was happier than he would have been catching a Striped Marlin. He said he has wanted to get one of these fish for 15 years, and unlike a Marlin, this one was good to eat! Thanks Gene, and Kim, we are happy that you enjoyed the trip and did not get sea sick! Seeing all those Porpoise was great, huh? Later guys, we hope you get a chance to come again, and maybe next time, it will be on the “Fly Hooker”!
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR 22 MAY, 2004
Jason Thompson and his buddies Rory and Bill enjoyed the fishing today, even though it was not on the “Fly Hooker”. We had to replace the blower, condenser and idler gear on the Stbd. Engine as well as the starter. Hopefully it will be ready tomorrow for the guys second day of fishing. Today Manuel and I took them up the Sea of Cortez to just 6 miles outside the outer Gorda Banks. Reports of lot of Marlin in the area were fulfilled when we finally arrived there, but we were not able to get any of them hooked up! Well, we did feed a couple! We had a strike on the long rigger, made a turn back into the area and spotted a Marlin on the surface. No luck with the live bait. Staying in the same area we later spotted a Striped Marlin tailing and pulled along side of the fish. I tossed it a live Caballito and a few seconds after the bait hit the water the fish charged in. Unfortunately he charged in on the long position lure as it dropped down, but it did not strike or hook up. I left the bait out there and then Manuel spotted the fish trailing us. He said to drop the bait back further and I did, maybe another 50 feet. The Marlin picked up the bait and took off with it. Then I went and farmed the fish. I thought the time was right, struck, and came up empty. Well, no Marlin for the day for us, but did I forget to mention what happened at 9:30 in the morning? Oh, I guess I did! On the way out we had a strike on the lure in the long position. I was really hoping for a Marlin, as were all the guys, but at the first jump we could see that it was a really nice Dorado! Jason was in the rotation and took the fish standing up. After about 15 minutes Manuel was able to get a gaff in and calmed the fish down with the bat. A #50 Dorado is one nice fish, and supplied some great fillets! Good going Jason, and maybe tomorrow we will get into some hungry Marlin!
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Capt George Landrum
“Fly Hooker” Sportfishing
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WEEKLY FISH COUNT
STRIPED MARLIN: THREE FISH RELEASED (#120-#180) ONE FISH KEPT (#110)
YELLOWFIN TUNA: TWO FISH KEPT (#5, #85)
DORADO: ONE FISH KEPT ( #25)
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR 11 MAY, 2004
Sanga, Charlie and Todd fished with us today. This is the first time Todd has fished with us and tomorrow it will be Sanga, Charlie and Christy with Todd coming back on Friday. Juan and Manuel took off to the Pacific side today and the water was a bit bouncy. Around the San Jaime area they found some small pieces of Kelp and were able to get some Dorado interested, but not enough so that they would eat. A couple of Striped Marlin were found as well and they were able to get Todd hooked up to his first Marlin ever! Sanga was still waiting for the Marlin to be pulled from the water in order to get a picture of it and that never happened, as Juan released the fish along the side of the boat. They came in flying a Marlin and a release flag, and with one happy guy!
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR 12 MAY, 2004
Sanga, Charlie and Christy today, and it ended up the Christy caught the fish that Todd had been hoping for! Charlie wanted some fish to be smoked and take home. He won’t kill a Marlin and for that I thank him, but anything else would do. Juan and Manuel returned tot eh Pacific side and worked the same area as yesterday hoping to get into the Dorado again. Instead they found a school of Yellowfin feeding hard. Just because they are feeding it does not mean they are willing to bite lures! These fish were chasing squid, and Juan was almost able to net a few that got chased under the boat. They worked the school hard for two hours and finally were able to get a double strike on small red feathers. Charlie got the first fish to the boat in just a few minutes, it was the easy one as it was small, about 5 pounds. Christy’s fish took a while longer, almost 25 minutes, and Juan estimated it at between #80 and #90, a very nice fish that produced some great fillets!
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR 13 MAY, 2004
Today we had three guys aboard the boat, Derrick, Eric and Rick. They were part of a larger group that totaled three boats. It was Juan’s day off so Manuel had his friend Mauricio fishing as deckhand. Manuel took off toward the Gorda Banks today and I guess it was the right choice. They did not see a lot offish, but everything they found bit! They ended the day releasing one Striped Marlin, having another one die on them and getting one 25 pound Dorado in the boat. Everyone got to catch a fish and the other boats did as well! A great day of fishing!
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR 14 MAY, 2004
It was Sanga, Charlie and Todd again today, and Juana and Manuel went up the Sea of Cortez toward the Gorda Banks one more time. More fish were seen today, and they had a few strikes that did not hook up, but they were able to get one Striped Marlin to the boat for a release! Thanks guys, we look forward to your coming to Cabo again!
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Capt. George Landrum
Fly Hooker Sportfishing
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CABO SAN LUCAS FISH REPORT MAY 9-15, 2004
WEATHER: All right, we do have the summer weather with the days in the high 80’s and low 90’s and the nights in the mid 70’s, but this week we also started out with spring winds! It seemed that every day at the beginning of the week the wind started blowing around 10 or 11 in the morning and blew all day and night, not letting up until around daybreak. At the end of the week it finally let up and this weekend it was very nice with just slight breezes. No rain, of course, but lots of sun!
WATER: We started this week being wrapped with a band of cold water that came down the Pacific coast and decided to stay for a while. This water ran from 62-66 degrees and extended from that Pacific up by the Golden Gate to the Cortex up by Palmilla and off shore as far as 15 miles to the southwest of the Cape. The rest of the Pacific was an even 70 degrees while the Cortez had a warm 73-74 degree band of water about 15 miles out. At the end of the week the warm water on the Sea of Cortez side had managed to push the cold water back to the Pacific and we had that warm water only 10 miles off shore while there was a finger of water in the 77 degree ranged working its way toward us from up around Punta Gorda. The water displaced by the warm current worked its way out toward the San Jaime and Golden Gate banks and it was not until you got to them that the water got warmer than 67 degrees on the Pacific side. The surface conditions on the Pacific were pretty rough all week due to the steady winds, and the swells were fair sized, but the Sea of Cortez was not too bad in the mornings.
BAIT: We have had a good mix of both Caballito and Mackerel this week, with most of the Caballito fairly small but with some nice big Mackerel available. The normal price at $2 per bait.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: While not as red-hot as last weeks bite, the Striped Marlin were still out there this week! Most of the action moved to either the San Jaime Banks, right along the eastern edge where there was a temperature break, the southern side of the 95 spot where the same thing occurred or up the Sea of Cortez toward the Gorda Banks and Punta Gorda. That cold water that came down the Pacific coast forced the fish out of the immediate area but they were still within range for a full day trip. Live bait was the favorite and either drifting with it or tossing it to tailing fish resulted in pretty good action. A few of the boats were able to get into the action and I saw as many as five Marlin flags on one boat for a day’s trip.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Almost a repeat of last weeks report as far as Yellowfin are concerned, but there was one day, Wednesday, when a school of nice fish showed up and a few were caught. For the most part the Yellowfin this week were small fish and there were not a lot of them. The nice fish showed up at the southern end of the San Jaime and there were four lucky boats there at the time. The largest fish that I actually saw caught was #141 and there were others in the 80-90 pound range hooked, but the Captains said there were a lot of big fish in the #150 to #250 range jumping clear of the water. They were feeding heavily on squid and it took time and patience to hook up.
DORADO: Again, the report is the same as last weeks, with the Dorado being scattered around and not particularly concentrated. Finding floating debris was the key and there were some small kelp paddies on the Pacific side that had fish in the #15-#25 class under them. Live and cut bait worked well when the kelp was found.
WAHOO: A few more flags were flying this week and there were some happy anglers as a fair bite on Wahoo in the 40 pound class happened at the inner and outer Gorda Banks. The best bite was early and it was around the tide change. Marauders and Marlin lures worked well, and dark colors seemed to out produce the bright ones.
INSHORE: The cold water that wrapped around us had the Roosterfish bite drop off, but the Pargo took up the slack with some nice fish ranging from 15 to 30 pounds being found in among the rocks. Not much else was happening this week inshore except for an occasional bite by Yellowtail off the arch. Early in the morning or late in the afternoon on live bait seemed to be the best time and best bait.
NOTES: A new computer and DSL instead of dial-up! Almost like Christmas for us, this makes such a difference. This weeks report was written to the music of ZZ Top on the 1985 Warner release “Afterburner”. Until next week, Tight lines!
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Capt George Landrum
“Fly Hooker” Sportfishing
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WEEKLY FISH COUNT
STRIPED MARLIN: SEVEN TAGGED AND RELEASED (#50 - #145), THREE FISH RELEASED (#120 - #185)
DORADO: TWO FISH KEPT (#10, #25)
WAHOO: ONE FISH KEPT (#85)
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR 3 MAY, 2004
Andy “Muscle-ini (it’s not fat, it’s muscle!) , Ronnie (Arnold snores like a pig), Tommy (secret agent 006 ½ ) and Jim “Duke” are here in Cabo for the first time and fishing with us for three days, today Wednesday and Friday. They were referred to us by clients from New Jersey, and they are really looking forward to the fishing. Thank goodness the fishing has been pretty good. On this, the first day out, they worked the area just outside of town about form the 95 Spot to 20 miles out. Just past the 95 spot, they had two nice Wahoo strikes. One came off and the other had another Wahoo come through and bite the swivel. Juan dropped back a rigged bait and had it eaten and the leader was almost cut through on it as well and that fish was lost. A small Dorado in the same area came in the the boat for dinner and then the water started to kick up and they came in close to shore. In there they found a Marlin that struck and stuck! One fish to the boat, tagged and released. Good fishing guys!
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR 4 MAY, 2004
Roald Pettersen and his brother-in-law Steve are fishing with us today, Thursday and Saturday. Roald has fished with us before and really likes to catch Marlin! The mass of fish continue to stay close and today’s action was between the Westin and the Gorda Banks. I think it was Steve who got to reel in the first marlin today, but I am not real sure. The first fish was early in the trip and it was a very quick fight. Juan said the Striped Marlin may have been as big as #50, but not any larger that that! There were a few other stikes before they had another one hook up solidly. That fish was tagged and released after about 15 minutes. Not a bad day with two Marlin flags and two release flags flying when they arrived back at the Marina.
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR 5 MAY, 2004
The second day of fishing for the gang form New Jersey saw a bit of different slant on things as the Marlin could not be convinced t6o stay hooked up! They had one fish along side of the boat when the leader broke and they had a couple of other Marlin interested but not hungry. Today they worked the area off of the Palmilla to Punta Ballena, around 3 to 10 miles off shore. Oh they did get at least one fish in the boat though! After around 5-10 minutes, Ronnie reeled in a Wahoo that was estimated to be about 80-90 lbs! Thanks for the dinner invite guys, the meal was great!
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR 6 MAY, 2004
Roald and Steve were out for their second day of fishing and the action took place in the same area as before. Juan was suffering from a sore throat and Edgar filled in for him today. One fish was well hooked and fought to the boat for a tag and then released. They had another fish in the pattern but ate the bait and spit the hook. Oh well that was it for the day, but things were not all bad, the weather was great!
“FLY HOOKER’ FISH REPORT FOR 7 MAY, 2004
I fished with Muscle-ini, Arnold, 006 ½ and the Duke today. They asked if I would go at least one day and this was the one I was available. Our intention was to get a little bottom fishing in , but the tide was wrong this morning so we went out for Marlin instead. I don’t think we ever got farther out than 10 miles, and that was straight out form the port. The first hook up was at 7:39 and Muscle-ini fought the fish for 17 minutes before getting it to the boat. I tagged the fish and Juan removed the hook from the bill. We were seeing fish all over the place, but they were difficult to entice them to eat. We had several more attempt at fish and on one of them one of a pair of Marlin struck the bait, but would not eat it. Later on we had another fish that had no interest in a live bait but ate a dead one tossed at it with no hook or leader attacked, another dead bait this time hooked up was thrown, but no interest! One of the most exciting times was spotting two Marlin tailing down swell , pulling in front of them to drop a dead bait back and while watching them approach having another fish free jump almost along the side of the boat.! We ran out of live bait at around 10:30, but managed to get another fish hooked up the Duke got it the side of the boat in about 22 minutes. This fish was a surprise as it did not look very big from a distance, but up close it was one fat dude. We estimated it at around #140. Juan had hold of the leader for a while as I tired to get a tag in the fish, but he was never able to get it close enough for me to stick him. After around three minutes the leader parted and the fish swam away. As we worked out way back in, Secret Agent 006 1/2 reeled in dinner; a nice #25 Dorado that struck on a mackerel rigged behind an Islander lure ran way back in the pattern. Just two miles form the marina as we headed back in we thought everyone was going to catch a fish when the bridge rod stretched a bit. Both Juan I looked at each other and he held the rod up waiting for a fish to appear. After a bit he put the rod back in the holder and we agreed that it had been the action of the sells that had stretched the line. Just then the reel screamed and a marling got his head and bill out of the water and threw the hook! Almost every one had a fish today! Thanks to the guys from “Joisy’ for a great time in the evenings, a couple of great meals and for being so much fun to be with! Have a safe trip home and we will see you again next year!
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR 8 MAY, 2004
Roald and Steve were out for their last day of fishing this trip and Juan was back on the boat as well. Fishing started just three miles out and they were glad that I suggested they get extra bait this morning! I explained what had happened yesterday and they used almost all fifteen baits they purchased before they left. Juan gave us a call about 21:45 and said they would be in around 1PM. I got to the boat a bit late, but found out that they had managed to tag and release two Marlins, released one other without getting a tag placed and unintentionally releasing one other fish that would not survive and bleeding heavily from the gills. Juan decided the fish would not survive and stuck the gaff in it. The fish took exception to this and took off with the gaff. Roald fought the fish back to the boat. This time the flying gaff was ready, the fish appeared to be tired and then just as Juan had the leader in hand, and was going to place the flying gaff, the leader broke. Well the fish was released but not he way or in the shape anyone wanted. Sometimes things just happen. Well, Roald you finally had you “Four Marlin day”! Congratulations, we’ll see you again next year!
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Capt G (Unregistered Guest)
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Capt. George Landrum
Fly Hooker Sportfishing
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CABO SAN LUCAS FISH REPORT MAY 2-8, 2004
WEATHER: Summertime, summertime, summertime! I think we are getting there as the days are getting warmer, as are the nights. Sunny skies with our night time lows ranging from the mid 60’s to the mid 70’s and in the early morning you can smell the humidity. Our days are ranging from the low 80’s to the mid 90’s with plenty of sun, a bit of moisture in the air and mostly light breezes. Perfect weather for fishing!
WATER: Water temperatures this week have been from the high 60’s out near Golden Gate Banks to the high 70’s in the Sea of Cortez. The highest I saw this week was 78.9 degrees out near the 1150 spot. The water on the Pacific near shore and just off the Cape 1 mile has been a bit cooler than the surrounding water, but only by a degree or two, and has been a bit green from the large swells. Surface conditions got a bit choppy during the middle of the week on the Pacific side as the afternoon winds kicked in, but the Cortez side has remained very nice.
BAIT: We have had a good mix of both Caballito and Mackerel this week, with most of the Caballito fairly small but with some nice big Mackerel available. The normal price at $2 per bait.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Remember the last time you went fishing and were told “You should have been here last week!”? Well, this was “last week” for anglers wanting to catch a Striped Marlin, and we can only hope that it is not the “only week”. Almost every boat returning from a trip was flying at least one Marlin flag this week and the reason was easy to discover when you went out. The fish were close, and there were a lot of them! As was the case last week, the Marlin were close to shore, many of the fish were caught less than a mile from the beach. The hottest action toward the end of the week was right in front of town, at distances ranging from 3 miles to 10 miles out. A lot of boats ran out of live bait during the hot action and had to return to the marina to re-load! On my best day out we spotted over 24 fish, had two releases, lost a couple of others and ran out of bait at 11 AM. The next day my guys took our clients out and returned at 1 PM. They picked up 15 baits in the morning and returned with four Marlin flags flying. The fish were ranging from 50 to 180 pounds and live bait was the key. Few fish came in on the artificials, most of them were sighted tailing and had live bait tossed at them. If that didn’t work, a dead bait was dropped back. If the fish were not interested in that, a dead bait was thrown in front of the fish with no hook or line attached. Most of the time they would go for that one, then light up and eat the next one with a hook in it. Ah, great fishing and no long runs to get to the grounds! Now, if the fish just hold here close for a few more weeks we should have great action as the moon goes to the new phase!
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Tuna fishing has been on the back burner this week as the fish that have been around, and there have not been many of them, have mostly been small football sized fish (literally). Most of the action has been up on the Pacific side in Porpoise and the action has been sketchy. The best catch I heard of was 14 footballs, and the water was not in the best of condition that day. Small feathers in dark colors took honors this week, a change from the red ones that worked best last week.
DORADO: Scattered fish ranging in size from 10 to 35 pounds provided some action this week for anglers lucky enough to get hooked up. Most of the fish were found near shore mixed in with the Striped Marlin, but I understand there was some fair action farther up the Sea of Cortez off of Punta Gorda and Vinorama. The fish were found either in the open under Frigate birds, or under floating debris. Best action was on smaller Marlin lures in “Bleeding Mackerel” or “Dorado” colors, and of course, on live bait dropped back on hooking up with a lure accounted for approximately 20% of the second fish caught.
WAHOO: Again the bite has dropped off a bit, but there are still fish being found out there. While not specifically structure orientated, the best results have been close to shore and off the Banks. Of course, this may be because this is where the Marlin action has been and there have been a lot of boats working these areas! Most of the fish have been between 40 and 60 pounds, with an occasional fish to 90 pounds being caught.
INSHORE: There was no change in the inshore action this week, with the exception that the Sierra bite dropped off as the inshore waters warmed up, and the Roosterfish bite picked up. The Roosterfish are still small, most of them are between 5 and 15 pounds and they were being caught on small Caballito slow trolled just outside the first breaker. The best action was had on the Pacific side between the arches and Cabo Falso. There were some nice Jack Crevalle hooked up as well and for those willing to get in close to the rocks, some great Pargo were found ranging from 15 to 35 pounds, they had a preference for live Caballito.
NOTES: My apologies to everyone for last weeks report being either late or not getting out at all. And there were a few of you who received multiple copies! I just hope that this weeks report does not suffer the same problem. We had our computer crash and could not get on line; hopefully by the time Mary gets this for posting, the problem will have been resolved. Thanks so very much to all of you who e-mailed and were concerned about the reason; both of us are just fine! This weeks report was written to the country music of Vince Gill on his 1991 MCA release “Pocket Full Of Gold”. I felt a little bit country this week! Until next week, Tight Lines!
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Capt G (Unregistered Guest)
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Capt George Landrum
Fly Hooker Sportfishing
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Cabo San Lucas Fish Report April 25-May 1, 2004
WEATHER: As Spring comes in we are getting the great weather we always expect, and one of the reasons we moved here. Sunny skies, clear nights, daytime temperatures around 90 degrees and night time getting a comfortably cool 65-70 degrees. We have had very light breezes all week with the exception of Thursday when front moved through and brought steady 20 knot winds from the west-southwest.
WATER: Water temperatures n the Sea of Cortez ranged from 65 degrees just off the beach here in Cabo to 77 degrees out at the 1150 spot. The cold water was only right at the Cape and it warmed quickly once you headed east. The color close to shore was green early in the week but cleared to blue by the end, whole the color off shore was a slightly green tinged blue to 15 miles out, then the water temps jumped to 73+ degrees and turned a clear blue. On the Pacific side the cool water remained close to shore and it never really warmed up the way we were hoping. Water temperatures the San Jaime and Golden Gate Banks stayed in the mid 60’s.
BAIT: The normal $2.00 per bait for Caballito ( most of them were small) with a very few small Mackerel available. I did not hear of any Sardines making it down to Cabo from San Jose.
FISHING
BILLFISH: The beat goes on! This week is a re-run of the action we were having last week with the fish in the same area and striking the same things. The hot action area remained from right in front of town where the water warmed to 70 degrees and continued on up the coast on the Cortez side. Most of the actions was within 8 miles of the beach and the really hot spot locally was outside the Westin/Palmilla and San Jose. Most boats were getting multiple shots every day and often did not have enough flags to fly one for every Striped Marlin released. The best I heard this week was seven fish in one day, but the average was one or two fish to the side of the boat. Once again lures seemed to be the key to finding the fish, but once you were in the area, slow trolled live bait with two on the surface and one down deep gave consistent action. Again, most of the fish were in the 120 # range, with a few quite a bit larger. Surprisingly, small lures in red or Petrelero were a really hot item for a few dyas as the Marlin were feeding on small Squid. Boats working the porpoise for Tuna reported getting lots of strikes on the small feathers from Marlin and savvy anglers rigged the feathers with single hooks, just for a better hookset if a marlin came in on them. There were reports of Blue Marlin being caught, and while I did not see any of them myslef, several of the Captians I talked with confirmed the fact that they are showing up. There wee also a few swordfish being sighted and baited, all in all it has been quite the week for Billfish!
YELLOWFIN TUNA: The Purse Seiners left, (moving up the coast on the Pacific side, reportedly to fish just outside of mag Bay) and our tuna fishing immediately improved. The fish are still footballs, running from 8-20 pounds with an occasional larger one, but they are biting well when they are found. There are pods of Porpoise out there scattered all over the place and while not all of them are holding fish, there are enough that almost every boat has had the ability to get into them if the anglers wanted. Small feathers in pink, blue/white and green/yellow worked very well, with most of the action coming on the reddish colors (perhaps because of all the squid)
DORADO: Still not red hot, there were fish fond ranging form 10 pounds to 35 pounds and they were scattered. Quite a few were caught while slow trolling live bait for Marlin. While I did not hear of nay kelp paddies being found this week, there were nice sized fish taken off of trash, A live bait dropped back after one fish was hooked on the troll paid off about 20% of the time with a double hook-up. Almost all the action on Dorado took place on the Cortez side of the Cape.
WAHOO: Not as many Wahoo were caught this week as were caught last week. And maybe the coming full moon has an effect on the bite. It has been hard for me to figure these fish out, as some months the full moon is the best bite and in others the new moon phase offers the best chance. The fish this week were mainly open ocean with little floating debris found that held Wahoo.
NOTES: The bite continues to improve every week and our fingers are crossed that it does not stop. My soapbox speech for the week is on releasing Marlin and most of you know this and have heard it before. The only reason to take a Marlin is if it is not going to survive due to a hook through the eye or excessive bleeding form the gills. Our fishery was developed on and is still based on the great numbers of Striped Marlin that are available close to Cabo. Ask almost anyone who has been fishing here for several decades though and they will tell you that “It’s just not the same as the old days!” Thank goodness releasing the fish is becoming more prevalent, with 100 + charter boats a day working the waters, it would not be long before the fish would be gone if every boat killed every fish they caught ( and often sell the fish!) but they are now in the minority. If you want a mount done of your fish, fiberglass replicas are the norm now and they use no part of the actual fish. To get a mount, just have the fish measured along side of the boat and figure it will cost you around $10. An inch. Pulling the fish from the water can break loose the internal organs from the wall of the body cavity, and cause the fish to die later, so if you consider your self a sportsman, and plan to release the fish, please make sure that you are releasing a healthy fish and not one you have inadvertently damaged. Enough for this week! This report was written to the great guitar music of the Gipsy Kings on their 1996 Warner release “Tierra Gitana” Until next week Tight Lines!
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Capt G (Unregistered Guest)
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Capt George Landrum
“Fly Hooker” Sportfishing
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www.flyhooker.com
WEEKLY FISH COUNT
STRIPED MARLIN: TWO FISH TAGGED AND RELEASED (120#, 175#)
YELLOWFIN TUNA: 26 FISH KEPT (#8-#25) LOTS OF SMALL ONES RELEASED
DORADO: THREE FISH KEPT (#8-#30) ONE RELEASED (#8)
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR 25 APRIL 2004
Warren Leisi, his wife, son and two daughters fished with us on the 21st and caught nothing, so we hoped that today would be better for them. Their son was a no show this morning, but everybody else was there and Juan and his nephew took the family out for their second trip. The water was a lot better this time and they were able to get some nice fish as well! Juan said the larger of the two Dorado they caught was about 25-30 pounds and the smaller one was about 20 pounds, One on live bait and one on lures they did plenty of jumping and were going to look great on the plate at dinner tonight!
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR 26 APRIL, 2004
Today we had part of a large group, four boats total, and three couples were fishing on the “Fly Hooker”. Juan worked the area just off of the Grey Rock and was able to get one Striped Marlin to the boat for a successful tag and release. Eight fish came into the lures and they were able to get three of them hooked up. One broke line not too far from the boat and the other one jumped off shortly after being hooked up, about five minutes into the fight. Every one was happy and had a great time. As far as the other boats, one of them caught and released two Striped marlin, one of them caught four small Yellowfin tuna and the other got skunked. It looks like the bite will continue to improve this week, we just hope that the weather stays good!
“FLY HOOKER” FISH REPORT FOR 28 APRIL, 2004
This was a fun day with just me, our web master and friend Phill Orr along with his buddy T.J. We left the marina early | |
