Cabo San Lucas Fishing Report
by Larry Edwards
1-27-2011
(619) 469-4255
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It's been a long time since I've seen the fishing so difficult from
Cabo San Lucas. I remember back to 1978, when I was a fishing
skipper from Cabo San Lucas, having a stretch of nearly 4 months
where we had no billfish catches at all and even if you did see a
sleeper and got a bait right on it, it still wouldn't bite. It was a
frustrating fishing period. Albeit, we did have good yellowfin tuna
catches during that off period of time that helped to take up some of
the slack times. I believe it's just the cycle of fishing overall in
all areas and only the passing of time cures the temporary doldrums.
The boat skippers are making difficult decisions everyday as where to
fish and for the past month or so, the only area that offered some
form of almost guaranteed action has been the inshore fishing
grounds for the Sierra, occasional yellowtail, grouper, cabrilla,
etc. Over this past week, we reflected a combined total of 19 days
fished that produced 3 stripers (released) 3 dorado, 1 mako shark, 28
yellowfin tuna, 15 skipjack, 41 Bonito and 83 Sierra.
Cabo Climate: Partly cloudy to cloudy days and cool nights with temps from 56 nights to 78 daytime highs.
Sea Conditions: We are in the "change of water" season with daily temp changes and current steaks and clarity changes. Golden Gate Bank to Gordo Bank, temps are now at 68-70 degrees and lots of greenish, off-color water. Cleaner waters witth good blue clarity are outside the 1,000 fathom curve and mostly out to the south of Cabo San Lucas. We should start seeing some swordfish catches pop up in the fish counts, very soon.
Best Fishing Area: There is no concentration of fish in any of the offshore waters and almost all of the fish have been taken from the Pacific side of Cabo.
Best Lure/Bait: Live bait for the 3 billfish, feathers and cedar plugs for the tuna.
Live Bait Supply: Not reported
Cabo Climate: Partly cloudy to cloudy days and cool nights with temps from 56 nights to 78 daytime highs.
Sea Conditions: We are in the "change of water" season with daily temp changes and current steaks and clarity changes. Golden Gate Bank to Gordo Bank, temps are now at 68-70 degrees and lots of greenish, off-color water. Cleaner waters witth good blue clarity are outside the 1,000 fathom curve and mostly out to the south of Cabo San Lucas. We should start seeing some swordfish catches pop up in the fish counts, very soon.
Best Fishing Area: There is no concentration of fish in any of the offshore waters and almost all of the fish have been taken from the Pacific side of Cabo.
Best Lure/Bait: Live bait for the 3 billfish, feathers and cedar plugs for the tuna.
Live Bait Supply: Not reported
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