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Jun 8, 2009; 11:44AM - Cabo Bite Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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Author E-mail: gmlandrum@hotmail.com
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Report Description:
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrum
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
Cabo Fish Report
June 1-7, 2009
WEATHER: Summertime is here! Our nights had low temperatures in the mid 70’s this week with our high on Saturday of 100 degrees, but for most of the week it was in the mid 90’s. There has been a light breeze in town from the northwest that keeps it from being stifling, and it has been a cool breeze since it is being blown across the cool Pacific water. We had no rain this week and had beautiful clear skies.
WATER: Water temperatures across the region stayed pretty much the same all week long. On the Cortez side of the Cape we say water averaging 79 degrees early in the week and 80 degrees later on with the warmest water occurring later in the week at 83 degrees between the Gorda Banks and the Cabrilla Seamount. Most of this warm water has been between the shore and out to just past the 1,000-fathom line. On the Pacific side it has been cooler and the water has been green. From Cabo Falso out to and across the San Jaime Bank the water has been averaging 65 degrees and has been very green. Between the 1,000-fathom line to the south of the San Jaime to a line directly to the south of Cabo the water has averaged 74 degrees.
BAIT: There was a decent mix of small and large Caballito and Mackerel as well as some Mullet this week at the normal $3 per bait.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: All those Striped Marlin that we were seeing last week that would not eat a bait decided to get hungry this week. Not only that, they decided top move closer to us! The bite was going off only 1 to 4 miles off the arch during the later half of the week. There were Marlin everywhere you looked, tailers here and there, jumpers everywhere and groups of fish schooled up. The largest group I saw was 15 fish within a 30 yard circle, two on the surface and the others just underneath. They were biting well on live and dead baits, we had hooked one on a live bait and were clearing a rigged dead bait, just letting it hang back about ten feet when it was attacked by a brightly lit Striper! There were reports on the radio of a few small Blue Marlin being caught as well, but I don’t have any hard information on them. That is not hard to believe though since we have that warm water out there.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: The Tuna bite was still slow this week but there were reports of some fish being caught over the weekend among porpoise just five miles south of the arch. I saw those Porpoise while fishing off a Panga as a guest and we pulled lures through them with no results, but there were a couple of boats hooked up to fish of some kind. There were also some decent fish in the 25-30 pound class reported being caught outside the Gorda Banks up to the Vinorama area up the Sea of Cortez.
DORADO: Some decent sized Dorado were caught this week up in the warm water in the Sea of Cortez. The large fish were 40-50 pounds with fair numbers in the 20-pound class. Close to shore there were good numbers of small fish in the 6-10 pound range. The best lure we ran was a bullet head in pink/white but other anglers had good luck with green/white and bleeding mackerel. Most boats that got away from the Marlin and made Dorado a target were able to get a couple of fish per boat, not great numbers yet, but with some quality fish in there.
WAHOO: The full moon appeared to make a difference this week. There were no reports of fish the week before but in the past five days I have heard of quite a few decent Wahoo to 40 pounds being caught. Fishing fairly close to the beach in less than 150 feet of water brought the most bites, but the fish were a little smaller than the fish caught incidentally offshore. There was a good bit on fish in the 15-20 pound class up at the Inman Bank according to a few fishermen that went there and targeted Wahoo. They had their best luck with slow trolled live baits.
INSHORE: We had a good surprise this week with the inshore fishing. I actually fished off a Panga five days this past week and on two of those days we were able to get Snook. Snook only show up in our area for a very, very short period and it was my luck to be on the water when it happened. I fished on Tuesday through Saturday, the first three days with my sister-in-law, Ellie Crocker, a teacher of outdoors activities and physical education at Lanier Middle School in Houston, Texas. Tuesday we caught five nice red snapper, the largest about 15 pounds and then tried for the Snook. Ellie caught on that weighed 31.83 pounds and another of about 28 pounds. Casting live Caballito into the impact zone right where the rocks and the beach met resulted in the Snook ambushing the bait as they swam out of the bubbles and swirling sand. On Wednesday we went back and Ellie caught two more about the same size and I was able to get a chance and caught my first Snook. Of course it was smaller than any of hers! Then on Thursday we went for Roosterfish and caught 8 out of twelve that bit. Friday I fished with some friends from New Jersey for Snook with no luck in the first two hours so we went offshore and released two Striped Marlin of about 130 pounds each. Saturday was another two hours trying for Snook with the owner of “Eat Me” lures with no luck so we went looking for Dorado and ended up with two small fish. There were a few Yellowtail and a few Sierra caught and as the week came to an end the Snapper bite dropped off a bit.
Notes: The water is warming up and the fishing is getting better every week. Now if the Yellowfin would just show up in good numbers things would be great! On the golf front, as a side note, most of the courses had dropped their prices for the summer and it is now affordable to play once in a while. I just played Cabo Real and had a great time except for the greens, they were so fast it was unfair! All in all though, I was happy with my 96. This weeks report was written to the music of Jack Johnson once again, this time on the soundtrack to the movie “Curious George”.
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Jun 6, 2009; 04:56PM - Snook Snap at Cabo
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Category: Saltwater Fly Fishing Reports
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Author Name: Gary Graham
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Author E-mail: bajafly@bajafly.com
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Report Description:
Angler's name is Ellie Crocker, fishing aboard the Santi I with Captain Victor Saizar. They also caught 5 snappers that day. Ellie is a Phys Ed teacher at Lanier Middle School in Houston TX. She is visiting her brother-in-law Capt George Landrum. The next day they caught 3 more snook in the 20-30 lb range. The 3rd day she reeled in 8 roosterfish of various sizes.
Endless Season Update 06/03/2009
REPORT #1169 'Below the Border' Saltwater Fly-Fishing reports since 1996
East Cape
Marlin are fickle and not too interested in lures or ballyhoo or anything else. But a few reports have come in with 120 to140 pound fish being caught and released. Those caught have been around 25 to 35 pounds. A few sailfish were reported and there are reports of an occasional tuna south in the Frailes area. The dorado are scattered but are being found under floating objects. Those caught have been around 25 to 35 pounds.
Much larger roosters are spread out throughout Palmas Bay, with the Frailes area producing the really big fish. Anglers have released at least a dozen over 50 pounds. Live mullet is the best bait for the larger fish. Lots of jacks, mixed with pompano and pargo, are making for stellar inshore fishing. One huge dog-toothed snapper (about 60+ pounds) was caught recently.
Lance Peterson reported: “The beach game is always a challenge. No boat, no chum, just sight casting and a teaser man, if you're lucky enough to have one. Even when it's 'game on' it's super physical…running, casting, and plowing through the deep sand to find the next shot. There has been a ton of bait and a good amount of gamers along the beach. Roosters and jacks a plenty. If you're able to get on the bite the action has been amazing and the fish have been anywhere from 5 pounds to way over 40 pounds. Good stuff for sure.”
“There has also been a tremendous number of jack crevalle in the high teens to twenty pounds.”
Water temperature 72-82
Air temperature 65-98
Humidity 72%
Wind: ENE 3 to 4 knots
Conditions: Partly Sunny
Visibility 10 miles
Sunrise 6:31 a.m. MST
Sunset 8:03 p.m. MST
Magdalena Bay, Baja Mexico
The Esteros have been producing good catches of small grouper, halibut and cabrilla. The Estero at Santa Maria Bay had consistent action for corvina and small halibut in the channel at the entrance.
Outside at the shark buoys there are dorado to 25 pounds and tonnage of football sized yellowfin.
Bob Hoyt
Water temperature 69 - 77
Air temperature 66 -97
Humidity 81 %
Wind: WNW 16 to 22 knots
Conditions: Mostly Sunny
Visibility 5 miles
Sunrise 6:36 a.m. MST
Sunset 8:14 p.m. MST
Zihuatanejo, Mainland Mexico
Offshore fishing was very slow here this last week. Our 26th Annual Sailfish/Marlin/Dorado tournament, which is normally held on the first weekend of May, was delayed to this last week due to the earlier flu scare.
However, even with the delay, 90 boats entered the 2 day tournament this last week, but only caught a total of 34 sailfish and 2 blue marlin, no dorado. With the full moon cycle coming up, I do not expect things to improve.
We are seeing a lot of red tide along the coast right now, stretching about 7 miles on either side of Zihuatanejo Bay. The other areas are not affected, having good clean water and very favorable conditions for jack crevalle and roosters.
In fact, the close by red tide has actually pushed the baitfish into the bay, with the jacks following. Some of the best fishing right now is inside Zihuatanejo Bay.
Ed Kunze
Water temperature 78 - 83
Air temperature 77-94
Humidity 59%
Wind: Calm
Conditions: Sunny
Visibility 10 miles
Sunrise 7:10 a.m. DST
Sunset 8:19 p.m. DST |
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Jun 1, 2009; 11:31AM - Cabo Bite Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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Author E-mail: gmlandrum@hotmail.com
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Report Description:
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrum
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
Cabo Fish Report
May 25-31, 2009
WEATHER: Once again we had a strange week with the weather. At the start of the week the wind began to blow pretty hard at 15-20 knots from the northwest and that brought the temperatures down. Our early morning lows were in the low 60’s, here at the house on Wednesday I registered 61 degrees. Our highs during the day stayed in the low to mid 80’s. Thursday evening the wind started to slow down and Friday around noon it stopped. Saturday morning the coolest I saw was 72 degrees and it warmed right up to 92-95 in the afternoon. No rain this week.
WATER: At the beginning of the week there was a large plume of cold water coming across the tip of the peninsula and the water three miles off the Cape was a cool 63 degrees while farther up the Pacific side there was 57-degree water off the beach at Los Arcos. The currents changed and at the end of the week everything had warmed up by ten degrees as we had 77-degree water off the Cape and the beach temperatures on the Pacific side had warmed to 70 degrees. With the wind blowing as hard as it was no one wanted to fish that cold water early in the week anyway, it looked like victory at sea out there. On the Cortez side of the Cape the water was warmer with the current pushing out the cold plume we had early so that at the end of the week from the beach to the 95 spot and the 1150 it was averaging 77 degrees and just outside of there it was 75 degrees. At the end of the week the wind had died, the surface conditions on the Pacific had calmed right down and the Cortez side was almost flat.
BAIT: There was a decent mix of Caballito and Mackerel this week at the normal $3 per bait.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: You wanted Striped Marlin this past week? Well, we had them by the dozens between the 95 spot and the 1150, but they were not as interested in biting later in the week. The boats were throwing baits every five minutes to fish on the surface but finding one that has hungry took time. Some boats were able to catch and release three of four early in the week but the numbers dropped at the end of the week. One possible reason is the amount of bait out there. Squid were showing on the depth sounders and you could see the Marlin around them, occasionally balling them up a bit so the Marlin were stuffing themselves and were not really in the mood to expend energy chasing lures or lively little Caballito and Mackerel. Putting out artificial squid as lures brought more attention, and this week I am going to try some of the real stuff inside of the artificial, perhaps that will work! At the end of the week the Marlin had moved closer to town and they were pretty concentrated three to four miles off of the Cape.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Sorry to say it but there were very few if any Tuna found by the boats fishing this week. We did see several Tuna Seiners anchored in the bay early in the week, the big ones with helicopters on them, and at the end of the week there was one small one anchored out there, so somewhere there are Tuna, just not here.
DORADO: Dorado were scarce this week but there were a few caught at the end of the week as the water warmed up. A good catch was two or three fish but most boats were happy to get the chance at one.
WAHOO: Once again, what Wahoo? On the bright side we are coming up on the full moon so maybe there will be a decent bite this coming week as the moon gets bigger and the water warms up.
INSHORE: The Pacific side was basically un-fishable the early part of the week but at the end, starting on Saturday the seas had calmed enough that the Pangas were able to get back to the area that were producing last week. There were still Pargo in the rocks and live bait was the way to go. You had to button down the drag on these guys or they would rock you right away. There were some nice sized Jack Crevalle in with them as well. On the Cortez side the Roosterfish started to show up and they ranged from 5 to 35 pounds. Live bait slow trolled in 15-30 feet of water brought fish to the boat for pictures. There were very few Sierra caught and the Yellowtail bite slowed way down close to home.
Notes: This weeks report was written to the music of Jack Johnson on his 2004 Universal release “In Between Dreams”. I can’t believe I just heard of him a few weeks ago! There seem to be more tourists coming in now, which is a very good thing for Cabo since we have been almost dead for the last month. The government has finally gotten around to tearing up Marina Blvd so you can’t drive through the middle of town. The good thing is that they have made the side streets one way with no parking so traffic moves along pretty well. Until next week, tight lines!
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Jun 1, 2009; 10:31AM - Chinook & Steelhead SAME DAY
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Category: Canada
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Author Name: Noel Gyger
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Author E-mail: noel@noelgyger.ca
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Report Description:
The photo of the week shows Ariel Kuppers with a 33-pound Kitimat River Chinook (King) Salmon landed the evening of May 27th. Clint Travis was the fellow who landed the fish. The boys were test fishing the hot spots before the clients arrive. Ariel is an associate guide for Reliable Guide and Charters.
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Noel Gyger - WEEKLY FISHING REPORT dated May 24 – May 31, 2009
Dear Fishing Friends:
SUMMARY: The weather has been a mixed bag but daytime temperatures are getting warmer. The lower section of the Kalum River is very high but in good shape. Chinook are in the river and the Steelhead are spawning. The mainstem Skeena River is too dirty and not fishable. A good place to fish is at the clean seams where the tributary rivers flow into the Skeena, i.e. Extew, Kasiks and Exchamsiks. The Zymoetz (Copper) River is too dirty to fish. The Chinook are coming into the Kitimat River now. For the Kitimat River and Douglas Channel please check out the detailed Ron Wakita report below.
Correction: Last week I reported, “Due to better ocean conditions, DFO predicts a strong run of Sockeye Salmon in the Skeena River of 10 million fish this year. Historical highs are 13 million fish.” My information source was not correct. According to Mark Reagan, DFO Resource Manager, Recreational fisheries, Prince Rupert BC says, “The Skeena sockeye return is forecast to be 2 million rather than 10 million and I don't believe we've ever had a run of 13 million”.
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CURRENT REPORT and summary for Skeena and Tributaries:
TYPE OF FISH CAUGHT: Chinook (King) Salmon, Steelhead and Trout for river. Salmon, Halibut, Bottom Fish and Dungeness Crab for ocean.
Thank you for using barbless hooks!
FISHING THIS WEEK: GOOD
LARGEST FISH OF THE WEEK: Specie: 48-pound Chinook (King) Salmon Where: Douglas Channel Angler: Nathan Kearley
WEATHER: Sunny. Fog patches early this morning. High 22. UV index 6 or high. Sunrise 5:07 AM Sunset 9:57 PM. Today’s yearly average temperatures: Maximum 19 degrees. Minimum 7 degrees.
WEATHER REPORTS VIA TELEPHONE: Terrace 250-635-4192 Kitimat 250-632-7864 Prince Rupert 250-627-1155 Smithers 250-847-1958.
SKEENA RIVER: Is too dirty and not fishable. Fishing the clean seams of the tributary rivers is a good idea. Skeena River height: http://scitech.pyr.ec.gc.ca/waterweb/fullgraph.asp
KALUM RIVER: Is very high and in good shape. Fresh early run Chinook (King) Salmon are in the river. The Steelhead are spawning and should be left alone.
KASIKS RIVER: It is now possible to fish for Chinook at the mouth, in the clean seam, where it joins the Skeena. Sometimes the Chinook come out of the Skeena and into the clean water in search for scent of their home river.
EXCHAMSIKS RIVER: Same as above, it is now possible to fish for Chinook in the clean seam.
EXSTEW RIVER: Same as above, it is now possible to fish for Chinook in the clean seam.
Note: the above three rivers are closed to angling for Chinook except at the very low end. Please check 2009 – 2011 BC Freshwater Salmon Supplement (fancy name for regulations) at: www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/recfish for details.
ZYMOETZ (COPPER) RIVER: to dirty to fish
Fishing Report from: Ron Wakita of Reliable Guide and Charters
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KITIMAT RIVER: Steelhead fishing on the Kitimat River has dramatically dropped off this week which is typical for this time of year. In fact the Steelhead Season this year has extended longer than normal I suspect because it started later. As reported in last week's report, my son Corey, my nephew Derek and I hooked nine steelhead landing five on Saturday. I fished with my twin brother Rick and my daughter Julie on Sunday and we hooked three Steelhead with Julie landing only one, fishing the same holes and spending more time. Usually the drop in catch rate is not this significant although Julie and I blamed Uncle Rick for being 'Unlucky'. When fishing with family and when the fishing is slow somebody usually gets ribbed about it.
With Steelhead fishing on the decline Chinook fishing on the Kitimat River is starting to pick up. Mike Pederson caught a jack Chinook on Tuesday evening. I was speaking to Mike at the Eurocan Pump House shortly after he landed this jack and he said that there were two other larger Chinook caught earlier that afternoon.
Ariel Kuppers fishing with Jessie Houston and Clint Travis did a pre-client trip on Wednesday evening. They landed a 33lb Chinook (see photo of the week) and a Steelhead on this drift. Areil, Jesse and Clint hooked a beauty and had quite an episode to land it. The Chinook wrapped a stump and they had to row across the pool to unwrap the fish to land it on the other side of the river. Congratulations Guys it sounded like a ton of fun landing it but you got it!
Thursday Ariel guided two clients Wayne McComachie and Bryan Burge. They launched in the upper Kitimat to target some Steelhead and planned to drift through the middle sections to fish the lower Kitimat targeting any Chinook that may have migrated on the afternoon high tide. Part 'A' of the plan worked out as they hooked six Steelhead landing one and had another at the boat but Part 'B' of the plan did not work out as good as they did not hook any Chinook in the lower end. All in all it was still a good day's fishing. Well done guys and Thank You for enlisting our Guiding services.
Chinook fishing will improve with every high tide but it is still a little early in terms of typical timing on the Kitimat River for Chinook. We have dates available for Driftboat trips for Chinook. Please contact Noel: noel@noelgyger.ca We would be honoured to guide you on the Kitimat River.
DOUGLAS CHANNEL: Ferd Bouzane fishing with Spiker and E.J brought home six Halibut in the cooler May 28th They also caught 15 Snappers, 2 Ling Cod, a bunch of Rock Cod and their limit of Crab. They boated one Chinook but focused most of their efforts Bottom fishing. Sounds like they had a pretty successful trip down the Douglas Channel. Nice catch guys!
Ferd Wuenche fishing with Ziggy, Heather and Nathan Kearley brought in a 36lb Chinook, a 48lb Chinook and a Jack Chinook to weigh on our scale to be entered into our Instore Derby on Thursday May 28th. Well done! Very nice fish! The 48lb Chinook is the largest entry in our Chinook category to date. We have a Rod and Reel as first prize for the largest Chinook. Our Instore Derby is free to enter. All anglers are invited and welcome to participate!
Todd Haynes of Nautical West Fishing Adventures had a good day on the Douglas Channel Thursday as well. I only received the highlights that there were four Halibut caught but I understand they caught a bunch more Bottom fish.
Andi Handl reports losing a Chinook down on the Kitimat River Tidal portion. We have dates available for the Tidal Fishery but this fishery is difficult to book in advance since it is very unpredictable. Any anglers wishing to book a trip on this fishery please contact Noel at: noel@noelgyger.ca and we will keep you updated.
We have a lot of saltwater boaters gearing up to head out this weekend. The weather forecast is for some hot temperatures so I am hoping the Chinook fishing heats up as well. Stay Tuned to this report.
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Thank You to all who contributed to this report.
Tight lines, Big, Bright and Big Smiles.
Sincerely, Ron Wakita
AREA RIVER RECORDS: Chinook Salmon: Skeena River, 92.5-pounds; Kalum River, 85-pounds; Kitimat River, 74-pounds; Steelhead: Skeena River, 45-pounds; Coho Salmon: Skeena River, 27-pounds.
FISHING REGULATIONS WEBSITES:
2009-2011 BC tidal waters and non-tidal (Federal) Salmon fishing information:
www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/recfish
Effective April 1, 2009 to March 31, 2011
2009-2011 Freshwater (Provincial) Fishing Regulations Synopsis:
www.env.gov.bc.ca/fw/fish
Effective April 1, 2009 to March 31, 2011 (Note regs good for two years)
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Catch & Release formula:
- Chinook: girth squared x length x 1.54 divided by 1000 (inches)
- Steelhead: girth squared x length x 1.33 divided by 1000 (inches)
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May 30, 2009; 04:45PM - Fishing ESP
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Category: Hawaii
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Author Name: Stan Wright
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Author E-mail: stanwright@hawaii.rr.com
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Report Description:
I have ESP... I can see into the future and predict things that are going to happen.
Why just the other day as my attention was focused on the fly fisherman in the front of the boat...
It all came to me in a flash......
Only moments before, in the back of the boat, I had hooked a fresh live bait on the line and cast it out before handing the spinning rod to the angler. (The wives of some fly fishermen do not fly fish.)
For some reason I turned around and saw that she had laid the rod on the deck beside the seat.
I said to myself: 'Self', I said... 'a big fish is going to grab that live bait and pull that spinning rod and reel right over the side of the boat.'
Lo and be hold, as I stepped toward the stern of the boat to secure the rod, it seemed to grow legs and scramble accross the deck, leaped out over the water, and with a splash, dived into the depths of the lake. Just the way I had seen it in my thoughts only moments before it happened.
You know, I even amaze myself some times.
P.S. If anyone catches a large peacock bass in the area of the South Fork called Paper Bark.... and there is a fishing line attached.... and there is a spinning rod and reel attached to the other end of the line.....
It's mine.
Aloha,
Stan
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May 29, 2009; 06:19PM - More Fish than Anglers
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Author Name: Gary Graham
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Author E-mail: bajafly@bajafly.com
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Report Description:
Endless Season Update 05/28/2009
REPORT #1168 'Below the Border' Saltwater Fly-Fishing reports since 1996
East Cape
Water temps in the low 80’s and flat calm seas have offered great conditions for looking but the fish that are found seem not be interested in biting. Even last week’s dorado action has slowed to a few fish here and there.
Inshore reports indicated that the great action experienced for the past month has also slowed. Of course, part of the problem is that the recent Swine Flu thing has reduced the normal busy spring season to a trickle of hard core Baja regulars.
Conditions have improved a lot with warmer water and great visibility for sight casting. Add in the numerous schools of mullet along the beach and it's a recipe for good rooster fishing. In the last few days there has been a tremendous amount of jack crevalle, with many in the high teens to twenty pounds.
“There have also been good number of roosterfish ranging from five pounds to well over forty pounds. The true ‘grandes’ have eluded me this week. One highlight this week was sight casting to an estimated twenty-pound triple tail that eagerly followed the fly right to the beach. However...it just would not close the deal”…Lance Peterson
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Water temperature 72-82
Air temperature 66-91
Humidity 45%
Wind: SE 7 to 10 knots
Conditions: Mostly Sunny
Visibility 10 miles
Sunrise 6:34 a.m. MST
Sunset 7:59 p.m. MST
Magdalena Bay, Baja Mexico
Offshore remains, windy and grumpy with plenty of white caps to discourage even the most avid die hard anglers.
No report received from Bob Hoyt again this week
Water temperature 69 - 77
Air temperature 59 -89
Humidity 82 %
Wind: WNW 15 to 20 knots
Conditions: Sunny
Visibility 10 miles
Sunrise 6:37 a.m. MST
Sunset 8:10 p.m. MST
Zihuatanejo, Mainland Mexico
Check Ed’s article on Marlin on the Fly http://tiny.cc/5Ol7l
This has been kind of a strange May for us. Historically, this is the absolute best month for blue and black marlin and the larger yellowfin tuna. But, with the blue water holding around the 1,000 fathom line (about 30 miles), the action has not yet developed for the sport fishing fleet.
The commercial pangueros and larger private yachts are getting good action on the tuna at the 40 mile mark....with reports of a couple of blue marlin being taken in the same area each day, one of the marlin weighing 273 kilos (614 pounds). There are very few clients here for the fishing and this has also lowered the counts substantially.
Ed Kunze
Water temperature 78 - 83
Air temperature 77-91
Humidity 73%
Wind: Calm
Conditions: Partly Sunny
Visibility 10 miles
Sunrise 7:11 a.m. DST
Sunset 8:16 p.m. DST
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May 26, 2009; 02:37PM - Orlando Bass Fishing
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Category: Florida
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Author Name: Capt Tim Fey
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Author E-mail: tim@bassfishingfl.com
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Report Description:
The month of May has seen some very good bass fishing action. Butler Chain has been producing some quality bass with a good majority of them coming from either under docks or the outside edges of the docks. Whacky rigged Gitem KO’s have been the best way to catch them under the docks, the slower fall of this bait helps keep it in the strike zone just long enough for the bass to hit it.
Working grass beds with the Gitem Curly 7’s and Curly 10’s has produced some more good bass for us, with the main lakes that have produced for us having been Lakes Tibet, Chase, Blanche and Sheen.
Johns Lake is still fishing the same and still one of my favorite lakes to fish. Some early morning top water action can be worked as long as you arrive early enough. Generally as the sun starts coming down the cut, the activity starts to pick up, first half of the month the top water bite was a quick bite in this area, usually lasting about a half an hour. From there we have generally worked the main body of water out in the middle working the Steel Shad and picking off some good bass.
This month has brought us a ton of rain, which was badly needed, water levels have been coming up very nicely on both Johns Lake and Butler Chain, this will change patterns some as the bass now have new areas to roam for food with some fresh vegetation now in the waters, we have been picking more bass off in much shallower waters due to this. Any shade of a watermelon color has been the main producing color as well as the Gitem Red Bass, if you have these colors on your boat, your sure to catch some bass.
We added a new twist to the fishing arsenal the last few days by getting back into saltwater fishing again. For years I did a lot of saltwater fishing but strayed away with my main focus staying on bass fishing, with the summer months now upon us, the saltwater fishing has been picking up very nicely and we have been catching a lot of good fish.
We just got back from 4 days down in Miami doing a combination of things, part one of our trip was to target some peacock bass, although they did not play very well for us, due mainly to constant rain, we did manage to catch some good one. Best part was when I had my best friend Erik out on the boat and in the same body of water, he not only caught his first ever Peacock Bass, but he also boated his first ever Jack, and the kicker fish was his first ever Tarpon! I think this will be a trip Erik will talk about for years. This was all done on canals around the Miami Airport.
From there we headed to Biscayne Bay and what a blast we had, catching a bunch of Jacks, snappers and I landed a nice red grouper. We spent a lot of time fishing bridges and grass flats, as the weather did not allow us to venture thru the cuts or around the cuts to the Atlantic Ocean as storms offshore kept the waters churned up just a little too much.
The next few months as summer heats up for us, we still fully expect a good bass fishing season and will be mixing in some saltwater runs for some more bull reds like Charles caught while we filmed a show for Reel Fishing, Charles managed to catch two bull reds, one on his first cast, again, it was another first, as Charles had never caught a redfish before, and he ended up catching two, one just over 40 inches and the other was I believe 35 inches.
I want to thank two of my main sponsors, Gitem Bait and Deep South Fishing Rods, the combination of these two companies have made my job a lot easier supplying me with quality baits and rods, please check them out, you will be very impressed with the quality and pricing. |
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May 25, 2009; 12:38PM - Cabo Bite Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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Author E-mail: gmlandrum@hotmail.com
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Report Description:
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrum
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
Cabo Fish Report
May 18-24, 2009
Notes: Well, we finally had a reported case of swine flu in Cabo and guess what? Yep, it was a tourist that brought it with him! I just knew it was going to happen! Anyway, just the one case and it had no effect on any of the fishing. One good thing this week was the fact that the inshore fishing was great and the Marlin started to bite pretty good for the offshore guys. Check below for a little more detail.
WEATHER: We really had a great week as we got a bit of rain at the beginning. Not of lot of it, mind you, but it was enough to make everyone get their car washed right afterward as the rain spots made the dust covering them easy to see. Combine the rain with a bit of fog and it was a nice cool start. As the week wore on the clouds and fog moved away and it started to warm up. At the start of the week the nighttime lows were in the high 60’s and low 70’s, at the end of the week it was in the high 70’s while the daytime highs at the end of the week were in the low to mid 90’s. Combine the temperatures with light winds and it was a very nice week to be here.
WATER: The water on the Pacific side of the Cape was off-color out to the San Jaime bank this week, once past there to the west the water cleaned up a lot and was nice and blue. On the Cortez side the water was a bit off color out to 10 miles offshore then it cleaned up as well. The cold-water plume along the Pacific shoreline continued through Saturday with temperatures in the mid 60’s up to 2 miles from shore but on Sunday the warmer water from the Cortez side pushed the cold water back and it warmed to a very nice 70-71 degrees. At the end of the week the water around the San Jaime bank was 74 degrees; it was 73 degrees at the Golden Gate Bank. On the Cortez side of the Cape the water was a nice warm 76-78 degrees everywhere wit the exception of a ridge of 81-84 degree water that ran from the Grey Rock south to the west side of the 95 spot and continued south at least 40 miles. Surface conditions on both side of the Cape were just great at the end of the week with small swells through Saturday, then some larger ones coming in on Sunday but with very little wind pushing them.
BAIT: We had a nice mix of different size Caballito this week and it was nice to be able to get the smaller ones for inshore fishing. There had been some very good small Mackerel available at the bait barge, but according to all the boat captains all the guys that work there got drunk on Thursday night and did not show for work on Friday, so, no Mackerel were available that day. Bait was costing the usual $3 per bait.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: This week was almost a repeat of last week. The Striped Marlin was still showing in good numbers on the Cortez side of the Cape from the 95 spot and past the 1150 spot. Most of them seemed to be mixed in with an enormous pod of common Pacific Dolphin that moved in, probably feeding on the same squid. The difference this week was that the Marlin were willing to eat live bait. As a result there were more fish hooked up this week that last week and most boats were releasing two to four fish a day. Later in the week the action was starting later in the day so boats that stayed out an extra hour or so were doing much batter than the boats that came in early.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: As with the billfish report, there was little change in the Tuna report from last week. Yellowfin of any size were a no show with the exception of some football fish found to the west of the San Jaime. These footballs were not associated with any Dolphin and the two boats that did get into them on Saturday were not able to track them for long and as a result were limited to only a half-dozen fish apiece.
DORADO: Wow, it seems that everything is a repeat of last weeks report and the Dorado are not exception. Find something floating on the water and you might get lucky, and the chances of this happening in the warm water of the Sea Of Cortez were much greater than in the cooler waters of the Pacific. A couple of boats were able to find some small debris and picked up a few fish each, but for the most part there the chances were about 10% of getting one stray Dorado.
WAHOO: Once again, what Wahoo?
INSHORE: Like I said, everything is a repeat of last week. Fishing from a Panga was the way to go this week. I fished just to the north of the lighthouse on Friday and caught a 19-pound and a 13-pound Pargo in the rocks at the lighthouse. One of the Pangas we use got into a nice school pf Pargo late in the day farther up the beach and had 10 fish over 20 pounds for his two anglers. Small live Caballito were the way to go. The Yellowtail bite dropped off a bit and the fish were scattered. Trolling Rapallas at 6 knots found some of the fish and then working yo-yo’s in the area would result in a few more bites. There were some bigger skipjack just outside the 50-foot depth that made a few reels scream as well. On the Cortez side there were scattered Sierra between Cabo and San Jose and past San Jose they were getting into some decent Bonita.
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May 23, 2009; 01:37PM - Offshore – Leapers and Ample Bait
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Category:
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Author Name: Gary Graham
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Author E-mail: bajafly@bajafly.com
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Report Description:
Endless Season Update 05/21/2009
REPORT #1167 'Below the Border' Saltwater Fly-Fishing reports since 1996
East Cape
With 77 degree calm seas, offshore action has begun to comeback from the slowdown caused by excessive bait and cooler waters. Lots of jumping marlin and ample bait have equaled enough action for some boats to rack up decent multiple scores.
Dorado action has continued to produce limits around anything floating. Plenty of ‘schoolie-sized’ fish with some larger fish mixed in.
Sunny skies and little wind have allowed the rooster action to pick back up. They are mixed with large schools of good sized jacks. Boats fishing at the lighthouse found some pompano along with a few pargo very close to shore.
The new fishing inspectors implemented earlier this season are being criticized by both the locals and the hotels for devoting all of their time to policing the sportfishing fleet while the inshore gillnetters continue to illegally set their nets along the shore.
Be sure to check out our newest audio project, Gary Graham’s Baja Backroom. Unabridged taped interviews of individuals featured in Gary’s columns and articles are now available online either on iTunes or http://www.bajabackroom.com/
The first is with Captain Peter “Pete” Groesbeck, with his background of over 30 years of successful tournament fishing, discussing and comparing Southern California and Baja billfishing.
Water temperature 72-78
Air temperature 61-91
Humidity 53%
Wind: SSE 6 to 9 knots
Conditions: Sunny
Visibility 10 miles
Sunrise 6:34 a.m. MST
Sunset 7:56 p.m. MST
Magdalena Bay, Baja Mexico
Plenty of smaller yellows were found under the bird schools at the Entrada according to Enrique Soto, Puerto San Carlos. While there are few boats fishing offshore, reports of dorado being spotted by local shark fishermen sound tempting.
Punta Belcher is producing good catches of small halibut in the shallows twenty yards off the beach.
Also a few grouper and corvine are being caught from shore under the bridge entering Puerto San Carlos.
Lopez Mateos has been eerily quiet. Maybe the grouper bite reported last week broke wide open and they are trying to keep it to themselves?
Water temperature 69 - 77
Air temperature 64 -93
Humidity 36 %
Wind: WNW 13 to 17 knots
Conditions: Sunny
Visibility 10 miles
Sunrise 6:39 a.m. MST
Sunset 8:07 p.m. MST
Zihuatanejo, Mainland Mexico
The sailfish action has died off a bit, with less than one fish per boat per day. But, this may be because most of the captains are concentrating on the yellowfin tuna, which have shown up in excellent numbers. Even though the blue water is still about 25 miles out, we have clean water at 16 miles. Most of the fish are being taken between the 16 and 20 mile mark.
A few blue marlin are being taken in the same area as the tuna, and small dorado are in the weed lines close to shore.
I fly fished with Greg Eynon of Vail, CO, up above Troncones and Saladita with Captain Ramon. Greg took several green jacks, a very nice sierra, and several black skipjack tuna. The schools of jack crevalle we were after were moving too fast and not slowing down enough to get a fly to them. We did not see any roosters.
Ed Kunze
Water temperature 78 - 83
Air temperature 78-91
Humidity 69%
Wind: WSW 8 knots
Conditions: Partly Sunny
Visibility 10 miles
Sunrise 7:14 a.m. DST
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May 22, 2009; 06:27PM - Hawaii Action
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Category: Hawaii
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Author Name: Stan Wright
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Author E-mail: stanwright@hawaii.rr.com
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Report Description:
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Light Kona winds, clouds drifting in and out, water clarity 2 to 3 feet....
and the peacock bass were spawning.
Near Mikimiki Flats, the small shad were leaping from the water to escape the schooling peacock bass. Red Devils lined the shallows. Decisions, decisions.
A schooling size peacock bass.
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It wasn't the wild and sustained bust like we'll see later in the year, but enough action from 1 to 2 pounders to keep us interested.
They love anything gold.
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When the schooling action slowed, we drifted closer to shore picking up a few big red devils. Every so often a peacock bass would dart in from the depths to grab the small red devil flys. We were seeing lots of fish.
Big Male Red Devil. They average from 3/4 to 1 pound in weight.
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Larger spawning fish were our target so we moved along, scanning the shallow water. (A good pair of polarized sunglasses is a must if you want to see the fish.... if you can't see e'm, you can't catch e'm.) It didn't take long. Those big boys don't like anything swimming near their nest. A minnow looking artificial fly anywhere near a spawning pair of peacock bass draws some vicious strikes. The big bump on it's head identifies this 4 pounder as a male. Unlike largemouth, the male fish is always larger than the female.
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Aloha,
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