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Halloween – Day of the Dead – Holidays in Los Cabos

May 28, 2014 by Leave a Comment

Although it’s barely summer, it’s never too early to begin planning a Los Cabos vacation for later this year. Halloween is the ideal time to visit Cabo San Lucas and San Jose Day of The Deaddel Cabo! The weather in many parts of the United States is beginning to turn chilly, but it is one of the most gorgeous times of the year just south of the border.

While Halloween is not a traditionally Mexican holiday, it has become incredibly popular in tourist areas like Los Cabos. You should book a Los Cabos villa or a Los Cabos condominium now if you are planning a fall trip to the region. This way, you won’t have to worry about missing out on the perfect accommodations at the last minute. Depending upon what dates your vacation falls on, you may also be able some Dia de Los Muertos activities; this is a cultural event that is extremely important in the vast majority of Mexican families. It is important for tourists to recognize, though, that Halloween and Dia de Los Muertos are distinctly different events, despite a few similarities between the two.

You might be wondering exactly what there is to do in Los Cabos during Halloween. There are a variety of options available for all kinds of travelers! If you are young and unattached or simply traveling without your children, you might want to enjoy great drink specials and costume contests at major bars and clubs in Cabo. Hotspots like Baja Junkie and Squid Roe always plan massive parties for Halloween night.

If, however, your kids are going to be vacationing with you, you don’t have to miss out on the fun! The Puerto Paraiso Mall hosts an annual costume contest for youngsters. Many parents go all-out for this event, dressing their sons and daughters in elaborate outfits! Furthermore, a large number of Cabo villa and resort complexes host safe trick-or-treat events for their guests. Simply call your Los Cabos accommodations agent to learn about the Halloween plans that are being made at your resort. Remember, there is no time like the present to begin planning an autumn trip to Los Cabos! It will be here before you know it.

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Todos Santos Art Festival

January 24, 2014 by Leave a Comment

One of the best things about the Los Cabos area is the fact that a variety of wonderful towns are located just a short drive away.
A high percentage of tourists hotel-californiadecide to take short day trips during their Cabo vacations. No matter what you are interested in, you are sure to find something to do within a short distance of your Los Cabos vacation rental. A month from now, for instance, the 17th annual Todos Santos Arts Festival will be taking place. Beginning on February 1 and ending on February 8, this colorful festival is meant to be a celebration of all sorts of Mexican art, including the performing arts and artistic cultural traditions. Todos Santos is located less than an hour from the Los Cabos region, so you should easily be able to take part in the festival if your vacation is coming up soon!

Whether you are interested in seeing traditional Mexican dance performances or in searching for your very own piece of Mexican artwork in a gallery, you will have a wonderful time at this particular arts festival. Many local galleries host special exhibits that coincide with this Los Cabos area event. In fact, you might even see featured work done by some of Mexico’s most famous artisans. Paintings, drawings, sculptures, and glass ware are all available; you simply have to figure out which galleries have pieces that fit your style! In addition to shopping for artwork for your personal collection, you can watch performances by Mexican dance troupes and taste all types of foods that are native to the region. You can learn about all of the events that you can enjoy during the Todos Santos Arts Festival at http://www.todossantos.com.

This is just one Cabo event that you can enjoy during your time in this idyllic part of the world. Bookmark this blog and check back often to discover information about more exciting upcoming events in the Los Cabos area.

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Los Cabos Fishing Report

November 24, 2013 by Leave a Comment

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Anglers –

As we enter Thanksgiving Holiday week we are seeing a steady flow of tourists arriving, it has been a busy fall season, next week is typically when crowds will lighten, as many people will start preparing the Christmas Holiday season. Los Cabos weather has been pristine, highs of 80 degrees, with lows in the 60s, scattered cloud cover, but plenty of sunshine as well, very nice climate now, how you wish you could feel and enjoy year round. Winds are now prevalent from the north, though recently have been moderate and anglers were enjoying comfortable ocean conditions most days.

Sportfishing fleets were traveling in all directions, targeting the normal offshore fishing grounds, finding a mix of billfish, striped marlin, blue marlin and sailfish were all reported, with multiple billfish days reported from charters targeting the Pacific grounds. Water temperature are now on a cooling trend, down to 75 degrees on the Pacific and still averaging right about 80 degrees off of San Jose del Cabo and north towards Los Frailes.

Bait suppliers have been working overtime to obtain sufficient supplies and variety for the full load of charters. Sardinas were being hauled in from northern areas and were being sold by the bag, as brined fresh dead bait, also there were limited supplies of live sardinas just in recent days being offered. These baits have been working well for the for yellowfin tuna on the grounds off of La Fortuna and the Iman Bank, combined with strips of giant squid, also available at the dock in the morning, along with ballyhoo and caballito. Drift fishing while chumming and fly lining baits has been the most successful technique for finding yellowfin tuna in the 10 to 20 pound class, catches were a bit sporadic, some days fish would bite late and on others the action was best early. Light leaders of 25/30 lb. worked best. Catches ranged from a 2 or 3, up to 15 fish per boat. After last week’s new local record 386 lb. yellowfin was brought in, the action for the larger cow tuna on the Gordo Banks has been almost zero, surely a combination of factors are contributing to the slower action, cooling waters, heavy boat pressure, from pangas to large sportfishers, hungry sea lions, dive operations anchoring on high spot and ever increasing numbers of spear fishermen also concentrating on these same banks, this combined with the fact that we have just not seen as many numbers of these giant tuna this season.

Last weekend Wahoo Tournament out of La Playita was a success, a 54 lb. specimen won jackpot honors. This weekend there is a new inaugural tournament being held, Los Cabos Big Game. Anglers renting a charter boat can enter free of charge, with $25 K in prize money guarantee, sounds like a great deal. Anglers can enter one or both dates, participating charters can depart from Cabos San Lucas, Puerto Los Cabos or Buena Vista. Will be interesting to see how this goes, maybe next year with further advance notice in order to promote increased interest, this could be a popular format, with free entry, it is a no loose proposition, though the 7:30 a.m. departure time was not to the liking of anglers wishing to target the ever elusive wahoo.

Other action included drifting larger baits off the bottom structure for a chance at hooking into a grouper or amberjack, though numbers were not high, there were some impressive fish accounted for, amberjack to 40 lb. and grouper to 70 lb. Inshore this past week we have seen more sierra moving in, striking on trolled hoochies, as well as sardinas. A couple very nice sized sierra of 8 to 9 lb. were brought in.

The combined panga fleets launching out of La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos Marina sent out approximately 180 charters for this past week, with anglers accounting for a fish count of: 9 striped marlin, 6 sailfish, 55 wahoo, 125 bonito, 6 roosterfish, 15 cabrilla, 8 grouper, 32 sierra, 170 dorado and 410 yellowfin tuna.

Good fishing, Eric

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Eric Brictson / Operator
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Los Cabos (624) 142-1147
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Los Cabos Fishing Report

November 3, 2013 by Leave a Comment

November 3, 2013
Anglers –
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Visitors to Los Cabos are enjoying exciting times, as we are now in the midst of the peak fall sportfishing season. The largest of all fishing tournaments, Bisbee’s Black and Blue, was held this past week and once again this event ended with the jackpot marlin being caught in the final moments on the last day and more exciting yet, the top two largest marlin were landed by women anglers.

Busy schedules now for all sportfishing fleets, though local weather has seen an unusual late Tropical Storm Sonia developing off to the southwest, this contributed to creating windy and choppy ocean conditions, which have plagued the region now for several days and is forecast to continue through the weekend and into next week. This storm front is an unfortunate situation for the hundreds of anglers who plan their annual trips during this period when you normally expect to find much calmer comfortable conditions. Despite the bum conditions people are keeping their spirits high, knowing that all this is out of everyone’s control, the luck of the draw, weather patterns are becoming harder to predict worldwide.

Fleets have been traveling in all directions, scouting out all of the possible fishing grounds within range, ocean water temperatures are now averaging about 84 degrees throughout the area, not much temperature variance, though we do expect that a cooling off trend will begin during this next week. Bait situation has been day to day, with very small sized sardinas being netted off rocky stretches near Santa Maria, there were caballito available and even some mackerel were offered earlier in the week, as well as ballyhoo and slabs of squid at the dock area. There were options of catching larger baitfish on the grounds, overall the bait resource has been sufficient, main problem now was dealing with the relentless north winds that were swirling from out of the southwest as well.

Anglers were finding a mix of dorado, yellowfin tuna, wahoo and billfish, none of which were especially numerous. With ocean temperatures holding warm this late, we are expecting the action to become more consistent after these weather patterns stabilize. Recently the action has been limited to an average of several fish in combination per charter, though there were exceptions for other anglers that happened to be at the right place.

The large yellowfin tuna are still on the Gordo Banks, everyday there have been a couple of hook ups reported, not many of these larger tuna were actually landed, tuna up to 141 lb. were accounted for by the local panga fleet, with others lost after extended battles. Smaller football sized yellowfin were found near Santa Maria and on the Gordo Banks or Iman Bank, though this action was sporadic and most boats that did land these fish would only catch a few fish. Dorado were mixed in, found in medium sized schools spread out, most of these fish were weighing less than fifteen pounds, with an occasional specimen to 20 pounds being reported. The main factor for fewer all around numbers of fish was the relentless winds which limited where boats could comfortable and practically concentrate their efforts.

Wahoo were hiding out most of the week, only a handful of these fish were landed, with other numerous strikes missed. This is now the time we expect to see these fish make their presence known. Once again, as this weather front passes through we do expect things to get back on track.

Not much bottom action was even attempted during these winds times, anglers found it hard enough to troll or drift fish the surface, let alone try to hold the bottom.

The combined panga fleets launching out of La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos Marina sent out approximately 205 charters for this past week, with anglers accounting for a fish count of: 2 black marlin, 4 blue marlin, 16 striped marlin, 18 sailfish, 13 wahoo, 4 amberjack,  14 bonito, 14 pargo, 2 surgeonfish , 35 triggerfish,10 cabrilla, 15 sierra, 260 dorado and 125 yellowfin tuna.

Good fishing, Eric

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Eric Brictson / Operator
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Los Cabos (624) 142-1147
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Los Cabos – 2 Twin Cities That are Very Differant

November 3, 2013 by Leave a Comment

LOS CABOS, Mexico — “Cabo” generally is thought of as one destination at the southern tip of the Baja Peninsula, but in truth, there is no single “Cabo.”Lands End

What sits at the rocky, sun-baked meeting of the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of California is Los Cabos, a region that incorporates two towns that couldn’t be more different — Cabo San Lucas and San Jose del Cabo — and a 20-mile ocean-hugging corridor between.

Its bounty of options makes Los Cabos a choose-your-own-adventure destination where the desert meets the beach.

Want to lounge on the sand by day and dance to “YMCA” at night while waiters pour cheap tequila down your throat? That happens on the crowded beaches of Cabo San Lucas. Prefer a classic Mexican meal followed by a stroll through art galleries amid Old World charm? There’s that too — in San Jose del Cabo.

A luxury beachfront stay for $2,000 a night can be had at resorts in the corridor, and then there is my favorite: a bounty of charming, $100-per-night stays with days spent tasting inexpensive, just-out-of-the-ocean ceviche and exploring undisturbed beaches.

In Los Cabos, widely considered to be one of the safest places in Mexico, it’s all within a 20-mile drive.

Cabo San Lucas

Any local will remind you that Cabo San Lucas was a sleepy fishing village 25 years ago. Today it is a land of beach, bars and bikinis, English, dollars and televisions lit with American sports. It is vacation personified.

Because tourism drives the economy, there also is an endless effort to separate tourists from their money. The offers of jewelry, tours and activities — snorkeling, diving, dune-buggy rides, camel rides, zip-lining, rides on water-propelled jet packs, boat rides to Cabo’s famous stone arch (do it) and world-class fishing — are endless and exhausting.

If you want to avoid the party, however, it can be done. I spent my last day in Cabo walking for nearly an hour in its marina area (other than the beach, it’s the center of the action) and out to a rocky outcropping jutting into the ocean across Cabo San Lucas Bay at the southern edge of the city. (Visitors usually take a 10-minute boat across the bay.)

People tend to follow people, so tourists gravitated toward a lovely strand there called Lover’s Beach. I found my own sliver of empty Cabo beach a couple of hundred yards away, where I ran headlong into the Gulf of California and was soon bobbing in the clear blue-green salt water, refreshed and alone.

After a boat ride back across the bay, I was amid the resorts and restaurants. The sun was setting, and the beach began to smell of grilled seafood as music seeped out from every restaurant, be it Frank Sinatra or a mariachi band taking on Bob Seger’s “Old Time Rock and Roll.” The party was about to begin anew.

San Jose del Cabo

Twenty miles and a world away, there is a reason that San Jose is fundamentally different from its rowdier cousin: It is about 250 years older.

Modern San Jose took root in 1730, with construction of a Spanish mission. Though it had some hard years, about the time Cabo San Lucas became party central in the 1980s, San Jose experienced a rebirth of its own, albeit on an opposite track: art galleries, restaurants serving authentic dishes (like moles and chiles en nogada) and turning its one-way streets into charming cobblestone.

It’s a quiet town, but something interesting always seems to be happening. On a Monday night, it was a small drum circle gathered in the central square as a woman set up shop to sell tamales to a trickle of customers. The big draw comes Thursday nights during tourist season, when all the art galleries stay open deep into the night for the town’s weekly art walk.

Though not a classic beach destination, it is becoming more of one. In recent years, a marina was dug out of an old park in the beachfront La Playita neighborhood for tourism development. The first new hotel to open is El Ganzo (elganzo.com; rooms start at $179 per night until high season begins Dec. 20, then climb to $315 per night), a hip, stylish hotel embracing both the arts and the fact that it is not Cabo San Lucas. What you will get at El Ganzo: friendly service, a stunning rooftop infinity pool and a quiet, private beach. What you will not get at El Ganzo: waiters pouring tequila down anyone’s throat.

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Bisbees Black & Blue Marlin Tournament Final Fish

October 26, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Dramatic finishes are a Bisbee’s tradition and the 33rd edition of the Black & Blue continued that trend quite nicely.Bisbees BB 2013 Winner
Today’s last fish on the last day was also the biggest. Linda Williams, fishing aboard her 60 Hatteras II Success,
whipped a monster blue marlin after a battle lasting just under two hours. When her prize was hoisted aloft at the scales, the crowd of several thousand roared as the weight–774 pounds–was announced. It was the largest fish of the tournament and the largest ever weighed by a lady angler in the Black & Blue.

“This was a fish of a lifetime and one definitely on my bucket list, especially in the Black & Blue,” a tired Williams said afterwards. “I love this tournament and I love the people.”

Williams, who is from Alta Loma, California, was fishing with her long-time skipper, Capt.  Kevin Pahl and mates Antonio Zuniga Ruiz, David Reed, Craig Pani and her friend, Jan Howard. The fish was fooled by a Hi-5 Petrolero lure made in Cabo. The acrylic plunger with a black, orange and silver skirt had a red eye, a combination that has fooled several previous big Bisbee’s fish.

“I love lady anglers,” Pahl says. “They do what they’re told by the crew and Linda did a great job on that fish. She really whipped it. We’ve waited a long time for this moment.” The big blue measured 125 inches from the lower jaw to the fork of the tail and had a girth of 72 inches.

“I think this week we showed what lady anglers can do,” Williams added. “We can compete on this level without question.”

II Success’s trophy wasn’t the only fish of the last day. Angler Austin Angel and his family team aboard Sea Angel, a 58 F&S homeported in Baytown, Texas, got on the board with a 313-pound blue that was also fooled by an orange-based lure. His brother, Capt. BC Angel, was at the helm.

“It doesn’t get any better than this,” he explained. “I’m fishing with my dad and little brother in the Black & Blue and we weighed a qualifying fish. Great day!”

Four other boats brought in marlin that failed to meet the 300-pound minimum weight. Fantasmas, Sporty Game, Reel Pain II and Titan all weighed fish, although the latter two teams are also contending for the top release boat title.

“This is just an awesome way to end the week and I can’t remember how many times we’ve come down to the last day with the biggest fish. We really do like to save the best for last,” says Tournament Director Wayne Bisbee.

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Los Cabos Fishing Report

October 20, 2013 by Leave a Comment

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Anglers –

The week started out with the passing of Tropical Storm Octave, this latest system followed a path a couple of hundred of miles off to the west of the Southern Baja Peninsula, before  making landfall north of Magdalena Bay. Local Ports were officially closed Sunday afternoon until reopening Tuesday morning, higher ocean swells, winds gusts to 30 mph and moderate to heavy rainfall was the main impact felt, with isolated rainfall totals of 3 to 5 inches were reported. Needless to say the roads were a flooded mess. With tournament season now here, there are large crowds of anglers arriving from all around the world. The weather has now settled and conditions are ideal, highs in the upper 80s and early mornings are very comfortable with a light wind breaker jacket.’

Ocean water temperatures are still in the 85 degree range, clean blue water is found within a few mile of shore, though baitfish have become harder to obtain. Sardinas are now schooling near Cabo San Lucas, though this preferred baitfish have not been schooling near San Jose del Cabo. Caballito has been another bait option, available in limited quantities. Out of San Jose del Cabo fleets have been using fresh caught squid, imported from the Los Frailes area, though over this recent full moon phase, suddenly this resource of squid has vanished and carnaderos (bait suppliers) are once again scrambling to find new options. Ballyhoo have not been available on a regular basis either, this is the time when more artificial lures, jigging and other alternate techniques will be used, we do anticipate that the bait situation will rebound, hard to say exactly when this will happen, as global weather patterns can alter normal migration habits. Of course the heavy presence of factory processing ships targeting sardinas in Mag Bay certainly does not help the situation.

The most consistent fishing action recently was found from the Iman to San Luis Bank. This is where sportfishing fleets from all directions are congregating, dicing and chumming with fresh cut squid, while drift fishing with strips of the same bait on light tackle, this technique has been producing good numbers of yellowfin tuna in the 8 to 20 lb. class. At times the yellowfin proved to be finicky, moving around rapidly, up and down, appearing and disappearing just as quickly. The same fishing grounds were producing a mix of wahoo and dorado, but not in any significant numbers, more wahoo were actually landed on stripped squid, as were caught on traditional trolling lures. The wahoo that have been accounted for averaged 25 to 40 lb. Dorado schools have spread out, even though the warm water conditions would seem favorable for these fish, hard to say where they have gone. There are some sailfish and marlin hanging around the same grounds where the yellowfin tuna are schooling. A handful of marlin over 500 pounds have been accounted for by tournament teams trolling these same grounds.

Off the bottom there were a few quality sized grouper landed, as well as a handful of amberjack, dogtooth snapper, pargo colorado, cabrilla, bonito and huachinango. Anglers used various whole and cut baits and yo-yo jigs to find mixed success off the bottom
structure.

The combined panga fleets launching out of La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos Marina sent out approximately 155 charters for this past week, with anglers accounting for a fish count of: 2 blue marlin, 8 striped marlin, 13 sailfish, 32 wahoo, 6 amberjack, 7 rainbow runner, 6 dogtooth snapper, 20 bonito, 18 huachinango, 14 grouper, 28 dorado and 730 yellowfin tuna.

Good fishing, Eric
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Eric Brictson / Operator
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Los Cabos (624) 142-1147
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Los Cabos Fishing Report

October 13, 2013 by Leave a Comment

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Scores of anglers continue to arrive in Los Cabos, anticipation is high, as this is always the most popular season for a variety of gamefish and weather conditions are ideal. Skies have been clear, plenty of warm sunshine, highs of about 90 degrees. Early mornings now have a fall chill to them, winds were increasingly unpredictable this week, at times blowing hard from the south, then the next day from the north, this pattern limited where sportfishing charters could comfortably fish, though for the most part ocean conditions were pleasant. Water temperatures are still about 85 degrees in the direction of the Sea of Cortez, Pacific waters are slightly cooler. Strong currents have persisted, though have slacked at given times, blue water is now found closer to shore, though choppy conditions for a few days stirred the visibility up a bit.

The bait situation has been limited to purchasing fresh dead squid from vendors at the dock area, some live caballito and other small jacks available after launching, no reports of finding new sources of sardinas, a few rumors being spread that so and so netted some of these baitfish somewhere, though definitely not found in any quantity to support the local fishing fleet at this time, makes us wonder if this will be the season we do not even see sardinas until winter time, migration patterns can be altered, maybe this is what has happened, this is normally the time when we would find schools of sardinas holding along inshore rocky beach stretches.

Panga fleets encountered the most consistent action on the fishing grounds from Iman, San Luis and north to Vinorama. This is where the majority of charters are concentrating; even the fleets from the East Cape are making the long run south to get into the action. Using strips of squid while drift fishing over the banks have produced good numbers of yellowfin tuna in the 8 to 15 lb. range, at times a larger grade of tuna to over 20 pounds were located. Dicing squid into small pieces for chumming the fish to the surface has been the ticket, at times this has also been attracting dorado, wahoo and even sailfish or striped marlin. Everyday there have been reports of wahoo landed by chance on the strips of squid on monofilament, though anglers specifically targeting wahoo with lures or larger baitfish, rigged on wire leaders have not been reporting much at all, at least this is what is reported out of San Jose del Cabo, there were additional reports of wahoo being hooked off of Cabo San Lucas grounds while trolling open waters, same areas where good numbers of dorado are being accounted for, though not much tuna action being reported out of Cab San Lucas.

Only a few reports of larger yellowfin tuna being hooked into on the Gordo Banks, these fish are still holding on the banks, though have not shown in any significant numbers yet this season, nevertheless this is the spot where many top teams will be concentrating on during the tournaments. Recent trend for taking a strike from a large tuna, has been while trolling larger baitfish such as bolito or skipjack, these baitfish are schooling on the same banks, though can be finicky to catch at times.

Not that much bottom action being reported, strong currents and limited results has seen more charters targeting the available surface species. A handful of nice red snapper (huachinango) were taken on yo-yo jigs, as well as a few amberjack, rainbow runners, bonito, cabrilla, grouper, pompano and even one nice roosterfish hooked off the bottom on the Iman Bank.

Billfish action has been spread out, no particular hot spot, sailfish and striped marlin are being hooked into on the same grounds where the schooling yellowfin are, a few reports of strikes on larger trolled baits, the same football sized tuna work ideal for trolling for black and blue marlin, though we have not seen any significant numbers of the larger marlin. Surely the main concentrations of stripers are now congregating near Magdalena Bay.

The combined panga fleets launching out of La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos Marina sent out approximately 182 charters for this past week, with anglers accounting for a fish count of: 3 roosterfish, 2 pompano, 11 striped marlin, 15 sailfish,1 black marlin,14 wahoo, 28 bonito, 8 amberjack,10 rainbow runner, 4 dogtooth snapper, 32 huachinango, 11 grouper, 910 yellowfin tuna and 195 dorado.

Good fishing, Eric

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Los Cabos (624) 142-1147

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Los Cabos Fishing Report

September 29, 2013 by Leave a Comment

September 29, 2013 838_Kingston
Anglers –

With the fall season now officially here we have seen a substantial increase in anglers arriving in the Los Cabos area. After the near miss of Hurricane Manuel last week conditions have now settled down, though still very tropical, high humidity and scattered cloud cover threatening rain squalls at times, it is that time of year when we see local tropical weather patterns develop in the afternoon, often raining in areas north of the airport, while the rest the region just swelters in the muggy conditions. Despite the day time temperatures being in the 90s the early mornings are now cooler and some north winds are starting to make their presence felt.

Strong ocean currents persist, predominately from the south, water temperatures have ranged from the upper 70s on the Pacific side of Cabo San Lucas to an average of 85/86 degrees in the direction of the Sea of Cortez and towards Los Frailes. The majority of the sportfishing fleets have been concentrating efforts on the fishing grounds where the warmer water is present. Large schools of baitfish are spread out on the offshore grounds, plenty of food sources for attracting gamefish. Commercial bait supplies were scrambling to find new resources, as during recent storm activity and full moon phase the bait became scarcer. In recent days pangeros were traveling as far as La Ribera to obtain sardinas for the fleet, selling fresh dead bait and limited supplies of live sardinas. Squid were no longer being found in local waters, but were plentiful off the East Cape region. Some anglers are finding some early morning action for bolito, which are making great trolling baits, though have not been easy to catch once the sun rises.

The most consistent action recently has been found from La Fortuna, Iman, San Luis and Vinorama, this is where anglers have been drift fishing with strips of squid and either live or dead sardinas, catching good numbers of yellowfin tuna in the 10 to 15 pound class, anglers have had better success using sardinas in recent days, compared to the squid. These is a lot of pressure on these grounds now, increased local crowds, as well as the East Cape Fleets were traveling the long run to get into this same action, where their abundant supplies of live sardinas have been enticing the tuna into a feeding frenzy. Using lighter leaders of 25/30 lb. has resulted in greater number of strikes.

The larger yellowfin tuna are still lurking on the Gordo Banks, though this past week for anglers did try to hook into a cow, they did not have success, we only heard of one yellowfin of 120 pounds being taken off the Gordo, this was on Thursday, trolling alive bolito. There were many sailfish and a few striped marlin, but the tuna did not want to cooperate, with the swift current and concentrations of bait on these grounds, these tuna have plenty to eat, hard to say what is going on, though the tuna are not seen feeding on the surface either, perhaps hanging deeper, escaping the currents and preferred cooler depths. We are anticipating seeing these giants become more active soon.

Dorado have been found in good numbers, though most of them are smaller fish and only a small percentage are topping the 15 pound mark, remember to release as many of these juvenile fish as possible so that they can have the chance to mature and reproduce.

Still no consistent action for wahoo, these elusive fish are in the area though, normally they become more active as water temperature lower into the 78/80 degree range. A handful of wahoo in the 25 to 35 lb. class were landed, many of these were taken incidentally while drift fishing for tuna on straight mono leader, though when anglers added wire leader then these fish would not strike the same baits.

Rounding out the action were limited numbers of bottom structure species, including amberjack, grouper, barred pargo, bonito and dogtooth snapper, not many of these fish were encountered in the strong currents, though some impressive specimens were accounted for. Also some rainbow runners being found, these jacks congregate on the high spots and prefer the warmer water temperatures, scrappy fighters and good eating, ranging up to 15 pounds.

The combined panga fleets launching out of La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos Marina sent out approximately 126 charters for this past week, with anglers accounting for a fish count of:
5 striped marlin, 18 sailfish, 8 wahoo, 9 amberjack,18 rainbow runners, 15 bonito, 3 dogtooth snapper, 8 barred pargo, 6 grouper, 715 yellowfin tuna and 320 dorado.

Good fishing, Eric

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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
Eric Brictson / Operator
619 488-1859
Los Cabos (624) 142-1147
e-mail:gordobanks@yahoo.com
WWW.GORDOBANKS.COM

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Los Cabos Fishing Report

September 22, 2013 by Leave a Comment

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Anglers –

Crowds of tourists visiting Los Cabos were relatively light this past week, this is the normal pattern for the later part of September, though with the fall season just about ready to start in earnest, surely there will be a flood of visitors swarm the area in the coming weeks, as this is always one of the busiest times of the year. The great all around fishing action and ideal weather conditions, along with world famous high stake fishing tournaments attract people from all over the world. Another reason for limited numbers of tourists this past week was the highly publicized forecast of the most recent Tropical Storm Manuel, which first struck the southern mainland near Acapulco and cause disastrous flood damage, resulted in many deaths, the system was downgraded to a depression after making landfall but then regenerated strength once getting back over the warm ocean waters and heading in the direction of the Sea of Cortez, forecasters were unsure of its erratic path, with water temperatures near 90 degrees Manuel did reach category one hurricane status and ended up making landfall in Sinaloa, where it again caused major flood damage.

The Southern Baja region was bracing for probable impact, though they were spared any major damage, on Wednesday afternoon there was wide spread lightening, thunder and rain squalls, but there were not any reports of high winds or heavy ocean storm conditions developing. Local ports were closed for both Wednesday and Thursday, reopening for Friday morning. As a precaution the government also closed schools for the same two days, despite clear calm conditions on Thursday, this seemed a bit over overcautious, as there are already so many holiday vacation days scheduled.

Building up to this latest storm, anglers reported the most consistent fishing action for dorado and yellowfin tuna. The majority of the dorado were now juvenile sized, with a small percentage of these fish going over 15 pounds, scattered throughout the area in medium sized schools, striking on lures and various baits. Baitfish were scarcer during this period, as bait suppliers were finding it harder to jig up caballito during the dark hours and the squid that had been in the area the past couple of weeks had all but vanished, the commercial fleet is now scouting out new bait sources. The East Cape had been finding good supplies of sardinas, but apparently these schools were scattered from higher surf conditions that struck this area with the passing of TS Manuel.

The best action for the yellowfin tuna was found from Iman to San Luis Bank, anglers were using strips of squid to entice tuna up to 25 lb., while fly lining these baits on the surface they could find limits of five fish per license. Then when the source of fresh squid disappeared anglers had to rely again on trolling hoochies, smaller feathers or cedar plugs and the numbers of yellowfin were not as high. East Cape boats had been making the long run south to these same fishing grounds and with live sardinas they were having a field day for the yellowfin tuna, but now they are scrambling for bait as well. With the weather once again settled down we expect the bait situation to improve, even though we are also now dealing with the full moon phase, which never seems to help the abundance of bait sources. We do expect to see sardinas moving into local waters very soon, as this is the annual migration pattern.

On Friday, the first day that the port reopened after Hurricane Manuel, a group of three local La Playita pangeros hooked into a super cow sized yellowfin tuna while trolling a live bolito on the Gordo Banks from a 22 ft. panga, after a two and a half hour battle they were able to bring the fish to gaff, back at the docks the yellowfin was weighed in at 367 pounds, largest tuna reportedly caught this season, a definite tournament jackpot contender.

There has been limited bottom fishing opportunities due to very persistent strong currents, almost unprecedented, we do expect with weather patterns now transitioning that this current will reside and will open new option for anglers.

With the arrival of fall, we see the water temperatures start to fall and with this species such as wahoo normally become more active, so are all anticipating this, as well as improved bait resources. Though this is now always the period when we feel high humidity, the worst of the summer heat is past and we will now be enjoying ideal weather in the coming months.

The combined panga fleets launching out of La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos Marina sent out approximately 48 charters for this storm shortened week, with anglers accounting for a fish count of: 2 striped marlin, 1 sailfish, 4 wahoo, 2 amberjack, 4 dogtooth snapper, 225 yellowfin tuna and 160 dorado.

Good fishing, Eric

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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
Eric Brictson / Operator
619 488-1859
Los Cabos (624) 142-1147
e-mail:gordobanks@yahoo.com
WWW.GORDOBANKS.COM

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