CALIFORNIA CURRENT WRAPS COOL WATER
AROUND THE TIP OF CABO SAN LUCAS

July 4-10, 2005, George Landrum, Fly Hooker Sportfishing, Cabo San Lucas fishing report, Baja California Sur, Mexico:

The Cabo San Lucas vacation fishing area had glassy water during the middle of the week and then the winds picked up again on Friday, continuing through out the weekend, but with clear skies. Day time highs were in the mid 90s and night time lows in the mid 70s.

The California current started to push hard and brought the cool water to wrap around the point again as the water was in the high 60s to low 70s on the Pacific side out to the banks, and green as well. This water wrapped around Cabo San Lucas and continued up to just short of the Gordo Banks and out to a distance of 20 miles. Outside of this cold plume the water was 76-78 degrees.

The cold fishing water on the Pacific side of Cabo San Lucas brought reports of Swordfish and a Panga was reported to have caught one weighing at just around 160 pounds. Striped Marlin were out there but it was 25 miles before you got into any serious action. I did not hear of any large Blue or Black Marlin in our Cabo San Lucas fishing area this week.

I did not hear of any large Tuna this week. The fish I did see were all smaller fish in the football and school category. The football and school fish were found 25-35 miles to the south-southwest, right around where there was a temperature break from 72 to 74 degrees.

Apparently you needed to go up the Sea of Cortez, chasing the warmer water for the Dorado this week. The cold water chased them out and few fish were found close to home.

A good solid discussion with a much respected Panga Captain revealed that the bite had been off this week, as well as his bookings. During a trip for food, with a diving friend on board, they were able to get into some very good Pargo action on the Pacific side and catch a few Roosterfish as well. The comment was that most of the boats were not going far enough up the coast, most of the fish were found up around Migrainos.

Fingers are crossed that the cold water goes away and the winds die down.