CABO FISHING WATER CONDITIONS IS GOOD
BETWEEN SPELLS OF BIG TROPICAL WEATHER

July 18-24, 2005, George Landrum, Fly Hooker Sportfishing report, Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico Fishing:

The Cabo San Lucas sportfishing area did have a day of bad weather this week as the feeder bands from Tropical Storm Eugene arrived Tuesday night and brought winds gusting to 40 knots with steady winds at 25 knots. By Wednesday afternoon Cabo San Lucas was back to bright, sunny skies. Our daytime highs were in the high 90s.

Except for Tuesday night and all day Wednesday Cabo San Lucas fishing water has been great on both the Pacific side of the Cape and the Sea of Cortez side. On Wednesday the Port Captain closed the port to all arrivals and departures due to the large swells and heavy winds, but the water improved dramatically by Thursday morning.

The winds and swells changed things a bit but the current really made the most drastic change. At the end of the week there was green water, but warm, up around the Punta Gorda area and slightly off color water in the 73 degree range just off shore on the Cortez side.

On Thursday I fished the Pacific up to the Golden Gate Banks and while there were Porpoise everywhere and bait everywhere, there were no fish. The water was green and around 71 degrees. What we have now is the cold water in front on the Cortez side, warm water up past the Punta Gorda area and warm blue water on the Pacific side of the Cape.

Bait once again was almost all Caballito this week. The bait has been schooled up very thick and most of the baits we were getting had been snagged. There were some small Mackerel available at times. Both baits were the normal $2 per bait.

This week Cabo San Lucas Marlin fishing action started off with a bang on the Cortez side up around the Red Hill area on the edge of the San Jose Canyon. The fish were thick and were willing to bite, but they were a little smaller than average with most of them in the 70 pound class.

When everyone was finally able to get out and fish on Thursday things had changed a lot. There were still a few Stripers found on the Cortez side from 3 to 5 miles off shore, but the water had greened up. The Striper bite moved off shore to around the 1150 area and out, but they were not as thick as before.

Find the right pod of Dolphin and you could get Tuna this week, but you had to move through a few pods. Fish ranging in size from 10 to 60 pounds were found by Cabo San Lucas fishing boats working between the Cabrillo Seamount 40 miles to the east and the 1150 spot as well as by boats working the Pacific side 20 miles out late in the week.

Most of the Dorado found later in the week were small fish and were released.

The inshore action was still slow at Cabo San Lucas with the exception of some decent Roosterfish up around the El Tule beach area. The swells from Tropical Storm Eugene messed up the near shore fishing a bit with dirty water and big waves.