SUMMER FISHING WATER TEMPERATURES
HIT 90 DEGREES AT CABO SAN LUCAS

Sept. 12-18, 2005, George Landrum, Fly Hooker Sportfishing, Cabo San Lucas fishing, Baja California Sur, Mexico:

Cabo San Lucas daytime highs have been hovering right around 100 degrees and with the humidity it sometimes feels like 110. We had mostly clear skies.

Cabo San Lucas fishing water continues to warm up as our summer advances. At the end of the week we had water as warm as 90 degrees. Water between 86 and 89 degrees extended 30 miles to the southwest of Cabo San Lucas, and on the Sea of Cortez it was hard to find water cooler than 86 degrees. Most of what we fished was in the 88-89 degree range. The warm water has pushed its way up into the Pacific, as far as 20 miles north of the Golden Gate.

Most bait at Cabo San Lucas this week was Caballito at the normal $2 per bait. Up toward San Jose you could get Sardinas early in the week, but large swells made the capture of these little guys a bit more difficult than usual, so late in the week they were hard to find.

It was quite the fishing week for billfish as almost every Cabo San Lucas sportfishing boat that wanted to catch either a Striped Marlin, Sailfish or Blue Marlin had action. Fishing was not so hot and heavy on Black Marlin, but there were a few found.

Good fishing for all species except Black Marlin was found in the area of the 1150, and some boats were getting sweeps, catch multiples of several species. My best day was Friday when we released two Blue Marlin estimated at 250 pounds and one Sailfish.

There were almost no fish on the Pacific side of Cabo San Lucas at the beginning of the week. The concentration of Striped Marlin that had been on the Golden Gate banks seemed to have moved on. At the end of the week there were fish beginning to show to the south and on the San Jaime Banks.

I didn't hear of may large Tuna this week. Almost the only action on Yellowfin I heard of was on football and slightly larger fish up at Punta Gorda.

There were plenty of small dorado in the 7-10 pound size just off the beach to 8 miles out if you were fishing the Sea of Cortez side this week. Out on the Pacific side later in the week there were fish a bit larger, some to 50 pounds but most of them in the 20-30 pound class.

The full moon resulted in a fairly decent Cabo San Lucas bite for Wahoo this week. Two of them between 30 and 50 pounds were about the top catch. The majority of the action took place along the 50-100 fathom marks just off the beach and there was a bit of action at the San Jaime and the Iman Banks.

Most of the normal Cabo San Lucas inshore fisheries were on hold as the Panga fishermen attacked the Dorado just off of the beach. There were a few Roosterfish reported, but most of the Pangas were getting Dorado, small Yellowfin and Bonito.