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Endless Season Update July 25th, 2010

REPORT #1224 "Below the Border" Saltwater Fly-Fishing reports since 1996

East Cape

Bill Heim of Ontario, CA. He comes and fishes with Vista Sea Sport every year with his son and brother. In past years, his father also came on the trips but passed away eariler this year at 86.

 

No storms on the horizon, but there was few hours of rain followed by a strong wind from the east. Las Palmas Bay is somewhat of a divided playing field with the warmer water up to the north toward Las Arenas and cooler water from the Punta Arena lighthouse down.

In the warmer water the yellowfin bite has been outrageous for some. A good number of larger gorilla sized fish have been kicking serious *** leaving spent anglers and in some cases plenty of broken tackle. The fish are being found under the numerous porpoise schools found anywhere from five to forty miles offshor
More dorado seem to be showing up daily and there have been a few more wahoo landed as well.

Along the shore and from the beach the big roosters continue to be caught…some exceeding fifty pounds.

Next week brings the first of the Bisbee Black and Blue series to East Cape and teams are already out scouting for the hot spot.
With the water temperatures continuing to climb, more and more billfish are moving into the area. Blues are being spotted and a few are hooked and released every day. Striped marlin are throughout the bay and there have been some sails caught and released just outside of Punta Pescadero.

Current East Cape Weather http://tiny.cc/EastCapeWeather303


Magdalena Bay, Baja Mexico

The weather has been nice, but with some wind. Plenty of tuna outside along with some marlin farther out. Shark buoys are holding some larger dorado.

On the north-facing beaches on Magdalena Island, there have been some nice-sized snook along with some white seabass.

Inside the Esteros grouper and corvina provided the best action this week..... Bob Hoyt
Current Magdalena Bay Weather http://tiny.cc/MagBayWeather150

Zihuatanejo, Mainland Mexico

The surface water temperature satellite photo from Terrafin shows a scrambled egg pattern from the shoreline to over 50 miles out, bouncing around between 82 and 84 degrees. However, this has had less of an effect on the fishing than the blue water moving out to about 20 miles.

The clean water is still found at about the six-mile mark, but the game fish are mostly being taken in the blue water, meaning runs of 20 to 28 miles.

The boats not making the run are only averaging about o0ne sailfish or a striped marlin a day each.
The boats going the distance are each averaging about three fish a day. Sometimes it is two sailfish and one striped marlin like Adolfo had on the panga Dos Hermanos, or two striped marlin and one sailfish like Cheva on the Dos Hermanos II.

The blue water has been pushed out this week due to the large volume of fresh water coming from the numerous nutrient rich streams and rivers we have here on the coast. This last week has seen rain almost every night, and even a couple of daytime rains. Some of the early morning rains were very intense, with one particular two-hour deluge of about 6” between 5:00 and 7:00 in the morning.
The Terrafin satellite photo measuring the chlorophyll (pigment from organic plant life) of the water shows the results of this occurrence with high concentrations of chlorophyll in the vicinity of the rivers and streams, and out about five to six miles. (The less chlorophyll, the deeper blue the water.)
And, because of the high concentrations of chlorophyll and stained water coming out of the rivers, the good roosterfish action we were having early in the week was disrupted substantially.
It has come down to finding clean water where you find the roosters; Paul Ruzumna, of Chicago, fly fished with Cheva and me on the panga Dos Hermanos. We first tried casting to the two to three pound green jacks (cocineros) in the boiling waters off the rocks at the White Rocks. Then we went after roosters, finally getting one around 18 pounds about noon. …Ed Kunze


Current Zihuatanejo Weather http://tiny.cc/zihuatanejo582

Cabo San Lucas

We are seeing quite a few striped marlin, with 65% of the boats releasing one or two fish. Many that did not get marlin were targeting dorado or tuna. Along with the warm water came the blue and black marlin. There were several blues to 400 pounds and a fifteen-year-old girl released a marlin estimated to be 250 pounds. As is usually the case, find the bait, and you find the fish.

The small tuna were holding near shore around the Chileno bay area and offshore along the 1,000 fathom line. Near shore resulted in striped marlin and a few black marlin; working the bait offshore resulted in a few striped marlin and all the blue marlin.
The yellowfin bite slowed though a few to 100 pounds were still being found around the Gordo Banks, but you had to be there early to get hooked up. Offshore, boats were finding small pods of dolphin that held school and football-sized fish averaging 15 pounds.
Almost every boat that went out caught at least one dorado and some of them were nice-sized fish! We had one client who fly fished for three days; on the first day he released a striped marlin and kept a dorado of about 12 pounds, the second day he caught two dorado of about 15 and 18 pounds and on the third day he hooked up a dorado estimated to be 40+ pounds, only to lose the fish close to the boat after a long fight. Most of the fish were found close to shore (within four miles), just to the south and 15 degrees either direction.
Red snapper dominated the inshore as the rocks were producing for guys using live or cut bait. The key was to get the bait as close to the foamy pockets between the rocks without getting hung up, and fishing with the drag set at almost full in order to get the fish away from the rocks quickly. Many of the pangas took advantage of the dorado and did a lot of fishing just off the beach...… George and Mary Landrum
Current Cabo Weather http://tiny.cc/cabo191