REPORT #1263 "Below the Border"
Saltwater Fly-Fishing reports since 1996
Saltwater Fly-Fishing reports since 1996
East Cape
Tuna, atún, tuńczyk. . .in any language these fish are
practically chewing the paint off the bottom of the boats. Every report from
East Cape is filled with sweaty ,casually-clothed anglers wearing big smiles
commensurate with the size of the tuna.
Traditionally,
September is a slow month because
of the propensity of Chubasos to show up unexpectedly. This year, throughout the summer every month has looked like September at all the hotels as
far as the number of guests and anglers is concerned.
Clearly the tuna are impervious to the bad economy and
in terms of quantity and quality, tuna fishing is as good as it gets right now.
Meanwhile dorado are showing up more in the catches each day with the
largest in the forty-pound class. And though not drawing as much attention, the
billfish action for blues, sails and stripers has been picking up as well.
Last but not least, the
roosterfish bite has gone on almost all summer.
Regardless of your tackle choice, conventional,
spinning or fly, there are enough challenges and personal bests to satisfy both
newcomers and seasoned veterans.
Current East Cape Weather http://tiny.cc/EastCapeWeather303
Current East Cape Weather http://tiny.cc/EastCapeWeather303
Magdalena Bay, Baja Mexico
Fishing continues to improve after a bit of unsettled
conditions. Large dorado and the early appearance of marlin have the few anglers who are fishing excited. Fish are in
85° water just a few miles outside Boca Soledad. My son released two and had
more follows in the area.
Out at the Thetis, wahoo have been sporadically good
recently. . .just not in the concentrations that were here last year. …Bob Hoyt
Current Magdalena Bay Weather http://tiny.cc/MagBayWeather150
Zihuatanejo, Mainland Mexico
See report on BajaBytes report
Current
Zihuatanejo Weather http://tiny.cc/zihuatanejo582
Cabo San Lucas
There are plenty of striped marlin being seen but
not all of them are hungry. Just getting
one released has been a reason for celebration for most anglers. Some blacks are beginning to show up off the
Gordo Banks and the Punta Gordo area and there have been blue marlin attacking
lures both south of Cabo and around the warm water plume on the Pacific
side. Most of these larger fish have
been in the 200- to 300-pound class. Lures have been best to use on the blue
marlin and the black marlin really like slow-trolled live skipjack.
Strangely
enough, yellowfin tuna have remained our top reported fish. I mean that because we have been seeing purse
seiners setting on schools out here, and we are still catching nice tuna, in
spite of them! There have been some very nice-sized fish reported from the area
of the Finger Banks, but that is a long haul for the fleet guys on a fingers-crossed
trip when there is good fishing closer to home.
Boats fishing the Pacific side have been catching fish ranging from 10
to 100 pounds with most of them in the 20- to 30-pound class while trolling
cedar plugs and feathers around porpoise and dolphin. The larger fish have been hooked on slow-trolled
live bait dropped-back after hooking up to a trolled fish, but the very largest
fish have been taken while fishing under a kite. We had clients this week who caught five yellowfin
between 30 and 60 pounds and several smaller ones, the larger fish all coming
from using the kite. Other boats working
a bit farther out to the south reported larger fish over 100 pounds coming from
under a kite.
Plenty
of dorado to be caught, you just had to be fishing the right areas to get
them. Almost all the big numbers were
found within two miles of the beach on the Pacific side up past the Arcos
area. Big numbers do not mean big fish
though as most of these fish were in the 10-pound class along with a few much
smaller ones. The larger fish were found
scattered farther offshore. Boats that did well on the larger fish were looking
for feeding frigate birds and running to them, tossing out live bait and slow
trolling the area. Also, almost anything
you found floating this week was likely to have fish under it. A few boats were able to get into small
groups averaging 25 pounds and catching three or four for the fish box.
Some
roosterfish as well as a scattering of snapper and grouper have kept most
inshore anglers a little busy, but with the water conditions the way they are
most of the pangas are going offshore looking for the larger dorado and some of
those great yellowfin tuna…George and Mary Landrum
Current
Cabo Weather http://tiny.cc/cabo191
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