May 15th! Fishing Report
A few nice dorado have been caught around the island mostly around the sargasso paddies. Almaco Jacks are starting to show up in numbers around the seamounts. But the real story for the week has been the yellowtail.
A few nice dorado have been caught around the island mostly around the sargasso paddies. Almaco Jacks are starting to show up in numbers around the seamounts. But the real story for the week has been the yellowtail.
This week the yellowtail moved into the bay literally 10 minutes outside the marina. These fish were consistently some of the largest of the year averaging 25lbs with some brutes tipping the scales at 35lbs.
A few Dorado are being caught around the island near the sargasso paddies. This should continue to improve as the conditions continue to change to our summer pattern.
A few Almaco Jacks cousins to the AmberJack around the seamounts. This is the season for Pez Fuerte. So far they’ve been on the smaller size 20-30lbs but the 60/80 pounders won’t be far behind.
Cabrilla and snapper are hanging on the rocky high spots as they also are finishing the spawning season.
We are still having killer days on the yellowtail, cabrilla and snapper but finding these schools is becoming more difficult. The yellowtail have moved up in the water column, chumming sardines then casting into the boil seems to be working best.
There has been more reports of the Tuna bite at the North end of Cerralvo island. It’s a total hero or zero dea
We are once again finding Dorado scattered throughout the bay and San Lorenzo channel. Sierra are in the mix along the coastline. Sierra are in the mix along the coastline. The Yellowtail and Almaco Jacks are the mainstay of our fishery and this should continue thru spring.
The majority of the fishing currently is with our spring species and patterns.
On the seamounts and rocky spots Yellowtail and Almaco Jacks, cousins to AmberJacks are being caught using live bait with either weights or downriggers. Both Cabrilla and Pargo Mulato are mixed in so it’s a nice variety. Once again we are finding Dorado in the bay. There was a few reports of Wahoo on the chew outside around Punta Norte and La Reina.
With only two weeks to Christmas Tuna and Wahoo are what’s happening.
The Wahoo are logs this year avg 50-60 lbs. The Tuna are the real gift. As I said last week 1-2 fish per day seems to be what the tuna gods are willing to give up, but these fish are huge.
As the water continues to cool the Pargo and Cabrilla action is picking up off the rocky points and seamounts.
Inshore fishing has been steady with Sierra, assorted jacks and the Late season Dorado, which May be here all year the way things are looking.
Fishing generally speaking is good but very inconsistent, both on species and count.
To say there is a big variety is a bit mis leading, although there is a lot of different species out there. The day to day catches are just pretty random.
One day you may find a school of dorado or tangle with a 50lb wahoo. Some of the local rocky drop offs are holding yellowtail or Cabrilla.
Fishing generally speaking is good but very inconsistent, both on species and count.
To say there is a big variety is a bit mis leading, although there is a lot of different species out there. The day to day catches are just pretty random.
One day you may find a school of dorado or tangle with a 50lb wahoo.
A nice grade of Dorado were moving around from buoy to bouy in the punta Coyote area. Marlin are still holding around El Charro. Tuna are a no show all the way up and down the Baja. Regarding the wahoo, We are now well into the season.
Inshore smaller cabrilla and Pargitos, Palmettos, are hitting both live bait and artificial lures.
The best part of fall fishing is the variety, and that’s what we’ve got.
We still have all species of Marlin hanging around. The Dorado though less common then say a couple of weeks ago are still scattered in the bay all the way out to Cerralvo island. We have seen an increase in Wahoo activity, though it’s not what it should be. Inshore and around the seamounts we have Cabrilla, Cubera snapper, yellowtail, Jacks, Bonito, and don’t ole triggerfish.
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