BAJA ROUNDUP
30 MARCH 17- 31, 2017 VOL. 36 • ISS. 07
BAJA ROUNDUP
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Everyday this past week has been really great weather,” exclaimed Captain Jerry Chapman of JC Sportfishing.“ Highs in the mid 80’ s in the day time and dropping to the low 60’ s at night. We can’ t ask for much better than this weather, there was a couple days of partial overcast and clouds but still warm. If you ever come to Cabo and spend a little time you will understand why so many people flock here, and has a lot to do with the consistent weather.”
“ Water temperatures are lingering around 71 to 72 degrees, but offshore 5 to 8 miles there is much warmer water according to the Tempbreak. com map. Really kind of all over the place this year for weird water temperatures. Not the normal cycle we are accustomed to and I think this has affected the fact only a hand full of Yellowtail have shown this year,” said Chapman.
“ Marlin fishing has been hit and miss. The areas that are producing are up on the Pacific side, but it has been tough to catch them. At the beginning of the week it was pretty good in the areas of the 1150 and the 95 spots as we were catching good numbers of fish on live bait and ballyhoo. Then the fish seemed to have moved to the Pacific up and around Rancho Migrino. So, it has been unpredictable as to where we are going to find the fish, but lucky for us, we don’ t have to go for much of a boat ride to run into great fishing, because we are in Cabo,” quipped Chapman.
“ The dorado fishing was happening up on the Pacific side around Ranch Migrinon and the
BAJA ROUNDUP
SCRATCHING FISHING FOR BILLFISH, WAHOO, DORADO AND MORE OFF CABO
Bluefin tuna have been chomping baits for San Diego long range anglers. This beautiful fish was caught on February 15.
Photo courtesy of EXCEL LONG RANGE SPORTFISHING, San Diego.
guys were scoring the fish with lures along with live bait, but really not that many. It hasn’ t been to good, but a few. There are a few wahoo around too, but really not a lot. The ones that were caught were using Rapalas dragged with Downriggers. I understand this was effective on some occasions this past week,” said Chapman.
“ At the beginning of the week we did have one good day for tuna at
Big tuna have been on the bite aboard the Royal Polaris this winter as these happy anglers will certainly attest.
Photo courtesy of ROYAL POLARIS SPORTFISHING, San Diego.
the San Jamie Banks. We were using king busters and cedar plugs, but before long they were just gone. That’ s fishing for Tuna in Cabo, sometimes there here on top of us and sometimes we have to run 25 miles to get to them. Inshore there was some good pompono and triggerfish action over this last week. The inshore fishing has been just ok with some sierras and even a few yellowtail reported off the Pedregal Rocks on Rapalas and jigging iron. We expect when the water has finally cooled some, we will see some better inshore action, on sierras and yellowtail,” Chapman concluded.
SLOW WINTER ACTION PREVAILS OFF LA PAZ
“ There have not been many folks out on the water since this is off-season and mostly snowbirds in town. Not surprisingly a lot of our good amigos from Canada and other chilly places. Even though it’ s windy and cold by our standards, they’ re still enjoying the sunshine in the high 70’ s,” said Jonathan Roldan of Tailhunter International.
“ For the fishing, there were some scattered dorado caught and a few of the nice-grade 20-pound class yellowtail. Inshore, some small pargo and cabrilla mixed with a few jack crevalle. I’ m surprised that we’ re not seeing more sierra. But, it’ s still early. We did get a surprise marlin that was hooked while slow trolling a Rapala nearshore in shallow water.”
“ Later in the week the winds kicked up and this past weekend it rained pretty somewhat steadily from time to time. The general rule of thumb is that if it’ s storming or windy or raining hard in the Western United States, chances are it’ s doing it in Baja … just a bit warmer. This coming week after the storm passes, it looks like the first part of the week will have some of the strongest winds in quite a while with double-digit speeds at the back end of the storm,” Roldan said.
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