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Jun 22, 2013; 03:03AM - Terrace BC Canada Fishing Report June 20, 2013
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Category: Canada
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Author Name: Noel Gyger Guided Fishing
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Noel Gyger Fishing Report is LIVE online 24/7
Cast on this link to read the current LIVE Report:
http://www.noelgyger.ca/current-fishing-reports.htm
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Weekend Fishing Forecast:
Mix bag of weather forecast for the weekend. Skeena very high but remains borderline fishable. Kalum is good for Chinook on the lower end. Steelhead on the Kalum is over. Try fishing for Chinook on the Exchamsiks and Kasiks the in the clean water below the highway 16 bridge. Chinook is closed above the bridges. Kitimat River is very good for Chinook. This river might be the 'best bet' for Chinook. Lots of BIG fish still in the channel heading for the river. Upper Lakelse Trout fishing is good, but water is high. Lakelse River Bridge should be fishing good for Chinook. Lake fishing is starting to pick up everywhere. Ocean fishing out of Kitimat and Prince Rupert is excellent; so is Crabbing and Prawning. Good luck this weekend.
Hope you enjoy the LIVE Fishing Report: http://www.noelgyger.ca/current-fishing-reports.htm
Thank you for your interest in The Fishing Reports.
Best regards,
Noel Gyger
“You meet the nicest people on the river banks”
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Jun 16, 2013; 11:34PM - GORDO BANKS PANGAS San Jose del Cabo June 16, 2013
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: eric
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
San Jose del Cabo
June 16, 2013
Anglers –
We are entering the last week of the spring season, crowds of tourists have
been slightly lower than expected, as family’s are now going through school
graduation events and planning their summer schedules. We expect to see
more visitors arriving soon for summer vacation time.There was a cooling
trend of the weather this past week, we felt more Pacific air flow and
strong ocean currents pushed cooler murky colored water into the Los Cabos
area. This pattern helps to keep the climate very pleasant, most days the
high temperatures reached the upper 80s and the nights are about perfect at
70 degrees. This transition period always produces rapidly changing up and
down climate patterns, hot, cool, cloudy, windy, then ideal and very calm,
we see fluctuating ocean currents sweeping through the area, anglers find
fishing action varying daily, just like the weather. These patterns
contributed to anglers not finding consistent offshore action, though there
was excellent fishing found close to the shore and this is where the
majority of sportfishing fleets have been concentrated in recent days.
Ocean conditions are now rebounding after turning over last weekend, we are
now on a warming trend, water is still a bit off colored, ocean
temperatures ranging from 66 degrees off of Cabo San Lucas to about 80
degrees near Los Frailes, off of San Jose del Cabo it is now in the low to
mid 70s, this is an extreme variance for a 30 to 40 range.
Anglers targeting offshore action out of Los Cabos reported limited counts
of striped marlin being found, not like it had been, with multiple billfish
days being common. The East Cape area has reported much better numbers at
this time for billfish, with lots of sailfish mixed in with the striped
marlin. Not much activity being reported in the way of yellowfin tuna or
dorado at this time, as conditions do eventually stabilize offshore we
expect to see action break wide open.
In the mean time, with limited offshore action being found the majority of
charters are targeting the epic roosterfish bite that is happening along
much of coastline. This year the season for these prized gamefish began
early and it has peaked this past week, as we saw the best action we have
seen in many years for larger trophy sized fish, with big numbers of
roosterfish in the 30 to 70 pound class reported every day. The roosters
were striking on caballito and moonfish, slowly trolled along the beach
stretches, just outside the breaker zone. With practically the entire fleet
now targeting this bite, it will be interesting to see how long this
fishery can remain productive, heavy boat pressure seems to result in
negative impact.
Roosterfish are a migratory species, following their food source, they are
members of the jack family, extremely powerful fighters, unpredictably
acrobatic at times, reaching sizes up to 100 pounds and they are native to
a limited range on the west coast of Pacific waters. Anglers travel from
around the world to target these prized fighting gamefish. This is a unique
fishery, very fragile and needs protection. This year with so many of
numbers of roosterfish schooling in the area we have witnessed a over kill
of these economically valuable sport fish, these fish are not known for the
eating qualities, but rather for their powerful screaming runs and after
these fish are landed they should always be released as carefully as
possible. Local residents do really enjoy eating these dark fleshed jacks
and this has created a profitable commercial market. Combined with a lack
of other normal commercial species recently available, fleets have been
exploiting this fishery to the limits, hauling in crate after crate of
roosterfish to be shipped off to markets.
As ocean currents are warming again, we are seeing improved action over the
inshore rocky structure for a mix of other species, such as pompano,
cabrilla, amberjack, dogtooth snapper and pargo cororado, this action
tapered way off during the recent water, but the past few days we have seen
some amberjack to 65 pounds and quality snapper as well. Bait supplies have
remained steady for caballito, moonfish, some mullet, but no sardinas are
available. This available bait source is being netting in the marina
channel.
The combined panga fleet launching out of Puerto Los Cabos Marina sent out
approximately 72 charters for the week, with anglers reporting a fish count
of, 1 sailfish, 9 striped marlin, 8 dorado, 31 amberjack, 18 pargo
Colorado, 22 yellow snapper, 18 barred pargo, 22 dogtooth snapper, 20
cabrilla, 8 pompano, 12 sierra, 45 jack crevalle and 350 roosterfish.
Good fishing, Eric
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
Eric Brictson / Operator
619 488-1859
Los Cabos (624) 142-1147
e-mail:gordobanks@yahoo.com
WWW.GORDOBANKS.COM
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Jun 13, 2013; 05:47PM - GORDO BANKS PANGAS San Jose del Cabo June 11, 2013
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Eric
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
San Jose del Cabo
June 11, 2013
Anglers –
Late spring crowds of tourists are relatively light, as many families are busy
preparing for school graduation events and in planning stages for their summer
activities. Ideal time to travel to Southern Baja, weather is not too warm yet,
highs near 90 degrees and Pacific breezes have kept conditions comfortable. Southern
swells are now steady and are attracting surfers from around the world. Ocean water
temperatures are on the rise, now ranging from the mid to upper 70s throughout the
zone, from Cabo San Lucas to north of Los Frailes. There were some unpredictable
shifting winds on some days, but for the most part anglers found very comfortable
offshore conditions. Most of charters fleets are concentrating efforts in the
direction of warmer currents, the water temperatures on the Pacific Banks remain in
the 60s.
There are more mullet moving along inshore stretches, but not in massive schools as
we have seen in past seasons, most common baitfish available through the commercial
bait suppliers were caballito, being found in the marina area, with some moonfish,
jurelito and mullet mixed in. Ballyhoo are being sold by suppliers, they were good
offshore baits to rig for striped marlin or dorado.
Striped marlin action has been found scattered all throughout the zone, most of the
time from 5 to 20 miles from shore, the stripers were striking on lures and various
baits. No huge numbers, but some charters were accounting for multiple fish days. On
the Gordo Banks and other high spots, anglers were able to find bolito and skipjack,
trolling small hoochies early in the morning was the best chance, these preferred
baitfish were working well for surface trolling. Dorado are being encountered in
limited numbers, scattered throughout offshore grounds, there were isolated reports
of finding larger concentrations of dorado associated with floating debris, but
other than that most charters did well to find just one dorado. This is the season
when we typically see a greater percentage of large sized dorado and recently there
have been a few nice bulls to 35 pounds accounted for.
Only an occasional report of any yellowfin tuna action, mostly smaller sized, found
while trolling on the normal offshore marlin grounds. With the ocean conditions
shaping up how they are, we do expect to hear more reports of tuna activity. Same
story for wahoo, only a handful of these elusive speedsters were being reported,
though you never know, these fish do really prefer ocean currents that average in
the upper 70s, we are nearing that now, so anything could happen if anglers are at
the right sport at the correct time.
Roosterfish action remained steady inshore, every day we are hearing of fish in the
40 pound or larger class being hooked into while slow trolled just outside of the
surf zone. The season started early for these prized fighting gamefish and is still
going strong. Despite locals enjoy capturing and eating these jacks, these fish have
dark red meat, can grow to 100 pounds, they are not known for eating quality, but
rather for their aggressive surface strikes, unpredictable acrobatics and powerful
runs, anglers need to take the future protection of this species into their own
hands and practice the sport of catch and release.
Same story should be mentioned for striped marlin, this so called protected gamefish
species is being blatantly exploited, sold commercially as though there are not even
any laws against this illegal black market business. Whatever the problem, lack of
official personnel or particular priorities, lead to this sad situation, while costs
of local fishing licenses have reached inflated rates, certainly there should be
funds to enforce existing regulations. Further thoughts also have to go in the
direction of why authorities continue to allow commercial inshore gill netting to be
practiced, this form of fishing does irreversible damage to this fragile fishery,
something has to be done to abolish these gillnets before they completely destroy
this unique and diverse World Class fishery.
This is now the season when dogtooth snapper, pargo colorado, amberjack, pompano,
leopard grouper and other species follow baitfish schools close to shore and this
action had showed great early season promise, but with recent sightings of expanses
of set gill nets, this has coincided with a sharp drop off on inshore action for
anglers. Global population increases commercial pressure on this fragile inshore
fishery, the situation needs to be monitored and given a chance to survive.
The combined local panga fleets launching from La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos Marina
sent out approximately 70 charters this past week and anglers reported a fish count
of: 4 sailfish, 22 striped marlin, 2 wahoo, 9 hammerhead shark, 5 yellowtail, 18
amberjack,
16 cabrilla, 24 dorado, 55 various pargo species, 18 dogtooth snapper, 14 sierra, 4
yellowfin tuna, 16 pompano, 32 jack crevalle and 135 roosterfish.
Good fishing, Eric
GORDO BANKS PANGAS
Eric Brictson
Owner/Operator
619 488-1859
Los Cabos 011 52 624 142-1147
ericgordobanks@yahoo.com
gordobanks@gmail.com
WWW.GORDOBANKS.COM
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Jun 3, 2013; 01:17AM - GORDO BANKS PANGAS San Jose del Cabo June 2, 2013
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Eric
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
San Jose del Cabo
June 2, 2013
Anglers –
This past week, over the Memorial Day Holiday, we saw increased crowds of tourists
in Los Cabos, everyone was greeted with pristine weather conditions, sunny days,
with high temperatures in the upper 80s and enough Pacific breeze to keep things
perfectly comfortable. Warmest ocean currents are now found north of Chileno,
towards Gordo Banks and Vinorama, where it is now up to 75 degrees of more, while
towards the south and around the corner from Cabo San Lucas, water temperatures were
dipping into the 60s, quite a dramatic variance within such a short distance.
Despite the daily patterns still being unpredictable and inconsistent, anglers found
very respectable fishing action. Offshore the main action has been for striped
marlin, concentrated in areas from 5 to 15 miles offshore, outside of the Gordo
Banks has been one of the more productive area in recent days, the striped have
ranged to over 150 lbs. and many charters were accounting for two or three billfish
per day. These fish were readily striking lures, with all of the squid now present
in local waters, they are chasing the squid type lures aggressively. The stripers
are also striking on trolled ballyhoo, caballito and bolito. Not many dorado being
reported, though everyday a handful of 10 to 30 lb. dorado have been accounted for
from these same fishing grounds. No yellowfin tuna or wahoo to report, though one
nice yellowfin was hooked into from a panga while trolling a larger baitfish near
San Luis Banks, the fish was quality sized apparently and came
unbuttoned at color. A few wahoo were seen free swimming over the inshore rocky
areas where panga charters were looking for various species, but none of these ‘hoo
were hooked into. With the way the ocean conditions is really coming into prime
shape, anything could happen on any given day.
With the striped marlin being the only consistent catch offshore at this time, many
of the charters, particularly the panga fleets, are concentrating close to shore and
near the shallow water rock piles. Along the sandy beach stretches anglers got into
some great roosterfish action, as the season is reaching its peak early and is now
going wide open, prospects are excellent for the next month for these prized
gamefish. Slowing trolling with caballito has been the best bet recently, though we
will start seeing more mullet activity very soon. Roosterfish to over 50 pounds were
landed throughout the week, many of the fish were ranging in the 15 to 25 lb. class.
Everyone needs to remember these are a fast growing prized fighting gamefish
species, which are not renowned for their eating qualities and they should be
treated with care after being landed, while being photographed and released to
mature and fight another day.
Other inshore action found over the rocky reefs towards the less populated northern
beaches included leopard grouper, dogtooth snapper, pargo colorado and amberjack.
All of these fish are powerful fighters and excellent eating, striking on various
baitfish, most of time slowly trolled on the surface, tricky to hook and even harder
to keep them from reaching the rocky reefs and cutting leaders off, fun to try
though, can be frustrating and rewarding at the same time. This is a seasonal
fishery lasting from mid May through June, then much of the action switches back on
to the deeper structure.
As we progress into late spring, early summer season, we expect to see more pelagic
exotics appear in the fish counts, such as yellowfin tuna, wahoo, dorado, sailfish
and blue marlin. This weekend is the national holiday of ”Dia de La Marina” and
there will be capacity packed crowds of locals attending all of the events scheduled
in La Playita, starting with the crowning of the fiesta princess, to all night
dances, carnival rides, dorado fishing tournament with beach angling categories as
well, also there are off road vehicle races planned on Sunday in the San Jose
Arroyo, of course lots of beer drinking and fun times for al,.
The combined local panga fleets launching from La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos Marina
sent out approximately 105 charters this past week and anglers reported a fish count
of: 3 sailfish, 28 striped marlin, 1 wahoo, 2 mako shark, 8 yellowtail, 27
amberjack, 2 golden leopard grouper, 23 cabrilla, 15 dorado, 23 yellow snapper, 92
pargo colorado,12 sierra,
14 bonito, 11 pompano, 39 dogtooth snapper, 26 jack crevalle and 188 roosterfish.
Good fishing, Eric
GORDO BANKS PANGAS
Eric Brictson
Owner/Operator
619 488-1859
Los Cabos 011 52 624 142-1147
ericgordobanks@yahoo.com
gordobanks@gmail.com
WWW.GORDOBANKS.COM
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May 28, 2013; 05:26PM - GORDO BANKS PANGAS San Jose del Cabo May 26, 2013
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Eric
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
San Jose del Cabo
May 26, 2013
Anglers –
Time has been passing by rapidly, already it is late May and this is the time of
year when crowds of tourists can be as variable as can the daily weather patterns.
There were moderate numbers of anglers now in town, also a large presence of surfers
taking advantage of the season’s first enduring southern swell. Currents pushed in
temperate waters, clean blue water was found within several miles of shore and ocean
temperatures climbed back up into the 75 degree range outside of San Jose del Cabo
and areas to the north. The climate has been almost as pleasant as possible, highs
in the upper 80s, still a slight chill in the air early in the morning, winds have
been very light. Great time to visit before the heat of summer arrives.
The mainstay of the bait supply has been caballito, found inside the marina channel
entrance, also a noticeable increase in schooling mullet moving into coastal areas,
with higher surf condition we still have not seen any source for live sardinas,
though on some days there were limited supplies of fresh brined sardinas available.
Schooling bolito and skipjack were found on the offshore grounds, but not always
easy to catch and chihuil are even scarcer, only the early birds are able catch some
of these baitfish at daybreak over the high spots. With an abundance of food source
in the region we anticipate having an extended spring season for striped marlin,
roosterfish, dogtooth snapper, amberjack, cabrilla and a variety of other gamefish.
Roosterfish season has got off to an early start and is now in full swing, as these
hard fighting members of the jack family are patrolling the shoreline looking to
ambush any batfish that is in their path. Most common technique recently has been to
slow live caballito, with early morning being the most active period, average sized
roosters were 15 to 25 lb. some much larger fish were encountered. Toad sized jack
crevalle continue to compete for inshore dominance and we are now seeing the first
real consistent bite developing for dogtooth snapper, which are found in very
shallow water in late spring, reaching sizes of over fifty pounds, these power
horses will test both angler and equipment to the fullest.
In additional to the jacks, roosterfish and dogtooth, other inshore areas produced
pompano, pargo colorado, leopard grouper, sierra and amberjack, with one amber
weighed in at 73 pounds. Once again anglers were slow trolling with the available
larger sized baits over the shallow rocky structure, this proved to be the most
successful method. There are yellowtail still holding on the deeper reefs, off of
Palmilla and on the Gordo Banks, finding the right combination of a slack current
and preferred bait choice has been a game of chance. The handful of yellow that were
accounted for were in the 20 to 30 lb. class.
Billfish bite became more scattered and even when the striped marlin were found,
often they were not interested in biting the hook, other reports of multiple marlin
catch and release days were reported, a matter of being in the precise spot with the
right offerings. Dorado continued to show up in small numbers, some smaller sized
fish mixed in with some larger bulls, found on offshore marlin grounds as well as
closer to shore at times. No wahoo or yellowfin tuna action reported, the way
conditions are shaping up, anything could happen any day.
The combined local panga fleets launching from La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos Marina
sent out approximately 71 charters this past week and anglers reported a fish count
of: 11 striped marlin, 1 sailfish, 3 mako shark, 19 yellowtail, 38 amberjack, 22
huachinango,
28 cabrilla, 34 bonito, 18 dorado, 26 sierra, 35 pompano, 18 dogtooth snapper, 30
jack crevalle and 138 roosterfish.
Good fishing, Eric
GORDO BANKS PANGAS
Eric Brictson
Owner/Operator
619 488-1859
Los Cabos 011 52 624 142-1147
ericgordobanks@yahoo.com
gordobanks@gmail.com
WWW.GORDOBANKS.COM
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May 25, 2013; 04:26PM - DR Sportfishing Costa Rica May 2013
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Category: Los Suenos Marina
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Author Name: Dan Ross
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www.GoFishCostaRica.com
Marlin and more Marlin!!! It is going crazy everywhere... There is great fishing going on right now down south as well as a here in the Jaco/Los Suenos area. Out of Golfito, Bobby reported raising 20 in his last trip and he had a blast releasing as many as the clients could pull-in. There has been some Tuna in close popping as well, so everyone has had a cooler full of Yellow fin. I recommend you hurry and get in-touch with us for a Marlin trip that you will never forget.
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Check out the Tuna we caught yesterday!!!
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May 20, 2013; 03:45PM - GORDO BANKS PANGAS San Jose del Cabo May 19, 2013
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Eric Bricston
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
San Jose del Cabo
May 19, 2013
Anglers –
The season’s first tropical storm has developed off of the Southern Mexican
coast, named Alvin, this weakening storm is far away from making any impact
on land, forecasters do expect to see increased wave activity over the
weekend as a southern hemisphere system is pushing in higher swells and
surfers are excited with anticipation. Spring time weather has started to
feel a bit more like summer, days are progressively becoming warmer, with
highs nearing 90 degrees. Winds have been light, switching from the north
to the south, unpredictable from day to day, as daily weather patterns are
changing continually. Ocean temperatures have ranged from 65 degrees on the
Pacific side of Cabo San Lucas, up to 75 degrees outside of San Jose del
Cabo and towards Los Frailes.
Anglers found that the fishing action has been varying, just like the
weather has been doing, on any given day just about anything could happen
offshore, there is an abundance of squid and other baitfish in local waters
now. At times crews encountered balled up medium sized squid on the surface
and were able to net some of them as use for bait. We are seeing more
schools of bolito now moving in on local fishing grounds, as well as mullet
close to shore. Favorable signs when we see this much bait activity, always
an attraction for gamefish to follow their preferred food source.
Striped marlin continue to provide consistent action offshore, fish have
been scattered throughout the region, anywhere from 2 to 20 miles from
shore. With all of the natural food in the area the billfish were at times
not interested in feeding, other days they would shy away from caballito,
but would readily strike bolito, some charters did accountant for multiple
marlin catch and release days. The majority of the marlin have ranged in
sizes from 80 lb. to 150 lb. A handful of open water dorado are being found
and small groups of these fish were also found closer to shore over the
rocky structure, places that hold concentrations of baitfish, a few dorado
over 30 lb. were reported. Not much talk about wahoo, but we know with such
plentiful baitfish around and the way the conditions are now warming and
with clean blue water being found, that any day these fish could become
increasingly active.
There are yellowtail holding on the high spots, the fish landed are in the
20 to 35 lb. class, they have not been biting consistently, they were
striking best on live chihuil batfish drifted down deep on the Gordo Banks.
These particular baits were very difficult to come by, only available at
first light on these same grounds and in limited numbers, not for sale.
Caballito continue to be the main bait source obtainable in the marina
area, sardinas are schooling along the beaches north of Punta Gorda, but
with higher surf conditions, the commercial pangeros were not safely able
to net them.
Some charters were able to obtain fresh brined sardinas and they reported
catches of various snapper, cabrilla, pompano and sierra. Some of these
late season sierra have been large, to over 10 pounds. This past week there
were several quality snook accounted for by anglers fishing off the shore
near the Pueto Los Cabos Marina jetty. These catches are early in the
season for the elusive snook, striking on baits and various lures, the
largest reported was a 33 lb. snook that hit on a Rapala type lure. An
unusual catch of a 20 pound halibut while trolling a live caballito for
roosterfish was accounted from La Playita panga charter.
Action for roosterfish has been steady this past week, with larger fish now
moving in, several roosters up to 50 lb. were caught and released, and many
other fish were over 20 pounds, numbers of fish have varied each day,
reports of 20 releases one day and the next day boats could only find a
handful best chance was early in the day. Strong currents have been running
and tidal swings can all have an effect on the bite.
The combined local panga fleets launching from La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos
Marina sent out approximately 80 charters this past week and anglers
reported a fish count of: 16 striped marlin, 3 sailfish, 4 mako shark, 22
yellowtail, 19 amberjack, 38 huachinango, 12 barred pargo, 20 cabrilla, 23
bonito, 30 dorado, 42 sierra, 1 halibut, 9 pompano, 6 dogtooth snapper, 34
jack crevalle and 115 roosterfish.
Good fishing, Eric
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
Eric Brictson / Operator
619 488-1859
Los Cabos (624) 142-1147
e-mail:gordobanks@yahoo.com
WWW.GORDOBANKS.COM
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May 14, 2013; 06:38PM - GORDO BANKS PANGAS San Jose del Cabo May 12, 2013
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Eric
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
San Jose del Cabo
May 12, 2013
Anglers –
Moderate crowds of tourists are not traveling to Southern Baja and they are
enjoying very pleasant conditions, clear sunny skies with high temperatures
reaching into the upper 80s. Within several weeks we will see summer heat
waves starting to arrive as the tropical season begins. Anglers have found
various options for a variety of species, from offshore, inshore and over
the rocky structure. Winds have been lighter than in previous weeks, though
there was a couple of days of gusty south wind over the weekend that pushed
in off colored currents and slowed the all around fishing action down for a
few days.
Now there is a warming trend once again, offshore conditions are
stabilizing, there is blue water being found within several miles of shore
and ocean temperatures have ranged from the upper 60s to upper 70s,
depending on location, warmest areas were further offshore and in the
direction of San Jose del Cabo and north towards Los Frailes. Sportfishing
fleets are searching all of the proven local fishing grounds, as they know
during this season anything can happen on any given day. Striped marlin
have been the most common offshore species found, scattered through the
zone from 5 to 25 miles offshore, they were striking on trolling lures, but
striking on live bait more readily. Striped marlin are running large this
season, many fish are in the 120 to 140 lb. range. Quite a few charters
were accounting were multiple billfish days, there were times when the
marlin would be spotted and presented baits and showed no interest at all,
this often happens when there is an abundance of squid in the area. The
stripers have been gorging on these squid, also the changing current and
moon phases can create different feeding habits. Dorado are spread
throughout the grounds as well, found inshore and offshore, most of the
time in small groups, not very numerous at this time, averaged size was 10
to 20 lb.
Caballito has been the most common baitfish available, still no source for
sardinas and mackerel were scarce, should start seeing more bolito and
skipjack showing up on the fishing grounds. Schooling mullet are now moving
into the region, they are always a preferred baitfish when trolling close
to shore. We have seen good numbers of roosterfish in recent weeks, these
fish have ranged in sizes to over 40 lbs., many of them weighing in the 20
lb. class. There have been schools of 20 to 30 pound jack crevalle roaming
the shoreline, aggressive and always ready to do battle. A handful of
dogtooth snapper are now being reported, it is the time we should see more
of these largest of snapper species moving along shore near the rocky
outcroppings. It will be time for anglers to break out their heaviest
tackle for these powerful pargo.
Schooling yellowtail remain in the area, action has been somewhat sporadic,
but they are definitely are holding on favored grounds, the yellows being
landed are mostly in the 20 to 35 pound class. The Gordo Banks has produced
some of the largest yellowtail seen this season. These fish were hooked
while drifting baits deep over the high spots and on yo-yo jigs,
occasionally they would make brief appearances on the surface. A handful of
red snapper were hooked into as well, both on live baits and on yo-yo jigs.
Leopard grouper, amberjack, bonito, barred pargo and triggerfish rounded
out the action found off the rock piles.
The combined local panga fleets launching from La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos
Marina sent out approximately 84 charters this past week and anglers
reported a fish count of: 18 striped marlin, 6 mako shark, 4 wahoo, 27
yellowtail, 14 amberjack, 28 huachinango, 14 barred pargo, 26 leopard
grouper, 28 bonito,
38 dorado, 32 sierra, 7 dogtooth snapper, 26 jack crevalle and 125
roosterfish.
Good fishing, Eric
GORDO BANKS PANGAS
Eric Brictson / Operator
619 488-1859
Los Cabos (624) 142-1147
e-mail:gordobanks@yahoo.com
WWW.GORDOBANKS.COM
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May 10, 2013; 06:48PM - Terrace BC Canada Spring Fishing Report May 9, 2013
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Category: Canada
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Author Name: Noel Gyger
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Fishing Report from Noel Gyger http:// www.noelgyger.ca for Thursday March 21, 2013 Terrace, BC
Current LIVE Fishing Report can be read anytime 24-7 at: http://www.noelgyger.ca/current-fishing-reports.htm
Weekend Fishing Forecast:
Rain forecast for the weekend. With all the good weather and high day time temperatures the snow melt is heavy, which caused most rivers to blow out. River fishing is over for awhile. This is the time to hit the lakes and ocean. Good News…this should bring in the Chinook (King) Salmon run. Steelhead fishing in the isolated coastal streams should remain strong.
Taking bookings now for: Gitnadoix, Kwinamass (April & May), Ishkeenickh, Kincolith, Zymoetz (Copper) class 1 and class 2 sections, Kalum and Skeena 2 plus all the unclassified rivers on the Skeena, Nass and coastal. Ocean out of Kitimat and Prince Rupert. If you are interested for a guided trip please contact me anytime.
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May 8, 2013; 12:44AM - GORDO BANKS PANGAS San Jose del Cabo May 5, 2013
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Eric
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
San Jose del Cabo
May 5, 2013
Anglers –
Crowds of tourists are lighter than normal for the this spring season, the
all around climate has been ideal, with high temperatures in the 80s,
moderate winds, favorable offshore conditions, with a variety of gamefish
being found, this is the time of year when on any given day the unexpected
can happen. Ocean water temperatures are ranging from a chilly 65 degrees
on the Pacific side of Cabo San Lucas, up to 74/75 degrees in the direction
of
San Jose del Cabo. The more consistent fishing action is now being found in
the direction of the warmer currents.
Baitfish are being netted in the marina channel entrance, mainly
caballito, but there is a mix of jurelito and moonfish, on the offshore
fishing grounds there were options for chihuil, skipjack and bolito. Still
no signs of finding supplies of sardinas.
Anglers found that rapidly changing conditions was causing the action to
change from day to day. There had been the great yellowtail bite throughout
the area, especially for the larger fish on the Gordo Banks, then water
temps warmed up last week and this bite came to a standstill. To take up
the slack the wahoo went on a good bite on the grounds north of Punta
Gorda, though this only lasted for a couple of days because ocean
conditions turned over some and the news got out that the wahoo were
hitting and the whole fleet was putting pressure on that area, we all know
that the ‘hoo can become very elusive with increased pressure. On the days
that the wahoo were active some charters landed as many as five fish up to
50 pounds, average size was 20 to 30 lb. They were striking on the normal
high speed trolling lures, Rapalas, Yo-zuris and skirted lead or jet heads.
Some ‘hoo also were striking on trap rigged caballito or ballyhoo.
Despite this up and down action the striped marlin bite has remained steady
for very nice sized fish up to 150 lb. The billfish action was now shifting
further to the north, currently concentrated off of Vinormama. Good numbers
of marlin were in this area and could be encountered tailing on the surface
and were striking trolled baits and lures. Many charters were accounting
were multiple fish days, though at times the marlin would be spotted and
presented baits and showed no interest at all. There has been an abundance
of squid in the same region, which the stripers have been gorging on, also
the passing of the full moon can cause different feeding scenarios.
We have seen a few more dorado appearing with the warmer water, some
charters finding several fish, ranging up to 30 pounds, while others never
reported seeing any dorado, still hit or miss for these fish, though we do
expect to see increased numbers as the water continues to warm. Late
spring, early summer, is when we normally see some of the largest bull
dorado of the year appear on the local grounds. No yellowfin tuna action
being reported locally, the way conditions are really shaping up favorably,
we would expect to hear reports of migrating porpoise traveling offshore
and holding tuna schools, the month of May is when we typically see this
pattern.
There are still some yellowtail in the area and a few were hooked into the
past couple of days while drifting baits deep over the high spots, all were
nice sized, 20 to 35 lb., though no big numbers like the previous week. A
handful of red snapper were hooked into as well, both on live baits and on
yo-yo jigs. So far this season has not produced much for anglers jigging
the rock piles, perhaps the month of May will show improved yo-yo action.
Always a fun way to target bottomfish, jigging can produce quality action
when the fish do decide to strike on the jigs, normally early in the day is
best.
Roosterfish action was very good for this early in the season, anglers were
hooking into good numbers of these prized fighting gamefish while trolling
live caballito along the shoreline, nicer sized fish, some up in the 25 lb.
to 30 lb. class.
Despite this now being the very tail end of the whale migration season, we
were still seeing quite a few numbers of humpback whales in the area,
surely they will be trying to catch up with the main northern migration
soon.
The combined panga fleets launching out of La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos
Marina sent out approximately 88 charters for the week, with anglers
reporting a fish count of: 46 striped marlin, 38 wahoo, 14 yellowtail, 8
amberjack, 42 dorado,12 sierra, 15 red snapper (huachinango), 25 bonito, 13
cabrilla, 42 roosterfish, 35 jack crevalle and 5 mako shark.
Good Fishing, Eric
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
Eric Brictson / Operator
619 488-1859
Los Cabos (624) 142-1147
e-mail:gordobanks@yahoo.com
WWW.GORDOBANKS.COM
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