March 13, 2022  

We are starting to see the first wave of spring breakers arriving into the Los Cabos area, again quite a few tourists now, but not a high percentage of these are serious anglers. Weather was a bit cooler this week, relatively by local standards, still the skies were clear and sunny, with highs most days reaching close to 75 degrees, early morning lows were down in the mid 50s. North winds increased through the later part of the week, creating rough ocean conditions and water temperature was now averaging 70 to 73 degrees. Greenish currents swept through the inshore zone.

Anglers were using mainly caballito and ballyhoo for bait, with some mackerel also found on offshore grounds, still no sardina activity to report. Sportfishing fleets were searching out all directions, most local fleets concentrated on the grounds from Red Hill/Palmilla and north to La Fortuna and Iman.

The highlight offshore has been the continued strong bite for striped marlin, with the Outer Gordo Banks being one of the top producers. Though striped marlin are being found throughout the region, concentrated more where bait schools were found. These billfish are striking lures well, but even more so on dropped back or trolled baits.
Dorado were scarcer in the cooler off colored conditions, though everyday we are seeing some of these prized gamefish accounted for, just not in the numbers we saw during previous weeks. Same deal for wahoo, that action that had been so good a couple of weeks ago, considering it was not the normal season for these pelagics, now has stalled out as water color turned over on the inshore grounds where these fish had been holding.

Bottom action just has not done much up to this point, windy, rougher conditions did not help. Though some days there were some decent caches produced, most notably were leopard grouper, red snapper, amberjack and bonito, but no significant numbers or size.

Whales continued to be seen in good numbers, as well as sea lions, manta rays, porpoise and turtles, all adding to the all around adventure.

Inshore we have not seen much, very few sierra so far this season, some small sized roosterfish, but the highlight has been some hog sized jack crevalle.

Good Fishing, Eric

March 6, 2022  

Large numbers of tourists in town now, though not a high percentage seem to be fishermen. Vacationers are being greeted with sunny skies and warm temperatures, reaching the upper 70s. Winds have been variable, but mainly picking up from the north later in the day, there seems to be a calming trend now and also we are feeling warmer all around climate, first hint of spring season being right around the corner.

Striped marlin continue to be the highlight offshore, more often five to ten miles offshore, striking on lures, ballyhoo and caballito, which continue to be plentiful in marina area. The billfish bite was a bit up and down from day to day as to where the best action was encountered. Sizes ranged from 70 lb., up to 140 lb., a handful of very nice stripers were accounted for. A handful of sailfish were hooked into as well, off season ow for the sails, which prefer the warmer waters.

Dorado were found more often closer to shore, striking best on bait, numbers varied from single fish, up to boat limits, depending on location on a given day. Water temperature varied from 69 to 72 degree, color fluctuated some, later in the weekend current became a bit greenish on these same grounds and bit was a bit tougher accordingly.

Through much of the week the wahoo action was very good, close to shore off of Punta Gorda and Palmilla, sizes ranged up to 35 lb., though average wahoo was more in the 10 to 20 lb. range. Slow trolling caballito and casting chrome pattern jigs proved most effective. 

  
Other species close to shore were jack crevalle, sierra and juvenile sized roosterfish. Off the bottom there was a mix of species, though sporadic action and made more difficult by strong currents running throughout area. A few smaller sized yellowtail were found, hopefully this is prelude to some of the larger yellows to come soon.

Still many daily whales sightings, these mammals will be heading north later this month.

Good Fishing, Eric

February 27, 2022  

We are glad that this crazy unpredictable, cold and windy month is coming to an end, spring time is just around the corner, a favorite time of year for locals. This week we saw only moderate numbers of anglers, though the town seemed like there were good numbers of tourists arriving. Windy from the north pretty much all week, though anglers were able to fish in more protected inshore areas and actually did very well considering the time of year and the conditions given.

Ocean temperature ranging from 70 to 73 degrees, greener currents were encountered on the grounds further north, though water clarity was nice off of San Jose del Cabo. Bait fish became scarcer in the marina area, as netters were working hard to find sufficient supplies of caballito, on offshore grounds there were days when mackerel were found schooling near the surface. Early in the week there were first signs of sardinas being found near by, though still very limited, but at least we saw some, had not seen these baitfish since October, so we hope something will develop with this.

Main offshore action was for striped marlin, though they were not that far offshore, found straight out off of San Jose del Cabo, 3 to 5 miles, as well as around the Gordo Banks, many charters accounted for multiple marlin per outing. Sizes seemed to average a little larger, up to 130 lb. 

Surprisingly we saw good action for dorado this week, found on same marlin grounds, but even more so closer to shore, trolling bait was best bet, sizes ranged mainly 10 to 15 lb., we did see a couple of fish over 30 lb. Many charters had their limits for dorado.

Despite the colder water we also saw quite a few wahoo this week, mainly from the Punta Gorda area, smaller fish, most in the 8 to 15 lb. range, a few up to 20 lb. Striking bait and with casting jigs. More of a panga deal than cruiser, these fish were spooky, often being seen but finicky to strike, but several lucky anglers were able to catch their five fish limit.

Not much going off the bottom, windy conditions did not help this. We did see a mix of yellow and red snapper, a few amberjack, leopard grouper, white fish, triggerfish and bonito. The highlight was a rare 57 lb. black sea bass, legal in Mexico, not in California, but not a very common catch locally.

Inshore action was mainly for small sized roosterfish, very few sierra being found. Still lots of whales being seen, this next month is when these mammals start to return to their northern feeding grounds.

Good Fishing, Eric