 THE BIG PICTURE: Captain Andres had a half day charter with a very young and upcoming fisherman all of 5 years old who came fishing with his father. This little guy was strapped in the chair in no time and only spent 15 minutes on a 40lb wahoo.
UPPER RIGHT AND DOWN: 1) Capt. Richard and a 40 wahoo that joined a cast of 6 nice dorado on August, 29th.... and that was an inshore trip 3 miles of La Herradura! 2) A mid Sept. inshore trip on the Empty Pockets with Capt. Joel for Darryl Leffler and friend and ended with 4 dorado. 3)Texan Trey Tosclair made quick work of this hefty striped marlin on his first ever trip to Cabo.... says this was the 'first annual' with more to come... he's hooked now!
FALL IS HERE AND SO ARE THE FISH!!!
October is coming to a close and the major fishing tournaments have come and gone save for the Western Outdoor News (WON) Tuna Jackpot that comes to town the first week of November. Earlier in the month we saw three tourneys take place: The Los Cabos Billfish; the Bisbee's Los Cabos Offshore; and the big daddy, the Bisbee's Black & Blue. Angler Horace Barge of San Marcos, California and his teammates aboard the Chupacabra took first place in the Los Cabos with a 543lb blue marlin and a check for $364,725 US. Other notable fish included a 408lb black marlin for team Angelina 1 and a 216lb yellowfin tuna for angler Bob Manroe aboard Karma 3 and a 240lb tuna for team Fisherman, a frequent big tuna catching machine owned by Cabo's own Daniel Fisher.
The Bisbee's Offshore, or little Bisbee's as it's commonly known, didn't get a qualifying marlin to the scales but they did manage to hoist some impressive fish in the gamefish divisions. First, a 204lb tuna caught by Lance Fudickar of team Wild Hooker, then a 187lber for team Go Deeper and a lone qualifying dorado of 37lbs for team Angelina 1 that garnered a nice check for $56,505 US. Of particular interest was the fact that Go Deeper made international fishing headlines just a couple of weeks earlier when they boated a grander blue marlin after a 27 hour battle. Big fish still swim these waters, amigos!
The Bisbee's Black & Blue didn't see any granders or anything near that weight but a 409lb blue marlin landed by angler Luis Arballo netted $394,090 in winnings for team Bad Medicine owned by Chris Erickson developer of the Cabo Villas Resort. Second in weight but first in prize money was team Tiger Spirit owned by Ned Wallace of Newport Beach, Calfornia. Angler Luis Alberto Liera's 395 blue may have been 14 pound light of the top spot but having entered "across the board", Wallace's team ended up taking $1,162,842 in prize money. Mr. Wallace then used those proceeds to cover the team's entry fee and expenses giving the rest (in the area of $1 Million) to his longtime Captain, Sergio Cota, and the crew... all local boys out of Cabo San Lucas. That's spreading the wealth and then some!!
Outside of tournament action, the fishing continues to be good and it's working on getting great as warm blue water is still surrounding the cape and more and more bait keeps arriving. Soon, we anticipate the arrival of massive schools of mackerel and with them, hungry packs of striped marlin, wahoo, tuna and dorado. If you follow Los Cabos fishing then you're probably aware of stellar fishing that comes around this time of year that extends into Spring. Although it's been a couple of years since we've seen it at its best, we're seeing the same conditions that preceeded what can only be referred to as epic fishing on the Golden Gate and Finger Banks of our Pacific coastline. Double digit release days on striped marlin was the norm, in fact, a few boats got together in competition and managed over 190 releases per boat in a single day on the Finger. The last few years that bite didn't materialize but we didn't have the benefit of perfect conditions coming into Novemeber/December.... we do this year and that bodes well, very well.
EARLIER IN THE SEASON
Boy oh boy has it been a busy year. First, we had Bill Boyce and his crew from the new sport fishing show, IGFA Saltwater Adventures, join us for a few days of fishing to film an episode on our beloved marlin fishery. They ended the filming day with 4 striped marlin and multiple shots at a swordfish that just wouldn't take the bait. Look for that episode on the World Fishing Network (WFN) as it airs 5 times a week through the rest of this year. Later in the month, our good friends Richard Chudy and Dolores Peralta of CabosBest.com visited with us and shot a couple of new tutorial videos. One covers kite-fishing for big yellowfin tuna and the other delves into one of our wahoo catching tactics.
Speaking of kite-fishing tuna, Carlos Vasquez, owner of Pochos, and the gang aboard the High Risk had some great success on the first trips dedicated to the kite, but what's even more exciting is some of the fish that missed the hooks on the soft plastic flying fish dangled from the kite. It's no fish story when we tell you that 300lb+ cows blew up on the surface leaving Volkswagon sized holes in the water. We've since dialed in the set-ups on the artificial flying fish and more than a few toads have hit the decks. A 300lber is out there waiting for us.
LOTS OF BAIT IN COBALT BLUE WATERS
With water temps starting to cool but remaining a fishy mid to low 80's we're excited about the Fall/Winter fishing season. Not only is it considered our high season, tourism-wise, it's also considered my most to hands-down the best time of year to come fishing. About the only fsh species that seem to take a break during this season are sierra and roosterfish... all the rest are here and often biting better and in bigger numbers than any other time of the year. Plus, you don't get baked by Baja's hot, hot and hotter summer sun. If there's a better time of year to come to Cabo, we don't know about it. BOOK YOUR CHARTER TODAY!
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