CABO FISHING INFO


All About Cabo San Lucas Fishing

Cabo San Lucas is known world-wide as an outstanding place to fish. Our unique locations in tropical waters where two oceans meet rewards anglers with consistent currents, usually warm waters and a bounty of ocean life from plankton that feeds massive schools of bait fish to the predators that hunt them. Marlin, tuna, dorado... heck even swordfish and sailfish ply our waters. Add reef hugging species like pargo, snapper and grouper to the mix then augment that with an excellent inshore fishery for roosterfish and sierra and you have an fisherman's dream destination.

While there is viable fishing to be had year-round, there are particular seasons for specific fish. To get an idea of what time of year is best for our most sought after species, take a look at the fish chart. To get an idea of where we may go to target them, look over our fishing locations map. For those that want to learn a bit before fishing with us, we've included some fishing tutorial videos as well. If you have any questions about fishing with Pochos in Cabo, contact us and we'll be happy to answer them as best we can. Until then, tight lines, amigos!

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READ ABOUT CABO FISHING TECHNIQUES

CABO TOURNAMENT FISHING

Ever wonder what it's like to fish one of the world-class fishing tournaments held in Cabo San Lucas every year? In this article we'll explore ways to enter a tourney without breaking the bank and how to spread your entry money across the many daily jackpots (calcuttas) to help give your team the best payout possible.

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CABO MARLIN FISHING

Blue Marlin have always been the ‘big girls’ around here. Seems like every time a really big Marlin was caught, it was a Blue. Lately, that’s changed. More big fish are getting hooked than we’ve seen in recent years including the 2021 Bisbees East Cape Tournmanet …. and they’re not just big and blue… they’re big and BLACK!!

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CABO DORADO FISHING

Ah... the Dorado - the mean green fighting machine. One of our favorite game fish species. They run, they jump, they light up in amazing colors and they come in groups! Read on to learn more about techniques Pochos Charters uses to bring more of these hard-fighting, tasty table fare warriors to the gaff and the fishbox.

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CABO FISHING TUTORIAL VIDEOS

FISHING LIVE BAITS

BRIDLING LARGE LIVE BAITS FOR CABO FISHING
Live baiting for big billfish is one of the most effective means of targeting black and blue marlin... swordfish, too! In this video tutorial we'll show you the basics of bridling a skipjack tuna for slow trolling on both outriggers to keep the bait near the surface and on the downrigger to get the bait where the fish may be holding. Thermal breaks create fish highways – places where bait fish school up against defined temperature differences. Sometimes getting a bait to swim at just the right depth puts a tasty meal right in front of a hungry billfish!

KITES FOR TUNA!

A SOUTH FLORIDA FISHING TECHNIQUE WORKS IN CABO TOO
When we're out chasing tuna we're often finding them following schools of porpoise. Why? The porpoise use their echolocation talents to locate big schools of bait and the tuna know it. So they follow them to find food. What really gets them going is when the porpoise push the bait fish up to the surface and begin to corral them. The action of baits crashing the surface can bring insane tuna boils and bites. That's a good time to send up the kites. Kites keep your baits skipping across the water's surface mimicking the bait they're eating. Boom! Get ready for a big bite that never gets old.

HOW TO ON WAHOO

TACTICS TO CATCH TOOTHY SPEEDSTERS AND MORE
If you ever had a wahoo steak, you know what great eating they are. But the enjoyment of eating them pales in comparison to catching them. One of the fastest fish in the ocean, wahoo often school up and go hunting in large numbers. The trick to getting them to bite is presenting the right lure at the right speed, and, using lures that create noise or wild action can increase your odds of hooking up. An added bonus? Dorado (mahi-mahi) can also be hunting alongside the hoo's, and who doesn't like Dorado, perhaps the best tasting fish for famous Baja fish tacos!

CIRCLE HOOKS WORK!

PERFECT FOR CATCHING... EVEN BETTER FOR RELEASING!
As responsible anglers, Pochos crews know that the bounty the sea provides is not an unlimited resource. Conserving that resource is of paramount importance if we all want to fish for generations to come. That's why we use circle hooks, alot. The unique design allows for excellent bite to hook-up ratios and give us the opportunity to decide which fish to keep and which to release, healthy and unharmed. The key is not to set the hook with big swings of the rod but to just let the fish take the bait and swim away. A few seconds count, then push the drag pressure up. Bingo. You're on!

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