by Cass Tours
Cabo San Lucas - Gaviota Fleet
The billfish catches were right at the average of one per boat per fishing day and the "Gaviota VI" was the only boat landing a blue marlin for the week. Fishing with Captain Plutarco Cesena, angler Jaime Blay, Santa Fe, NM, landed his first blue marlin, a 250-pounder, taken on 50 lb. test, following a 90 minute battle. The blue was taken on an artificial and off the Herradura area. The "Tuna Time", skippered by Captain Christian Lopez, fished a single day for 1 single striper released, 2 wahoo, 1 mako shark and limits of dorado on the edge of the Jaime Bank on the Pacific side of Cabo. The dorado counts were up a bit this past week and some of the fish were of nice quality, approaching the 45 lb. mark. The overall combined catches for a total of 10 days fished reflected 1 blue marlin, 9 stripers released, 2 sharks, 3 wahoo, 3 yellowfin tuna and 56 dorado.
Cabo Climate: Cloudy, hot & humid and Tropical Storm Frank pushing southwest swells to Cabo while hovering in the Clarion Island area, about 400 miles or so offshore. Temps ranged from 75 nights to 96 daytime highs.
Sea Conditions: Some bigger south-southwest swells but not enough wind on them to hamper the fishing effort. Water temps on the Pacific side to Cabo Falso were at 84 and rising to 85-86 by Cabo and up to the Gorda Banks, then rising to 87-88 above the banks. Good blue water conditions throughout the area.
Best Fishing Area: Still good fishing fairly close to home port but starting to scatter around with good fishing at the Jaime Bank, a few marlin at the Golden Gate, big yellowfin tuna at the Gorda Banks and scattered blue marlin strikes on both sides of the peninsula.
Best Lure/Bait: Live bait was best for the dorado and the stripers but the blues were more active on the dorado colored artificials on a faster troll.
Live Bait Supply: Mostly caballitos this past week with good availability. Sardinas scarce with the high surf/swell conditions.
San Jose Del Cabo - Gordo Banks
With the month of August now winding down we can say that all around it definitely turned out to be busier and more productive that did July. Crowds have lightened this last week as families are returning to their school routines. The mild summer conditions gave way to more normal like serious heat and humidity this past week. At this time Hurricane Frank has been downgraded to a tropical depression, turning back toward the Southern Baja Peninsula as it dissipates, though there still a chance of some isolated thundershowers and the swell that had picked up is now diminishing. There is a new low pressure area near Acapulco, so we will be monitoring this system in the coming days.
Water conditions were mostly calm with variable ground swells of four to eight feet, water temperature ranged up close to 85 degrees in the direction of the Sea of Cortez. Local pangeros are driving to La Ribera in the afternoon to net sardinas off the beach in order to supply the La Playita fleets with fresh dead sardinas, which have been the ticket for catching the yellowfin tuna, as the tuna continued to dominate the action.
Fleets were fishing from the Gordo Banks to Iman. Drifting with the fresh dead bait has been the most productive method. The largest concentrations of tuna were found on the Iman Bank, these fish averaged 20 to 35 pounds. The fish on the Gordo Banks were not as numerous, but were weighing 30 to 100 or more pounds. Most charters were averaging anywhere from 4 to 10 yellowfin per morning. Also quite a few bonito and skipjack mixed in. Dorado were found spread out throughout the area, striking on trolled lures and bait once the smaller sized school were located, most of the dorado were 15 pounds or less, but there were a few exceptions of larger bulls being accounted for. Wahoo were encountered on occasion while trolling lures over the structure near La Fortuna to Iman, weights ranged to 40 pounds.
Most anglers were concentrating on the tuna action, as this was the surest bet of filling up the fish box and coolers. A few nice sized dogtooth snapper were landed off of the same spots where the tuna were schooling, also a handful of amberjack and cabrila.
The billfish action produced a mix of striped, blue and black marlin, sailfish have been surprisingly scarce this summer. Black marlin up to 450 pounds were landed from the La Playita panga fleet in recent days, also at least one blue marlin of 400 pounds was accounted for. Most of these larger marlin were hooked into while trolling larger baitfish in the vicinity of the Gordo Banks, several were hooked into on trolled lures as well. Something about the full moon always seem to make the black and blue marlin more active, they like the larger tidal swing that produces more upwelling on the high spots, this seems to make the whole food chain more lively.
The combined panga fleets launching from La Playita/Puerto Los Cabos sent out approximately 58 charters for the week, with anglers reporting a fish count of: 4 striped marlin, 2 blue marlin, 4 black marlin, 5 hammerhead, 54 dorado, 404 yellowfin tuna, 4 wahoo, 12 cabrilla, 10 amberjack, 6 dogtooth snapper, 11 huachinango and 42 bonito.
Vista Sea Sport - East Cape Dive Report
Prior to Hurricane Frank coming on the seen diving was simply spectacular. We were enjoying the best conditions all year with Tidy Bowl blue 88 degree water and 80 to 100 ft. plus vis.
As Frank passes by our biggest impact has been bumpy boat rides and a little less vis. Sea life sightings have been the normal parade of large pelagic fish and huge schools of reef fish the Sea of Cortez is famous for. With any luck conditions will be back to normal in a day or two with calms seas.
Visit EastCapeGuides.com for more information on a guided fishing trip to Baja's East Cape or visit VanWormerResorts.com
Monday, August 30, 2010
Friday, August 20, 2010
Makaira Lures - BIG BRUTUS & BIG 19
From the watery desk of Mark Daugherty
From Justin:
Just like the name implies, they are grown up versions of the original "Brutus" and "19", sporting a 1 7/8" diameter head. They also come in weighted or non-weighted versions and like yall know can be made to order with whatever head color and skirt color combinations you like. Check out the picture with the original "Brutus" and "19" in there for reference.
From Mark:
I've been running Justin's lures for about 4 years with excellent result. His Brutus has been "blue marlin money" for us on the long corner. This lure digs in, throws a huge smoke trail and really is a great fish raiser. The 19, with it's slight angled head and long lines creates a beautiful smoke trail, running well in rougher seas. Now with the BIG Brutus and BIG 19 on the short corner Justin has the spread covered. Throw in weighted/keeled options and these baits will cover all sea conditions. I don't do too many product endorsements but Justin's line of lures are worth checking out.
Go to Makaira Pulling Lures Website...
Buena pesca,
Mark
EastCapeGuides.com
Two new lures from Justin at Makaira Pulling Lures for 2010
"Big Brutus" and "Big 19"
From Justin:
Just like the name implies, they are grown up versions of the original "Brutus" and "19", sporting a 1 7/8" diameter head. They also come in weighted or non-weighted versions and like yall know can be made to order with whatever head color and skirt color combinations you like. Check out the picture with the original "Brutus" and "19" in there for reference.
From Mark:
I've been running Justin's lures for about 4 years with excellent result. His Brutus has been "blue marlin money" for us on the long corner. This lure digs in, throws a huge smoke trail and really is a great fish raiser. The 19, with it's slight angled head and long lines creates a beautiful smoke trail, running well in rougher seas. Now with the BIG Brutus and BIG 19 on the short corner Justin has the spread covered. Throw in weighted/keeled options and these baits will cover all sea conditions. I don't do too many product endorsements but Justin's line of lures are worth checking out.
Go to Makaira Pulling Lures Website...
Buena pesca,
Mark
EastCapeGuides.com
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Reports for La Paz, East Cape, Gordo Banks & Cabo
by Cass Tours
Big Fish Round Up 2010 Tournament Results
East Cape
Tuna Category
1st Jochen Madleisky 166.4 lbs
2nd Gregory Stitzinger 144.7 lbs
3rd Jeremy Davis 104.4 lbs
4th Henery Seul 103.3 lbs
5th Robert Robles 75.7 lbs
Dorado Category
1st Marlon Bechtol 45.6lbs
2nd Richard Schlager 45.4 lbs
3rd Mike Hanratty 45.3 lbs
4th Jim Davis 38.1 lbs
5th Dan O'Shea 31.9 lbs
Dates for next year August 5-9, 2011
San Jose del Cabo
Gordo Banks
As we reach the middle of August the weather conditions are feeling increasingly tropical, more cloud cover, at times there were threatening rain showers, which to this date have yet to develop. Increased crowds this past week, perhaps the family rush before school starts back up and also maybe due to the more favorable fish reports for the past couple of weeks. Days are quite warm as would be expected at this time, but actually there has been some relief due to breezes off of the Pacific Ocean and cloud cover. Conditions have been relatively calm in the direction of the Sea of Cortez, moderate swells with water temperatures averaging 76 to 82 degrees. The next five weeks are historically the period when the greatest numbers of hurricanes have formed and made land fall on the Southern Baja Peninsula, we will be watching the weather forecasts closely during this time.
Local San Jose fleets have been concentrating mostly on the fishing grounds from the Gordo Banks, La Fortuna, to Iman and the San Luis Banks. Large concentrations of baitfish were seen schooling on the surface of these local fishing grounds. Sardinas have been the main bait source, bags of fresh dead bait as well as limited quantities of live sardinas which were delivered mid morning to the fishing grounds have been available. There also has been a mix of mullet, caballito and moonfish available.
This last week there were more big marlin hooked into around the Gordo Banks area than all of last summer combined. Two black marlin of 500 pounds were accounted for by the local panga fleets, as well as a couple of other fish that ranging in the 300 to 400 pound class. Another black marlin weighing an estimated 600 pounds was brought into the panga docking weigh fillet area at 11:00 p.m. on Monday by the local Daniel Fisher team aboard Cabo 35 ft. Sportfisher named the "Fisherman" same boat that won last year's WON Tuna Jackpo t with the 383 lb. yellowfin. All of these big marlin were hooked into while trolling larger live baitfish, such as yellowfin tuna or various skipjack species.
Other highlights and significant catches this past week included a 155 pound yellowfin tuna that was subdued by Dave Marcias of Yorba Linda, Ca. while fishing on the 32 ft. Alejandra, this tuna hit on a smaller sized Mexican flag patterned feather near the San Luis Bank. There was an even a larger tuna landed, a super cow of 319 pounds was weighed in on Monday by local La Playita pangero Efrin Arripez. This is the first yellowfin over 300 pounds this season that we know about taken off of the Gordo Banks. It hit near the Outer Bank while Efrin's group were drift fishing on the 22 ft. panga "Faty" with two dead sardinas pinned on the same hook with straight 60 pound mono, no leader.
Yellowfin tuna were the main stay of the daily catches. Most charters were avenging 4 to 10 fish per day, size ranged from 10 to 300 plus pounds. Average size tuna was 20 to 40 pounds. Fishing were hitting best on either the fresh dead or live sardinas. The area near La Fortuna to Iman produced the biggest numbers of fish. Dorado were being caught at perhaps a 1 to 5 ratio compared to tuna, sizes ranged up to 30 pounds.
Only a handful of wahoo were reported this past week, these fish can become a bit sluggish in the warmer waters. A few quality sized dogtooth snapper are being landed each day by the combined panga fleets, these fish are now being found on the offshore structure while drift fishing with whole or cut baits. Some amberjack and cabrilla rounded out the bottom action, with yo-yo jigs accounting for most of this action, strong currents continues to make this type of fishing more difficult.
The combined panga fleets launching from the La Playita/Puerto Los Cabos area sent out approximately 89 charters for the week, with anglers accounting for a fish count of: 1 sailfish, 5 striped marlin, 1 blue marlin, 4 black marlin, 5 wahoo, 11 cabrilla, 15 huachinango (red snapper), 8 roosterfish, 88 dorado, 378 yellowfin tuna, 13 amberjack, 8 jack crevalle, 34 skipjack, 26 bonito and 16 dogtooth snapper.
Cabo San Lucas
Gaviota Fleet
There were some excellent catches this week from the Gaviota Sportfishing Fleet that started with a 240 lb. yellowfin tuna taken aboard the "Gaviota VI" on Monday, August 9, 2010, followed by a 400 lb. blue marlin, taken aboard the "Gaviota X" on Tuesday. The "Gaviota IV" had a terrific 2 fishing days that reflected 4 stripers, and a sailfish released and a dinner dorado for the charter group. The overall combined catches for a total of 26 days fished reflected 1 blue marlin, 23 stripers, (21 released) 3 sailfish released, 1 wahoo, 17 dorado and 13 yellowfin tuna. (I had been waiting on additional angler information that may yet arrive, concerning the anglers of the big fish and the details for the catches, but since it has not yet arrived, I wanted to get this portion of the report out, today. I may have supplemental information later today or tomorrow and will forward it on).
Cabo Climate: Intermittent sunny-cloudy days with temps that ranged from 75 nights to 97 daytime highs and very light tropical breezes.
Sea Conditions: Waters are pretty warm on both sides of the peninsula. The Pacific side reflects 77-80 degrees and rises to 85 degrees going into the Sea of Cortez side. Water is clean green to about 7 miles then clean & blue on out from there.
Best Fishing Area: There appears to be a couple of good areas now that include the 1150 fathom spot at about 25 miles from Cabo, (the two big fish for the week came from the 1150 fathom spot) and Gray Rock (Cabeza de Ballena) to Chileno and out 3-6 miles from shore.
Best Lure/Bait: Both live bait and artificials were working well this past week. The blue marlin was taken on a green colored lure and stripers were being taken on both, live bait and artificials.
Live Bait Supply: Remains good for Caballitos at the $3.00 per bait rate.
Big Fish Round Up 2010 Tournament Results
East Cape
Tuna Category
1st Jochen Madleisky 166.4 lbs
2nd Gregory Stitzinger 144.7 lbs
3rd Jeremy Davis 104.4 lbs
4th Henery Seul 103.3 lbs
5th Robert Robles 75.7 lbs
Dorado Category
1st Marlon Bechtol 45.6lbs
2nd Richard Schlager 45.4 lbs
3rd Mike Hanratty 45.3 lbs
4th Jim Davis 38.1 lbs
5th Dan O'Shea 31.9 lbs
Dates for next year August 5-9, 2011
San Jose del Cabo
Gordo Banks
As we reach the middle of August the weather conditions are feeling increasingly tropical, more cloud cover, at times there were threatening rain showers, which to this date have yet to develop. Increased crowds this past week, perhaps the family rush before school starts back up and also maybe due to the more favorable fish reports for the past couple of weeks. Days are quite warm as would be expected at this time, but actually there has been some relief due to breezes off of the Pacific Ocean and cloud cover. Conditions have been relatively calm in the direction of the Sea of Cortez, moderate swells with water temperatures averaging 76 to 82 degrees. The next five weeks are historically the period when the greatest numbers of hurricanes have formed and made land fall on the Southern Baja Peninsula, we will be watching the weather forecasts closely during this time.
Local San Jose fleets have been concentrating mostly on the fishing grounds from the Gordo Banks, La Fortuna, to Iman and the San Luis Banks. Large concentrations of baitfish were seen schooling on the surface of these local fishing grounds. Sardinas have been the main bait source, bags of fresh dead bait as well as limited quantities of live sardinas which were delivered mid morning to the fishing grounds have been available. There also has been a mix of mullet, caballito and moonfish available.
This last week there were more big marlin hooked into around the Gordo Banks area than all of last summer combined. Two black marlin of 500 pounds were accounted for by the local panga fleets, as well as a couple of other fish that ranging in the 300 to 400 pound class. Another black marlin weighing an estimated 600 pounds was brought into the panga docking weigh fillet area at 11:00 p.m. on Monday by the local Daniel Fisher team aboard Cabo 35 ft. Sportfisher named the "Fisherman" same boat that won last year's WON Tuna Jackpo t with the 383 lb. yellowfin. All of these big marlin were hooked into while trolling larger live baitfish, such as yellowfin tuna or various skipjack species.
Other highlights and significant catches this past week included a 155 pound yellowfin tuna that was subdued by Dave Marcias of Yorba Linda, Ca. while fishing on the 32 ft. Alejandra, this tuna hit on a smaller sized Mexican flag patterned feather near the San Luis Bank. There was an even a larger tuna landed, a super cow of 319 pounds was weighed in on Monday by local La Playita pangero Efrin Arripez. This is the first yellowfin over 300 pounds this season that we know about taken off of the Gordo Banks. It hit near the Outer Bank while Efrin's group were drift fishing on the 22 ft. panga "Faty" with two dead sardinas pinned on the same hook with straight 60 pound mono, no leader.
Yellowfin tuna were the main stay of the daily catches. Most charters were avenging 4 to 10 fish per day, size ranged from 10 to 300 plus pounds. Average size tuna was 20 to 40 pounds. Fishing were hitting best on either the fresh dead or live sardinas. The area near La Fortuna to Iman produced the biggest numbers of fish. Dorado were being caught at perhaps a 1 to 5 ratio compared to tuna, sizes ranged up to 30 pounds.
Only a handful of wahoo were reported this past week, these fish can become a bit sluggish in the warmer waters. A few quality sized dogtooth snapper are being landed each day by the combined panga fleets, these fish are now being found on the offshore structure while drift fishing with whole or cut baits. Some amberjack and cabrilla rounded out the bottom action, with yo-yo jigs accounting for most of this action, strong currents continues to make this type of fishing more difficult.
The combined panga fleets launching from the La Playita/Puerto Los Cabos area sent out approximately 89 charters for the week, with anglers accounting for a fish count of: 1 sailfish, 5 striped marlin, 1 blue marlin, 4 black marlin, 5 wahoo, 11 cabrilla, 15 huachinango (red snapper), 8 roosterfish, 88 dorado, 378 yellowfin tuna, 13 amberjack, 8 jack crevalle, 34 skipjack, 26 bonito and 16 dogtooth snapper.
Cabo San Lucas
Gaviota Fleet
There were some excellent catches this week from the Gaviota Sportfishing Fleet that started with a 240 lb. yellowfin tuna taken aboard the "Gaviota VI" on Monday, August 9, 2010, followed by a 400 lb. blue marlin, taken aboard the "Gaviota X" on Tuesday. The "Gaviota IV" had a terrific 2 fishing days that reflected 4 stripers, and a sailfish released and a dinner dorado for the charter group. The overall combined catches for a total of 26 days fished reflected 1 blue marlin, 23 stripers, (21 released) 3 sailfish released, 1 wahoo, 17 dorado and 13 yellowfin tuna. (I had been waiting on additional angler information that may yet arrive, concerning the anglers of the big fish and the details for the catches, but since it has not yet arrived, I wanted to get this portion of the report out, today. I may have supplemental information later today or tomorrow and will forward it on).
Cabo Climate: Intermittent sunny-cloudy days with temps that ranged from 75 nights to 97 daytime highs and very light tropical breezes.
Sea Conditions: Waters are pretty warm on both sides of the peninsula. The Pacific side reflects 77-80 degrees and rises to 85 degrees going into the Sea of Cortez side. Water is clean green to about 7 miles then clean & blue on out from there.
Best Fishing Area: There appears to be a couple of good areas now that include the 1150 fathom spot at about 25 miles from Cabo, (the two big fish for the week came from the 1150 fathom spot) and Gray Rock (Cabeza de Ballena) to Chileno and out 3-6 miles from shore.
Best Lure/Bait: Both live bait and artificials were working well this past week. The blue marlin was taken on a green colored lure and stripers were being taken on both, live bait and artificials.
Live Bait Supply: Remains good for Caballitos at the $3.00 per bait rate.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Van Wormer Resort Fishing Report 8/13/10
by Eddie Dalmau, Van Wormer Resorts
As the August heat descends on the East Cape, fishermen descend on the Sea of Cortez in search of big game. August is considered by many as the best month for large fish such as 500-800lb. blue marlin, 200-300lb. tuna and 50-60lb. dorado. This August did not disappoint. So far this month we have seen a 560lb. blue marlin, a 246lb. yellowfin tuna, and a 62lb. dorado. Many will say that August is too hot to be in the East Cape, and I don’t blame them. But if you can handle temps. in the upper 90’s, you just can’t beat the fishing in August.
This week we saw some incredible fishing once again. Most boats right now are landing plenty of tuna, stripe marlin, sailfish, dorado, and roosters. The tuna bite has been relatively close to the hotels, as has most of the good fishing this week. There has been lots of roosterfish action just off shore of hotel Punta Colorada with some nice 50-60 pounders boated this week. Mike Rieser of Baja Fly Fishing Co. reported that the surf fishing around Punta Colorada continues to be tough, with a few jacks and roosters being landed, but not in any great numbers.
If you like fishing for a big variety of species, I mean something like catching 15 different species in one day, then you need to be in the East Cape right now. Everything from Wahoo to Billfish to Jacks are in right now. So pack a bag and Escape to the Cape….East Cape, B.C.S., Mexico. Great specials available for August and September.
Until next week!
Eddie Dalmau
Baja’s Van Wormer Resorts
As the August heat descends on the East Cape, fishermen descend on the Sea of Cortez in search of big game. August is considered by many as the best month for large fish such as 500-800lb. blue marlin, 200-300lb. tuna and 50-60lb. dorado. This August did not disappoint. So far this month we have seen a 560lb. blue marlin, a 246lb. yellowfin tuna, and a 62lb. dorado. Many will say that August is too hot to be in the East Cape, and I don’t blame them. But if you can handle temps. in the upper 90’s, you just can’t beat the fishing in August.
This week we saw some incredible fishing once again. Most boats right now are landing plenty of tuna, stripe marlin, sailfish, dorado, and roosters. The tuna bite has been relatively close to the hotels, as has most of the good fishing this week. There has been lots of roosterfish action just off shore of hotel Punta Colorada with some nice 50-60 pounders boated this week. Mike Rieser of Baja Fly Fishing Co. reported that the surf fishing around Punta Colorada continues to be tough, with a few jacks and roosters being landed, but not in any great numbers.
If you like fishing for a big variety of species, I mean something like catching 15 different species in one day, then you need to be in the East Cape right now. Everything from Wahoo to Billfish to Jacks are in right now. So pack a bag and Escape to the Cape….East Cape, B.C.S., Mexico. Great specials available for August and September.
Until next week!
Eddie Dalmau
Baja’s Van Wormer Resorts
Thursday, August 12, 2010
East Cape Guides Special Report
From the watery desk of Mark Daugherty
$100,000 REWARD FOR LOS BANDIDOS DE LA PESCA. THEY ARE VERY DANGEROUS, ARMED ONLY WITH LOLLIPOPS AND BIG FISH. PLEASE APPROACH THEM WITH EXTREME CAUTION AS THE ARE KNOWN TO ASSOCIATE WITH THE CHUPA CABRA.
RECOMPENSA DE $100.000 LOS BANDIDOS DE LA PESCA. SON MUY PELIGROSOS, ARMADOS SOLO CON PALETAS Y PECES GRANDES. POR FAVOR, CON PRECAUCION EXTREMA COMO SON CONOCIDOS EN ASOCIAR A LA CHUPA CABRA.
THEY ARE CURRENTLY BEING HUNTED BY THIS MAN. HE IS KNOWN TO BE THE MOST INTERESTING MAN IN THE WORLD...
ACTUALMENTE ESTÁN SIENDO PERSEGUIDOS POR ESTE HOMBRE. ES CONOCIDO POR SER EL HOMBRE MÁS INTERESANTE DEL MUNDO...
$100,000 REWARD FOR LOS BANDIDOS DE LA PESCA. THEY ARE VERY DANGEROUS, ARMED ONLY WITH LOLLIPOPS AND BIG FISH. PLEASE APPROACH THEM WITH EXTREME CAUTION AS THE ARE KNOWN TO ASSOCIATE WITH THE CHUPA CABRA.
RECOMPENSA DE $100.000 LOS BANDIDOS DE LA PESCA. SON MUY PELIGROSOS, ARMADOS SOLO CON PALETAS Y PECES GRANDES. POR FAVOR, CON PRECAUCION EXTREMA COMO SON CONOCIDOS EN ASOCIAR A LA CHUPA CABRA.
ACTUALMENTE ESTÁN SIENDO PERSEGUIDOS POR ESTE HOMBRE. ES CONOCIDO POR SER EL HOMBRE MÁS INTERESANTE DEL MUNDO...
Monday, August 9, 2010
Cass Tours Fishing Report
East Cape Fishing with Cass
by Cass Tours
August 3, 2010
Mike Chavira scored on this 130lb yellowfin tuna. He caught the fish on 40lb test with a chunk of squid......it took him 25 minutes to boat the fish. Of course his success was due to my instruction other wise he would have lost the fish, sitting next to Mike is Jo Barcimo his filipino house boy.
August 4, 2010
This one put up a tougher fight and took 1 and 1/2 hours to get on the boat. There's alot of big fish on the Iman bank which is about a 2 hour run from the East Cape and an hour run from San Jose del Cabo. Prime bait was chunking with squid and drifitng with 40 to 60 pound test outfits. Pictured left to right is our friend and great guide Santos, Jo Barcimo, Mike Chavira and me. There also alot of smaller yellowfin about a 1/2 hour from Rancho Leonero, most are in the 10# to 20#
BIG FISH ROUND UP RESULTS- DAY 1:
My oh my what a great first day, first tuna we weighed today was a 104lb'er and thats what I wanted, one fish to set the mark, next boat brought in a 45.6lb dorado so we were eleated that this was a good sign for a competitive tournament. As boats continued to arrive with more tuna and dorado we continued to weigh them to fill in the top five tuna and dorado for the first day of fishing. With 5 minutes left before we closed the scales at 4:00pm Ryamond Kawamata's boat the El Loco came to the dock and dropped a nice big tuna on the dock, this was an impressive fish. The fish was weighed and tip the scales at 166.4lbs, yikes......this is going to be hard to beat as this the biggest tuna ever in the BFRU.....I hope someone can catch a bigger one to make this exciting til the last day......attached are the biggest tuna and dorado leading the first day. The angler catching the biggest dorado is Marlon Bechtol.
Have a great week everyone...
Sincerely,
Richard, Rauna, Robin, Roxy and Becky
Cass Tours
by Cass Tours
Mike Chavira scored on this 130lb yellowfin tuna. He caught the fish on 40lb test with a chunk of squid......it took him 25 minutes to boat the fish. Of course his success was due to my instruction other wise he would have lost the fish, sitting next to Mike is Jo Barcimo his filipino house boy.
This one put up a tougher fight and took 1 and 1/2 hours to get on the boat. There's alot of big fish on the Iman bank which is about a 2 hour run from the East Cape and an hour run from San Jose del Cabo. Prime bait was chunking with squid and drifitng with 40 to 60 pound test outfits. Pictured left to right is our friend and great guide Santos, Jo Barcimo, Mike Chavira and me. There also alot of smaller yellowfin about a 1/2 hour from Rancho Leonero, most are in the 10# to 20#
BIG FISH ROUND UP RESULTS- DAY 1:
Have a great week everyone...
Sincerely,
Richard, Rauna, Robin, Roxy and Becky
Cass Tours
Saturday, August 7, 2010
East Cape Guides Fishing Report - The Land of BIG Roosterfish
From the watery desk of Mark Daugherty
The tuna bite has cooled off a bit after over a month and half of wide open fishing. BUT, the rooster fishing has been phenomenal over the last week with 40, 50 and 60lb. fish being landed and released daily. The roosters are readily taking live jacks at Punta Arena with fights lasting over an hour on the larger units. Dorado have been plentiful but small with a nice 55lb. bull landed yesterday on the boat Jack Daniels. Marlin have been steady with some stripers, sailfish and a few blue being landed daily. The wind has come up the last few days but it looks like it will be laying down tomorrow. The water has been a steady 84 for the last week or so.
Photos this week are of Ben Throolin of El Sobrante, CA with a very nice 60lb. roosterfish on 40lb. test, Michelle of Auburn, Tennessee with another beautiful 40lb. rooster and yet another roooooster for Brian of Mississippi.
Buena pesca,
Mark
EastCapeGuides.com
The tuna bite has cooled off a bit after over a month and half of wide open fishing. BUT, the rooster fishing has been phenomenal over the last week with 40, 50 and 60lb. fish being landed and released daily. The roosters are readily taking live jacks at Punta Arena with fights lasting over an hour on the larger units. Dorado have been plentiful but small with a nice 55lb. bull landed yesterday on the boat Jack Daniels. Marlin have been steady with some stripers, sailfish and a few blue being landed daily. The wind has come up the last few days but it looks like it will be laying down tomorrow. The water has been a steady 84 for the last week or so.
Buena pesca,
Mark
EastCapeGuides.com
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