Van Wormer Resorts Fishing Report 8/31/12

The week started out slow with not too many fish landed on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, but we finished very strong. Lots of tuna and dorado were caught by guests of Palmas De Cortez and Playa Del Sol the last three days. The great news is that the tuna have moved in closer and they are now only 5-10 miles south, southeast out from Palmas De Cortez. Most of the tuna were football size with a few reaching up to 35lbs. The dorado bite has improved quite a bit as well, with anglers landing dorado in the 30-50lb. range. The dorado have been to the south and north of the hotel, so it is pretty much wide open for tuna and dorado right now. With most anglers hitting the nearby tuna and dorado, not too many marlin have been landed. The El Tio landed a 150lb. striped marlin as it was coming into dock. The cruiser was inside the boat line, in between two boats that were anchored, when they spotted the fin. The hooked the fish and everyone on the dock watched as they fought the marlin for about 30 minutes. This was something you don't see every day. Anyway, that's it from down here on the East Cape. Don't forget about our September specials going on right now. Call 877-777-8862 for more details.

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 I met Jessica at the Fred Hall Sportfishing show in Long Beach, CA. She showed me the Scentblazer product line and I was immediately interested in their teaser design. I'm a big fan of large teasers and I think they raise fish, period. I was also very interested because over the past eight or ten years I had built similar teasers out of PVC pipe, mylar tape, vinyl skirts. Basically, fancy chum tubes for trolling. The Scentblazer teaser for fit and finish made my teasers look crude in comparison. Their teaser is your classic bowling pin shape but with a two piece, polycarbonate body with a hollow bait chamber and large open grate at the back of the teaser.

 I rigged two of them up with about four feet of 650lb. Momoi Xhard leader and loaded them up with bait. The bait chamber worked perfectly with our local bullet and frigate tuna. You simply unscrew the head of the teaser, load your chum into the body and screw the two pieces together. We would remove the head (behind the pectoral fins) and tail, gut the bait, cut crosshatch slices in the body of the bait on both sides and insert into the teaser. The one detail I really liked about this teaser, unlike others on the market, was the fact that I could control the action of the teaser by adding or removing chum from the chamber. Less chum equaled more action. The teaser would buck, skitter on the surface and dive with a really erratic action with less chum. If it was packed down with bait, it would push lots of water throwing a huge smoke trail, head shake and still dig in even when the wind would come up in the afternoon. We've raised a couple blues on them this Summer but I think we are definitely going to raise some more this Fall.

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Buena pesca,

Mark
EastCapeGuides.com

Van Wormer Resorts Fishing Report 8/10/12

Hola Amigos,
 
It was an excellent week of fishing down here on the East Cape. You could really feel things open up this week. August is known for being a great month of fishing. You get the Dorado, Tuna, Stripe Marlin and Roosters that you normally get early in the season, then add to it Sails, Blues and Wahoo. That is exactly what we saw happen this week. After a couple of weeks of so so fishing, the tuna and Dorado bite turned on at the same time. Boats were landing 8-12 Yellowfin up to 80# and they were less than 15 miles out for most. The same could be said about the Dorado. Early in the week it seemed like the hot spot was north about 30 miles near the Ocho Ocho. This is where the El Tio landed their monster Blue Marlin weighing in at 505lbs. Most boats were fishing Tuna and Dorado in that area when the El Tio hooked their Blue.

 Later in the week Mark Daugherty of East Cape Guides reported landing 6-10 Tuna and Dorado per boat right in front of Hotel Punta Colorada. Mark reported that he could really see things turning around this week and the fishing became wide open. He went on to report that there were big blues swimming with the schools of tuna, so anglers should be ready just incase one of these monsters hits their lure. We also saw an increase in the number of Wahoo landed and lost. Wahoo season generally starts in July and goes into November. The roosters were also out in big numbers. Most angers that targeted Roosters this week were rewarded with lots of opportunities ranging from 15-60lbs. Most of the strikes came from Lighthouse point to Cabo Riviera Marina. Some of the other species landed this week included Pargo, Bonita and Amber Jacks. That’s it for this week amigos. Check out the picture of the 200+ pound tuna landed on July 27th.

Sorry it’s so late, but I just had it emailed to me yesterday.

Eddie Dalmau

Baja’s Van Wormer Resorts