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Monday, December 19, 2011
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Van Wormer Resorts Fishing Report 11/11/11
by Eddie Dalmau, Van Wormer Resorts
After what seemed to be months of below average fishing, which in reality was about 4 weeks, we finally got to see some decent fishing just in time to close out the year. Some times things just don’t work in your favor, but at least those who were down on the East Cape the past few weeks got to enjoy some good fishing. The big news this last week was the much awaited reappearance of the dorado, and not the peanut size we had been seeing. These were nice dorado up to 30lbs. Guest reported dorado to the north and to the south, and I even saw a kayaker fishing just off the beach land a nice 25lb. dorado which took him about 20 minutes to land. Most boats were coming in with limits on dorado each of the last few days. The billfish numbers have also been holding steady, as they have been all summer and fall. Last week the Salt Patrol Marlin tournament took place at Hotel Palmas De Cortez and they were able to land and release more than 90 billfish in three days. We also had a nice Black Marlin landed last week that weighed approximately 225lbs. A small black as far as blacks go, but it was nice to hear that they are still out there after going so long without hearing any reports of blacks. The tuna bite has been far to the south near Gordo Banks and most anglers have not wanted to make the run down there with the wind that we have been having down here. We also are starting to see more and more sierra coming to the dock as we move into sierra season. Some of the other species we saw this week included wahoo, pargo, jacks, cabrilla, bonita, pompano and ladyfish. The air temperature is a very comfortable 80-85 in the day and the over night low is in the mid 50’s. Water temps. continue to drop and we are now seeing upper 70’s to low 80’s. There are some great winter rates which are now available, so we hope to see you in the East Cape soon!
Eddie Dalmau
Baja’s Van Wormer Resorts
After what seemed to be months of below average fishing, which in reality was about 4 weeks, we finally got to see some decent fishing just in time to close out the year. Some times things just don’t work in your favor, but at least those who were down on the East Cape the past few weeks got to enjoy some good fishing. The big news this last week was the much awaited reappearance of the dorado, and not the peanut size we had been seeing. These were nice dorado up to 30lbs. Guest reported dorado to the north and to the south, and I even saw a kayaker fishing just off the beach land a nice 25lb. dorado which took him about 20 minutes to land. Most boats were coming in with limits on dorado each of the last few days. The billfish numbers have also been holding steady, as they have been all summer and fall. Last week the Salt Patrol Marlin tournament took place at Hotel Palmas De Cortez and they were able to land and release more than 90 billfish in three days. We also had a nice Black Marlin landed last week that weighed approximately 225lbs. A small black as far as blacks go, but it was nice to hear that they are still out there after going so long without hearing any reports of blacks. The tuna bite has been far to the south near Gordo Banks and most anglers have not wanted to make the run down there with the wind that we have been having down here. We also are starting to see more and more sierra coming to the dock as we move into sierra season. Some of the other species we saw this week included wahoo, pargo, jacks, cabrilla, bonita, pompano and ladyfish. The air temperature is a very comfortable 80-85 in the day and the over night low is in the mid 50’s. Water temps. continue to drop and we are now seeing upper 70’s to low 80’s. There are some great winter rates which are now available, so we hope to see you in the East Cape soon! Eddie Dalmau
Baja’s Van Wormer Resorts
Monday, November 14, 2011
Cass Tours Fishing Report 11/13/11
Report by Cass Tours
Fishermen's Fleet - La Paz
THE FISHING IN LA PAZ HAS BEEN GOOD, NOT GREAT. THE LAST THREE DAYS HAVE BEEN OUR FIRST STRONG BLOW OF THE FALL, AND THAT IS LIMITING. STRIPED MARLIN, A FEW DORADO, AND SOME BITTEN OFF RAPALA'S HAVE KEPT FOLKS ENTERTAINED AND FILL UP THE FREEZER AS WELL, SO WHILE NOT EXCELLENT, IT AIN'T BAD.
San Jose del Cabo - Gordo Banks
This is now peak Fall Season for the Los Cabos region and tourists are now arriving in large numbers. The weather is just about perfect now, highs in the low 80s, lows mid 60s, sunny skies, varying winds, now becoming more predominate from the north. We are now enjoying very pleasant weather conditions.
Water temperatures averaged in the 80/83 degree range throughout this past week. Clean blue water, baitfish on the fishing grounds, things looking good, but ever since thepassing of the WON Tuna Event, anglers have found that the fishing action has slowed and spread out more, anglers were having to patiently search for limited catches of yellowfin tuna, dorado, wahoo, sailfish and other species. There has been heavy pressure now for months on baitfish schools and anglers had to search and often wait to find available sardinas and caballito from the commercial pangeros.
The season’s first northerly winds blew in on Tuesday, gusting to 25 mph through most of day, on and off several days, though tapering off compared to that first day. This made for very wet and choppy seas, more powerful towards the north, anglers could find protected calm waters towards Cabo San Lucas and on the Pacific, a difference of thirty nautical miles can mean a huge difference in wind patterns in this area.
Anglers did report yellowfin tuna off of the La Fortuna, Iman and Gordo Banks. These fish ranged from 20 to 100 pounds, the largest tuna found were the fish schooling on the Gordo Banks, conditions seem to shut down action, though quality yellowfin are still on these grounds and with water temperatures still favorable we should see continued opportunities of finding cow sized tuna. The action was slow this past week, wind did not help at all, with the breezes residing this will hopefully help put things back on track. These tuna have been striking various baits, dead, live or chunk, with lots of chum needed to get them up in the feeding mood anglers reported success while using lighter and longer fluorocarbon leaders. On La Fortuna and the Iman Bank, catches included yellowfin tuna, wahoo, rainbow runner, sailfish, pargo and bonito, no significant numbers, mainly in ones or twos,
Trolling with live chuihil on the Gordo Banks was producing hook ups on yellowfin in recent days. Only a handful of fish being accounted for now, some of them quality sized, there are fish in the area and any given day this bite could bust wide open. Despite these things the majority of people are having a good time.
Dorado were more numerous in the direction of Cabo San Lucas, trolling medium sized lures to find the schools and then using bait worked well on fish in the 5 to 20 pound size. Wahoo have been slow to become active this season, spotty action for the past month, this weekend, on Saturday, was the first time these fish really went on a frenzied bite, for the handful of panga anglers that were trolling the Iman Bank on this morning, they reported taking as many as a dozen big strikes for wahoo, landing up as many as 6 fish per boat, sizes up to fifty pounds, some anglers did not have as high of hook up ratio. Anglers had most of these strikes while trolling live caballito or chuhuil, some wahoo also hit high speed trolled lures. Very encouraging news on the wahoo and there were favorable reports also from the Gordo Banks, as larger sized yellowfin tuna were accounted for the past couple of days.
On November 20, the planned La Playita Wahoo Tournament is scheduled, a one day event with various jackpot categories, also the keys to a new car will be up for grabs in a separate raffle. Hopefully the wahoo will wake up in time for this event, which either way will be a fun event.
The combined panga fleets launching from La Playita/Puerto Los Cabos sent out approximately 248 charters for the week, with anglers accounted for, 2 blue marlin, 3 striped marlin, 23 sailfish, 68 wahoo, 226 dorado, 118 yellowfin tuna, 9 dogtooth snapper, 14 yellowtail, 18 rainbow runner, 44 pargo, 30 triggerfish, 35 bonito 6 pompano and 12 hammerhead shark.
Cabo San Lucas - Gaviota Fleet
Hot boat for the week was the "Gaviota VII" landing the only blue marlin, (a smaller fish under 200 lbs.) and 13 of the 14 wahoo for the week, (mostly in the 25-50 lb. range). What was really interesting this past week was the lack of yellowfin tuna following the Western Outdoor News Tuna Tournament. It was almost as if the tuna arrived just for the Tournament event and then, evaporated, as if they never existed. Truly amazing because the Tournament was a very busy tuna catching period. The fishing report for a combined total of 36 days fished reflected 1 blue marlin, 7 stripers released, 2 roosterfish, 14 wahoo, 1 yellowfin tuna and 155 dorado. The "Fish Cabo" reported dorado to 35-40 lbs. this past week.
Cabo Climate: Mostly sunny & clear days in the early week with some passing clouds showing up later in the week and temps that ranged from a cool 59 att nighty to 86 daytime highs.
Sea Conditions: From the Finger Bank to the Golden Gate Bank, the temps were 79-80 and moving southerly and around the corner at Cabo San Lucas and up to the Gorda Banks, slowly rising to 82 and stable.
Best Fishing Area: Clearly, the Pacific side continues to be the location for the fishing action.
Best Lure/Bait: Live bait and rigged ballyhoo were working equally as well for the billfish and dorado.
Live Bait Supply: According to Roberto Marquez, owner of the Fish Cabo Fleet, the live bait supply was OK for the week but many of the boats were taking 50-50 on the live bait and frozen ballyhoo for rigging. Prices were the same for either.
Fishermen's Fleet - La Paz
THE FISHING IN LA PAZ HAS BEEN GOOD, NOT GREAT. THE LAST THREE DAYS HAVE BEEN OUR FIRST STRONG BLOW OF THE FALL, AND THAT IS LIMITING. STRIPED MARLIN, A FEW DORADO, AND SOME BITTEN OFF RAPALA'S HAVE KEPT FOLKS ENTERTAINED AND FILL UP THE FREEZER AS WELL, SO WHILE NOT EXCELLENT, IT AIN'T BAD.
San Jose del Cabo - Gordo Banks
This is now peak Fall Season for the Los Cabos region and tourists are now arriving in large numbers. The weather is just about perfect now, highs in the low 80s, lows mid 60s, sunny skies, varying winds, now becoming more predominate from the north. We are now enjoying very pleasant weather conditions.
Water temperatures averaged in the 80/83 degree range throughout this past week. Clean blue water, baitfish on the fishing grounds, things looking good, but ever since thepassing of the WON Tuna Event, anglers have found that the fishing action has slowed and spread out more, anglers were having to patiently search for limited catches of yellowfin tuna, dorado, wahoo, sailfish and other species. There has been heavy pressure now for months on baitfish schools and anglers had to search and often wait to find available sardinas and caballito from the commercial pangeros.
The season’s first northerly winds blew in on Tuesday, gusting to 25 mph through most of day, on and off several days, though tapering off compared to that first day. This made for very wet and choppy seas, more powerful towards the north, anglers could find protected calm waters towards Cabo San Lucas and on the Pacific, a difference of thirty nautical miles can mean a huge difference in wind patterns in this area.
Anglers did report yellowfin tuna off of the La Fortuna, Iman and Gordo Banks. These fish ranged from 20 to 100 pounds, the largest tuna found were the fish schooling on the Gordo Banks, conditions seem to shut down action, though quality yellowfin are still on these grounds and with water temperatures still favorable we should see continued opportunities of finding cow sized tuna. The action was slow this past week, wind did not help at all, with the breezes residing this will hopefully help put things back on track. These tuna have been striking various baits, dead, live or chunk, with lots of chum needed to get them up in the feeding mood anglers reported success while using lighter and longer fluorocarbon leaders. On La Fortuna and the Iman Bank, catches included yellowfin tuna, wahoo, rainbow runner, sailfish, pargo and bonito, no significant numbers, mainly in ones or twos,
Trolling with live chuihil on the Gordo Banks was producing hook ups on yellowfin in recent days. Only a handful of fish being accounted for now, some of them quality sized, there are fish in the area and any given day this bite could bust wide open. Despite these things the majority of people are having a good time.
Dorado were more numerous in the direction of Cabo San Lucas, trolling medium sized lures to find the schools and then using bait worked well on fish in the 5 to 20 pound size. Wahoo have been slow to become active this season, spotty action for the past month, this weekend, on Saturday, was the first time these fish really went on a frenzied bite, for the handful of panga anglers that were trolling the Iman Bank on this morning, they reported taking as many as a dozen big strikes for wahoo, landing up as many as 6 fish per boat, sizes up to fifty pounds, some anglers did not have as high of hook up ratio. Anglers had most of these strikes while trolling live caballito or chuhuil, some wahoo also hit high speed trolled lures. Very encouraging news on the wahoo and there were favorable reports also from the Gordo Banks, as larger sized yellowfin tuna were accounted for the past couple of days.
On November 20, the planned La Playita Wahoo Tournament is scheduled, a one day event with various jackpot categories, also the keys to a new car will be up for grabs in a separate raffle. Hopefully the wahoo will wake up in time for this event, which either way will be a fun event.
The combined panga fleets launching from La Playita/Puerto Los Cabos sent out approximately 248 charters for the week, with anglers accounted for, 2 blue marlin, 3 striped marlin, 23 sailfish, 68 wahoo, 226 dorado, 118 yellowfin tuna, 9 dogtooth snapper, 14 yellowtail, 18 rainbow runner, 44 pargo, 30 triggerfish, 35 bonito 6 pompano and 12 hammerhead shark.
Cabo San Lucas - Gaviota Fleet
Hot boat for the week was the "Gaviota VII" landing the only blue marlin, (a smaller fish under 200 lbs.) and 13 of the 14 wahoo for the week, (mostly in the 25-50 lb. range). What was really interesting this past week was the lack of yellowfin tuna following the Western Outdoor News Tuna Tournament. It was almost as if the tuna arrived just for the Tournament event and then, evaporated, as if they never existed. Truly amazing because the Tournament was a very busy tuna catching period. The fishing report for a combined total of 36 days fished reflected 1 blue marlin, 7 stripers released, 2 roosterfish, 14 wahoo, 1 yellowfin tuna and 155 dorado. The "Fish Cabo" reported dorado to 35-40 lbs. this past week.
Cabo Climate: Mostly sunny & clear days in the early week with some passing clouds showing up later in the week and temps that ranged from a cool 59 att nighty to 86 daytime highs.
Sea Conditions: From the Finger Bank to the Golden Gate Bank, the temps were 79-80 and moving southerly and around the corner at Cabo San Lucas and up to the Gorda Banks, slowly rising to 82 and stable.
Best Fishing Area: Clearly, the Pacific side continues to be the location for the fishing action.
Best Lure/Bait: Live bait and rigged ballyhoo were working equally as well for the billfish and dorado.
Live Bait Supply: According to Roberto Marquez, owner of the Fish Cabo Fleet, the live bait supply was OK for the week but many of the boats were taking 50-50 on the live bait and frozen ballyhoo for rigging. Prices were the same for either.
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Van Wormer Resorts Fishing Report 10/28/11
by Eddie Dalmau, Van Wormer Resorts
Hola Amigos…Well after a stretch of about 4 weeks of sub par fishing, we are finally seeing a turn for the better. The winds kicked up this past week, especially yesterday and today, but that also brought cooler temperatures and more importantly cooler water temperatures. The main reason for the sub par fishing we were experiencing was that the water temperatures were just too warm. We were seeing water temps. in the upper 80’s to low 90’s and that is just “no bueno”. Late this week we saw water temps. drop down to the mid to low 80’s which is ideal. Once we saw water temps. go down, we saw fishing pick up. This week anglers landed more dorado than we had seen since late July, although we didn’t see too many bulls come in. The tuna fishing picked up as well and we saw some nice tuna come in this week with weights of 120, 90, 85 and down to football size. The billfish are also biting with more than a dozen blues landed, more than 300 striped marlin and sails as well. The inshore fishing continued to be as hot as it has been now for weeks. We continued to see some nice roosters, jack cravalle, amber jacks, big eyed jacks, ladyfish, pargo, rainbow runners and more. The air temperatures have been very pleasant with a high in the mid 80’s and a low in the low 70’s. Water temperatures today were right around 84 degrees. That’s it for his week amigos!
Eddie Dalmau
Baja’s Van Wormer Resorts
Hola Amigos…Well after a stretch of about 4 weeks of sub par fishing, we are finally seeing a turn for the better. The winds kicked up this past week, especially yesterday and today, but that also brought cooler temperatures and more importantly cooler water temperatures. The main reason for the sub par fishing we were experiencing was that the water temperatures were just too warm. We were seeing water temps. in the upper 80’s to low 90’s and that is just “no bueno”. Late this week we saw water temps. drop down to the mid to low 80’s which is ideal. Once we saw water temps. go down, we saw fishing pick up. This week anglers landed more dorado than we had seen since late July, although we didn’t see too many bulls come in. The tuna fishing picked up as well and we saw some nice tuna come in this week with weights of 120, 90, 85 and down to football size. The billfish are also biting with more than a dozen blues landed, more than 300 striped marlin and sails as well. The inshore fishing continued to be as hot as it has been now for weeks. We continued to see some nice roosters, jack cravalle, amber jacks, big eyed jacks, ladyfish, pargo, rainbow runners and more. The air temperatures have been very pleasant with a high in the mid 80’s and a low in the low 70’s. Water temperatures today were right around 84 degrees. That’s it for his week amigos!Eddie Dalmau
Baja’s Van Wormer Resorts
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Monster blue marlin caught after 28-hour battle off Cabo San Lucas
From the watery desk of Mark Daugherty
An estimated 1,213lb. blue marlin landed on Sunday, September 25, 2011. The monster was hooked on a trolled lure at the 95 Spot by the boat Go Deep out of the Pisces fleet. Here is the full story...
Buena pesca,
Mark
EastCapeGuides.com
An estimated 1,213lb. blue marlin landed on Sunday, September 25, 2011. The monster was hooked on a trolled lure at the 95 Spot by the boat Go Deep out of the Pisces fleet. Here is the full story...
Buena pesca,
Mark
EastCapeGuides.com
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Van Wormer Resorts Fishing Report 9/16/11
by Eddie Dalmau, Van Wormer Resorts
Hola Amigos….Another great week for tuna fishing in the East Cape. The biggest tuna this week was landed by Ryan Alsop on the El Loco II on Saturday. Ryan landed a very nice 200lb. Yellowfin. Ryan commented about his tuna on last weeks fishing report, but keep in mind that the fishing report is done on Friday and that any fish caught on Saturday are included on the following week’s report. Along with the 200 pounder, we saw lots of tuna in the 50-70 pound range, with many football size tuna as well. Even though the tuna bite continued to be the big story in the East Cape, the bigger news this week was the return of the dorado. We haven’t been seeing the number of dorado that we have grown accustomed to in the East Cape for a few weeks and this week we started to see that turn around. Several of our clients came in with dorado in the 10-20 pound range. The biggest reported was landed by the super panga Siboney which weighed in a nice 40lb. dorado this week. Hopefully the trend will continue and the dorado number will continue to grow. Not too many billfish were landed this week, but it wasn’t because they weren’t out there. With so many tuna and the arrival of the dorado schools, many just were not interested in fishing for billfish, although many were spotted. The Julkate did land a nice 350lb. blue marlin this week, but that was about the biggest news as far as billfish go. The Rooster bite remained solid this week, with some nice 20-35 pounders landed. We also saw some nice pargo this week, with the Champagne landing the biggest at close to 80lbs. The air temperature continues to range for a high in the upper 80’s to low 90’s and an overnight low in the upper 70’s. Water temperatures are holding steady in the mid 80’s. That is it for this week from the East Cape. Hope to see many of you in the weeks to come.
Eddie Dalmau
Baja’s Van Wormer Resorts
Hola Amigos….Another great week for tuna fishing in the East Cape. The biggest tuna this week was landed by Ryan Alsop on the El Loco II on Saturday. Ryan landed a very nice 200lb. Yellowfin. Ryan commented about his tuna on last weeks fishing report, but keep in mind that the fishing report is done on Friday and that any fish caught on Saturday are included on the following week’s report. Along with the 200 pounder, we saw lots of tuna in the 50-70 pound range, with many football size tuna as well. Even though the tuna bite continued to be the big story in the East Cape, the bigger news this week was the return of the dorado. We haven’t been seeing the number of dorado that we have grown accustomed to in the East Cape for a few weeks and this week we started to see that turn around. Several of our clients came in with dorado in the 10-20 pound range. The biggest reported was landed by the super panga Siboney which weighed in a nice 40lb. dorado this week. Hopefully the trend will continue and the dorado number will continue to grow. Not too many billfish were landed this week, but it wasn’t because they weren’t out there. With so many tuna and the arrival of the dorado schools, many just were not interested in fishing for billfish, although many were spotted. The Julkate did land a nice 350lb. blue marlin this week, but that was about the biggest news as far as billfish go. The Rooster bite remained solid this week, with some nice 20-35 pounders landed. We also saw some nice pargo this week, with the Champagne landing the biggest at close to 80lbs. The air temperature continues to range for a high in the upper 80’s to low 90’s and an overnight low in the upper 70’s. Water temperatures are holding steady in the mid 80’s. That is it for this week from the East Cape. Hope to see many of you in the weeks to come.
Eddie Dalmau
Baja’s Van Wormer Resorts
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
East Cape Guides Fishing Report 9/4/2011
From our friends at Cass Tours
Water- 87-88 The water is is little cooler than in the last month. Flat mornings and afternoon easterly breezes out of the East.
Air- Cooler this week. A couple of afternoon rain showers and a cool easterly wind every afternoon has made for very pleasant much cooler days.
Very good fishing this week. Lots of tuna with nearly all anglers limiting, a strong but largely ignored bill fish bite, the best Dorado fishing of the year, and as usual great inshore fishing with lots of big Roosters released. The hotel was only sending out two or three boats a day Monday through Thursday, on Friday and Saturday over ten. All boats very late start for Dorado, some nice fish mixed with the tuna taken this week. Lots of Sailfish, Stripers adnd Blues around. Very light pressure, boats trolling on their return from the tuna grounds outside are having luck.
Yellowfin- From 15 to 40 miles off, due North. average fish are between 20 and 45#,s. Free swimmers are closer inside, outside the tuna are under Porpoise. Lots and lots of tuna round, almost all anglers limiting. Cedar plugs have been very effective. Some very big fish in the 300# class are taking Marlin lures.
Dorado- Best week of the year. Not wide open, but more taken this week than all this year. Mixed with tuna and very spread. Live sardine working best. Average fish around 10#'s largest 35..
Billfish- Very spread. Lots around, very light pressure. Most taken on the troll returning from the tuna grounds. An even mix of Sails and Stripers. One or two Blues were released this week.
Inside- Big Gallos again this week. 50 to 60#ers are being released daily. Lots of big Pompano..A decent Pargo bite..
Buena pesca,
Mark
EastCapeGuides.com
Water- 87-88 The water is is little cooler than in the last month. Flat mornings and afternoon easterly breezes out of the East.
Air- Cooler this week. A couple of afternoon rain showers and a cool easterly wind every afternoon has made for very pleasant much cooler days.
Very good fishing this week. Lots of tuna with nearly all anglers limiting, a strong but largely ignored bill fish bite, the best Dorado fishing of the year, and as usual great inshore fishing with lots of big Roosters released. The hotel was only sending out two or three boats a day Monday through Thursday, on Friday and Saturday over ten. All boats very late start for Dorado, some nice fish mixed with the tuna taken this week. Lots of Sailfish, Stripers adnd Blues around. Very light pressure, boats trolling on their return from the tuna grounds outside are having luck.
Yellowfin- From 15 to 40 miles off, due North. average fish are between 20 and 45#,s. Free swimmers are closer inside, outside the tuna are under Porpoise. Lots and lots of tuna round, almost all anglers limiting. Cedar plugs have been very effective. Some very big fish in the 300# class are taking Marlin lures.
Dorado- Best week of the year. Not wide open, but more taken this week than all this year. Mixed with tuna and very spread. Live sardine working best. Average fish around 10#'s largest 35..
Billfish- Very spread. Lots around, very light pressure. Most taken on the troll returning from the tuna grounds. An even mix of Sails and Stripers. One or two Blues were released this week.
Inside- Big Gallos again this week. 50 to 60#ers are being released daily. Lots of big Pompano..A decent Pargo bite..
Buena pesca,
Mark
EastCapeGuides.com
Friday, August 19, 2011
Van Wormer Resorts Fishing Report 8/19/11
by Eddie Dalmau, Van Wormer Resorts
As water temperatures continue to fluctuate between 85-90 degrees throughout the East Cape, Yellowfin Tuna continues to thrive under these conditions. We have seen a steady stream of Yellowfin this week arriving at the docks throughout the East Cape. Sunday, our own Chucky Van Wormer landed a 168lb. Yellowfin while fishing aboard the El Loco II with Captain Julio Cota. Mr. Van Wormer was filming a television show for a local television network. Should be the makings of a great show. Although it was the biggest tuna this week, it was only the beginning of the steady number of tuna this week. Many boats landed limits on Yellowfin ranging from 10-50lbs. We saw maybe 15 Tuna in the 50-100lbs. range and 1 over 150lbs. The tuna bite seems to be between Los Frailes and La Ribera. The water temperatures are also ideal for Blue Marlin and Sailfish. This week we saw good numbers of both species. The dorado numbers fell a little this week, mostly because of the great tuna bite. We are still seeing some nice size roosters close to shore between La Ribera and Lighthouse point. Some of the other species landed this week include Pargo, Jack Cravalle, Amber Jack, Skip Jacks, Cabrilla and Wahoo.
And wouldn’t you know it, right before I emailed this fishing report off to everyone, word came in that a monster tuna was landed out of Palmas De Cortez. Jason Hawk from Atlanta Georgia landed a 343lb. Yellowfin Tuna just about 2 hours ago. Jason was fishing on the cruiser “Mahitini” out of hotel Palmas De Cortez with Captain Oscar Verdugo Jr. and deckhand Nestor Crespo. The giant Yellowfin fought for more than 2 ½ before making its way onto the boat. The crew hooked the tuna on a green/black “Mean Joe Green” marlin lure just 15 miles in front of Punta Pescadero. Jason was the group organizer of this first time group to Palmas De Cortez that called themselves “Buds and Suds”. Congratulations!
That is it for this week my friends. Here are just a few of the pictures from this week’s action.
Eddie Dalmau
Baja’s Van Wormer Resorts
As water temperatures continue to fluctuate between 85-90 degrees throughout the East Cape, Yellowfin Tuna continues to thrive under these conditions. We have seen a steady stream of Yellowfin this week arriving at the docks throughout the East Cape. Sunday, our own Chucky Van Wormer landed a 168lb. Yellowfin while fishing aboard the El Loco II with Captain Julio Cota. Mr. Van Wormer was filming a television show for a local television network. Should be the makings of a great show. Although it was the biggest tuna this week, it was only the beginning of the steady number of tuna this week. Many boats landed limits on Yellowfin ranging from 10-50lbs. We saw maybe 15 Tuna in the 50-100lbs. range and 1 over 150lbs. The tuna bite seems to be between Los Frailes and La Ribera. The water temperatures are also ideal for Blue Marlin and Sailfish. This week we saw good numbers of both species. The dorado numbers fell a little this week, mostly because of the great tuna bite. We are still seeing some nice size roosters close to shore between La Ribera and Lighthouse point. Some of the other species landed this week include Pargo, Jack Cravalle, Amber Jack, Skip Jacks, Cabrilla and Wahoo.
That is it for this week my friends. Here are just a few of the pictures from this week’s action.
Eddie Dalmau
Baja’s Van Wormer Resorts
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Sunday, August 7, 2011
East Cape Guides Report 8/7/11
From the watery desk of Mark Daugherty
The last week has been pretty good across the border. The water is really heating up with reports of up to 92 degree water south of Frailes. When the wind allows, we've been running out to find the spotted dolphin and the tuna have been under them 99% of the time. Tuna ranging from 40 to 150# are aggressively coming up on chummed sardinas, but cedars and feathers have been hit or miss. The dorado bite went wide open today in front of La Ribera, all under 10#, with a few being taken on the troll up to 40#. The blue marlin bite has been very consistent over the last month with one or two being taken daily. Other billfish include sailfish showing up in the last week with the warm water. One or two are being hooked daily per boat. Striped marlin have moved out with very few being landed lately. A few roosters to 50# here and there near Frailes, small ones in front of Punta Colorada and La Ribera. Some pargo, cabrilla and anberjack are still being taken on jigs in front of La Ribera.
Buena pesca,
Mark
EastCapeGuides.com
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| The Ostenberg Family with a 140lb. yellowfin tuna |
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| Kyler Ostenberg, Captain Jesus and Mate Francisco with an estimated 300lb. blue marlin (unfortunately billfish expired during the fight) |
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| Gary Ostenberg, Captain Jesus and Mate Francisco with a 70lb. sailfish. (billfish was released) |
Buena pesca,
Mark
EastCapeGuides.com
Friday, July 29, 2011
Chucky Van Wormer Wins East Cape Bisbee 2011
From the watery desk of Mark Daugherty
This report is from Eddie Dalmau of Van Wormer Resorts.
Chucky Van Wormer and Kiko Vega on the boat La Hielera out of Hotel Palmas de Cortez won the East Cape Bisbee 2011. The blue marlin was landed in 35 minutes and weighed in at 557 lbs. on the first day of the three day tournament. The fish was landed on a Hi5 lure on 80lb. test line.
Buena pesca,
Mark
EastCapeGuides.com
This report is from Eddie Dalmau of Van Wormer Resorts.
Chucky Van Wormer and Kiko Vega on the boat La Hielera out of Hotel Palmas de Cortez won the East Cape Bisbee 2011. The blue marlin was landed in 35 minutes and weighed in at 557 lbs. on the first day of the three day tournament. The fish was landed on a Hi5 lure on 80lb. test line.
Buena pesca,
Mark
EastCapeGuides.com
Thursday, July 28, 2011
East Cape Guides Report 7/28/11
From the watery desk of Mark Daugherty
This report is from Eddie Dalmau of Van Wormer Resorts.
The 2011 Summer is starting to heat up with a very good showing of blue marlin and dorado. The winds we had earlier in the summer have settled down and the water temps/clarity are looking excellent. Bait has been plentiful and the sardinas have been large all summer. We are getting three to four blues a day and a consistent bite on dorado with boats averaging about 10 per day. The tuna have been up and down, but when boats are finding the spotted dolphin, the tuna have been on the chew.
***EAST CAPE BISBEE 2011 UPDATE***
As of today, Chucky Van Wormer on the boat La Hielera out of Hotel Palmas de Cortez has the top blue marlin for the East Cape Bisbee tournament. The fish was landed in 35 minutes and weighed in at 557 lbs. Currently, it is the only fish that has made it to the scales. Eight other blues were released yesterday, no blacks have been landed to date.
This report is from Eddie Dalmau of Van Wormer Resorts.
The 2011 Summer is starting to heat up with a very good showing of blue marlin and dorado. The winds we had earlier in the summer have settled down and the water temps/clarity are looking excellent. Bait has been plentiful and the sardinas have been large all summer. We are getting three to four blues a day and a consistent bite on dorado with boats averaging about 10 per day. The tuna have been up and down, but when boats are finding the spotted dolphin, the tuna have been on the chew.
***EAST CAPE BISBEE 2011 UPDATE***
As of today, Chucky Van Wormer on the boat La Hielera out of Hotel Palmas de Cortez has the top blue marlin for the East Cape Bisbee tournament. The fish was landed in 35 minutes and weighed in at 557 lbs. Currently, it is the only fish that has made it to the scales. Eight other blues were released yesterday, no blacks have been landed to date.
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| Vince and Steve Martino with a nice 50lb. bull |
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| Jim and Richard Nederostek with a 65lb. bull |
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| Casey with a very nice Cabrilla caught on a butterfly jig |
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| Leane and Captain Jesus with one of nine 40lb. yellowfin land on July 24th |
Sunday, June 26, 2011
East Cape Guides Report 6/26/11
From the watery desk of Mark Daugherty
This report is from Eddie Dalmau of Van Wormer Resorts.
Weather was a little windy following the storm Beatriz, but things have cleaned up considerably with fair weather forcasted for the next week. Water is on the cool side south of Punta Gorda, but water on the East Cape is a consistent 84 degrees with high levels of chlorophyll throughout the Sea of Cortez. Bait has been plentiful with very large sardinas. Fishing for Marlin and Dorado has been steady with a few large dorado over 50lbs. coming to the dock everyday. The tuna bite has been all about the school in the north near Cerralvo Island with runs up to 20 miles out. Some boats were rewarded with fish over 100lbs. The roosterfish bite has been EN FUEGO (ON FIRE) with 10-20 fish days in front of La Ribera and some larger roosters being landed off of the lighthouse. All in all, a very good start to the Summer season.
This report is from Eddie Dalmau of Van Wormer Resorts.
Weather was a little windy following the storm Beatriz, but things have cleaned up considerably with fair weather forcasted for the next week. Water is on the cool side south of Punta Gorda, but water on the East Cape is a consistent 84 degrees with high levels of chlorophyll throughout the Sea of Cortez. Bait has been plentiful with very large sardinas. Fishing for Marlin and Dorado has been steady with a few large dorado over 50lbs. coming to the dock everyday. The tuna bite has been all about the school in the north near Cerralvo Island with runs up to 20 miles out. Some boats were rewarded with fish over 100lbs. The roosterfish bite has been EN FUEGO (ON FIRE) with 10-20 fish days in front of La Ribera and some larger roosters being landed off of the lighthouse. All in all, a very good start to the Summer season.
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| Josh, Cayo and Ramon with a nice 50lb. Dorado |
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| Ebb and Captain Jesus with a 180lb. striped marlin...released |
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| The Gentlemen Of Leisure (GOL Allstars) with a 300lb. blue marlin, sadly the fish expired during the fight |
Monday, June 20, 2011
East Cape Report from Cass Tours June 19, 2011
by Cass Tours
Water- Very cold inside, especially from the Light house south, as low as 70, just five miles offshore the water warms up to 84 degrees! Midday Easterly winds..
Air- a little cooler this week, highs in the low 90's. Clear skies, slightly overcast mornings.
A more consistent bite than last week. Very good Bill fishing with lots of Striped Marlin being released. A much better Dorado week, with some really nice Bulls taken. Not many, but some big Yellowfin coming in, fish daily over 100#'s. Three Wahoo taken this week between 55 and 80#'s. very good inshore fishing. There is still huge quantities of bait everywhere, but the fish are biting much more consistently than last week. Midweek, cooler water moved inshore, outside there are huge temperature breaks, some ten degrees or more. Boats working the breaks are really banging the Stripers and Dorado. Inshore fishing was better early in the week, lots of Pompano, and Gallos.
Billfish- With the very warm water outside, Blue Marlin are showing early. The hotel fleet released a couple this week. Boats targeting billfish are releasing at least one a day, some up to five. The Striper fishing has been the best off Frailles on the temp breaks. Lures, live Caballito, Mackerel and Ballyhoo all working.
Dorado- Better fishing this week. Lots more around, both schooling and larger fish. Very spread, hanging in the warmer water outside. Any floating structure outside producing fish. The shark buoys off Pescadero have been holding some quality bulls. Live sardine, trolled marlin lures.
Yellowfin- A long run to the 88, and then normally a long wait, but Yellowfin over 100#'s are being taken daily. Sitting on the high spot, chumming Sardine and then baiting Caballito or mackerel is the only way they are being taken. They'll come to the surface for about ten minutes every two hours. A very good chance at a 100 plus # fish, but not guaranteed. Smaller tuna in th 15 to 40# range are being taken south, under Porpoise.
Wahoo- Every week the hotel fleet is taking two or three quality Wahoo to 80#'s. Mostly on Marauders and Rapalas. All three taken this week were from the lighthouse south..
Inshore- Very good early in the week. The cold green water that came up midweek, hurt the bite. Still lots of Pompano, decent Roosterfishing..
Water- Very cold inside, especially from the Light house south, as low as 70, just five miles offshore the water warms up to 84 degrees! Midday Easterly winds..
Air- a little cooler this week, highs in the low 90's. Clear skies, slightly overcast mornings.
A more consistent bite than last week. Very good Bill fishing with lots of Striped Marlin being released. A much better Dorado week, with some really nice Bulls taken. Not many, but some big Yellowfin coming in, fish daily over 100#'s. Three Wahoo taken this week between 55 and 80#'s. very good inshore fishing. There is still huge quantities of bait everywhere, but the fish are biting much more consistently than last week. Midweek, cooler water moved inshore, outside there are huge temperature breaks, some ten degrees or more. Boats working the breaks are really banging the Stripers and Dorado. Inshore fishing was better early in the week, lots of Pompano, and Gallos.
Billfish- With the very warm water outside, Blue Marlin are showing early. The hotel fleet released a couple this week. Boats targeting billfish are releasing at least one a day, some up to five. The Striper fishing has been the best off Frailles on the temp breaks. Lures, live Caballito, Mackerel and Ballyhoo all working.
Dorado- Better fishing this week. Lots more around, both schooling and larger fish. Very spread, hanging in the warmer water outside. Any floating structure outside producing fish. The shark buoys off Pescadero have been holding some quality bulls. Live sardine, trolled marlin lures.
Yellowfin- A long run to the 88, and then normally a long wait, but Yellowfin over 100#'s are being taken daily. Sitting on the high spot, chumming Sardine and then baiting Caballito or mackerel is the only way they are being taken. They'll come to the surface for about ten minutes every two hours. A very good chance at a 100 plus # fish, but not guaranteed. Smaller tuna in th 15 to 40# range are being taken south, under Porpoise.
Wahoo- Every week the hotel fleet is taking two or three quality Wahoo to 80#'s. Mostly on Marauders and Rapalas. All three taken this week were from the lighthouse south..
Inshore- Very good early in the week. The cold green water that came up midweek, hurt the bite. Still lots of Pompano, decent Roosterfishing..
Friday, June 17, 2011
Van Wormer Resorts Fishing Report 6/17/11
by Eddie Dalmau, Van Wormer Resorts
Fishing continued to be up and down again this week. We are still seeing some big tuna, although they were mostly landed earlier in the week. Early in the week the tuna bite was north by the ocho-ocho, where we say tuna from football size to 160lbs. Later in the week the tuna bite moved south to Los Frailes and we started to see much smaller tuna. The dorado bite is still very strong with guest finding dorado north and south all week long. The dorado have been in the 15-35lbs. range for most of the week. We are still seeing plenty of billfish in the area with striped marlin, sailfish and blue marlin coming in almost every day. This week we also saw roosters up to 35lbs., wahoo, grouper, skip jacks and pargo. The winds kicked up on Thursday and Friday from the south east which made fishing a little tough, but the forecast for this weekend shows that things will be calming down. Water temperatures have been ranging from 81-83 degrees this week with air temperatures in the upper 80’s to low 90’s in the day, then dropping down to the mid 70’s to low 80’s at night. That’s if for this week amigos! Should have some reports from the Keep’n It Reel tournament next week.
Eddie Dalmau
Baja’s Van Wormer Resorts
Eddie Dalmau
Baja’s Van Wormer Resorts
Friday, June 10, 2011
Van Wormer Resorts Fishing Report 6/10/11
by Eddie Dalmau, Van Wormer Resorts
Fishing continues to be very good down here in the East Cape. With more and more guests arriving and more boats going out each day, the fish counts are getting up to the numbers that we are use to. This week the tuna bite continued with yellowfins coming in from as small as 20lbs. to as big as 190lbs. Today on the dock I weighed a 57lb. and a 78lb. Yellowfin. We are also seeing plenty of dorado up to 45lbs, with the average size coming in at 25lbs. Marlin seemed to be the fish of choice this week, with two tournament groups going after billfish. A few boats landed 7-10 billfish in one day with the average boat coming in with 1-3 billfish. Wahoo are still around and we are seeing good numbers week to week. Today I saw two nice size wahoo that weighed in at 30lbs. and 38lbs. Punta Colorada guest Bud Goodman landed a 110lbs. tuna, 17 Dorado, 14 Amber Jack, 2 pargos and 2 roosters in his three days of fishing. Over at Playa Del Sol, the Dark of the Moon tournament reported on 10 Anglers fished a total of 15 Cruisers over 4 days, 13 Tuna, 22 Marlin, 1 Mako, 7 Dorado. The weather has been very warm down here with highs in the mid 90’s and lows in the upper 70’s all week long. Water temperatures have been in the upper 70’s to low 80’s.
That’s it for this week for the East Cape.
Hope to see you all down here soon.
Eddie Dalmau
Baja’s Van Wormer Resorts
That’s it for this week for the East Cape.
Hope to see you all down here soon.
Eddie Dalmau
Baja’s Van Wormer Resorts
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Van Wormer Resorts Fishing Report 5/27/11
by Eddie Dalmau, Van Wormer Resorts
As the East Cape heats up in both air temperature and fishing, two things are on peoples mind. The first is cold beer and the second is Big Tuna, and right now in the East Cape we have both. The fishing continued to be up and down this week, really good some days and so so on others, but there is no doubt there are lots of fish in the area. On Tuesday a guest fishing out of Hotel Palmas De Cortez land a 230lb. Yellowfin Tuna, the biggest by far of this season. Then on Wednesday a guest fishing out of Playa Del Sol landed 3 nice tuna ranging from 80lbs. to 130lbs. As if that wasn’t enough, on Thursday another guest out of Playa Del Sol landed a 187lb. tuna. Not to mention countless other boats that landed tuna in the 50-100 pound range. Most of the Tuna being landed are to the north 20 miles off of Punta Pescadero. The big tuna have arrived in May and it is not a fluke. I still have a picture hanging in my office of the first big tuna caught last year on May 28th weighing 187lbs. I also remember that they got bigger and bigger each week until we peaked in July with a 260lb. tuna. Other than big tuna, the other big story down here has been the Blue Marlin that was landed at Hotel Punta Colorada. The Blue Marlin weighed in at an impressive 500lbs. and was caught out of a Super Panga near La Ribera. This was only the second Blue Marlin that I’d had heard about this season, but they are out there. We also saw quite a few Striped Marlin, Dorado up to 40+lbs., Pargo and Cabrilla are still being caught in the Bay of Palms as well as Lady Fish, Jacks and Roosters. That’s it for this week my friends.
See you in the East Cape soon!
Eddie Dalmau
Baja’s Van Wormer Resorts
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| Captain Jesus and mate Francisco of the Tres Amigos with a happy angler |
See you in the East Cape soon!
Eddie Dalmau
Baja’s Van Wormer Resorts
Monday, May 16, 2011
VAN WORMER RESORTS FISHING REPORT 5/13/10
by Eddie Dalmau, Van Wormer Resorts
Who said Friday the 13th is unlucky!
The week started very much like last week, some windy days and not a whole lot of fish coming in. It was a tough grind for most anglers this week as the north winds blew a couple of days and the fishing was not quite up to East Cape standards. The reports were that the Marlin had moved out and no one seemed to be able to locate the Dorado. Many anglers decided to try inshore and bottom fishing. Those that did were rewarded with Roosters, Pompano, Pargo, Cabrilla, and Jacks. One guest out of Hotel Playa Del Sol landed 10 roosters on Thursday. Then came Friday the 13th …
The morning started with a little breeze, but not enough to keep anglers off the water. Soon after the boats made their way to their favorite fishing holes, the radio chatter started throughout the fleet. “MARLIN EVERYWHERE!” “We are into a big school of Dorado…woohoo”! All of a sudden things turned around. Marlin were spotted and the schools of Dorado had once again been found. It was quite a day! Today we saw dorado up to 30lbs., as well as lot of striped marlin, Mako and thresher shark, roosters, pargo, cabrilla, pompano, and jacks. It looks like fishing in the East Cape is off and running!
That is all for this week my friends. Until next week!
Eddie Dalmau
Baja’s Van Wormer Resorts
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Baja Fishing Semimar Thursday, May 12th, 6-8pm
Run and Gun Marlin, Tuna, Dorado, Wahoo and RoosterfishEast Cape Guides will be presenting a seminar on Run and Gun Baja Style marlin, tuna, dorado, wahoo and roosterfish fishing. This seminar will cover the Baja fisheries, target fish species, rods, reels, terminal tackle, hotels and boats.
Thursday, May 12th, 2011, 6-8pm
WHERE:
Fisherman's Warehouse, San Jose, CA
> Directions to FISHERMAN'S WAREHOUSE
For more info, email us at info@eastcapeguides.com
Buena pesca,
Mark
EastCapeGuides.com
Sunday, April 17, 2011
East Cape Guides Report
From the watery desk of Mark Daugherty
Here is an early season report for April. We have been seeing some good signs for this upcoming Summer season. This includes warmer water, lots of bait and a good showing of striped marlin. As a side note, the sardinas we've been seeing are HUGE. They actually look like small panfish. We haven't seen sardinas this big in many years. Good concentrations of striped marlin could be found from La Ribera to south of Los Frailes and about 10 miles offshore. The bite has been hit or miss with marlin actively feeding one day and lock-jawed the next. When they are on the chew it has been wide open with lure, live and dead bait being taken readily. Steve Jensen of Fountain Valley, California, landed and released 7 striped marlin on his birthday. We did have some stripers pushing a 170 lbs. A few dorado were also landed over the past week, but no real numbers yet. We did also see a few wahoo, which is another good sign for an early season this year. Inshore fishing has been very good with pargo, cabrilla and sierra actively feeding in front of Rancho Leonero.
Buena pesca,
Mark
EastCapeGuides.com
Here is an early season report for April. We have been seeing some good signs for this upcoming Summer season. This includes warmer water, lots of bait and a good showing of striped marlin. As a side note, the sardinas we've been seeing are HUGE. They actually look like small panfish. We haven't seen sardinas this big in many years. Good concentrations of striped marlin could be found from La Ribera to south of Los Frailes and about 10 miles offshore. The bite has been hit or miss with marlin actively feeding one day and lock-jawed the next. When they are on the chew it has been wide open with lure, live and dead bait being taken readily. Steve Jensen of Fountain Valley, California, landed and released 7 striped marlin on his birthday. We did have some stripers pushing a 170 lbs. A few dorado were also landed over the past week, but no real numbers yet. We did also see a few wahoo, which is another good sign for an early season this year. Inshore fishing has been very good with pargo, cabrilla and sierra actively feeding in front of Rancho Leonero.
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| Steve Jensen with one of his 7 marlin landed and released on his birthday |
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| Steve with the hot lure, a new Makaira 19 |
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| Release flags are a flyin' |
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| Eileen Everett of Daly City, CA with her first dorado |
Buena pesca,
Mark
EastCapeGuides.com
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Baja Fishing Semimar Thursday, Feb. 24th, 6-8pm
Run and Gun Marlin, Tuna, Dorado, Wahoo and RoosterfishEast Cape Guides will be presenting a seminar on Run and Gun Baja Style marlin, tuna, dorado, wahoo and roosterfish fishing. This seminar will cover the Baja fisheries, target fish species, rods, reels, terminal tackle, hotels and boats.
Thursday, February 24, 2011, 6-8pm
WHERE:
Fisherman's Warehouse, San Jose, CA
> Directions to FISHERMAN'S WAREHOUSE
For more info, email us at info@eastcapeguides.com
Buena pesca,
Mark
EastCapeGuides.com
INTERNATIONAL SPORTMEN'S EXPO IN DENVER
From the watery desk of Mark Daugherty
It's that time of year when start dusting off all or fishing tackle and start going to sport fishing show to buy more tackle. Here's some shots from the ISE Denver and Sacramento shows. Thanks to Adam for all the hospitality and show me some of his father's old tackle.
Buena pesca,
Mark
EastCapeGuides.com
It's that time of year when start dusting off all or fishing tackle and start going to sport fishing show to buy more tackle. Here's some shots from the ISE Denver and Sacramento shows. Thanks to Adam for all the hospitality and show me some of his father's old tackle.
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| Adam and Me |
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| Merry, Mike and Eddie, the ROAD WARRIORS |
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| Keep on Rockin' in the ISE World |
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| BBFB, Bing, Bourbon and Frost Bite |
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| Denver, snow, beer, not warm... |
Buena pesca,
Mark
EastCapeGuides.com
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