Though crowds of anglers were down, the few that were going out did very well in the areas from the Gordo Banks to Vinorama, particularly on the Iman Bank. Water temperatures ranged from 80 to 84 degrees and supplies of sardinas were plentiful off of Puerto Los Cabos, La Playita area. On the fishing ground there were abundant schools of bolito and skipjack, which were also being used as whole and cut baits.
The majority of the yellowfin tuna were striking on bait, either drift fishing or slow trolling. Most of the fish were in the 10 to 15 pound class, though some larger tuna were also starting to appear and a handful of fish in the 50 to 70 pound range were accounted for, these larger specimens preferred larger bolito baits or dead sardinas drifted in a chum line.
Dorado were hard to stay away from, even striking hoochie skirts when targeting bolito batifish, in fact hitting on a wide assortment of lures as well as different baitfish combinations. Some anglers found floating debris fields, such as weeds or logs and told great stories about all of the dorado they encountered and even seeing wahoo darting around. Average size fish were in the 10 to 20 pound range, but a few bulls to over 50 pounds were weighed in.
Billfish action was spread out, though most anglers were actually targeting the dorado and tuna action, we did here about one nice 400 to 450 pound black marlin landed from a local 30 ft. cruiser while trolling a boltio baitfish in the area outside of San Luis Bank.
The combined panga fleets from La Playita sent out approximately 43 charters for the week, with anglers accounted for a fish count of: 3 wahoo, 2 striped marlin, 4 sailfish, 430 yellowfin tuna, 265 dorado and 72 miscellaneous pargo and cabrilla.
(Excerpt from allaboutsanjosedelcabo.com)
