Jc Sportfishing Weekly Fish Report.
As the Admiral Seas
It
Fishing Report: 12/23/12 to
12/30/12
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Jc Sportfishing
Charters is a family owned and operated business and has been fishing in Cabo
San Lucas for the past 18 years. Jerry, explains that his charter business is
geared more for families and novice anglers,
making sure everyone who charters a boat with him has a great time and
lots of fun. We welcome families and groups. We want everyone who fishes with
us to take all the sites in and have memorable experience. This is what is most
important to us. We have and do a few tournaments each year and can accomodate
fisherman who might be interested in tournament fishing. Lets get on with the
report for this past week.
WATER: the water temperature has been a
pretty solid 75 to 78 in most of our local fishing grounds. The pacific side
was a little cooler going down to 75 degrees in some areas. The 95 according to
Terra Fin was down to 76 yesterday and the 1150 was at 77 . The pacific side did
have some choppy conditions over the last week due to wind a couple days.
Swells were pretty small on pacific side at about 3 feet. On the Sea of Cortez
side swells were about 1 to 2 feet.
WEATHER: Its been partly cloudy a few days of
this past week. We are suppose to have some rain move into Cabo over the next couple
days. Spirits have been high with lots of holiday people in town fishing,
golfing and just relaxing. Temperatures have been in ladder 70,s in the day and
going down to low 60,s at night. It hasn’t effected the fishing to much as the
fishing has been pretty hot.
BILLFISHING: Well Billfishing has been pretty hot as we
speak with lots of marlin being taken from Light House to the 95. Most of the
marlin are being taken on lures and im thinking the reasons for that is there
is so much bait in the water that there looking for something else to bite.
Lots of boats are reporting 2 to 5 marlin a boat. Most fleets do practice catch
and release, which is great so were catching and not keeping. When we think we
know what we are talking about, we realize we don’t, normally with the full
moon its really slow and we have been proven wrong since last month and this
month fishing has been hot. So all in all, this past week was good for Striped
Marlin. I did even hear reports of Blue and Black marlin being hooked up in San
Jose.
BAIT: Bait is the standard 3.00 dollares a piece
and there has been plenty around.
DORADO: Good numbers of Dorados
being caught from Santa Maria to the Los Arcos area they are hitting lures and
live bait with some even hitting Ballyhoo. This fish being caught were nice
size at 15 to 35 pounds each. Over in San Jose also was productive for Dorado with
quite a few reports of them being caught trolling live bait. A very productive
week for Dorado lots of great dinners happening.
TUNA: There back. One of our boats out yesterday was south of Saint Jamie about 5 miles offshore
found the porpoise and ran into the Tuna we got 7 nice ones from 20 to 45
pounds. Cedar plugs, rapallas, hootchies and live bait have caught fish, some
of larger fish off of boats flying a kite.
INSHORE: The panga fishing inshore
has pretty good with quite a few Sierras being caught on hoochies in front of
the Solmar over the last week. Some reports of Dorados also close to shore.
Bait casting for Red snapper and Grouper close to shore in the rocks has been
productive. Some Yellow Tail also reported being caught jigging iron and using
rapallas.
WAHOO: There were a few Wahoo caught east of us in the San
Jose area. They were caught on Rapallas and Marauders. I haven’t heard to many
reports of Wahoo being caught here on our end in Cabo. Its really been hit or
miss on the Wahoo over the last week.
BEWARE: Remember if your not renting charter boats
from companies who have been established in Cabo for the past 20 years (
Jcsportfishing, Pisces Sportfishing, Minervas, Redrum, Picante Fleet) you might
have problems. There are many sportfishing fleets on the internet who are
really not established business, who are operating illegally. Lots of these
outfits are renting you a boat they have never even looked at and don’t even
know where you would board the boat, leaving you the task of trying to find the
boat. They don’t even have an office you can go and confirm your charter boat.
You do not want to spend a day walking around looking for the boat and where
you board. If you wait till the day you are fishing and go to the dock where
your boat is many times people will mislead you to another boat or dock trying
to put you on a boat that was not meant for you. You need to have a person
guide you to your boat, who is from a reputable charter company. This way there
is no confusion or misleading. Lots of vendors renting boats in the hotels are
not reputable and don’t care about your
interest and care more about a commission . 75% of the Cabo Fishing websites on
Google are not even in business anymore or might be just brokers who don’t have
an office in Cabo. Some of the Google websites are misleading and not
established .Please remember when renting Sport fishing boats in Cabo that you
rent your boat from reputable and established business. Walk into a fishing
fleet office and ask questions about what you are getting and what are the
costs. You dont want to rent boats from vendors in the streets and you do not
want to book through shady websites offering you the world. You need to go to
the fishing fleet office, while in Cabo and book your boat. Check through
travel forums about reputable fishing fleets to deal with. Look for
testimonials about the fleet your booking your charter with. Ask about what
will the boat be supplying? Will it include beverages or lunches? How much does
it cost to fillet your catch? Check to see if charter boat is insured? Ask about
getting your catch smoked? Check cost of fishing license. These are just a few
things to consider when booking your charter boat. We will be talking more
about this in next weeks fishing report. Until next time good fishing and we
hope to see you in Cabo soon.
