Cabo Sportfishing report for the week of 20-26 June 2011

[Team Picante]

Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Cabo Sportfishing report for the week of 20-26 June 2011 from Picantesportfishing <http://www.picantesportfishing.com>.

Summer is officially here, at least, according to the calendar. The weather is definitely heating up. We are up in the 90's Fahrenheit, air temperature, but we still have some cool water hanging around the tip of the Baja, in the high 60's and low 70's Fahrenheit. The water on the Sea of Cortez side has warmed up, with water on the Gordo Banks, the 1150 and 95 spots into the upper 70's and lower 80's Fahrenheit. With the temps still around 80 the big Black and Blue Marlin are not here in numbers, but there have been a few caught, but not enough to brag about. And the Striped Marlin numbers have been a little down. That is probably due to the boats targeting the Yellowfin Tuna. Catches have been good with boats averaging about 3.7 tuna per boat. And the 3.7 number refers to the average over the all the boats, even though there have been some partial fish brought in because of Shark predation. The sharks have been very active and around in pretty good numbers.

The Dorado fishing is starting to pick up with some multiple catches, but few Wahoo are being caught. But the word is out that the Roosterfish are around and one was caught while trolling for marlin last week. It was estimated to be over 60 pounds. And with the continuing warming up of the water, we can expect the Roosterfish fishing to heat up. Up the coast there have already been some large Roosterfish being caught. And now it is Cabo's turn.

Look for more numbers of the Blue and Black Marlin being caught in the next few weeks and through to the end of the year. Tight lines.