Tuna and Inshore Species Dominate This Week's Report

[Team Picante]

Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico. 17-23 January 2011. Weekly fishing report from Picante Sportfishing



To put is simply, Tuna and inshore species, along with a few surprises dominate the weeks fishing in Cabo. The marlin bite is still slow. The lack of bait is hurting what should be a good Cabo fishing month. Everyone wants to know why!! This last week’s possibly answers are warmer water, full moon, tides, global warming (which doesn’t always mean warm water) and La Nina. Who knows for sure.

It looks like the weather patterns are changing in a lot of places. Just look at Australia. I just got an email from a friend that said and I quote, “There is a big puddle of flood water 40 mi by 10 mi long and 20 ft deep heading down our main river as we type but I am 150 miles away. Queensland has it worse, the puddle was as big as Texas. Seriously bad up there.

We have had 12 years of drought through the entire country and I have not had a raincoat on since 2000. All is different now. There extreme weather events are happening all the time here, last year we had wildfires that killed 200 people.”

This just goes to show that things change and we shouldn’t worry about not having the marlin bite that we should have. This last week we only had one Striped Marlin to the boat. Of course many were seen, but they just weren’t biters. Few Dorado have been caught.





We did manage to land a nice Wahoo, though. With the water a little cool for many Wahoo, it was a bit of a surprise.







But the good news, again, is that we are fortunate in Cabo to have lots of different types of fish to catch year round. The focus has been on the Yellowfin Tuna bite which has been pretty good. Most of our boats are catching good numbers of fish.



Just this last week over 100 Yellowfin, add a dozen of other types of tuna and throw in some Yellowtail and it spells Sashimi.

And to add to the variety were some of the inshore fish. Of course the Sierra are still around and a few have been caught. Then the Roosterfish have been cooperative when we can find them.

The point is we really have lots to be thankful for. We have been having great weather with warm days and cool nights. And, of course, our ever-present friend the Cabo Sun. And don’t forget the great people that live down here. Add to this the variety and numbers of fish available and we can say we are pretty lucky. And don’t forget the beautiful site of the whales migrating up and down our coast.



Take a kid fishing. What a great way to educate your young fishermen about wildlife and fish. It is, also, a great way to spend time with your kids.