Bajabytes Sport Fishing Weekly Update
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Great fishery, although the water is highly contaminated and often looks very dirty. I wouldn’t do a “catch and cook” with anything off this pier, but many folks do. It’s a great, fun place with many species, so I still recommend it for catch and release. ...Fishfinderfabian
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Lower 9 Mile Bank
There has been decent and consistent fishing for bottom fish here. Not to say it is wide open, but if you work at it and try different spots to find one where the fish are biting, you can likely put together a limit of rockfish and possibly lingcod. The depth range is 450 to 700 feet. Fishing multiple hook ganions with squid or gulp grubs works well, but you will likely want at least 1 to 3 pounds of weight. You can also fish a heavy metal jig such as a knife jig, flat fall, or heavy colt sniper. …fish dope
.There has been no report from the Islands since before the wind. Recently, there have been very good rockfish, sheepshead, and lingcod fishing at the Rockpile and around the Islands.
The yellows have been around for the last couple of weeks, but it has been hit or miss. Either they show themselves, or they are nowhere to be seen. They decided to bite yesterday morning.
When the yellows are on the surface, they love to eat a surface iron thrown in front of their face. Figure out which way the school is moving, and try to get in front of it by casting your jig to the leading edge of the school. Nothing is better than watching a group of yellowtail following your jig and having one of them grab it in plain sight! Wind that jig so it has a nice side-to-side kick without rolling over. Every jig is different, so you must watch it and adjust the speed accordingly. Keep a second outfit loaded with 40 to 60 pounds rigged up with a Yoyo iron like the 6xjr and 6x full-size jigs for those possible sonar fish. …Fish Dope
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NO REPORT
3/21/24 We headed out to the Golden Reef with my friend Captian Ron Tinney and Company. It was a pleasant, flat, warmish day at the Reef with excellent yellowtail around. We landed six yellowtail, all fast pitch, and one leopard grouper on a salad 7x. We wandered around San Luiz Island for a little while for one nice cabrilla on a surface runner and called it good. …Captain Juan Cook
The grouper are finally stirring.…mr.rickysportfishing
Last week in Barrel in Baja California we fished some beautiful cows at depth, at more than 1200 feet, we used only 35 lb line, a 350 gram catch 22 brand lure and a Pro Hunter Nervio pe5-8 rod, a nice battle to so much depth…Chema Medina
Whale Magic Tours had a terrific season & the Gray Whale population is making a comeback & numbers increased this season to about 800 I Laguna Ojo de Liebre. Whales are migrating a month later as they have to feed more up north to sustain them in Baja & they left the lagoons a couple weeks earlier to get to the feeding grounds to eat.Shari Bondy
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Saint Rosalia
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Happy Clients today. Retired Fire Fighters and wives out of Colorado. Wide open on Long MILF Jigs…Nathan Burbey
These are some of our picks this week. It was fine fishing! … Rob Herold
López Mateos
Cheri King – Lopez Mateos Sportfishing...Windy!!!!
MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ FISHING REPORT from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Mar.2-12, 2024
East Cape
Anglers have enjoyed excellent fishing in the East Cape, San Jose, and Cabo this past week. Here in the East Cape, we experienced nice weather for most of the week. The fishing for dorado and marlin continued to provide anglers with the most action. The boats primarily caught them slow-trolling green jacks for bait. The fishing picked up from last week, with most boats getting both species and multiple fish. Most boats are averaging from three to five dorado per boat, along with one to three marlin. We are currently experiencing heavy winds, which are forecast to blow off and on throughout this week. However, the forecast shows nice weather for the holiday weekend, so the good fishing should continue once the winds die later this week.
We fished in the East Cape and Pacific Side this past week. We found good fishing for roosters on both sides. Out of San Jose, we enjoyed multiple roosterfish, jack, and a couple of dorado. In the East Cape, we found roosterfish inshore along the area of La Capilla just in front of the old Rancho Deluxe. The beaches are starting to see more bait, and I have seen a few mullet and a very few sardina, but the main population of sardina remains to the north by the Island. With the holiday weekend coming along with the crowds that generally gather on the local beaches, we will be doing ALL of our fishing this week out of the boat, as the beaches most likely will have too many people on them to fish effectively. We will be sure to report how we do. We wish everyone a nice Semana Santa. Until next week, we wish everyone good fishing! …Jeff DeBrown
Dorado and bottom action have remained consistent; however, the tuna bite has slowed down!
Posted on March 24, 2024
We can tell “Spring Break” is here. More tourists are arriving, many of them younger, college-aged, and a lot of family groups. We have had an ideal weather pattern: lows in the 60s, highs of 80 degrees, and mostly clear sunny skies.
We had a good variety of species this week. The tuna bite slowed down significantly as the only good days for tuna were Monday and Tuesday. On Monday, we had a 70 and a 50-pounder; these were long battles on light tackle. We also saw tuna this weekend, though only a few tuna were caught among the 18 to 20 boats fishing. Captains still report seeing some nice ones boil up on the live sardina. However, they will not bite, even with light 30# fluoro. Most yellowfin were spotted at the San Luis and Iman Banks.
The fleet managed to catch a good variety throughout the week. We started to see more dorado this week, especially this weekend. The average size seems to be between 10 and 15 pounds, with the majority being female. Though smaller, a few wahoo in the 10 to 20-pound range were caught while drifting live sardina for tuna. A few boats reported losing up to 3 to 4 in one day.
The focus has been on the bottom as we continue to see good numbers of grouper, snapper, and amberjack. The majority of the bottom action comes from jigs and live sardina. We mostly catch yellow snapper but see more red snapper in the mix. Throughout Iman and San Luis, we continue to catch our bonito limit on most days. Please remember that our white bonito (Pacific Bonito) is excellent to eat. It is very similar to tuna and can be cooked in various ways. Plus, it is incredibly delicious served raw.
Regarding inshore activity, sierra and roosterfish action has remained consistent and similar to previous weeks. We primarily target the areas of La Laguna, Buzzards, Secrets/Marriot, and Palmilla. We saw some big sierra this week at Palmilla, some weighing close to 12 pounds. Most of the roosterfish are averaging 10 to 15 pounds. …Good Fishing, Brian Brictson
Pisces Fleet Fish Report March 15-21, 2024
Overall Catch Success Rate: All Species Combined 95.45%.
Billfish Catch Success Rate: Billfish 42.42%; Dorado 59.09%; Tuna 22.73%; Other Species 30.30%.
As predicted, our 12th week of 2024 began with clear skies and calm seas, although the winds were a bit stronger. The waves were in the 8 to12-foot range at times, with 5 to 6-foot waves mid-day and sea temps at 66 degrees.
Although some boats scored striped marlin, and like last week, fewer boats targeted striped marlin as they were scattered throughout various banks because of the weather conditions.
Fortunately, the cooler water didn’t seem to affect the other species. The smaller dorado seemed to have replaced the larger, more aggressive dorado. Although some larger fish were still in the mix, only the larger dorado should be kept if smaller schools were hooked.
In addition, there have been yellowfin, roosterfish, grouper, sheepshead, sierra, skipjack, triggerfish, red snapper, and ladyfish to fill in the blanks on the slow days.
