From Ensenada to the tip of the Baja Peninsula the reports are favorable already. Yellowtail and grouper dominate the reports to the state line at Guerrero Negro.
While Baja Sur boasts, multiple striped marlin, dorado, yellowfin tuna, roosterfish, yellowtail, sierra, jack crevalle, and grouper.
Bajabytes Sport Fishing Weekly Update 4.17.24
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The sandbass bite has slowed way down. There has been a decent halibut showing, but cold, dirty water has slowed the bite down….Fish Dope
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On Friday, a few 15 to 20-pound yellowtail were caught from sonar marks near the Rockpile in 150 to 180 feet of water. All the yellows that were caught came on Yoyo iron.
Yesterday, several boats hit the area for nothing. No signs – and no sonar schools were found.
They did find excellent fishing for many kinds of red rockfish, sheepshead, whitefish, and a decent amount of 6 to 12-pound lingcod..Fish Dope
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Report Friday, April 5, 2024: We are fishing the yellowtail with iron…Diego Puentes
Epic day! Wide open yellows with limits by 8 a.m. …Cristian Catian
Gonzaga Bay
Randy Champion in Gonzaga Bay. …Juan Cook
Everyone is invited to the various workshops we are offering. Among them are the results of the diagnosis of diving in the Bay, first aid training in diving, data security, and the fundamentals of Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
We have organized spaces for different groups and the community in general. You can see the workshops’ dates, times, and places that interest you. Please follow the Pronatura Noroeste and COBI pages for the events.
I’m at your service. …Guadalupe Cornejo
The first tournament is underway for the Pink Promise Torneo Pesca Femenil Loreto this May 4th & 5th!
FONMAR and Onco Loreto signed the collaboration agreement to carry forward this noble
event to benefit Ayuntamiento de Loreto BCS in support of women with cancer.
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Guerrero Negro
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Bahía Asunción
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La Bocana
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Saint Rosalia
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Punta Chivato
Hi Gary we left Chivato last week. Back AZ now. We did good on Yellowtail however. Lots of action at Wilber’s hole and outside Chivato Lighthouse. The Yellowtail were chasing Pin head size bait. With boils everywhere from 75 ft out to 300 ft depth Theresa got most on throwing Iron. Some caught on x raps ,and some on healthy Greenback Mac’s. We caught at the Cliffs, in between Our place and Mulege. Got a report of big Cabrilla same area. Most released. To breed again. Headed back late May for the June Tournament. Craig and Theresa Cove
It was a hell of a fishing week! All fish were caught on MILF Jigs. Happy clients brought home lots of fish to share with friends and families.…Nathan Burbey
Today’s catch 26 lbs. 2 oz. just out front of La Mision Hotel, I caught three this was the largest one, the other two was 15 pounds and the other one was 19 pounds 8 oz ….Brian Lear
.And now, “the powers that be” have decided to have an ‘Inside the Bay’ Grouper Tournament on April 27 at 7 a.m. Registration will be held on April 26 from 1 to 6 p.m. ……Cheri King – Lopez Mateos Sportfishing.
MEXICAN MINUTE VIDEO LA PAZ FISHING REPORT from Tailhunter Sportfishing for the Week of April 3-10, 2024
We had windy conditions early in the week, keeping most everyone off the water. By midweek, we experienced cool mornings, warming to pleasant temperatures, and caught the first tuna of the year. The yellowfin tuna were located at the Tuna Slides just north of town, and we found the tuna and lots of skip jack.
The anglers lucky enough to hook tuna instead of skip jack were rewarded with nice-sized fish – most between 40 and 70 pounds. You had to be there early because by 8 a.m. yesterday, there were already 40 boats in the area.
We also fished for roosterfish and had great action. Fishing is getting better, and we are seeing more roosters daily.
Our best fishing was to our North in the canyon, but we also had good action closer to home, from La Ribera to the lighthouse. Most of the roosters we encountered were offshore, in the deeper water. Although a few fish were closer to shore, the best action was in about 80 feet of water. It’s springtime here, and fishing is heating up. …Jeff de Brown, Reel Baja
April 14, 2024
Things have been quiet around our marina area this week. Even though we still had a good number of charters go out, the weather is beginning to feel much warmer, and we can tell the slow season is settling in. We expect to have temperatures in the mid-80s next week.
This week was surprising with the number of yellowfin caught. Monday was the most productive day of the week, and we experienced the solar eclipse out on the water. One of our boats came in early with ten nice-sized yellowfin that day, with the biggest weighing 75 pounds. This unexpected bite was at San Luis Bank with live and dead sardina. Tuesday and Wednesday were good days to catch tuna, though the wind blew both days. The bite slowed down again over the weekend; however, we still see a handful at the fillet station. We continue to see tuna that weigh over 80 pounds daily. The biggest one seen this week was 145 pounds caught on a dead sardina. A few Captains reported hooking some giant tuna on live skipjack, though they could not land them. Most of the bigger tuna caught this week came from San Luis. A handful of smaller ones came from Iman Bank.
We continue to see wahoo while drifting sardina for tuna. A few boats have been lucky to catch them on sardina and circle hooks. Most of these wahoo are averaging 15 to 20 pounds. Many of our Captains believe the wahoo bite could be good earlier in the morning with Rapalas and rigged ballyhoo. We have not been targeting wahoo – we focus most of our time on the yellowfin bite. We also saw more dorado towards the end of the week. A few boats reported finding floating buoys while looking for marlin 10 to 15 miles out. These boats did great as they caught double-digit fish with a few 30-pounders.
Towards the end of the week, the fleet reported good striped marlin action at Iman while drifting sardina for tuna. We have continued catching a good mix of grouper, snapper, and amberjack throughout the rock piles in Iman, La Fortuna, and Cardon. Surprisingly, we also had a yellowtail weighing almost 20 pounds. Inshore action remains consistent with Sierra (Spanish mackerel) and a few nicer roosterfish. We did see a few larger roosterfish this week, most averaging around 15 to 25 pounds. …Good Fishing, Brian Brictson
Cabo San Lucas
Overall Catch Success Rate, All Species Combined 93.22%
Billfish Catch Success Rate, Billfish, 74.58%, Dorado 25.42%, Tuna 23.73%, Other Species 30.51%.
April Fool’s Day has faded into oblivion, leaving behind a great week of spring-like weather with sea temps in the low 70s and calm seas that have settled in for the week. As we mentioned in last week’s report, the striped marlin reappeared, and “La Chingona” released seven at the infamous Punta Gordo Bank, giving the rest of our Pisces fleet something to shoot for.
“Valerie” a 35-foot Bertram with Captain Roberto Sandez and Mates Carlos and Julio, also scored on Punta Gorda with a pair of Stripers that Darren and Jean Thraen from Boston, Massachusetts, released. The two Marlin weighed an estimated 100 pounds plus each and took a trolled cocinero.
As it turned out, the action was not only restricted to marlin, nor just one of the banks, but also to Faro, Pedregal, and Afuera del Cerro, which produced a variety of species, including Striped Marlin, Silky Shark, Skipjack, Dorado, Sierra, Red Snapper, and Jack Crevalle.
Captain Frank and Mate Carlos Velez aboard the ” ADRIANA,” a 28-foot Uniflite, suggested Alvin Ekic, Gordon Yliniemi, Mike Piller, and Mustafa Ekic from North Dakota fish at Faro Bank. Gordon was the lucky angler who released the striped marlin at that Bank, some distance from Gordo Bank. The anglers also caught chunky dorado.
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