Another week has passed with more opponents. Take your pick. Various grouper species lurk throughout their deep water lairs in both Baja and Baja Sur. They are ready to provide you with a fight to remember!
If that’s not enough, the yellowfin tuna are ready and waiting in Baja Sur, raring to go if you are up for a battle. Name your poison and have a go at them. Please send me a photo of you winning the battle!|
Bajabytes Sport Fishing Weekly Update 4.24.24
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Although there has been a slower bite recently, there is still a good volume of yellows at the Rockpile. The Islands and the Rockpile have been seeing some good yellowtail fishing, and while they bit well yesterday, today, it was harder to get a bite.
The weather conditions were best on the north side of North Island and the Rockpile. The water was green but clean enough, and the temperature was 60 degrees. There is cold, dirty water just east of the Islands. The yellows are mostly being found by sonar marks, and they are biting the Yoyos. …Fish Dope
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Salsipuedes/Ensenada/PuntaBanda/SantoTomas/Isolete
Lately, there have been yellowtail around the Punta Banda area.Some days, they bite. Other days, they don’t. The fish are mainly in the 15 to 25-pound class. When showing, they are breezing under birds and biting mint-colored surface iron.
The local boats have reported yellows at Salsipuedes and down the coast at Isolete.
Look for bird piles and bait popping up.
If you want rockfish, the bite is excellent down at Santo Tomas! … Fish Dope
Recently, I went fishing with my friends from Bishop, Debra, and David Stuart. It was a beautiful day, flat, blue, and calm overall. We caught a yellowtail, sierra, a belt fish, and gold spot bass – an excellent day of fishing! Okay, fishonnn!!! …Juan Cook
Bahia de los Angeles
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Guerrero Negro
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Bahía Asunción
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When the bait arrives, so do the nice-sized snapper and roosterfish! …Nathan Burbey
We had white meat for dinner—five cubera snapper, one yellowtail, snapper, one cabrilla, and three yellowtail. All were taken by trolling live bait at Carmen Island. …German Martinez Davis
Eugenio Rivas came in 1st with a 26.9 lb Grouper
Ruben Duran came in 2nd with an 185 lb Grouper
Victor Aragon came in 3rd with a 14.08 lb Grouper.
I think Sergio Garcia was given recognition for 4th place
Still windy and rough outside. Cheri King
MEXICA MINUTE LA PAZ FISHING REPORT from Tailhunter Sportfishing for the Week of April 19-27, 2024
The Barry Bunch, from San Diego, Calif., landed this 101-pound yellowfin while fishing on the Cazadora 2 out of Hotel Palmas De Cortez in Los Barriles with Captain Damian Cosio and Deckhand Rigo Cosio. …Annibal Miranda
San Jose del Cabo
We had ideal conditions this week with clear sunny skies, lows of around 65, and highs near 85 degrees. The slight ocean swells and minimal winds allowed us to fish the tuna grounds comfortably. Due to the hot tuna bite, our marina had a busy week.
Our main fishing highlight was the yellowfin tuna bite at Iman Bank, caught with live and dead sardina. This week, we noticed that the tuna bite was best earlier in the morning. Most Captains reported that the yellowfin would only come up for an hour or two and was best Monday through Friday. It was slower throughout the weekend. Monday was the best day as most boats returned early with over seven tuna per boat. Most of these averaged around 20 to 30 pounds, though we had some big ones in the mix. This week’s largest yellowfin weighed 122 pounds and was caught on a dead sardina. We had many weighing between 70 and 100 pounds, but we mostly used 40 and 50# test, as they could be finicky. There was still a good chance of landing one of the big ones on this gear. You had to be extra careful, and the battle might still be long. According to our clients, the struggle on the 122-pounder was close to two hours. Many locals tried throughout the afternoon but reported almost no bites or surface activity.
We also caught a handful of dorado and wahoo within the same Iman grounds. Most of the dorado were on the smaller side. We saw some bigger wahoo this week, with the biggest weighing close to 40 to 54 pounds. All of this action came on live sardina while fishing for tuna.
We did not focus much on the bottom or inshore this week. The boats that fished some rock structures in Cardon did catch yellow snapper, grouper, and a few amberjack. Closer to shore, we continued to see Spanish mackerel (sierra), Jack crevalle, and roosterfish. On Friday, one of our boats focused on roosterfish for a few hours and reported releasing seven nice ones.
We see the last few humpback whales in our area as they migrate north for the summer. …Good Fishing Brian Brictson
Cabo San Lucas
Week 17 began with weather similar to the preceding week – calm seas, clear skies, afternoon breezes never exceeding 8-kts, and sea temps ranging from 69 to 74 degrees F.
Most of the Pisces fleet followed their lead from the previous week, which had been best in the Punta Gordo area for striped marlin plus nice-sized yellowfin tuna.
However, Captain Arturo, with Mates Daniel and Joel aboard the “MY WAY,” a 45-foot Viking, had information that the Iman Bank, traditionally attracting the yellowfin this time of the year farther up in the Sea of Cortez, had been productive for a few boats. They followed the lead, and the gamble paid off for Marshall Cromer from Oakland, California. By the end of the day, he had landed two yellowfin weighing 45 to 50 pounds and several grouper in the area on live sardina.
Last week, as mentioned, a handful of banks consistently produced throughout the week. The “RUTHLESS,” a 31-foot Bertram with Captain Beto Lira and Mate Jesus Romero, added another to our growing list.
