Endless Season Update 12/2t/2008
REPORT #1146 "Below the Border" Saltwater

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East Cape

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You gotta’ love Christmas in Baja…

perfect weather with the sierra snapping at

anything thrown at them. Then just a few

miles farther offshore, the dorado are still

mingling about. Offshore who knows?

Everyone was scurrying about doing last

minute Christmas shopping or toasting the

holidays with a margarita or two. Which

reminds us, MERRY CHRISTMAS and

we hope to see you here in Baja in 2009!
Water temperature 76-80
Air temperature 61-80
Humidity 77%
Wind: NNE 5 to 6 knots
Conditions: Clear
Visibility 10 miles
Sunrise 6:58 a.m. MST
Sunset 5:38 p.m. MST

Magdalena Bay, Baja Mexico

There are still some dorado and tuna about

ten miles out but there are few takers on the

angling side. There are only a few visitors and

even less who are interested in going

offshore.

Even the inshore took a back seat to the

Christmas festivities.

Bob Hoyt

Water temperature 72 - 76
Air temperature 58 -77
Humidity 88 %
Wind: E 14 to 19 knots
Conditions: Clear
Visibility 10 miles
Sunrise 7:09 a.m. MST
Sunset 5:43 p.m. MST

Zihuatanejo, Mainland Mexico

Fishing certainly has picked up. The blue

water is close, and the boats are getting most

of their fish around the 11 mile mark. Each

boat in the fleet is getting an average of three

to four sailfish a day. three days, with each

successive day getting better and better. They

totaled 18 sailfish released and they also took

three nice dorado. They started on Saturday,

with yesterday (Tuesday) being their best day,

with 9 sailfish and 1 dorado.

Inshore, there have been a lot of jack crevalle

and sierra around, giving the light line angler

a great day on the water.

Ed Kunze

Water temperature 78 - 80
Air temperature 68-86
Humidity 72%
Wind: NE at 3
Conditions: Sunny
Visibility 7 miles
Sunrise 7:14 a.m. CST
Sunset 6:18 p.m. CST

Cabo San Lucas

BILLFISH: The Striped Marlin bite

dropped off just a bit at the Golden Gate Bank

but boats were still piling up the numbers with

several methods. Drifting with live Mackerel

both on the surface and dropped down to 100

feet or so worked well, as did slow trolling live

Mackerel through the area. Probably the most

exciting and frustrating method was to wait

until the fish could be seen feeding on the

surface, indicated by birds diving, running to

the fish and then throwing live bait into the

area. Combat fishing at it’s finest; many fish

were cut off by other boats trying to do the

same thing. Elsewhere there were a few

Striped Marlin caught along the beach on the

Pacific side and up around the San Jose area.

YELLOWFIN TUNA: An occasional

school showed up around the San Jaime Bank

this week and fish to 60-80 pounds were

caught, but they did not stay in the area for

long. Boats fishing live bait deep for Marlin at

the Golden Gate Bank also caught a few nice

fish to 150 pounds. I heard reports that boats

fishing from the Puerto Los Cabos Marinas in

San Jose were getting fish to 80 pounds on a

fairly regular basis but have no other

information on that.

DORADO: The dorado bite was a

repeat of last weeks and I don’t know if it will

last much longer as the water continues to

cool down. The only place that I heard of

having a decent dorado bite was just off the

beach between the lighthouse on the Pacific

side and the beach to the inside of the Golden

Gate Bank. Within a mile of the shore boats

were picking up between one and five dorado,

some of them very nice fish around 25 pounds,

but most of them around 15 pounds. There

were some fish up around the Punta Gorda

area from what I overheard, but I could not get

any information on numbers or sizes.

INSHORE: The cooler water has

brought the beginning of the yellowtail and

sierra fishing with it. Pangas working off of

the rocky points on both the Pacific and the

Cortez side were able to get into some decent

fishing for both these species as well as some

nice pargo right in amongst the rocks.

George & Mary Landrum

Water temperature 73 - 82
Air temperature 59 - 84
Humidity 76%
Wind: NW 2 to 2 knots
Conditions: Sunny
Visibility 4 miles
Sunrise 6:58 a.m. MST
Sunset 5:41 p.m. MST