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Title: Heading to Cabo.
Post by: h2ofowlr on March 05, 2010, 02:14:24 PM: I am heading to Cabo in a few weeks and planning on renting a ponga with my buddy and chasing some fish in the blue water. Hopefully we catch a few. Anyone else have any luck down that way?
Title: Re: Heading to Cabo.
Post by: Wile E. Hunter on March 05, 2010, 03:36:53 PM: Quote from: h2ofowlr on March 05, 2010, 02:14:24 PM
I am heading to Cabo in a few weeks and planning on renting a ponga with my buddy and chasing some fish in the blue water. Hopefully we catch a few. Anyone else have any luck down that way?

Lived there for 4 years. You'll do better going out of San Jose del Cabo. They'll take you out by the Gorda banks, and they have sardinas. Better bait this time of year. Not the best time of year to go, but you should catch some fish. If nothing else, you should get into some Sierras (king mackerel) good for ceviche.

Patrick
Title: Re: Heading to Cabo.
Post by: Skycruiser on March 05, 2010, 07:12:31 PM: You will not regret doing business with Gordo Banks Pangas (http://www.gordobanks.com) in San Jose Del Cabo. I have done two trips with them and was very satisfied with both. Scored on both tuna and sierras. Bring your camera and go early so you have time to eat what you catch. The tuna did not freeze well for me and I wished I had eaten it fresh or given it away rather than take it home frozen. Sierras call for ceviche and icy cold martinis.

Almost forgot to mention, sierras are fairly easy to catch off the beach, surfcasting. You will need the longest rod you can bring, (seven ft. is absolute minimum, anything up to thirteen is much better), 15 lb. line, steel leaders and about half a dozen 2 oz. chrome Krokodiles or something similar. Get out anywhere east of Los Arcos (not the Pacific side) one half hour before sunrise. Prowl the beach looking for baitfish jumping or shadows darting thru the curls. Those are the sierra. Pitch you lure out as far as you can and start reeling as soon as your lure hits the water. Reel as fast as you can. If your lure is just skipping across the surface, that is just right. Those sierras can out-swim anything and are vicious predators. The first fish you pull up on the beach will make your vacation one you will never forget. Google pedulum cast. Hope you are going fairly soon because the sierra run dies off after the end of March.
Title: Re: Heading to Cabo.
Post by: lokidog on March 05, 2010, 09:41:46 PM: Great place to fish, even for the do it yourselfer. A buddy and I doubled on striped marlin, just the two of us in the boat, using live bait. Speared some parrotfish off the beach, big and yummy, while snorkeling. You can also fish for "snapper" and groupers just like you would for rockfish or lingcod here.

Have fun, I'm jealous. Bring lots of gear.
Title: Re: Heading to Cabo.
Post by: jackelope on March 06, 2010, 08:33:49 PM: I went around la paz or los barilles...if i remember correctly about 40 miles north of the san jose del cabo airport....we caught dorado, roosterfish, bonito on the fly, we had a striped marlin on for a short period of time, and a few other random fish here and there. The roosters were fun and what they do is slow troll some sardinas around the big sportfishers that are moored after a days fishing. the sportfishers dump their bait at the end of the day and the roosters get conditioned to it so they will accumulate around those boats. we caught about 8-10 a day doing this. we would do it at the end of our day of fishing. we also fished off of the kayaks in shore DIY but that was difficult.
Title: Re: Heading to Cabo.
Post by: nwlynx22 on March 09, 2010, 03:35:20 AM: Sweet deal I'm headed to Cabo in a week and a half with the same thing in mind.
Title: Re: Heading to Cabo.
Post by: Intruder on March 09, 2010, 07:54:59 AM: You kinda in that in between time. Depending on water temp you may have some more variety. Go after yellowtail if they are around.... awesome sushi.