Captain Temo Verboonen reports very favorable conditions from Zihuatanejo with warm, blue waters and good fishing just a mile outside the bay. He reports dorado in big schools and they are catching easy limits on a daily basis. The sailfish action has been slow, but not for the lack of fish. Just been a lack of biters. The inshore fishing is red hot for roosterfish in the 40-50 lb. ranges and they have been fairly eager to chew on the pencil poppers and the live bait. The roosters are chasing the anchovey/sardine schools and the bird schools are pointing out the movements of the fish. It's fast & lively action for the light tackle anglers. Also in the near shore waters are good catches of rainbow runners and big eye jacks which have been biting best on the trolling feathers and deep-running lures. Overall, Temo says it's really fun fishing this are right now and he would expect this type of action to conttinue right on through to the late fall.

It seems like the bulk of the dorado in the Sea of Cortez has taken up residence at Mazatlan, as the daily fast-action continues to provide easy fish limits for those that access the shark buoys. While there are some sailfish for the offshore cruisers, most of the anglers are opting for the dorado fishing or perhaps splitting the trip into a try for the billfish and if nothing happens for a while, then reverting to the buoys for the dorado action. The offshore cruisers reflected 5 sailfish and limits of dorado for five offshore fishing days. The inshore boats, including cruisers and super pangas, reflected mostly limit fishing for dorado and numerous releases on light tackle.

The Mr. Tracey Thomassee party, fishing aboard the "FISH CABO" with Captain Gil Marquez, had a terrific day fishing inshore for the roosterfish. The group released 8 roosterfish for the morning with the two larger fish in the 50-70 lb. range and the smaller ones in the 25 lb. range. Adding to the day were a pair of dorado to 45 lbs. Billfish counts were on the slow side with about every third boat landing/releasing a marlin. Overall counts for the combined 26 fishing days reflected 8 stripers, (5 releases) 2 jack cravelle, 2 skipjack tuna, 49 yellowfin tuna 8 roosterfish and 49 dorado.

Hi Folks,

Weather : Scattered Clouds
Temperature 64- 72s F
Winds: lights
Swells 3 ft
Water temp 59s F

This week We had good fishing.
Joseph Amador (left) from Flower Mound Texas and Peter Amador (right) from Imperial Beach Ca. fished on Vonny-I with Beto amidst good weather , fishing the bottom single hook dropper loops produced reds, lings and tree fish and tossing aluminum jigs one 22 lbs yellowtail "Sushi" "Yum".
Well Folks a short one but a good one.

Saludos and come down fishing is good relax.

Ivan

Fishing in JULY gets off to a GREAT start on the World Famous EL BUDSTER. Jon Blake from Martines, CA only catches one fish but it is a big one. He catches a 72 lb. DORADO. That is correct 72 lbs. It is caught while trolling at the 95 Reef. The fighting time was 35 minutes. The water temp. was 74 - 76 degrees.

Billfish released to date in 2009Cabo: 200

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TUNA BUST LOOSE FULL TURBO FOR TAILHUNTER LAS ARENAS FLEET! Breaking fish report FLASH! Not the official weekly fishing report, but we just couldn’t hold back. The tuna have broken loose finally for our Las Arenas Fleet! Football sized tuna charged the baits and swarmed just about anything in the water foaming on live sardines, lures, feathers and everything but the burrito lunches! Fish are 10-25 pounders and hungry. But on top of it, in the boiling fish, dorado also charged in as pangas went to double and even triple hook-ups! This is the best tuna bite of the season and something we’ve waited months for! Lots of fish released as anglers bent rods! More in our regular weekly report!

Fishing on the World Famous EL BUDSTER. Octavio Perez from Pasadena, TX has a very good day. He catches a 50 lb. DORADO and three 20 lb. YELLOWFIN TUNA. All the fish were caught 10 - 12 miles straight out from Cabo. The water temp. was 74 - 75 degrees.

Billfish released to date in 2009Cabo: 200

Found a little something floating today...
 
And, as some of you know, when a Captain finds something floating in the water there is usually something hanging around below. Well, they always say it is better to be lucky than good, today the boys got lucky. 20 miles offshore, unfortunately (for the whale, not the fisherman) a whale died and floated to the surface. Bait fish, Dorado and even Tuna took advantage and were all feeding on and around the whale.

Captain Omar pulled double duty today, with a rare 1/2 day charter in the morning and another 1/2 day charter in the afternoon. First up were Eric and Medea Olson. Omar lured in a nice 45lb Dorado with a Mexican Flag colored lure from Ballyhood Lures, which Eric fought. Next up was Medea, who caught and released an estimated 140lb Marlin. After returning to the Marina and cleaning the boat, Omar headed back out and had at least 1 Yellowfin Tuna for James Heil and his crew last we heard.

Fishing on the EL BUDSTER II. Kendall & Kyle Scheel from Seguin, TX have a fine day. They caught a 45 lb. WAHOO, a 25 lb. DORADO and two 20 lb. YELLOWFIN TUNA. All the fish were caught twelve miles out from the Cabo Lighthouse. The water temp. was 74 - 75 degrees.

Billfish released to date in 2009Cabo: 200

Sunny Sunday
 
A beautiful sunny Sunday in Cabo with the temperature sitting at 86 degrees Fahrenheit and a light wind of 12 mph coming in from the Southeast. The scare of Tropical Storm Andres is long gone leaving us with wonderful weather with a breeze that’s keeping us all cooler.

The vibrant couple Adrienne and Kyle from Syracuse, Indiana headed out on a half day trip with Javier and Chivo aboard RumRunnin. Out to the Sea of Cortez they went in search of dinner. They had a great day on the water reeling in 4 Dorados! They took a filet for dinner, gave some to the crew and we are freezing the rest as we speak. They’ll have a nice cooler full to bring back to Indiana just in time for a 4th of July fish fry!

DORADO RIP INTO ANGLERS DESPITE SOME UNUSUALLY ROUGH CONDITIONS La Paz/ Las Arenas Fishing Report from Tailhunter International for Week of June 21 – 27, 2009 We had a storm watch to the south that thankfully blew out to sea but still brought us unseasonably strong winds and big seas, but that didn’t stop the dorado from charging the baits and the boats. Fish tore into the anglers providing some spectacular catches not only of dorado, but marlin, amberjack, roosterfish and others. We have some great photos this week! Just click this for all the details: http://tailhunter-international.com/fishreport.htm

With the start of the summer season now upon us it did not take long for the season’s first Tropical Storm to develop, the named system of Andres gained strength near the city of Manzanillo, actually becoming a category one hurricane for a brief period. Local interests were following this storm closely as it looked as though it might be headed in the direction of Cabo San Lucas. Though early Wednesday the system encountered unfavorable conditions for further development and quickly dissipated, leaving only sizable ocean swells and high humidity in its wake. The weather earlier in the week was very tropical, with high temperatures around 95 degrees. Ocean water temperatures had averaged around 80 to 82 degrees, clean blue water was being found close to shore. Schools of mullets continue to congregate along the shoreline and sardinas are starting to show back up around the area of the Puerto Los Cabos jetties, though they are very small, the fish did not seem to care though. On Friday the south wind started to blow to 20 plus miles per hour, this pushed in cooler green water (70 degrees) from the Pacific and limited fishing options over the weekend, we are now waiting for conditions to return to how they had been. At this time the warm water line is being found 10 to 12 miles offshore, surely it will once again move close to shore when winds settle down.

Striped marlin and dorado have been the most common catches on the local fishing grounds, with lots of small skipjack and bolito attracting the gamefish.  Early in the week the panga fleets out of La Playita encountered a floating section of large diameter rope within a couple miles of shore that was holding smaller baitfish and big numbers of monster sized dorado to over 50 pounds. Anglers that fished this rope quickly limited out and were catching and releasing after that, this type of action for such quality sized fish only happens so often. Of course the rope eventually drifted out of range, but there were many other areas where dorado were found as well, including the Gordo Banks, where everyday there were reports of large bull dorado being landed, several were over 60 pounds, slow trolling with bolito continues to be the hot ticket for finding the big ones.

In recent days yellowfin tuna are being found schooling inshore from La Fortuna to Vinorama, the fish were ranging up to 30 pounds, hitting on the sardinas as well as on smaller sized trolling lures. East Cape boats are making the long run down to this area, apparently there is not much action for them within closer range. Besides the tuna and dorado there were quite a few wahoo being hooked into from this one area while trolling various lures, though all of the boat pressure did made these fish spooky.

Not much action off the bottom lately, only spotty reports of a few snapper, amberjack and cabrilla, more hammerhead sharks than anything else. Inshore there have been good numbers of roosterfish, but the majority of these have been fish in the ten pound class.

The combined panga fleets launching from the La Playita/Puerto Los Cabos Marina sent out approximately 74 charters for the week, with anglers reporting a total fish count of: 67 yellowfin tuna, 108 dorado, 27 striped marlin, 5 sailfish, 23 hammerhead shark, 11 amberjack, 28 various pargo species, 15 jack crevalle, 13 cabrilla, 12 sierra, 25 bonito, 4 yellowtail, 12 wahoo and 43 roosterfish.
 
Good Fishing, Eric

Fishing on the World Famous EL BUDSTER. Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Gilbert from Escondido, CA have a very good day. They catch four YELLOWFIN TUNA ( 20 - 25 lbs. ). and three DORADOS ( 18 - 20 lbs.). All the fish were caught in and around the 95 Reef. The water temp. was 72 - 74 degrees.

Billfish released to date in 2009Cabo: 200

The ocean can't be serious...
 
What a day of sportfishing today for RedRum anglers. The ocean was literally boiling with fish today. Having the wonderful opportunity to see our boats fish these waters day in and day out, I know that days like today only happen a handful of times per year. Marlin, Tuna, and Dorado flags hanging from RedRum boats are literally blinding my view of the Marina.

Captains Omar, Marshall, Javier, and Alex talked this morning and they all decided to head out and cover the same are they found the fish yesterday, with each taking a slightly different heading. Javier was the first to spot the fish and the others were quickly called on the radio.