Cabo Fish Report

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Cabo Fish Report
Dec 16-23, 2012

WEATHER: It’s not cold enough to snow so I guess we will not be having a white Christmas in Cabo, but sometimes in the early morning hours it sure feels as if the white stuff could come drifting down any minute. That’s what happens to you when you live where it is warm all year long and then the temperature drops, your blood thins out and it doesn’t take much to make you feel chilly. As our early morning temperatures have dropped toward the 60 degree level this week we have gotten into the “winter” mode and long-sleeved tee-shirts, long pants and socks have come out of their summer hibernation. Our days have been warming up to the low 80′s, a nice, comfortable temperature. We had a windy start to the week but as we progressed toward the end of the week the wind shifted and only started to blow in the afternoons. This made for very comfortable days on land and choppy rides home when on the water. We had partly cloudy skies this week with no rain.
WATER: With the partly cloudy skies this week it was important to get water temperature information from boats that were fishing and after talking to a lot of Captains, and checking out the satellite shots it was clear that cool 76 degree, green water had moved toward us from the north in the Sea of Cortez. At the end of the week the water outside San Jose was off-colored, very green, but the fish were still biting! As you approached Cabo the water warmed up to 80 degrees and became blue again. There was a fairly well defined break off of Palmilla Point that ran north-south. With the winds we had most of the week conditions offshore were a little bouncy, not really enough to be dangerous, but for some beginners, or inexperienced boaters it was a bit much. For those that did not experience sea-sickness, anywhere was all right, but for those with tender tummies fishing along the shoreline from the Lighthouse on the Pacific side to San Jose on the Cortez side was best. Swells were not large at only 2-5 feet on the Pacific side and 1-3 feet on the Cortez side, and since the wind tended to not come up until late in the day, going north on the Pacific side was not a problem.
BAIT: No change in the bait availability this week from last week. There was plenty of Caballito, a few Mackerel and a very limited supply of Sardina. The bigger baits were the usual $3 each while the Sardinas, if you could find a boat with some to sell, were going for $25 a scoop.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Striped Marlin are the billfish to be looking for this time of the year as the water has cooled off a bit too much for any of the other species to be comfortable, but there is always the chance of a late Blue or Black Marlin or a stray Sailfish or two. The Striped Marlin bite that had been going on and off at the ledge off of the pacific side lighthouse slacked off this week and it was much harder to get a fish that was hungry. Most boats that were having success on Marlin were finding them tailing on the surface and tossing live bait to them, or having the fish come up into the lure pattern and dropping back rigged Ballyhoo or live bait. A few of the fish were aggressive enough to bite on lures, but they were in the minority. The bite was spread out as well with action on Marlin occurring anywhere from a mile off the beach on the Pacific side to out on the San Jaime Banks and all the way back toward San Jose on the Cortez side. There is a bit more baitfish showing up so hopefully the bite will continue to improve, but for now I think the success rate is averaging 50% or slightly better for boats targeting Billfish.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: While a few big Tuna have been caught this week on the Gordo Banks, it has been a slow bite, and most boats from Cabo have not bothered going to the trouble of traveling 1 ½ to 2 hours to get there, leaving the area to boats working out of San Jose. For the Tuna in our immediate area there have been a few pods of Porpoise up past the El Arco area inside the Golden Gate that have produced football fish from 10 to 20 pounds for boats that are first to the area. Farther offshore to the south there have been reports of a large pod of Porpoise holding in the area 20 to 30 miles out, and the fish have been better sized with a few to 100 pounds being caught. Of course with the winds picking up late morning it has been a bit choppy and hard to find them. Add in the fact that it has been an early morning bite and lady luck really came into play for boats headed in that direction. On these larger fish working lures or bait under a kite has really paid off, but the occasional nice Tuna on a lure has happened as well. The best result I heard of this week was by our friend Capt. Mike who caught 18 Tuna in one trip for his clients.

DORADO: Cool water (lord I hate to call 80 degree water cool) continues to hold off the Dorado bite, but they are still there and there are still limits being taken on a daily basis. The fishing is not wide open nor red-hot, but it has been a steady pick on fish that have run between 12 and 35 pounds with a few larger fish mixed in. As is normal with this species, finding working Frigate birds is a big bonus and trolling live bait under them really pays off. And of course there is the old decoy method of keeping the first fish hooked in the water in an attempt to attract others in the school. Since the schools are smaller and the fish a bit larger, getting just one other fish to come in is good, but there is always the chance of loosing the first fish hooked up! Other than that, just trolling live bait a mile off the beach or lures in the same area are methods that have worked well. My guess is that approximately 80% of the boats have come in with Dorado, and about half of them have had limits.
WAHOO: As the week went on the Wahoo bite improved. I was very surprised to find that they had finally arrived and boats were getting bit on a regular basis. It was not uncommon for a boat to get bit if they were fishing close to the beach and the drop-offs, but getting one to the boat was a different matter as these toothy critters really need a wire trace to keep them from cutting through the line. Either that, or a large hard bodied lure like a Rapalla or MMaurauder. Another trick that worked well was a horse Ballyhoo rigged behind a lure skirt and trolled wayyyyy back in the pattern, sometimes as much as a half-spool back if there were no other boats in the area. A lot of guys don’t like to do that as it takes so long to bring the lure in to check, but it puts the bait deeper in the water and far from the boat. I can’t argue with success and it’s one of my favorite methods.
INSHORE: Wind and swells along with stronger currents have slowed down the inshore fishing a bit, but there are still some small Roosterfish to be had as well as a scattering of small early season Sierra and Yellowtail. The bottom fish have been hard to get due to the current but a few Snapper have been brought in as well. The Roosterfish have been found along the coastline near Cabo Real while the other species have been found up past the lighthouse on the Pacific side and in the Punta Gordo are on the Cortez side.
FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this months recipe!
NOTES: Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you have a great one and everyone stays safe for the season. We gave ourselves a gift this year and went to Los Barilles on Monday and had dinner then listened to violinist Alex DePue and guitarist Miguel De Hoyos play for two hours. Wow!!! If you want a sample check them out on u-tube! So of course my music for the week is their brand new CD, “Twisted Strings”, released this year. Have a great holiday and until next week, tight lines!

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Cabo Fish Report

FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrum
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Cabo Fish Report
Dec 3-9, 2012

WEATHER: The air continues to get cooler every week, but I still don’t think we are going to have a white Christmas in Cabo! This week on the way to the Golf Course I read a chilly 65 degrees, but it did warm up later on to 81 degrees. Our average early morning has been right around 71 degrees, down a bit from last week. The week started out with sunny skies and slowly the clouds moved in, and with the clouds came some wind. The wind really picked up on the Pacific side on Friday, building up some nice whitecaps and rollers making it very uncomfortable to fish, but that was the introduction to the cloud deck that hovered over us on Saturday. On Saturday the clouds settled in and the wind died down.
WATER: Due to the cloud cover there were no good shots of the surface temperature, but from what we could see and what was reported by the boats it appears as if the water temperature across the area has dropped a degree or two. On both the Cortez and on the Pacific side of the cape we had inshore water at 77 to 78 degrees while just offshore on the Cortez side it warmed to 81 degrees and on the Pacific side to 80 degrees. On the Pacific side the water became a bit off-colored, not as clear as we had been getting the past several months. Due to the wind at the end of the week we did have several days when the Pacific side became very choppy, on the Cortez side the swells were small and the wind just created a small chop. Farther up the coast on the Cortez side, up past Punta Gordo the water conditions again became a bit rough due to the wind.
BAIT: No change in the bait availability this week from last week. There was plenty of Caballito, a few Mackerel and a very limited supply of Sardina. The bigger baits were the usual $3 each while the Sardinas, if you could find a boat with some to sell, were going for $25 a scoop.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: As the water cools down the number of Striped Marlin that are being seen and are being caught continues to increase, and the number of Blue and Black Marlin caught decreases. As a matter of fact, I only heard of one Blue Marlin being caught this week, a small fish of about 200 pounds caught on the Cortez side out around the 1150 area. The Striped Marlin are another story though. It appeared that if you really wanted to catch a Striped Marlin all you had to do was wait. The fish were stacked up on the Lighthouse ledge, San Cristobal point and a few were on the Golden Gate bank again this week. Along with dropping bait down and drifting for them in these areas, boats were seeing more and more tailing fish on the surface, and getting more fish coming into the pattern when trolling lures. Over all though, the best method continued to be dropping live bait down 100 to 200 feet and waiting for a bite. As I mentioned last week, this is not my favorite method, but it sure does work. Trolling rigged Ballyhoo was also a great producer as long as there were fish in the area you were working. There are still a few Sailfish around to go with the Marlin, but not in any great numbers. The Striped Marlin have been ranging in size from 50 pound little guys to 180 pound fish with the average right around 110 pounds.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: There is still a lack of schooling Tuna in our area, even though once in a while a boat will find porpoise with Tuna on them. One of our clients this week was trying to get a Marlin on his Fly Rod and while looking for the right fish they found a pod of Porpoise that held tuna. When getting one to strike the fly proved unsuccessful they put out a live bait and brought in a nice 70 pound fish. Other boats soon arrived and for a little while there was some action. This has been the situation this week, at least to the south and the west. For boats going up to the Cortez side and working the Gordo Banks, there are still some nice big cows being caught, but as always, you really have to put in the time and effort to get one of them. Chunking with Bonito and Skipjack while chumming with Sardinas has been the preferred method for these freight train tuna. Farther up the coast there is still some action happening on the high spots as long as the wind is not blowing. There were a couple of really good days this week according to boats that made the run from here, but the earlier you arrived the better, and boats fishing out of San Jose did much better than boats out of Cabo as it is at least an hour closer for them.

DORADO: The Dorado action dropped off quite a bit this week, probably due to the cooler water as the fish move and follow the warmer temperatures. Not that there were no fish, there just were not the numbers or concentrations we were seeing several weeks ago. As an example, boats fishing short trips close to home had a difficult time getting limits this week. It took a concentrated effort and a full day working the shoreline between Cabo and Todo Santos for one of our clients to come in with 9 very nice fish. Hard work as he said and the fish were scattered. It was steady action all day long with the largest fish going 35 pounds, several in the 25 pound range and the rest between 12 and 18 pounds. Slow trolling Ballyhoo in an area where a fish had been hooked up sometimes produced another fish, but the fish were not concentrated. The normal method of keeping a fish in the water as a decoy to bring in other fish in the school did not work well this week. Fishing Frigate birds was a good method, as always, of getting hooked up to a Dorado, but as the water cools the chances are just as good that the birds are working Striped Marlin as they are of the fish being a Dorado.
WAHOO: The Wahoo bite slowed down quite a bit this week as we are going into the new moon phase, but there were still a few fish caught and more lost. The action as always was just off the rocky points and drop-offs of fish that ranged from wee-hoo’s to 40 pound fish.
INSHORE: More and more Sierra are beginning to show up locally and while small at 3-5 pounds they have been biting when the schools have been found. Add in a few early Yellowtail to 20 pounds, a few red Snapper to 15 pounds and a few grouper to 20 pounds and the traditional inshore fishery is begining to shape up nicely. Still, most of the Pangas are fishing slightly farther off the beach, taking advantage of the continued Dorado bite and the close proximity of Striped Marlin.
FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this months recipe!
NOTES: Whale season in on its way, traditionally between Christmas and Easter, but there are a few showing up now. We finally got our Christmas tree up and have been watching specials on TV, getting into the spirit of Christmas. It’s sometimes hard to do when the weather doesn’t change! If you are thinking about coming to Cabo for a vacation and want to fish, check us out on our website, all we do is fishing, no tee-shirts sales, bait or gear, we concentrate on fishing!

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Dorado in Wine

Quick and simple, this recipe tastes great and can be ready in 15 minutes!

I like this on rice, so cook some first, you can do quick rice as well, but it does’nt taste quite as good.

2 Dorado filltes
1 1/2 cup white wine (better quality gives better results)
1 1/2 teaspoon capers
1 teaspoon diced onion
1 1/2 cup sour cream
2 teaspoons minced chives

Put the wine in a saucepan with the capers and diced onion, heat so it starts to bubble.
Place the fillets in and poach until 3/4 done, still a bit pink when looking at the ends, remove from the pan.
Reduce the wine to 3/4 volume, add the sour cream and reduce to 1/2 volume.
Replace fillets in the pan with the sauce, continue to cook several more minutes until almost done.
Remove filltes, place on top of rice, spoon sauce on top and sprinkle with chives.
Serve with a small green salad and a glass of the remaining white wine (told you the good stuff was better!).

Tuna in cream sauce

Grilled Tuna with Cream Sauce

I know I have been bad about fish recipes on the blog . Had a couple bad experiments and it turned me off.
Well I climbed back on that horse and here is this weeks recipe.
I inherited lots of cookbooks over the years. People leave and they just don’t want to haul them back to the states.
One of these books I was looking through this week was
the Wolfgang Puck Cookbook, printed in 1986. I kept some little strips of paper to mark recipes I wanted to try and knew I could get the ingredients here. The original recipe called for Mahi Mahi, and I had fresh tuna. It also called for small red onions. Would you believe I couldn’t a red onion?
So I have some big green onions growing in the back yard and used those. Delightful.

Enough rambling, here is the recipe.

Grilled Tuna with cream sauce.
This was enough for the 2 of us.

1 lb tuna fillet, slice about 1 inch thick. I had a fillet from a small tuna, I just cut it length wise so we had some nice size steaks.
Avacado oil, olive oil, your favorite.
3 small onions, my green onion bulbs were about 3 inches around.
Sliced about 1/8 thick
Salt, pepper,
fresh Thyme sprig, (that’s in our yard also!) You just want the leaves.
½ cup dry white wine
½ cup heavy cream
¼ cup unsalted butter.
First off you want to marinade your fish for a few hours.
Cover your fillets with oil, and cover with slices of one of the onions. Let sit for 2-3 hours.

Getting started, put some rice on. Get the grill started.
In a sauce pan, a little more oil, when hot, add the rest of the sliced onion.
Saute the onion until just brown and crispy. Stir in the Thyme leaves, add the white wine and reduce by half.

Add the heavy cream and let it reduce a little more.
Add Salt and pepper to taste.
Whisk in the butter last. Use small pats, stir into sauce until almost completely melted, then add another pat, until all butter is melted into the sauce.
Set this aside until tuna is ready.
Salt and pepper your fish and place on the grill. Remember under cooked is better than over cooked, fish will keep on cooking after it’s removed from the grill.

Serve the fish on a bed of rice and spoon the onion sauce over the top. This was sooooo goood. But I guess anything with heavy cream and butter cannot taste bad!

Cabo Fish Report

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Cabo Fish Report
Aug 13 – 18, 2012

WEATHER: We finally got some rain, after almost three years with just an occasional sprinkle. A lot of folks thought that the weather was a result of Hurricane Hector, but Hector passed well to the southwest of us and had no effect at all other than some swells. This rain was a result of a large area of weather moving in over us from the east, coming in off the Mexican mainland, and slowly passing across our area. Here at the house we measured 8 ½ inches, out at Cabo Real Golf Course there was just under 10 inches of rain. What was nice for us is that all this water did not come down in just one day, as often happens during a hurricane, instead it started off slow and allowed the soil to absorb a lot of moisture, great for the plants and helping to fill the aquafier. The rain started on Tuesday, just a ¼ inch every few hours, then came heavy on Wednesday morning, light showers after that, and then really dumping on Thursday morning. On Thursday morning I measured 3 inches at 10 AM, starting at midnight with most of the rain early. As a result there was massive amounts of flooding in the low areas and in areas up to 2 feet of sand across roads or built up at intersection. You can go on line and do a search, there are a lot of pictures posted out there. Our highs for the week after the storm were in the high 90′s with high humidity as well, our lows were in the mid 80′s. At the end of the week the skies cleared and the rain was over, but the roads continue to be cleaned up. We were all happy at the quick response by the city in getting the main roads cleared so fast. Expect to see a lot of greenery in the next few weeks as the desert shows it’s appreciation by getting everything in bloom! It looks as if we may get a bit more in the middle of the coming week as well as another cloud layer is moving our way.
WATER: Hector did deliver the surf we expected and it happened to almost coincide with our wet weather. Swells to 9 feet were experienced on Wednesday but it died off quickly. The Port Captain closed the port to small vessels such as Pangas and water taxis for two days but the larger boats were still able to go out. Heavy rain and the swells did not make for great fun, but the fishing was pretty good. One thing all the rain did was dirty the water for up to 5 miles offshore as the arroyos filled with water and took massive amounts of sand and silt to the ocean. Farther out it was still blue, but we didn’t really get any decent shots of water temperature until the end of the week. As of today, it appears that the water on both sides of the Cape are between 83 and 85 degrees with no real temperature break anywhere.
BAIT: Caballito and Mullet were available at the normal $3 per bait and you could get them if you were out early, many boats were unable to get bait and had to settle for frozen horse ballyhoo at $3 each.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Striped Marlin, Sailfish and Blue Marlin continue to excite anglers when they show up, and they have been doing that on a regular basis. The action has been spread out but most of the boats this week were finding the fish on the Pacific side as the attempted to avoid the swells coming from the east. My guess is that 40% of the anglers looking for a Marlin were able to hook up and quite a few that didn’t care hooked up as well. The Striped Marlin were the most common billfish this week with Sailfish coming in a close second. The Blue Marlin were scattered out but there were enough of them caught to get your anticipation up, and even a small Blue Marlin is a heck of a fight. Live bait was the key to the Striped Marlin and Sailfish bite and once again lures accounted for most of the Blue Marlin. I still haven’t heard of any Black Marlin in the past week, and with the inshore water dirty we probably won’t for the nest week as well.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: It was nice to see the catch get better on Yellowfin Tuna this week, and they were found all over the place, just no really big ones. One friend did well fishing outside the 1150 and caught a few fish in the 70 pound class and a lot of smaller fish, but most of the anglers were happy to do well on fish averaging 12-15 pounds. Find the Dolphin and birds and you found the fish. Closer to home there were small pods of Dolphin with no birds but they still held plenty of football sized fish, we will have to see what happens this coming week as this is the time of year we normally start to get the big ones come in.

DORADO: Once again fish of the week, but there were not as many as last week, probably due to the weather and dirty inshore water. Most boats were able to get several for their clients and some of them were large fish over 30 pounds, but the average was 12 pounds and there were a lot of the little slipper sized once as well. I expect it to be even easier to find them this coming week as the debris washed into the ocean by all our rain starts to attract chains of food. Due south and along the Pacific side were the areas most of the boats worked as they were the more protected areas to fish, avoiding the swells and rain in the face until the last couple of miles coming home.
INSHORE: Roosterfish numbers were down once again and I don’t really expect them to go back up anytime soon with the conditions of the inshore water. Most of the Pangas that fished early in the week were able to do all right on Amberjack and Red Snapper with a few other species tossed in the mix but when the rain started in earnest the inshore bite went away. At the end of the week the Pangas were venturing offshore for Tuna and Dorado due to the dirty water inshore. Also, lest I forget to mention it, one of our clients, Craig, fished from the shore at Migraino Beach in the surf and caught and released a beautiful 50 pound Roosterfish, but that was before the rain really kicked in and the water dirtied up. Way to go Craig! Oh, he caught a Striped Marlin as well when he went offshore, lucky guy!
FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this weeks recipe! I know I’m slacking on this. I have a pile right next to me.
NOTES: Time for the Sunday trip to the beach with the dog. I don’t think I am going in the water yet, I still think it’s too dirty inshore but the pup doesn’t seem to mind! This weeks report was written to the music of Dick Dale, that master of the Fender Stratocaster and early surf music legend. Until next week, tight lines!

Cabo Fish Report

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Cabo Fish Report
Aug 6 – 12, 2012

WEATHER: Well, I’m back from my delivery to Oxnard (great trip Carl!) and while it was hot up there, around 100 degrees, I came home to just as hot or a bit more at 103 degrees and a lot more humidity, 80% yesterday! Mary tells me it has been this way all week long, and yesterday we had some cloud cover move in. It’s 7 AM now and the reading on the back porch is 83 degrees and 85% humidity! The lows have been in the mid 80′s, warm enough that we have had the A/C unit on at night in order to sleep. It appears that the week was mostly sunny and warm, but we might be getting some more cloud cover a bit later in the week along with a bit of wind and larger swells. This will be due to tropical storm Hector passing to the southwest of us. As of today Hector is 480 kilometers to the south with winds extending out 240 kilometers and moving to the WNW with high expectations of moving more to the west shortly. This means that we will not be getting high winds, but probably some decent swells with a few gusts.
WATER: On the Cortez side of the Cape the water has been much warmer at 87-89 degrees, if you go up to the East Cape area it warms to 89-90 degrees. On the Pacific side it is a bit cooler at 81-83 degrees with the cooler water on the inside of the San Jaime and the Golden Gate Banks. This cooler water is a bit off-color, but not enough to really mess with the fishing. Checking the charts I can see 85 degree water out to the southwest that appears to be almost purple, it is so clear. The swells have been small for most of the week, but right at the beginning there were some giant ones coming in where they were actually coming into the beach-side bars and restaraunts. There were quite a few folks on the plane down who were coming in the expectation that Hector was going to deliver those same type of swells so they could catch some big surf.
BAIT: Caballito and Mullet were available at the normal $3 per bait and you could get them if you were out early, many boats were unable to get bait and had to settle for frozen horse ballyhoo at $3 each.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: The Striped Marlin are still out there and there appears to be more Sailfish than we normally have, both of these have been the mainstay of the billfishing this past week. The majority of the Striped Marlin have been found from due south of the Cape to the Pacific side inside the banks, in the slightly cooler water. Most of the Sailfish have been found due south and to the east in the Sea of Cortez in the slightly warmer water, but of course there have been both species found in both areas, it’s just that the chances to get any particular species improves a bit in certain area. As far as the larger Billfish go, there have been a few Blue Marlin caught and many more lost this week, some of the fish that have been reported as lost were also reported as being well over 300 pounds (imagine that, huh?) but a few of the reports were made by skipper I have a lot of faith in. I did not hear anyone talk about getting any Black Marlin this week, so while there may have been a few, they were not large. Live bait was the most common method of getting the Striped Marlin and Sailfish, with the bait being thrown in front of sleeping fish or dropped back to fish appearing in the lure pattern. The Blues were all reported as being lure fish.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Not much to say here, there are still a few around but it appears that the purse seiners got most of the schools that were packed up around the Golden Gate Bank. On my delivery north we arrived at the Golden gate well past the charter boats leaving the area and we spotted two seiners pursing their nets about 6 miles to the northwest of the bank. Arriving in the area we spotted not birds or Dolphin but boxed the area for a while. Eventually we spotted tuns breaking the surface while chasing small baits and ended up limiting out on fish from 10 to 20 pounds. After about 90 minutes and the onset of dark we spotted two more seiners arriving from the north, and on radar spotted one more much farther to the north heading down. There went the tuna, sigh. Hopefully it won’t be long before more show up. On the Cortez side there have been some tuna of about the same size found on the northern banks past Punta Gorda but it has been reported as an early bite because unless you get Sardinas (only a limited number available early) it is just an exercise in frustration.

DORADO: Definitely the fish of the week, Dorado have been keeping anglers happy with good numbers of fish from 8 to 15 pounds as well as enough larger fish to 30 pounds to test their skill. A few fish to 50 pounds have been reported as well. Most of the smaller fish have been taken close to shore while the larger ones have been a bit farther offshore. As usual, working the Frigate birds, if you can find the swooping down, has offered the best opportunity for good catches, but trolling brightly colored lures and keeping the first fish hooked up in the water has also worked well for multiple hook-ups. The Pacific side of the Cape appears to be producing more fish that the Cortez side, but that can change at any time.
INSHORE: The numbers of Roosterfish being found has dropped off a bit this week, perhaps due to the large swells at the beginning of the week. There is still a decent bite for Amberjack and a few Grouper. If you leave early there is also the possibility of getting a few red snapper. Most of the Pangas have been working off the beach fishing for Dorado as they have been very consistent.
FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this weeks recipe! I know I’m slacking on this. I have a pile right next to me.
NOTES: Off to the beach once again, and glad to go. I need to get into the water! My music for the week was once again Adele off of the 21 album. Until next week, tight lines!

Fish Recipes

This one awesome sashimi.

Sushi rolls forever!

This one awesome sashimi. The picture is a little blurry, Krystal was in a hurry and wouldn’t hold the plate still. haha

with 3 rolls for the price of two, we all loaded up!

Dinner’s ready!

I am sorry I haven’t posted a fish recipe last week. And this week I will explain where our fish dinners have been lately. The Tiki Bar. We have friends visiting from Denver. A couple years ago, we invited them to join as for fresh sushi. They are hooked! Now when they come to visit, I think they eat there 4 or 5 times a week! Well the last 2 Thursdays we have joined them ( and another day in the middle)

Cabo Fish Report

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Cabo Fish Report
June 25 – July 1, 2012

WEATHER: Once again it was a mix of wind and calm as well as hot and humid vs. just hot. We are past the usual time frame for this type of weather but it is what it is and we deal with it. As the week ends we have a high overcast with light winds from the northwest here in Cabo. I just returned from a delivery to La Paz and the skies were clear, the water flat and there was almost no wind the whole trip, so things can change quickly. This morning we have a high of 82 degrees to go with the overcast and this was an average low for the week with a range between 87 and 78, highs ranging between 87 and 98 degrees.
WATER: We ended the week with a 5 miles wide band of cool 68 degree water just off the beach and wrapping around the Cape. Once past Gray Rock that band warmed to 71 degrees until it dispersed at San Jose. Farther offshore on the Pacific side the water across the Golden Gate Bank and the San Jaime Bank was 74 degrees and this water extended out to well past the 1,000 fathom line to the west. The cool water close to shore was very green, and the water slowly cleared up the farther you went offshore, but never did clear to a nice blue color. On the Cortez side of the Cape the water was 71 degrees close to shore, warming to 74 degrees at a line between the Punta Gorda and the 95 spot. Outside that line the water was 76-77 degrees but green everywhere you went. Up past the Punta Gorda area the water was 76-78 degrees and still a bit green but not quite as dirty in color. Early in the week there was an area of warm water the was 78 degrees 35 miles to the SSW of the Cape and the water cleared up quite a bit, but still had a green tinge to it.
BAIT: Caballito and Mullet were available at the normal $3 per bait and there were plenty of green Jacks if you wanted them.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: It was a mixed and varied week for anglers in Cabo as the best Marlin fishing was a long run, but if you took a gamble and stayed closer to home you might have ended up catching a few anyway. Running up to the Vinorama area early in the week had quite a few boats getting into Striped Marlin, one of the best catches I heard of from that area was 5 releases, but it was an “good one day, poor the next” area, so the run was a gamble. Staying closer to home meant fishing the green water and there were a few fish to be found there as well, the 95 spot continued to kick out a few fish as did the San Jose Canyon area. There were a few Blue Marlin reported being hooked up in the Vinorama area and I saw several large Marlin marks on the depth sounder as I went through this area on my delivery to La Paz, as well as many smaller Marlin marks. Both lures and Caballito were catching Marlin this week, but if you were able to get Mackerel (difficult, as there were few to be had) your chances increased quite a bit.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Well, the Yellowfin remained a so-so catch this week with the majority of fish found being footballs sized. There were a few larger fish, some of them actually very nice, as in 80 pounds, but there were no large numbers of them. I went to the 1,000 fathom line off of Vinorama early in the week after reports of some of these nice fish mixed in with Dolphin but found no Dolphin or Tuna, and everyone in the area was mentioning the sudden absence. Later in the week I went 40 miles to check out the warmer, cleaner water to be found to the SSW and once again found no Dolphin but managed to get four footballs and two fish of about 20 pounds, all in the blind and all within a mile of the same area. Small pods of Dolphin close to home were producing some footballs but not every pod of Dolphin held the Yellowfin so it was a matter of moving on if nothing bit after working the pod. We did find that all the Tuna, as well as the Dorado that we caught were stuffed with red crab, and we could see shoals of these encrustations just under the surface and marking on the depth sounder. Its hard to get fish to bite when all they have to do is swim around with their mouths open to get fed!
DORADO: There were a few large Dorado reported this week from the Punta Gorda area, averaging 25 pounds, but closer to home the size average remained 8-10 pounds. Out at Punta Gorda and beyond the fish were found on Shark Buoys, and while not every buoy held Dorado, most of them had something around. On my trip to the area early in the week we caught two small Dorado off of one buoy, had another one hit a lure after coming out from under a turtle and another after coming out from under a pod of logging Pilot Whales. A friend went up there two days later and found a great concentration of good fish under a buoy but could only get one hooked up, and it was spraying red crab everywhere during the fight and after it was boated. Closer to home the fish were found between the arch and Chileano Bay at a distance between 2 and 5 miles, scattered out. The key was small feathers and looking for working Frigate birds.
WAHOO: I thought that the green water would keep the Wahoo bite down even though we are coming up to a full moon, but there were a few fish reported this week, almost all of them from the Punta Gorda to Vinorama area in the cleaner water. The sizes were small with an average of 20 pounds, and the numbers caught were small as well, I only heard of four of them, but there were surely many more lost.
INSHORE: This weeks inshore report is a repeat of last weeks as there was no significant change in results or locations. Still slow, the bite on Yellowtail was almost non-existent, the Sierra bite slowed way down as well. The positive note for Sierra was the size increased by quite a bit with some of the fish being caught being larger, in the 8-12 pound class. Add in an occasional Grouper to 25 pounds, a few Roosterfish to 40 pounds, an Amberjack once in a while and there was something to catch for almost everyone.
FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this weeks recipe!
NOTES: I have to think positive and what has me in that mode this morning is the water I experienced on the trip to La Paz and what I heard about the fishing up at the East Cape. The bite has been turning on up there as the water warms and clears, Blue Marlin, Dorado and Yellowfin Tuna would happen now and then. These fish move into our area as the warm water works it’s way down so it should be here shortly! My music for the week is a compilation of the best of “Earth, Wind and Fire”, been a while since I have listened to a horn section like theirs! Until next week, tight lines!

Lemon Pepper Rub

Spicey Lemon Pepper Rub

1 lb fresh yellowtail or other white meat fish
cleaned of bones of skin, bones and bloodline

¼ cup lemon pepper
1tbs chili powder
1 tbs cumin
1 tbs ground coriander
1 ½ tsp packed brown sugar
1/2 tsp sea salt
½ tsp red pepper flakes (optional)
1 ¼ tsp ground black pepper
1 ¼ tsp fresh ground black pepper

Avocado oil, enough to oil fish and grill
½ cup butter melted
2 tbs fresh lemon juice

Mix above dry ingredients and set aside
Get the grill clean and hot
Brush the oil onto your fillets, one side at a time,
then spread liberally some of your dry rub.
Repeat for the other side,
Any left over rub, can be saved for another day.

Plaec fillets on oiled grill. Don’t forget your basic fish cooking rule,
5 minutes per inch per side and don’t forget your fish will conitnue to cook after removed from the heat.

Mix the fresh lemon juice with the metled butter and drizzle over the top of your fish.

I plated this fish on a bed of white rice. ( yes we eat a lot of rice)

Then I found another recipe that is supposed to be a fish marinate, but I turned it into a light salad dressing.

I always make my dressing in my small bullet container and blender,
I started with a big juicy mandarin off our tree, you can either use a mandarin
or an orangeor the original recipe called for lime.

¼ c citrus juice with seeds removed.
1 tsp Avocado oil
1 tsp Grey Poupon or whatever brand you have
1 tsp fresh grated ginger
dash of cayenne pepper
black pepper to taste.

Salad, whatevery you like with your romaine or lettuce
We mostly use Romaine and have been getting some young fresh leaves
from a guy George works with. Always tomatoe slices and sunflower seeds.
Add some black olives, carrot, celery, green beans, onins, whatever is in the frig and will add a new flavor and more crunch to your meal!

These recipes were inspired by “25 Techniques for Grilling Fish”
by Karen Adler and Judith Fertig. Copyright 2010.
Printed by Harvard Common Press

Grilled Shrimp and Rice

Fresh Salad with romaine grown by a friend in San Jose.

yummy pile of shrimp and rice!

Big switch to rice this week. Victor was going to drop off some amberjack for us, so I didn’t take anything out of the freezer. Well his clients took all the fish, so shrimp thaws out faster!
This is an awesome recipe from Cook’s Illustrated. Links at the bottom for them.

Grilled Shrimp and Rice.

I started with 1 lb of shrimp for the 2 of us. We got the shrimp in Lopez Mateo, so assorted sizes. I recomment 21-25 shrimp for this recipe. Use your favorite size and adjust the cooking temperatures. Just don’t over cook them. They will continue to cook a bit after removed from the heat.
Skewers for the shrimp
Peeled and deveined
3 lemons
½ butter
oil
sugar
S&P
hot pepper of your choice. We used our Booney peppers, but you can use pepper flakes. Amount depends on your personal heat thermometer. You don’t have to use it if you don’t want, but it does add a nice touch.
3 minced gloves of Garlic
Cilantro for finished product.

Rice. I liked to cook sushi rice with chicken broth, instead of water. Use whatever you have, white, brown, wild, sushi, or even that minute stuff, whatever your preference.

First off get your rice cooking, shrimp cleaned and the grill hot.
Place the shrimp on the Skewers, alternating head to tail and pack tight.
You want to add a little oil so they don’t stick to the grill. Salt and pepper to taste, then sprinkle a little bit of sugar on one side only.

In a foil pan or something you will put on the grill, melt the butter on the grill, and add juice of 2 lemons, minced garlic, and the hot pepper, When butter is melted and all mixed, move to cooler side of the grill, let it bubble away.
Place the skewers on the grill sugar side up, for about 2 minutes, then turn over for another 2 minutes, The sugar is going to give the shrimp nice grill marks. After 2 minutes, push the shrimp off the skewers into butter lemon mixture. Leave in the butter for another 4-5 minutes to finish up the cooking.

Serve over rice with cilantro over the top. I forgot that part in the picture.
Oh well, never siad I was perfect!
I got this recipe from Cook’s Illustrated issue. If you have never heard of this magazine, and you love to cook, you have to check it out. They experiment and figure out for you why and how is the best way to cook almost anything.
at http://www.americastestkitchen.com
Www.cooksillustrated.com, They now have a TV show and Radio show, check them out, type in your zipcode and see if there is a show in your neighborhood. No this is not a commercial.
We have been subscribed for about 15 years, and have never had a bad recipe from their kitchen.