Fly Fish Baja

Hi Folks,

The weather is just perfect as we move into our spring season.  It’s been sunny with daytime highs around 90 degree’s with a light cool breeze off the ocean to keep things nice.   The water is warming up on the Sea of Cortez side with mid to low 70’s and on the Pacific it’s kinda on the cool side in the high 60s.

The inshore fishing really cant get any better, just ask Greg Williamson from Redmond, Oregon.  Greg, his wife Kim, and their two daughters, Brianna and Hailey fished with me yesterday.  Went headed into the Sea of Cortez side for the calmer fishing water.  Right off the bat, Bri and Hailey started catching fun sized jacks, then they caught a ton of roosterfish, around noon we headed to a yellowtail hole and caught three nice yellowtail on spinning rods for lunch.  On the way back we stopped and caught really big sierra mackerel, some over 12 lbs. we kept a few for ceviche.  It’s a lot of fun when the fishing is this good and you see kids catching a ton of fish, their laughter is the medicine that cures anything that ails you. 

Correy Schieder and Frank Zoch from San Antonio, Texas wrote; Awesome time- Definitely worth going with Grant. 17 roosterfish, 12 sierras 1 bonita and 1 yellowtail. On all fly.

The roosterfish action is picking up!  We are catching a ton of smaller roosterfish, and we are starting to see some nice fish over 20 lbs.  More big fish will be coming into our area in the next month, they will stay in the here until late June/ mid July.   If you want to fish with us during our prime roosterfish season in May and June, you want to start booking now before we are booked solid.

The sierras action is really good right now.  Lots of nice big sierra’s around, we have been catching many fish over 12 lbs, which are world records on a fly. 

Everyone knows that Sierra’s are the favored fish for ceviche, but not many folks know that they are an absolutely delicious fish that can be cooked in many ways.  My favorite is breaded fish sticks, or try them blackened.  They also make fine Sushimi.

The Yellowtail are still around in numbers, and they have been great fun on the fly and on light spinning gear. I actually got spooled the other day when I hooked a really big yellowtail on a spinning rod, 300 yards of 50 spectra was off the reel in seconds, I didn’t even get a chance to follow the fish, the drag was smokin.  

Big jacks up to 30 lbs; hook into one of those and your arms will be sore for days.  These fish are tons of fun, and will really bend a rod.

Some snappers around, but we have yet to see the large schools.  They usually show up in May and June.  These fish are fun to catch.  We see the schools on the surface and spinning gear or flies at them.  Sometimes you get into a school of fish and they are just too big to land, which happened a few years ago.  We were hooking the 25 # to 60 # snappers on the fly and we couldn’t do much with them.  Even though we were 200 yards down the beach from the point, the big fish would run straight for the rocks and there was nothing we could do but follow with the boat, all but a few of the really big ones cut us off.

The striped marlin fishing is pretty good on most days.  It’s not unusual to see 5 to 20 fish tailing on the surface in a days outing and to catch 2 to 4 of them.  

But marlin being the fish that they are, when they get closed mouth, when that happens, it’s almost impossible to feed a fish that isn’t hungry.  You can cast a livie 5 feet in front of him and he will turn around and swim away form the bait.

The YF tuna are close to Cabo.  Plenty of fish 10# to 25# just south of the cape.  Day before yesterday, the fleet was catching them just 2 miles offshore. Canb anyone say “fresh Sushi”?

A few dorado around, but most are just a by-catch while marlin fishing, expect the dorado fishing to improve starting July with the peak in August, September and October. 

If you want good offshore fishing, plan on coming down to Cabo in the summer months.  There are many advantages to coming to Cabo in the summer months. 

 First off is that we will run our Summer Special again from July 15th-September 25th.  Fish for two days or more and we will cover your hotel at the Mar de Cortez. Note- This is for direct bookings only. 

Second; airfares usually are much lower in the summer months, and the fishing is so good!!!! We catch blue marlin, black marlin, striped marllin, sailfish, YF tuna, dorado, wahoo, black skipjack,  and bonitas on the fly and light tackle.  If you are interested in fishing with us on our summer trips, please email me.

Camping trips- I will be adding camping trips up the Pacific.  These are places I have fished over the last fifteen years, that get only a small amount of pressure from a few local fisherman.  We will be going “outback”, with little or no contact with the outside world.   Expect to catch snook, corbina’s, sea bass, snappers, and other fun inshore fish on the fly and spinning gear.  I will also have some Kayaks for fooling around in the estuary’s.  The trips will be 3 to 6 fishing days in length.  The trips will be from September through the end of October.  I will also be doing at least one Mag bay trip with guests.  If you have any interest, please email me.

Most of you know that Gisel and I got into the Real Estate business a few years ago. We have been doing well with the strong market down here, and it’s been a lot of fun.  If you have any interest in buying Real Estate in Los Cabos, the East Cape or Todos Santos area, please email me at info@baja-anglers.com

Pictured below is Bri and Hailey Williamson of Redmond OR.

They were fishing with me on Flying fish 3 out of Cabo San Lucas.  

They caught that fish on a G. Loomis Green water spinning rod and 

Tight Lines,
Grant