Fly Fish Baja

Hi Folks,

You can’t beat the weather in Cabo right now, it’s perfect!

Sunny, and around 80 degrees, with little wind at all.  The seas are calm and water temperatures are in the high 60s in the Pacific and low 70s on the Sea of Cortez side.

Offshore;
It’s nice to see a return of the marlin.  Plenty of fish all along the corridor, 5 to 15 miles out.  They are hitting lures as well as live baits.
Ask Joe Barrta from Santa Rosa, Ca. He was fishing with our Capt. Arturo yesterday and landed and released a nice striped marlin on the fly.

The yellowfin tuna are 20 to 30 miles offshore, most of the fish are footballs under 20#, but there are a few really nice fish over 100# out there.  Find the porpoise and you will find the tuna.  Louie Bevlaqua from Long Island, New York landed a nice 120# yellowfin tuna on light tackle.  They were fishing with Arturo and catching footballs, when Arturo decided to drop bait down deep.  The rest is history. Go going Arturo!

A few Dorado out with the tuna, but not much to write home about.

We have had an invasion of giant Humboldt squid.  The squid are located close to shore (no more than ½ mile out).  Dropping Yo-Yo’s is the trick!  This is right out of National Geographic.  These squid are 5 to 6 feet long!  Hook one and the school follows it to the top.  The beaks look like big parrot beaks and could easily take your finger right off.  Some of you must have seen the program a few years ago, where the giant Humboldt’s were taking divers at night in the Sea of Cortez.  We’ll in the show, this one fellow puts on ceramic football gear and helmet and jumps over the side.  The squid came up from the deep and were attacking him.  Proved without a doubt, that we are part of their diet, and its dangerous to swim at night in the Sea of Cortez.  You never know what lurking underneath you.  Very cool!

Well we won this time.  We had Solomon’s landing deep fry the squid and pan fry the yellowtail and boy were they delicious.

The inshore action has been a lot of fun this last week.  We are catching yellow tail, roosterfish, sierra mackerel, and jacks on both fly and light spinning gear

One high note was Mark Ormiston’s day.  Mark was fishing with his buddy David Cole They had a grat day on the water and caught 9 roosterfish on the fly.  What a day!

A few days ago, I fished Mike Granbois with his two sons Ted and Luke. Mike is from York, Pennsylvania and has fished with me for the last 4 years.

We had a lot of fun fishing with his boys and they landed over 10 yellowtail on light spinning rods.  Then they caught a few giant squid.  After some tough battles we headed inshore to catch roosterfish and sierra mackerel.  A great day on the water! Those boys will remember that day for the rest of their lives.

Pictured below are Mike, Ted and Luke with Capt. Nazario on flying fish 2.  That’s a big Humboldt squid.  We were fishing right out in front of the lighthouse.

Tight Lines,

Grant