I just love the late spring in Cabo, you will be hard pressed to find a better fishery anywhere in the world! I don’t get much rest or sleep in May and June, all’s I can think about is fishing, and then when I get off the water, all my thoughts turn to the next days outing. It’s crazy, I have been doing this my entire life and it still drives me nuts. What a great life!
Wow, the inshore fishing continues to be really good. This spring is shaping up to be one of the best I have seen in Cabo.
Lots of fun exciting action on flies as well as spinning gear for roosterfish, jacks, sierra mackerel, yellowtail, and cubera snappers.
On top of that we are starting to catch some really big roosterfish, just ask Doug and Jamie Semlerd from Alexandria, Virginia. Doug caught roosterfish, sierra mackerel and cubera snappers and ended their day with a 50 pound plus roosterfish on light spinning tackle.
Lou Bevelaqua from Long Island New York had another great day with us, he caught a large variety of fish and also got a nice roosterfish over 40 lbs. This has to be at least his 12th giant roosterfish fishing with us over the years.
The offshore fishing has slowed down a bit. We are catching striped marlin, expect one to three fish on a days outing. Tossing live baits to tailers is the best bet.
The YF tuna have mostly left or either caught by the commercial fishing boats. You can catch 6 to 10 fish a day, but its not the crazy action we had a few weeks ago.
The dorado are mostly by catch while fishing for striped marlin and on the small side with most fish under 20 lbs.
Expect the striped marlin fishing to improve in the next few days, as mid May is prime time for the stripers.
Wow, what a great fishing week. It’s been too much fun chasing the inshore species.
We have had great action and variety. One moment you have sierra mackerel chasing your fly, then next cast is a school of roosterfish, and then the next cast it’s a 30 lb cubera snapper. It just can’t get any better than this.
Ask Dan Dreyer from Payson, Az; Dan was out fly fishing the other day and caught 18 roosterfish, multiple jacks and sierra mackerel, and 4 cubera snappers, one pig was well over 30 lbs. Dan said, the action was non stop all day, and the big cubera made it the best day ever!
The offshore fishing has been mixed results, we had a few great days of yellowfin fishing, but the tuna boats decided that Cabo was its next fishing grounds, so for a week straight they were fishing within sight of the marina. Talk about being pissed, the whole fishing community was up in arms, but the Mexican Government considers Tuna to be a commercial fish, that means that the tuna boats can fish where they please.
The striped marlin fishing has been pretty consistent, with one to three fish a day on light tackle. The fish are pretty spread out all over the place, but we have been finding some big 150# plus fish close to shore, sometimes only ½ mile offshore.
The dorado are here and there and expect to catch a few small fish while trolling for marlin.
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 id Dan Dreyer with a nice fat Cubera snapper on the fly.
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
We are now posting photos of our guests and their catch along with our daily fishing log on a regular basis. Our goal is two or three times a week. You can check it out on our web site. Go to baja-anglers.com
Also, you can check out the new video on our web site. It’s lots of fun with Mike, Teddy and Luke Granbois catching a variety of inshore species, and there is even some underwater footage of the giant Humbolt squid.
Inshore;
The fishing continues to be really good. We are catching lots of roosterfish on the fly and light tackle. It’s not uncommon to catch 12 or more roosterfish on the fly in a days outing.
There’s just a great variety of inshore fish to be caught right now. You never know what fish you are going to catch next, one moment it’s a rooster, and the next it’s a yellowtail or another of our great inshore fish. It’s just too much fun!
Ask Steve Baldikoski from Los Angeles, Ca. Steve was fishing with me the other day and caught over 12 roosterfish, some barracuda and sierra mackerel. All on the fly. Steve wrote: My first time fly fishing in Saltwater. Had the time of my life. Grant is incredible, professional, charming, and most importantly patient. I only wish I had more days in Cabo to go out again.
John and Rob Whitaker from Los Angeles wrote: Nazario was Great! 10 Sierras, 10 roosterfish, and 3 pompano. Fabulous time ever!
Chuck and Sara Berra from St. Louis wrote: We had a great time. The service and teaching were fabulous. You delivered what you promised. Thanks! Lots of roosterfish, 3 yellowtail and one sierra mackerel.
The fishing is only going to be getting better as we move into our spring fishery. Already our May and June dates are filling quickly. If you want to fish the peak roosterfish season with us, start making plans now.
Offshore;
The striped marlin fishing is really starting to pick up again. Lots of fish 10 to 20 miles offshore. They can still have a bit of closed mouth, but you should be able to pick up a couple of fish on a daily basis.
The yellowfin are out 18 miles offshore, blind strikes are the norm and if you find a few porpoise, watch out, the bite can be really hot.
A few Dorado are being caught here and there. They are mostly a by-catch while trolling for striped marlin and YF tuna.
The photo is Bill Schoger and a nice fly caught roosterfish. He was fishing with our Captain Arturo on Flying fish 3. Out of Cabo San Lucas.
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.
The first is with Robert Tomes. Robert caught a really nice Colorado snapper on the fly. Everyone thinks that we dredge the fly for the snapper, but actually it's a sight fishery, and a lot of fun. You can watch it at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gl5Jt1wIqk
The second is with John and Gina Hass. It's titled " This isnt Sea World" Both Gisel and I joined them on their trip and we had a lot of fun. All of us fed the Sea Lion by mouth and Gina had gun feeding the Pelicans. I had left my video camera at home, so we took it with a Olympus digital camera that has a video mode. This film is a lot of fun! watch it at:
The weather in Cabo is perfect with beautiful 80 degree sunny days. I know I am being redundant, stating that every week, it's just that I am reminded on a daily basis when I meet my guests first thing in the morning and they tell me they left 12" of snow, and it's been a long winter.
One guest from Jackson Hole, Wyoming says that Jackson has had 500 inches of snow this year, and cant wait to take off his shoes, walk in the sand and cast a fly.
The fishing has been really good inshore. Just a lot of sierra mackerel, with some roosterfish, jacks, yellowtail, amber-jacks and snappers thrown in. That's mostly on the fly, but a few folks chose to go light spinning and did really well.
Rick Wall from Houston, Texas wanted to try fly fishing. It was Ricks first time ever to hold a fly rod in his hand, and a 10-wt to boot. We went out of the marina and I taught Rick how to cast, strip and fight the fish. Rick was a heck of a fast learner and we had a fantastic day on the water. He ended up catching a ton of sierra mackerel on the fly. Rick is hooked for sure now!
My good friend Dan Driscol from New York took his son Tim out fishing with me the other day. it was Tim's first time out with the fly and he also ended up having a great day with the sierra mackerel. Tim stated- We were catching fish every few minutes or so on the fly, but all the boats in our area were catching nothing. We out fished them 10 to 1.
The offshore fishing continues to be slow. Some football sized fish way offshore and a few marlin around, you would be lucky if you caught one marlin in a days outing. with the slow offshore fishing, most marlin boats are heading inshore to tackle the sierra mackerel with their marlin rods and fighting chairs.
Pictured is Rick Walls first fish on a fly. A t feisty sierra mackerel.
Rick was fishing with me as his guide on one of our Ocean Catamarans "Flying fish 4". Out of Cabo San Lucas.
You just cant beat Cabo for the weather, it's absolutely perfect with long sunny days and daytime highs around 80 degrees.
The offshore fishing has been really slow for striped marlin and dorado. Count yourself lucky if you get one striped marlin a day with conventional gear. The yellow-fin tuna are 30 miles out. The fish are football sized and can be found under the porpoise.
The inshore fly and spin fishing continues to be really good for sierra mackerel, jack cravelle, roosterfish, and cubera snappers.
Ask Peter Bowers. Peter owner of the Patient angler fly shop in Bend, Oregon caught 15 roosterfish on the fly, plus tons of sierra mackerel on the fly. Peter said it was a awesome day on the water!
Fly fishing writer Robert Tomes from Chicago, Illinois. had another great day on the water, he caught sierra mackerels and then we came across a school of Cubera snappers on top. He made the perfect cast and the snapper took my brown rat fly.
You could not ask for better weather. It’s absolutely beautiful. Warm sunny days outside temperatures around 80 degrees, with low winds.
Inshore fishing has been really great on most days. Plenty of action for the fly fisher.
We have been catching roosterfish, jacks, and sierra mackerel on the fly and light spinning gear.
For those that haven’t tried it, the inshore fishing in Cabo can be very exciting action. You just don’t know what you are going to cast to next, one time it’s a bunch of roosterfish chasing your fly, the next cast, you are casting to a school of sierra mackerel. Add a few jacks, and it’s perfect.
Our Sierra Mackerel are a great sportsfish. They take the fly readily, with blazing runs into your backing. The Sierra’s in Cabo aren’t the smaller sierras you see in other parts of Baja. These fish run anywhere from 5 lbs to 14lbs. Be sure to use wire leader, as they have a set of choppers that can bite right though the heaviest of mono. Also, be careful taking the fly out of his mouth, long-nose pliers are recommended.
The roosterfish are abundant on most days, but pick a low pressure and it’s hard to catch them. They like sunny days. The fish are generally under 15lbs, but we have caught a few lately over 30 lbs.
The jacks are back, and there are some nice ones. The fish have stopped their mating daisy chain thing and have gone back to chasing bait on the beach. These guys are brutes and can put up a real fight.
Our offshore fishing is very slow right now. The best bet is marlin, but they are spread out all over the place. The Dorado and YFT fishing is just that, fishing, not too much catching. The water temperatures are around 70 degrees.
Pictured is my wife Gisel with a nice Sierra mackerel on the fly.
I posted a new video on You Tube. It's a inshore video with plenty of action catching big roosterfish, jacks, and sierra mackerel on the fly and spinning rods.
Check out the fun at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhdNsdBMslA
