Advantage Flyfishers

[bajafly]

Endless Season Update May 9, 2011

REPORT #1255 "Below the Border"

Saltwater Fly-Fishing reports since 1996

East Cape

Offshore action was not what the doctor ordered for the fly-fishing angler. Near perfect weather with little wind and

calm seas provided almost perfect conditions but there were few fish to be found and the result was that dreaded

trolling, trolling, trolling game so despised by most fly-fishers.

The clever ones remained inshore and had a steady pick of a variety of something's…bonita, skipjack, jack crevalle,

cabrilla, pargo, and in addition to small roosters, a few teen’ers and one grande, which was taken from the shore by

Lance Peterson.

The beaches are already as crowded as the trout opener in the Sierras, which has plenty of locals shaking their

collective heads. One I bumped into on the beach under the blazing midday sun commented. “The beach fishing

scene has been changing for years, but now it has really turned the corner, at least for me.” He continued, “It’s the

classic ‘end of an era’. I talked with XXXX the other day and he was in total agreement. Way more people and far less

mystery. The cat is way out of the bag on this fishery!”

.

Current East Cape Weather http://tiny.cc/EastCapeWeather303

Magdalena Bay, Baja Mexico

More fish than anglers is the best description I can think of for Magdalena Bay. Offshore, there are rumors of tonnage

of bait but with so much green water that it extends nearly twenty miles out. No one is sure of what is outside of the

color line.

The esteros are producing the usual grouper, snapper and corvina but again with few, if any visiting anglers, it is tough

to determine how good or bad it is.

Current Magdalena Bay Weather http://tiny.cc/MagBayWeather150

Zihuatanejo, Mainland Mexico

The blue water is only four miles off the beach but offshore fishing has yet to recover from the three day, 179 boat,

tournament this last weekend. Water temperatures have warmed up all up and down the coast, and it appears the

roosters have made it back. Adolfo, on the panga Dos Hermanos fished with clients hooking 15 roosters from 15 to 25

kilos (33 to 55 pounds). He told me they missed a lot more. Most of the roosters were taken on surface poppers.…Ed

Kunze

Current Zihuatanejo Weather http://tiny.cc/zihuatanejo582

Cabo San Lucas

In a repeat of last weeks report, the striped marlin have remained at the 1150, or in the general area all week long. If

you have good live bait there is the possibility of action. The boats scoring best are using live bait as drop-backs on fish

coming into the lures. A great catch this week was four releases but almost everyone had at least one. I pulled on a

fish myself this week for an hour on stand-up 30 pound. It just would not give up; a nice fish of over 150 pounds,

scoring a release with live bait. We also had one of about 130 pounds on a lure. Plenty of Jumpers and feeders most

days; we had an active feeder right along the side of the boat while I was fighting my fish, but there was no more bait

left.

What was interesting was the number of thresher sharks we saw early in the morning, we must have seen at least ten.

We were seeing a lot more marlin this week as well, and some boats reported seeing over 100 fish during a day’s trip.

If the warm water continues we might be seeing some blues and blacks soon. There were swordfish seen again this

week in the area just to the north of the Gordo Banks and one boat caught one six miles off of Grey Rock as well.

I saw a couple of white flags that may have represented yellowfin this week, but they may have been for bonita as well

since I heard of no yellowfin being caught over the radio, nor did anyone I talk to mention any tuna.

A few yellow flags once again indicated the catch of some dorado, but there was no hot and heavy bite, at least not

yet. Warm water means they can’t be far behind though. We sure are looking forward to the first school of them

coming through!

We are coming through the new moon phase so there were few wahoo reported, but there were a couple of decent

fish caught. The ones I heard about were said to be in the 35-pound class and were caught by boats trolling lures for

striped marlin.

On the Pacific side there has been a great bite on small roosterfish to 10 pounds with a few 20 pound fish in the mix

and a decent bite on sierra. The key to action was to get sardina as chum and bait, otherwise things were a bit slow.

Nice action was had on jack crevalle as well… man those fish can fight! The yellowtail seem to have moved north

following the cooler water as the last report I had on any decent action was from the rock points up past Golden Gate

Bank…George and Mary Landrum

Current Cabo Weather http://tiny.cc/cabo191

[mariam]

Hope you people had a wonderful time on your trip. The picture are really nice. You are lucky enough as you have managed to get some big catches

[Popeye]

Hope you people had a wonderful time on your trip. The picture are really nice. You are lucky enough as you have managed to get some big catches

Hi miriam! Popeye.

[mariam]

Hi!!

The striped marlin is so beautiful.