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Cabo: Challenging this time of year
Cabo has some of the best year round big game fishing of anywhere in the world but this time of year things can get tough. Rapidly changing conditons, weather, fish bitting full speed in an area one day then gone the next. That was some of the conditions I faced the last couple of days. The only saving grace was the weather. Aside from being cold by our standars, there was no wind and flat calm seas. Perfect for speading hours and hours in the binos looking for any sign that fish are around. I like to target the outside this time of year. Not many boats out there and if I can find the mamlas I can have them all to myself and not get over run by other boats. Also this is the time of year when you can find kelps on the outside. Most of the time the water is too warm down here and the kelps die as they drift down the coast. This time of year the water is cool enough that the kelps stay alive all the way down. If you can find one, the amount of fish that can be round it is unreal. Tuna, Wahoo, Dorado, Yellowtail, Marlin.....The water conditions were really off the first morning pukey green and as cold as 66. The water was so calm I could spot the sleepers at 20 knots a mile away. Too bad none of them wanted to bite. We did see a few Mako sharks and got 3 of them to bite. Good fun. As time passed and my eyes stared to play tricks on me from looking so hard and long in the binos, I saw something in the distance break the surface but I couldn't tell what it was. Maybe it was Flipper. As I watched I could see the disturbed water but I couldn't figure out what they were. It wasn't mamlas. As I got closer it became clear as to what I was looking at. INK !!!!! Giant Squid, Sea Monsters...... I know there has been some big ones caught off of San Diego last month but these sucks were the real big ones. 40-60# suckers. There were hundreds of them on the surface eating red crab. We stopped, tied on the heavy iron on the 30w's and dropped them in. I no time all 4 of use were getting our asses kicked by these giants. We caught 5 or 6 and off we went. As the time passed I was starting to think my luck had run out after months of great fishing when out of nowhere I see them.....Flipper. We get into to school and the tuna came out and we werehooked up. We made several passes getting 10 fish before the tuna sank out and the mamals broke up and were gone. On the troll home I spot a fin in the distance. Another Mako. We pitch a bait on it and it bites. It becomes clear after a bit of time that this isn't the normal little Mako. As it gets closer to the boat I can see it's around 150#. Nice one. It does the typical Mako get close to the boat, turn down and rip off 100 feet of line. It did this 3 or 4 times. Cool fish.
Yesterday was very much like the day before. However, the dirty, cold water had changed to warmer blue water over night. The other big changed was that I spotted 6 or 7 Mako's.. None of the would bite. Anothe differance the squid. The squid were up and feeding as far as the eyes could see in the binos. I think the Mako's were full from eating all day and didn't want mackeral. Same as the day before the gods were kind to us and we found a spot of holeheads after hours of not catching a thing. This bunch ahad some nicer tuna on it. We caught tuna up to 30#'s. On the ride back in 10 miles out in the green water a Marlin comes in and bats around the rigger lure. A quick drop back and we are on. Not too bad for the changing conditions as is normal this time of year. Better lucky than good I always say.
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