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Winter Snook & White Seabass??

Bajabytes Sport Fishing Update 12.13.23 Winter Snook & White Seabass??

Bajabytes Sport Fishing Update 12.13.23

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Welcome to the expanded 2024 Baja Bytes. The following is our weekly report, highlighting four additional fishing “hot spots” from the Coronado Islands to Land’s End at Cabo San Lucas.

They are: Guerrero Negro, La Bocana, Santa Rosalia, and Punta Chivato.

If you have a favorite location that isn’t listed and if you know anyone in that area we should contact, please let us know, and we will try to include them in our next report.

Gary Graham – That Baja Guy

Imperial Beach (including the 9 Mile Bank)
12.13.23 -Fishing at the 9 Mile Bank is currently providing the most productive action. Guys are fishing in 400 to 700 feet of water and catching lots of bocaccio, Mexicans, bank perch, green spots, and more.
If whitefish is your target, try Buoy#3 or the Whistler. You want to use squid strips on little hooks as whitefish have small mouths. Some sheepshead are here for the guys fishing with shrimp.

The sand bass bite at the IB Pipe is probably the best bet for catching some bass. You might get a few sculpin and maybe a halibut if you are lucky! …Fish Dope

Coronado Islands/Rockpile
Yellowtail usually begin to show on the Flats, east of South Island, and down to the Rockpile in 150 to 250 feet of water around this time of year. They have been showing here in the winter for the past 8 to 10 years running.
The trick is to locate schools of yellowtail on the sonar and figure out which way they are going. Then, try to get ahead of them and drop yoyo iron on them.

**** ATTENTION **** You must stay at least 250 meters (820 feet) away from any tuna pens. If you don’t, you are at risk of losing your boat and landing in a Mexican jail.
Click here for more details on this subject. …Fish Dope

Ensenada
Two anglers display their December yellowtail.
Young female;e angler with a nice-sized bonita.
A woman struggling to land a hard fighting yellowtail
Local trip Saturday, December 9, 2023. Limits by 9: 00 a.m. … Little horse sportfishing. Ensenada, BC. …Michael Perez Arias

San Quintin
No clients…no report!

Bahia de los Angeles
Flyer announcing a Geminids Meteor Shower on 13th and 14th of December.
A happy girl with a fat cabrilla.
Another nice-sized bonita caught in the local area.
Fish on!! Yellowtail, Bonita, Sardinera, Cabrilla…December 6…Nautilus Experience

BAJA SUR
Officers loading 600 kilos of undersized Catarine Clams confestated into a Pickup.
A fleet of Fonmar Trucks at scene of crime.
Varios equipment confiscated by Fonmar Officers.
Participating in an Inter-Institutional Operation in the municipality of Comondú, the retention of 600 kilos of Catarine Clam was achieved, a species for which there are no extraction permits due to their small sizes.

Adding efforts with the Secretariat of the Navy, CONAPESCA, and Municipal Public Security, all the marine products were returned alive to the sea. The boat and fishing equipment were secured.

Avoid penalties! If you don’t have a permit, don’t fish. #InspecciónYVigilancia #FonmarBCS

Guerrero Negro
A huge white seabass captured in the Pacific near Guerro Negro.
Awesome catch!!! My brother, Erik Medina, and I had a nice cavicucha (white sea bass). The weather was not very favorable, but we managed. It was a terrific fight and very exciting fishing! …Chema Medina

Ascension Bay
Angler ankle deep in the surf searching for a winning fish in the first Shore Fishing Tournament in beautiful San Hipolito!
.It was a fun day at the beach at the first Shore Fishing Tournament in beautiful San Hipolito! Many thanks to all the organizers, people of Fonmar, participants, and the Governor for sponsoring the first tournament there! …Shari Bondy

La Bocana
Quiet week no one fishing

Santa Rosalia
Need reports from the area! Please pas

Punta Chivato
9 / 10
Dorado is still biting, but slower. Other species are around in limited numbers. We got corvina, pargo, skipjack, sierra, cabrilla, hawkfish, yellowtail, and various jacks. Happy Holidays. From Craig and Theresa.

Bahía Concepción
Fishing tomorrow but the one report I received was Yellowtail Bite Wide Open. 4 boats caught limits of hefty Yellowtail by 9am…Nathan

I will have pics and a personal report tomorrow.

Loreto
A slightly different colored dorado caught by an excited lady angler.
Angler

Need a Mexican Fishing License? https://app.sportfishingbcs.gob.mx/
Welcome to the expanded 2024 Baja Bytes. The following is our weekly report, highlighting four additional fishing “hot spots” from the Coronado Islands to Land’s End at Cabo San Lucas.

They are Guerrero Negro, La Bocana, Santa Rosalia, and Punta Chivato.

If you have a favorite location that isn’t listed and if you know anyone in that area we should contact, please let us know, and we will try to include them in our next report.

Gary Graham – That Baja Guy


Ensenada
Two anglers display their December yellowtail.
Young femal;e angler with a nice sized bonita.
A woman struggling to land a hard fishgting yellowtail
Local trip Saturday, December 9, 2023. Limits by 9: 00 a.m. … Little horse sportfishing. Ensenada, BC. …Michael Perez Arias

San Quintin
No clients…no report!

Bahia de los Angeles
Flyer announcing a Geminids Meteor Shower on 13th and 14th of December.
A happy girl with a fat cabrilla.
Another nice sized bonita caught in the local area.
Fish on!! Yellowtail, Bonita, Sardinera, Cabrilla…December 6…Nautilus Experience

BAJA SUR
Officers loading 600 kilos of undersized Catarine Clams confestated into a Pickup.
A fleet of Fonmar Trucks at scene of crime.
Varios equipment confiscated by Fonmar Officers.
Participating in an Inter-Institutional Operation in the municipality of Comondú, the retention of 600 kilos of Catarine Clam was achieved, a species for which there are no extraction permits due to their small sizes.

Adding efforts with the Secretariat of the Navy, CONAPESCA, and Municipal Public Security, all the marine products were returned alive to the sea. The boat and fishing equipment were secured.

Avoid penalties! If you don’t have a permit, don’t fish. #InspecciónYVigilancia #FonmarBCS

Guerrero Negro
A huge white seabass catured in the Pacific near Guerro Negro.
Awesome catch!!! My brother, Erik Medina, and I had a nice cavicucha (white sea bass). The weather was not very favorable, but we managed. It was a terrific fight and very exciting fishing! …Chema Medina

Ascension Bay
Angler ankle deep in the surf searching for a winning fish in the first Shore Fishing Tournament in beautiful San Hipolito!
.It was a fun day at the beach at the first Shore Fishing Tournament in beautiful San Hipolito! Many thanks to all the organizers, people of Fonmar, participants, and the Governor for sponsoring the first tournament there! …Shari Bondy

La Bocana
Quiet week no one fishing

Santa Rosalia
Need reports from the area! Pass it on…

Punta Chivato
9 / 10
Dorado are still biting, but slower. Other species are around in limited numbers. We got corvina, pargo, skipjack, sierra, cabrilla, hawkfish, yellowtail, and various jacks. Happy Holidays. From Craig and Theresa.

Bahía Concepción
Fishing tomorrow but the one report I received was Yellowtail Bite Wide Open. 4 boats caught limits of hefty Yellowtail by 9am…Nathan

I will have pics and personal report tomorrow .

Loreto
A slightly different colored dorado caught by an excited lady angler.
Angler and Captain with a nice sized cabrilla just landed.
Another angler with Captain holding a nice sized yellowtail.
A fresh gaffed dorado showing off its distinctive gold color.
An Ice Cooler filled to the brim with a variety of diffenent local spiecies.
It was a nice day fishing with Captain Manuel Alonso Ruiz Olivarez and friends. …Elmer Cardenas

López Mateos
A mixed bag of colorful fish caught in the mangrove channels near Lopez Mateos.
A large box fille dwith more spiecies of fish that congrgate in the chanels surrounding Lopez Mateos
Here we are almost into the middle of December, and the water temp out at the Banks is still 76 degrees. There was no wahoo out at Thetis yesterday, but there were still a lot of big, fat, yellowfin tuna.

We are not giving up on wahoo yet.

All this week, we had excellent weather for going to the Banks!

We stopped on the way back by the Grouper Rocks and caught some nice grouper and huachinango with live bait – shrimp. Inside fishing is still very good with live bait! We had limits on almost everything: grouper, pargo, trigger, and corvina. We still have a few shy snook and halibut showing up…Cheri King

Angler, Mark Rayor with another trophy szed black snook.
Another surprise catch was a couple of nice sized halibut.
By the end of the day the cooler was filled with a variety of species.
Mangroves were good to us today!!!! Mark Rayor fomer owner of Vista Sea Sport

La Paz

MEXICAN MINUTE LA PAZ FISHING REPORT from Tailhunter Sportfishing for Week of Nov. 29- Dec. 9, 2023

East Cape
Boat Owner with large dorado
Another angler with similar sized dorado caught by other angler
One more making it three in one day in Loreto.
This week was GOLD for fishing. Get your Dorado Gold before the weather changes… Theresa Comber www.bajasawesome.com

Roostrfish and many different flies that work well.
The East Cape Tackle will once again host a series of fly tying and fly fishing seminars. The first session of the year will be on December 19th, starting at 10:00 at East Cape Tackle in the Plaza del Pueblo. Master Tier and long time Baja fishing guide, Mike Rieser will demonstrate some new twists on tying old patterns, while discussing techniques to fishing these flies. Come and enjoy an informal session and bring your own chair.

San Jose del Cabo
A happy couple with an impressive day s catch including dorado, wahoo,and yellowfin tuna.
December 10th, 2023
Weather conditions remain ideal for anglers and families arriving for the Holiday season. We have enjoyed a few cooler mornings in the low 60s and beautiful sunny days in the mid-80s.

Action throughout this week remained consistent and similar to last week. The main targets continue to be dorado and wahoo. It seems that the wahoo bite has slowed down a bit. This week, it was hard to catch the chiwili at the Gordo. The boats that looked for them were lucky if they caught two to three bait fish in almost the same number of hours. While fishing for chiwili, boats mostly caught green jacks, also known as cocinero. Even though not the favorite bait to troll with, the cocinero did catch several nice wahoo this week. There were not many strikes fast-trolling Rapalas or rigged ballyhoo, although a few of the smaller 10 to 15-pound wahoo were caught while casting shiny jigs on the surface, most strikes came closer to the boat.

The dorado bite was the main highlight this week. Many anglers said they couldn’t focus on the wahoo as the dorado took most of their bait. Most boats have been able to load up on their dorado limit with nice-sized fish. We continue to see big bulls, with many in the 30 to 40-pound range. Many of the boats are catching their limit, and they are also releasing multiple nice ones daily, which makes for a great catch-and-release experience.

The best fishing grounds this week for wahoo have been La Fortuna, Cardón, and Punta Gorda. The dorado are scattered throughout La Fortuna to Palmilla, with some bigger ones caught at La Fortuna and inner Gordo. We have also heard that the dorado bite is wide open on the Cabo Pacific side. A few anglers fishing for dorado and wahoo managed to hook a few striped marlin and sailfish.

The tuna bite at the Gordo remains slow. We did hear of a few bigger fish hooked later in the afternoon, with one weighing in at 197 pounds. Again, only a couple hooked up out of 10 to 15 boats. These occasional tuna were hooked on strips of squid, live or dead sardina, and live chiwili.

Not a lot of bottom action at this time. We have caught some snappers (red snapper and barred pargo) while jigging on different structures. A few sierra and roosterfish were also caught while slow trolling live bait closer to the shore. …Good Fishing, Brian …Good Fishing, Brian Brictson


Cabo San Lucas

Where Captain Tony's and Pisces Yachts & Sportfishing shop now stand tall, there once was a FONATUR office.
Throwback to earlier days at our Cabo San Lucas oasis, Where Captain Tony’s and Pisces Yachts & Sportfishing shop now stand tall, there once was a FONATUR office. Oh, the stories these cobblestone streets could tell. And let’s not forget the timeless presence of Tesoro Hotel (formerly Plaza Las Glorias) in the background, standing tall to this day. Cheers to growth, memories, and the ever-evolving beauty of Cabo San Lucas! www.piscessportfishing.com

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Posted byThat Baja Guy - Gary GrahamDecember 13, 2023Posted inBaja Península Weekly Fishing Report, Baja Report, Baja Snook, Baja Sportfishing Report, Fonmar, Loreto Sportfishing, MILF Jigs,, wahoo, yellowfin tunaTags:#blacksnook, doradoEditWinter Snook & White Seabass??
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