How to target yellowfin tunas out from Cabo San Lucas.

How to target yellowfin tunas out from Cabo San Lucas.

Targeting yellowfin tunas in Cabo San Lucas. 

Knowledgeable captains have countless yellowfin tuna fishing spots in Cabo San Lucas, and since the fish migrate through our local banks all summer, you might find them anywhere on a given day. But the fish return to certain places like clockwork each year. These include the San Jaime bank.Yellowfin tunas in Cabo San Lucas

Finding the fish usually isn’t hard – but catching them can be a different matter entirely. Yellowfin tunas spend the vast majority of their time far below the surface. If you’re lucky enough to intercept them on the rare occasion when they rise to feed on the surface, you are way ahead of the game. But what about the other 90 percent of the time, when you know the fish are there but they stay deep? How can you elicit a strike in those circumstances?

A sign of activity. Dolphin can often mark the spot for Tuna in the open ocean.

Whether you are fishing with lures or bait, chum is often effective on tuna of all sorts, and Yellowfin are no exception. You can either chum with live bait or chunks of cut bait. That helps keep the fish around the boat. For trolling, you can try tuna feathers, cedar plugs, and plastic skirted trolling lures.

 According to research, yellowfins show an affinity for waters in the 72-82 degree Fahrenheit range, with larger fish preferring slightly cooler waters. By studying SST (sea surface temperature) charts you can hone down your search area significantly when looking for fish, and you’ll find the best fishing in areas of optimal water temperature.

Like terrafin app or satfish webpage are two great options that will help you look SST charts for about $100 usd per year. 

 Speaking of charts, any marine angler worth his salt knows the importance of structure. Reefs, shoals, ledges, humps, seamounts all attract bait, which in turn attract larger predators. When all else fails you can usually find a few fish around structure, regardless of how deep it is. Add any or all of the above and the action just gets hotter.

Put a variety of different baits in your spread. Tuna can be very finicky and it’s tough to “match the trolling for tuna with squidsatch” if you don’t know what they’re feeding on. Run a variety of baits – squid bars, spreader bars, daisy chains and single baits – and if you notice certain ones getting most of the action, switch out your other baits for more of the same.

While all this may seem frivolous on a public level, the sneak attack from above seems to work the best and when it comes to yellowfin tuna fishing nothing…and i do mean NOTHING…will pull the wool over their penetrating eyes more so than the deployment of a kite or helium balloon with a robbery flying fish. 

 

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Going after big yellowfin tunas in Cabo San Lucas

Going after big yellowfin tunas in Cabo San Lucas

Going after big yellowfin tunas in Cabo San Lucas

Yellowfin tunas in Cabo San Lucas

The first thing we do is get all of our gear ready the day before like helium balloon, juming fish, binoculars, live bait and our secret lures.

Then in the morning of the charter, before we get out of the marina we look at our water temperatures and chlorophyll so that we can make a decision base science.

Once we look at out apps for wind, water temperature and chlorophyll we get the numbers on our gps so that we can head that way.

Once we get close to the target area we start looking out of our binoculars to find birds and dolphins.

Once we find them we get to them as soon as possible and depending on how they are behaving we ether get the kite, parachute, lures or bait out into the water to attract the tunas. 

If we go by the dolphins a few time and we don’t see anything in our sonar, we move on and start looking into our binoculars again to find another big school of dolphins that can guide us the the yellowfin tunas. 

Yellowfin tunas in Cabo San Lucas

The game is all about persistence and patience.

If you let your guide do his job and enjoy the ride you will have the experience of your life time and finish your day with the biggest catch ever. 

Yellowfin tunas in Cabo San Lucas

 

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96ft Mardiosa in Cabo San Lucas.

96ft Mardiosa  in Cabo San Lucas.

The 96ft Mardiosa is a Barattucci yacht was newly refitted to blend modern elegance, with excellent seakeeping abilities to offer an exemplary, luxurious cruising experience.

96ft Mardiosa yacht in Cabo San Lucas
96ft Mardiosa yacht in Cabo

The elegant 96ft Mardiosa was built in 2004 by Barattucci Yacht INC. and fully refitted in 2018, She is now in pristine condition. Powered by MTU engines of 2435 hp each giving her a maximum speed of 33 knots and a cruising speed of 28 knots. The motor yacht can accommodate 8 guests in 4 cabins. She boats a wide spacious saloon with natural oak and walnut finishing as well as a very cosy warm sofas and dark wood wooden floors. She has a wide dining area for 8 guests and a fully‐equipped galley and extensive entertainment space : Cockpit with table, sundeck in the bow and on the fly.

96ft Amrdiosa yacht in Cabo San Lucas

This beautiful 96ft Mardiosa was equipped as a Luxury Performance Sport Yacht with a huge fishing deck, a Simrad navigation and 3D sounder side scan , She also have Furuno sounder 360 deg capability, we just installed time zero nav with 3D capabilities and 4 tuna tubes to be ready for the big fishing tournaments in Cabo San Lucas.
All new custom trolling rods. 80- 130 lb with teagra 50s 130 spectra to 80lb mono ,50 scoop live well plus our fish hold freezes salt water to 27 degrees with also a deck freezer for flet commercial grade vacuum seal pack. 

That makes her extra special for multiple day fishing charters to Mag Bay witch we recommend going from August to November or a nice Sea of Cortez adventure were you will experience white sand beaches, scuba diving on some of the biggest aquariums in the world like Cabo Pulmo or swimming with whale sharks in islands around La Paz Baja California Sur. 

For more information please contact us via email tagcabosportfishing@gmail.com or click on the link Luxury yacht charters in Cabo San lucas 

Cabo fishing report/ Cabo fishing reports August 16th 2017

Cabo fishing report/ Cabo fishing reports August 16th 2017

Cabo fishing reports August 2017

 

Cabo fishing report August 16th 2017.

Fishing in Cabo keeps getting better and better! Just when we thought it could’t get any better, we start catching fish in all of our local bancks. 

 
Big game fish are even closer to shore. We have been fishing onboard smaller 20ft Pangas and 32ft fishing vessels with action right in front of the light house where we have been catching a lot of dorados and small yellowfin tunas every day.
 
We are also catching Stripped marlin, darado and small yellowfin tunas out of the golden gate bank. We recommend bigger boats to go out there since thats out on the pacific side and the wind has been picking up during the day.
 
Now, we have also been catching some big black and blue marlin 7 miles straight out from the famous arch. We can take you out their on our 32 footers unless you would like to be super comfortable, we always have bigger yachts to accommodate larger groups or anglers with expensive taste.
 
If you are an experienced Angler looking to get into one of the best sport fishing fights, then we highly recommend getting you all set up and taking you out into the gordo banks. This is where we have been catching many yellowfin tunas and they are all between 80 to 120 pounds, and even a few over 200 pounds here and there. 
 
The weather is great as well, temperature in between low 80s and low 90s, and humidity is not as bad as it was a few weeks ago. The wind has been cooperating with us at 8kt in the Sea of Cortez and 11kt in on the Pacific side.
 
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Cabo fishing reports August 10th 2017/Cabo fishing report

Cabo fishing reports August 10th 2017/Cabo fishing report

Cabo fishing report

Cabo fishing report August 10th 2017

 Yesterday we went out fishing onboard our 32ft Striper with Captain Jobe Villabicencio looking for a big blue or black marlin. 

Our friend Carlos Gonzales from Fairfield, California came down to Cabo to have a great time with his wife and daughter. After having spent a few days of relaxing and spending quality time with the family, he came onboard with us in search of a monster big game fish!

 
With the mentality of any pro fishermen, we were looking forward to get a monster fish hook. So we started the day by heading into the local inshore bank were we caught a couple of small yellowfin tunas, a decent dorado, and a couple of bonitas. After that, we headed down towards San Jose del Cabo to the gordo banks, and because the water temperature is around 85 degrees around that area, along with having heard that other anglers were catching big black marlins around that area. So we get there, started trolling a few big lures along with dead bait all the way in the back. After about an hour we get a black marlin striking one of the lures a couple of times, and then vanished back into the ocean. It definitely got our blood pumping and exited to see action around the area were we decided to fish. About 15 minutes later, a small panga fishing around the same area as us got a black marlin hooked and fought that beast for around 30 minutes before the huge black marlin won the battle and got away. Right after that we get a fast and strong strike on one of our lures. We were all happy and hoping that it was a big black marlin, and after fighting it for like 10 minutes we got to see the color. To our surprise, it was a nice big 40 pound wahoo! We were all happy especially, our friend Carlos, since he has never caught a wahoo before and it was actually the biggest fish he has ever caught. 
 
Our weather has gotten even better. The humidity has dropped, wind has been really strong on the pacific side, but the sea of Cortez it has been just like glass. 
 
What we are catching the most is yellowfin tuna and dorado we are catching them 2 miles of from Santa Maria bay. Marlin and wahoo are here as well, but you would have to go out 25+ miles off of shore to find them.
 
Fishing is great right now down here in Cabo San Lucas. If you have been thinking of fishing down here, now is the time!
 
We are so fortunate year around down here in Cabo. Although being considered one of (if not THE best) place to fish in the world, that doesn’t necessarily mean fishing is always as great as it is right now. If you’re looking into booking your next fishing trip, Cabo is the place to be! 

 

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Cabo fishing report August 8th 2017/ Cabo fishing reports

Cabo fishing report August 8th 2017/ Cabo fishing reports

Cabo fishing reports August 8th 2017

Cabo fishing reports August 8th 2017

This summer just keeps getting better and better down here in Cabo San Lucas, MX. 
 
Last month was just great as we caught black marlins, wahoos, dorados, small yellowfin tunas, with some of them being well over 200 pounds, big rooster fish, sierras and a few sail fish.
 
This first week of August was just as great as last month, if not even better. We fished 5 days out of the 8 in different boats within our fleet and it was great every single day.
 
One of the days we went out looking for black and blue marlin around the San Jaime bank. We got to the bank around 8am, and as soon as we got there we began trolling a few big luhrs, two dredges and a dead bait way in the back. After about 25 minutes, we heard the shimano reel go off, we looked back and saw a big blue marlin jumping out of the water and instantly knew the fight was on. Since we saw the hook right on the side of its mouth, my good friend Chuck Baker got on the fighting chair and fought the blue marlin for about 20 minutes, once the marlin got right to the boat we unhooked and then released it without getting it out of the water. After that first catch, we started trolling again, but a friend of ours found a dead sea turtle floating about 20 miles from us and it had a huge school of dorados feeding, so we got all the lines out of the water and headed that way. We got to the spot and just like he said, there was a big school of dorados all around the dead turtle. We started trolling live bait, but they didn’t seem to be interested too much on it so we started chumming dead bait and that really set them off. The fight was back on! At the end of the day we caught 12 dorados, released 4 of them because they were too small, and we also released the blue marlin.
 
The other days were just as good, and have been catching a lot of yellowfin tunas by finding the dolphins, trolling cedar plugs and flying the kite with a rubber flying fish. We have been catching and releasing plenty of striped marlin by trolling lures, dredges and dead bait and within the same areas. This same strategy has been great for catching dorados too.
 
The weather has been great with our highest being around the 90s and low 80s and a bit humid, but once you are out on the ocean, the breeze feels so good you’ll want to stay all day out there. 
 
The water temperature is 78 degrees in shore and 82 degrees off shore (degrees Fahrenheit)
 
The wind is about 4kt to 8kt that is actually really good for fishing.
 
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