Photo by Walt Peterson
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he waters around Cabo San Lucas at the southern tip of the peninsula provide
among the finest marlin fishing in the world, and you have an excellent chance
of catching one, even if your boat is only a small cartopper or an inflatable. The
coast from Cabo San Lucas to Bahía de la Ventana remains one of the most
productive sports fisheries on the globe, with catches of enough blue marlin,
dolphinfish, and sailfish to keep the campfire stories going on for years-in one
year, fishermen were complaining that hordes of dolphinfish and sailfish made it
difficult to catch blue marlin in the Bahía las Palmas area! Punta Arena de la
Ventana and Ensenada Muertos are the finest roosterfish grounds anywhere, and the
channel between Ventana and Isla Cerralvo has excellent fishing for striped
marlin, wahoo, sailfish, and dolphinfish. |
here is fine fishing elsewhere. The warm months bring dolphinfish, the perfect
game fish, to the Loreto area, and they are readily accessible. The California
yellowtail is one of the most abundant and popular gamefish in Baja's Pacific and
Cortez waters. As the northern Cortez cools down in winter, yellows head south,
leaving Bahía Gonzaga and showing up at Santa Rosalía, then Mulegé and so on, and
in summer the migration is reversed. Those who arrive on the scene of this
migrating horde, by luck or design, will be treated to some fantastic fishing.
There are many other locations that seasonally offer fine fishing for those with
access to boats: the San Quintín area, Bahía de los Angeles, the seamounts that
dot the Pacific coast, the Bahía Magdalena area, and others. For those who prefer
beach-casting, the great sweep of Pacific beaches between El Rosario and Guerrero
Negro, and between Bahía Tortugas and Bahía Magdalena, especially the outer
beaches of the islands forming the latter bay, can be outstanding, and there are
places where dolphinfish, marlin, and yellowfin tuna have been caught from shore.
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