Are you ready for Thanksgiving? I sure am. I am thankful for so many things... my new baby, having my family back here in Cabo. Our 2nd son, Elias, was born October 16th. What a blessing! I could go on and on, but I won't bore you with that.

We had a surprise, late season hurricane come baring down on Cabo. Fortunately it turned into a tropical storm before it got here. I can't complain... all the rain this year has made the hill sides so incredibly green! For those of you who are planning to come down here, I can't wait to se you.

Take care, and we'll see you soon!

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Tip of the Month: Stop and really give thanks!

This last month I had the blessing in my life to receive another baby into our family. My wife and I now have two boys. As we approach the US Thanksgiving holiday, I want to make sure you remind yourself to stop and really give thanks. Following are some excerpts from Representative Skelton (D-MO) a few years ago with reasons to give thanks:

We give thanks for the good fortune of living in a land of plenty. Unlike those in some countries around the world, most Americans have a safe place to live, enough food to eat, and are able to provide for their families. We strive to create the conditions in which all people have the opportunity to be so fortunate.

We give thanks for our families, friends, and neighbors, both near and far. We look forward to the opportunity to enjoy their company. Whether in person or through holiday greetings, letters, and calls, they are always with us in our thoughts and give us strength when times are good and when times are difficult.

We give thanks to the men and women who are serving in our armed forces, at home and abroad. Our special gratitude goes to military families for their many sacrifices. We can never repay them for their willingness to share their sons and daughters, husbands and wives, and fathers and mothers, with their fellow citizens in order to serve our country and protect our freedoms.

We give thanks for the strength and determination that is required to deal with the challenges we face, but we also give thanks for the belief in the bright future that lies ahead of us. The American spirit of optimism will always keep us working to make things better for our children and our grandchildren. We pray for the wisdom to recognize and appreciate all of these gifts.

Fish Report: The Fish Are Biting...

Most common daily catches include dorado, yellowfin tuna and striped marlin, with an outside chance at a wahoo and a few other miscellaneous species. Water clarity was clear and blue within a couple miles of shore and water temperatures ranged from 79 to 82 degrees throughout most of the region.

For the past several months live sardinas were plentiful in the area of La Playita, but this past week was a different story, the preferred baitfish moved out of this area and were now being found further south, from Palmilla to Santa Maria and they were of smaller size. This meant that the local panga fleet now had to back track in order to obtain bait and this contributed to all around more difficult fishing for the San Jose fleets.

Cabo San Lucas charter boats reported excellent action for dorado on the Pacific, particularly on the more distant Banks. Action was wide open on both lures and bait and the fish were quality sized, ranging from 15 to 50 pounds. The dorado action inside the Sea of Cortez was much more scattered and the fish were of smaller size, most of them weighing less than twenty pounds.

Wahoo action was very slow, only about one in a dozen charters accounted for one fish and many of them were taken incidentally while fishing for tuna or dorado with small baits and only monofilament. Anglers that were targeting these elusive fish specifically were not reporting much action at all. We still are hoping that there will be a late season bite on these fish, water temperatures are holding above normal and hopefully these prized gamefish will become more prevalent in the coming weeks.

Larger yellowfin tuna continued to be found on both the Inner and Outer Gordo Banks, though the numbers of fish actually landed were not significant, the quality was definitely there, as many fish that weighed from 50 to over 100 pounds were brought in this past week. Several fish that would have topped 200 pounds were hooked into, only to be lost after extended battles. Most successful techniques were using fresh dead sardinas in a chum line, chunking with skipjack or cocinero and trolling with chihuil. Fluorocarbon leaders of  50 to 90 pound also proved to be an advantage.

Billfish action was good for striped marlin on the Pacific and outside of Chileno, up to thirty miles out. On Saturday there was a double hook up on blue marlin reported from a cruiser out of Palmilla, they were fishing within one mile of Cabo Real and using lighter forty pound gear, after losing one of the blues they did manage to land the other one after a five hour battle and it weighed in the 400 to 450 pound range.

The combined panga fleets launching from La Playita sent out approximately 226 charters for the week, with anglers accounting for a fish count of: 7 striped marlin, 14 sailfish, 345 dorado, 18 wahoo, 225 white skipjack, 338 yellowfin tuna, 9 grouper, 14 cabrilla, 5 amberjack, 20 pargo, 15 rainbow runners, 18 roosterfish and 72 sierra.

Brought to you by

Jeremiah Blackwell, REALTOR®

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