Friday, October 24, 2008

This is our good friend Alan Stirling, this is what he does when he can’t be in Cabo catching marlin…….it’s a big fish for Scotland.

Hi there guys,just thought I'd send a picture of my latest good fish,a 23 lb 2 oz pike,caught from a loch ( lake ) 35 minutes from where i live.I can't wait to get back out to Cabo,won't be next year,but probably the year after.Hope everyone's fine.

Alan Stirling.

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Los Cabos Billfish Tournament results

Friday the 17th was the last fishing day for the tournament that kicked of the season, the Los Cabos Billfish Tournament, in its 10th year. Unfortunately there were not a whole lot of blue marlin around. Only one fish qualified, which swept the winnings. Valerie had a fish that came up 10 lbs short of the minimum weight of 300 lbs, for a team from Finland, which was disappointing and one 300 lb plus fish was disqualified as it was mutilated. Other than these there were more striped marlin and dorado than anything else.

Here are the results:

DORADO DIVISION

Summer time, dorado 52 lbs total winnings $18,883.00 us

WAHOO DIVISION

Hang and high, wahoo 44.5 lbs total winnings $11,883 us

TUNA DIVISION

Picante express, tuna 181.10 lbs fought 1 hour and a half, total winnings $11,887.00 us



RELEASE DIVISION

Get over it 22 released marlin they won the daily released of day one, two and three, total winnings $40,500.00 us

ALL JACKPOT 3 DAYS

Karma with a 415 lbs, this is the 2nd larger check on this tournament (10th anniversary of this tournament) $500,059 us

Courtesy video from Chris Durukal

A few weeks ago we posted a couple of pictures of Chris and Cenk Durukal and their dream trip to Cabo, now Chris was kind enough to share this video so you can all see what a wonderful fishing trip they had.

Thank you Chris,



Here is a link to Chris´s channel on YouTube, he has some awesome fishing videos!!!
http://www.youtube.com/user/FirschHirsch

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Testimonial... Great day aboard the Bandito


Dear Pisces Staff,
I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for the fishing trip of a lifetime, we fished with Rigo and Martin, on Oct 5-6, 2008, at the Golden Gate with 3 Striped Marlin and Three Dorado on the 5th and 7 Striped Marlin on the 6th, the crew worked hard and put us on very nice fish, I highly recommend Pisces for anyone that is looking for the trip of a lifetime, due to the great results, we have decided to make this an annual trip, and book with you, I look forward to seeing y’all next year.
I have attached some photos of our trip as well.

Kenny Stetz, Houston TX.

Friday, October 10, 2008

Norbert Images...

Hurricane has no effect on Cabo San Lucas.
The picture of the marina was taken at 10.30 am on Friday, Oct. 10th.


The port was close as a precaution, but we have no rain, now wind and pretty normal waves.

The nearby storm did produce a beautiful sunrise. Photo taken at 6.45 am close to the Old Lighthouse.


We expect the port to be open tomorrow Saturday Oct. 11th.

Thursday, October 09, 2008

Red neck (or arm) fishing...

Norbert Update...

It looks like Cabo will be spared the effects of Hurricane Norbert.
The storm is moving on a north westerly track and will be parallel with Cabo in the early hours of Friday morning.
From the projected track, it will pass just north of the tip of the peninsula.


Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Weather update, Norbert


HURRICANE NORBERT DISCUSSION NUMBER 19
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL EP152008
800 AM PDT WED OCT 08 2008

NORBERT UNDERWENT RAPID INTENSIFICATION OVERNIGHT...AND THE CYCLONE
NOW HAS AN IMPRESSIVE SATELLITE PRESENTATION CONSISTING OF A
WELL-DEFINED EYE SURROUNDED BY A RING OF VERY DEEP CONVECTION. THE
INITIAL INTENSITY IS INCREASED TO 110 KT BASED ON A COMPROMISE
BETWEEN THE SUBJECTIVE DVORAK ESTIMATES OF 102 KT AND OBJECTIVE
DVORAK ESTIMATES NEAR 125 KT. WITH THE LARGE-SCALE ENVIRONMENT
EXPECTED TO REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR ANOTHER DAY OR SO...INTENSITY
WILL BE LARGELY CONTROLLED BY THE INNER-CORE STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION
IN THE SHORT-TERM. FORECASTING SUCH INNER-CORE CHANGES IS
DIFFICULT BUT GUIDANCE SUGGEST THAT NORBERT COULD GET A LITTLE
STRONGER...PERHAPS REACHING CATEGORY 4 STRENGTH. IN ABOUT 36-48
HOURS...VERTICAL SHEAR IS FORECAST TO INCREASE AND SSTS GRADUALLY
DECREASE ALONG THE FORECAST TRACK. ADDITIONALLY...NORBERT COULD BE
NEGATIVELY IMPACTED BY RELATIVELY STABLE AIR TO ITS NORTHWEST.
STILL...NORBERT COULD APPROACH BAJA CALIFORNIA AS A HURRICANE...AND
INTERESTS OVER THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE PENINSULA
SHOULD MONITOR THE PROGRESS OF THIS SYSTEM.

NORBERT CONTINUES TO MOVE AROUND A STRONG RIDGE OVER THE
SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES RESULTING IN A WEST-NORTHWEST HEADING...
OR 290 DEGREES AT 8 KNOTS. A GRADUAL TURN TOWARD THE NORTHWEST IS
EXPECTED DURING THE NEXT TWO DAYS AS THE CYCLONE REACHES THE
WESTERN PERIPHERY OF THE RIDGE. THEREAFTER...A TURN TOWARD THE
NORTH AND NORTHEAST WITH AN INCREASE IN FORWARD SPEED IS EXPECTED
AS A LARGE MID-LATITUDE TROUGH DEVELOPS OVER THE WESTERN UNITED
STATES AND ADJACENT PACIFIC. WHILE ALL OF THE DYNAMICAL MODELS
FORECAST THIS TROUGH TO DEVELOP...THEY DISAGREE SOMEWHAT ON
NORBERT'S STRENGTH...AND HENCE ITS VERTICAL DEPTH...WHEN IT REACHES
THE TROUGH. MOST OF THE TRACK MODEL SHOW A DEEP CYCLONE RESPONDING
TO THE TROUGH BY ACCELERATING NORTHEASTWARD IN ABOUT 3 DAYS.
HOWEVER...THE GFS AND THE ECMWF MODELS STILL SHOW NORBERT RAPIDLY
BECOMING A SHALLOW SYSTEM AS IT NEARS THE BAJA PENINSULA RESULTING
IN A REDUCTION IN FORWARD SPEED OR EVEN STALLING IN THE VICINITY OF
BAJA CALIFORNIA. SINCE THESE HIGHLY-RESPECTED MODELS CANNOT BE
IGNORED...THE OFFICIAL FORECAST IS A LITTLE SLOWER THAN THE
DYNAMICAL MODEL CONSENSUS AT DAY 4.

A little comment from a client...

I have fished with your fleet before and found the 31 Bertram's catch a lot of fish-can't wait to get there! Thank you for being the best organized and managed fleet in Cabo.

Mike Fraser, Lake Charles LA.

Friday, October 03, 2008

Dream come true for Austrian father and son...

Hola Jorge,

i have to apologize for writing so late, but after our 20 h trip home, stress came back quicker than i imagined. Anyways, being home and looking at the outstanding results of our trip on the 21. just makes me forget all the stress in a snap.
We went out on "Tracy Ann" targeting our first ever Marlin.
I couldn't believe my eyes when, just after an hour of trolling, Captain Julio Castro spotted a leaping Marlin and started heading full speed towards him. In the meantime our deckhand, who´s name i lost somehow, fired a live bait in the marlins direction. We could actually see the Marlin turn, speed up, an nail that bait. Just stunning.....
After such a start we kept fishing with big smiles on our faces which got even bigger when my dad stuck into another Striped Marlin just an hour after the first one.
We also kept catching Dorado up to 40lbs till we headed back to the marina.


The next day we had a day off in our schedule, but you know, a fisherman cant get fishing out of his head,... so we decided to let the Pisces - guys organize a Panga for us to fulfill an inshore fishing dream of mine. To catch a Rooster fish. And guess what...... besides 30(!) Dorados we caught a beautiful Rooster.
Once again the crew had great performance.
We´d like to thank everybody at Pisces for making our trip unforgettable. We´ll definitely see each other next year.

Kind regards

Christopher and Cenk Durukal, Austria.

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