May
12th to 18th, 2012
Overall
Catch Success Rate 80%
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| This Local Team From Cabo, Released 37 Marlin to Clinch their Fourth Consecutive World Title |
BILLFISH:
This
week was an exciting and active week in Cabo, with lots of international visitors
in town. Before the week for the IGFA World Offshore Championship kicked off,
we began hosting a group from Holland who decided to have fun competing against
each other aboard pangas and now this week they will go on to use 31ft Bertrams
in their informal event. The IGFA tournament kicked off on Monday with 48 teams
signed up from all over the world. First day saw fast and furious action with
hook ups reported before 8.00 am and Pisces “Valerie” taking the top spot for
releasing eleven striped marlin for the Cabo team, seeking their fourth
consecutive title as world champions. On the first day of the event 139 striped
marlin were released; an impressive number. Day two was even better with 152
striped marlin released. Day three saw the Cabo team on the Pisces 42 ft Bertam
“Yahoo” managing to release fifteen marlin, other outstanding boats for us in
the first few days were “Great Escape Jr.” releasing twelve marlin in one day
and “Rebecca” for releasing nine. The fourth day of the tournament saw the fishing
shut down as a cold wind blew from the Pacific, which was blanketed in fog, as water
temperatures dropped. From a third day
catch of 102 marlin it dropped to just 8 on the final day. The winners were for
the fourth time, the Cabo team with a whopping 7400 points for
catching 37 marlin, with the second
place team from Spain totaling 19 marlin and 3800 points and third place with
3600 points going to Portuguese team for 18 marlin. In our regular Pisces news
our anglers caught a total of 151 striped marlin this week, all released as well
as one sailfish with the last two days slowing down considerably due to the colder
weather.
Michael Carreno from Danville , Ca. Released his first marlin aboard Valerie, May 20th. Approx 150 lbs, this healthy fish was successfully released.
OTHER
SPECIES: Not
much by way of dorado or tuna this week, with just three dorado and one small
tuna but inshore the pangas we sent out did very well at the start of the week,
until the cold weather hit. We had a
roosterfish bonanza this week totaling 85 caught and released, with Salsa being
the top producer; eleven in one day for Jaap Hoorenman and Bernand Kortmann from
Holland. The weights on the roosters are 10 to 25 lbs. Also plenty of activity
on skipjacks, jack crevalle, fair amounts of yellowtail, sierra and one boat
had thirteen pompano released in on day.
A 200 lb mako shark was released aboard Petrolero.
LOCATION:
11.50
and Punta Gorda for marlin, small game from Land’s End to the Old Lighthouse.
WEATHER
CONDITIONS: Nice on Cortez until Friday, Pacific
whitecaps and fog, now calmer.
AVERAGE
WATER TEMP: 67-73 F
BEST
LURES: ballyhoo, caballito, and hoochis.
Based on the catches
of Pisces by Tracy Ehrenberg
