June 23rd to June 29th, 2012
Overall Catch Success Rate for
All Species Combined 84.90%
BILLFISH: Awesome week for fishing in Cabo, striped marlin, swordfish and now
dorado and yellow fin tuna are finally here!
We did not see as many billfish as the past week, they
are moving around and we are on the lookout, however 45% of our boats caught
billfish, many of them releasing 2 in one day like “Andrea” on the 23rd,
with 2 stripeys released and one tuna and one dorado landed for Kenneth
Kisseberth from Swanton OH, “Ruthless” also releasing two and landed 3 tunas
and a dorado for Logan Jager & Emery Sanford from San Francisco CA, the
next day Patricia O’Connell and Michael That from Ft. Pierce FL kept 3 yellow
fins and released 2 marlin aboard the “Valerie”, but the catch of the week goes
to our 42ft Bertram “Yahoo”, releasing one striped marlin, landed 6 dorados and
6 yellow fin tunas and a 150 lbs swordfish for Ryan Tucker from Midland TX and
Meryl Schafer from Cleveland OH. On June 27th, again “Yahoo” with
Captain Ricardo Escamilla released 2 striped marlin and landed 4 very nice size
dorados, from 20 to 45 lbs for local guys Marianne Pfeil-Schneider and
Alexander Schwarzer from San Jose del Cabo. A total of 27 billfish were caugh,
26 were released.
OTHER SPECIES: Oh boy! Dorado sure knows how to make a comeback, 65% of the boats
catching at least one of these golden-soon-to-be-tacos beauties, average size
was 15 to 20 lbs with the occasional 30 lb’ers. Boat with most Dorado’s in one
day was “Rebecca” with Captain JR Alucano and angler our really good friend
Gerald Richmond from Morada Fl. Biggest “small game” fish this week was a 43
lbs Bull Dorado caught by Hanson Hanger from Chandler AZ aboard the “C-ROD”.
Yellow fin tuna is also back! Way too late if you ask me, last June we caught
over 800 of them and we are just starting to arrive, still 47% of the boats
caught tuna, most of them were football size, but as I said, they are just
starting to arrive.
Gerald Richmond with his pals Capt. JR Alucano. (right) and Luis Cota
(left)
LOCATION: Destiladeras, 95spot, 35 miles south from the arch.
WEATHER CONDITIONS: Clear sunny sky, 91F average.
AVERAGE WATER TEMP: 79 to 83F, keeps getting warmer.
BEST BAIT OR LURE: Caballito, small yellow tail, green and yellow lures.
Based on the catches of Pisces by Jorge Narro
