JULY
7th to 13th, 2012
Overall
Catch Success Rate All Species 92%
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| Raquel Almada from Cabo San Lucas, Relased this big striped marlin aboard Rebecca on July 10th, deckhand Luis Cota is shown on the right. |
BILLFISH: We
had an active week with lots of action but mostly on tuna; nevertheless we saw
a strong start to the summer season with a flurry of sailfish catches. There is
no doubt that summer is here with blistering heat nearly every day, but we are
not complaining as we know it signals good catches will be coming up. Some of
the best catches were during some of the roughest seas of the week, on July 10th
when boats headed to the Herradura “Ruthless”
released two striped marlin on “jurelito”
and caught four yellow fin tuna for Josh Campbell from Kamloops, Canada
and this same day Rebecca Ehrenberg and friends from Mexico City and Cabo,
fished her namesake boat “Rebecca” and ended up having one of our best catches
of the week, releasing two striped marlin, including a first time billfish for
Pablo Bauche and eleven yellowfin tuna, going the opposite direction to the
other boats and fishing between six and twenty miles off of the Old Lighthouse
on the Pacific. “Rebecca” also did well on July 9th, for Peter
Downie and friends from Singapore, releasing a small sailfish, but boating five
tuna and an enviable 45 lb wahoo. Daniel
Malloy from Dallas fished “Ruthless” earlier in the week and did very well to
release a mid-size sailfish, a striped marlin and boats five tuna at the 11.50 spot.
Striped marlin are currently still the number on billfish catch in Cabo but we
should start to see a few blues mixed in here and there as we progress into
summer. Pisces anglers caught a total of twenty billfish, consisting of 15
striped marlin and 5 sailfish. Fifty percent of boats caught billfish.
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| Anneka Ehrenberg from Mexico City with her first ever tuna aboard Rebecca on July 10th |
OTHER
SPECIES: Yellow fin tuna edged out striped marlin
catches this week with sixty percent of boats hooking up to football size fish.
However, when found good numbers were generally caught with boats landing from
one to fourteen fish. They were spread out but the boats headed to the Herradura
for several days, resulting in good catches. “Cabolero” had an excellent day on
July 12th catching our second wahoo of the week for John Lindahl
from Island City, Tennessee; he also released a striped marlin and boated four
tuna. “Rebecca” was the hot boat this week, proving the skill of the crew again
on July 7th for Ed and Justin Barringer from Ohio, who ended up with
a lot of fish, ten tuna, five dorado and a striped marlin released thirty miles
out from the 11.50 spot. Now we know that the limit is two dorado per angler to
boat (release as many as you like), but our captains and mates also have
licenses meaning the quota can be higher if the anglers want to boat a few more
fish. The dorado were generally small to medium size and catches were seldom
more than one or two fish. Twenty four percent of boats caught dorado this
week. Our total tuna count was 150 fish, overwhelming out total dorado count of
15 fish. Boats fished offshore so we don’t have much to report inshore except a
couple of roosterfish up to 20 lbs on a
half day trip by “La Brisa” as well a few skipjack.
WEATHER
CONDITIONS: Hot, some cloud cover, seas rough to
moderate.
LOCATION:
Mostly
Cortez side, Herradura, El Tule, 11.50 spot, Old Lighthouse.
AVERAGE
WATER TEMP: 79-83 F
BEST
LURES: Caballito and Jurelito for striped marlin and sailfish,
thought he odd one took a lure, tuna liked cedar plugs, dorado green and orange
lures.
Based on the catches of Pisces by
Tracy Ehrenberg
