Great Numbers This Week

JUNE 15th to 21st, 2013

Overall Catch Success Rate All Species Combined 98%
Numbers at a glance: Billfish 97%, Dorado 11%, Small Game 11%

TEXANS JUST SEEM TO HAVE WHAT IT TAKES, HERE A GROUP ABOARD FROM SAN ANTONIO HAD THREE STRIPED MARLIN, TWO SAILFISH AND TWO DORADO

BILLFISH: The Cabo legend continues, at this moment in time we are living up to our name of Marlin Capital of the World – with a near perfect catch rate on striped marlin for every boat. The reason it was not perfect was not due to the fish or crews, but rather on some anglers that got sea-sick and asked to come back and to another group that opted to fish a half day against our recommendation. At one stage this week, we had boats routinely releasing four or more marlin, plus sailfish and dorado. Top on day total was for Jens Laub and Michelle Saitiro from Germany, who released eleven striped marlin on June 16th aboard Pisces Tracy An at Punta Gorda – this couple ended up with a total of twenty three marlin for three days fishing with us – pretty impressive.  Next day out we had two high scoring boats lead by Pisces Valerie with ten marlin released  by Lori Jaffe, Michael Young and Jameson Eckhardt, a little close at the 11.50 spot aboard Pisces Valerie. Not far behind this day was Pisces Rebecca with nine marlin between 100 and 140 lbs released plus a dorado in the Punta Gorda area for Christian Sprich, Todd Matousheik and Sung Han from St. Louis Missouri. This same day saw Great Escape Jr release six on live caballito for Bill & Lisa Hart, Ernest & Michelle Valle, from Texas who also boated a nice 45 lb dorado that took a red and black lure. On June 20th Pisces Bill Collector was the top marlin boat with eight released up to 130 lbs for Roland Boney, Sr. and Jr. from Jacksonville Florida who fished with live bait at Chileno and off of San Jose.  We had several notable catches this same day such as Pisces Valerie with six marlin plus five dorado for the Mills family from McKinney, Texas. Pisces La Brisa had a fabulous day with three striped marlin, two sailfish and two dorado, the larger of which weighed 50 lbs, for Randolph & Linda Marceau fishing with John & Christie Hinkebeinfrom San Antonio, Texas. This same day Rebecca caught five striped marlin and two sailfish at Destialderas for Duane Davis who is from you guessed it…..Texas (Dallas). Pisces Cabolero is worthy of mention,for releasing six marlin for Bryan Humphrey and friends from Orange County, California. As we close this report we have a big moon which may slow fishing  little, however, the last two full moons did not show a negative effect on fishing. Pisces anglers caught a total of 194 striped marlin and 10 sailfish this week – all but four marlin were released.

STARTING TO SEE SOME BIGGER DORADO, THIS WAS 28 LBS, BUT SOME WERE UP TO 50 LBS THIS WEEK.

OTHER SPECIES:  With the marlin fishing so good boats concentrated on getting anglers hooked up to big game and other catches were not that common. That said we did see an increase on dorado catches with some boats managing to boat five in the 20 to 50 lb class. The dorado were found when looking for marlin, trolling the grounds  where marlin were with lures.  Eleven percent of our vessels caught dorado this week. Roosterfish catches remained steady but we caught more inshore at Punta Gorda, as bonus catches for boats that ran that way looking for marlin, than on the Pacific which remains considerably cooler. Just one small stray yellow fin tuna was caught as well as a few sierra and jack crevalle along with some nice sized yellow tail. Two nice wahoo were taken in the 30 to 50 lb class.
WEATHER CONDITIONS: Clear skies, sunny, seas were up and down, calm some days and on the rough side others, when wind came down from the Pacific.
LOCATION:  Cortez side, fishing was as close as Chileno on some days and as far away as Destiladeras on others. Punta Gorda overall was the best spot.
AVERAGE WATER TEMP: 76- 82 F
BEST LURES: Live caballito, frozen ballyhoo, red and black, green lures.
Based on the catches of Pisces by Tracy Ehrenberg