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.

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.

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.

Knots & Rigs Attaching line to your reel

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Brown eyed girl...I mean Marlin...

Just wanted to say thanks for the excellent fishing the Ni Modo crew showed us.....I have attached a couple of pics from our trip......We will definitely be booking another with the Pisces fleet when we return in the future......


Thanks Again.....
Tony Celestine, Nicole Meusborn, Kevin and Shannon Ringuet

Houston, Texas

Check out this marlin, as you know, most billfish have blue eyes, not this one though.

Great day aboard a Bill Collector and Cabolero

Dear Pisces Sport Fishing,

On September 20 I chartered the Bill Collector and Cabolero for my Brothers bachelor party. Between the 12 guys and two boats we caught or released over
30 Dorado and one striped marlin. I wouldn't recommend partying as hard as we did the night before, but despite frequent trips to the side of the boat we were able to catch plenty of fish. Everyone we dealt with was great. The guys in the office were very helpful getting everything reserved, the deckhands made sure we were loaded and ready and the captains of the two boats were great at putting us on the fish. We had a great time and will definitely be back. Thanks again for making our trip one to remember.

Brad Wallace, Fortworth TX.

Sun fish caught in Cabo...aka Mola Mola...

Hi guys,

We received this photo from our friend Caboguy, they caught a 450lbs Sunfish back in June, it took them 2 hours to get it to the boat with 50lbs test tackle.

Here is the ugly fish...



Now...here is a bit of information about the sunfish or Mola Mola...

The ocean sunfish, Mola mola, or common mola, is the heaviest known bony fish in the world. It has an average adult weight of 1 tonne (2,200 lbs). The species is native to tropical and temperate waters around the globe. It resembles a fish head with a tail, and its main body is flattened laterally. Sunfish can be as tall as they are long when their dorsal and ventral fins are extended.



Sunfish live on a diet that consists mainly of jellyfish. Because this diet is nutritionally poor, they consume large amounts in order to develop and maintain their great bulk. Females of the species can produce more eggs than any other known vertebrate. Sunfish fry resemble miniature puffer fish, with large pectoral fins, a tail fin and body spines uncharacteristic of adult sunfish.

Adult sunfish are vulnerable to few natural predators, but sea lions, orcas and sharks will consume them. Among humans, sunfish are considered a delicacy in some parts of the world, including Japan, the Korean peninsula and Taiwan, but sale of their flesh is banned in the European Union.[1] Sunfish are frequently, though accidentally, caught in gill nets, and are also vulnerable to harm or death from encounters with floating trash, such as plastic bags.

A member of the order Tetraodontiformes, which also includes puffer fish, porcupine fish and file fish, the sunfish shares many traits common to members of this order. It was originally classified as Tetraodon mola under the puffer fish genus, but it has since been given its own genus, Mola, with two species under it. The ocean sunfish, Mola mola, is the type species of the genus.

I don't know about you guys, but I would need to be really hungry to try this delicacy...

Great day aboard the Ruthless..

Thank you for our 5 nice tuna; and 1 striped marlin caught and released on “Ruthless” 8/27. She wanted her girlfriends to see. I have attached pictures for your web site.

David Harrison, Spring Hill, Tennessee