Kearns Family Thank You Letter

Just a quick email to thank Pisces very much for 3 excellent days fishing especially the last marlin day. Everyone was very friendly and helpful and we thoroughly enjoyed our stay in Cabo. I have attached a few of our pictures for you and we look forward to seeing you all in two years!!

Thanks again

The Kearns Family

Shropshire, England

Fishing news: Aug 27

Despite rough seas due to tropical weather down below us, it did not stop the boats going out and catching fish!

Christian Sandoval from Encinitas California caught this beautiful wahoo which weighted 75 lbs and was 64 inches long aboard “Cabolero”

This same day, Matt Bailey from Redford, MI and Brian & Militia Earl from Salt Lake City, UT shared the 28ft “Andrea” and caught a 60 and 80 lbs yellow fin tuna at the Herradura on the Cortez side.

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Pisces Fish Report

August 12th to 20th, 2010



Overall Catch Success Rate 88.4%

BILLFISH: The Pacific side has been the top fishing location as the last couple days our boats have returned with nice catches from that area. One of the best days was on the 19th for the charming Kearns family, from Shropshire, England who fished several days aboard “Rebecca” The 19th was their last day of fishing with us and they were thrilled to release a total of five striped marlin at Gaspareño; they also released a 250 lb blue marlin and a striped marlin on the 14th. “Andrea” had two triple marlin days, one on the 18th for father and son, Randy and Randy Stricklind Jr from Hitchcock, TX at the 180 spot and the other anglers were Paul Robinson, Karmina Mijica and Adam Weber from Los Angeles, CA who had an active day on the 20th releasing three striped marlin at the Golden Gate and boating five dorado and five football size yellow fin tunas. This same day “Rebecca” released three striped marlin between 130 to 200 lbs and kept three yellow fin tuna and three good size dorado in the 35 to 40 lbs class, just above of the Golden Gate area for Robert Lindquist and Lindsay Dralle from Washington, DC – a perfect catch marlin and then lots of great table fish. “C- Rod” was the top boat with most blue marlin catches and they are obviously on a roll, with five out of the eight caught this week attributed to this boat. The biggest blue they caught was released on the 15th and estimated at 700-800 lbs, hooked 18 miles out from La Playita, for Mike Slover and wife Ginger from Austin, Tx who were celebrating their 10th wedding anniversary. After a five hour fight, the blue marlin won and jumped a final time, snapping the line and took off. One day before this David Amesbury and friends from Las Vegas, NV also had a great day releasing three blue marlin caught with a cigarillo lure (yellow underside, orange with black striped on top) at the 11:50 Spot and also caught one dorado. The billfish catches are consistent, as they are similar from the past fish report with seventy percent of our charters catching billfish giving us a total of 35 striped marlin, 8 blue marlin and 1 sailfish.

OTHER SPECIES: Dorado catches were in second place after marlin this week with fifty three percent of boats catching between one and six fish, with some as large as 55 lbs, like the one caught on “Valerie” on a squid color lure and also 50 lbs caught with live bait for Jennifer George and Charles Ramsey from Birmingham, Alabama on the 12th. Most of them were around 35 lbs average and took tigrillo and guacamayo lures; the boats that caught more than two fish were on the pacific side at Gaspareño, Golden Gate, Migriño and even the Finger Banks. Tuna catches were a little slow this week, but we had good size hook ups, like on the 13th for the Amesbury group mentioned above aboard “C-Rod” who boated a 130 lbs yellow fin twenty seven miles out of Cerro Blanco on cedar plugs. The next day “Valerie” caught a 100 lb tuna also on a cedar plug at the 11:50 Spot for Shane Sauman and Terry Cashion from Knoxville, TN and friend Dan Moore from Florida. Only twelve percent of our boats catch yellow fin tuna. Some 40 lbs wahoo here and there like the one caught on 20th on “Yahoo” for Michael and Michelle Fennegan from Texas who also caught four dorado at Elias Calles; all took guacamayo and green and black lures. Ginger Slover was the only angler who caught a different fish, with a 128 lbs pilot shark on the 15th.

WEATHER CONDITIONS: A mix of sunny hot days with some cloudy and humidity. More calm seas at the Pacific meaning boats can finally fish there again, but many are not bothering to go at Sea of Cortez as is still good fishing between the 95 and 11:50 Spot. Seas calm on the Sea of Cortez but with a big swell early in the report with a little rain one day

LOCATION: Sea of Cortez: 95 spot, 11.50 spot, Cerro Blanco. Pacific Side: Gaspareño, Finger Bank, Moros Prietos, Golden Gate, Migriño

AVERAGE WATER TEMP. :84 F

BEST LURES; Tigrillo, feathers, squid colors, cedar plugs, petrolero, red/black, blue/white, green/black, green/yellow, guacamaya (orange/green/yellow). For live bait was caballito and mullet.

Based on the catches of Ale Almada in Tracy’s absence.

 

Fish Report August 20th

- Paul Robinson, Karmina Mijica & Adam Weber from Los Angeles, CA released three striped marlin, caught five dorado (15 to 35 lbs) and five yellow fin tuna (10 to 20 lbs) aboard “Andrea”

- Brad Boyd, Daryl Allison from Lubbock, TX & Trent Allison from South Lake, TX caught six nice dorado between 35 to 40 lbs aboard “La Brisa”

- Robert Lindquist & Lindsay Dralle from Washington DC released three striped marlin and kept three yellow fin tuna (15 to 35 lbs) and three dorado (35 to 40 lbs) aboard “Rebecca”

- Santiago Granados and friends went fishing for half day aboard “Ruthless” and caught a 40 lbs wahoo and three dorado (20 to 30 lbs)

- Luis Perez and family from Miami, FL released one striped marlin and caught three dorado (15 to 30 lbs) aboard “Great Escape Jr”

- Mike and Michelle Fennegan from Horlington, Texas and friends caught a nice 40 lbs wahoo and four dorado (35 to 40 lbs) aboard “Yahoo”

All the vessels went to the Pacific side by Gaspareño, Golden Gate and Elias Calles spots

Pisces Boats In The Early Morning, Waiting For Guests To Arrive...

Mike and Ginger 10th Wedding Anniversary..

Mike and Ginger Slover celebrated their 10th wedding anniversary with a memorable fishing trip.

They had reservation on a different vessel, the day before and had a few problems, so they switched to the 38ft Blackfin“C-Rod” with Captain Abel .

They started early in the morning, everything was pretty quite when one of the reels started zinging and the line began disappearing really fast as the captain screamed “hook up, hook up!” as a huge exploding out of the water 150 feet from the vessel.

Mike jumping into the fighting chair and started pumping the fish; the line was disappearing so fast from the reel, that captain Abel started back down on the fish, to give the angler a hand.

 

To make a long story short, they had the fish to the boat, five times, with the mate taking a hold of the leader….but the fish was strong and a fine opponent. The fish had taken a live bait on 40 lb test at 1.00pm, finally after five hours the fish, won, leaping one last time and snapping the line. It was hard to judge the exact size of the fish, but it was close to 800 lbs….but that’s not all….while Mike was working on his marlin, wife Ginger brought in a 120 lb pilot shark in just ten minutes. Both fish were caught 8 miles out from La Playita.

Please find below some pictures of their exciting trip.

Congratulations on your anniversary!

Kearns Family

We received some nice pictures from the Kearns family from Shropshire, England

They fished aboard “Rebecca” for three days

August 11th they caught six Dorado (35 lbs) with lures; August 14th they released a blue marlin and a striped marlin on the 11:50 Spot

Today was their last fishing day and they could not do better, as they released five striped marlin at Gaspareño by the Pacific side

Below are the pictures from one of their trips aboard “Rebecca”, father and son released one striped marlin and a blue marlin (approx. weight 250 lbs) respectively at the 11:50 Spot

Fishing news

August 16th:

Pictured below is Dean, Lerone, Alexandra and Andrew Hutchins from Saudi Arabia with their 40 lbs Wahoo caught aboard "Valerie" with Captain Roberto Sandez and deckhands Salvador and Ernesto, who by the way are great with kids!

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Pisces Fish Report

August 5th to 11th, 2010

Overall Catch Success Rate 94%

BILLFISH: Hot weather, usually produces hot fishing and that is exactly what we had this week. Blue, black, striped marlin and sailfish were all present. It’s hard to know where to start as there was so much good fishing this week, so I guess we’ll do it by date. The week started off with a bang when the biggest fish of the week was caught, a black marlin estimated between 600 and 700 lbs caught at Punta Gorda aboard “Shambala”; the anglers two young guys from Los Angeles, had a double hook up on yellow fin tuna, which they had targeted with 40 lb test, one of the fish got off and the other was snatched up by the large marlin. It took almost two hours to bring to the boat before being successfully released. August 5th “Ruthless” released a blue marlin just under 250 lbs at Punta Gorda after it took a blue and black lure for the Leonard & Wendy Hawkins from Brooklyn, Michigan, they also had a 20 lb dorado. This same day “Andrea” fished closer to Cabo and released four striped marlin, on a combination of lures and bait for the Berkman’s from Houston, Texas. Next day out “Andrea” again did well to release a 350 lb blue and a 120 lb striped marlin at the Cabrillo Sea Mount for a group from Paso Robles, Ca. “Andrea” (top boat overall this week) went on to release both a blue and striped marlin on August 7th at the 11.50 spot for Amber Jesic & Dexter Carpenter; petrolero lure for the blue and a live caballito for the striper. “Andale” had a busy day on the 8th for a group from Harper Texas, including Scott Brown & the Doyle family; they released a striped marlin and a sailfish then went on to catch twelve tuna and three dorado. This same day “Bill Collector” had an outstanding day at the Gordo Banks with a 400 lb black marlin released, three tuna, two dorado & a 60 lb wahoo; doesn’t get much better than that. “No Big Deal” released a smallish blue for John Matthews from Columbia, South Carolina, eight miles from Palmilla on the 10th and “Falcon” fished a completely different location on the 11th nineteen miles out from the arch and caught both a blue & striped marlin for David & Roxana Bednar from St. Charles, Iowa. Johnny Mack Powers along with wife Stacey, took their 13 & 15 year old granddaughters out on “Shambala” where they did exceptionally well to reel in a 250 lb blue marlin, which they released, plus eight tuna; well done Molley & Presley…These were just some of the highlights and there were plenty more double marlin days, plus small game. We did have a couple of boats “skunked”, but even these saw fish, but just couldn’t get them to bite. Sixty nine percent of our charters caught billfish giving us a total of 32 striped marlin, 9 blue marlin, 2 black marlin & 2 sailfish.

OTHER SPECIES: Billfish weren’t the only game in town, dorado and tuna catches were brisk also. Fifty three percent of boats caught between one and eleven dorado giving us a total of 82 fish overall. “Andrea” had the most dorado, eleven, caught at the Golden Gate bank, on the Pacific but the fish on this side tended to be smaller. We saw an increase in size of fish on the Cortez side with the average weight around 30 to 35 lbs and “Ruthless” had two 50 & 55 lbs for Jim and Cynthia Hamner from Rockland, Ca. Dorado were hungry and took lures, live sardines & caballito. Thirty one percent of boats caught yellow fin tuna giving us a total of 72 fish, with main locations near Punta Gorda on the Cortez and Golden Gate on the Pacific, like the dorado the Pacific fish were smaller 10 to 15 lbs and on the Cortez they were 20 to 35 lbs, with the one exception a 100 lb fish, aboard “Andrea” for Jim & Cynthia Hamner from Texas, also mentioned above; these anglers did well all week being our top dorado catchers and they also released two hammerhead sharks. An example of a great mixed day would be “Rebecca” on August 10th with two striped marlin released, six dorado up to 55 lbs, two yellow fin tuna, a 38 lb wahoo and an 80 lb pilot shark released and that was with just two anglers Amanda Kacal & Kurt Sanders from Katy, Texas on board…..they must have been exhausted. The only other fish caught were a few roosters.

LOCATION: 95 spot, 11.50 spot, Punta Gorda, Golden Gate, 8 miles off Palmilla, Cabrillo.

WEATHER CONDITIONS: We had a couple of baking hot days, even on the Pacific but the breezes are back, Sea of Cortez is warmer, clear skies, sunny, seas calm, now a bit rough on the Pacific as the breeze returns.

AVERAGE WATER TEMP: 77 on the Pacific to 83 F on the Cortez.

BEST LURES: Live bait, red/black, blue/black, guacamaya, cedar plugs.

Based on the catches of Pisces by Tracy Ehrenberg

Christopher and Frank Gialketsis with a 45 lbs Dorado aboard "Cabolero"

August 11th, 2010

Molley 13 , and Presley 15 Lisner were congradgulated by they're grandparents J. M. and Stacey Powers as they joined the 250 lb Blue Marlin Club. The catch and release of this monster was not easy, BUT with a little sister team work they did it!!! Altogether they caught 8 tuna weighing in up to 35 lbs! On none other than the Shamballa, with Captian TJ and Captain Steve. We can't wait to get back to Texas and tell fish stories, and we don't have to add to this storey. Until next year we will be back.


J.M Powers
Rockwall, Texas