Some Pictures of the Anglers from November 24th

We had some pictures snapped by Oscar, Pisces dockmaster,  from our clients returning to the dock with nice catches, such as:

Chris, Ryan and Michael Smith from Montebello, NY released one striped marlin and boated this 50 lbs wahoo (shown in the picture); also they caught one dorado and one yellow tail aboard "La Brisa"

This group from Canada were lucky to caught two wahoo aboard "No Big Deal"; they also caught three dorado at the Golden Gate by the Pacific side.

Richard Holestine from Sokane, WA shown here with a nice 40 lbs dorado aboard "Andrea" with captain Orlando Murillo (right) and deckhand Abraham (behind)

Ted and Travor Ballou and friend Jet Mitchell from Newport Beach, CA were fortunate to release one striped marlin and caught this nice 30 lbs dorado for dinner aboard "Ruthless"



Thank You Letter from Doug Rubino

We would like to thank you all at Pisces for another great week of fishing. The two boats "Rebecca and the LA Brisa" had a banner 5 days of fishing and both boats achieved personal bests in total marlin caught and marlin caught in a single day. Between the two boats fishing 5 days 48 marlin released, on November 11th the Rebecca 12 marlin released and the La Brisa 10 marlin released.

The crew members on both boats did an outstanding job, and for Luis he has great eyes for spotting those marlin. Without him our success rate would have not been possible.

This will be hard to beat next year, but we are willing to give it our all as always. Pisces also made John Di Benedetto a very happy man by stopping on the way in to catch his first rooster fish, even though it was small he was ecstatic. He has been wanting to catch a rooster fish since he has been coming to Cabo for the past 10 years.

Thank you all again at Pisces,

Doug Rubino

Deer Park, TX

I will be in touch sometime in February to start the scheduling of next years trip.

           Doug Rubino pictured with a striped marlin before releasing with deckhand Martin

Flying flags

Getting ready to release the striper

 November 11th  back to the dock with Rebecca 12 marlin released and La Brisa 10 marlin released.

Latest Fish Report : Overall Catch Success Rate 100%

November 13th to 18th, 2010


Overall Catch Success Rate 100%

BILLFISH: The fishing is still hot in Cabo with every single boat catching something giving us a perfect score this week. Marlin were thick off of Land’s End with nearly every boat catching, giving us a billfish success rate of ninety one percent. One of the best days was on November 16th for Mike and Beth Fraser from Lake Charles, LA they released fifteen striped marlin at Gaspareño on the Pacific side and also boated two dorado aboard “Cabolero”. The next day Tim and Lucy McCulloch from Oregon had a busy day catching and releasing thirteen striped marlin aboard “Bill Collector” with the fish taking live mackerel. On the 16th “Tracy Ann” did a great job for Ross Donahue from Spearman, TX with twelve striped marlin released. A day before, “Falcon” also had twelve stripers released for a group from Oregon; they also caught two dorado for dinner. Our long time clients Dennis & Clyde Trendel from Boston, MA fished with friend Glen Kish and did very well aboard “Tracy Ann” on the 14th, with ten striped marlin released at the Golden Gate. “Tracy Ann” was again the hot boat of the week with a total of 45 striped marlin released Wow, congratulations to the crew! On the 16th Anders Lundgren, Peter Palsson and Robert Gabruelsson from Sweden released nine striped marlin aboard “Rebecca” at the same area. On the 15th “Bill Collector” had a great day for a group from Florida with nine striped marlin released, six dorado, one 45 lbs wahoo and three jack crevalle; well done! Gerald Richmond from Key Largo, Fl did well also with nine striped marlin released at the Golden Gate aboard “Rebecca”. Looks like we may be heading for a repeat of the amazing marlin numbers we had in 2008. Our total fish count was 307 striped marlin and one sailfish this week.

OTHER SPECIES: Dorado catches are still good with fifty seven percent of our boats catching between one to fourteen fish, with a total of 121 fish caught. One of the best days was on the 18th aboard “Valerie” for Jerry and Eileen Walker from Idaho they caught fourteen dorado at the Golden Gate; they also released three striped marlin and caught a wahoo. These same clients had another excellent day on the 15th with twelve dorado; with some kept some for dinner – as if this wasn’t enough they released four striped marlin! This same day James and Marilyn Wright from Alabama caught eight dorado aboard “Tracy Ann”, with live bait being the way to go. They also released six striped marlin. Kenneth Kratsch and Monica Mohler from La Quinta, CA caught seven dorado aboard “Yahoo” at Las Margaritas; they released six striped marlin as well. Tuna catches are still slow, as striped marlin has been the main attraction for our anglers. Only the “Tracy Ann” caught tuna this week on the 17th for Dave Adamson and friends from Nampa, ID they caught twenty four football size yellow fin tuna at 32 miles out of Cerro Blanco; they still had time to release three striped marlin. We had a few wahoo catches one was on the 17th for Dave Henderson from Edmonton, Canada aboard “Ruthless” they caught one 40 lbs wahoo at Migriño and released four striped marlin and caught one 35 lbs dorado. A day before, “Ruthless” again caught a 40 lbs wahoo for Ben Miles, Paul Hinton, Jane Murdock from Houston, TX; they released three stripers as well. For other catches we had roosters, Spanish mackerel, needle fish and jack crevalle.

WEATHER CONDITIONS: Clear, sunny skies, seas mostly calm, a little bit cool in the morning and at night.

LOCATION: Pacific Side - Golden Gate, Lighthouse, Los Arcos, Migriño, Gaspareño, La Ballena, Pozo Cota, Elias Calles, Margaritas, Cerro Blanco, Cerro de Arena

Sea of Cortez: Punta Gorda

AVERAGE WATER TEMP. 80 F

BEST LURES; Cedar plugs, tigrillo, petrolero, green, red/black, green/yellow, guacamayo, huchis, pink, purple

For live bait mackerel, caballito and ballyhoo

Based on the catches of Pisces by Ale Almada & Tracy Ehrenberg.

One of the Most Compelling Thank You Notes We Have Ever Received

Capt. Fred here: Dear Tracy, I have just completed my 35th year fishing in Cabo San Lucas, this included bring my boat down several times from Californa in the old days. I started off in the old Tortuga Fleet and worked up to the Pisces Fleet. I always have fished a panga with Enrique "Tiliche" Gonzalez for over 17 years and have gotten a lot of fish over the years, even a Blue Marlin. But, I always take a Pisces every year for the larger fish. Last year it was Tuna and a Sailfish. The crews and the office staff have always acted professional in every step of the way, from booking the trip to having the fish cleaned. This year, I talked 3 other couples to come to Cabo to enjoy the fishing experience. On Nov. 9th, we had a once in a life time fishing trip on the Rebeeca with Capt. Jose Alucano and mate Luis Coted. We hooked 9 Striped Marlin and released 8 Marlin and 2 Dorado. I have fished around the world for billfish including the Pacific Rim, Central and South America and this was the best fishing day of my life (I am almost 70). The men on the boat with me had a great time fishing, but do not understand how great a day it was, since this is their first experience at billfishing. I would just like to thank you, your boat crew, the office staff, and the dock crew for the best fishing day in my life.
Capt. Fred van den Broeck, Backdraft Charters, Punta Gorda, Florida . www.backdraft- charters.com

Did These Guys Have a Great Time or What?

 Steve getting into the spirit of it at Captain Tony's next to our office, best fish tacos and pizzas in town

 Tom  holds his marlin for a few seconds before releasing it.

 The whole group with a nice tuna board Cabolero

Paul was pleased to release a striped marlin too.

I just wanted to take a minute to thank everyone at Pisces for an amazing trip last week. We fished 2-days with Leon and Beto on the Ruthless and another day with Rico and his captain (sorry I forgot his name) on the Cabolero. We caught more fish than we could have ever imagined and the boat crew, and office staff (particularly Pam) was great to work with getting our trip arranged, helping with transportation of our fish, our lunches…and YES, thanks for the T-shirts!

We noticed that our group (Dornell, Banks, Hafner) made it into your blogs and that was great to read. I’ve attached some pictures of our trip with each of us celebrating. There is no doubt in our minds that if we return to Cabo again there is no other company we’d fish with! Hopefully we’ll find pictures of ourselves on your wall of fame!

Everyone at Pisces made our trip enjoyable and we want to thank all of you.

PS: Tell Beto never to get rid of his lucky (but bright!) shorts
Paul Dornell
Assistant Director -Public Works Operations
City of Palo Alto

Anglers from Finland Write to Us

Hi Ady,

Thank you very much for your excellent service in arranging the Tracy Ann for us for the Cabo Tuna Jackpot Tournament. Both Julio and Martín were very professional, especially in finding us striped marlin.

Looking forward to fishing with Pisces again in the future.

Best regards,

Anders Oldenburg;
Finland
Shown here at the Tuna Tournament, where he received a free entry, being awarded here for being the angler that travelled the furtherst distance to particpate in the tournament

Ray Rodman from Albuquerque, NM had a Blast Last Week...

We received some photos from our client Ray Rodman and friends from Albuquerque, NM

They fished with us a few days ago and had a great time!

First day, November 10th, they released four striped marlin and caught a nice 30 lbs yellow fin tuna aboard 38 ft "C-Rod"

The next day they did excellent with seven striped marlin released and boated eight dorado between 20 to 30 lbs aboard 31 ft "Cabolero"; they also released one rooster fish.

On the 13th, they ended their fishing trip aboard 35 ft "Valerie" with three striped marlin released.

Fourteen stripers released in three days!! Congratulations guys!

___________________________________________________________

Alejandra,

Here are some of the photo's that I promised I would send. If you want to use any of them let me know and I will send them to you.

Again thanks to all of the staff and crew's at Pisces that made this a fantastic trip.

Ray

Albuquerque, NM

A Taste of Why You Should Fish the Tuna Tournament...Sign Up for 2011

We just received this letter and photos from Mike Vise from Sacramento, California. He has been a faithful Pisces client for many years and decided to enter the Tuna Tournament this year, he didn't win but had a great time anyway as his words and photos will tell you.

Crew were ready to go early and were on the boat before sun up preparing last minute details.

The dawn was beautiful as boats headed out to the starting line.

Mike got a nice tuna shown here from left to right, deckhand Beto, Mike, Fernando & Kikon

Of course who can resist our local beggar Pancho, who pleaded for any left over bait.

Mike snapped a picture of the infamous Carnival cruise ship before the engine room fire, this is the one in the news last week for being stranded at sea with no power.

"Well we are finally back into the swing of things here at home and miss Cabo a lot as usual.
Just want to take some time and thank everybody at Pisces for a great trip again. I really want to thank Tracy for letting me borrow Beto during such a busy time, and letting Marissa on the Oceanus for the start of the first day. Also a big thank you to Ady and Ale for helping me with all my questions leading up to the tournament and taking care of all the details. Then there is the crew, awsome as always! They make it so much fun to be out there, they make you feel like family. I was still a bit under the weather the practice day and had to come back early, but had a lot of fun on Thursday afternoon hanging on for the boat ride back to Cabo. The wind was crazy that day and made for some fun on the Adriana. Then Friday we were headed for where I lost that big wahoo, when Fernando spotted some feeding tuna. We worked it with 1 other boat, which left after 10 minutes, and Fernando hooked the 68 pounder on live bait, and I had it in the boat in about 20 - 30 minutes. Stayed with the school of porpoise and Beto landed a nice 35 - 40 pound tuna on a cedar plug. Caught 2 other small tuna and called it a day, headed to the scales for the official weight, and then off too have few drinks and some good food.

I am sending some more pictures of the tournament and of the crews, also a picture of the Carnival Splendor pulling into Cabo the second day of the tournament, which wont be pulling into Cabo any time soon.

Again thank you and everybody for anther great trip and I plan on doing it again next year. Talk too you soon."
Mike Vise, Sacramento, Ca.



Latest Fish Report - Striped Marlin Takes Off!

November 6th to 12th, 2010


Overall Catch Success Rate 96.53%

BILLFISH: Fishing is really taking off in Cabo and improving in leaps and bounds and if we continue like this we may get a repeat of the unbelievable numbers that we had back in 2008. Pretty much all the boats returning to the dock with flags, though there has been the occasional vessel that couldn’t hook up despite seeing fish and throwing bait to them. Striped marlin was the top catch this week with seventy three percent of our boats one or more marlin. One of the best days was on November 11th; on this day alone our boats caught eighty five striped marlin! “Rebecca” did very well to release twelve stripers for Robert, Dan and Doug Rubino from Texas; they also caught three dorado between 25 to 30 lbs one mile out from Migriño on the Pacific side. Ed Van Hook and friends from Rochester, NY were also lucky to release twelve stripers at the same spot aboard “Billcollector”, their fish took live bait. Jeff McKenzie and friends from Granbury, TX had a great day with ten striped marlin released, plus a 70 lb wahoo and one dorado aboard “Falcon”. They were close to the same area near Gaspareño fishing with Captain Manuel. “La Brisa” released ten striped marlin for John and Rich Di Benedetto; the fish took a mix of live bait and tigrillo colored lures. “Tracy Ann” did well too for Patrick and Jean Neville from Bradenton, FL with eight striped marlin released at five miles out from Cerro de arena. The next day they released nine striped marlin for a group from Phoenix, AZ and boated a very nice 40 lb dorado for dinner. On the 9th, Fred Vanderbroeck from Punta Gorda, FL and friends had a great time aboard “Rebecca” releasing eight stripers at the old lighthouse and catching two nice 30 lbs dorado. It is really nice to see all of these clients mentioned here returning to Cabo as they have fished Pisces many times and have been loyal to Cabo. We also had a couple of blue marlin between 200 & 300 lbs for Adam Kramer, Eric Polep & Tony Buzzanca from Branford, CT. they also released three striped marlin and kept one dorado, all fish on the Pacific. On the 7th, Lee Wellerstein from California and Jerry Orlinick from NYC released five striped marlin aboard “Adriana”; the fish took live caballito at Migriño, they also caught five dorado to take back home. “Adriana” scored again on the 9th for Len and Jody Cook from Mountain View, WA and friends, with seven striped marlin released at Golden Gate; they also boated four 35 lb dorado. We could keep writing on all the great catches of this week but we don’t have room. Our final billfish tally was 313 striped marlin, three blue marlin and one sailfish….pretty cool.

OTHER SPECIES: Even though dorado was not the number one catch, we did see an increase with sixty four percent of our boats catching from one to eleven fish, giving us a total of 266 fish caught. One of the best days was on the 6th aboard “Rebecca” for Shawn and Mike White from Williamston, SC with a total of eleven dorado at Golden Gate. On the 9th Butch Ginneti and Vince De Rentis from Branford, CT caught seven dorado between 35 to 40 lbs aboard “Gaviota XI”; the fish took live bait. On the 7th, Paul Dornell, Thomas Hafner and Steve Banks from California had a great time with captain Leon with a total of nine dorado; they also released three striped marlin and one sailfish at Golden gate..Good job guys! By the way they loved our famous Pisces t-shirts, which they swore were the key to such luck. These anglers went on to have a great day on the 6th with seven dorado on the same boat. This same day a group from Carlsbad, Ca caught seven dorado, with a couple released aboard “La Brisa”. Daniel Carter and James Dollaway did very well aboard “No Big Deal” with seven dorado, one 60 lb yellow fin tuna and one striped marlin released. Tuna catches were in third place this week with sixteen percent of our charters catching between one to twelve fish. One of the best day was November 11th for Kevin, Anthony and Jerry Carney from Colorado Springs, CO they had plenty of fillets to take home as they caught twelve yellow fin tuna aboard “Adriana”, one of them was 100 lbs and the rest were between 40 to 50 lbs at Los Arcos; the fish took a mix of live bait and cedar plugs /feathers. “Fish on”, one of the boats that we used when we are booked, did very well with ten yellow fin tunas, football size, for a group from Brandford, CT on the 8th; they also caught three dorado and released one striped marlin. The next day out with the same group they caught a 140 lb tuna at the Golden Gate and released three stripers. On the 8th, Paul Dornell and friends from California again did very well this time aboard “Cabolero” with eight tuna between 15 lbs up to 100 lbs at the Golden gate as well. Embree Chuck and Hector Medina from Dallas, TX caught 100 lb’er aboard “Falcon” on the 6th ten miles out from the old lighthouse. The next day John and Rich DiBenedetto from Ohio caught two tunas, one of them 100 pounder aboard “La Brisa” at San Jaime. Best inshore fishing was November 6th, when Tom Olson from San Diego, CA released three roosters, two jack cravelle, eight dorado and two pompanos aboard “Salsa” at the old light house. Other catches were wahoo, yellowtail and needlefish.

WEATHER CONDITIONS: Clear, sunny skies, seas mostly calm, great weather.

LOCATION: Pacific Side - Golden Gate, Lighthouse, Los Arcos, Migriño, Gaspareño, Todos Santos, Cabrillo, La Ballena, Pescadero, Pozo Cota, Elias Calles, Margaritas

AVERAGE WATER TEMP. 83 F

BEST LURES; Feathers, cedar plugs, tigrillo, petrolero, green, all colors, blue/white, black/blue, red/black, green/yellow, guacamayo,

For live bait caballito and ballyhoo

Based on the catches of Pisces by Ale Almada & Tracy Ehrenberg.

Kevin, Anthony and Jerry Carney from Colorado Springs, CO caught twelve yellow fin tuna aboard “Adriana”, one of them was 100 lbs and the rest were between 40 to 50 lbs at Los Arcos

Happy Anglers from Spain Fishing for the First Time in the Tuna Tournament Aboard Falcon