Latest Fish Report

March 3rd to March 11th, 2011

Overall Catch Success Rate 72.92%

BILLFISH: Despite a dip on marlin catches this week, thirty percent of our boats released striped marlin. The majority of the boats met with success in the Sea of Cortez, between the 95 spot and up as far as the Gordo Banks. The Top marlin boat this week was definitely “Tracy Ann”, with two double-header marlin days and the rest of the week one a day, with the exception of a single day when they saw them but couldn’t get a hook up. First double marlin day for “Tracy Ann” was on the 10th for Charles Meissen and Dave Schroder from Colorado; they ending up sharing a boat and did very well releasing a marlin each, both estimated around 150 lbs, released three miles out from the 95 spot. On March 8th, they had another double marlin day for birthday girl, Susie Hodnik from Juno, Alaska. Both the fish were released at Cabrillo sea mount and took live caballito. Susie was thrilled as this was her first marlin ever – way to go Julio & Martin; what a great birthday gift. “Adriana” did well too on the 5th for Mike and Melissa Brightwell from Springfield, Maryland. They did well to catch two stripers this time on the Pacific in Migriño area. They released on of the fish and estimated at 170 lbs and the other died during the fight –this one proved to be the larger of the two weighing in at close to 200 lbs, larger than usual. On the 7th, Larry and Saundra Dunsnoor from Klamath Falls, OR released one striped marlin which weighed approximately 160 lbs again, board “Tracy Ann”. This one was found at a favorite haunt of striped marlin, Golden Gate. On the 4th, Doug Noonan and friends from Florida had a great day, guess with whom... Yeap “Tracy Ann”! They were not even trying for marlin, instead they wanted to concentrate inshore and managed to hook up twenty sierras and a bonita at Gaspareño; on their way back to the dock with all the lines out of the water, Martin, deckhand, saw a marlin jumping out of the blue. Now, Martin is young lithe and eager, he leapt to the bait well had a caballito on the hook in no time, cast it with accuracy right in front of the marlin and got a hook up. It was Doug´s turn and his first marlin. He reeled and reeled under the watchful eye of Nicolas Winkler, skippering that day, and with some coaching managed to get the fish boatside for a couple of photos, before releasing it. He was extremely appreciative of crew’s skill. Thank you Doug for stopping by to the office and share your story. Pisces anglers had seventeen striped marlin this week; all released except two.

OTHER SPECIES: Dorado catches were better this week, but not great. Nine percent of our anglers managed to find this species. We had a couple of good sizes though, such as on the 5th aboard “Fearless” for Christopher Garcia and friends from New York City, NY who caught a respectable 40 lb dorado, taken at thirty miles out from Chileno bay; they also boated two yellow fin tuna between 15 t& 30 lbs; the fish took a combination of lures. On the 10th, Scott Towers and friends from Littleton, CO landed a 35 lbs dorado aboard “Adriana” and they caught one 20 lbs tuna as well. The same day, “Ruthless” caught another dorado from the equal size hooked with a blue/white lure for Tyler Mincemoyer from Philadelphia. Tuna catches were slightly better this week with fifteen percent of our boats catching between one to eight fish. The best day was on the 5th for Carla and Bill Davis from Pawley Island, SC they boated eight yellow fin tuna between 25 to 30 lbs fifteen miles from Cerro Blanco, all the fish took cedar plugs. They were lucky to release one striped marlin too. Early in the week, “Andale” caught six yellow fin tuna on feathers for a group from New York; most of them were football size. Catches are still steady with nineteen percent of our anglers hooking up to these tasty but tough fighters. On the 10th, Michael and Cindy Hulquist from Alaska had a good day aboard “Salsa” panga with a total of fifteen sierra from about 8 to 10 lbs; all caught with hoochis. On the 3rd, William Bartow tried the same boat and caught fifteen sierra as well as releasing a couple of rooster fish and a jack crevalle, close to the old lighthouse. We had a few yellow tail this week, on the 3rd the McLean´s from Florida caught ten of these fish (great for sashimi) aboard “La Brisa”; they went for a half day so they focus on inshore fishing and caught eight sierra and one 25 lbs sea bass. Other species; we had yellow tail, rooster fish, sea bass, trigger fish, mako sharks, grouper and a lot of bonitas.

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

LOCATION: Pacific Side – Golden Gate, Migriño, Old Lighthouse, Cerro Blanco, Margaritas, Gaspareño, Cerritos, Elías Calles

Sea of Cortez – Chileno, 95 spot, Punta Gorda, 11:50 Spot, Santa Maria, La Playita, Barco Varado, Chileno, Cabrillo

AVERAGE WATER TEMP. 71 F

BEST LURES; Cedar plugs, rapalas, hoochis, green, guacamayo, yellow, blue/pink, yoyos, tigrillo, green/white, purple, blue/white, red/black, feathers

Live bait: caballito, ballyhoos, sardine

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

Tyler Mincemoyer and friends from State College, PA with a 30 lbs dorado aboard "Ruthless"

Doug Noonan pictured with his first marlin released aboard "Tracy Ann"

Tsunami?

The Tsunami that was supposed to hit Cabo today was a bit of a non-event and we are not complaining.

It was tough on  anglers who couldn’t go fishing and more so for those who were unable to reschedule.  

Here is a short clip of what was happening, which you can see was not anything really. It was kind of cool to get a glimpse of a yester year Cabo though, when there was hardly any activity, in this now popular tourist resort. Beaches were completely empty due to the local authorities closing all of the coastline as a precaution.

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Tsunami Advisory for Cabo

While Cabo is under a Tsunami Advisory according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center this means that strong currents are likely, and a wave of between 4 and 10 inches is possible. In others words there is not much to be worried about. We send out our condolences to the people of Japan.

 

If you would like to check out any tidal events at the Cabo Marina, this is the link to our webcam. We urge you to be patient as it is currently saturated by the number of people attempting to view it. Estimated times for any sort of activity is between 9-11 am Mountain Time.

Pisces Cabo Marina WEBCAM 

Latest Fish Report Cabo

February 19th to February 25th, 2011

Overall Catch Success Rate 71.70%

BILLFISH: This week was definitely the best we’ve had in awhile for marlin especially when we look back on the past month. Nevertheless we did have a few “skunks”, but this was mainly due to anglers requesting half day trips, when they saw lots of marlin but could not get them to bite. Patient is a must with fishing and perhaps these boats would have got hook-ups if they had stayed longer. Thirty one percent of our boats caught one to three striped marlin this week. “Tracy Ann” started out with a bang on February 19th, the envy of the dock, when they showed up with three marlin flags. Robert Bernstein was on board from Weston, Florida and they fished close to Palmilla; all three fish were released and were estimated between 120 to 160 lbs. This same day, “Bill Collector” released two stripers for Armand and Ryan Maaskamp from California five miles in front of Cabo Real as well as landing a bonita. “Bill Collector” also did well at the end of this report, releasing two more striped marlin at Punta Gorda for Griffin Ordway from San Diego, CA and his father in law from Russia. On February he 25th, Reed Mack and Mike Kelly from San Jose, Ca. had a double marlin aboard “Great Escape Jr”, this time at the 11:50 spot; both fish took live caballito. Jed Crabb and Jim Bielich from Edmond, Ok released one striped marlin which was between 150 – 160 lbs seven miles out from Chileno aboard “Adriana”. Pisces anglers had twenty one striped marlin this week; all released except two.

OTHER SPECIES: Dorado catches were basically the same, just a couple around, the water is a bit on the cold side for them. One of them was a respectable 35 lb’er for Brian and Glenn O´Neil from Keansburg, NJ aboard “La Brisa”, who also did well to release a striped marlin on the 24th at Punta Gorda. Tuna catches are steady but not great, with twelve percent of our boats catching between one to twenty two fish. Actually the last day of this report was the best for tuna. “Rebecca” slammed them with twenty two tuna, for Dale & Cheryl Duke & Mike Malone from Kent, WA; the fish took a combination of cedar plugs and brown/black lures. Not far behind was “Andale” with sixteen tuna for a group from Austin, TX; they went thirty five miles out from Santa Maria bay. “Tracy Ann” also did well for Dwayne Skow and friends from Texas, boating thirteen yellow fin tuna between 15 to 20 lbs in front of Palmilla by the Sea of Cortez.

As to other species, sierra catches are still good with twenty one percent of our boats catching between one to twenty five fish- many released. Darren Stevenson and son from Alberta, Canada went out on the 24th aboard a panga and had a lot of action reeling in twenty five of these little fish (great fun on light tackle) most of them between 8 to 10 lbs with hoochis as lure by the old lighthouse. This same day “Attitude Adjustment” went inshore and achieved twenty sierras at Los Arcos on the Pacific side. Tom Schmidt and Mark Wright from Wilder, KY did well on February 19th, aboard a panga with ten Spanish mackerels, one bull shark and one jack crevalle released; the fish took a combination of live bait and hoochis.

On the 19th, "La Brisa" was out with some anglers who had traveled a REALLY long way to be here; Campbell & John Ferguson are from Melbourne, Australia, which is a very long flight. They were fishing out at Punta Gorda and had already caught a striped marlin that weighed around 150 lbs (thanks guys for making us look good, when fishing has been ahem.....slow) when the crew saw something odd floating on the surface and went over to investigate, it was a ratfish, also known as a quimera and it was dead. They gently lifted it into the boat to bring back to shore and to the scientists. You may recall that we saw the first one of these two years ago and nobody had a clue as to what it was. It was identified by local scientists who went on to do research with the specimen we gave them. We followed up with a second fish several months later and now they have this one. It appears that this is a new species of ratfish, not known before and they are expected to publish a paper on it soon. We applaud the crew of La Brisa, as they have been working with the scientists on several projects and all of our crews are showing a keen interest in conservation and want to learn more. They did well to recognize this as something unusual and to get it to us intact to the freezer.

As to other species we had rooster fish, skip jacks, lady fish, sea bass, bull shark, rock fish, mojarras, jack crevalle, rat fish and many bonitas.

WEATHER CONDITIONS: Clear, sunny skies. Some windy days. Mostly calm to choppy seas. We are back to cooler mornings.

LOCATION: Pacific Side – Golden Gate, Migriño, Pozo Cota, Los Arcos, Old Lighthouse, Molino.

Sea of Cortez – Palmilla, Chileno, 95 spot, San Jose del Cabo, Punta Gorda, 11:50 Spot, Cerro Colorado, Destiladeras, Santa Maria

AVERAGE WATER TEMP. 73 F

BEST LURES; Cedar plugs, rapalas, hoochis, petrolero, chilliwilli, green, guacamayo, black/brown

Live bait: caballito, ballyhoos, sardine

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

 

So I Caught Fish Now What Do I Do With It?

You can catch some great eating fish in Cabo when marlin fishing isn't up to par. Catches such as dorado, wahoo and yellow fin tuna are some of the best eating in the world, but along with these others such as yellowtail, sierra and snapper are also delicious and not at all "fishy". Some angler opt to have their fish frozen and take it home, which is included with our all-inclusive charters. Fish are filleted, packed in Ziploc bags ready to be picked up from our office the day you leave. You can also opt for vacuum packing or smoking handled by outside vendors for an additional cost. One thing we highly recommend though, is having some of your catch prepared at Captain Tony's right on the marina next to our office. You can have yoru fresh catch delivered to the restaurant by our staff. Just let them know at the dock what time you want to eat and how many people and they will take care of the rest. Captain Tony's does a phenomenal job with your fish and also offers great salads, pizzas, seafood chile rellenos plus lots more. The pizzas are baked in a special mezquite oven.  They charge a small fee to cook your fish and the result can be seen here; they will do several different preparations so you can decide on your favorite.

Another One of Those Weird & Ugly Fish!

On Saturday "La Brisa" was out withs some anglers who had traveled a REALLY long way to be here; Campbell & John Fergurson are from Melbourne, Australia, which is a very long flight.  They were fishing out at Punta Gorda and had already caught a striped marlin that weighed around 150 lbs (thanks guys for making us look good, when fishing has been ahem.....slow) when the crew saw something odd floating on the surface and went over to investigate, it was a ratfish, also known as a quimera and it was dead. They gently lifted it into the boat to bring back to shore and to the scientists. You may recall that we saw the first one of these two years ago and nobody had a clue as to what it was. It was identified by local scientists who went on to do research with the specimen we gave them. We followed up with a second fish several months later and now they have this one. It appears that this is a new species of ratfish, not known before and they are expected to publish a paper on it soon. We applaud the crew of La Brisa, as they have been working with the scientists on several projects and all of our crews are showing a keen interest in conservation and want to learn more. They did well to recognize this as something unusual and to get it to us intact to the freezer.

Readers Choice Award Goes to Pisces!

We were thrilled to receive this beautiful award given this past Saturday at a fabulous event in Palmilla.

Representing our comapany were Ady Moya (left) and Ale (Alejandra) Almada (right). Visitors to Cabo were asked to vote for different companies ranging from restaurtants to activites. Pisces got most votes for best fishing and yachting. The voice of the public speaks......

Is This An Incredible Shark or What?

The following took place at Ucluelet on the west side of Vancouver Island, Canada:

While the ocean vessel 'Dawn Raider' was commercial fishing for dogfish, this Great White was hooked in the mouth but only resisted slightly for 15 minutes before it came up alongside the boat to have a look; long enough for one of the crew members to slip a rope around it's tail !!!
'And that's when the s**t hit the fan!!'
The Shark took off towing the 42 foot fishing boat backwards through the water at about 7 Knots. Just like in JAWS, the boat was taking on water over the stern and the crew watched in horror as the shark would actually jump completely out of the water at times. This went on for an hour before the shark finally drowned.

She weighed in at 1035 LBS. It is suspected she followed a weak El Nino Current into local waters in search of food.  This took place on November 29th, 2006 and we want to thank David Flores for sending us the photos.

Although mid 60 degree  water is considered ideal for these sharks, the larger ones can tolerate water in the low 50s- according to the person that posted this story.

Actually Great White sharks are found in Baja with Isla Guadalupe being one of the best spots to observe these magnificent creatures.

Latest Fish Report

February 12th to February 18th, 2011


Overall Catch Success Rate 83.34%

BILLFISH: The billfish catches were steady this week with twenty two percent of boats releasing striped marlin, despite full moon at the end of this report. There has been a shortage of good live bait, caballito was available most days, not the very best marlin bait, but even then bait vendors did not have enough. This didn’t stop “Ruthless” though, who with captain Leon and deckhand Beto managed to release two striped marlin estimated 140 and 150 lbs on the 18th for Greg Callaway and friends from Houston, TX at Punta Gorda. One of this marlin took live caballito and the other a calamari lure. This same day, “Tracy Ann” released one striper in the 160 lbs class for a group from Temple, Texas in the same area. “C-Rod” also released another striped marlin on the 16th for Thomas and Rachel Hill and friends from Idaho twenty five miles out from Chileno; they also boated one 20 lbs yellow fin tuna which took a cedar plug. It’s rare that “Shambala” does not catch fish and true to form they also released a marlin for a group from Saint Louis, Missouri four miles out from Cabeza de Ballena. Looks like most of the marlin are at the Sea of Cortez. All the marlin were released this week and we are pleased to see a good size to them. Pisces anglers released ten striped marlin.

 

OTHER SPECIES: The number one catch of this week was sierra (Spanish mackerel) thirty six percent of our boats caught this tasty toothy fish, for a total count of 198 fish up to 10 lbs. On the 16th, “Tracy Ann” had 35 sierras between 8 to 10 lbs for Michael and Brenda Pinskey from Richmond, Michigan at Elias Calles. “Rebecca” had 34 sierras at the same spot for Al and Don Kodet from Minnesota; they also caught four bonitas; the fish took hoochis and rapalas – the majority of sierra are being released. Our anglers also tried some bottom; “La Brisa” out on the 18th with George & Linda Cunningham from Castle Rock, CO caught five sierra, four 20 lbs yellow tail, two mojarras and one sea bass with a mix of live bait and hoochis – what a fun day. Dorado was on the slow side this week, with only a couple of them caught. On the 16th, Thomas and Amanda Altstadt along with their daughters caught a 25 lb dorado aboard “Adriana” at the 95 spot. Yellow fin tuna catches decreased this week as our anglers preferred to stay closer in or go in search of marlin. Fifteen percent of our boats caught between one and four fish. On the 17th “Bill Collector” had a good day boating four yellow fin tuna, football size, for the Hendricks’s from North Carolina and Arizona; they also released one striped marlin, six skipjacks and bonitas. The fish were caught at Punta Gorda. “Tracy Ann” also caught four tuna for Rod and Nina Pace from Tucson, Arizona on the 13th. This time, they went 40 miles straight out near the 220 spot; the fish took cedar plugs.

As to other species we had yellow tail, mojarra, sea bass, rooster fish, jack crevalle, skip jack and many bonitas.

WEATHER CONDITIONS: Clear, sunny skies. Some windy days. Mostly calm seas. Warmer weather.

LOCATION: Pacific Side _ Migriño, Cerro Blanco, Elias Calles, Pozo Cota, Los Arcos, Old Lighthouse, 210 spot, Cerritos, Pescadero, Golden Gate

Sea of Cortez - Cabeza Ballena, Chileno, 95 spot, Herradura, San Jose del Cabo, Punta Gorda

AVERAGE WATER TEMP. 72 F

BEST LURES; Cedar plugs, rapalas, hoochis, petrolero, green/black, feathers, yoyos

Live bait: caballito, ballyhoos

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

How Ridiculous is This Story...

Fish-flinging Woman Attacks Men, Police Say

By: Associated Press
Friday, February 04, 2011 12:51:00 PM

Last updated: Friday, February 04, 2011 12:51:00 PM


NORTON SHORES, Mich. (AP) -- Two ice fishermen in Michigan cried both fish and foul after they reported being assaulted by a woman wielding a big fish.

Norton Shores police Lt. Jon Gale says the men from Muskegon County’s Egelston Township were ice fishing in a shanty Jan. 15 when they were approached by a woman who “wanted to urinate on the ice.”

Gale says the 29-year-old Fruitport woman instructed the men to turn their heads while she relieved herself, and while their backs were turned, she struck one of them in the head with a fish. The lieutenant said the woman then struck the other man across the face with a fish.

She apparently was upset the men put their shanty too close to hers.

The Muskegon Chronicle reported that the men decided against pressing charges.

Now we can guarantee that will absolutely  not happen to you here in Cabo, so come on down, weather is beautiful, whales have shown up in good numbers, water is up to 72 F in some places and fish are starting to show up again.