Tropical Storm Patricia Update #2

Tuesday, Oct. 13th 2.23 pm
We had quite a bit of rain last night off and on but zero wind. This morning at 6.30 it was totally calm no rain, no wind and you could see the stars. Anglers were chomping at the bit, lunches were all made and ready to go and THEY CLOSED THE PORT! Yes it was raining a bit, but then the sun came out, seas are calm and we couldn't go fishing....honestly it was rougher yesterday. So now we have to scramble to reschedule boats and anglers and take a loss on everything that was prepared for today such as lunches. Right now though we are getting ready for the check-in for the Los Cabos Billfish Tournament, which will be at 4.00 pm today. The captain's meeting will be at 6.00 pm. Numbers of entries are expected to be down somewhat due to the economy. However, Pisces has a great gift for each team, we will giving them a brand new copy of Gene Kira's "The Unforgettable Sea of Cortez", a book that we sponored the publishing of for its second edition. This book is truly a treasure and we couldn't bear to see it disappear. On Amazon we saw copies from between $50.00 all the way up to over $600.00 so this truly is a much, sought after book. It describes and shows in pictures the Baja of yesteryear, even the contruction of now gone icons like the Hotel Cabo San Lucas, with Bud Parr the developer pictured with other Cabo locals when they were much younger. The book is available through Pisces and we encourage you to get a copy.

Fish Report Oct 1-7 2009

Overall Catch Success Rate 99%
BILLFISH: Small game catches again outnumbered those of billfish this week, but we are not complaining, as anglers had plenty to keep them busy…all anglers out caught fish, unless they got seasick and came back early or were fishing a panga close in. Seas were on the rough side this week but fishing was good. “Andrea”, one of our 28 ft standard cruisers caught a 325 lb blue marlin on October 5th six miles out from Golden Gate and boated a couple of dorado too, angler Ed Anglin (apt name) took two and a half hours to bring the fish to the boat on 80 lb test, fishing with Don Posner both from Shreveport, Louisiana. The only other blue marlin for us this week, was a tantalizing 500 lb’er released by “Get over It”, out on a practice, pre-tournament day, so hopefully they can find this same fish again later this week. “Yahoo”, 42 ft Bertram was one of our best boats this week; on October 2nd they caught three striped marlin at Migriño as well as seven dorado for Jeff Thomson & Richard Diaz from Arizona, fishing with Matt Murphy from Tampa, Florida. A few days later this same boat released two striped marlin and boated a 44 lb wahoo and two dorado, close to Golden Gate for Joe Mayer, Tracie & Henry Spradlin from Quincy, Illinois. Another notable catch was on October 6th, aboard “Valerie”, 35 ft Bertram who released a sailfish and a striped marlin as well as boating four dorado. The reason we mention these billfish catches, is that they were better than average, as just twenty nine percent of charters managed to hook up to billfish, the rest loaded up on mostly dorado and some tuna. Again we fished almost exclusively on the Pacific with live bait usually the ticket for marlin and sailfish though they did take lures too; it was just hard to locate the billfish. Pisces anglers caught a total of 21 billfish this week, consisting of 15 striped marlin, all but two released, 5 sailfish and 1 blue marlin.
OTHER SPECIES: Dorado was the number on catch this week with a total caught of 371 for our anglers. Close to ninety percent of charters caught between one and twenty fish, ranging in size from 18 to 50 lbs. Top boat was 31 ft Bertram “La Brisa” with twenty in one day, though it should be noted that many dorado are being released in keeping with Fish and Game quotas (yes we do have these in Mexico and they are checking in Cabo). The dorado are taking both live bait and lures, with the green type lures working well as well as guacamaya colored lures. There were dorado close by near Gaspareño as well as far up as Golden Gate. Wahoo catches were pretty good again this week, with more charters finding wahoo than tuna….thirteen percent of charters caught wahoo up to 44 lbs. The only boat with a doubleheader on this species was “Ruthless” on October 3rd, for Kevin & Gary Lowe from Sacramento, fishing with Dan Lawrence & Ken Walden from California –their wahoo were 30 and 40 lbs and they also got a couple of dorado. Tuna catches were much slower this week with just nine percent of charters catching three or four fish in the 20 to 70 lb class.
WEATHER CONDITIONS: Skies partly cloudy, seas slightly rough on the Pacific.
LOCATION: Land’s end to Golden Gate
AVERAGE WATER TEMP: 84 F
BEST LURES: Green/yellow, guacamayas, petroleros for wahoo, live bait.
Based on the catches of Pisces by Tracy Ehrenberg

Tropical Storm Patricia

1.21 PM Monday, October 12th
With tournaments approaching, such as the Los Cabos Billfish, anglers are nervously keeping an eye on the weather. What started out as a tropical depression as few days ago has now become a tropical storm. As we speak Tropical Storm Patrica is 245 miles south of Cabo moving NW at 8mph with 50 mph winds. So what are we experiencing?
Right now nothing much, we have had rain since yesterday, at times very light and mist like and then a few downpours, all much appreciated. Strangely the Port Captain who usually closes the port if somebody sneezes, let the boats go out today. It has been rough and one of our boats came back by 10.30 am with anglers that felt queasy, though they did get four dorado. So it looks like more rain today and wind and rain tonight. At this stage we don't expect it to affect the Los Cabos Billfish Tournament set to start fishing on Wednesday. If the port is closed, the tournament will probably go to a two day format, though organizers will confirm that.
You can see actual conditions in real time via our webcam http://pisces.linksysremoteview.com/img/main.cgi?next_file=main.htm

Another Big Tuna

We were all thrilled when La Brisa got a 200 lb tuna for a lady angler a few days ago, but it seems the big boys are in town. We heard of a 300 lb plus tuna being taken aboard a commercial panga on 500 lb test line last week. Not to be outdone, Great Escape Jr. did very well to capture this 254 lb'er for Dominik Green from Chicago on September 27th. It's no easy feat to bring in a fish of this size and cost him a lot of sweat and blisters...he did get an ice cold beer as a reward though. All this bodes well for this years Tuna Tournament scheduled for early November.

Big Wahoo

It's been awhile since we have had any wahoo of any size but Paul Paulson, from Gary, Indiana, pulled in this beauty aboard Rebecca on September 27th. The fish was 60 lbs and took a petrolero lure by Gaspareño on the Pacific.

Heather's Tuna Photos

9/25/2009
A Fish Twice Her Size
Heather DeRamus from Richmond, Texas fished with her girlfriends aboard "La Brisa" on September 23rd and despite being pretty small, at just over 100 lbs, she determindely pulled in this massive 200 lb tuna, in the hot September sun, taking three hours to bring to the boat on 80 lb test. The fish took a green and black lure at the Jaime Bank on 80 lb test. Heather is pictured here with Captain Nicolas Winkler (right) and deckhand Salvador Flores (left) and below with her friends. Congratulations on having a lot of steaks to take home.

Pimp My Ride Does Cabo

This past Saturday Alvin Joiner, better known as Xzibit the rapper, actor, singer and T.V host from the MTV hit show Pimp My Ride, was here celebrating his birthday and went out fishing on our 70 ft Hatteras "Salsa" he had a great time releasing a large striped marlin. He is pictured here with our very own dockmaster Oscar Bañaga on the right....who was very impressed by the down to earth attitude and friendliness of this guy. All the best people fish with Pisces.

What Colors

Pictured here is Wayne Stout from Graham, Washington. He fished with us in August aboard Andrea and is shown here with deckhand Abrahan Castro on the right (son of Captain Julio Castro of the Tracy Ann).What impressed about these photos was the colors, the blue of the ocean, the brilliant colors of the dorado and the contrasting skin colors of angler and deckhand.

It's Not Just About the Fishing

Here at Pisces we pride ourselves on not just having great crews and boats, but on building relationships. Pictured here is Mike Vise from Sacramento, California. He fished with us recently over labor day and did very well catching, dorado, tuna and marlin. He is pictured here at our boatyard with some of the crews eating "carnitas" with them....he should be pretty easy to spot...look for the least tanned guy. So you see not just a client but a friend also.

One of the things I love about Cabo

One of the things I love about living in Cabo are the spectacular sunrises. Due to the unique location of where I live, Cabo Falso, which is actually the most southern part of the Baja (not the arch) we get to see both sunrise and sunset as well as moonrise and set too. We even see the Southern Cross, which is a point I hotly dispute with guests to my home as the don't think it is possible seeing as we are in the northern hemisphere. Pictured here is a beautiful sunrise taken a couple of days ago as viewed from my patio..tough job, but somebody has to do it.