Latest Fish Report

May 16th to 26th, 2010

Overall Catch Success Rate 86%

BILLFISH: A lot of marlin were seen in Cabo these past few days, but that doesn’t necessarily meant that a lot were caught. In fact the start of the week was very slow for billfish, though Matt Rainwater from Fort Worth, Texas, did pretty well aboard “Bill Collector”. Matt released his first striped marlin of the week, three and a half miles out from Cerro Colorado on a live caballito and then went on to boat a 50 lb wahoo which took a petrolero lure and three tunas between 30 and 40 lbs that took cedar plugs on May 20th. This same day “Tracy Ann” reported that they had seen seven striped marlin but could not get them to bite. Next day out Matt Rainwater released another striped marlin just two miles off of Cerro Colorado again on a live caballito and on this same day “Great Escape Junior” fishing four miles out from Cabeza de Ballena and Santa Maria saw fifteen marlin that they threw bait too, but just couldn’t get them interested. Matt wasn’t finished though; he went onto release one more striped marlin, this time on May 23rd, just two miles from shore and also got two tunas. It is a good sign that more marlin are being spotted as it means catches will start to increase and we know that they are in the area. As the week progressed we began to see more marlin catches. “Tracy Ann” had two up to 140 lbs plus one tuna for Sean Bohannon & Carrie Grimes from Washington D.C on May 26th two miles from Cerro Blanco and “Andrea” released one this day for a group from Salt Lake City. “Andrea” did well to hook up two striped marlin at Cabeza de Ballena for the Mac Colby family from Atlanta, Ga...one released and the other one 140 lbs died. “Great Escape Jr” released a striped marlin in the same area and also caught an 86 lb hammerhead shark for Erol Onyuru and the McLean’s from Dallas, Texas. Twenty-eight percent of Pisces charters caught marlin this week all on live bait, generally close to shore on the Cortez side. Our total marlin count was thirteen with eleven released.

OTHER SPECIES: OTHER SPECIES: The top catch again this week was yellowfin tuna with fifty one percent of boats catching between one and fifteen fish up to 40 lbs. Cedar plugs and feathers worked well with tuna found both on the Pacific and Cortez side. “C Rod” was the top tuna boat with fifteen and one dorado caught off of Gaspareño for James Little and friends from Folsom California. “La Brisa” had a very nice wahoo weighing in at 65 lbs for Mark Hendrix from Houston, Texas, caught on an orange rapala just one mile out from Santa Maria; he also caught two football size tuna in the same area. Charlie and Sidney Wilhite, Westmonroe, Louisiana caught a 65 lb hammerhead shark aboard “Andrea” three miles off of the Old Lighthouse plus the slightly larger one, mentioned above. Dorado catches were slow with just five taken by our boats. Rooster fish action was fair and there were a few amberjacks and jack crevalles too.

LOCATION: Cerro blanco, two miles, Santa Maria, Chileno, Cabeza de Ballena, off of the Old Lighthouse.

WEATHER CONDITIONS: Quite windy, with whitecaps on the Pacific all week, forcing the boats to concentrate on the Cortez side. Skies sunny.

AVERAGE WATER TEMP: 74 F

BEST LURES: Live bait, cedar plugs, petroleros.

Based on the catches of Pisces by Tracy Ehrenberg

Fishing news

Jim and Cheryl Sedoris from Eagan Minnesota had a great time with sister, Cindy Tovsen aboard “La Brisa” on Saturday.

Despite rough seas they toughed it out and came back with three beautiful tuna which made a delicious dinner and there are still plenty of fillets to take home.

They found the fish eleven miles out from Cerro Blanco.

Fishing news

Matt and Steve Webster from Dorado Hills, CA went on Valerie on May 27th and caught a nice 30 lb dorado and six yellowfin tuna a half mile from Cerro Blanco.


We are sure they had a great dinner with the family!

Meet Pancho!!

Our friendly local sea lion.....he is very smart and had learned to beg from boats when they return to the dock.


He usually gets the left over bait, but the other day he actually snatched a small tuna from an angler that was holding it up for a photo.

Watch out for those teeth!

Our friends from New Jersey!

We received some pictures from Jerry Malangone from last October.

To my friends at Pisces. Sorry I took so long to send the pictures. Here is the largest bull Dorado of our trip 69 inch 56 lb. from October, La Brisa captain Ray. Anglers - Jerry Malangone, Dan Bixler and Jason Bixler.

Here is our good friend Reyes “Butch” Bustamante from Carson, California in Cabo on May 21st enjoying our spectacular weather and catching a few fish too.

They were fortunate to release three nice roosterfish aboard Andrea.

Also the same day, Todd & Bev Duncan from San Diego caught two yellowfin tunas aboard the Tracy Ann.

May 24th, 2010 Fish report

Looks like fishing picked up considerably yesterday and for the first time in awhile we are seeing marlin.

Our top anglers today were the Colby family from Atlanta, Georgia they enjoyed a great time out with Captain Orlando aboard Andrea and were thrilled to catch two striped marlin both on live bait at four miles of Cerro Blanco.

Unfortunately one of the fish died before it could be released so they brought it back to the dock, where it will be filleted for them to take home and share with some of the crews.


Here is a picture to remember.

Fishing News May 1st to 15th - IGFA World Offshore Championship

PISCES FISH REPORT


May 1st to 15th, 2010

Overall Catch Success Rate 79%

BILLFISH: The biggest news during this time frame was the IGFA World Offshore Championship which took place in Cabo over four days from May 10th to 14th. This is a fantastic tournament with the most level playing field that you can get. We had forty teams representing sixteen different countries from as far afield as Papua New Guinea, Japan, Italy and other European countries as well as the USA and Mexico being represented with several teams. All billfish are released, circle hooks must be used to increase the survival of the fish and certified 30 lb test line must be used. Smaller game fish such as tuna, dorado and wahoo can be boated during the event. Anglers do not get to choose which boat they fish on; a draw is done amongst local charter boats and the anglers rotate to different boats each day. To be invited to enter you have to win a qualifying event anywhere in the world. This year the marlin bite was way down, even though fishing activity was not bad with a hook up ratio for the event of 69.77%. A total of 60 billfish were caught, 36 wahoo and 6 tuna.

1st Place Team, our local boys from Cabo San Lucas, who also won last year, Team Copa Gobernador with 7 marlin released and 2 wahoo boated.

2nd Place Team, Harborside Rotary from the Bahamas with 5 marlin released.

3rd Place Team, El Pescado from Florida, USA with 4 marlin released.

The top wahoo weighed in was caught by Tadayuki Fukuhara from Japan, representing the Hawaiian Billfish Tournament and was 70.21 lbs.

The top tuna weighed in was caught by a team from the USA and weighed 55 lbs.

In regular news Pisces overall catch success rate for all species combined was higher than the tournament’s at 79%. Just 15% of our boats located billfish; “Cabolero” in the tournament did well to located marlin for both the 1st and 2nd place teams, catching and releasing two on May 11th 3 miles out from Cerro Blanco for the Bahamas team and then another two just one and a half miles off of Cabeza de Ballena on the 12th for the Cabo team. On the 13th of May “Rebecca” released a striped marlin and a sailfish from a group from Florida just two miles off of Solmar. Our charters ended up with 17 billfish this week, in diverse locations all on live bait.

OTHER SPECIES: This really should have been called the tuna report, as our boats amassed catches of 547 fish this week ranging in size from 10 to 35 lbs with many smaller fish released. Damon and Debbie Lehr from Clyde, Texas were our champs this week with a total of 28 reeled to the boat, just above Golden Gate, on cedar plugs and petrolero lures, aboard “Andrea”. Other boats caught between one and a dozen. Some boats has nice mixed days, such as “C Rod” with 12 tuna and 1 marlin released, as did “Falcon” with 14 tuna and 1 marlin released for Emma and Neil Pearson from London, U.K. Fifty two percent of charters caught tuna. The same could not be said for dorado where just fourteen percent caught this species with the catch usually one or two fish and less often three. The weights tended to be between 20 and 30 lbs with most caught on the Pacific. Wahoo catches were good with ten caught by our fleet, the largest being a 60 lb’er caught aboard a panga by Cabo regular Gary Hall from Snohomish, Washington. “Tracy Ann” had two wahoo 46 and 50 lbs respectively fro for the Martinez family from Tenerife, Spain. There were plenty of other fish too; a couple of mako sharks up 85 lbs, good numbers of roosterfish, jack crevalle, trigger fish, some sierra, squid, skipjacks, cabrilla and snapper.

WEATHER: First part of this report, partly cloudy and moderate seas, and second part was calm and clear.

LOCATION: Golden Gate to Chileno Bay, one mile to forty miles offshore, the majority of fish with the exception of tuna were in close.

AVERAGE WATER TEMP: 74 F

BEST LURES: Live bait, caballito, ballyhoo, petroleros, green colors.

Based on the catches of Pisces by Tracy Ehrenberg

Photos show,  the winners of the IGFA Championship, celebrating at the awards and on board with champagne.

Also shown Sue Hall from Snomohosh Washington, with her 60 lb wahoo caught on May 13th

IGFA World Offshore Championship Results

Today was the close of fishing for the IGFA World Offshore Championship where  a total of forty teams from 16 different countries battled it out to see who would take the title of best in the world. Fishing was slow for the anglers, as the marlin have not yet arrived "en masse" to the Cabo area, even though we have heard reports of fish further up the Pacific. A total of sixty marlin, thirty five wahoo and six tuna were caught. The unofficial result for the tournament puts Mexico in first place for the second year in a row.  The Mexican team had a total of seven marlin released over the four day event plus two wahoo givingt them a total of 2196 points.  A team from the Bahamas took second plkace with five marlin released giving them 1500 points and third place went to the USA with four marlin and 1200 points. It looks as if Hernando Gonzalez will be top angler again this year too. The Mexican team shown in the photo consisted of Oscar Daccarett, Rafael Garcias, Daniel Fisher, Jobe Villavicencio and Hernando Gonzalez. Just shows to go when fishing is tough the locals have an edge. Way to go guys, congratulations.

May Fishing First Part

PISCES FISH REPORT


April 29th to May 4th, 2009

Overall Catch Success Rate 84%

BILLFISH: All things considered fishing was pretty good this week that is when boats actually left the dock. With the media machine in full swing and with the majority of people actually believing what they said, Cabo experienced a flood of cancellations, including that of the IGFA World Offshore Championship, which was set to start on May 11th. Despite not a single case of swine flu in our whole state and with our ideal geographic location keeping us far from the germs, people generally “freaked out” and decided to skip Mexico, which has been devastating to the economy. Not only that, but Mexicans are being discriminated against around the globe, for example popular Mexican singer Vicente Fernandez was not allowed to land his private plane in Peru or Ecuador to refuel simply because of his nationality……and people are upset about the way our citizens are being treated. However, we know Mexico and especially Cabo have a lot of loyal fans who will return shortly. Those that did make it down this week enjoyed a catch rate of fifty percent on striped marlin. This is an improvement on last week, but with the weather still not ready to fully commit to warmer temperatures, we still aren’t seeing the catches that we would like. Right now we have a big moon and it is windy in the afternoons; once the wind dies down we will see a huge improvement on marlin catches. Our top boat this week was “C Rod” with three striped marlin released and one dorado boated for Yvette, C.A and Elliot Bailey from Albuquerque, New Mexico, fishing with Noel Carte from Nevada City. All their fish were caught on live bait 20 miles out from Cerro Colorado. “Tracy Ann” also did well to release two stripers on May 1st, 13 miles from the 150 spot for Greg & Margaret Kjos, who were fishing with Kim & Marie Griesman, all from Minnesota. Pisces anglers caught a total of 13 marlin this week all of which were released.

OTHER SPECIES: Marlin was actually the best catch this week followed by dorado with forty four percent of boats catching between one and four fish up to 30 lbs, caught in diverse locations with lures being the best way to hook up. Yellowfin tuna catches fizzled somewhat as the week progressed, resulting in a sixteen percent catch rate, however “Ruthless” did very well on May 2nd for Wes Readinger, Greg Cunnington & Jeff Pierce from Fullerton, California; catching 20 yellowfin tuna up to 30 lbs, 1 yellowtail and 4 sierras. Inshore there were catches of giant squid, quite a few skipjack, the odd roosterfish, a few yellowtail and jack crevalle.

LOCATION: Six to thirty miles off of the Old Lighthouse 95 and 150 spots, five to twenty miles off of Cerro Colorado, Cerro Blanco five to twenty miles.

WEATHER CONDITIONS: Light winds in the morning with a bit of chop, then calming before the wind picking up in the afternoons.

AVERAGE WATER TEMP: 68-73 F

BEST LURES: Live caballito, green colored lures.

Based on the catches of Pisces by Tracy Ehrenberg