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Pictured here is Jim Corcoran from Madison, Wisconsin…with a nice wahoo caught July 1st aboard “Falcon”; this beautiful fish will make several good meals. Jim also released a striped marlin and boated six yellowfin tuna.

Latest Fish Report

June 18th to July 1st, 2010

Overall Catch Success Rate 81%

BILLFISH: This period we saw the billfish catches begin to stabilize and become more consistent, even with a full moon, there were marlin catches pretty much every day, making stripers the number one catch this report. Top boat was “C Rod” with five released during the Stars and Stripes Tournament for Charles Rasmussen from Valencia, Ca. on June 25th. “Falcon” had one of the first sailfish of the season as well as a striped marlin on June 24th, at the 11.50 spot for Joseph Chiramonte and friends from Los Gatos, Ca. “El Gallo” had a really big striped marlin which the captain reported at 210 lbs as well as a smaller 100 lb fish, both released in front of Pedregal by Robert Phillips from Homosassa, Florida on June 19th. There were several boats with double marlin days such as “Rebecca”, “Tracy Ann” and “Ruthless” which was great to see, catches getting consistent ; but some of the most active days were had by boats that got a marlin then small game, such as Gary George from Wakeforest, North Carolina….(hey, there is a new direct flight from Charlotte N.C to Cabo....) fishing with Jason…they were out on “Andrea” and caught one striped marlin and twenty yellow fin tuna and then went on to get a couple of dorado. Fifty percent of boats this week were fortunate to hook striped marlin, so that’s a big improvement but there is a lot more action to come. Pisces anglers caught a total of 46 striped marlin and 1 sailfish this week, all released, except one 180 lb striper kept.

OTHER SPECIES: Tuna catches were pretty good this week, though less boats found them, when you got to the right spot, catches ranged from one to twenty five fish, in the football size, so for sheer number more tuna were caught than anything else, giving us a total of 169 and a half fish – the half a fish was aboard “Ruthless”, when Gerald and Jane Smith were aboard; one of their fish was severed by a shark as they were reeling it in, leaving them with just a head on the end of the line. Again we had some nice catches on wahoo this week, with Great Escape Jr. catching two 40 and 50 lbs and C Rod also catching two around the same size, plus releasing a striped marlin on June 26th. Forty percent of boats caught yellow fin tuna. Dorado catches were slower with just seventeen percent of boats catching one or two fish in the 15 to 30 lb class. “Ruthless” released a hammerhead shark as well as a striped marlin at the 11.50 spot for Clark Weiss from Houston, Texas. Some roosterfish, jack crevalles , sierra, bonita and red snapper were also caught in lesser numbers.

LOCATION: 11.50 spot, Cabrillo, 95 spot, Chileno, 4 miles off of Old Lighthouse, Punta Gorda.

WEATHER: It’s almost like living in two countries. The Pacific is cold, windy and foggy the Sea of Cortez is smooth and hot.

AVERGE WATER TEMP: 82 F

BEST LURES: Live caballito, live mackerel, cedar plugs, tiger colored lures, feathers, blue/white, petrolero.

Based on the catches of Pisces by Tracy Ehrenberg

Gary George from Wakeforest, North Carolina

Fishing News: June 29th

It seems that Father’s and Son’s never grow tired of fishing together, there is nothing like being able to spend time together out on water, catching up and getting in some quality time and it’s even better when you are pulling in the fish…… Adolfo and Steven Rivera from Austin, Texas released one striped marlin and hauled in eleven tuna aboard “Rebecca”.

Second day fishing for the Weiss Family, from Houston, Texas.

Zizi , fifteen years old, was the one to get to reel a fish in today, seen here, a beautiful striped marlin. They were also fortunate to boat a 20 lb dorado.

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What more could you ask for, a fish each for Eric Neason from Spring, Texas and Scott Pharr from Tomball, Texas. These guys sure look happy, just look at those smiles.

They fished aboard Rebecca and did very well to release two striped marlin which were estimated at 130-170 lbs. The fish were caught at ten miles from 11:50 Spot on mackerel live bait.

 

Fishing news : June 27th

Here is a nice picture from today of Eric Neason and Scott Pharr from Texas, they released two striped marlin and caught five yellow fin tunas between 15 to 35 Lbs aboard “Rebecca”

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Clark Weiss and Tadan Gaston, with one of two striped marling caught and released on Saturday, June 26th. aboard "Ruthless"
They also caught a yellowfin tuna for dinner!

Stars & Stripes Tournament

The Stars and Stripes Tournament took place last night, now in it’s fourteenth year, this event is also known as “The Feel Good Tournament” as people don’t compete to win stuff, but rather to give it away, especially need children. One of the main beneficiaries of this tournament is Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Orange County. The event came to an end last night, with a concert on the beach of the World Class Rockers, featuring artists from the bands of The Eagles (who of course sang Hotel California), Santana, Steppenwolf, Journey, Toto and Lynard Skynard…during the three day event over $1.8 million dollars was raised.

Five of our boats participated in this tournament and these were their results.

- “Rebecca” released two striped marlin

- “Valerie” released one striped marlin, caught two 20 lbs dorado and one yellow fin tuna.

- The Rasmussen family from Valencia, Ca released five striped marlin aboard “C- Rod”

- Gustavo Taeisen caught two yellow fin tunas aboard “Fearless”

- Kent Valley released two striped marlin aboard “Andale”

Great weekend for fishing!

Looks like the warm water started to show some good results

June 25th

The aptly named Fisher family from Milwaukie, Oregon, caught six nice yellow fin tuna and released one striped marlin aboard “Andrea” yesterday.

Gerald Smith from Lake Geneva, WI, on his third day out aboard “Ruthless” released one striped marlin, caught two yellowfin tunas and one 30 lbs Dorado.

Ed Dowling from Castle Rock, CO caught three yellow fin tunas between 10 to 20 lbs and released one striped marlin aboard “Bill collector”

Christina Savage and gave husband Chris, a nice birthday present with two days of great fishing …..aboard “Great Escape Jr.” - had a double header on wahoo that weighed 40 to 50 lbs.

As if this wasn’t enough they then out with captain Julio aboard “Bill collector” and caught eighteen yellow fin tunas (15 to 30 lbs) and one nice 30 lbs Dorado! Good job!

Fishing news : June 24th

- Joseph and Karen Chiaramonte from California released one striped marlin and one sailfish aboard “Falcon”

- Their second day of fishing aboard “Andrea”, Jason and Gary George from North Carolina caught two nice Dorado between 20 to 30 lbs.

- Cody Ortowski, Natalie Himmer, Howard and Rebecca Pate from Texas released one striped marlin and caught six yellow fin tunas aboard “Fearless” with captain Benito.