Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Capt. Tracy Ehrenberg
May 9, 2001
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Pisces Weekly Fish Report

May 2nd to 8th 2001

PISCES WEEKLY FISH REPORT

MAY 2ND TO 8TH 2001



BILLFISH: I would say we had a pretty decent week overall here at Land’s End, with an overall catch success rate, for all species combined of eighty-seven percent, with just about half the boats getting marlin. It was interesting week weather wise, as it started out absolutely beautiful, but Wednesday May 2nd, saw strong winds, with gusts of up to 30 mph, which made it hard to fish. The next day, we got rain, not heavy, but lasting until after noon, boats did better this day, but only on smaller game. Despite this we had some nice catches; on the really windy day, Gerald Richmond and John Mason from Las Vegas, were out on “Ruthless” and were very lucky to catch a 210 lb swordfish, 29 miles out from San Jose, on 30 lb test. These two guys had a pretty amazing week on this boat, as mentioned in last week’s report on April 30th they got one striped marlin released, one 60 lb wahoo, 8 tuna and 1 dorado, they followed this with the swordfish and then on May 4th, they released 3 striped marlin and caught a dorado, to give them one of their best trips ever. Jeff and Patricia Barber from Indian Hills, Co, lucked out on their first Cabo trip, with Patricia releasing her first billfish, an approximately 140 lb striped marlin and Jeff, releasing two smaller fish, on May 8th, aboard “Ruthless (this was definitely the hot boat this week). Last week we mentioned that Wayne Childs from Mesquite, Tx, released two marlin, however, we would like to correct this – wife Jacky was on board and released one of the two, fulfilling a dream for Wayne and getting Jacky hooked on fishing. Texas anglers did well this week, with Michael Tulkoff from Cedar Park, releasing two striped marlin aboard “Tracy- Ann, also a first for him. This same day Dan Dorman from Houston, with Ted Holt, from Oklahoma had two marlin and 6 tuna on “Karina” and Jerome Schentag from Eggerstville, N.Y also had a double on Andrea. We did have a serious slowdown on the marlin front right around full moon, but as we close this report, one day after full moon, most boats returned with marlin flags. Pisces anglers caught a total of 22 striped marlin, with all but one 140 lb fish, released.

OTHER SPECIES: Yellowfin tuna again, though we’re not complaining, were the most numerous fish in Cabo this period. Boats regularly caught from one to 20 in the 15 to 30 lb class, with the odd one here and there reaching 60 lbs. Top spots were off of Chileno and Punta Gorda. Dorado is slowing increasing, with a couple of boats this week getting up to three, otherwise they were picked up whilst trolling for marlin and tuna, being solitary fish, averaging 20 lbs, but some as big as 50 lbs. Less wahoo this week, we just had one 40 lb’er. We also heard of a 200 lb plus hammerhead shark being caught. Inshore, some sierra, skipjacks, some small red snapper and a few roosters.

LOCATION: 8 to 20 miles out from Chileno, then moving off of Cerro Blanco, with the week ending with boats fishing off of Gordo, Destiladeres and La Playita.

WEATHER CONDITIONS: Great air temperatures in the 90’s, water temperature 72 F, skies clear, just two funny days, one with wind the other with rain.

BEST LURES: Live bait for marlin, assorted jigs for tuna and dorado.

BASED ON THE CATCHES OF PISCES FLEET BY TRACY EHRENBERG

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