Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Capt. Tracy Ehrenberg
July 18, 2001
Cabo San Lucas - Saltwater Fishing Report

PISCES WEEKLY FISH REPORT JULY 11TH TO 17TH 2001

PISCES WEEKLY FISH REPORT

JULY 11TH TO 17TH 2001

BILLFISH: I must say things really picked up in a great way this way for us at Pisces. Most people are complaining this week that the fishing is hard, due to the fact that they are finding fish, but having a hard time getting them to bite. All but one of our charters this week caught fish, giving us a catch success rate for all species combined of ninety-eight percent. The catch rate for billfish was high too, at eighty-seven percent, combined mostly of striped marlin and sailfish. Ken Carey, did release a nice 300 lb blue marlin on Catch N’ Carey and the Finatic also released a blue marlin on Sunday, July 15th, estimated at 300 lbs also. Sunday actually turned out to be our best day, with four striped marlin released for Andrew and Robert Winthrop from, Fullerton Ca and four stripers also, for Kevin and Scott McQuarrie from Kingwood, Tx. Karina also proved lucky for Kurt and William Meelheim from Grass Valley, Ca, hooking them up to three marlin, all released, at the start of this report on July 11th - brothers were on a roll this week! To close the report Karina scored again with three stripers released, this time for James Richardson from Bedford Tx, and Mark Williams from Ft. Worth, Tx. The Shaw family from Marietta, Ga, had a fabulous time on Ruthless on July 12th, releasing three striped marlin, losing a fourth and catching a couple of small tuna to boot. The weather couldn’t have been better, with clear sunny skies, producing some hot days and flat seas. Over the weekend the fishing was really close, just two miles off of the point, but then moved back into the Sea of Cortez, between Cabeza de Ballena and Chileno. The bait situation this week was not great, with more caballito available than mackerel. The hardier caballito lasts all day, but is not the first choice of striped marlin – they prefer the mackerel, which was dying pretty fast in the bait wells this week. The trick was to be persistent and to have a lot of luck, as boats would sometimes bait six or seven fish before finding a hungry one. Pisces angler caught a total of 46 striped marlin, of which 43 were released. Those landed averaged 130 lbs, we also released 4 sailfish.

OTHER SPECIES: Not a whole lot happening, but we did see a slight increase on dorado, with every third boat or so getting one to three in the 10 to 30 lb class – all were found while trolling for marlin. Pangas and boats fishing inshore are finding rooster fish from 7 to 20 lbs, some small snappers, some pompano, average size amberjack and a few skipjack. Just one small yellowfin tuna for us this week that weighed 20 lbs.

LOCATION: 2 miles off of the arch, then Cerro Blanco, Cabeza de Ballena, Chileno.

WEATHER CONDITIONS: Calm seas, sunny, clear skies, air temps, in the low 90’s.

AVERAGE WATER TEMP: 78 F

BEST LURES: Live bait.

BASED ON THE CATCHES OF PISCES FLEET BY TRACY EHRENBERG

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