Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Capt. Tracy Ehrenberg
August 16, 2001
Cabo San Lucas - Saltwater Fishing Report

PISCES WEEKLY FISH REPORT

AUG. 8TH TO 14TH 2001

PISCES WEEKLY FISH REPORT

AUGUST 8TH TO 14TH 2001

BILLFISH: Wow, what can I say, but what a week. The Cabo fishing is wide open right now……a point in case is Rick Walsh, a 55 year old cardiologist from Shaker Heights, Ohio; on August 11th Rick fished alone aboard his favorite boat “Rebecca” and had an amazing day. To start the day of right he released a 100 lb plus sailfish and then went on to release two blue marlin, weighing from 230 to 260 lbs, he then followed this with a 120 lb striped marlin and then to top of the day, released a 375 lb black marlin…most people don’t achieve this in a lifetime, let alone in a day. If this wasn’t enough Rick had also released two other blue marlin, aboard this same boat on August 9th. A group from Boulder, Ca had a great day on August 13thm aboard “La Brisa”- Greg & Jamie Keene, Mark Alber, Victor & Terry Reposo – they released three blue marlin, ranging in size from 200 to 310 lbs, one sailfish at 125 lbs and boated two nice dorado 45-60 lbs. There were also several other of our boats that had two blue marlin in a day, or a combination of sails, stripes and smaller game. Basically this week, it was all or nothing, those boats that got into billfish got, more than one and those that didn’t caught small game alone, which was also excellent this week. Just a little over half the charters caught billfish this week, but the overall catch success rate was eighty-two percent. This is the best showing of blue marlin that we have seen in a long time – all of our blues this week took lures, with dark colors being the ones hit, such as purple, and red with black. Pisces anglers had a total of twenty-two blue marlin this week of which nineteen were released, five striped marlin released, five sailfish released and one black marlin released.

OTHER SPEICES: Smaller game was also very good this week and we are pleased to see some really nice tuna, although we only had a half dozen fish up to 60 lbs, we did hear of some fish up to 200 lbs. The tuna catches are improving and will continue to increase as we get into late summer and early fall. We had some beautiful dorado this week, up to 60 lbs, and the ever lucky Rick Walsh, mentioned above, claimed to have lost one at the leader between 90-100lbs, whose head was as broad as a blue marlins’! Most boats got one or two dorado, but others were lucky to get as many as six. John Henessey from El Segundo, Ca. did exceptionally well on small game with seven dorado between 25 and 55 lbs, two nice yellowtail, one 30 lb wahoo and a couple of bonita – not bad for a morning. Inshore even some of the pangas have hooked up to blue marlin, but are scoring mostly dorado, some tuna and some roosterfish.

LOCATION: The best fishing was concentrated between Chileno and Punta Gorda, though some boats were also fishing the Old Lighthouse in the early morning, for small tuna and dorado.

WEATHER CONDITIONS: Clear, sunny skies, fairly calm seas, a little choppy on the Pacific. Daytime temperatures are pretty high, but nighttime temperatures are lower than normal.

AVERAGE WATER TEMP. 81 F

BEST LURES: Purple/black, red/black for blue marlin, live bait for sailfish, striped marlin both, dorado and tuna a combination of lures and bait.

BASED ON THE CATCHES OF PISCES FLEET BY TRACY EHRENBERG

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