Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Capt. Tracy Ehrenberg
September 14, 2001
Cabo San Lucas - Saltwater Fishing Report

Pisces Weekly Fish Report

Sept. 5-11t 2001

PISCES WEEKLY FISH REPORT

Sept. 5th to 11th



To all of our readers in the U.S we just want to let you know how shocked we were by the attacks on your country, we were devastated at the images we saw and want to let you know that our thoughts and prayers are with you.....your friends in Mexico. BILLFISH. We are just about the quietest time of year for anglers, so not many boats are going out. To be honest fishing was on the slow side this week, when it came to billfish. Anglers of the week, were Robert Rozell and Jim Morgan from Columbus, Ohio, who had two blue marlin approximately 260 and 225 lbs as well as boating a 53 lb tuna and three dorado, all the same day aboard 70 ft Salsa. Ken Kesner from Lake Kingswood and Dennis Schaechter also from Texas .....I m telling you these Texans are just about the luckiest people around......fished aboard Andrea and were pleased to release a blue marlin, a striped marlin and boat two dorado, on September 10th. This same day Gerald Vancil from Folsom, Ca released a blue marlin aboard La Brisa and boated a wahoo and two dorado. The fishing this week started off on the Pacific side but then gradually moved into the Sea of Cortez with Chileno being the best spot. Pisces anglers had an overall catch success rate for all species combined of eighty nine percent ....30% of charters caught billfish. A correction from last week, it was Richard Talmadge not Jay, from Issaquah, Wa, who caught two blue marlin aboard Karina. As of this writing tropical storm Ivo is off of Cabo and produced fantastic fishing today ...La Brisa released three blue marlin and boated 4 dorado today.

OTHER SPECIES. If you want to catch dorado, Cabo is the place to be. These species outnumbered all others by far this week. Boats were catching so many that they had to release a good portion of them, such as Rebecca, who totaled 21 on September 8th and a pilot shark for Cade Nelms. Weights on the dorado are from 15 to 50 lbs, with the average being right around 20 lbs. Found in diverse locations, they are taking both bait and lures. Yellowfin tuna was a little on the slow side this week, with just the odd one here and there, picked up while trolling for marlin weights averaged 15 to 65 lbs, though there was one exception, a 153 lb’ er caught by Steve Gilliam from Denver Co, aboard Salsa ..they also got a nice sailfish for Jim Ingstad from Fargo, N.D and lost a fair size blue on September 9th . Just a few wahoo around the 30 to 50 lb mark this week, all taken on lures. Closer in pangas caught small dorado and fair amounts of skipjack.



WEATHER CONDITIONS. Pretty good all week, with seas at 2/ 3 feet ground swell, mostly calm, but at the end of the week the wind picked up on the Pacific making condition uncomfortable. Some short rain bursts on Thursday the 6th.

AVERAGE WATER TEMP. Ranged from 84 to 87 F on the Pacific and on the Cortez side from 87 to the highest reading we got this week, of 91.4 F.

BEST LURES. Live bait for stripes and sails, assorted lures for blues, feathers, lures and bait for dorado.

Based on the catches of Pisces Fleet by Tracy Ehrenberg

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