Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Capt. Tracy Ehrenberg
September 19, 2001
Cabo San Lucas - Saltwater Fishing Report

PISCES WEEKLY REPORT, SEPT. 12TH TO 18TH 2001

PISCES WEEKLY FISH REPORT

SEPT. 12TH TO 18TH 2001

BILLFISH: The tragedies in the U.S have affected everybody…..close to ninety percent of our clients were unable to make their scheduled fishing trips this past week, as planes were not flying, however, the few that were already here, or those that came in at the end of this report did exceptionally well. First up we have to congratulate Charles and Tim Derryberry, from Vancouver, Wa and Yucaipa, respectively, who managed to release three blue marlin aboard “La Brisa” on September 12th, as well as boating 4 dorado from 20 to 40 lbs. They were a little skeptical in the morning, as tropical storm Ivo was bearing down on us, but couldn’t have been happier with their catches (see photo). This same day Robert Dalglish from Morristown, N.J also released a blue marlin and a sailfish, with three tuna to boot, weighing from 15 to 60 lbs. The port was closed down the following day as Ivo made it’s way past giving us some much-needed rain. During the night we did get winds up to 50 mph, but we didn’t consider this dangerous weather. For the next few days after the storm we caught lots of dorado and not a lot of anything else, except an odd striped marlin here and there. On the last day of this report we had a boost of fantastic fishing – Ginger Bauman and James MacMicking from Austin Texas, fished “Andrea” and released two blue marlin, (220-260 lbs), a striped marlin, lost another stripe and boated 6 tuna. “Valerie” had both a blue and striped marlin for Chris Howlin and Jayson Barca from Virgina Beach. Chris and Erika Schlef from Crest Vista Ca, fishing with 10 year old Sigrid, had an outstanding day on “Ruthless”, pretty much catching everything on September 18th : Erika released a striped marlin estimated at 140 lbs and boated a beautiful 70 lb wahoo, 10 year old Sigrid did very well to boat a 90 lb yellowfin and Chris followed up with two tuna that weighed 40 and 60 lbs, they also had two dorado, 15- 20 lbs and told me that they had a lost a tuna (actually they sounded a little relieved) that the captain said was well over 100 lbs. John Larson from Mission, Texas, was fishing alone so had his work cut out for him on Sept. 15th aboard “Tracy Ann”, to release two striped marlin, boat three tuna ranging from 25 to 35 lbs and two large dorado at 50-55 lbs. Overall we had a one hundred percent catch success rate for all species combined, with a little less of half the boats catching billfish. Pisces anglers caught a total of 8 blue marlin all released, 6 striped marlin released and one sailfish, also released.

OTHER SPECIES: This week was the time to stock up on dorado, practically every boat out had at least a couple and the sizes on many of them were impressive. These were the most widely caught game fish this week in Cabo, being found both on the Cortez side and Pacific, ranging in size from 15 to 60 lbs. Boats caught anywhere from 1 to 17. Yellow fin tuna of a good size showed up this week, we still have some smaller fish, but on several consecutive days we saw fish over 50 lbs and several up to 90 lbs, to say nothing of others lost. Hopefully they will stick around for the tuna tournament set for November 8th and 9th, which looks set to be a huge success this year. We just had the one wahoo this week, which was the largest I’d seen in quite a while at 70 lbs. Inshore small dorado and skipjacks.

LOCATION: 95 spot was the hottest this week, followed by Chileno up to 16 miles out and then the Old Lighthouse were fishing was close in.

WEATHER CONDITIONS: Pretty nice, except for the 12th when we had some downpours, this same night was when we had strong winds. The next morning the port was closed, but actually the weather was worse the day before, since then clear skies, seas good on the Cortez side a bit rough with some whitecaps on the Pacific.

AVERAGE WATER TEMP: 85 F

BEST LURES: Black/orange, black/silver/brown, red, live bait.

BASED ON THE CATCHES OF PISCES FLEET BY TRACY EHRENBERG

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