Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Capt. Tracy Ehrenberg
December 3, 2004
Cabo San Lucas - Saltwater Fishing Report

November 26th to December 2nd, 2004  

BILLFISH:  Marlin fishing picked up substantially this week and we were even surprised with a couple of late season blue marlin. Dick Landfield fishing aboard “Reel Deal” landed a 482 lb blue marlin, after it took a Marlin Magic lure, 12 miles off the Old Lighthouse. Tom Raponi, fishing with buddy Michael Santia, both from Danville, California fished this same area and produced a 520 lb blue and a striped marlin, which confirms what we’ve been saying, the season is ahead of itself by about a month – the first week of January always produces a 500 lb fish. These weren’t the only good catches, a group from Mexico City, consisting of Carlos Lopez, Juan Salles & Manuel Scapachini, along with Alberto Herrera from Madrid, Spain, did amazingly well on their two day trip aboard “Ni Modo” – first day out, November 28th, they caught seven striped marlin on live bait at San Jaime, next day out they did another seven stripers this time 18 miles off of Los Arcos as well as three dorado and a 300 lb tuna! It doesn’t get much better than that. We had many anglers that did very well – Anthony Nigro & Kathy Valdez released four stripers aboard “Andrea” and boated a dorado; the Piaseki and Mayo families fished together on “Ruthless” and were thrilled to release five striped marlin on November 27th and double and triple marlin days were had by numerous boat, too many to mention here. Saying this, there were quite a few “skunks”, but pretty much all boats that drew a blank, at least saw fish but couldn’t get them to bite. Our overall catch success rate was eighty-two percent with sixty-seven percent of charters catching marlin. Pisces anglers caught a total of ninety-three striped marlin, one blue marlin and two sailfish for a total of 96 billfish, all but three fish were released.  OTHER SPECIES: Quite slim pickings on smaller game this week, with just thirty-five percent of boats catching dorado and even fewer, just twelve percent, catching tuna. Dorado were found in one’ and two’s and occasionally in clusters of four and weights were nothing to get excited about at 15 to 35 lbs. Yellow fin tuna were found on a couple of days, but only a few boats were lucky to load up on them. Weights were again average at 15 to 38 lbs. The one exception was the 300 lb’er mentioned above. Inshore skipjacks were found and we are now starting to see some nice roosters up to 35 lbs and some yellowtail too.  WEATHER CONDTIONS: Partly cloudy daytime temps 76-81 F, seas were moderate to calm.AVERAGE WATER TEMP: 77 F   BEST LURES: Live bait, green/yellow/ blue/purple.

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