Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Capt. Tracy Ehrenberg
June 25, 2005
Cabo San Lucas - Saltwater Fishing Report

PISCES WEEKLY FISH REPORT

JUNE 17TH TO 23RD, 2005

BILLFISH: Thing are really beginning to look up here in Cabo, with the moon waning and the weather warming, some boats had some really outstanding days. Michelle and Don Porter, visit Cabo at least once a year, to fish with their favorite captain Rey, on “La Brisa” – they were not disappointed, catching and releasing five striped marlin on June 17th, off of San Jose, as well as a dorado, all on live bait. Michael Williams and Brandon Haller from New Orleans had a nice day too, this time aboard “Ruthless” with four stripers released in the same area on June 18th. “Ni Modo” had our highest one-day catch though, with six striped marlin, on June 19th at the 11.50 spot for the Hedrick family from Pennsylvania. Lennette Vigil and mom were thrilled to release three stripers aboard, Adriana and 15 year old John Thompson from Sacramento did well to battle a 200 lb fish aboard Ruthless. Fifty-eight percent of charters were fortunate to catch marlin, whilst others did pretty well on other species, giving us an overall catch success rate for all species combined of a little over eighty-six percent. Most boats caught one or two marlin, plus smaller game. Practically all the boats that drew a blank, did see marlin, but just couldn’t get them to bite. Pisces anglers caught a total of ninety-one striped marlin of which eight-five were released; weights ranged from 140 to 200 lbs.

OTHER SPECIES: We had some back-breaking tuna this week…first up was a 220 lb’er caught by a lady angler, aboard Ni Modo on June 18th – Anna Prickett from Apple Valley, Ca. did a great job of landing this huge fish. This wasn’t the only large tuna though, fourteen year old Brandon Haller from Covington, Louisiana took 3 hours and 20 minutes to land his 242 lb tuna on 30 lb test, aboard “Ruthless”. Thirty percent of boats found tuna which was concentrated between Land’s End and the Old Lighthouse up to 18 miles offshore. Most tuna were between 15 and 25 lbs and when schools were found boats averaged two to ten fish. We had some outstanding wahoo catches too; “La Brisa” caught four on June 23rd in the 30-40 lb class as well as landing 10 tunas and 4 dorado for Nathalie Henrach and friends. “Valerie” had three wahoo the following day and a couple of other boats had two a piece. Dorado catches were rather slow with just thirteen percent of boats catching fish between 20 and 40 lbs. Inshore there were fair amount of rooster fish, jack crevalle, some nice red snapper and some skipjacks; we also released on hammerhead shark.

WEATHER CONDITIONS: We finally lost the wind that had blown for almost two months, seas are much calmer and both air and water temperatures continue to increase.

LOCATION: San Jose, then switching to Land’s End, lighthouse area.

AVERAGE WATER TEMP: 72 F

BEST LURES: Live bait, cedar plugs, green/yellow.

Based on the catches of Pisces by Tracy Ehrenberg

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