Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Capt. Tracy Ehrenberg
August 26, 2005
Cabo San Lucas - Saltwater Fishing Report

PISCES WEEKLY FISH REPORT AUGUST 19TH TO 25TH, 2005

BILLFISH: Pretty exciting week here in Cabo, with some really nice fish caught. Fish of the week has to be the 620 lb black marlin, caught aboard a 22 ft panga “Little Hooker”, despite it being a little boat, they had veteran captain and black marlin specialist, Tony Nungaray aboard, who has a secret spot for large fish, out beyond Punta Gorda. Tony was aboard with Michael Theodore and friend Ernie, slow trolling a live skipjack. The first thing they saw was a 400 lb black marlin that jumped out of the water, before their bait was slammed by a much larger fish. Poor Ernie was the one up at the rod and had to sweat, huff and puff for one and a half hours before the fish was brought alongside dead. The fish was hooked in the back and was lassoed around the head, meaning it couldn’t get enough oxygen circulating through its gills. The three guys on board did very well to hoist the huge marlin on board without capsizing the boat. When 19 year old Brennan McNatt from Tustin, Ca showed up in Cabo, his largest fish to date was a 2 lb trout, so you can imagine his surprise when he hooked up to a large blue aboard “Ruthless” on August 19th, Brennan aboard with friends Jaime Nichols and Ambrio Brown, also caught and released two striped marlin. Back at the dock the fish weighed in at 500 lbs and we were told it took a green and yellow lure 9 miles off of Pedregal. We had several boats that caught both blue and striped marlin the same day, but the top striped marlin boat was “Que Sera”, skippered by Mike Deane assisted by Jobe Villavicenio, with seven striped marlin released on August 20th by Luis de Saracho de Culiacan, Mexico. Chris and Barbara Poynter were thrilled with their first marlin catch aboard “La Brisa:, the fish was a good size 142 lbs. “Karina” had the most sailfish, with three on August 21st for Jose Uceda. The port was closed on the 22nd, due to Hurricane Hilary to the south of us causing rough seas; we had quite s few people sea sick the next day, but those that stuck it out did well. Alan Macady had his doubt about going out and wanted to cancel, as he thought it was too rough, but by 11.15 am we had him underway and boy was he glad he went; he managed to release a black marlin and a sailfish and boat three tuna. Fishing location was at both ends of the spectrum from Golden Gate on the Pacific to Gordo Banks on the Sea of Cortez. Our overall catch success rate for all species combined was eighty-two percent, with a seventy-six percent of boats catching billfish. Pisces anglers caught a total of 61 billfish this week, consisting of 45 striped marlin, 8 blue marlin and 7 sailfish, all but three fish were released.

OTHER SPECIES: Not a great deal happening on smaller game, with just a few dorado and even lesser tuna. Dorado were caught whilst trolling usually just a single fish in the 15 to 40 lb class. Tuna were of football size and again were picked up trolling. We did have a couple of nice wahoo, with the largest 60 lbs aboard “Libre”.

WEATHER CONDITIONS: Hot, sunny, partly cloudy, rain on Monday, seas on the rough side now calm.

LOCATION: Gordo Banks, Golden Gate, 11.50 spot,

AVERAGE WATER TEMP: 84-85 F

BEST LURES: Live bait for stripers and sails, green/yellow lures for blues.

Based on the catches of Pisces by Tracy Ehrenberg

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