Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Capt. Tracy Ehrenberg
November 28, 2005
Cabo San Lucas - Saltwater Fishing Report

PISCES WEEKLY FISH REPORT NOVEMBER 18TH TO 24TH, 2005

BILLFISH: An absolutely fantastic week for striped marlin fishing, with perhaps our highest catch rates ever. Pisces anglers reeled in a whopping 233 stripers of which 229 were released. Eighty five percent of charters were able to hook up to marlin in the 115 to 180 lbs range, with pretty much all the fish taking live bait. Fish were found from the Old Lighthouse to the finger Banks, with the top two locations Golden Gate and the Finger Banks. Notable catches were achieved every day such as 12 marlin released aboard “Libre” on the 21st, by Eric Korensold\, John Dorsey and Rick Beckley from Chandler, Az. This same day ”Blue Thunder” released an amazing 20 stripers for the Fornos family from San Francisco – this was not the only high marlin day for this boat, earlier in the week, on the 19th, they released 15 fish for another group. On this same day “Felina” had an outstanding day at the Finger Bank for Scott Meriman and friends from Colorado; they released 15 striped marlin, as well as two mako sharks and boated 14 dorado. “Tracy Ann” released 11 on November 20th for Bill McCormick from Pennsylvania and Mike Shillingsford from N.J and also caught a 250 lb blue marlin fir Mike Gardner from Sugarland, Tx. “C Rod” had a couple of 8 fish days, and several other boats had up to a half dozen. Despite these big numbers there were a few boats here and there that did get skunked, buy overall it was a hugely successful week. Our overall catch success rates for all species combined was 91%.

OTHER SPECIES: After marlin dorado were the most commonly caught species, with 31% of charters finding fish in the 15 to 40 lb class. Catches were between one and four fish per boat when found. Yellowfin tuna catches were slow, but then again, everybody was rushing up the Pacific to take advantage of the marlin bite. Lavon Colbert has fished Cabo for years and has more than his fair share of marlin, so he asked the captain of “Andrea” to try for tuna, they headed out straight from Land’s End, about 20 miles and found a school that they were able to load up on, resulting in over 20 fish in the 15 to 30 lb class. There were a few other tuna catches, but only 5% of boats found yellowfin. It was nice to see a few sharks being caught both Makos up to 50 lbs and a hammerhead, all were released. Any sharks caught should be released, as they have become very rare in our waters. Inshore pangas caught roosterfish, skipjacks and the odd stray dorado.

LOCATION: Pacific, Old Lighthouse to Finger Bank. WEATHER COJNDUITIONS: we had beautiful conditions, up to the end of the week, when it got windy on the Pacific making it a bit bumpy.

AVERAGE WATER TEMP: 77 f BEST LURES: Live bait

Based on the catches of Pisces by Tracy Ehrenberg

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