Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Capt. Tracy Ehrenberg
August 26, 2006
Cabo San Lucas - Saltwater Fishing Report

PISCES WEEKLY FISH REPORT

AUGUST 18TH TO 24TH, 2006



BILLFISH: The ratio of billfish catches continues to increase with a gradual climb on blue marlin that we haven’t seen in quite a few years. This week we saw an overall catch success rate of all species combined of eighty seven percent with sixty six percent catching marlin or sailfish. Hurricane Ileana threatened our coast mid week, causing the port to be closed briefly on Wednesday, however, the boats were already out fishing and didn’t come back until they were done. Fishing this day was outstanding with some large swells but lots of marlin and sailfish close to Cabo, in fact quite a few boats, went out caught a blue marlin and were back by 11.00 am. Everybody was on standby next day to see if the port would open, but seeing as the storm was over 200 miles, we didn’t really experience any ill effect and the boats were allowed out the following day. Most of the blues being caught were in the 150 to 200 lb class, but we did have three over 300 lbs, all released. First was aboard “Reel Heaven” on August 18th, a fish that took out all the line and snapped it, but my quick thinking husband Marco, quickly tied it onto another rod and they were able to get it to the boat in less than hour before releasing it. This fish took a dead bait, at Destiladeres. “El Gallo” 61 ft Viking also released a nice blue for Adam Couper on August 24th this time at Punta Gorda. “Valerie” fishing much closer at Cabeza de Ballena, was able to release both a blue and striped marlin this same day for Homero Barrera and Shawn Earl, from Texas. Towards the end of the week “Rebecca” released two blue marlin off of Cabo Real for Nick and Charlotte Grindstuff also from Texas. “Andrea” had a hot sailfish day with five strikes, three resulting in catch and releases for Phillip and Jim Jarvis from Colorado. Bait was scarce as pangas were unable to fish for a couple of days due to the big swells, in most case frozen bait was available instead. We had another spearfish again this week, this time aboard the 50 ft Viking, “Sr Moment”, again, pretty small at 40 lbs. Pisces anglers caught a total of 54 billfish this week consisting of 21 striped marlin, 20 blue marlin, 12 sailfish and 1 spearfish, all but one blue and 3 stripes were released.



OTHER SPECIES: Average catches on other gamefish this week, with a climb on dorado catches and a decrease on tuna. Thirty five percent of boats caught dorado but it was rarely more than one or two fish. “Ni Modo” had the only notable dorado catch with two fish in the 50 to 60 lb class; other fish were around the 20 lb mark. Tuna catches dropped a little to twenty two percent, but when found boats could catch up to eight in the 15 to 35 lb category. Inshore pangas caught dorado and skipjacks.



WEATHER CONDITIONS: Calm seas except for Wends and Thursday, skies partly cloudy, hot and humid.



LOCATION: Destiladeres to Old Lighthouse, majority of catches were on the Cortez side.



AVERAGE WATER TEMP: 85 F



BEST LURES: Live bait for sailfish and striped marlin, blue marlin took an assortment of lures, dorado small marlin lures, tuna feathers and cedar plugs.



BASED ON THE CATCHES OF PISCES BY TRACY EHRENBERG

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