Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Capt. Tracy Ehrenberg
August 13, 2007
Cabo San Lucas - Saltwater Fishing Report

PISCES WEEKLY FISH REPORT AUGUST 3rd to 9th, 2007-08-11

Overall Catch Success Rate 100%

BILLFISH: Wow, come on down to Cabo…..the weather has hotted up and so has the fishing; every single boat we sent out caught fish. The number one fish was marlin, predominately striped marlin giving us a catch success rate for billfish of ninety one percent, high by anyone’s standard. Pisces anglers caught a whopping 143 billfish this week, consisting of 140 striped marlin, 2 sailfish and 1 blue marlin, with all but 3 striped marlin released. Fishing was consistent throughout the week and some boats had outstanding catches, such as “Rebecca”, the 31 ft Bertram with seven striped marlin released on August 3rd at the Golden Gate on the Pacific for Craig Lares from Chico, California. Next day out this same boat has six marlin releases plus three dorado, in the same area for Jeff Cagle, Ken Grounds and Alan Ringard from Napa, California. It was obvious “Rebecca” was on a roll when a few days later she caught five stripers, a mako shark and a dorado, just four miles off of Gaspareño for one of our regulars, Rick Walsh form Cleveland, Ohio. “Falcon” a 37 ft Bertram, had two great back to back days for Mike Connolly part time Cabo resident, with seven marlin released on the 3rd, followed by six on August 4th, at Golden Gate. “Valerie”, 35 ft Bertram was our only boat to release a blue marlin, which was close to 250 lbs. Most boats averaged two marlin plus a dorado, whilst others did pretty well on tuna.

OTHER SPECIES: We saw a nice increase on dorado this week, with the catch success rate of thirty seven percent. Catches were from one to three fish were the norm and weights were from 15 to 25 lbs. Dorado were spread over a wide area, both the Pacific and Cortez side. Yellowfin tuna catches also increased climbing to a catch success rate of almost twenty percent. Catches were from one to eleven fish. Mike Stuart from Stillwater, Oklahoma was our top tuna angler with just under a dozen fish aboard “Cabolero” on August 9th, just before the Jaime Bank. Just one 40 lb wahoo was caught, plus a couple of mako sharks and one jack crevalle.

WEATHER CONDITIONS: Seas mostly calm, though we did get some big swells with tropical weather offshore, which caused the port to be closed for a few hours on Wednesday afternoon. Whitecaps later in the week on the Pacific which forced boats to go the other way to the Cortez. LOCATION: Golden Gate, Cerro Colorado, 95 spot, 3 miles off of Land’s End, Palmilla, Cerro Blanco, Gaspareño, Jaime Bank.

WATER TEMPERATURE: 81 F

BEST LURES: Live bait for striped marlin, blue/green, orange/green, cedar plugs. Based on the catches of Pisces by Tracy Ehrenberg

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