Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Capt. Tracy Ehrenberg
September 30, 2007
Cabo San Lucas - Saltwater Fishing Report

PISCES WEEKLY FISH REPORT September 21st to 27th, 2008

OVERALL CATCH SUCCESS RATE 100% BILLFISH: We are truly blessed here in Cabo with a great summer season almost behind us and a perfect record of every boat catching fish for the past six weeks. Even with full moon this week, fish continued to bite, though we did see a slow down on striped marlin relatively speaking, from catches of up to 10 fish in a day down to 3 or 4. It was nice to see a big jump on blue marlin this week, with a total of 11 caught by Pisces. Weights on these are beginning to increase a little now ranging from 180 to 350 lbs. Golden Gate was still the mainstay of most of the action, but those boats trying areas a little to the south, such as the Old Lighthouse, Land’s End and even Chileno, caught more of a mixed bag. Ninety nine percent of our charters caught billfish this week, which is absolutely outstanding. Some of the top catches were as follows: 28 ft “Andrea” fished 10 miles straight out of Cabo on the 21st of September and released two blue marlin and a sailfish as well as boating three dorado for Walter Seehaus, Orland Thornburg & Michael McCormick, from Pompano Beach, Florida. This same day 37 ft “Falcon” released nine stripers at the Golden Gate for Richele Blanc and Mike Horn from Fresno, California. “Yahoo”, 42 ft, had the highest tally this day though, with an impressive twelve striped marlin released for Mike Gonzales & Jerome Parker from Auburn, Georgia, fishing with Ross Kline from Reno, Nevada. Next day out 28 ft “Adriana” had two blue marlin, sailfish and one dorado on out outer edge of the Golden Gate for the same guys who had almost an identical catch as the previous day aboard “Andrea”; four blue marlin, two sails and four dorado in two days of fishing is quite impressive. “C Rod” 38 ft, also had two blue marlin this day estimated at 200 and 220 lbs and were back in port by 1.00 pm at the angler’s request. Mike De Ganahl form Sanford, Florida caught a blue marlin estimated at a little over 300 lbs on the Bill Collector 10 miles out from Cerro Blanco and boated four dorado in the 20 to 40 lb class. On September 24th “Adriana” had an enviable mixed back day for Shannon and Patrick Conden from Orange, Connecticut, with on blue marlin, one striped marlin; one sailfish and three dorado….all the billfish were released. This same day 31 ft “Tracy Ann” released two blue marlin 11 miles out from Santa Maria for Kim & Dan Eerkes from Bluffdale, Utah…weights were 180 and 280 lbs approximately. Pisces anglers caught a total of 170 billfish this week consisting of 149 striped marlin, 11 blue marlin and 10 sailfish, all but two fish were released. Port was closed one day, so catches could have been higher if the boats had been allowed out. OTHER SPECIES: We saw the same pattern again this week with dorado being the second most widely caught fish with 85% of charters catching fish in the 15 to 40 lb class, catches were between one and six fish with the best dorado catch aboard “Bandito” with 10, in the 20 to 35 lb class off of Chileno for Douglas Carson from Murietta California. Most of the others were picked up at the Golden Gate whilst trolling for marlin. Total dorado caught was 125 fish. Yellowfin tuna catch were not fabulous with 19% of charters catching fish in the 20 to 30 lb class. Top tuna boat was 38 ft “C Rod” with 10 up to 50 lbs caught at Golden Gate, where they also released five striped marlin and boated a dorado for Larry Allen, Steven & Eileen Harris from North Carolina. A total of 53 tuna were caught. Wahoo catches were on the slow side with just three caught up to 40 lbs. A couple of juvenile mako sharks to 40 lbs were also released. WEATHER CONDITIONS: Clear sunny skies, still a little humid, the port was closed for one day as tropical storm Ivo approached. Seas calm. LOCATION: Golden Gate, Old Lighthouse, straight out of Cabo, Chileno. AVERAGE WATER TEMP: 82 F BEST LURES: live bait, guacamaya, green/yellow. Based on the catches of Pisces by Tracy Ehrenberg

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