Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Capt. Tracy Ehrenberg
October 6, 2007
Cabo San Lucas - Saltwater Fishing Report

PISCES WEEKLY FISH REPORT September 28th to October 4th, 2007

OVERALLCATCH SUCCESS RATE 100%

BILLFISH: Fishing in Cabo continues to be fantastic, though we did see a drop on billfish catches, mostly for striped marlin. It got windy towards the close of the week, which prevented boats heading up to Golden Gate and San Jaime where they have been fishing for the last two months. We also saw rough seas on September 30th when a tropical depression was out in the Pacific. It is normal for the striped marlin to start to slow down, as we see an increase in water temperature, which should move in the blue marlin. Nevertheless some boats had amazing days for striped marlin. On September 30th 42 ft “Yahoo” released 15 striped marlin at the Golden Gate for Colin Rotmery and Mike Greenwood from Calgary, Canada; they also caught four dorado and four yellowfin tuna. Next day out “Andrea” released 15 striped marlin and caught 13 yellowfin tuna at San Jaime for Paul Koch and party from Plantation, Florida. This same day, October 1st “Adriana” had 15 marlin released and 16 tuna alongside Andrea at San Jaime for Jody and Chris Akens from Chicago, IL. Not to be left out “La Brisa” equaled with another 15 striped marlin, as well as 8 dorado for Edwin Hartay, Jay Brant and Dean Smith from Claremore, Oklahoma. Other notable catches were 5 sailfish and 5 dorado for Steve Fournier from Winchester, Oregon, aboard “Adriana” on September 30th. This boat was definitely on a roll this week as the day before they caught two blue marlin; one released the other at 220 lbs for Tove Pederson from Burnaby, British Columbia. “Tracy Ann” had a great day on October 4th for Ken Scheffler from Seattle, Wa with a nice blue released estimated at 350 lbs and a sailfish estimated at 110 lbs, plus a couple of dorado. The catch success rate for billfish was 51%. Pisces anglers caught a total of 130 billfish this week consisting of 109 striped marlin, 7 blue marlin and 14 sailfish.

OTHER SPECIES: Dorado surpassed marlin catches for the first time this year. We had a huge increase on this species with 99% of our charters catching fish in the 15 to 30 lb class. Catches per boat were from1 to 15 fish in a day. They were found in various locations but San Jaime and Golden Gate were good. Our total tally for dorado was 445 fish – a fair percentage were released. Yellowfin tuna catches also increased but could not be compared to the dorado, though thirty percent of boats did find between one and eighteen fish with weights average at 15 to 30 lbs. The one exception was a beautiful 110 lb fish caught aboard 37 ft “Falcon” by Team de Santis from San Diego, Ca. Not only did they catch this whopping fish, they also released a blue marlin and caught four dorado, 18 miles south of Cabo. An excellent mixed bag day was had by Scott and Rebecca Lamb, fishing with Darlene Masteller from Portland, aboard 38 ft “C Rod”; they caught 12 yellowfin tuna, 3 dorado, 3 striped marlin and 3 mako sharks, all at Golden Gate. Just a few smaller wahoo this week no more than 40 lbs average. We also caught several small hammerheads and makos.

LOCATION: Golden Gate, San Jaime, Cerro Colorado, Gaspareño, Cerro Blanco, 95 spot.

WEATHER CONDITIONS: Skies partly cloudy, most days windy on the Pacific, seas average.

AVERAGE WATER TEMP: 84 F

BEST LURES: Live bait, green/yellow feathers for dorado, red/white blue/black for tuna, red/blue and Petrolero for blue marlin.

Based on the catches of Pisces by Tracy Ehrenberg

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