CABO SAN LUCAS BOATS FISHING AROUND THE
TIP OF BAJA FROM OLD LIGHTHOUSE TO CHILENO

Jan. 21-28, 2005, Tracy Ehrenberg, Pisces Fleet, Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico:

Fishing at Cabo San Lucas continues to be very good here at Land's End. We couldn't have better weather. It's beautiful right now, the sea at Cabo San Lucas is a sparkling blue, skies are clear and there's a ton of whales and dolphins to see, to say nothing of the fishing.

Our overall Cabo San Lucas fishing catch success rate this week was a very nice 90 percent for all species combined, with 57 percent of boats catching striped marlin.

Pisces Fleet boats fished from the Old Lighthouse on the Pacific to Chileno on the Cortez side. The average catch was one or two striped marlin plus a couple of dorado (mahi-mahi). The marlin were teased up with lures and then usually took bait, with about 40% of the hookups on lures and 60% on live bait.

The full moon did not seem to affect the fishing action at Cabo San Lucas, but we did have quite a bit of cloud cover at night. Cabo San Lucas did have some fishing boats that did slightly better than others, such as "La Brisa" on January 25th with five marlin released for Gary Clark from Cocoa Beach Fl, fishing with James Speirs from Stamford, Connecticut.

This same day Dennis Huber from Illinois fishing at Cabo San Lucas with his wife, released three stripers aboard "Andrea", as well as boating six dorado.

Next day out "Valerie" had four marlin for Thomas Gondoly from Point Troy Michigan and Keith Puitz form Erlanger, Kentucky.

Not to be outdone Ken and Michael Vandre Vrede from Lincoln Park, New Jersey, also released four stripers board the Cabo San Lucas charter fishing boat "Rebecca" this same day.

Pisces anglers caught a total of 77 striped marlin at Cabo San Lucas during our fishing week of which 75 were released.

Dorado out did marlin this week with 59 percent of our Cabo San Lucas fishing charters catching fish between 20 and 40 lbs. Towards the end of the week we even saw some as big as 60 pounds. The average catch was two dorado per boat, though some did better with up to seven in a day.

Yellowfin tuna fishing was much slower, with just five percent of the boats finding fish and then it was a way of offshore, up to 40 miles. The only Pisces Fleet boat that scored big on yellowfin tuna was "Ni Modo" on the 22nd with 24 fish, (most released) between 20 and 25 pound.

Just a few wahoo were caught and they were on the small side at around 40 pound. We had a couple of mako sharks again this week between 30 and 80 pound, released. sierra and skipjacks inshore.

The best Cabo San Lucas fishing location was from Faro Viejo to Chileno.

Cabo San Lucas weather conditions were partly cloudy, now clear, with a surprise light rain one morning, and seas calm. The sea surface water temperature averaged 71 degrees, and the best lures were live bait and guacamaya.