ONE BLUE MARLIN JOINS THE STRIPER LINEUP
FOR PISCES FLEET'S CABO CHARTER BOATS

April 1-7, 2005, Tracy Ehrenberg, Pisces Fleet, Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur fishing, Mexico:

It was quite a decent week for marlin fishing at Cabo San Lucas, with 37 percent of Pisces Fleet charters hooking up to striped marlin in the 120 to 180 lb class, plus one small blue marlin aboard "Ensueno".

This year is much better, compared to Cabo San Lucas sportfishing last year at this time.

"Ruthless" was on a roll this week, with three Cabo striped marlin caught and released on April 1st for George Kreiner from Kenmore, New York, fishing with buddies from Virginia; they also got a couple of giant squid around the 30 lb mark.

This boat again did well on the 3rd, with one striper released, two wahoo and two dorado boated for Ron Werft from California.

"La Brisa" had a nice mixed bag fishing day for Glenn Evans from Phoenix, Arizona with a striped marlin released, one 60 lb wahoo, one 50 lb tuna and a 35 lb dorado.

Cabo San Lucas sportfishing boats are seeing quite a few marlin, but it was hard to get them to eat due to the large amounts of squid in the water, which they are feeding on. Several swordfish have been spotted and even hooked but as yet, we haven't seen any make it back to the dock.

Boats fished a variety of areas in Cabo San Lucas waters on both the Pacific and the Cortez. We heard reports that up towards the East Cape there was a good marlin bite going on.

To close out the fishing week, "Rebecca" scored a striped marlin release, plus two wahoo and a dorado for Charles Barrett. Pisces anglers caught a total of 35 striped marlin and one blue marlin all of which were released.

Yellowfin tuna were the most widely caught species this week with a little over 40 percent of boats finding fish in the 20 to 40 lb class, with catches from 2 to 20 fish per boat, with the average around five fish. The best fishing location was from the Old Lighthouse to San Jaime.

Dorado fishing was slower at 22 percent with fish from 20 to 40 lbs, usually no more than one or two per Cabo San Lucas charter fishing boat when found.

It was nice to the wahoo catches that we had with quite a few Cabo fishing boats having double headers on fish up to 70 lbs. Still they could not be said to be plentiful.

Large squid attacked lures giving boats catches of up to seven in the 30 to 50 lb class.

Inshore sierra fishing was good, as well as for pargo and the odd amberjack. We also have one smallish Mako shark at 80 lbs aboard "Ni Modo".

Cabo San Lucas fishing locations included San Jaime, Old Lighthouse, Chileno 15 to 25 miles out, 12 miles off of Land's End, and Destiladeras.

Cabo San Lucas vacation area weather was clear, with sunny skies most of the week, seas fair on the Cortez, turning a little rough on the Pacific when the wind picked up. Water temperatures averaged 69 degrees.