LIVE BAIT WORKING BEST FOR PISCES BOATS
FISHING THE CORTEZ SIDE FROM CHILENO TO DESTILADERAS

April 28-May 5, 2005, Tracy Ehrenberg, Pisces Fleet, Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico Fishing Report:

Fishing at Cabo San Lucas wasn't exactly like we wanted it this week. After the splendid catches of the last report, we hoped it would just take off. But cold winds blowing in from the Pacific cooled the area and brought us back to April type weather and a slowdown on fishing at Cabo San Lucas.

Overall 70 percent of our charters caught fish this week. Sixty percent of the catches were marlin, which still bodes well for the Rolex fishing tournament set to start at Cabo San Lucas on May 16, 2005.

Once the hot weather stays turned on, the fishing will explode at Cabo San Lucas.

We still had some good catches this week though, and "Ni Modo" was the hot item, having two quadruple marlin days, on April 29th for Bret Casey and friends, the other on May 5th for Jaime and Jimmie Einbund from Newhall & Saugus, California, respectively. On both days, Ni Modo, fished up the Sea of Cortez just past San Jose and also at Destiladeres. Susan Hall fishing with husband Gary aboard Halcon was thrilled to release her biggest striper to date a 160 lb'er also on May 5th.

The start of this fishing week was the slowest for us, but as we close this report fishing at Cabo San Lucas seems to be more consistent, with the last day producing at least one marlin per boat and occasionally a dorado or yellowfin tuna.

Live bait was what worked best and boats stayed on the Cortez side from Chileno to Destiladeres. Pisces anglers caught a total of 70 striped marlin this week of which 66 were released along with a sailfish.

There was not a lot going on with smaller game fishing, with just a handful of dorado being caught, usually random hooks ups, whilst trolling for marlin. Some were of a decent size at 40 pounds plus.

Yellowfin tuna were not much better with just 20 total caught for our fleet. Again they were odd catches here and there, though at the close of the report, some small schools were found of football size fish around Chileno. Very few wahoo were caught.

The pangas had a tough time at the beginning of the week with not much being caught except a few skipjack, but as the week progressed there was a run on sierra near the old lighthouse with some fish going over 10 pounds.

The best fishing location was from Chileno to Destiladeres on the Cortez side. Cabo San Lucas had clear, sunny skies, fair on the Cortez, on the rough side on the Pacific. The average water temperature at Cabo San Lucas was 67-70 degrees.