NOT A VERY GOOD WEEK OF FISHING AT CABO SAN LUCAS

June 2-9, 2005, Tracy Ehrenberg, Pisces Fleet, Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico:

It was not a very good week for fishing in the Cabo San Lucas vacation area, with just 66 percent of Pisces Fleet charters catching fish, of which 35 percent were marlin. This number may be okay anywhere else in the world, but not in Cabo San Lucas.

However, the last two days of this report, the weather warmed up considerably and fishing at Cabo San Lucas became more consistent. On the last day of this report, all but one of our boats caught marlin.

"Sundancer" was our top producer with two striped marlin and a huge sailfish on June 8th, for Ben Kelly and friends at Destiladeras. The day before this, the same boat released a striped marlin and an approximately 60 pound Mako shark in the same area.

"Valerie" had two striped marlin on June 7th for John Mathieu from Fort Myers, fishing with Claude Bosworth.

Tom Kemmy and Mark Zbylski both from Texas were fortunate to catch a marlin each on the 8th again at Destiladeras.

Fishing waters surrounding Cabo San Lucas are still pretty cold, in the low to mid 60's, which is why charter fishing boats usually headed up towards the East Cape in search of billfish. They were fussy eaters even when found. Closer to Cabo San Lucas, charter fishing boats headed to the rough Pacific side for inshore stuff and straight out from Land's End for tuna for a couple of days. Pisces anglers caught a total of 30 striped marlin this week, of which 31 were released, along with one sailfish.

I don't know what's going on with the weather, but it's like Cabo San Lucas has March weather now, in June.

The catches inshore are like those expected in March, with a variety of small game being caught such as skipjack, sierra, jack crevalle, spotted grouper, red snapper and trigger fish. The groupers were pretty decent at up to 35 lbs.

Robert Willis from Laguna Niguel, Ca, was thrilled to land a 40 lb roosterfish on June 9th that put up a good fight.

Offshore fishing for smaller game was on the slow side, with just two dorado for us this week.

Yellowfin tuna catches were slower than last week, but schools were found 22 miles out from Land's End, in pretty rough water, where football size fish were caught. Some boats landed up to a dozen tuna.

The wind has us fooled. Cabo San Lucas starts to bake and then it picks up again, making white caps on the Pacific. Things were calmer on the Cortez but not by much. Skies are clear and sunny. Air temperatures are in the low 80's.

The best fishing was at Destiladeras for marlin, and Old Lighthouse to Cristobal for smaller game. Straight out 20 miles for tuna.

Water temperatures in the Cabo fishing vacation area averaged 69-72 degrees, and live bait worked best.