GOOD STRIPER ACTION INCLUDES QUADRUPLE RELEASE
DAYS FOR PISCES FLEET'S CABO CHARTER BOATS

July 15, 2005, Tracy Ehrenberg, Pisces Fleet, Cabo San Lucas fishing report, Baja California Sur, Mexico:

Finally, we had great week fishing at Cabo San Lucas, despite the fact that summer still hasn't shown up yet and we continue to enjoy cool breezes coming from the Pacific.

Cabo San Lucas had some really outstanding marlin fishing this week, with double, triple and quadruple marlin days quite common.

July 12th, was the best day this week, with "Rebecca" turning out to be top boat for four stripers and two sailfish, 15 miles off of San Jose, for Gerard Claveau, Michael Chouinard and Steve Volpe, from Salem, Mass. They were very pleased with their catch, as they had been following the fish report, weeks before they arrived in Cabo and were pleasantly surprised by the turnaround.

This same day, "Valerie" had five striped marlin for our top lady anglers of the week.

"La Brisa" also had five stripers this day, in the same location, for Josh Lancaster and Steve Stevens from Texas.

The thirteenth was not unlucky for "Valerie", who scored five striped marlin for Adam Kwasman from Arizona fishing with buddy Allan Charles from Illinois.

The fishing week started out at Jaime Bank on the Pacific, where a mixture of some stripers, dorado and tuna were caught, but by week's end the work was out that the Cortez side between Chileno, and Punta Gorda was the hot spot and that's when we started seeing the numbers.

Even boats that did not catch marlin, threw bait to multiple fish.

Sixty-four percent of our Cabo San Lucas Sportfishing charters caught marlin, with about sixty percent on live bait and forty percent on lures. Orange/yellow and black/purple worked best. Pisces anglers caught a total of 127 marlin with 125 released, along with two sailfish.

Twenty-six percent of Pisces Cabo San Lucas charters caught dorado from 15 to 50 lbs. Dorado fishing was spread out.

Yellowfin tuna catches were fair with 18 percent of our Cabo San Lucas boats landing fish from 15 to 35 lbs. Although fewer boats caught tuna, when they did find them they could catch quite a few, from six to fourteen.

Just a few wahoo were caught around the 50 lb mark.

Inshore fishing was very slow for Cabo San Lucas' pangas.

Cabo San Lucas fishing weather was nice, sunny, but not too hot, with day temperatures in the 80's, nighttime in the mid-70's, nice breezes, seas very rough at the start of the week, but much calmer by the close of this report.

The best fishing locations were the San Jaime, Chileno, 95 spot, 11.50 spot, San Jose, and Punta Gorda. Cabo San Lucas vacation area fishing water temperatures averaged 73 degrees.