SOLMAR SPORTFISHING FLEET BOATS DOING
WELL ON SAILFISH AND MIXED MARLIN SPECIES

Aug. 18-24, 2005, Benjamin Ortega, Solmar Fleet, Cabo San Lucas fishing, Baja California Sur, Mexico:

When it comes to catching billfish, few places on this Earth can say they offer every one of the six species of billfishes for the angling public. Cabo San Lucas is one of those areas.

Solmar Fleet's anglers had week of outstanding action for blue, black and striped marlin, along with a few sailfish. The only billfishes lacking in that report were the swordfish and spearfish.

Three anglers from Colorado Springs, CO, Paul and Tom Bogen and John Dupray, caught and released a blue marlin estimated to weight 300 pounds and a 130-pound striped marlin while fishing from the El Torito off Punta Palmilla and the Golden Gate Bank. They also caught a 70-pound sailfish, their first, and a 40-pound dorado, which they kept.

Another example of a mixed billfish bag was one made by Francisco Pardo of Los Angeles, CA, who caught two striped marlin which he released, and a blue marlin while fishing the Solmar IV off the Gordo Bank.

Manolo Alfonso came all the way from Barcelona, Spain to take a 386-pound Cabo San Lucas black marlin and three dorado. He fished off Punta Gordo from the Cabo San Lucas charter fishing boat Solmar VII.

Jason M of Portland, OR took a pair of stripers and nine yellowfin tuna, all on live mackerel, off the Golden Gate Bank, fishing the Solmar I.

One of the few fishes seldom if ever released in Cabo San Lucas waters is the wahoo, revered as the best of the best on-the-platter fish, as well for its high-speed runs when hooked. For that reason Robert Kristen and Ryan Cavinder of Orange, CA delighted in keeping the 48-pound wahoo they caught, while giving a Cabo San Lucas sailfish a new lease on life after releasing it. They fished the San Lucas VI off Punta Gordo.

Another Californian, Don Severson of Garden Grove, bagged a 150-pound striper on live mackerel while fishing the Solmar off the Golden Gate.

John and Jessica Euzreit of Okemos, MI, were content with the yellowfin bite off Faro Viejo, where they caught 10 – all on light tackle – aboard the San Lucas IV.

Cabo San Lucas sportfishing skipper of the week honors went to Antonio Romero of the El Torito, whose passengers in five outings caught 10 striped marlin, three black marlin, two blue marlin, 23 yellowfin tuna, nine dorado and one sailfish.

Total catch in 60 outings by the Solmar' Cabo San Lucas fishing fleet, including releases, was 32 striped marlin, nine blue marlin, five black marlin, 37 yellowfin tuna, 31 dorado and two wahoo.