STRIPED MARLIN, BLUE MARLIN, AND SAILFISH
ABUNDANT IN CABO SAN LUCAS FISHING WATERS

Sept. 16-22, 2005, Tracy Ehrenberg, Pisces Fleet, Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico Fishing:

This Cabo San Lucas fishing this week was red hot, just like the weather.

We had lots of striped marlin, blue marlin and sailfish around our Cabo San Lucas fishing area.

The biggest fish at Cabo San Lucas this week was actually one that got away. Dale Hassinger Pennsylvania, battled a monster fish for over five hours, aboard "Happy Boy", before finally breaking if off. The fish took a "Petrolero" lure 10 miles off of Palmilla and was estimated at 800 pounds.

We saw a big improvement on dorado this week, with this species finally showing up. It was the best we've had all year, with 46 percent of charters finding fish in the 15 to 35 pound class. Catches were from one to seven fish, with live bait working better than anything else. One of the best spots was 13 miles straight out from Land's End.

We had a ton of excellent catches at Cabo this week:

Gary Allison a long time friend and client of Pisces fished with his buddies on September 16th aboard "La Brisa" and did well to get a "grand-slam" of a blue marlin, striped marlin and sailfish, plus two dorados for the table.

The same day "La Brisa" released three striped marlin and a sailfish for Chuck & Jan Woody from California at the 95 spot. All were on live bait.

Also on this day, Espen Galtung and Dosvig, from Norway in search of a billfish, after fishing many other locations worldwide without success, broke their losing streak aboard "Sundancer" with one blue marlin and two striped marlin released at the 11.50 spot, along with one dorado.

The Sr. Moment also had two blue marlin and a sailfish released for Alfredo Santini and friends.

On the 20th, "Tracy Ann" had a good Cabo San Lucas fishing day for Jim & Yvonne Jandrain from Wichita, Kansas, releasing three sailfish and a striped marlin while fishing 10 miles off of San Jose. The marlin was on a lure and the sails on live bait.

To round out the week of sportfishing at Cabo San Lucas, Bryan and Dannielle Neth from Alabama were thrilled to release three striped marlin and two sailfish, aboard "La Brisa" between the 95 and 11.50 spot, and Tony Hoover, also from Alabama, released a 350 lb blue aboard "Yahoo", 13 miles off of Chileno.

Our overall catch success rate for all species combined was 91 percent, with 63 percent of Cabo San Lucas charters catching billfish. Pisces anglers caught a total of 75 billfish this week, consisting of 32 striped marlin, 28 sailfish and 14 blue marlin, all but two fish were released.

Tuna catches were extremely slow at Cabo San Lucas. In fact we caught just one!

We did have several wahoo, in the 40 to 50 pound range, but they were few and far between.

Pangas fishing inshore had some skipjacks and a hammerhead shark.

Land's End to San Jose, with the 95 and 11.50 spots produced more fish.

Cabo San Lucas weather was hot, clear, and sunny, with seas calm, and one day that was a little rough was the 20th. The average water temp was 87 degrees. Assorted lures worked for blue marlin, with the petrolero working well, live bait, for stripes and sails, as well as dorado.

It was hard to get bait this week at Cabo San Lucas, and charter fishing boats took all kinds of odd fish, including pompano and caballito. We had a back up supply of frozen ballyhoo for those fishing boats unable to purchase bait.