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The dream of fighting a big fish haunts all fishermen. An exhausting fight lasting for hours, the thrill of experiencing the power that suddenly surges from the ocean depth and tantalizes you with excitement - these are some of the ingredients that make the fishing in Cabo San Lucas a memorable experience for sea anglers of all ages and levels. Renown for the abundance of big-game fish and year around
superb fishing, Cabo San Lucas & Los Cabos fishing charters boast a number of international fishing records.
"There is a common saying or hope- among anglers
Erwin Bauer To help you better plan your next sport fishing outing in the waters surrounding Los Cabos and Cabo San Lucas, please refer to our fishing calendar guide, below.
E - Excellent
fishing
Cabo
San Lucas Weekly Fishing Report
PISCES WEEKLY FISH REPORT
MAY 14TH TO MAY 20TH, 2004
BILLFISH: O.K I know this is late, but we’ve had a hectic week with
the Rolex –IGFA Offshore Championship. The tournament concluded on
Friday with an awards dinner and once again it was an outstanding
success. Cabo produced the goods with a total of 297 striped marlin, 1
blue marlin and 1 sailfish during the four day event in which 66 boats
were used and 282 anglers participated. Anglers came from far and wide
places such as Finland, Croatia, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Italy to
name but a few – it was great to meet so many different people and
everybody I spoke to expressed an eagerness to return next year. The
whole tournament was first class. The target was all billfish, all to be
released and all to be caught on circle hooks – wahoo, tuna and dorado
were also included. Boats sighted as many as 20 stripers in a day, but
crews were not allowed to help the anglers, by casting bait for them,
which is the best method of catching marlin in Cabo right now. All the
anglers attending were here because they had won an IGFA qualifying
event elsewhere in the world, but not everybody was familiar with circle
hooks and many found the casting difficult. The circle hook goes against
everything learned previously for hooking fish with the traditional “j”
hook, so it takes a little getting used to. Anglers got better every
day though, proven by the catch rates – on day one a total of 44 striped
marlin were released, building throughout the week to 112 on the final
day. Top team was the team representing Texas Women’s Anglers, with 3400
points. This team (including one ten year old girl) each received
beautiful Rolex watches and bronze sculptures by world renowned sculptor
Bodo Muche. Top angler was Edgar Artecona, from the winning team with
1900 points. The largest wahoo was 97.3 lbs caught by Geoff McGovern
from the Nova Scotia team. Biggest dorado was 61 lbs landed by Jason
Langford, representing the Blue Marlin Classic team and just one tuna
was caught, 68.9 lbs by lady angler Pat Kelley from Isla Mujeres
Billfish team. Pisces anglers had an overall catch success rate of
seventy-six percent for all species combined this week, with sixty-seven
percent catching billfish. Again, lots of fish being seen, but not all
were hungry – in fact I heard that the winning tournament team, actually
got a couple of their fish on dead ballyhoo, on the last day, which
isn’t something used that often here. So the lesson to be learned is be
open to new ideas, when the standard doesn’t work. Some of the luckier
anglers for us, that were not in the tournament, were Fred Randall and
Mike Shultz from California and Michigan respectively, releasing two
striped marlin and catching a 40 lb dorado and 50 lb wahoo aboard
“Valerie” on May 14th and Bill Adams & Robert Jones, both
from Texas, releasing three stripers on May 15th , aboard
“Andrea”. Pisces anglers caught a total of 61 striped marlin of which 60
were released. OTHER
SPECIES: Quite slow for other gamefish. After marlin dorado were the
most frequent catch for boats offshore, though they could not be said to
be plentiful. Just the odd fish here and there picked up while trolling
for marlin, with weights averaging 20 to 40 lbs. Quite a few wahoo were
taken this week, again whilst trolling, weights were 40 to 60 lbs.
Inshore there was quite a bit of action – the Rolex –IGFA tournament
sponsors, fished pangas one morning and released, over 60 roosterfish.
Sierra and skipjacks were also found inshore.
LOCATION: Week started out close to Cabo at Cabeza de Ballena, then
moved up to Chileno and by the end of the week was off of La Laguna in
San Jose.
WEATHER CONDITIONS: Clear sunny skies, windy at the start of the
week, seas now calm and only a little wind.
AVERAGE WATER TEMP. 72 F BEST
LURES: Live bait.
Based on the catches of Pisces Fleet by Tracy Ehrenberg
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