Cabo san lucas
February 4th to February 10th, 2005

WEATHER CONDITIONS: Cloudy most of the week, with rain on the 4th, seas average to calm.
AVERAGE WATER TEMP: 70F.
BEST LURES: Live bait, green/white, blue/gray.

BILLFISH
Well, this was definitely a billfish, or should we say striped marlin week. We had outstanding catches on marlin in the 120 to 180 lb class every day this report, even on the day that we had rain. Anglers of the week were Bob and Mary Lou Dietsch from Omaha, Nebraska, fishing with Dennis & Ruth Riesselman from the same town and friends Chuck & Romaine Wiebelhause from St. Bluffs, Idaho – who managed to catch and release eight striped marlin in a single day (February 7th) and also landed a dorado, aboard “Valerie” . Five of their fish took lures, with the mackerel and squid colors working and the other three too live bait. Other anglers that did well were the “Marlin Men” – Keith Meader, Warren Pescud, Max Jones & Ian Marsh, all the way from Hong Kong – they were also on “Valerie” and totaled seven marlin during their stay as well as a dorado. Rich Perdue, out with his brother and friend aboard “Rebecca” on the 8th, were pleased to release four stripers. Another quadruple day was had by Brenda & Crecno DiMeglio, from New Jersey, aboard “Andrea” on the 6th. Andy Wilkes here with a corporate group, did well on striped marlin some tuna and also got the only sailfish of the week. Fishing was from Redhill to the Old Lighthouse with bait and lures both working. Our overall catch success rate for all species combined was ninety-one percent, with eighty percent of charters catching marlin. Pisces anglers caught a total of 117 marlin and one sailfish with all but one released.

OTHER SPECIES:
Not a great deal happening on smaller fish, in fact only eight percent of boats caught dorado in the 15 to 30 lb class with the catch usually just a single fish. Inshore pangas did better, with some catching up to 10 in a morning. Just seven percent of boats caught tuna and size was average at 15 to 25 lbs, the best catches were 27 miles off of the old lighthouse were some boats got up to a dozen. George Gibson from Colorado landed a nice 75 lb wahoo on the 5th just four miles off of Chileno. Inshore there were lots of sierra, as many as you wanted to catch as well as a few skipjacks.