Cabo san lucas
February 11th to February 17th, 2005

WEATHER CONDITIONS: Heavy rain on Friday, followed by clear sunny skies the rest of the week, seas are calm.
AVERAGE WATER TEMP: 70F.
BEST LURES: Live bait.

BILLFISH
We are thankful for the continuing striped marlin boat, which gave anglers a very decent seventy-five percent catch rate for marlin. We had heavy rain last Friday (Feb. 11th), but even then boats that stuck it out met with success. At the end of this report, boats reporting seeing lots of marlin; they would be hooked up on one or two fish and see three or four more behind the boat. However not all of them were hungry, as they are feeding on small squid and tiny sardines. One of our top anglers this week was our newly elected Governor, Narcisso Agundez, who along with friends caught five striped marlin aboard “Ni Modo” on February 17th – one fish unfortunately, came up dead after an hour and a half battle, the other four were successfully released. Not to be outdone, “Valerie” also released five this same day for John Boyvich from IL, fishing with buddies 20 miles off of Cabo Real. At the start of the week “Valerie” scored four stripers all released for Ralph Gretzinger and Justin Handler from Texas. The fishing was spread out from Cabo Falso up as far as San Jose, with best fishing off of Cabo Real during the last couple of days of this report. Nearly all the fish are going for bait, over lures and the average weight is 130 lbs. Practically everybody got a whale watching tour whilst they fished, one boat counted 42 whales in one day while they were out. Pisces anglers caught a total of one hundred and nine striped marlin this week of which one hundred and six were released. Our overall catch success for all species combined was eighty-two percent.

OTHER SPECIES:
Not a great deal going on with smaller game though sixteen percent of boats did catch dorado in the 15 to 25 lb class. These catches were fish taken whilst trolling and were usually just one or two fish. Inshore some of the pangas did well, finding debris after the rain, picking up as many as ten. Tuna catches were slow with just a few small fish taken – however, as we close this report we hear that they were seen today at San Jaime on the Pacific, so perhaps we’ll have some catches in the upcoming days. Sierra and a few skipjack were caught inshore.