Cabo san lucas
July 8th to July 15th 30th, 2005

WEATHER CONDITIONS: Nice, sunny, but not too hot, day temps in the 80's nighttime in the mid-70's, nice breeze, seas very rough at the start of the week, much calmer by the close of this report.
AVERAGE WATER TEMP: 73F.

BILLFISH
Well, finally we had great week fishing, despite the fact that summer still hasn't shown up yet and we continue to enjoy cool breezes coming from the Pacific.  We had some really outstanding marlin catches this week, with double, triple and quadruple marlin days quite common; in fact to get mentioned this week you had to have five billfish or more. July 12th, was the best day this week, with "Rebecca" turning out to be top boat for four striped marlin and two sailfish, 15 miles off of San Jose, for Gerard Claveau, Michael Chouinard and Steve Volpe, from Salem, Mass. They were very pleased with their catch, as they had been following the fish report, weeks before they arrived in Cabo and were pleasantly surprised by the turnaround.  This same day, "Valerie" had five striped marlin for our top lady anglers of the week, Chris Nitzel and Deb Lyndnon from Colorado -their tally for the three-day trip was seven marlin and eight yellowfin tuna. Not to be left out,  "La Brisa" also had five stripers this day, in the same location, for Josh Lancaster and Steve Stevens from Texas. The thirteenth was not unlucky, again for "Valerie", who scored five striped marlin for Adam Kwasman from Arizona fishing with buddy Allan Charles from Illinois.  The week started out at Jaime Bank on the Pacific, where a mixture of some stripers, dorado and tuna were caught, but by week's end the work was out that the Cortez side between Chileno and Punta Gorda was the hot spot and that's when we started seeing the numbers. Even boats that did not catch marlin, threw bait to multiple fish. Sixty-four percent of our charters caught marlin, with about sixty percent on live bait and forty percent on lures, with orange/yellow and black/purple worked best.  Pisces anglers caught a total of 127 marlin with 125 released, along with two sailfish.

OTHER SPECIES:
Fair on smaller game, with twenty-six percent of charters catching dorado from 15 to 50 lbs, catches were spread out and were seldom more than one fish, caught whilst trolling.  Yellowfin tuna catches were fair with eighteen percent of boats landing fish from 15 to 35 lbs; although less boats caught tuna, when they did find them they could catch quite a few, from six to fourteen.  We heard of a monster tuna in Puerto Vallarta, the fish was caught by Omar Cardenas and supposedly weighed 420 lbs, making possibly the all tackle world record; however everybody is just so laid back over there that nobody noticed. We heard about the fish on July 12th and it had been caught on the 11th and quickly filleted. We are waiting for photos and will post them as soon as we have them - it never ceases to amaze me that so many record fish to unnoticed. Just a few wahoo around the 50 lb mark. Inshore very slow for pangas.