Cabo san lucas
July 15th to July 21st 30th, 2005

WEATHER CONDITIONS: Clear, sunny skies most of the week, one cloudy day from the storm, seas swells, now calming.
AVERAGE WATER TEMP: 75 F.
BEST LURES: Sixty percent of the catches were on live bait, with 40% on lures, orange/black, purple for marlin, blue/white and cedar plugs for tuna.

BILLFISH
Cabo again saw good fishing this week for most boats, despite the port being closed on July 20th, due to swells caused by tropical storm Eugene, located 300 miles to the south west of Cabo. Seas were fine past the lighthouse on the Pacific side, but the Port Captain kept the port closed, leaving many anglers frustrated and chomping at the bit.  Water temperatures soared to 83 F in some places as Eugene approached, but by Friday, seas had cooled again as cool water and breezes from the Pacific bathed Cabo, postponing our true summer once again. Top boat this week was "Que Sera" with six striped marlin for the Coleman party - each fish was a first for the individual anglers. The lucky location for this group was the 11.50 spot on July 15th.  This day turned out to be the best of the week -"Rebecca" had four this day at Punta Gorda from Ian Tawes, Rick Fulton and William Wagon, from San Francisco, San Mateo & Castlerock. "Ruthless" equaled this amount for Dane & Eddie Elliot from Birmingham, Alabama, this time though eighteen miles in front of San Jose.  Later in the week "Karina" was the hot boat, releasing two marlin apiece for Rick Foget & Kirk Strickland from Victorville, Ca. The fish moved around quite a bit in fact on one day, July 18th, most boats ran past were they were up beyond San Jose, when actually this day most of the catches were closer to home near Cabeza de Ballena. With the full moon this week it could be discouraging when so many fish were spotted and teased anglers, coming up and nudging baits before swimming off disinterested. Overall the marlin catch success rate was decent at seventy-three percent. The overall catch success rate for all species combined was eighty-five percent. Pisces anglers caught a total of ninety-four billfish this week, consisting of ninety-two striped marlin and two sailfish, all but four fish were released.

OTHER SPECIES:
Not a lot happening on smaller game.  Eighteen percent of charters found yellowfin tuna and managed to land fish in the 15 to 40 lb class, usually on the Pacific side. Most catches were of one or two fish and occasionally up to nine for those that worked the school well. Just eight percent of boats caught dorado and these were all incidental catches whilst trolling for marlin. Sizes were from 15 to 40 lbs.  Inshore fishing is still slow, just the odd rooster, sierra or triggerfish being caught.