Starting off at the 95 spot, then moving closer to Cabo between 13 and 22 miles off of Cerro Blanco, (Land’s End), some boats went to Punta Gorda, Chileno 8 miles out, Palmilla 8 miles out, 11.50 spot, finishing up the week off of San Jose as the water cooled close to Cabo

March 24th to March 30th, 2006

WEATHER CONDITIONS: Clear sunny skies, with some exceptionally windy days on the Pacific. Cortez side was much calmer, with some whitecaps in the late afternoon

AVERAGE WATER TEMP: 69 - 70 F.

BEST LURES: Live bait.

BILLFISH
Striped marlin was the top sportfish in Cabo this week, with seventy-nine percent of charters catching from one to five fish in the 120 to 180 lb class. This March overall has been a good month. Usually when we think of March it brings to mind windy weather and fish that are disinterested in the bait offered, however this year the striped marlin bite remained quite consistent. On March 25th, Ni Modo fished 20 miles straight out from Cabo and was able to release four striped marlin for Anthony Zouza and Timur Tecime from California. Next day out this same boat scored again, this time releasing five stripers for a group from Illinois, a couple of days later, this crew again worked hard to put the anglers aboard (Ian Monsfield, Todd Lewis from Oregon) on five marlin this time off of Cabo Real. Tracy Ann had five releases on March 26th, for Duane Hinkler, Brian Delay and Dan Moore, all from Florida directly off of Lands End. We had several boats with quadruple marlin days including Karina, Yahoo and Rebecca. We were surprised that the fishing moved back towards Cabo, as at this time of year we expect it to go the other way, closer to the east cape, however as we close this report, boats are beginning to fish the San Jose area again. Our overall catch success rate for all species combined was eighty-four percent. Pisces anglers caught a total of 128 striped marlin of which 125 were released.

OTHER SPECIES:
Well this section will be short; there was hardly any smaller game this week, or if there was boats were in the wrong place. We had just four boats that caught dorado, with each catch a single fish in the 20 to 40 lb class. Yellowfin tuna was even slower, despite the boats working a school off of twenty-two miles off of Land’s End. The only boat that had success for us was Rebecca who landed seven fish between 15 and 40 lbs as well as releasing a striped marlin, for Mike Ptazsnicz from St. Louis, Mi.Tracy Ann released a 50 lb mako shark, the only one of the week. Inshore there was a new influx of sierra and a few jacks.