Sea of Cortez, Chileno, Sta. Maria Bay, with a few catches close to San Jose del Cabo

June 9th to June 15th, 2006

WEATHER CONDITIONS: Rough, very strong winds, which made us stay on the Sea of Cortez, a bit cold in the morning but really hot on mid-day reaching the 90F

AVERAGE WATER TEMP: 66 F on the Pacific and 74 F on the Sea of Cortez

BEST LURES: Live bait

BILLFISH
Even though we had some rough weather this week, we have an overall success rate of 93%. A total of 71 Striped Marlin were caught and 63 were released along with two Sailfish. On June 13th, Ruthless released two and boated a nice 210 lbs Striped Marlin for Kevin Reighter from Huntington Beach, CA. The same day, Valerie released one Striped marlin, three Yellow fin tuna and kept three Dorado for Team Tiger from Prairieville, LA. On June 15th, the 50ft Sr. Moment released a Striped Marlin and boated 1 Dorado and 3 Wahoo’s for the group of Mr. Van Treese friends. We want to mentioned the Lawhead brother’s who released the past June 02nd on their annual fishing trip to Cabo a 150lbs Striped Marlin aboard the Tracy Ann.

OTHER SPECIES:
This week Dorado got a little better with a 40% success rate and an average size between 15-30 lbs. Yellow fin Tuna slowed down with only 17% success rate however on June 10th Andrea caught and released over 30 of them for Jeff Bird, Ed & Joe Uceda from Orange, CA. Tuna was between 10 to 25 lbs. We had a few Wahoo and Skipjacks and a couple of Roosterfish on the pangas.