Chileno, 5-15 miles off of Old Lighthouse, San Jaime, Destiladeres, 11.50 spot, 95 spot, Cabeza de Ballena, Chileno, Santa Maria.

July 28th to August 3rd, 2006

WEATHER CONDITIONS: Clear, sunny skies, everything is beautiful and green after the rains, cooled off somewhat, some whitecaps in the morning, calmer in the afternoon.

AVERAGE WATER TEMP: 78F - 80F

BEST LURES: Live bait, green/black, green/orange, pink/white

BILLFISH
As predicted last week we did see an increase of blue marlin as we entered the month of August. The biggest fish this week was caught just three miles offshore, straight out from Land’ End aboard “Ruthless”. The fish weighed a very decent 400 lbs and took a green/blue/gray lure taking Jeff Jones almost an hour to bring to the boat. Another boat that did well on blues was “Cabolero” a 31 ft Cabo - Greg Johnson from Nicholls, Georgia, fought two fish in the 200 to 280 lb class, as well as four tuna, ranging from 30 to 70 lbs, off of the Old Lighthouse on July 28th. “Valerie” also released a nice blue for Michael Cotton from Broken Arrow, OK on August 2nd, this time on the Cortez side off of the 95 spot. “Chinaco” had an outstanding day on July 28th, with one blue marlin released and eleven tuna boated in the 20-25 lb size. Although I wouldn’t say billfish catches were fabulous they were still the most abundant sportfish in Cabo, with forty six percent of anglers catching mostly striped marlin. Our overall catch success rate for all species combined was eighty nine percent. As we expect at this time of year, fishing is a mixed bag. Top striped marlin boat was “Ni Modo” with four on the last day of July for Tom Gramlich from Yardley Pennsylvania fishing with Jorge Cantu from Mexico. All of these fish were caught on live bait 6 and half miles off of Redhill. Live bait became a problem late in the week, as the bait guys couldn’t catch any. We quickly went through our stock of frozen ballyhoo, but a young entrepreneur showed up on the dock to sell to those who couldn’t get the live ones. Pisces anglers caught a total of 42 billfish this week consisting of 36 stripes and 7 blues.

OTHER SPECIES:
Thirty four percent of charters caught yellowfin tuna and finally we are starting to see some decent size fish in the 50 to 70 lb category. Most of the catches were one or two fish, with the more fortunate anglers getting up to eleven in a day. Ron Nicholson was one of the lucky ones, with eleven on “Chinaco”, five miles off of Finisterra. “Cabolero” also had eleven tuna for Richard Prenger off of San Jose. Pisces anglers caught a total of one hundred and four yellowfin this report. Dorado catches were a little lower at twenty seven percent, with catches of one or two fish, some as big as 60 lbs. Inshore it was rather slow with just a few skipjacks and roosterfish.