Starting out at Cabeza de Ballena and Chileno 4-6 miles, then Los Pozos, Los Arcos, Balmaceda, off of the Lighthouse and Punta Gorda

October 6th to 12th, 2006

WEATHER CONDITIONS: Mostly sunny skies, weather has finally broke and it feels like autumn now. Seas calm

AVERAGE WATER TEMP: 84F

BEST LURES: Live bait for striped marlin and sailfish, assorted lures for blues, dorado and sardines for tuna

BILLFISH
We had plenty of activity this week in Cabo, though it’s a shame it is predominantly on small game, rather than on billfish. Nevertheless we did have some nice catches and ended up thirty six percent of charters hooking into a combination of striped marlin, sailfish and blue marlin. Biggest fish for us this week was a very decent 450 lb blue marlin caught aboard “Ni Modo”, just two and half miles in front of Cabo Pacifica, by John Szymansky form West Creek, N.J, taking a little over an hour to boat. This same day, 28 ft “Andrea” had a blue marlin, close to 250 lbs, as well as a dorado and a Yellowfin, these caught twelve miles off of the Old Lighthouse, for Jonathan Boggs from North Carolina. Not to be outdone “Valerie” released three striped marlin and boated a dorado twenty-seven miles off of Land’s End for Jay Buke, Tom Luenda and Kevin Andrews from Buford GA, Belleville IL and Greenboro GA, respectively. All of the fish mentioned here were caught on October 7th. On October 11th, “Tracy Ann” released a 250 lb blue at the Herradura – this same day out new boat “No Big Deal” also released another blue, slightly larger fro Joe Ross. The majority of boats fished on the Pacific from Land’s End to Golden Gate, though fish were also caught in the opposite direction at the 95 spot and Punta Gorda. The bait situation was difficult this week, as on many days it was simply not available, despite the suppliers fishing all night for them. This didn’t really affect the blue marlin catches, as all of the blues caught this week were on lures, though we believe there would have been more striped marlin and sailfish caught if the boats had live bait. Pisces anglers caught a total of forty-one billfish this week, consisting of twenty-three striped marlin, eleven sailfish and seven blue marlin, all but three fish were released.

OTHER SPECIES:
Dorado catches could hardly be better with a whopping eighty nine percent of boats catching between one and fourteen fish in a day, resulting in a total count of 380 dorado for our fleet this week. Many of the smaller fish were released and those anglers not keen on lugging heavy ice chests back to the U.S also let them go. On October 9th, Richard Paciaroni and friends had a lot of fun aboard “Cabolero” a 31 ft Cabo Express, catching 13 dorado and releasing a striped marlin at Pozo de Cota. Next day out “C Rod” fished this same location and managed to catch fifteen dorado and a striped marlin for Howard Brown and his group from Lewisville, Texas. Yellowfin tuna catches were dramatically lower than dorado with just eighteen percent of charters catching fish in the 20 to 50 lb class, with catches ranging from one to twelve fish. “C Rod” had 12 on October 12th for Colleen Kincheloe form California twenty miles off the Old Lighthouse. “Libre” went up to San Jaime and managed to get slightly larger fish, up to 50 lbs and totaled ten fish for Rick Guglielmo and family. We had a couple of wahoo this week but smaller at 30 to 45 lbs. Inshore triggerfish, skipjacks and rayadillos.