BILLFISH: Things are nicely back on track this week in Cabo, with dozens of billfish sighted and lots of hook ups. The billfish catch rate climbed to ninety percent, meaning it was the number one catch in Cabo this week. Apart from the striped marlin we are now also beginning to catch sailfish, which is early. The best day of this period was April 8th when we had three boats that had eight marlin each: “Rebecca”, who also caught four tuna, for Scott and Sarah Meyer from Carmel Indiana, “Valerie” fishing 20 miles from the 95 spot, for Allen Titbor from Monroe, New Jersey and “Falcon” who also had five tunas for Mike and Skylar Perkins from Dana Point, fishing with John Snedegar from Laguna Beach, Ca. Most of these boats started off at Land’s End picked up the tuna and then went into the Sea of Cortez where they caught marlin. A couple of days later “Tracy Ann” had five for Brian Cowan from Scottsdale at the 95 spot. On April14th, “Rebecca” went further up, pretty much to the limit of our day fishing grounds on the Cortez side, to Destiladeres, where Mark Williams and Blaise Pewinske, from Emmett and Allenton, Michigan, respectively released four striped marlin and two sailfish around 100 lbs. Now for an impressive day of fishing I would have to consider “C Rod” on this same day for the variety of fish caught and they never fished more than four miles offshore; they caught and released four striped marlin, 1 mako shark, 2 jack crevalles and 12 tuna….for anglers Ray Riha from Northport, New York and Tom Myers from Huntersville, North Carolina, who barely had time to eat their burritos. Pisces anglers caught a total of 127 striped marlin and 5 sailfish this week, with all but two fish released.
OTHER SPECIES: After marlin, yellowfin tuna was the most common catch with thirty eight percent of boats finding fish up to 30 lbs. The catches ranged from one to twenty five fish per boat, with cedar plugs being the most popular catch method. Dorado catches were very slow, with just three solitary fish caught this week. “La Brisa” did have a nice 40 lb wahoo and boats closer to shore caught skipjacks, jack crevalle a few yellowtail and several small mako sharks.
WEATHER: Well, what can I say, superb weather, we are starting to feel the heat getting turned up a bit, but nights are still comfortable, in fact we enjoyed the best weather of the country whilst other parts of Mexico staggered under a heat wave. Actually April is the hottest month for many mainland cities such as Guadalajara. Seas were calm to moderate on the Pacific and calm on the Cortez side.
LOCATION: Pretty much all the action has switched to the Cortez side and boats fished from Cabeza Ballena to Destiladeres.
BEST LURES: Live bait for marlin, cedar plugs and feathers for tuna.
Based on the catches of Pisces by Tracy Ehrenberg
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