Overall
Catch Success Rate: All Species Combined 99%
Numbers at
a glance: Billfish 49%, Sharks 73%, Other 46%
BILLFISH:
We’re back! Finally after months of small game fishing we saw a return this
week to the big stuff. We were pleased to see more consistent billfish catches
and even multiple marlin catches for some boats. At the start of the week the
hot boat was the Hot Rod as they released three striped marlin up to 150 LBS
and SIX pilot sharks up to 130 LBS all caught at the 11.50 spot by Kevin
Bremer, James Snyder, Pamela Snyder, Jesse Jernigan & Sam Jernigan – a
pretty busy days for these lucky anglers.
Our 35 ft. Cabo Listo celebrated 5 de
Mayo in style as they also released three striped marlin and released a large
pilot shark for a group of Mexican anglers from Monterey, mainland Mexico.
Another boat with more than one marlin was Pisces 31ft Bertram La Brisa; they
released two striped marlin at the 11.50 spot for the Collins and Lancers from
Maryland, who also did well to release an 180 LB pilot shark and a 110 LB
thresher shark.
Forty nine percent of our charters caught marlin this week, not
fantastic, but definitely on the road to recovery with a total of 23 marlin
released this week.
OTHER
SPECIES: The killing of sharks’ ban that runs from May 1st to July 31st went
into to effect this week and it’s like somebody told them they were safe as
they showed up by the dozen. Anglers are allowed to catch and release them
during this period but cannot kill them or bring a dead shark back to the dock.
Pisces Tracy Ann released a total of SIX pilot sharks, a large 180 LB thresher
shark and a striped marlin for 10 year old Bentley Willcott who was on a
special birthday trip to Cabo with his dad Matthew from Texas. Henry &
Kaitlin Troutner from Virginia had a great time battling three thresher sharks
up to 180 LBS and a pilot shark, all caught on live caballito. Hot Rod made the
fishing report a second time for having the most variety of sharks with a
thresher, a pilot and mako shark, as well as a striped marlin released for the
Sutton family from California.
Seventy three percent of our charters caught
sharks this week giving a total of 49 sharks released. Just a couple of boats
caught dorado and tuna catches were on a par – all small fish. Small game
catches continued throughout the week but to a lesser degree with forty six
percent of boats catching grouper, ladyfish, triggerfish, babosas, sheephead,
skipjacks, roosterfish and one solitary wahoo that was around 40 LBS
LOCATION:
Marlin and shark were caught in the Sea of Cortez between Santa Maria and the
11.50 spot. Smaller game were on the Pacific at Migrino.
WEATHER
CONDITIONS: Partly cloudy, windy on the Pacific, lighter winds on the Cortez
side.
AVERAGE
WATER TEMP: 76 F
Photo by our
anglers Tommy & Lorri Delafuente. Thank you very much for sharing Tommy!