Overall catch success rate, all species
combined: 75%
Numbers at a glance: Billfish 48%, Tuna 35%,
Dorado 8%, other 11%.
Sailfish coming in for release aboard the Pisces Hot Rod.
Fishing in Cabo has been mostly good this
week, although there was a slow down with about half of boats skunked on a few
days mid-week. However, when it has been good throughout the rest of the week,
we’ve seen boats land a varied array of summer species. We saw another rare Pacific
shortbill spearfish this week, so we doubt that anyone is going to continue to
believe that they are that rare in our waters. However, we only usually see
about 2-3 of these in a whole year usually. We saw quite a few sailfish this
week as well, this generally signals that the summer water temperatures have
arrived. There were also a number of blue and striped marlin caught on Pisces
boats, some very large dorado, along with yellowfin tuna, wahoo and grouper.
Our top boats this week
Melisa Wiler released this 30 pound spearfish aboard the Pisces Tracy Ann, to her right captain Julio
The 31ft Pisces Tracy Ann captained by Julio
Castro and deckhand Martin took out Chad and Melissa Wiler from Ohio. Melisa
was lucky enough to release a 30 pound spearfish, they also landed a 340 pound
blue marlin on a petrolero lure, and a 35 pound wahoo. While also landing
eleven yellowfin tuna in the 10-20 pound range, all fish where landed at San
Jaime.
Triple hook-up aboard the Pisces Hot Rod for these anglers from Gastonia, NC.
Take a snap and send it back! This sailfish was released aboard the Pisces Hot Rod.
The 42ft Pisces Hot Rod captained by Erick
Orozco, took out anglers Logan and Steven from Gastonia, North Carolina about
26 miles to the 1150 Spot. They had an incredible triple hook up into two
sailfish in the 100-110 pound range, as well as a 170 pound striped marlin.
They later landed two yellowfin tuna of around 15 pounds.
52 pound dorado landed aboard the Pisces Ruthless.
52 pound dorado landed aboard the Pisces Ruthless (Photo by Oscar Bañaga).
-The 31ft Pisces Ruthless captained by Beto
Lira had the Giglio’s from Houston, Texas on board and headed out to the 120
Spot. Here they released two striped marlin near 110 pounds, as well as a very
impressive bull dorado of 52 pounds; all these were landed on caballito live
bait. They also landed two yellowfin tuna of 10 pounds on cedar plugs.
Gretchen and Ryan from Washington hold up two groupers weighing about 20 pounds each, caught aboard the panga Salsa (Photo by Abraham Herrera).
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30 pound wahoo landed aboard the Pisces Knot Workin, for this angler from Texarkana, TX (Photo by Eduardo Vazquez).
30 pound wahoo landed aboard the Pisces Knot Workin, for this angler from Texarkana, TX (Photo by Eduardo Vazquez).
The 38ft Pisces C Rod captained by Abel
Ramirez released a nearly 300 pound blue marlin for the Abela’s from Springvale
in Queensland, Australia. While the 42ft Pisces Yahoo captained by Ricardo
Escamilla released a 200 pound blue marlin for some anglers from Dallas, Texas.
The 31ft Pisces Cabolero captained by Hector Ayala released a 160 pound
sailfish for some anglers from Arlignton, Texas. The 28ft Pisces Andrea
captained by Orlando Murillo released a nice 100 pound sailfish as well as
landing a good size dorado at 30 pounds for the Callahan’s from Virginia. The
35ft Pisces Knot Workin captained by Tito Olascoaga released a170 pound striped
marlin, as well as landing a 30 pound wahoo and three yellowfin tuna for some
anglers from Texarkana, Texas. And last but not least, the panga Salsa landed
two nice grouper near 20 pounds on caballiot live baite for Gretchen and Ryan
from Bellevue Washington.
LOCATION: Cabrillo seamount, San Jaime.
WEATHER CONDITIONS: Clear skies and calm seas
most of the week, air temps averaging in the 80´s.
AVERAGE WATER TEMP: 80ºF.
BEST LURES: Caballito live bait, cedar plugs.
Based on the catches of Pisces Sportfishing
Fleet by Glenn Ehrenberg
Author: Tracy Ehrenberg
Date Published: 7/16/2017