Marlin in Cabo May 22-27, 2016
Overall Catch Success Rate: All Species Combined 93%
Numbers at a glance: Marlin 57%, Tuna 21%, Dorado 12%, Other
45%
MARLIN: We are delighted that fishing continues to be so
fantastic, with plenty of fish of all types available throughout the week. Most
of the boats had marlin, shark plus several found the tuna. It seems that most
of the marlin have taken up residence at the 11.50 spot which continued to
produce multiple catches. The boats didn’t concentrate on marlin all week there
were a couple of days when they opted for small game on the Pacific, usually
for guests wanting to fish for half days. Pisces Rebecca a 31ft Bertram was out
top boat this week, releasing SEVEN striped marlin up to 140 LBS for a group
from Hartsville, South Carolina headed up by William Segars – they had an
amazing day with J.R and Luis. Another of our Bertram’s, Ruthless did well to
release four marlin on May 22nd for David and Spencer from Sheriden, Wyoming
with all their fish taking live caballito. Fifty seven percent of the rest of
the fleet averaged one to three marlin – with a lot of boats opted to fish
smaller, eating fish opportunities. Pisces anglers caught a total of 47 striped
marlin this week, with 45 released.
OTHER SPECIES: The tuna were very welcome this week as we
finally caught some decent eating fish; even a football size fish around 10 LBS
can provide a couple of good meals. On May 27th a couple of our boats headed
out to the Herradura and rocked the tuna. Even though many of the fish had to
be released due to catch limits, they still gave the anglers a good workout.
Hector and Maria Diaz from California had a ball catching FORTY tuna a dorado
and one striped marlin aboard 28 ft. Andrea. This same day a group of New
Yorkers caught thirty five aboard Ruthless. Other boats caught between seven
and twenty fish, giving us a grand total of 173 tuna. There was just a handful
of dorado caught. Gregory Stiber from Louisiana caught a nice 40 LB wahoo
aboard Adriana as well as fifteen tunas. Forty five percent of our charters
caught smaller game such as snappers, a good number of jack crevalle, grouper,
small roosters, sierra, ladyfish, skipjacks and amberjacks. The shark catches
went down this week but we still have several pilot sharks and a couple of
threshers.
LOCATION: 11.50
spot, Chileno, Herradura, Cabeza de Ballena, Pedregalito.
WEATHER: Two
totally different climates – Pacific is still breezy and comfortably cool, much
hotter on the Cortez. Whitecaps on Pacific, moderate to calm on Cortez. This is
evident when you look at the chart below.
AVERAGE
WATER TEMP: 78 F interesting it dropped slightly from last week. Scientists say
that we are about to start a La Nina current which means cooler sea surface
temps on the Pacific.
BEST BAIT:
Live Caballito, palos, green
Author:
Tracy Ehrenberg