PISCES WEEKLY FISH REPORT
September
17th to 23rd, 2016
Overall
Catch Success Rate All Species Combined 92%
Numbers
at a glance: Billfish 38%, Dorado 78%, Tuna 8%, Other 28%
BILLFISH: For
being September there were actually quite a few anglers in town this past week,
despite hot and humid weather the fishermen venturing out were pleased with
their results. Our catch rate for all species combined was 92% with just a few
boats not catching anything.
There was a pretty good mix on billfish with blue
marlin, striped marlin and a couple of sailfish. The largest fish for us this
week was aboard the 38 ft. Blackfin C Rod, a 411 LB blue
marlin caught at the Jaime Bank on the Pacific by David and Wayne Henson from
Spring, Texas who also managed to land three dorado. This might have been one
of the biggest fish, but probably the best day was had by Bill
Collector on September 17th for the Pennington’s from
Texas, who managed to release a blue marlin, just shy of 200 LBS and then boat
five dorado, an impressive 154 LB tuna, and two wahoo…..hard to beat a day like
that.
Pisces La Brisa was another boat that had a great
day with Colorado anglers Annie and Chris, who were able to release a blue
marlin and a striped marlin as well as catch five dorado. The popular Tracy
Ann had one of the only sailfish of the week, along with two striped
marlin, all released, at Destiladeras on the Cortez side for a group of anglers
from Australia – Alan, Andrew and Jeff from Queensland - all of their fish
took live caballito.
Thirty eight percent of our charters caught billfish of
some sort this week, with action on both the Cortez and Pacific, giving us a
total of 10 striped marlin, 5 sailfish and 6 blue marlin, all but two fish were
released.
OTHER
SPECIES: For the first time this year, dorado became the most widely
caught fish, with seventy eight percent of our boats catching between one and fifteen
fish in a day, nevertheless sizes were not great with maximum around 25
LBS. Many of the smaller fish were released, for example Bill Collector caught
15 in one day but released 10 of them as they were tiddlers at 5 to 12 LBS and
only the larger ones were kept.
The Pacific was better for dorado in the
Gaspareno to Golden Gate areas with feathers working well for this species. Our
total dorado catch was 155 fish.
There were some nice catches of wahoo this
week, which is always much appreciated by anglers in the know, as the majority
of fishermen claim this to be the best eating fish there is. Just a few tuna
were brought in, usually around 30 LBS, but with some big fish exceptions. Some
boats even had double hook ups, but size wise they were seldom more than 35
LBS. Inshore boats picked up skipjacks in fair numbers along with the odd
red snapper and triggerfish.
WEATHER
CONDITIONS: Mostly clear skies, a couple of cloudy days, seas 2 to 5
feet and calm.
AVERAGE
WATER TEMP: 82-86 F
LOCATION: San
Jaime, Golden Gate, Pozo de Cota, Antenna on Pacific and Cabrillo Sea Mount and
Destiladeras on the Pacific.
BEST
LURES: Live caballito, feathers, cedar plugs, green, black/red.
Based on the
catches of Pisces
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Author:
Tracy Ehrenberg
Date
Published: 9/29/2016