PISCES WEEKLY FISH REPORT MARCH 14TH TO 20TH BILLFISH: We are still going through our March “doldrums”, with not a lot of marlin action, not everything was gloomy though. The highlight of the week was a beautiful 200 lb swordfish caught aboard “Tracy Ann” on Sunday, March 18th, by Gordon Bennett, from Scotch Plains, New Jersey. They discovered the fish dozing on the surface 4 miles out from the 95 spot, in 70-degree water. The broadbill took a live mackerel and took 3 hours and 20 minutes to boat on 40 lb test line. The marlin rates were even lower this week than last period with only about fifteen percent hooking up to stripers. James Mc Geoch from Waretown, N.J was with Gordon when he caught his swordfish, out on the same boat the next day, he was very fortunate to release a striped marlin in the same area that they got the sword, as well as boating 5 tuna ranging from 25 to 70 lbs. A welcome change has been a couple of days of uninterrupted sunshine and regular Cabo weather – which we haven’t seen in a couple of months. Our overall catch success rate for all species combined was a low sixty-three percent. It seems that the season is a little ahead of itself, we should have been seeing the slow fishing right around Easter, with lots of yellowfin tuna catches, starting in April, but it looks like we are already going through this. Pisces anglers caught a total of 6 striped marlin, with all but one released and one swordfish. OTHER SPECIES: Yellowfin tuna were very welcome catches this past week, with the marlin fishing so slow, boats caught tuna throughout most of the week, with a couple of big schools found, one off of Palmilla on the Cortez side and the other at San Jaime, on the Pacific. Weights ranged from 15 to 80 lbs, with boats averaging from 4 to 14 per boat. Most of the other small game fish was inshore, again there were plenty of sierra, red snapper and amberjack, with the odd skipjack here and there; found at the Old Lighthouse and Palmilla. LOCATION: Punta Gorda, Red Hill, Chileno, San Jaime, And Old Lighthouse. WEATHER CONDITIONS: Skies partly cloudy, with a couple of beautiful sunny days at the end of the week, seas are nice. AVERAGE WATER TEMP: 69 F BEST LURES: Live bait, assorted feathers. Based on the catches of Pisces Fleet by Tracy Ehrenberg