April 4th to 10th 2001 Pisces Fleet Weekly Report PISCES WEEKLY FISH REPORT APRIL 4TH TO 10TH 2001 BILLFISH: Fishing was pretty much the same as it was last week, in other words very slow for billfish. In fact again, we only had one striped marlin this week, caught and released the last day of this report, as winds gusted to 35 mph in the early morning. The extremely lucky angler was Allen Sansano from Sunnyvale, CA, fishing aboard “Rebecca” (our only boat to catch marlin last week also). Allen hooked up 12 miles out from Chileno, with the approx, 120 lb marlin taking a live mackerel; earlier in the day, this boat spotted a 400 lb plus swordfish, a little over 20 miles out from Palmilla, which they attempted to bait without success. Allen fished, Rebecca, one day before his marlin catch and did well to catch seven yellow fin tuna from 25 to 30 lbs. Checking back to 2000 and 1999, for this same week, we see that catches were about the same, going back several years (1992); we see that it was a good week for both marlin and surprisingly dorado up to 60 lbs. Pisces anglers had an eighty-five percent catch success rate this week, with nearly all of this number being small game. OTHER SPECIES: Sierra is king of Cabo, crews not wanting to waste endless hours trolling for fish that probably weren’t there, stuck closer in and targeted this tasty game fish. Using spinning and light tackle, (12 lb), boats averaged from 3 to 12 sierras, which are at peak size right now. There were some yellowfin tuna this week also, with the most caught being seven, aboard Rebecca, as mentioned above. We did have one nice 60 lb wahoo, aboard Libre mid-week, caught by Cliff Roy. Yellowtail were a welcome catch throughout the week, but were not numerous, getting up to 25 lbs. Jack crevalle, roosterfish and amberjack, were all caught inshore, in lesser numbers. LOCATION: Redhill, Chileno and Palmilla. WEATHER CONDITIONS: Still pretty cold, though we did have two gorgeous days, Saturday and Sunday. Windy most days, seas on the rough side, April 10th was the worst day, with the Pacific a mass of whitecaps, calming by around 10.00 am on the Cortez side. AVERAGE WATER TEMP: 66 F BEST LURES: Live bait. BASED ON THE CATCHES OF PISCES FLEET BY TRACY EHRENBERG