PISCES WEEKLY FISH REPORT JUNE 3RD TO 9TH, 2005 BILLFISH: Not a very good week for fishing, with just sixty-six percent of charters catching fish, of which thirty-five percent were marlin. This number maybe o.k. anywhere else in the world, but not in Cabo. However, the last two days of this report, weather warmed up considerably and fishing became more consistent; on the last day of this report, all but one of our boats caught marlin. “Sundancer” was our top producer with two striped marlin and a huge sailfish on June 8th, for Ben Kelly and friends at Destiladeres. The day before this, the same boat released a striped marlin and an approx. 60 lb Mako shark in the same area. “Valerie” had two stripers on June 7th for John Mathieu from Fort Myers, fishing with Claude Bosworth. Tom Kemmy and Mark Zbylski both from Texas were fortunate to catch a marlin apiece on the 8th again at Destiladeres. Waters surrounding Cabo are still pretty cold, in the low to mid 60’s, which is why boats usually headed up towards the East Cape in search of billfish. They were fussy eaters even when found. Closer to Cabo boats headed to the rough Pacific side for inshore stuff and straight out from Land’s End for tuna for a couple of days. Pisces anglers caught a total of 30 striped marlin this week, of which 31 were released, along with one sailfish. OTHER SPECIES: I don’t know what’s going on with the weather, but it’s like we have March weather now, in June. The catches inshore were like those expected in March, with a variety of small game being caught such as skipjack, sierra, jack crevalle, spotted grouper, red snapper and trigger fish. The groupers were pretty decent at up to 35 lbs. Robert Willis from Laguna Niguel, Ca, was thrilled to land a 40 lb roosterfish on June 9th that put up a good fight. Offshore for smaller game was on the slow side, with just two dorado for us this week. Yellowfin tuna catches were slower than last week, but schools were found 22 miles out from Land’s End, in pretty rough water, were football size fish were caught. Some boats landed up to a dozen. WEATHER CONDITIONS: The wind has us fooled, it lays down for a couple of sun, Cabo starts to bake and then it picks up again, making white caps on the Pacific – things were calmer on the Cortez but not by much. Skies are clear and sunny. Air temps are in the low 80’s. LOCATION: Destiladeres for marlin, Old Lighthouse to Cristobal for smaller game. Straight out 20 miles for tuna. AVERAGE WATER TEMP: 69-72 BEST LURES: Live bait. Based on the catches of Pisces by Tracy Ehrenberg