February 23rd to March 1st, 2007 Overall catch success rate 76% BILLFISH: This week we have a slight increase with 69 percent of the boats catching marlin. Staring on Friday the 23rd, boats started going to the Pacific side again, where the catches were excellent a few weeks ago and they found what they were looking for. Considering that February and March are not the best months for fishing, our boys are doing really well, like La Brisa on the 23rd, releasing five striped marlin for Harry Ellison, Michael Haith, Mike Evans and Scott Andrews form Colorado, that same day, Valerie released three striped marlin for David Manassez and Bob O’Neil from Andover, MA. On February 25th Rebecca released four striped marlin for Cindy Wright and Jeffrey Bimartin from Nevada, and La Brisa released another 3 for Robert Mabry and Denise Jones. The best day of the week was on February 26th with all the boats coming back with marlin flags, that day Libre released four striped marlin for Bob Torrence and friends from Texas, Valerie released three stripeys for Greg Asling, Scott Hoyter and Jim Tobin form British Columbia, Canada. The rest of the boats came back with two marlin released and just two were landed, one was 140lbs and the other 150lbs. C-ROD is the highlight of the week with six striped marlin released for our old friend John Carey from Chesterfield, MO. A total of 80 Striped Marlin were caught and 72 were released. OTHER SPECIES: Very slow week on Dorado, only two of them were caught, yellow fin tuna was also slow with most of the boats going to the Pacific side and tuna being on the Sea of Cortez, however, our 50ft Sr Moment went about 12 miles from Cabeza de Ballena on the Sea of Cortez and caught 12 Yellowfin tuna between 20 and 30 lbs for Cathy Phillips. Many of our boats caught a lot of Sierras or Spanish mackerel, a couple of Mako sharks ere released. LOCATION: Golden Gate, Pozo Cota, Los Arcos. WEATHER CONDITIONS: Clear skies, a bit chilly in the morning, seas were mostly calmed with long swells a couple of days. AVERAGE WATER TEMP: 73 F BEST LURES: Live bait. Based on the catches of Pisces Fleet by Jorge Narro in Tracy’s absence.