PISCES WEEKLY FISH REPORT September 14th to 20th, 2007 OVERALL CATCH SUCCESS RATE 100% BILLFISH: Every boat we sent out this week caught fish; once again we ended up with a one hundred percent catch success rate. In fact the number of billfish caught is an eight year record for Pisces with our total for the past six days at 234 fish and this was with charter activity below normal. Striped marlin was still the number one sportfish with two hundred and twenty five caught for our anglers, as well as three blue marlin and ten sailfish. The number of striped marlin being caught is definitely unusual, in fact we cannot remember a time when this many have been caught in summer months. All but two striped marlin were released. It was nice to see the blues starting to appear, albeit a bit late. Weights on the blues ranged from 180 to 300 lbs. Overall ninety five percent of charters caught a marlin or sailfish, or better said a few marlin. Although Golden Gate was still one of the top locations, boats also fished closer to Cabo as well. Everybody did really well this week and we don’t have enough space to mention each person, but some of the outstanding catches were as follows: September 14th, Max Montague from Plano, Texas and friends released a total of 11 striped marlin as well as a sailfish at the outer edge of Golden Gate aboard “Ni Modo”. The 19th was a good day, when “Yahoo” released 12 striped marlin and boated two dorado for Karl & Tracey Krebbs from Las Vegas, fishing with John and Carolyn Clay from Philadelphia and Roger Brook form Palm Beach, all at Golden Gate. This same day and in the same area “ C Rod” released 9 stripers and landed one dorado for Michael Jensen and Cory Taylor from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, fishing with Chuck Kane and Cliff Kupnow from the Dallas area. On the 20th of September “C Rod” again fished the group mentioned above but was able to release even more fish, totaling 12 marlin and one dorado. Following this with 10 striped marlin released and two dorado and one tuna boated was "Falcon", for Jeremy & Vanessa Perkins fishing with Ricky & Becky Stutts from Huffman, Texas; followed by “Bandito” with 7 striped marlin and 3 sailfish released for Renee Brown, Dan & Debbie Ducote and Fali Kapadia, from Texas, North Carolina and Tennessee respectively. “Andrea” also had 9 this day for Michael McCormick fishing with Walter and Orland from Pompano Beach, Florida. Striped marlin and sailfish preferred live bait and blue marlin took lures. OTHER SPECIES: After marlin dorado were the most likely catch, with 105 total for Pisces anglers. Weights were from 15 to 35 lbs with some of the better catches at Herradura. Nevertheless most boats fishing Golden Gate picked up one or two and the highest catch was 12 fish for Todd Whitesell on the 19th who also released both a blue and striped marlin. Overall sixty six percent of our charters caught dorado. We are pleased to report the first really big tunas of the season, both “Andrea” and “Bill Collector” had fish over the 200 lb mark on the same day, September 16th ,12 miles south of Cabo. Anglers on Andrea were Reinhold Gartner from San Francisco and Edward Lybrand, after a slow start to the day the captain spotted a school of porpoise, they landed two in the 70 to 80 lb class before going on land the 210 lb fish, which took two and half hours to boat. Jeff Hrenha from San Jose was the angler aboard Bill Collector. Catches on tuna rose to seventeen percent with several fish in the 100 lb class whilst others were around 30 to 40 lbs. Just four wahoo between 40 and 50 lbs this week. LOCATION: Golden Gate, San Cristobal, Old Lighthouse….Pacific. WEATHER CONDITIONS: Hot, slightly humid, seas calm, skies partly cloudy. AVERAGE WATER TEMP: 80 F BEST LURES: Live bait. Based on the catches of Pisces by Tracy Ehrenberg