PISCES FISH REPORT
MAY 28th TO JUNE 2nd, 2011
Overall Catch Success Rate 100%
BILLFISH: Marlin fishing was really great this week, with lots of action and hungry
fish around, despite the lack of what we would consider "good" bait. Every boat out
this week caught fish, with eighty six percent catching marlin and in fact multiple
marlin catches were more the norm than a rarity. "Rebecca" had a great week,
producing a couple of back to back days with six marlin as well as days with two
to four fish; on May 28th we had a group predominantly of Texan women Crystail
& Jade Porter, fishing with Lauren & Helena Thomas, who brought along the only
guy in the group David Thomas, maybe as a bodyguard as this group cut quite a
figure in their bikinis. This group ended up releasing six marlin at the 11.50 spot.
The other six fish were on the 29th for Dave Nolt & Meagan Weakle from Longtree,
Colorado fishing with Kaden Smith, from Dallas, Texas. Not only did they release
six marlin they also boated a dorado and released a pilot share around 100 lbs.
May 30th, saw "Andrea" release five marlin for Chad Willingham, Dennis Carreiro &
Alexis Gilberi from Rockwall, Texas….I tell you these Texans are lucky. "Fearless"
our 50 ft Viking showed some good fishing to Marc Cleary and friends from Baton
Rouge, Louisiana, with five striped marlin from 120 to 160 lbs at the 11.50 spot.
Pisces anglers had a total of 72 striped marlin this week with all but one fish
released.
OTHER SPECIES: "Falcon" had the only wahoo of the week a 45 lb'er caught by
Nick Pappas from New York who also released a striped marlin. The wahoo took a
petrolero lure. Dorado and Tuna were on a par this week, though when tuna were
found the numbers per boat were a bit higher. Nevertheless the catches weren't
that great at fourteen percent. We actually had more sharks than small game this
week, with pilot sharks being the most numerous, also known as silky sharks.
There was however a big shark and tuna story: Tyson Seeliger from Houston,
Texas boarded our 35 ft Cabo "Great Escape Jr." for a day of fishing with Captain
Ricardo Agundez, expecting that he would probably catch a marlin. Ricardo
headed up to the 11.50 spot (between Palmilla and San Jose about 11 miles
offshore) and didn't disappoint Tyson, soon having him hooked up to a striped
marlin. It wasn't long before they had the striper up to the boat and released it
safely, after some photos of course. The crew then spotted another marlin up
on the surface and were about to throw live bait to it, when from out of nowhere
something hit the lure on their left outrigger and took off at what seemed like a
hundred miles an hour. This fish was so fast and strong that it almost spooled
them. Tyson struggled and pumped and reeled but they had no idea of what it was.
They got a glimpse of something black and large as it's back broke the water and
for a second Ricardo, thought it was "one of those big black dolphins (porpoise)"
that nobody wants on the line. They persevered and finally after one and a half
hours they finally realized that it was a large tuna. This tuna never dove but stayed
up on the surface the whole time. After another two hours they had the fish twenty
feet from the boat, when it was attacked by four pilot (silky) sharks. They ripped
into it devouring it in large bites, as Tyson frantically reeled as fast as he could to
try and save his sushi. Once what was left of the tuna was on board, the sharks
still persevered, which was their mistake; the crew managed to hook two of them
and bring them to the boat, but being more merciful than the sharks were with the
tuna they released them, after estimating their weight at 120-140 lbs. Back at the
dock the tuna caused quite a stir when it was unloaded.
Some roosterfish showing
up of a good size.
WEATHER CONDITIONS: Partly cloudy skies, seas mostly calm, though one day
was very windy with whitecaps.
LOCATION: 11.50 spot, Cabeza de Ballena, Chileno.
AVERAGE WATER TEMP: 78 F
BEST LURES: Live bait, dead ballyhoo, petrolero.
Based on the catches of Pisces by Tracy Ehrenberg
