CABO SAN LUCAS FISHING REPORT
June 6, 2009
THE BITE IS BACK ON AND CONDITIONS ARE GREAT !!


GRAHAM PAYER and DERREK BUTTERFIELD fishing on MAY 20th, 2009 aboard the "MINERVA VI" with Captain Pimi and deckhand EDGAR CHONG took this nice bull dorado along with some striped marlin.

Someone once said, "that's as useful to me as yesterdays weather!"  These words can be true when it comes to last week’s fish reports.   You can never know what's going to happen with fishing, you never know what's hot and what's not, you never know if you're going to get lucky or if you're going to get, "no luck" and if you get, "no luck" you can bet you'll hear the words, "that's why they call it fishing!"  Still, fishing reports are extremely interesting, I read them all the time, I even enjoy reading fishing reports that are written by persons who are fishing in the same waters as our own boats at the same time.  It's amazing how two boats fishing in the same area, at the same time, using the same bait can end up at the end of the day with completely different results, and that my friends, "is why they call it fishing." 

We were using this phrase a lot starting May 22nd through to June 1st.  We could not catch fish to save our lives.  The striped marlin were schooling up all the way from the 95 spot to the other side of San Jose del Cabo.  The water was anywhere from 78 degrees to 82 degrees in the Sea of Cortez and a little green in color.  We trolled lures, threw caballitos and mackerel at the striped marlin and they just would not bite.  On the 22nd of May, Minerva's Fleet sent out all four boats and at the end of the day called 7 others to get a daily catch report.  What were the results from the 11 boats?  Only 1 striped marlin caught and released and that was on the "Minerva VI".  1 Striped marlin does not go very far for 11 boats with an average of 4 anglers onboard each boat!

Well, things have changed, as they always do!  The striped marlin are now hungry and we have been releasing an average of 2 striped marlin per boat/per day and bonus fish of Dorado, wahoo, red snapper (big red snapper) and a couple of sharks.  Bhrian Resnik, Robert Hirschmann and Burton Schnierow fished aboard the 31' Bertram called "Minerva III" on June 1st, 2nd and 3rd.  Their goal was to target small game only on light line, they caught a total of 7 amberjacks, 17 roosterfish, 2 red snappers (one of these weighed 35 pounds), and 1 jack crevalle. 

The Mary Counts group fished onboard the 33' Ocean called "Minerva V" on June 2nd and had "NO LUCK" but had such a good time they went again on June 4th and caught and released 3 striped marlin, caught and released 1 shark and caught 1 beautiful Dorado and a needlefish.  We delivered their Dorado to one of my favorite restaurants called "Missiones de Kino" to have prepared for them and I can't wait to hear back from them. 

Tom Jessiman and his two sons Cooper 6 years old and and Jack 4 years old fished on June 3rd aboard the 33' Ocean called "Minerva V" and caught and released 3 striped marlin!   Both young boys pulled on these sport fishing monsters and can't wait to come back!  They looked so cute walking out of Minerva's with their fishing caps!  Keith Feigel and Kathy Palladini fished aboard the 33' Tiara called "Minerva VI" on June 2nd, 4th and 5th and caught and released 5 striped marlin, 1 wahoo, a skipjack and a bonita! 

Very happy clients this week, beautiful weather, the ocean is behaving itself, the fishing is turning on, the tourist are beginning to return and we still haven't met this guy called "Mr. SWINE FLU!"

If you are interested in trying out your luck on BIG, BIG fish in Cabo San Lucas the you need to contact us, minerva@minervas.com – See you here!

Sincerely,