Gotcha Evolve Out of Pokeballs

so it appears that if you're out of pokeballs - regular Red pokeballs - Gotcha Evolve won't auto-catch for you.
i have 53 Great balls and 722 Ultra balls, but the Gotcha Evolve won't even tag/notify a cubchoo standing right next to me for catching and the "Out Of Pokeballs" message flashes on the unit. WTF??? is this happening for anyone else or is there a setting that says you can only throw red balls or you can throw any balls?
tech support is still shut down for another 18 hours.
Thanks in advance