East Cape
Caption: One 'Woopsie' for me…I was attempting to confirm the fishability of an Estero.
The recent good fishing for both billfish and tuna was briefly put on hold when the southeast winds arrived mid-week. Fortunately, the winds subsided after a couple of days and the fishing should be back on track in a day or two.
The bite seemed to cover all the bases. Billfish action included stripers, sailfish, blues and a few blacks to round out the catch. Excited billfish anglers were eager to take a show at an East Cape slam of three or maybe even four billfish species in one visit or maybe it was that the stars were aligned just right in one day.
On the tuna front, there were more footballs than gorilla-class but again, there were enough big ones to convince savvy anglers to break out the heavy tackle and not take any chances on being under gunned when the VW-sized tuna appeared behind the boat.
While there are ample school-sized dorado, there are just enough bull dorado to keep the anglers guessing.
Inshore the roosterfish remain off the charts as the longest bite of big fish has gone on for several months…non-stop.
Finally, the two p's, pargo and pompano, are both making a good showing.
Current East Cape Weather http://tiny.cc/EastCapeWeather303
Magdalena Bay, Baja Mexico
Action inside the Esteros was slow for the four clients who fished this week. During the three fishing days, they caught only a few grouper, a few cabrilla along with a handful of mystery bites One 'oopsie' for me was when I was attempting to confirm the fishability of a spot. I really would have preferred the client to catch the snook that bit.
Later in the week the action began to improve slightly with better catches in the morning as we did some exploring in the Bass Tracker…Gary Graham
Offshore dorado and small YFT's are inside of twenty miles and there was at least one marlin seen only three miles offshore by one of the Captains…Bob Hoyt
Current Magdalena Bay Weather http://tiny.cc/MagBayWeather150
Zihuatanejo, Mainland Mexico
The 84° blue water is still holding at 16 miles. There is also a huge area of very warm 88° water holding just south of Zihuatanejo, on down towards Acapulco.
Normally, water this warm would not be productive for blue marlin, but the consensus among the captains is there are as many blues out there as there are sailfish. This is probably due to the huge amount of black skipjack tuna we have here right now. The blue marlin are just simply following the food supply. Plus, a three pound tuna is too large for a sailfish.
Early in the week, the skies were clear and the fishing decent for all species. But, the last couple of nights has seen some very intense rains. This morning's (Thursday) rain, from about 1:30 until 2:00 dumped 3" of rain and wind on us in a half hour. Plus it lasted intermittently until about 10:00, but much less intense.
Inshore has been slow, with the roosters moving off the beach and into deeper and cleaner water. One bright note is the ojtones, a member of the hard fighting jack family, is giving the inshore fisherman a lot of action. The 20 to 25 pound, good eating fish are being taken off the rock pinnacles, the White Rocks and the rocky points, on live bait and trolled Rapalas.…Ed Kunze
Current Zihuatanejo Weather http://tiny.cc/zihuatanejo582
Cabo San Lucas
The much anticipated arrival of blue marlin began in earnest with several large fish lost, a few boated and many others released. The striped marlin along with a few sailfish remained consistent but In fewer numbers than experienced in early July.
Several larger yellowfin tuna were reported lost: most of the tuna that were caught were of the smaller variety. There were none reported over 100 pounds throughout the fleet.
In the dorado category, it was mostly smaller fish with an occasional larger fish in the forty-pound class caught farther offshore.
Inshore action consisted of a few roosters, amberjacks and pargo. Aside of those, there were a few skipjack and bonito to round out the action. Many of the pangas took advantage of the
dorado and small tuna just a few miles offshore.
Current Cabo Weather http://tiny.cc/cabo191
