Some things are predicable about August at East Cape: blazing Baja sun and flat, calm seas which provide perfect conditions for spotting fish on the surface. You might see a tail jutting toward the sky?Ķa tell-tale "V"?Ķas a big fish swims just below the surface or you might see the froth and scales left by a frightened school of baitfish being chased by predators.

This week offered these perfect conditions for finding fish. Unfortunately, the action was scarce. A few billfish were sighted here and there but there was little, if any, concentration. Easy to spot but tough to find, the porpoise were not much help either. The tuna that were caught were barely bite sized.

This seems to be a case of "you should be careful what you wish for!" All spring and summer the BIG dorado have been caught one or two at a time, and many anglers whined about there not being any school fish. Well, the dorado caught lately qualify as ???schoolies', but some of them would barely qualify as bite sized for the few smaller blues being caught.

Even the larger roosters seemed to take the week off; inshore most of the roosters caught were under ten pounds with an occasional ???Bubba class' sighted but seldom hooked.

However, the margaritas were frothy, the cerveza icy enough to take the edge off of the hot?Ķhot...hot weather.

Tip: When the dorado charge the boat shorten your cast and aim directly at the feeding fish, strip a couple of times and if you don't get a take, pick up the fly and recast to the same area.

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Water temperature 76-86
Air temperature 76-95
Humidity 83%
Wind: SSE 10 to 13 knots
Conditions: Mostly Cloudy
Visibility 5 miles
Sunrise 6:54 a.m. MDT
Sunset 7:53 p.m. MDT