Almost every day boats have been hooking up to blue marlin but since many of them are not prepared yet for these larger fish, most of them were getting away. Striped marlin were reported just two miles from the beach up around La Laguna, between San Jose and Punta Gorda, right in the dirty green water; several boats that fished there were able to get the fish to bite and managed to release several fish each. There have been sailfish around as well and they have been found on the Cortez side of the Cape where the water has been warmer.

There were scattered spots of small football sized fish found in the blind this week and boats that stayed and worked an area after hooking one usually were able to put a half dozen in the box. A dead whale was found early in the week, not too far from shore, and there were plenty of football sized fish found around it, but the whale disappeared for a day, showed again for a day and then was gone.

The dead whale also produced the best dorado action. The dorado averaged 15 pounds and there were a few that approached 30 pounds. In other areas there were dorado as well, mostly in the warm band of water 10-15 miles offshore, but also occasionally in close in the green water. Some of these fish were very nice sized, in the 40 pound class and larger. Even with the action around the dead whale, things were still slow overall, and when the whale was not around boats were lucky to get one or two dorado per trip.

Colder, greener water put a damper on the inshore action. A few pangas were able to scratch up a few roosters and some lucky ones found jack crevalle averaging 25 pounds about a mile off of the beach to the north on the Sea of Cortez.