Striped marlin and sailfish are being seen close to shore on the Pacific side, but the water conditions on the outside have many of the boats focusing their efforts on the calmer Sea of Cortez side of the Cape. There are reports of blue and black marlin hook ups in the San Jose area, but just not in the numbers that were on the Pacific side. But, these fish, like those found out to the west, were not really in the eating mood.

There are respectable numbers of yellowfin tuna farther offshore on the Pacific side. However, running 30 to 40 miles in the grumpy seas was not in the books for most of the boats. A few of them did make it out to the fish, however, so there were few tuna flags flying. Heading out 30 miles put you in the area, but it was tough to spot the porpoise; when the chop began, they seemed to disappear!

Dorado seemed to like the conditions a bit choppy and most boats were coming in with at least four or five fish, averaging 12 to 15 pounds, and some had a few larger fish to 40 pounds. Most of the action was on the Pacific side of the Cape close to the beach.

There were some wahoo taken just off the beach, but most of the boats were fishing for dorado, so you know there were a lot of fish lost due to monofilament leaders!

The pangas working the bottom did find some decent catches of small grouper and snapper. And for pangas that were surface fishing, there were catches of dorado and the occasional striped marlin and sailfish.