The Terrafin satellite photos show exactly why the fishing has been on the slow side for sailfish and dorado. Cooler water is pushing down from the north, and the fish have gone south. Several conventional gear fishermen are still scratching out a fish or two per day per boat, but a few boats are also getting blanked. The dorado are also scarce, with most of the dorado coming from 30 miles or more out. A few blue marlin are being caught, as well as a couple of striped marlin. Blue water fly fishing with Drew Chicone of Florida, we spent a couple of tough days on the water with Leonardo on the Fish On and Cheva on the Dos Hermanos II. We did get strikes, but the fish were not aggressive and would not tease to the boat. We also saw at least a thousand porpoise pushing up bait, and thousands of birds. So the bait is here...just very inactive sailfish. We even saw a blue marlin surfing the swells. All that was sticking up was the top  ? of her tail, but it was over three feet tall. That is a huge marlin. I estimated it to be about 700 to 800 pounds. Early in the week Mike Bulkley and Francisco took clients out after tuna on the super panga Huntress, and did well. When traveling long distances, the security of the twin 80hp motors on a larger super panga certainly makes it nice. This is what Mike emailed me: "Went last Sunday and found the yellowfin tuna at 55 miles. Caught 28 school tuna and broke off two large ones. Didn't get back until 8:30 pm." Adolfo on the panga Dos Hermanos, looking for some blue water action for his clients a couple of days ago, found the yellowfin at 15 miles off the beach down in the Papanoa region. Adolpho also told me he is doing well on a few small roosters, lots of jack crevalle and sierras inshore. Keep in mind, Adolfo is fishing every day of the week and is always scouting for new locations, so he will do well for a few days, and then not so well. Most normal panga charters do not range far and wide like he does, so their production is fairly limited.