This past week showed that we can be a little optimistic about upcoming weeks. While still not wide open by any means, there are more and more marlin showing up every day. Many more are being seen that are being hooked up, and most boats are getting a shot at a few every day. That is a big change from what we were seeing just a few weeks ago! If we ever get schools of mackerel to show up we should see a very significant increase in the number of striped marlin associated with them. As it is now, approximately 30 percent of the boats are getting hooked up, and about half of them are getting the fish to the boat. Well, the water calmed down, but unlike my prediction last report the fishing for yellowfin did not improve, or at least hasn't improved yet. There are still scattered schools of fish to be found along the temperature break running below the San Jaime and west of the San Jaime and the Golden Gate Banks, and some of them are decent fish, up to 80 pounds this week. Unfortunately they are really a hit or miss proposition as they will be in one spot one day and gone again the next. While there have been fish to 80 pounds, most of them have been footballs in the 10 to 12 pound range. A good catch this week would have been 6 to 8 fish with a few boats , mainly the first ones on the school, getting limits of five per angler. Just coming up on the full moon and guess what? Yep, we had a client on Friday land a 70-pound wahoo while fishing for marlin. Inshore the swells settled down and the pangas were once again able to get up the Pacific coast. The cool water made the inshore fishing better for both Sierra and Yellowtail. We had anglers and friends who did well fly fishing for sierra using sardina as chum, limiting out on fish averaging 4 pounds. Others did well in the slightly deeper water yo-yo'ing for yellowtail that averaged 14 pounds with a few fish going as large as 30 pounds. Of course it was a matter of the right place at the right time as they could move as far as  ? mile up or down the coast overnight. You had to work for them! There were also a few roosterfish to be found (surprisingly as they normally do not like water this cold). They were not extremely aggressive but we did have one angler who was bit three times on the fly, but they were short strikes and he could not get a solid hook-up. Other fish that were caught were some grouper in smaller sizes and a few very nice pargo to 25 pounds.