Well, I don't know if it's because of the full moon, but there seems to be a few more marlin biting. We had clients that were seeing fish every day, and hooking up, but only about half of those were making it to the boat for a release. Our best day for marlin recently was two fish released for two hooked up. One was a very decent estimated 160-pound striped marlin, the other the usual 110-pound. Both fish were caught on slow trolled dead bait, and both were within 10 miles of the lighthouse on the Pacific side. This area seems to have had the majority of fish spotted, but they are still not very hungry. A few swordfish were seen on the surface as well, but boats trying to drop bait down for them were having an issue with strong sub-surface currents and could not get the baits deep enough; they found some thresher sharks instead. There were a large number of juvenile mako sharks out there jumping and flipping out of the water most in the 15 to 40 pound class. If you were in the right place at the right time, yellowfin tuna fishing has been decent. The problem was being in the right place at the right time. A lot of boats were able to find porpoise that were holding great meter marks of tuna, but they were not able to get a bite to save their lives. Some of these pods of fish were within a few miles of the beach, while others were over 30+ miles offshore. There seemed to be a decent bite to the north off of San Jose on the Sea of Cortez, and some were a decent 30 pounds, but for the most part the fish were footballs of 10 to 18 pounds, and a decent catch was a few fish per boat. There were a few more dorado flags, but almost all very small fish less than six pounds. They were caught by boats working inshore for sierra. We saw a large number of these small fish leave the docks in bags being carried by the crews. It seems as if the sierra have moved up the Pacific coast a bit. The same situation occurred for the yellowtail as the bite dropped off as they moved around. Right place, right time and fish that averaged from 15 pounds to 30 pounds; if you were not lucky then your wrists and arms hurt from yo-yo'ing for hours on small spots of fish. A few nice pargo and other snapper were caught in the rocks along with a scattering of other species such as needlefish, bonito and grouper. The best live baits were sardina for the sierra, rigged on a very light bite wire, and caballito for the pargo and grouper.