There was a brief showing of marlin in the Los Frailes area, a 50-mile trip out of Cabo. Boats were seeing plenty of fish but they were not hungry. A good trip to the area for those few days might have resulted in a couple of hook-ups and a release. Still later you could travel 70 miles in one direction and end the day with only one marlin...if you were lucky.

If you were in the right place at the right time you could catch yellowfin tuna; the problem was that there was no way to predict that time or place! Once in a while one of the boats would get into a school of fish and limit out on yellowfin ranging in size from 8 to 25 pounds. Other times you could go all day without getting a bite.

Inshore fishing continues to be the best bet. At least there are fish there to be caught!

The sierra bite was good on the Cortez side if you chummed heavily with sardina then free-lined a live one behind the boat with a light wire leader to protect it from getting cut-off. Limits were easy to get on fish ranging in size from three to six pounds. The little firecrackers yellowtail (four to eight pounds) were also everywhere, almost every rock-pile held them, and in the slightly deeper water you could fish some that went to 30 pounds.

Inshore was once again the way to go, but sometime soon the offshore should start to happen! There are still plenty of whales to be seen. I watched a mother Humpback and her calf yesterday as they breached, tail-lobbed and had a great time off of Cabo Real....George and Mary Landrum