In a repeat of last weeks report, the striped marlin have remained at the 1150, or in the general area all week long. If you have good live bait there is the possibility of action. The boats scoring best are using live bait as drop-backs on fish coming into the lures. A great catch this week was four releases but almost everyone had at least one. I pulled on a fish myself this week for an hour on stand-up 30 pound. It just would not give up; a nice fish of over 150 pounds, scoring a release with live bait. We also had one of about 130 pounds on a lure. Plenty of Jumpers and feeders most days; we had an active feeder right along the side of the boat while I was fighting my fish, but there was no more bait left.

What was interesting was the number of thresher sharks we saw early in the morning, we must have seen at least ten. We were seeing a lot more marlin this week as well, and some boats reported seeing over 100 fish during a day's trip. If the warm water continues we might be seeing some blues and blacks soon. There were swordfish seen again this week in the area just to the north of the Gordo Banks and one boat caught one six miles off of Grey Rock as well.

I saw a couple of white flags that may have represented yellowfin this week, but they may have been for bonita as well since I heard of no yellowfin being caught over the radio, nor did anyone I talk to mention any tuna.

A few yellow flags once again indicated the catch of some dorado, but there was no hot and heavy bite, at least not yet. Warm water means they can't be far behind though. We sure are looking forward to the first school of them coming through!

We are coming through the new moon phase so there were few wahoo reported, but there were a couple of decent fish caught. The ones I heard about were said to be in the 35-pound class and were caught by boats trolling lures for striped marlin.

On the Pacific side there has been a great bite on small roosterfish to 10 pounds with a few 20 pound fish in the mix and a decent bite on sierra. The key to action was to get sardina as chum and bait, otherwise things were a bit slow. Nice action was had on jack crevalle as well... man those fish can fight! The yellowtail seem to have moved north following the cooler water as the last report I had on any decent action was from the rock points up past Golden Gate Bank...George and Mary Landrum