The dorado bite continues for all of the sportfishers, albeit, the bite did slow some this past week. For the first time in nearly a month the boats were just shy of limit fishing but still averaging 7-15 dorado, (including releases) per boat fishing day with the fish ranging from 15-30 lbs. The sportfishers venturing farther offshore were seeing more sailfish but having difficulty enticing them to bite. On the plus side, more and more sailfish are showing up each week and the billfish counts are expected to show substantial increases over the next few months. The overall fish counts for 14 offshore fishing days reflected 3 sailfish released, 3 yellowfin tuna and 94 dorado and the inshore super pangs, reporting for 5 days fished reflected 45 dorado.

Mazatlan Climate:
Mostly cloudy but warm days and nights with temps ranging from 73 nights to 88 daytime highs.

Sea Conditions:
Excellent throughout the area with stable temperature readings at 85 degrees.

Best fishing area:
The buoys remain the hot-spots for the dorado and the billfish are being seen over a wide area from about 22-30 miles out to the south of the Marina El Cid.

Best Bait/Lure:
Live bait working well for the dorado, along with rigged baits and shrimp. Billfish taken on rigged, slow-trolled baits.

Bait Supply:
Readily available to the boats and anglers.