The Fraser Family from Kansas City, MO, reported a fishing day result of 8 dorado to 41 lbs., fishing aboard the "Aries II" and added the overall day was near perfect, including calm seas, lots of porpoise, sea birds and even a couple of sea turtles. That's really not too bad considering there were a couple of port closure days due to adverse weather conditions that were just 1-day events. Still a little slow on the billfish bite and this week provided only a couple of sailfish, but the quality of the dorado had improved considerably. The overall offshore catches for 11 days fished reflected 2 sailfish and 71 dorado and the 1 inshore fishing day from the super panga reflected limits of dorado.

Mazatlan Climate:
Partly cloudy days with sunny intervals and temperatures that varied from 70 nights to 91 daytime highs. Humidity levels a little high at 89%.

Sea Conditions:
Other than a couple of odd days of wind and rough seas that resulted in port closures, it was excellent for the remaining week's fishing effort. Sea temps were ii inshore and fell to 86 degrees for the offshore waters and gentle tropical surface breezes of 2-5 mph.

Best Fishing Area:
The billfish are still in the area of 22-25 miles out to the southwest of the Marina El Cid but the best dorado bite for the week came from the buoys.

Best Bait/Lure:
Billfish and dorado both taken on rigged trolling baits. Bigger dorado taken on slow trolled live bonito around the buoys as well as live bait from the bait vendor.

Bait Supply:
Excellent for both, live bait and trolling baits