Those winds kept the port closed to the fishing fleet. The only billfish taken for the week was aboard the "Aries I", capturing a sailfish that measured out at the 8-foot mark and was caught by the Casey Visek and sons charter, from Hiawatha, Iowa. There were only three offshore fishing days reported for the week that resulted with the one sailfish, 1 mako shark and 2 dorado and only a singe super panga fishing day that caught 2 snapper. The water temperatures have fallen considerably during this past week and the overall fishing conditions have changed from inshore to offshore area. It is likely we will begin to see more of the cooler water fish, (Sierra, Yellowtail, corvina, etc.) show up in the inshore fish counts very shortly.

Mazatlan Climate:
Partly cloudy and windy for most of the week with temps that ranged 46 nights to 78 daytime highs.

Sea Conditions:
The north winds have been blowing strong and the water temps have fallen rapidly to 64 inshore, rising slowly to 69 at 8-10 miles, 71 at about 18 miles and the big temp break is at the 29-30 mile mark, moving up to 76-77 degrees. This instability through the week has changed the fishing and while we normally experience a water temp cooling trend about this time of year, it is not usually this severe.

Best Lure/Bait:
Rigged trolling baits caught all of the offshore fish this week.

Best Fishing Area:
None reported!

Bait Supply:
No problem with the bait supply with both rigged baits and live bait available.