The water temps are rising rapidly throughout the Mazatlan area and it is time for the dorado to re-start their annual action at the buoys most any day now. The billfish bite was off a little this pst week but the boats till averaged a billfish per boat day fished in the offshore waters. Even the super pangas landed a couple of sailfish as the water temps moved up. The numbers of offshore charters were very slow with only 4 boats reporting for the week that reflected 3 stripers and 1 sailfish, 1 dorado and 1 jack crevalle for their efforts. The inshore super pangas that reported in for 12 days fished reflected 2 sailfish, 45 red snapper, (quality sized fish for the most part, in the 10-15 lb. ranges) 14 barracuda and 7 triggerfish.

Mazatlan Climate:
Partly cloudy days during the early week and mostly sunny days by week's end with temps from 60 nights to 88 daytime highs.

Sea Conditions:
A couple of days of southwesterly wind conditions from 10-20 mph, with wind chopped waters but for the most part, it was the typical May calm waters. The temps are rising throughout the area with 82 degrees inshore and rising slowly to 83.5 offshore. The green water was out to about 17-18 miles and then changed to a clean, blue water condition at about 25 miles.

Best Fishing Area:
There was no concentration of billfish this past week with most of the fish being taken outside the 20 mile mark.

Best Lure/Bait:
All of the fish were taken on rigged trolling baits.

Bait Supply:
Remained very good for both, fresh rigging baits, (provided daily) and live bait for those that wished to have it.