Captain Temo Verboonen reports a timely and upbeat fishing report for Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo region that has been in the doldrums for the past few weeks. Finally, the water clarity conditions are improving considerably with each passing day and the temps are in the near perfect ranges for both, inshore and offshore fishing and all that is needed now is anglers. The red tides have faded and the billfish catching has improved by "leaps and bounds", both sailfish and marlin and the dorado are again starting to participate in the bite. The inshore fishing is providing a good bite on the Sierra and even a school of yellowfin tuna swung in tight to the coast allowing for some inshore tuna action in the smaller 8-15 lb. sizes. Temo says, "the roosterfish season starts now" and the overall action should provide some very good catches for the participating anglers for the coming months.

IZ Climate:
Warm temps at 69 nights to 91 daytime highs and partly cloudy days, a little humid, and a chance for a thunder shower here and there, but almost no surface breeze at all.

Sea Conditions:
Overall, it has improved enormously over the past few weeks with better clarity for each passing day and near perfect sea temps holding at 85-86 inshore and rising to 86-87 just outside the 100 fathom curve and offshore from there. Seas are calm and the breezes are light and variable surface/tropical type conditions.

Best Fishing Area:
The fishing is getting close to the Bay area and billfish are now being caught just a few miles offshore from about 6-7 miles and outbound from there.

Best Lure/Bait:
The offshore bite has been best on the slow-trolled rigged baits for the billfish and dorado.

Bait Supply:
Excellent! Plenty of live bait and fresh caught rigging baits available everyday.