Another week of very difficult fishing for the Cabo San Lucas sportfishing fleet and reports from the skippers on "limits of off-color and dirty water in all directions for at least 20 miles or so". When one views the terrafin sea surface charters for the area surrounding Cabo San Lucas, it's easy to see why the fish aren't being cooperative or absent from the area. While the sea temps are good from Cabo Falso and around to the Sea of Cortez side, the water clarity in most areas appears from off color brown to off color green and certainly not conducive to the normal clean, blue, waters of this area. Lots of current changes and upwellings throughout the area are keeping the billfish catches at a minimum level and everyone is waiting for the improvement to the conditions. Still, as poor as the water conditions are, the boats that did fish reflected a near 50% billfish catch rate that I found remarkable. The overall catches for 13 days fished reflected 6 stripers released, 5 dorado and 3 Sierra for their efforts.

Cabo Climate: Mostly sunny, warm and clear days with temps that ranged from 71 nights to 93 daytime highs.

Sea Conditions: Cool waters on the Pacific side at 70-71 degrees and an almost constant 10-15 mph surface breezes, a medium swell condition and white caps. Temps rise to 74-75 at Cabo Falso and continue to rise tto 77-79 above ad outside the Gorda Banks on the Sea of Cortez side. All areas out to 20 miles or more are inundated with very poor water clarity conditions.

Best Fishing Area: The boats are fishing in all areas from near to far and there is no concentration of fish in any given area at this time.

Best Lure/Bait: None were specified in this report but I would venture that most of the billfish were likely taken on live bait that were visually seen on the surface, allowing for a casted presentation.

Bait Supply: Caballitos were readily available for the anglers throughout the week.