Captain Temo Verboonen, our local Zihuatanejo reporter and charter boat captain, provided a really upbeat fishing report for this past week that portrayed superb fishing action throughout the area. He starts his report with, "I think summer is the best season to catch the fish in our area. We have perfect, clean and blue water and a sustained sea temperature at 85 degrees, lots of bait and sea life and now, we are experiencing very good yellowfin tuna fishing within 2 miles of the entrance to Zihuatanejo Bay. Just a couple miles farther offshore the black and blue marlin are biting well along with good numbers on sailfish and combine that action with a few quality sized dorado to round out the day. The inshore action is producing good numbers of roosterfish and there continues to be lots of jacks, both jack crevalle and big-eye jacks and a seemingly endless number of bonitos." Our fishing days are full of fun and lots of action for the few anglers that are now visiting the area. Soon, the rivers will be flowing to the ocean and there will be more bait available for the food chain.

IZ Climate: Mostly sunny during the early week & changing to partly cloudy days toward the end of the week with toasty warm days and evenings that ranged from 68 nights to 91 daytime highs.

Sea Conditions: Excellent conditions throughout the area. Temperatures holding well at 85-86 degrees from inshore to offshore, mostly calm with very light surface breezes and beautiful clean, blue, water starting at about 2 miles from the Bay.

Best Fishing Area: Starting at about 2 miles outside the Bay for yellowfin tuna, (schoolfish sizes in the 10-25 lb. ranges) and then a bit farther are the billfish and quality sized dorado.

Best Bait/Lure: Live bait working well for the roosterfish and jacks but equally well are the poppers for the inshore fish. The offshore fishing doing well with rigged baits and live baits for the sailfish, marlin & dorado and even some good action on a variety of artificials, both colors and sizes.

Bait Supply: An excellent daily supply of fresh rigging baits and live bait, (mostly caballitos) and plenty of bonitos for the offshore trolling baits, too.