I received a short fish report from Captain Temo Verboonen this afternoon, describing the current fishing from Zihuatanejo Bay. It started out with, "Full moon and cold water is a difficult combination.....", adding, "fish bite less and move away". Temo said the offshore fishing is pretty slow on producing fish and that some of the boat captains are reporting long days without strikes. Inshore fishing is better for the jack crevalle and chulas but some days, just no fish there, either. The water is cold and green and all we can do is wait it out for the change of conditions.



IZ Climate: Mostly sunny and warm days and some passing clouds with temps that ranged from 73 nights to 89 daytime highs.


Sea Conditions: Cold inshore water and very green, too. inshore temps at 74-75 and slowly rising to about 80 in the offshore waters. Surface breezes flowing from the west southwest at 8-11 mph.


Best Fishing Area: None was reported. It's a wide search now, looking for better waters and a pocket of fish here and there, something that will bite for the anglers.


Best Bait/Lure: The rigged were working best for the few billfish caught this past week in the offshore waters and live bait and surface plugs seemed to work best for the inshore fishing, once the fish were located.


Bait Supply: Continues to be a really good supply of both, fresh baits ffor rigging and live baits when desired at the $5.00 per dozen rate.


THE IXTAPA-ZIHUATANEJO FISHING REPORT FOR THE INDEPENDENT SPORTFISHING FLEET