Last storm gave us some rain; the arroyos flooded and the water table is peaked in town. I measured almost an inch, but I live on a hill west of town and had no damages.

Most of the rain on Sunday fell over the water and the mountains. It started at about 4:00 pm and went all night ... no wind just a nice gentle rain that sunk into the ground. We are getting rain showers over the Sierra de la Gigante every afternoon that is visible from town.

I'll have to take a picture this afternoon because it is really beautiful, Tahiti-like. Our water has cooled down, too, and we're catching roosterfish (10 to 20 pound), triggerfish, sailfish (<100 pound), dorado (5 to 15 pound), cabrilla and pargo (both 5 to 20 pound) on flies now. Conventional anglers have tried for yellowtail (no luck yet) and are catching dorado and sails trolling live bait and feathers. The roosters, triggerfish, pargo and cabrilla are eating the olive/white Bull Clouser or Bull Candy while the dorado will take those and mylar poppers and crease flies. Very bright night-time moon now, but pleasant fishing when you can stay out of the wind.

Francisco is on day three with novice fly fishermen and they caught all of the above except for the sails. I just got off the cell with him and he's fishing south today but I warned him about a storm cell forming and approaching from the north that's still NE of the islands. Fingers crossed that the sun's heat dissipates it. We're fishing the shorelines now anyway...Pam Bolles, Baja Big Fish Company

The road is no problem. South of Guerrero Negro part of one lane was damaged but is safe at medium speed. San Ignacio has one wet potholed dip. (Catavinia is the same whether there is a storm or not....two wet dips as always!) Santa Rosalia has some extra narrow spots that fall off immediately. Arroyos around Mulege have strips of pavement missing and require slowing down to 5 mph (unless you are an idiot). There is very little traffic but the drivers we encountered were driving with extreme stupidity.

During the Monday drive (second day) we passed 50 to 75 CFE trucks heading north. Most were the larger trucks with the lift baskets. Smaller lift trucks were the second most common. Crew trucks and a few supply truck made up the rest....all day long stretching out from Loreto to El Rosario.

One might guess they were heading to a disaster instead of going home.
TelMex is still knee deep in problems. They won't be heading home for another month, I would guess.

Slow October.

A very small number of tourists remain in town and only the handline guys are fishing...Rick Hill,Pinchy Sportfishing