More and more schools of porpoise with tuna on it showed up this week. Tuna are still not biting wide-open but if you find the right school and work it you can get limits or near limits. Most of the football-sized tuna are biting cedar plugs. The bigger tuna are hitting the live bait drop-backs, the flying fish on kites, and occasionally the bigger type marlin lures. Most of the tuna fishing has been straight out from Cabo and up towards the San Jamie Bank ...anywhere from 10- to 25-miles offshore.


This week we went out tuna fishing three days and got limits or close to limits on football's and managed to get a 106-pound tuna, a few around 80 pounds and several 40 to 50 pounds, mostly by fishing the kite, skipping a yummy flying fish across the surface. Several tuna up to 200 pounds were caught by the fleet this week. The other day we were on a school of tuna that was showing real good on the sounder but would not come up and bite our lures, so I decided to try to get in front of it and dropped down to vertical jig them and we caught several tuna from 10 to 25 pounds that way on 30-pound line. We were using the salas 6xjr and blue and white but I'm sure any type of good vertical jigging can be effective when the tuna do not want to come up and bite the surface lures!


The dorado bite on the beach on the Pacific side slowed down considerably this week. Boats are struggling to get a few dorado a day when in previous weeks limits were the norm. The marlin bite continues to get better on most days. The better marlin fishing is definitely after about 11 o'clock in the morning. That seems to be when they start to show themselves better. Today we went marlin fishing and saw several schools of fast-moving feeders popping up about 8 miles north of the Lighthouse on the Pacific side about a half-mile off the shoreline. It's a good indication that our fall and winter marlin bite is right on schedule. We should start to see more and more feeders in the coming weeks. Wahoo fishing has slowed down but there is still the occasional 12- to 25-pound wahoo being caught...Renegademike Sportfishing


Cabo Climate: Incredible great weather with temps that ranged from 62 nights to 91 daytime highs and a 57% humidity level. It was a superb week of mostly sunny, warm and clear days.


Sea Conditions: Light surface breezes flowing in mostly from the southerly directions and ranging from calm to 9 mph. Pacific side reflected water temps at 77 to 78 degrees, ranging from the Finger Bank down to the Jaime Bank and then, rising to 79 to 80 degrees from the Jaime Bank going into Cabo and up to the southern edge of the Gorda Banks. Warmest waters at 81.5 degrees out to the south of Cabo at the 1000 fathom curve, the 95 Fathom Spot and the 1150 Fathom Spot.


Best Fishing Area: The blue marlin came from the Palmilla area and the stripers were scattered along the Pacific side, down to Cabo Falso and around to the 1150 fathom spot. ...Larry Edwards Cortez Charters