Visitors to Los Cabos this past week welcomed ideal weather conditions, skies were clear and the humidity was high, but there were no signs of any new tropical storms developing on the horizon at this time. Most of the area is now back to normal, with utilities restored, having cleaned up the mess following Henriette and sportfishing operations have resumed. Though crowds are light, as is normal for this time of year, soon enough the busy fall season will be here, time to do annual fleet maintenance.

The local landscape that had been so parched and starving for moisture is now rapidly transgressing to a tropical green color. Ocean conditions have been slow to clean up to how it was before the storm, a main factor being the unusually powerful current running towards the south, water temperatures averaged from 78 to 81 degrees, there were not any major temperatures breaks seen on any of the SST charts.

Due to the off colored water and strong current the fishing action was not up to standards and varied from day to day as to where the most consistent bite was encountered. There were not that many boats on the water and the charters that did go out were searching in all directions in order to find the best opportunities. Live sardinas were once again plentiful off of Puerto Los Cabos, after having dispersed during the high swell activity. In recent days the panga fleets from La Playita were concentrated mainly on three areas, Palmilla, Gordo Banks and La Fortuna. The most common catch was dorado, striking on medium sized lures, also while trolling or drifting with bait, most of the fishing found were in the 8 to 20 pound range and average catches per boat ranged from 3 to 8 fish per outing.

The yellowfin tuna action was not nearly as productive, though everyday tuna in the 10 to 15 pound class were being accounted for, earlier in the week there were more of the yellowfin cooperating off of Palmilla, with some boats landing as many as 5 fish, but since then it has just been one or two here or there. There was a report of a few monster sized tuna seen quickly jumping out of the water near the Gordo Banks, but they were not interested in coming up to chummed sardinas and disappeared as fast as they had appeared.

A few striped marlin and sailfish were accounted for in the same areas within?? several of miles of shore where most of the other combined action was found. Off the bottom there was a mix of various pargo and cabrilla accounted for, but this was tough fishing due to the previously mentioned strong current. Off the beach near the northern Puerto Los Cabos jetty there was at least on nice snook landed, with quite a bit of fish feeding activity also reported.

The combined fleet of pangas launching out of La Playita reported sending out approximately 34 charters for this week, with anglers having a fish count of:

3 striped marlin, 2 sailfish, 108 dorado, 26 yellowfin tuna, 28 various pargo, 12 bonito and 7 cabrilla.