We departed Alijos Rocks Sunday morning after another night of fair fishing on good size yellowtail, water temperature at Alijos had dropped three degree's and it was time to look for greener pastures. We traveled East all day looking for kelp patties and by days end we had a total of fifty Dorado off a variety of kelps located throughout the day, a very long day of looking for sure. We continued east after dark headed for the coast of Baja aiming for the lower banks area in hopes of yellowfin tuna, wahoo and Dorado.

First light brought very encouraging sign as we saw very good sign of life with black porpoise and good bird life being mixed with jumping and breaking tuna, our hopes were high. All this life by 0900 was none existent and was never to be seen again for the rest of the day by either us or one of our code boats we had been working with, very disappointing after the sign we saw just after daylight. We ended the day with a dozen Dorado, one fifty pound tuna and we released three stripped marlin. After dark we put the Red Rooster III on course for Magdalena bay and a tank of live mackerel which was literally accomplished in fifteen minutes once arriving in the bait grounds, if only the fishing where that easy this trip. We have a lot of work cut out for us the next four days trying to complete this catch of fish, reports from around the fleet are dismal at best for tuna so we are going to spend at least a day maybe two along the ridge trying to target a few wahoo before we set our sites on finishing off on yellowtail.

I'm sure things are going to change for the better on the long range front in the future but as of right now things are extremely tough and we are thankful for every little bit we put aboard and hope we get a good finish to what has been a tough scratch thus far. Our weather was great yesterday looking around the lower banks and not bad heading up to the ridge, we are hoping for a good stretch of weather as we start are northerly leg of the trip.