Still some nice day when the north wind backs off

Although the wahoo have disappeared a few striped marlin and dorado are still around when the wind backs off. Meanwhile, the tin boat fleet seems to be finding sierra mixed with a few bonito and an occasional jack cravelle. There have even been a few dorado inside for a couple of lucky anglers.

The lucky anglers willing to soak bait on the high spots off of La Ribera were rewarded with pargo, grouper, amberjack plus an infrequent yellow....Cindy Kirkwood, East Cape Tackle

The yellowfin tuna action came to standstill at the start of the week, but then started to show increased activity later in the week. Often times the tuna were seen feeding on the surface, but just would not be interested in striking a bait that had a hook placed in it, just a few yellowfin were being hooked into, most of them on either sardina or strips of squid, average weights were in the 15 to 30 lb. range.

Same can be said for dorado and wahoo, still quite a few dorado being encountered, most of them have been juvenile sized, under 15 lb. and being found close to shore, often near where the inshore sierra action was. Supplies of sardina remained steady, now being netting near Vinorama and delivered to the Cardon or La Fortuna areas.

Bottom action has just begun to show signs of more consistency, still dictated by what the weather allows. Shallow water structure was producing Various pargo and snapper species, triggerfish, mojarra grunt, bonito, skipjack, cabrilla, a few amberjack and at least one yellowtail, most of which were under ten pounds, with an occasional larger specimen mixed in. These fish were striking on yo-yo jigs, sardina and strips of squid.

Sierra was the most common catch close to shore, best action was early in the day on slow trolled sardina. Also in certain area near the marina jetties anglers found some roosterfish up to ten pounds. Eric Brictson, Gordo Banks Pangas

Fishing is hot! Our first boat was back in the harbor by 8:30 in the morning; they released a marlin and caught enough dorado to fill a cooler...Gricelda, Smokehouse

The ocean conditions have been absolutely gorgeous with mostly light and variable winds along with very calm seas for most of the week. We did get some cloudy days over the weekend with a little bit of light rain. Fishing has not changed much from the week before; we still have a pretty decent dorado bite with some wahoo mixed in.

The marlin bite continues to be very tough with most boats having a hard time just finding or raising fish, much less getting them to bite. Very few of the lucky boats get more than one or two a day.

Most of the fishing has been on the Pacific side. Yesterday and today a couple of boats are venturing out to the 95 Bank about 8 miles straight out slightly east from Cabo and finding a few marlin that were willing to bite.

Tuna fishing remains slow although boats venturing out are finding lots of porpoise with good signs of tuna under them ... they are just not biting. There were a couple of boats that went out yesterday and found some tuna outside and above the Golden Gate Bank and they have been really good for a couple of hours -- mostly football-sized. There are still reports of some very big tuna at the Golden Gate Bank that appear to be breezing throughout the day but very difficult to get to bite. Some boats that have worked it hard with the kite have got some fish up to 60 pounds but for the most part, these tuna are not biting...Renegademike Sportfishing