THE CABO SAN LUCAS FISHING REPORT FOR THE GAVIOTA SPORTFISHING FLEET AND FISH CABO FLEET

The fishing from Cabo San Lucas was like the Stock Market, up one day and down the next and for no apparent reason. It was just the way it was. High boat for the week was the "Gaviota XI", releasing 2 sailfish and a striper and landing 11 dorado and 11 skipjack tuna for three fishing days. Overall fish counts for the Gaviota Sportfishing Fleet only, for a total of 6 days fished reflected 1 striper released, 2 sailfish released, 13 dorado and 11 skipjack tuna. "Tuna Time" did not fish this week and the "Fish Cabo" is receiving a complete renovation, including new twin diesel engines and will be back on line on September 1, 2011.

Cabo Climate: Mostly cloudy this week with the threat of rain and temps that ranged from 74 nights to 94 daytime highs and higher than normal humidity levels.

Sea Conditions: Generally, very good with excellent water temps on both sides of the peninsula. 84-86 degrees on the Pacific side out to 20 miles or so and then sliding a couple of degrees. Cabo Falso, out to the 1000 fathom curve and around to the east and the Sea of Cortez, temps were at 87-88 degrees.

Best Fishing Area: All of the fish were taken on the Pacific side of the peninsula, but there were no specific hot spots to draw from and very few boats fishing.

Best Lure/Bait: Live bait was the best bet for the billfish and dorado and smaller feathers for the bonito.

Live Bait Supply: An excellent supply of caballitos this week.
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THE MAZATLAN FISHING REPORT FOR THE ARIES SPORTFISHING FLEET

Four days of tough weather and no boats fishing put a damper on the overall action this past week, but has the week came to a close, the fishing was coming back to par normal and the fish were again cooperating with the anglers. The "ARIES II" released the only blue marlin this week, a smaller fish in the 250 lb. range. The "Aries III" released three of the 4 sailfish for the week and rounded out their catch with 3 yellowfin tuna. In general, the dorado counts have subsided but there is still availability throughout the area and the bigger dorado are being taken away from the buoys. Italian anglers, Carlo Maggiore from Rome and Franco, (74 years old) from Modena Sassuold, Italy, had the biggest dorado for the week, a near 40 pounder, along with several smaller fish, while fishing aboard the "Aries III" with Captain Martin. Overall counts for 8 days fished reflected 1 blue marlin taken aboard the "Aries IX", 4 sailfish, (3
released) 7 dorado and 20 yellowfin tuna. The inshore super pangas reporting in for 3 days fished reflected 11 dorado and 4 yellowfin tuna.

Mazatlan Climate: Mostly cloudy with some PM and night showers, humid and temps from 75 nights to 86 daytime highs.

Sea Conditions: Settled to excellent conditions late in the week with warm temperatures that ranged from 86-87 in the offshore waters and 88-89 for the inshore waters.

Best Fishing Area: Remains out to the southwest of the Marina El Cid, 22-29 miles.

Best Lure/Bait: Billfish were best on rigged baits but the tuna and dorado were best on feathers and cedar plugs.

Bait Supply: Continues to be very good for both, rigged dead batis and live baits.
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THE IXTAPA-ZIHUATANEJO FISHING REPORT FOR THE INDEPENDENT SPORTFISHING FLEET

According to Captain Temo Verboonen, the fishing from Zihuatanejo was nothing short of excellent for the past week and there was a sustained hot bite for both, black & blue marlin and sailfish, beginning at the 12 mile mark and extending outbound from there.
There were still good quantities of the oceanic tuna (skipjack tuna) around, along with just a few dorado. Their only pitfall for the week
was the lack of anglers to participate in the really great fishing.
He added, "it was a relatively calm week and the inshore fishing from the super pangas allowed for the boats to get right into the roosterfish and the bite was superb. We had 8 strikes one morning using live bait and pencil poppers and the 30- 55 lb. roosters stayed hot on the offerings. It has been one of those weeks where everything cooperated and came together and the anglers came out the winners. The water was clean, blue and the temps were perfect at
87-88 degrees, very little swell and very light surface breezes and lots of anxious biting fish".

IZ Climate: Partly cloudy days with temps from 70 nights to 92 daytime highs, fairly humid and scattered showers in the late P.M.s and in the mountains.

Sea Conditions: Near perfect! Good water temps at 87-88 degrees, deep, clean blue water, very light swell and light tropical surface breezes made for excellent fishing results throughout the week.

Best Fishing Area: Offshore started at about 12 miles and continued outbound from there to about 17-18 miles or so.

Best Lure/Bait: Live bait was the hot bite item for the inshore roosterfish but the pencil poppers were doing well, too. The offshore fishing was going very well with the rigged trolling baits and the larger artificials, too.

Bait Supply: Excellent live bait supply as well as trolling bait supply.
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THE PUERTO MORELOS FISHING REPORT FOR THE MARINA EL CID SPORTFISHING FLEET, (CANCUN TO COZUMEL AREA)

The late season fun fishing area of Puerto Morelos reflected a couple of sailfish in the weekly fishing report and that always makes for a more exciting fishing week, especially being more than two months beyond the season. The overall combined fish counts for 21 days fished reflected a 12-fish variety that included 2 sailfish, 19 Atlantic barracuda, 1 wahoo, 3 amberjack, 15 blackfin tuna, 5 bonito,
1 soapfish, 10 banana fish, 15 Spanish mackerel, 11 snapper, 28 triggerfish and 14 grouper. According to the Fleet Manager, Armando Gutierrez, the overall weather and water conditions have been near perfect this past week with very light tropical surface breezes and overall, light & variable breezes throughout the area.

PM Climate: Mostly cloudy days with temps that ranged from 74 nights to 93 daytime highs.

Sea Conditions: Near excellent for the most part with light and variable surface breezes and temps that were stable in the 85-86 ranges.

Best Bait/Lure: As always for this area, the ballyhoo is the supreme bait of choice for the wide mix of fish.
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Larry Edwards
619-469-4255
email: cortezcharters@sbcglobal.net
website: www.cortezcharters.com