Week Ending May 04, 2008

Water- 70-73 degrees clear, flat.

Air- Highs in the low 90's, cool mornings, very pleasant spring weather.


Another strong week for billfish and dorado. Good inshore fishing with roosterfish, pompano, jacks, and small yellowtail all biting inside. We are averaging one billfish per boat per day with some boats releasing as many as five or six. Mostly striped marlin, with every fourth or fifth release a sailfish. Quality dorado mixed with the marlin, very few under fifteen pounds, lots of twenty to fourty pounders. The water temps., are the same as last week. Lots of both sardine and mackerel available for bait.

Billfish- Both sailfish and striped marlin plentiful from the 88 off Cerralvo Island south, to the Las Arenas light house. The fish are concentrated five to ten miles off the beach, mixed with dorado. Very visual fishing with lots of tailers and jumpers. Most fish taken on cast, live mackerel.

Dorado- They are getting bigger every week. Lots of bulls in the twenty to fourty pound class are being taken. the larger dorado are mixed with the billfish, smaller fish are biting closer to shore. Hitting both lures and live bait. At least one or two per boat per day.

Inshore- Larger roosterfish this week. Most gallos in the five to fifteen pound range with some bigger fish mixed in, to thirty-five pounds. Some big pompano taken this week. Smaller yellowtail in the five pound range have also been taken all week. Lots and lots of jacks are mixed with the gallos.

Thanks.....John